1991 Starting from the core

As soon as Su Yuanshan said these words, everyone in the office couldn't help laughing.

A long time ago, Western economic circles proposed the concept of R\u0026D (Research and Development).

According to international practice, the scale and intensity of R\u0026D activities are usually used to reflect a country's scientific and technological strength and core competitiveness.

The R\u0026D level of an enterprise also reflects the competitiveness of an enterprise.

According to statistics, domestic R\u0026D expenditure last year was about 22 billion yuan - including the technology introduction agreement signed by Yuanxin and TI, the proportion to GDP was about 0.64%. Among them, the expenditure provided by Yuanxin is as high as 2 billion...

This means that one unit of Yuanxin is responsible for 10% of the combined investment of all scientific research units in all domestic scientific research fields!

Crazy expansion and crazy investment in scientific research have made Yuanxin a veritable technology giant.

However, in the lighthouse countries during the same period, the R\u0026D proportion has reached 2.5%, and the expenditure has reached nearly 180 billion US dollars.

20 billion yuan VS 180 billion US dollars - this is the gap.

After realizing this, the country also began to increase its investment in scientific research this year, especially some colleges and universities with "unique skills".

While squeezing out funding, the state also actively encourages various scientific research units and schools to learn from Yuanxin and unswervingly pursue the path of industry, academia and research, and do so well.

And to implement industry-university-research cooperation... there is no more suitable unit than Yuanxin.

…

After laughing, Li Keqing knew that this guy was indeed as Zhao Kaidong said, a master who would not let go of the rabbit before he saw it. So he looked at Professor Xiao Yang from T University and took out a CD and a stack of documents from his briefcase.

"This is the progress we have made so far. We spent a year designing the mechanical principles."

Although Su Yuanshan is not an electromechanical person, he knows that once the mechanical principles are figured out, it means that the machine can be "made." However, as an integrated circuit engineer, he knows that it is not enough to design the principle of such a micron-level precision instrument, but also involves a large number of physical properties. Not to mention other things, just heat dissipation can kill you. .

So he immediately asked: "Have all the mechanical characteristics been solved?"

Li Keqing heard Su Yuanshan ask about the key point immediately. He stopped laughing and was silent for a few seconds before shaking his head: "I can only say that based on the material properties we currently have, it can be simulated."

"You mean you haven't passed the simulation yet?" Su Yuanshan looked at Qu Hui - Qu Hui had been in charge of mechanical CAD.

Qu Hui shook his head: "The characteristics of some special steels have not been data yet. You have to know that those are imported special steels..."

Su Yuanshan was stunned, then sighed softly.

It’s not Li Keqing’s fault, nor Qu Hui’s fault.

As an advanced tool developed by a backward country, if you want to gain the trust of countries and companies that are absolutely leading in technology, especially in the fields of materials and machinery, you must make sacrifices and concessions.

Let’s put it this way, in order to export Zhiyuan’s mechanical CAD, the agreement signed can be said to be extremely harsh, and it almost became open source software.

All data cannot be collected and shared by mechanical CAD, and the interface is also open so that users can adjust the data themselves.

Even if this is the case, the internationalization of mechanical CAD is still difficult.

You know, in theory, it can be used to design everything from aircraft, cannons, ships, to machine tools and automobiles!

"It's okay. You can secretly get some special steel from Ni Guo." Su Yuanshan paused and said, "Let's talk about it first, what are your plans."

"Well, our plan is to establish a precision instrument factory through three-party cooperation."

"I know." Su Yuanshan nodded, wondering if this was nonsense: "I mean, after establishing a precision instrument factory, who will the customers be?"

"Customers?" Director Li was slightly startled, and immediately said: "Isn't it mainly for remote cores, but for the domestic market? You know, there are no professional precision instrument manufacturers in China, let alone a professional photolithography machine workpiece factory. Once The success of our dual workpiece table means that we will have world-leading technology..."

"That's right." Su Yuanshan licked his lips and looked back at Qu Hui's glass - like Zhou Xiaohui, she also drank scented tea, and it seemed that she had just brewed it and had not had time to drink it.

Su Yuanshan grabbed Qu Hui's tea cup, unscrewed the lid, poured half a cup of water into the lid, took a sip and said: "To put it bluntly, domestic lithography machines are still at least five or six years away, or even further away." Gotta go."

Zheng Zhenchuan coughed.

Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Uncle Zheng, don't cough, what I said is the truth."

Zheng Zhenchuan said helplessly: "The truth shouldn't be so straightforward."

"Well, let's put it mildly - if the dual workpiece stage is really successful, I hope it will be used on Nikon or Canon photolithography machines as soon as possible."

At this moment, everyone was stunned.

Qu Hui immediately asked, "Why?"

"Because the most advanced technology must be matched with the most advanced lithography machines to develop better." Su Yuanshan gradually became serious as he said: "I hope that relevant units will abandon the idea of ​​​​preserving their own things and have more international ideas."

At this time, Professor Xiao Yang, who had been listening silently, suddenly said: "You mean, this precision instrument factory wants to introduce foreign investment?"

"Yes, not only foreign investment must be introduced, but also foreign investment in photolithography machine factories."

"And this introduction is not to look at the money in other people's pockets, but to look at other people's resources and influence. Only in this way can we quickly defeat our opponents and complete our monopoly."

Qu Hui's eyes lit up when she heard this, she clapped her hands suddenly and said, "I understand, you want to learn from EDA!"

Su Yuanshan smiled slightly.

Isn't it?

…

Next, he carefully looked at the design of the double workpiece table - and then he found out to his shame that he couldn't understand it very well, so he had to ask Qu Hui and Dr. Liu to explain it to him.

And because the workpiece table must be matched with the production process of the photolithography machine, Zheng Zhenchuan also joined in the explanation at the end...

Even so, Su Yuanshan could only barely understand.

But this is not important. What is important is that he knows that at present, no one is thinking about dual workpiece tables at all! And in terms of difficulty now, micron-level precision is far less difficult than nano-level precision in later generations.

Otherwise, ASML would not have monopolized this thing for more than ten years - well, in fact, ASML has monopolized the field of photolithography machines and directly monopolized the dual workpiece stage in disguise.

If the dual workpiece table can be successfully launched now and establish a "marriage" relationship with photolithography machines such as Nikon, Canon, and the nascent ASML, then it will naturally complete its monopoly.