Chapter 148: Executive Corruption

Located in the western suburbs of Tianjing City, the Photoelectric Laboratory covers an area of five to six thousand square meters and stands five stories tall, housing various high-end photoelectric equipment and supporting equipment for the Lithography Machine; the research and maintenance staff alone number over one hundred.

Logically speaking, such a large, high-end laboratory should take at least a year or two to build.

After all, the equipment inside consists of high-end precision instruments, and procurement negotiations, logistics, and transportation alone would take at least several months.

Added to that are the laboratory's design, construction, renovation, layout, and the installation and debugging of various equipment; every process has extremely high requirements and requires a long time.

However.

To satisfy Su Xin's efficiency requirements, Liu Qingli simply threw money around, offering more than double the price for almost every process.

Under her gold-based offensive, all processes were shortened to just over a month, and it passed the strict acceptance inspection of a professional team.

However.

Su Xin had been at a critical stage in his research on the Tianmu No. 2 these past few days and had no mind to pay attention to the progress of the Photoelectric Laboratory; he had only taken the time to visit once after the laboratory's acceptance was completed to roughly familiarize himself with the internal environment and layout.

Therefore, after Su Xin arrived this time, he simply strolled around the laboratory again before coming to the room where the Lithography Machine was located.

After dismissing all the accompanying researchers.

Su Xin stood alone in the room, sizing up the bulky piece of equipment in front of him that was over two meters tall and more than ten meters long.

What he had purchased was a domestic proximity exposure Lithography Machine with a relatively backward manufacturing process of only 110nm, which still had a gap of several generations compared to the world's top lithography machines.

But for Su Xin, who was coming into contact with a lithography machine for the first time, such a relatively backward process was actually more convenient for his research.

"Godspeed, Five-fold Speed!"

Su Xin's mind suddenly stirred.

Everything around him suddenly slowed down several times over.

And Su Xin's mind became incomparably active.

He opened the operation guide document for the Lithography Machine and read through it, combining it with the knowledge about lithography machines in his mind, and quickly became familiar with the structure and principles of the machine in front of him.

"Then let's begin!"

Su Xin grinned and smiled silently.

He immediately began to work, dismantling the Lithography Machine in front of him bit by bit, deepening his understanding of the machine's construction in the process of disassembly.

A lithography machine is mainly composed of six core components: the light source, the photomask, the optical system, the platform, the control system, and the photoresist.

Each core component has extremely high technical requirements; if Su Xin wants to develop the most cutting-edge lithography machine on his own, he must at least make breakthroughs in these six core components one by one.

Therefore, after completely dismantling the entire Lithography Machine, Su Xin began his research starting from the most core component: the light source.

The quality of the light source has the most direct impact on the quality and efficiency of chip manufacturing; a high-quality light source can improve the precision of chip manufacturing and also increase production capacity.

Therefore, in the eyes of many industry insiders, the light source can be considered the most core component of a lithography machine, and also the one with the highest technical difficulty.

While dismantling the light source component bit by bit.

Various optical knowledge he had previously learned, along with the light source components and design principles of mainstream lithography machines on the market, constantly surfaced in Su Xin's mind.

"So that's how it is..."

"It doesn't seem to have much difficulty either."

Su Xin muttered in a low voice, a confident and excited smile appearing on his face.

In his hands, the light source equipment was quickly disassembled into its most basic components.

For the average person, without the guidance of professionals, even operating a lithography machine is extremely difficult.

If even a slight malfunction or question arises, they have to ask the manufacturer's engineers to handle the after-sales service.

But for Su Xin, who possesses incomparably profound knowledge in all disciplines, he could identify all the components at a glance and know their functions.

If nothing else, at this moment, he could definitely count as the top after-sales engineer.

As the dismantling continued, not only was he not confused, but his familiarity with every part of the Lithography Machine deepened rapidly.

Three hours later.

Su Xin stopped the Godspeed state, left the Photoelectric Laboratory, and prepared to get off work and go home.

When he picked up his phone, he discovered a pop-up alert from the Tianwei Butler—

The financial situation of Tianqi Pharmaceutical Company is abnormal; the procurement costs for multiple batches of materials are higher than the market price, while the quality is lower than the previous supplier; President Nie Hongwu is suspected of accepting bribes.

Su Xin frowned.

The intelligence level of the Tianwei Butler is actually higher than that of the Tiantian Assistant, but as an internal management program highly integrated with the company's ERP System, it rarely takes the initiative to make its presence felt.

Its main task is office collaboration.

It can optimize the company's internal operations, record all financial transactions, personnel changes, and document handovers; in short, all of the company's operational data is recorded in detail in the Tianwei Butler's massive database.

And after a year of recording and learning, the Tianwei Butler has long since become a top expert in finance and human resources.

Of course, it is only software after all, and having no body limits the exertion of its abilities, so it can currently only serve as an office assistant.

And in front of Su Xin, it actually also shoulders the responsibility of supervising the company's operational status.

For example, it analyzes internal corruption issues through financial or human resource change data.

There had been more than one occasion before where the Tianwei Butler had issued alerts to Liu Xuewei that certain employees or management were suspected of corruption.

Liu Xuewei is the only other person in the company who knows the true capabilities of the Tianwei Butler.

Therefore, Liu Xuewei attaches great importance to the Tianwei Butler's alerts and launches investigations at the first opportunity; the results verified that those individuals indeed had behaviors of colluding with outsiders to embezzle company property.

Su Xin also roughly knew about this matter.

After all, the profits of the several major subsidiaries of Tianqi Group are so high, and every link involves huge interests; to say there are no corruption issues would be absolutely impossible.

But since the various companies have been operating for over a year, not a single case of corruption involving an executive at the president level had ever been discovered.

Now.

Nie Hongwu of Tianqi Pharmaceutical Company has actually broken this precedent.

Su Xin's eyes narrowed.

He tapped on the Tianwei Butler's pop-up alert to view the specific data and reports inside.

It clearly listed a historical inventory of over a dozen procurement materials, the latest price trends in the market, the company's recent procurement prices, changes in the quantity of materials used in production, the growth trend of costs, the downward trend of the yield rate, as well as the names of these few newly changed suppliers, and the other party's business situation and reputation, and so on.

Finally.

Tianwei Butler summarized and evaluated these data and reached the conclusion that there was insider trading.

Of course, with the data listed so detailedly by Tianwei Butler, even without the final summary, anyone with a slight understanding of financial knowledge could see the unreasonableness at a glance.

With a little analysis, one would know that there was insider trading between the company's internal management and the suppliers.

Moreover, all subsidiaries under Tianqi Group implement digital management, and any document or file is uploaded to the database of Tianwei Butler for archiving.

Who proposed changing the supplier and who signed the approval are all clear at a glance.

I was delayed by something today, so there are only two chapters, totaling five thousand words. Please forgive me, brothers!