[Northern Huachuang President Dong Boyu: This year, wafer fab customers have begun to proactively initiate joint research with the company and promote collaborative innovation] "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" reported on the 1st that Dong Boyu, the president of Northern Huachuang, said in a speech at the 2026 CEPEA main forum that before 2025, the domestic semiconductor industry will be highly dependent on the industrial path and the iteration speed of the equipment link will be slow. But he also said, "Starting from 2026, we have deeply felt that wafer fab customers have begun to proactively initiate joint research with Northern Huachuang to promote collaborative innovation, return to the underlying technical logic, explore and define semiconductor equipment development, and move from early parameter benchmarking to real solution design. The proportion of forward design of product technology has increased significantly." (Guo Hui, reporter of Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)