Just turned over a new leaf and became a wise and intelligent student

Chapter 458 A List

"As you can see, this groundbreaking scientific star is radiating his brilliance at the peak of his powers, but what is even more incredible is that Xu is only 21 years old. It remains to be seen how many miracles he can create in the future!"

This is the paragraph-style comment that Time magazine used when it once again featured Xu Qingshan on its cover.

As one of the few people who has appeared on the cover of Time magazine for several consecutive years, Xu Qingshan's global fame is no longer limited to the scientific research circle.

Even because Xu Qingshan has no precedent of involving international political positions.

Currently, the propaganda from all over the world is very friendly to Xu Qingshan.

The strength levels of governments around the world in 2012 were still relatively adequate, and had not yet reached the level of the magical makeshift teams that would occur 10 years later.

For a super high-quality stock like Xu Qingshan, whose attitude is unclear, but has great potential and many possibilities in the future, most countries that believe they have the strength and possibility to recruit Xu Qingshan will take the initiative to show goodwill to Xu Qingshan.

Using such a force to deal with a potential stock might seem a bit risky.

But if the other party is Xu Qingshan, then it would be totally worth it.

After all, this is not just a simple potential stock, but a super high-quality stock that has already exchanged part of its talents.

Even some of the talents he has already redeemed have surpassed 99.99% of the people on this planet.

As long as there is nothing wrong with his brain, no government team in any country would underestimate Xu Qingshan's abilities.

Although Xu Qingshan is still immersed in the more theoretical field of mathematics and the computer field which is mainly for the general public, these two major disciplines are almost the pillars for various industries related to national defense, military strength, and technological monopoly.

Everyone felt that if Xu Qingshan used his talent in weapon manufacturing, it would be even more amazing.

You have to know that the most talented physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists at that time developed the atomic bomb, a super weapon that changed human warfare.

What will Xu Qingshan bring to the history of human warfare?
Every country has fantasies about this.

Of course, at the same time, various special agents from various countries who were ambushing in China also took action. They were very cautious, worried that the Chinese government would coerce Xu Qingshan to do something they wanted.

Of course, the above ideas are all from their perspective.

As for what Xu Qingshan himself is doing?

He was cheering in the secret research base on Lu Island.

"We did it! We did it this time!"

Xu Qingshan's face was full of smiles.

This research base has been established long enough, and the research team standing in front of him now has more than 40 people.

As the chip and lithography machine projects continued to advance, Xu Qingshan, after making progress in various fields, took the initiative to present his ideas and situations to the country, and received the highest support from the authorities.

The specifications of this team of more than 40 people are incredibly high.

No matter whether they are academicians of the Academy of Engineering who are in their prime and have rich experience in related fields, or outstanding young professors who are emerging and have active minds, once they come to this base, they will not be able to leave in a short period of time, and they need to obey Xu Qingshan's arrangements completely.

In order to break through the technology of Europe and the United States, Xu Qingshan was blocked and a variety of small technologies were used to form a new set of lithography machine technology.

The first is the breakthrough in light source technology.

Xu Qingshan's team has not only developed a deep ultraviolet light system based on all-solid-state laser technology with a wavelength of 193nm, which can support multiple exposures to achieve chip manufacturing below 14nm, but 14 nanometers is far from the limit of this system named DUV. The team can continue to experiment and explore further.

Currently, the DUV system is able to produce 14nm nanometer chips because technological development in other fields is restricted.

But no matter what, Xu Qingshan can now proudly tell the world that their lithography technology and chip manufacturing process are the most advanced in the world.

Although he had borrowed a ladder that someone else had already set up, Xu Qingshan didn't care about those things.

He only cares about what he can do for the country and society at all times.

Perhaps for Western countries, he is like Prometheus who stole their mature lithography machine technology and chip manufacturing technology from their technological blockade.

But for China, Xu Qingshan is undoubtedly a great man.

In just one year, Xu Qingshan took Huaxia Chip from almost zero foundation to the top. This miracle is unbelievable for most people.

You will know that if you look back at the brief history of the development of chip manufacturing companies, you will find out.

This step taken by Xu Qingshan is of great significance.

In 2001, the world's leading chip manufacturing process was 130 nanometers. At that time, the most popular Pentium III processor sold worldwide was the standard 130 nanometer process.

Then in 2004, the 90-nanometer process was upgraded. That year, many chip manufacturers were able to produce 90-nanometer technology, including Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM, UMC and TSMC.

After that, chip manufacturing technology developed rapidly until the beginning of this year, when the world's mainstream manufacturing technology had developed to 22 nanometers.

Three years later, when the global manufacturing process reached 14 nanometers, it became an important watershed in the chip industry.

从14纳米到10纳米，再到7纳米和5纳米3纳米
Every time there is a breakthrough in process development, a chip manufacturer will fail at this threshold.

But at the same time, the progress of chip manufacturing is also faster. In 2017, the process technology entered the 10-nanometer field, and in 2018 it quickly entered the 7-nanometer field. Then in 19, 6-nanometer mass production was completed. In 2020, 5-nanometer occupied the high ground. In 2022, TSMC's 3-nanometer mass-produced chips directly dominated the world.

In sharp contrast, China's only semiconductor foundry company, Sinochip, was unable to mass-produce 2019nm chips until 14.

This gap is so huge that even a top scientist like Xu Qingshan, who has seen a lot of things, would shed tears of excitement when he accomplished this feat.

What he is doing now is not simply improving the technology of chip production.

It also does not mean that if China cannot produce top-level advanced low-process nanochips, it will affect the development of national strength and national defense.

Because from the perspective of practical application.

