ASML, the boss of mask aligner in the Netherlands, claims that DFJY is a China company, which actively sells goods that may infringe the company's patent rights in China.
ASML also claimed that China Oriental Crystal Source had a relationship with XTAL, an American company that had closed down, and the latter was judged by an American court to have infringed ASML's patent right in 20 19. ASML said that customers have been told that they don't need to help China Oriental Jingyuan to engage in this potential tort liability. ASML also revealed that the company has informed the regulatory authorities in China of the relevant information, closely followed the development of the situation, and intends to take legal action at an appropriate time.
Regarding this matter, the staff of China Oriental Crystal Source said that it was not convenient to reply to this matter for the time being. ASML China said that this matter was related to XTAL's previous infringement case and was a normal announcement in the annual report. ASML has paid close attention to the development of China Oriental Crystal Source, and is not prepared to take legal and regulatory measures in advance at this stage, but if there is conclusive evidence, the company will resort to the law.
China Oriental Crystal official website shows that the full name of the company is China Oriental Crystal Microelectronics Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., which was established on 20 14. The head office is located in Yizhuang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Beijing, and is a company dedicated to the management method of qualified rate of integrated circuits.
According to the actual business process, the key equipment of China Oriental Crystal Source are nano-ion beam vision inspection weapon equipment (EBI) and important specification measurement weapon equipment (CD-SEM), measurement and calculation lithography products (OPC), its electro-optical design scheme and intelligent manufacturing qualification rate optimization platform (HPOTM).
China Oriental Crystal Company said at its official website that its products are independently researched and developed, which is in a leading position in China, and can reasonably handle several problems in China's integrated circuit industry chain. The company also mentioned that China Oriental Crystal has been persistently leading the development trend since its establishment, and applied for patent inventions 145, authorized 49 patent inventions, copyrighted mobile phone software 14 and registered trademarks 15 globally.
In September, 20021,China Oriental Jingyuan announced that the company had launched a new round of equity pledge financing of several hundred million yuan, which was led by Qihang Capital and Shenzhen Venture Capital, and many famous venture capital institutions cooperated with the project investment. "This equity financing will help China Oriental Crystal to speed up the product development process of key products such as ion beam inspection before integrated circuits and lithography system software, and accelerate the overall rational layout in the integrated circuit qualification rate management method industry."
The financial report released by ASML shows that the company's operating income in 20021year was186 billion euros (equivalent to RMB133.9 billion yuan), a year-on-year increase of 33%; The net profit was 5.9 billion euros (equivalent to 425 billion yuan), a year-on-year increase of 66%; The gross profit margin was 53%, an increase of 4 points over the same period last year. In 202 1 year, the company delivered 309 mask aligner sets, 5 1 set more than in 2020; Among them, there are 42 extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, more than in 2020 1 1.