The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 260 Lithography Machine Crisis

"Lin Benjian, I remember that he is a Vietnamese. There is nothing strange about it. Wait, maybe the immersion lithography machine he proposed has been successfully developed!" As an industry expert, Ni Guangnan is very familiar with the people in the circle. As far as I know, although this Lin Benjian is just a small person, Ni Guangnan still knows the origin of this guy.

To be honest, this Lin Benjian is a guy who has no ambitions. His initial development experience is no different from that of a normal scientist, but he has always memorized his ideas. He has worked in many companies, but these companies have fired him one after another. , In the end, he joined TSMC, but TSMC actually looked down on him, because he was promoting a technology called immersion lithography, which can change the development of lithography machines when used in lithography machines.

But he couldn't get the support of any lithography machine company, even TSMC didn't support him. He had always been very frustrated at TSMC. If Huang He didn't point out this person specifically, Ni Guangnan wouldn't even notice. In the list of visitors this time, there is such an unremarkable guy.

"Not bad!" Huang He nodded, "I guess TSMC has completed the technical demonstration and confirmed that Lin Benjian's immersion lithography technology is a feasible technology, so they went to ASML to cooperate."

"And ASML must have agreed to cooperate with the other party, so they need to devote all their technical strength to the manufacture and research and development of new lithography machines, which will definitely reduce some orders for lithography machines. And The 200-micron lithography machine we buy now is relatively cheap, and it is only natural that ASML will cut off our order!"

"It's actually like this!" Ni Guangnan nodded, and said thoughtfully, "If this is the case, then everything really makes sense, but..."

Ni Guangnan looked at Huang He in disbelief, "Little Huang, how did you know about this? How can you be sure that this immersion lithography technology will be successful?"

"I have a special source of information!" Of course, Huang He couldn't say, this is what he saw from various chip-related self-media articles in later generations, and he could only attribute it to a special source of information.

Anyway, as long as Huang He didn't explain, no one would know what the source of this information was, and it would be even more impossible to verify it.On the contrary, it is estimated that many people will start to doubt themselves, which is normal operation.

"Is this information accurate?" Ni Guangnan asked.

"[-]% sure!" Huang He said, "Academician Ni, in fact, this technology itself is not too difficult. It's just an idea. We can verify it in the laboratory. The specific idea is to use the refraction of light. effect, so that the light can be more detailed imaging!"

Huang He told Ni Guangnan all the technical concepts he saw in the official account. Although this technical concept is only a little bit, it is the most critical part of the entire technology, especially in the eyes of top experts like Ni Guangnan. It is equivalent to the Great Repayment Pill that opened up Ren Du's second vein.

Without further ado, Ni Guangnan locked himself in the laboratory, and left the laboratory three days later, nodded to Huang He with bloodshot eyes and said, "You are right, this technology is indeed true! "

Then he fell straight down, scaring the whole base into a panic. Under Huang He's order, Ni Guangnan was put into a deep sleep for a full day with drugs to recover his spirit and physical strength. Only then did Ni Guangnan recover a little.

"Teacher, you can't play like this anymore, you are wasting your life!" Seeing Ni Guangnan again, Huang He said very sternly.

"Sorry, I will try not to do this in the future. This time is really important!" Ni Guangnan said this, and then quickly jumped to the topic of technology, and said excitedly, "I have already developed this technology in the laboratory. It has been verified, and it is indeed true. Although it is only a simple line realized in the laboratory, it is undoubtedly a 48-nanometer line, which has restricted the entire industry for ten years. The bottleneck of the lithography machine has already been broken. Hope!"

After saying this, Ni Guangnan looked at Huang He very unhappily, "Why didn't you tell me such important information earlier, you must have known about the feasibility of this immersion lithography technology, if you told me earlier If I have this information, I will concentrate the strength of the entire scientific research center to attack, so that we can take the lead on the road where the lithography machine turns, do you understand how big a mistake you made?"

"Teacher, don't lie to yourself. I did know this information three months ago, but what is the difference between three months ago and now? Three months ago, you were asked to start working on the immersion lithography machine. Then you How long does it take to come up with a ready-to-use finished product?"

"This..." Ni Guangnan was dumb, and after a while he said, "Within 10 years!"

"This is still the most optimistic estimate! But for ASML, they probably only need a year to come up with the finished product." Huang He sighed and said, "Our debts in lithography machine technology are really huge. There are too many, and the immersion lithography machine itself is based on the traditional dry lithography machine.”

"The immersion lithography machine needs a dry lithography machine. We don't have almost all the technologies. We need to start from scratch."

"That's not counting. Even if we have the technology, the manufacture of a lithography machine is by no means achievable only by the technology. A lithography machine has tens of thousands of parts, 50% of which are made in China. What cannot be manufactured is high-precision parts that can only be produced abroad. Especially the optical equipment, just one of the lenses, can make domestic breakthroughs impossible for ten years."

