Chapter 858 [New Micro Semiconductor’s Major Breakthrough]
Domestic space or aerospace enthusiasts have clearly felt that the mainland's development in the aerospace field in recent years has suddenly started running wild.
The Sky Mirror project, the Sky Survey Space Telescope project, the Nine-Day Star Observation Project, the Daily Sun Project, including the current Orbital Reef Space Station project, etc., these projects, one by one, were unthinkable in the past.
Even now, many people still find it hard to believe that these ambitious space projects would appear in today's Eastern powers.
All of this is highly consistent with the rise of Star Capital, and the reasons are already obvious.
It is Star Capital's support for space exploration that has led to the current situation.
Practitioners in this field have the strongest feelings. They all know that today’s situation is inseparable from Qunxing Capital or Fang Hong’s persistence in looking up at the stars.
It is no exaggeration to say that now is the best era for space exploration in the domestic aerospace field. The best reflection is that in the past year or two, more and more students have applied for majors in this field.
Because the prospects are getting better and better.
The implementation of these major space projects has created a large number of employment gaps, and these are high-end jobs.
The income from basic scientific research has also increased due to the strong support of Qunxing Capital. The overall environment of the entire industry is improving visibly, which has given many young people who love this field enough courage to apply for this field.
What is the upgrading of industry towards high-end?
This is industrial upgrading!
However, the changes in the domestic environment in recent years have made some well-known public figures in the country who have forgotten their ancestors feel as uncomfortable as eating shit.
In their view, Chinese people should work hard in hard-working, cramped, and airless labor projects driving screws, and then spend their entire lives with a meager salary. And high-end undertakings such as looking up at the stars, making chips, building lithography machines, sitting in the office drinking coffee and blowing the air conditioner and reading financial material reports should be exclusive to foreign adults. You You should drive the screws.
Online battles are naturally inevitable, and the war of public opinion has never stopped.
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As time went by, on the morning of Wednesday, November 12, Fang Hong received good news from New Micro Semiconductor. A research team under the company had achieved a stage in developing lithography machines. A major breakthrough in sex.
That afternoon, under Fang Hong's instruction, a little bit of news about this matter was released on a small scale, but the people didn't know about it yet.
Soon word spread to the ears of Peter Bernard, the president of ASML in Europe.
Friday, November 14th, local European time, ASML headquarters.
"There are reports from the Chinese that they are developing lithography machines to replace the staged victory. Do you think their plan is true or false?" In a conference room, ASML President Peter Bernard held up his hand. The document was distributed to several people attending the meeting, who turned out to be the technical team of the company's lithography machines.
Time passed by, and everyone was looking at this material.
After a long time, one of the participants suddenly slapped his thigh. His shout made everyone subconsciously wake up. He turned and said in amazement: "Damn it, why didn't we think of such an idea?"
Peter Bernard squinted his eyes, and when he saw this posture, he had a bad feeling in his heart. This material might be real, and China might really make a major breakthrough in the field of lithography machines.
The technician who suddenly slapped his thigh looked at everyone and said: "ASML is constantly pursuing miniaturization in the development of lithography machines. Because we do not produce chips ourselves, we must miniaturize lithography machines. But the Chinese people's thinking Completely opposite to us, they actually reversed their thinking and developed towards large-scale thinking. It is really a genius-like idea..."
Peter Bernard spread his hands and said: "Reverse enlargement? This is unscientific!"
The technician immediately said: "No, this is science. Chip manufacturing is the journey from quartz sand to artificial intelligence. The first is a high-purity wafer, which is like a crystal column similar to a glass column. Use extremely fine steel wire to cut off a piece A thin sheet is coated with a layer of photoresist. Then an oscillation laser is used to produce a beam of high-energy laser, which irradiates the tin droplets at high speed to produce a light source with extremely short wavelength, and then the prefabricated chip image in the photomask is projected onto the photoresist. On it, you can print out the wiring diagram just like developing a photo.”
"The key point is this complex light source. Don't you just want a high-energy light source? Because of the physical properties of wave-particle duality, you can use an accelerator to accelerate particles. The particles run fast enough, infinitely close to the speed of light. Because of the wave-particle duality, In terms of iconicity, particles can also be a kind of wave, and light is also a kind of wave, so what wavelength of light cannot exist?"
"So, to filter out particles, you just need to use light. No matter what kind of nanometer process it is, running a few more laps is really simple and crude, and it can be done in large quantities. Using a spectrometer, a particle accelerator can drive dozens of lithography machines. Even hundreds of lithography machines are not a problem, this is really a genius idea."
Peter Bernard was stunned on the spot when he heard this, and said with astonishment on his face: "What did you say? A particle accelerator can even drive hundreds of lithography machines?"
this……
With such a terrifying production capacity, the chips produced in the future will not be cheap, and high-end chips will not even look at even a dog on the ground.
Peter Bernard said quickly: "No, no, no, please explain it to me clearly. Start over and say it carefully."
Hearing this, the technician thought about it again, and then said: "Their plan is to reverse the idea of miniaturizing ASML lithography machines. It is to directly build an ultra-high-power light source station and accelerate the light source ring light through high-energy There can be dozens, hundreds or even more laser output ports distributed on the optical path."
"The high-energy laser output from the output port can process chips with many nanometer processes. For example, if the A output port is 65 nanometers, it corresponds to the construction of a 65-nanometer process lithography machine. If the B output port is 20 nanometers, it corresponds to the construction of a 20-nanometer process lithography machine. This light source station will form a super huge chip production industrial base."
"So he doesn't need to deliberately manufacture the light source with any process. He can just speed it up from the light source terminal with high energy. Whatever process is needed can be built corresponding to the output port. If it is not needed, he can just ignore it."
"Because our company does not need and can no longer manufacture chips locally, in order to facilitate transportation, it must miniaturize the lithography machine and customize the light source according to the needs of the lithography machine. But their idea does not need to do this. They themselves are familiar with chips. There is a huge demand, and they also need to manufacture chips of different processes in large quantities. There is no need to transport lithography machines back and forth. Their plan to build lithography machines according to the formation of light sources can perfectly solve their needs..."
Finally, Peter Bernard listened to the technician's second retelling, and this time he understood it completely. In short, if ASML is building a lithography machine, then Huaguoren's plan is simply building a lithography factory.
No wonder it is a reverse ASML miniaturization idea, because China’s chip demand is too great, and the cost of this large-scale assembly line production will only be lower.
Peter Bernard suddenly realized that once this approach is proven to be successful, North America's current series of blockades and sanctions on Xingyu Technology, including the chip technology of the Eastern powers, will become a piece of waste paper. .
If the other side is running with the idea of building a "photolithography factory", then ASML will starve to death.
The lithography machine branch of the technology tree, known as the jewel in the crown of Western industry, was suddenly illuminated by the Chinese? The times tell you that they are changing without even saying hello to you?
Peter Bernard was really anxious now, really panicked!
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