Chapter 297 No one knows better than me

Although Lin Xiao's interview was still a bit outrageous, the CCTV reporter happily went back with the interview record.

After the interview, there were some social activities afterwards, but Lin Xiao rejected them all.

Although the people who invited him had high status, he was not afraid of making others dissatisfied if he declined.

Anyway, he is a scientific researcher, and since the Dingguang Research Institute is there, can others influence his continued research no matter how high their status is?

Not to mention that with his current status, he no longer needs to care about others.

So, An An returned to Yanbei Garden with peace of mind, and took a good rest for a day to prepare for the work ahead.

As for the next work, it is naturally the final step of the X-ray plan.

Assemble.

…

The night passed.

After a good night's rest, Lin Xiao, full of energy, got into Shi Hao's car and headed to Dingguang Research Institute.

The other three Zhonghai bodyguards who had protected him when he went to St. Petersburg naturally returned to their original posts. After all, they were all back in China, which was naturally much safer than abroad. What's more, Lin Xiao had not wanted to go out and be treated like this. Many people gathered around.

Soon, he arrived at the Dingguang Research Institute. Looking at this long-lost research institute that belonged to him, Lin Xiao had no time to sigh. Instead, he asked Shi Hao to drive the car to a newly built building.

This building is the newly built dust-free workshop of their institute.

Strictly speaking, it is a dust-free workshop for photolithography machine assembly and testing.

The structure of this kind of dust-free workshop is slightly different from that of ordinary dust-free workshops. In addition to the dust-free environment, its foundation is also different.

Their foundations are made of extremely dense and heavy metal materials.

This heavier foundation than ordinary buildings gives the entire vehicle higher performance in terms of stability and impact resistance.

For example, in the dormitory, when a certain heavyweight roommate gets off the upper bunk, you may feel the ground shake, but in this dust-free workshop, such a thing will not happen, and you will basically not feel anything. shock.

As for why this kind of dust-free workshop is needed, it is naturally also for the stability of the operation of the photolithography machine.

As an instrument with working precision at the nanometer level, its stability requirements are among the highest in the world. Any vibration may cause instability during operation.

Of course, the cost of such a dust-free workshop is naturally very high.

However, it is all for building lithography machines, so there is no need to worry about these costs.

Soon, Lin Xiao got out of the car and came to the door of the workshop.

After entering the door is the office area, not counting the inside of the workshop.

As the first workshop in China designed to test ultra-high-precision lithography machines, this office area is relatively large and can conduct various data tests. There is also a conference room that can accommodate Lin Xiao's core meeting on the X-ray plan.

Soon, after Lin Xiao walked in, when people in the office area saw him, they all stood up and shouted respectfully: "General Master Lin!"

Looking at the chief designer whom they had not seen for a long time, the people present were filled with emotion.

Using their free time from the X-ray project, they solved a world-class mathematical problem. Who else could do it except their Chief Engineer Lin?

Deputy Chief Designer Yang Kaiping was also here. After seeing Lin Xiao, he smiled and said hello: "Hey, Huo Guai is okay, Professor Lin, you are here."

Hearing Yang Kaiping's voice, Lin Xiao turned to look, then laughed and said: "How come you know this too?"

Yang Kaiping laughed and said, "Why can't I know? I saw the news this morning. You are really amazing. For such a difficult guess, you rated it as 'not bad'."

"There are other things like, 'it took a month', 'it took nearly four months' and so on. In the past, any subject I took would take a year and a half, but it's different with you."

Lin Xiao said with a smile: "Back then, Einstein published five papers a year. On average, it takes 2.4 months to publish one paper. I'm still a little behind."

Yang Kaiping: "..."

You are awesome.

You have already compared yourself to Einstein, so I have nothing to say.

"Ahem, forget it. I won't tell you anymore. You haven't been here for so long. Now I have to tell you about our current situation."

"Well, let's go in and talk."

Lin Xiao said.

Afterwards, they entered the office and started talking.

"First of all, it's Chen Yuanchun's place. Based on the drawings you gave them, they have built double workbenches. Now they have built five sets. After testing, the accuracy and stability have reached the standard. Now they have been placed in our workshop. ."

When talking about this, Yang Kaiping recalled the situation when they tested the five double workbenches. When they saw that their double workbenches could easily operate with his established accuracy, everyone in their entire workshop was shocked. I have been celebrating this for who knows how long. It is a pity that Lin Xiao, the chief designer and the designer of these double workbenches, was attending the International Congress of Mathematicians at the time and could not participate, which made the scene less commemorative.

Of course, compared to the lithography machine they are about to build, there is no need to care about the commemorative significance.

He continued: "Then the other parts are all ready, which means we are just waiting to install the machine now!"

Lin Xiao nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad."

Finally, the X-ray lithography machine that we have waited for so long will be born.

As the chief designer, he has been looking forward to it for a long time.

"only……"

At this moment, Yang Kaiping showed a look of embarrassment on his face again.

"Just what?" Lin Xiao wondered, could there be another accident?

Yang Kaiping sighed and said, "We are almost running out of funds."

"This dust-free workshop has cost a lot of money. It also costs a lot of money to maintain a constant temperature and dust-free maintenance every day. In addition, in addition to the more complex instruments such as double workbenches, we only have parts for our lithography machines. In addition to building ten units, we have basically ordered ten sets of other parts. However, our original budget of 5 billion has basically bottomed out. This is because we still have a lot of payment for the goods and have not paid it. "

"So...if the funds are gone, we won't be able to continue."

Speaking of this, Yang Kaiping showed a look of helplessness. A dime would stump a heroic man, let alone a scientific research project like theirs that would cost money in the first place.

