The man who turned the times

Chapter 313 I, Su, will be the overlord of semiconductors

Of course, the inter in this life does not have a Core I7, or even a Core series.

Speaking of which, among the information Su Yang found on the Internet, some news made him feel helpless.

In this world, there is no giant of lithography machines like ASML, but Nikon in the island country is more active, occupying more than 50% of the lithography machine market.

In addition, the United States and other developed countries can also produce lithography machines, but basically they are mainly deep ultraviolet lithography machines.

The wavelength is 193nm, and after shrinking several times, it can make 22nm chips, but this is the limit of this lithography machine.

Of course, 22nm is only the ideal limit of "deep ultraviolet light". The current lithography machine technology still stays at 45nm.

It will take several years to reach this limit.

After reaching the limit, if you want to go further, you have to carry out 'light source improvement'.

ASML's EUV lithography machine uses "extreme ultraviolet light" with a wavelength of 13.5nm, which is shorter and deeper, enough to manufacture chips with a 5nm process.

It is worth mentioning that the most important thing in chip production is actually chip design, similar to game code.

This kind of technology is generally in the hands of semiconductor giants such as Inter and Samsung, and it is also in the hands of some other chip manufacturers. Except when it is exposed during foundry, it is rarely spread.

Secondly, there are equipment such as lithography machines. In addition to lithography machines, there are dozens of equipment such as etching machines, ion implanters, oxidation furnaces, and polishing machines.

Among them, the lithography machine is the core.

From the design of the chip to the manufacture, there are many steps, and some incompetent companies do not have equipment, so they can only find FAB factories-specialized in the production of chips, that is, manufacturers of foundry wafers.

Taking TSMC as the most, it is a semiconductor company from the Gulf.

Samsung also accepts OEM services, but the inter in this world only focuses on the production of its own microprocessors, and there are very few OEMs.

The significance of the existence of the foundry is to be a middleman, neither producing upstream equipment nor participating in downstream construction, but only providing parts-chips.

Some companies that cannot build their own chip assembly lines can only use wafer foundries to produce products such as mobile phones and computers.

Of course, the premise is that there must be advanced chip design technology.Otherwise, it is impossible to see the chips produced by the OEM, and it is better to buy chips from other semiconductor manufacturers directly.

In fact, most of the world's mobile phone and computer manufacturers do this.

In fact, some time ago, at the beginning, because the Yuanyang Group did not have any foundation for chip production, even if it had the patented technology of the chip and the equipment was not complete, it could not produce it.

At that time, Su Yang planned to find companies like TSMC or SMIC for chip foundry after the mobile phone project was put on the agenda.

If there is no high-end lithography machine, there is no doubt that finding a FAB factory to manufacture chips is a way to maximize profits.

After all, if you rely on Yuanyang to study the lithography machine by yourself, you don’t know that you will not be able to produce the A6 chip for the iPhone until the year of the monkey.

Even Huaxia, after decades of doing business, begged parents to worship grandma, and then used various means from abroad to collect some lithography machines that were eliminated by others, but they could only produce some 60nm chips.

There is still a long way to go from 45nm, let alone a 32nm A6 chip.

It took China decades to gather the strength of a country. Even if Su Yang has a system, he dare not say that he will be able to walk in front of a country with more than one billion people.

Therefore, at that time, it was the best solution to find a wafer foundry to manufacture.

However, the system did not disappoint him. At the last moment, he got a black-tech lithography machine.

EUV lithography machine!

It's just a Miaoman girl with her clothes off, tsk tsk...

Su Yang couldn't tell what it was like.

The system introduction states that a NXE3400B EUV lithography machine can produce 2.4 wafers a month, and the size should be 12 inches.

After splitting, 12 chips can be obtained from a 400-inch wafer.

In other words, the annual output of an EUV lithography machine reaches 1.15 million, and if some damage is removed, there can be at least 1.1 million.

The output of 1.1 million CPUs a year is enough to equip hundreds of millions of mobile phones.

Although the system didn't mention whether these divided chips belong to computers or mobile devices, Su Yang thinks that they probably belong to computers.

However, this is nothing, it is nothing more than the chip of the mobile device, which will be made into a baseband chip by adding radio frequency and other technologies, and the design is a little more complicated.

With the complete technical solution of the A6 chip, these are not difficult tasks.

In addition, the lithography machine can not only produce CPU, but only with technology, it can also produce DRAM chips, NAND chips and some solid-state drives.

DRAM chips, also known as memory sticks.

The NAND chip is actually a kind of flash chip, referring to flash memory——U disk and other things.

As for the solid-state hard drive, you should know this. Generally, there are drives other than the C drive on the computer, such as the D drive and the E drive.

Before the mobile phone comes out, Su Yang can produce some other chips for sale.

The premise is to have technology.

In the iPhone 5, since all mobile phones use flash memory, there is flash memory chip technology.

Perhaps, you can make a fuss about it?
……

Now that the lithography machine is in hand, Su Yang feels very happy.

He remembered reading a report before traveling in his previous life, saying that it was Huaxia who had spent a lot of effort to import a lithography machine from the Netherlands.

The price is 1.2 million US dollars, which is about 8 million RMB.

At that time, I didn’t know what kind of lithography machine it was, but according to his inference, it was probably ASML’s EUV lithography machine, right?
"Made, in the past, the United States and Western countries monopolized the lithography machines for decades, and almost all Chinese chips were imported."

"But in this life... When I have a thorough understanding of the technology of lithography machines and create a few EUVs, I will also block the technology and equipment, and let them taste the feeling of being suppressed."

Su Yang murmured, his eyes flashed with excitement.

The overlord of semiconductors, someone from Su wants it!

For a moment, he frowned again.

"By the way, am I too inflated?"

Before I even learned how to walk, I wanted to run.

Probably it is really inflated, and it is so inflated that the system does not issue tasks anymore.

pity.

But no matter what, the finished product of the lithography machine is now in the inventory of the system, and the technical information is also there. As long as the materials are also prepared and the technology is thoroughly understood, it should not be difficult to produce.

Even if Yuanyang does not have the strength to produce, it can spend money to buy factories and then start production.

"No, wait!"

Su Yang thought of something, moved his eyes, and looked at the item introduction again.

[Note 1: After taking out the NXE3400B, you can purchase all the technical information of the lithography machine in the mall, including patented technology. 】

"Mmp, I still have to buy it, why not send it directly?"

"Will it be expensive?"

Glancing at the system points, Su Yang felt a little pained when he saw the word zero.

Now I don't have any points, so sad.

Just like a graceful girl who was stripped naked, standing in front of her and making a pose, she could only look at it but not touch it.

So angry.

The more I think about it, the more I want to hit someone.

(End of this chapter)