Chips below 28nm are called advanced processes.

Chips of 28nm and above are called mature processes.

Even 10 years later, the proportion of mature processes will still exceed 50% of the total industry demand.

This also includes various advanced military equipment and military technology products.

But if you look at it from the perspective of a bottleneck.

Now all companies in the world that have complete chip manufacturing technology include American technology. If American technology cannot be supplied to companies on the entity list, the chip industry around the world will be firmly controlled by the United States.

There is currently no chip foundry in the world that does not use American technology.

In other words, the United States can prevent any company from obtaining chips, and can also use such means to cause a large-scale technology company to go into shock due to lack of chips.

Xu Qingshan was deeply impressed that in the future, there is a chance that some companies will decline due to US sanctions.

After that, there was only one company that was able to truly break through the US technological control and blockade.

So everything Xu Qingshan is doing now is to build a chip manufacturing system that does not contain any American technology.

This task is extremely difficult and requires the participation of strong organizers and a complete and huge industrial supply chain in all directions. It also requires huge financial support and super strong technical investment.

Under this premise, if there is no prior technical foundation, it will take at least ten years of extremely hard work to synchronize China's chip industry with the world's most advanced ranks.

Because when you are doing research and development seriously, other leading companies in the world will be able to rely on their technological first-mover advantage to continue to expand the boundaries of the industry.

However, Xu Qingshan's current actions have broken this situation, and done it silently.

He simply stole the fire.

Perhaps scientists and politicians all over the world would never have thought that such a top scientist would personally go to other people's territory to raid other people's factories and directly replicate other people's technology 1:1.

This kind of operation cannot be imitated or replicated by anyone else in the world.

First of all, you need to have the strongest brain, which should not only be fully proficient in all aspects of technology involved in the entire industry, but also be familiar with its technical principles.

Secondly, you also need a memory space with a huge capacity to help you remember the various data and precise details of thousands of parts. In such a super-precision instrument, even an error of one millimeter is a huge error that is enough to cause the entire machine to stop working.

Finally, your actions need to be supported by the power of the state, and someone must be willing to ensure your safety throughout the process and sacrifice their lives for you.

In addition, there are various restrictions, such as language ability, emotional intelligence skills, strategic planning
Even if it was China, he would never let Xu Qingshan take such a risk a second time.

But Xu Qingshan himself believes that everything he is doing now is worth it.

Because from this moment on, it only took them one year to make China's chips stand at the forefront of the world.

And this is far from the limit of the combination of the various technologies they are currently researching.

It’s just the finished product that they can announce to the public and report to the country.

In addition to the very advanced DUV light source system.

A professor from a top industrial college in Northeast China in Xu Qingshan's team also led the team to develop a "discharge plasma extreme ultraviolet lithography light source", which can output 13.5nm wavelength EUV light, directly filling the gap in domestic EUV light sources.

In addition to the comprehensive breakthrough in light source technology.

The new lithography technology route developed by Xu Qingshan and this super powerful team also achieved overtaking with zero American technology content.

Among them, maskless direct write lithography technology is the first technology to realize the 14nm process.

Yes, you read that right, it was the first, because Xu Qingshan's super team of only more than 40 people was developing multiple technologies simultaneously to prevent various technologies from being restricted by foreign parties when they were mass-produced in the future.

In addition to maskless direct write lithography technology, there is also multi-patterning technology based on DUV lithography machines, which uses multiple exposures to superimpose graphics. It is not only very suitable for the 14nm process but also can achieve extremely high workpiece stage accuracy.

Apart from the above, other breakthroughs are not so impressive in comparison.

For example, the improvement of numerical aperture, the optimization of intelligent control systems, and breakthroughs in materials.

Of course, Xu Qingshan’s research base cannot fully cover all the processes of chip manufacturing.

Fortunately, the country has also provided more comprehensive and strong support to Xu Qingshan and others.

For example, in the field of chip materials, the various physical materials institutes of HUST and the national key laboratories in materials-related fields of major universities have also begun to take on their own projects and concentrate their efforts on major tasks.

At this time, the advantages of the national system are fully transformed.

And the local government did not drag its feet at this time.

Silicon Electric Technology, which Liu Cigui brought to Ludao, had just moved to the island not long ago, and its factory and technical personnel were requisitioned by Xu Qingshan.

After briefly understanding what Xu Qingshan and his team were doing, Silicon Electric Technology paused without any complaints. Currently, their research progress and production lines are fully assisting Xu Qingshan's research base to complete the implementation and testing of lithography equipment and patents.

In this situation of collective wisdom.

The Chinese authorities have finally made preparations, made arrangements in advance to ensure the safety of all scientists, and chose to hold a press conference.

To be honest, Xu Qingshan did not watch the live broadcast of this press conference.

He didn't even watch the news properly during this period.

Because just after he arranged the subsequent breakthrough tasks, left the research base and returned home, he received an envelope sent by Jingcheng University.

There was nothing else in the envelope but a list of names.

There are many names on this list, some of which look very familiar to Xu Qingshan.

He had some guesses in his mind, but nothing was confirmed, so he picked up the phone and called Zhou Qifeng.

"Hello? Lao Zhou, what does this list you sent me mean?"

After Xu Qingshan's excitement, his voice sounded a little tired.

He looked over the list in his hand for a while but found no other information.

"You haven't called me for a long time."

Zhou Qifeng said with a smile on the other end of the phone.

"If I don't keep you in suspense, you won't pay attention to me."

"This is the list of candidates for academicians that have been submitted so far. Boy, get ready. By this time next year, you will be the youngest academician in China, and even in the world."

(End of this chapter)