Ordinary dust-free workshops, such as the 300,000-level dust-free workshop, are not that expensive, only about one thousand yuan per square meter. Their workshop is about 20,000 square meters, so it only costs 20 million yuan at most. Yes, but the 300,000-level dust-free workshop is the lowest level of dust-free workshop. It is just an ordinary clean room, not even food processing level.

The cost of a food processing grade 100,000 dust-free workshop is almost 2,500 per square meter.

As for their dust-free workshop for integrated circuit manufacturing, not to mention the solid metal cast foundation under their feet, their dust-free workshop alone is the top-notch first-class dust-free workshop.

The cost of building a first-level dust-free workshop is directly in the tens of thousands, not to mention that their workshop also requires a constant temperature system, which needs to keep the temperature constant at 21 degrees Celsius. Otherwise, even if It is an error of one degree, and the entire lithography machine must undergo nanometer-level changes, so this is another huge expense.

In this way, the total cost will be hundreds of millions, or even approaching the billion level. Therefore, they are really out of money now.

So why does semiconductor research and development cost so much money? Just a 20,000-square-meter dust-free workshop requires so much money, not to mention other research and development.

However, this seemed like a big question to Yang Kaiping. After hearing this, Lin Xiao only said: "That's it?"

Yang Kaiping: "...Isn't this enough?"

Lin Xiao smiled and patted Yang Kaiping and said: "It's too small, the pattern is too small."

"I thought it was some big problem, just lack of money!"

Then he took out his mobile phone and called Ma Gaoliang: "Director Ma, our X-ray project is out of money... Well, let's call another one billion... OK, OK, OK, then hang up. Okay, okay, bye."

Putting down the phone, Lin Xiao gestured "OK" to Yang Kaiping, "It's done. Just check the account then. It should be here soon."

Yang Kaiping was stunned: "That's... one billion?"

"Otherwise, one billion should be enough. Director Ma has always been very generous." Lin Xiao said matter-of-factly.

Yang Kaiping was speechless: "How generous is that guy Ma Gaoliang? We used to apply for project funds or something, and as long as he could control it, he had to review it for a long time. He was extremely stingy."

Lin Xiao: "...the Ma Gaoliang you are talking about and the Director Ma I am talking about are the same person?"

Yang Kaiping rolled his eyes: "Who else could it be besides Ma Gaoliang from the Science and Technology Bureau?"

"Uh...well, maybe Director Ma has a dual personality and will show his generous side when giving me money."

Yang Kaiping: "..."

Suddenly he remembered, who is this in front of him? That is Lin Xiao. Applying for funds is simpler, isn't that normal?

Compare Ma Gaoliang to a goddess, then scientists like them are the spare tires, then Lin Xiao is the tall, rich and handsome, and then she becomes the spare tire licking the goddess, and the goddess licking the rich second generation.

He patted his head and said helplessly: "Forget it, I won't tell you anymore. Do you want to go in and take a look now?"

Anyway, once the funding problem is solved, there is no need to worry about other things. After that, they can just spend money.

"Okay, let's go and have a look."

Lin Xiao nodded, then stood up, left the office with Yang Kaiping, and walked towards the real workshop inside.

Before entering the workshop, they first came to the wind room, where the huge wind blew away all the dust and other things on their bodies.

After blowing for about a minute, the air outlet stopped, and then they entered the changing room. There were disposable dust-free clothes here. After they changed into them, they came to the real entrance and walked in.

In a dust-free workshop, the biggest source of pollution is the people entering from the outside, so before entering, they need to go through such steps before entering.

After entering the workshop, what you see is a very spacious space with a lot of mechanical equipment, among which there are five mechanical instruments that have been built, which look very big.

These five things are clearly the X-ray lithography machine they are building.

Since five double workbenches were built, only five of them could be built first when assembling the lithography machine for the first time.

Of course, as long as they can succeed, they can prepare for large-scale manufacturing.

By then, China, the world's factory and the country with the most complete industrial system, will be fully operational to support the production of X-ray lithography.

Looking at these five mechanical instruments, Lin Xiao couldn't help but speed up his pace and walked over quickly.

Machinery is a man's romance, especially the photolithography machine that has not yet been installed with a casing. The complicated mechanical structure inside is the most complex in the world.

When the surrounding engineers and mechanics saw Lin Xiao, they immediately shouted: "Chief Engineer Lin!"

"Well, hello everyone."

Lin Xiao nodded towards them, and then asked: "How long will it take to install it?"

"It's expected to be probably early September," a mechanic replied.

"Early September?"

Lin Xiao frowned slightly. Coupled with the subsequent debugging work, it would be difficult to achieve the National Day completion he planned.

Although it doesn’t necessarily have to be completed on the National Day, it is always better if it can be completed on the National Day.

"Can't it be earlier?"

he said.

The machinist showed helplessness on his face: "We all want to, but now we work from morning to night every day, and the manpower is limited. Moreover, it is too troublesome to assemble this photolithography machine, although the accuracy of these parts is not as high as Dual worktables and optical path systems need to reach the nanometer level, but there is one thing: the speed cannot be improved."

Hearing what the mechanic said, Lin Xiao didn't say anything. If he made any further demands, it would indeed be a bit overwhelming.

However, when he turned to look at the machines next to him, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "If there are not enough people, add me."

Everyone present was stunned.

"Chief Engineer Lin, you want to do this..." The mechanic thought he heard wrongly.

"Why, can't it?" Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow and said: "I am also the inventor of the eight-point structure, and I also drew the structure of the lithography machine you installed. No kidding, no one can compare I know X-ray machines better."

He made an accordion-playing gesture with his hands, and looked very serious.