"And these high-tech equipment and parts are all prohibited from being exported to our country. We can't buy things at all, but ASML can get them directly from Europe. Therefore, companies like ASML only It takes a year to complete all the technical breakthroughs, and even manufacture the finished product directly.”

"But we, I'm afraid we won't be able to do it in 10 years!"

"So even if I tell you this information in advance, if you lead the team to research and tackle key problems, I'm afraid it will be 10 years before I see the finished product. By then, the opponent may have already launched a more advanced lithography machine. We are still far behind the opponent!" Huang He said.

"Not bad, but so what?" Ni Guangnan snorted coldly and said, "I know what you said, but if you don't accumulate small steps, you can't reach thousands of miles, and if you don't absorb small streams, you can't make rivers. Lithography machine technology is always needed. Accumulated step by step, as long as you want to reach the international advanced level in chip technology, you need a little technology accumulation.”

"There is a gap of nearly 30 years between the level of our domestic lithography machine and the world level, but if we study the immersion lithography machine now, the first finished product will be produced even after 10 years, but this does not mean that , have we closed the gap from 1 years to 30 years? Isn't that a huge success?"

"..." Huang He didn't speak, while Ni Guangnan gritted his teeth and said, "Xiao Huang, I know you are in trouble. You are an entrepreneur, not a good person. You need to run a business, and a business needs profits. We spent 10 years studying infiltration. Type lithography machine, may need to consume a huge amount of billions of dollars, and these funds will not have any return within 10 years, even if the finished product is produced in the future, it will be far behind other manufacturers, and there is no commercial competitiveness. product, this is a huge loss-making business!"

"So Xiao Huang, I don't plan to talk to you about the big truth. I will go to Beijing tomorrow. I will find someone to find a way to help you get a helping hand. This money should never be paid by you alone. I will do my best I want to help you get support, but I also hope that you can think about the technology industry of our motherland, grit your teeth and make efforts. People at our level, money is actually hard to tempt us. Don’t you want to leave your name in history? Will the achievements of you and the Jiangnan Group be left in the history textbooks of the Chinese nation?"

"Teacher, it's a pity that you don't want to be a lobbyist!" Hearing what Ni Guangnan said, Huang He couldn't keep silent, and could only say, "But you must not enter Beijing, the country has given us a lot of assistance, We have not produced any results now, so we have to continue to speak, which is not right!"

"When the country needs money everywhere, economic development is the top priority. We can't add obstacles to the country!" Huang He sighed.

This awareness is high.

"Then what do you think we should do?" Ni Guangnan asked, "Otherwise, old man, I will sell BJ's house and raise some money for you?"

"You want to cut off my head and kill my heart!" Huang He was on the verge of tears when he heard that. It took more than 10 years, but in the end I still have to be 10 years behind others. I still have several decades, but how many 10 years can you have, teacher?"

"My idea is that if you want to surpass, you must surpass your opponent and directly reach the world's leading level. Otherwise, this surpass is meaningless, and you will still be stuck by your opponent!" Huang He said.

"However, this is not something that you can surpass if you say you want to surpass, it requires accumulation!" Ni Guangnan said.

"Then let's stop accumulating on this track, let's change to another track!" Huang He said very simply, "On the current lithography machine track, we will never surpass our opponents for at least 30 years. So we can only change a track, let everyone be on the same starting line, or even say that we simply start first, so as to complete a complete overtake."

"A new track... what do you mean?" Ni Guangnan started pacing in the room. "If you want to change a track, one is to completely abandon the idea of ​​​​making chips like a lithography machine, and change to a brand new chip manufacturing equipment. But it is very difficult, no one in the world has come up with such a brand-new technology for more than 50 years, and even the concept of technology has not emerged, which is extremely unrealistic."

"So you plan to abandon silicon-based chips? Are you planning to make carbon-based chips based on graphene?" Ni Guangnan raised his head suddenly, looked at Huang He, and found a smile on the corner of Huang He's mouth.

"No, this is even more unrealistic. Although graphene itself is very magical and has the potential to be made into a carbon-based chip, but now we have not even touched the threshold. The research and development time for this thing is probably longer than 30 years. long."

"Huang He, what is your plan? How do you plan to change the track?" Ni Guangnan couldn't help asking.

"Teacher, why are you so obsessed with the chip? Can't we just throw the chip away?" Huang He asked back.

"Drop the chip? A computer without a chip... Could it be a quantum computer? Not right, the direction of the quantum computer is right, but the quantum computer only has an advantage in the calculation of the superposition state, and other aspects are not as good as the current computer. "Ni Guangnan muttered, he really couldn't figure out what Huang He meant by losing the chip.

(End of this chapter)