1991 Starting from the core

Hongxin is very close to the Science and Technology Park, only two streets apart, and next door is the new headquarters of Zhiyuan EDA - and two blocks further north is the new electronics campus that has been put into use.

Yuanxin, Zhiyuan, and Hongxin are currently the three most "treasured" technology companies in the provincial capital industrial zone, and they are brand-level entities. Therefore, the treatment provided by the provincial capital is also very generous. If you need land, you will get land, and if you need policies, you will get policies.

The new government is also very ambitious. It has been actively doing ideological work for several major universities in the provincial capital, such as Provincial University, Jiaotong University, Polytechnic University, Agricultural University, etc., asking them to plan the expansion of new campuses as well as computer information and Software engineering departments and majors are concentrated in the industrial zone, forming a group of universities specifically oriented to computers and related technologies.

It is said that the work went relatively smoothly. Anyway, the two 211 institutes, Southwest Jiaotong University and Provincial University, have already spotted the land and are ready to start construction.

…

There were bursts of cheerful laughter in Hongxin’s chairman’s office.

"Sister Qu Hui, I really belong to you! This time I have to lick my face to thank you on behalf of the national semiconductor industry."

Su Yuanshan held Qu Hui's hand tightly and praised sincerely.

"Haha, I have fulfilled my mission." After not seeing each other for a year, Qu Hui was obviously much thinner, and even her eyes were a little sunken. She withdrew her hand and joked: "Now I have to give myself a good holiday. Go back and prepare to have the baby.”

"Yeah, give birth! Give birth to more babies!"

"Will you pay the fine to me?"

"No problem!" Su Yuanshan promised: "Even if you give birth to a football team, I can help you!"

"Do you think I'm a pig?" Qu Hui gave Su Yuanshan a slap in the face.

Everyone laughed again, and then sat down one after another.

Today is naturally the day when Hongxin announces the successful development of a new generation of photolithography machines. In addition to Zheng Zhenchuan and other Hongxin executives present, there were also Qu Hui, who represented Capital Precision Instruments, and Shen Haoran, who represented Zhiyuan EDA.

Dr. Shen Haoran studied under Professor Li Gaoliang. He was the group leader of the Electrical Engineering Department when Yuanxin first assisted the Chengguang Institute. After he graduated with a Ph.D., he naturally joined Yuanxin and was responsible for the mechanical CAD department.

The success of Hongxin's lithography machine this time was indispensable for his assistance.

As for why Su Yuanshan wants to thank Qu Hui on behalf of the national semiconductor industry...

Naturally, this is because the core function, or competitiveness, of Hongxin's Krf lithography machine this time is the dual workpiece stage - and after continuous debugging, compared with similar products, the dual workpiece stage lithography machine has The efficiency of the current process has been improved by nearly 50%!

Of course, this is only an improvement in the efficiency of lithography machines. To truly increase production capacity, all processes and processes need to be accelerated accordingly.

And this also means that this advanced process will be born in China for the first time.

Although it is currently only used on Krf, and the process node can only reach 0.18 micron, Su Yuanshan fully believes that relying on the 0.18 micron process is enough for domestic semiconductor companies to defeat all foreign counterparts that rely on production to compete for the market. Down.

For example, flash memory particles, memory particles, and microcontroller chips.

"Have the requirements from above come out?" Su Yuanshan put aside his excitement and glanced at Qu Hui first, then at Zheng Zhenchuan.

"It's just been reported, and it hasn't been accepted yet - you knew it earlier than the department leaders." Zheng Zhenchuan laughed at Su Yuanshan.

His hair was almost half white, but he was very energetic. He looked like an old man who...if he could grow his hair, he would become an immortal on the spot.

"That's right." Qu Hui, who always defended Su Yuanshan, immediately said: "Six years ago, Yuanxin has been supporting the Chengguang Institute... What did the ministry support at that time? Not to mention the ministry, even the Chinese Academy of Sciences... …”

"Ahem...Sister Hui, the country had no money at that time, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences also had no money." Su Yuanshan smiled and interrupted Qu Hui's complaint: "Our annual scientific research investment at that time exceeded the entire Chinese Academy of Sciences...otherwise, how could we be called... Where’s the Little Chinese Academy of Sciences?”

Zheng Zhenchuan looked at the two of them with emotion in his heart.

Indeed, Yuanxin spares no effort to support Hongxin, or... its support for domestic lithography machines, which is far beyond what the Chinese Academy of Sciences and related departments can match.

From the beginning, we sent people to cooperate, secretly helped buy various embargoed equipment, and then provided subsidies later on, and built a building specifically for the lithography team... Finally, we happily took the money to build a factory.

Zheng Zhenchuan once calculated that Yuanxin's investment in "self" alone exceeded one billion yuan.

It can be said that if there were no remote cores, the current situation of domestic lithography machines would never be possible.

The only criticism is that Yuanxin will never "make do" with Hongxin and won't "keep the bottom line". Hongxin will not make purchases until Hongxin catches up with its foreign counterparts.

Now, although foreign countries have begun to enter the field of Arf lithography machines, China has also caught up with the Krf army.

I remember that when the boss inspected Yuanxin five years ago and said that he would catch up in ten years, the boss also joked that he should not praise Haikou...

Now it seems that China will catch up with foreign countries in less than ten years.

Su Yuanshan asked again: "Uncle Zheng, what are your plans for the sales area?"

"Tell me your plan first?" Zheng Zhenchuan did not answer immediately, but asked instead.

"Me?" Su Yuanshan smiled and turned to look at Qu Hui: "It depends on how long Sister Qu Hui and her two-piece workstation can stay ahead. I believe your confidentiality technology is good, but there is no airtight wall in the world. The technology can be kept secret, but the technical direction is obviously impossible to keep airtight - even if it can be done, we have to believe that our peers are also developing the technology of the double workpiece table."

Everyone nodded. Enterprises are not as secretive as the military. It is difficult to "not know what they are doing".

Qu Hui curled her lips disdainfully: "Anyway, we have been working on the double workpiece table for nearly five years - don't fool me. I know the technical level of our foreign counterparts very well. Even if our industry is lagging behind, we are still lagging behind." At the overall industrial level, it lags behind in accumulation.”

"Double workpiece table technology is not a separate mechanical manufacturing job. It contains design ideas, design inspiration, and a complete system that was born after solving countless troubles... This is a matter of brains, not machining accuracy. , it’s not about the strength of the material.”

After a pause, she said firmly: "If foreign countries independently develop it, it will not take much less time than us."

Su Yuanshan nodded: "Then if overseas engineers see the operating mode of the dual workpiece table and do some disassembly and analysis, how long will it take them?"

"You are not afraid of disassembly, there is an anti-dismantle system. And our control and debugging interfaces are fully encrypted for transmission..." Qu Hui thought for a while and said: "Of course, if you ask us to imitate it, it will take two people at the fastest. Three years.”

"Two or three years..."

Su Yuanshan pondered for a moment and then looked at Zheng Zhenchuan.

"Uncle Zheng, Sister Hui. My opinion is, one year."

"Whether it is a workpiece table or a photolithography machine, there will be a conditional one-year ban on sales to foreign countries."

"Of course, this depends on the opinions from above and the market's response."

Speaking of this, Su Yuanshan took a deep breath again.

"I really can't wait to see the expressions on my colleagues' faces."