Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

January 14th.

Just as the users of Daqin Optics were eagerly waiting for the shipment of Daqin Optics, a piece of news came from the other side of the ocean, suddenly pushing Daqin Optics' New Year's Day press conference to the forefront again.

The Ministry of Commerce of Country M issued a document saying that during the investigation of China Longteng Technology Group and all its subsidiaries, it was found that the group violated country M’s import and export controls and sold products manufactured with country M equipment to countries such as Persia and Lao Mao. of semiconductor silicon wafers,

At the same time, they also seized a batch of arms that Daqin Optics exported directly to Country M without permission!

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused huge fluctuations in public opinion around the world.

In fact, everyone knows that Old M and his younger brother Xiao Benzi only exported two or three pieces of 12-inch silicon wafer production equipment to China.

Dahan Silicon's current silicon wafer production capacity is close to three million wafers. How could it be possible that they are using equipment from country M?

Therefore, this accusation is simply an attempt to incriminate, so there is no reason to bother!

As for the second article, it is even more ambiguous.

The article only mentioned arms, but did not mention the specific arms, which is even more far-fetched than the first article.

After receiving the news, Kang Chi immediately guessed that Fang Qiming's batch of scopes used to test the water had probably been confiscated, and based on this, he imposed the second crime in an extremely rogue manner.

Although he knew that no matter what he did at this time, he would not be able to avoid the subsequent sanctions, and Kang Chi was not afraid of their sanctions at all.

But you still need to have an attitude.

He immediately asked Zhang Qing to issue a clarification announcement, explaining the two accusations, and posted a picture of the scope they made, which was a demonstration for everyone to see.

As expected, Country M directly ignored this clarification announcement.

At three o'clock that afternoon, they announced that Longteng Technology Group and its subsidiaries would be included in the trade control list, and M-country companies were prohibited from selling goods and technologies to Longteng Technology Group.

At the same time, companies that purchase photolithography machines from Daqin Optics will also implement the same trade controls.

"Congratulations to Dr. Kang for being on the Bai Palace selection list!"

"You have come up with such far-fetched reasons, and you are publishing two articles in one day, completely omitting the appearance of the trial process. It seems that Old M is really scared this time!"

"..."

"As a person in the semiconductor industry, after reading this so-called embargo list, I suddenly discovered that the only thing that can really threaten Dr. Kang and Huaguo Semiconductor Enterprises is photoresist for processes below 28 nanometers..."

“And we currently don’t have many lithography machines with processes below 28 nanometers, so this time it’s clear that we are targeting Qin Guang 1, trying to make our EUV lithography machines run out of materials!”

"In general, although this sanction seems tough, it is actually a paper tiger and has little impact on the existing semiconductor landscape. It is just a desperate struggle by the old M to block the failure of our semiconductor industry. However, when Daqin Optical Lithography Machine is delivered If high-end photoresist hasn’t been developed yet, it will indeed be a bit embarrassing..."

"This puts pressure on researchers engaged in photoresist research and development."

"..."

After most netizens saw this news, instead of worrying about Kang Chi, they were a little proud of it, and even felt a sense of déjà vu...

The main reason is that Kangchi has brought too much self-confidence to the Chinese people in the past year. They do not understand the metaphysics of material manufacturing and do not think they can build a photolithography machine. Kangchi will be stumped by photoresist.

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As analyzed by netizens, after seeing Kang Chi's company being sanctioned, Academician Wu suddenly felt so stressed that he even breathed heavily.

At this time, the entire Chinese semiconductor industry, upper-level leaders, and informed Chinese people have probably focused their attention on these institutions and companies engaged in photoresist research and development.

Especially Wu Lihong, an old man who still has the title of Chinese Chip Academician on his head...

"In order for our photolithography machine to have photoresist, we can only trouble everyone to work harder... Starting from today, two more experiments will be added every day."

Harder?

During this period, apart from eating and sleeping, they basically spent the rest of the time in the laboratory with Academician Wu.

Even the sleeping time is limited to about six hours.

If we add two more sets of experiments, will we have to sleep only three or four hours a day?

"Teacher Wu, don't be too stressed."

Wang Haowen advised Wu Lihong with some worry: "It doesn't matter that we are still young, it will be over after a while, but if you only sleep for such a small amount of time every day, your body will easily be exhausted."

"Nonsense, haven't I been doing well during this period? When did I stop keeping up with you young people?"

Although researchers at the institute and several other doctoral students tried their best to persuade Wu Lihong, Wu Lihong also said that he would rest when he was tired.

But in fact, everyone knows that if he is so strong, how can he go to bed by himself when everyone else is busy.

Wang Haowen, who was really at his wits' end, immediately turned his attention to Kang Chi.

As Wu Lihong's nominal disciple, he is also his favorite disciple and the core figure of this incident.

Wu Lihong might be able to listen to his words!

However, just when Wang Haowen was about to go out to report, Kang Chi took the initiative to call Wu Lihong.

In the past, Wu Lihong would always subconsciously smile when he saw Kang Chi's call, but this time he was a little afraid to answer the call.

After sighing, he finally walked out of the conference room and answered the phone.

"Teacher Wu, how are you? Do you feel stressed? Extremely stressed?"

Hearing Kang Chi's slightly teasing tone on the other side of the phone, Wu Lihong felt less stressed for some reason.

He couldn't help but smile, and then replied pretending to be angry: "Are you so proud that you made a photolithography machine? You even dare to tease me?"

"No, I'm not afraid that you will be under too much pressure and risk your life for scientific research."

Wu Lihong couldn't help but be silent for a moment, so Kang Chi immediately asked tentatively: "How about I come over and supervise you?"

"No need." Upon hearing this, Wu Lihong knew that Kang Chi's so-called supervision was actually participation in research and development, so he directly objected, "With so many scientific research problems in China, do we expect you to solve them alone in the future?"

Um,

If you want to say that, it's actually not impossible...

Although Kang Chi was joking in his heart, he actually knew that his own power was limited after all.

Although cheating is possible, it will also be limited by mastery points.

In a sense, the mastery point is not only for him, but also for the entire country of China. If he does not use good steel on the blade, China's technology will not be able to continue to advance by leaps and bounds.

This is why Kangchi did not develop photoresist personally, but chose to invest in Suzhou Microelectronics to try it out.

If he ends up, he can easily obtain the high-end photoresist manufacturing process by going to the Jiangsu Microelectronics Research Institute, using their equipment to make some photoresist, and then upgrading the analysis.

However, the 54 proficiency points he finally got by building a lithography machine will have to be reduced by 15 points, which may have a certain impact on the next plan.

In addition, Kang Chi always believes that this Chinese chip academician who has solved the problem of film growth defects in situ across time and space scales and pushed the photoresist material process from 224nm to 28nm is capable of solving the material problem of photoresist. of.

Thinking of this, Kang Chi nodded: "Then I won't get involved..."

"But you really don't have to be so stressed. Your health comes first. In addition, I asked Shanghai Silicon Industry to start stocking high-end photoresist three months ago. Even though I have delivered twenty photoresist units now, machine, and the inventory is enough to last more than half a year.”

Wu Lihong was suddenly surprised and said: "Really? You didn't lie to me, did you?"

"Why are you lying? If you don't believe me, ask Dong Jianyuan. I was already prepared for this when I first started working on the photolithography machine. After all, there are lessons learned from the rising price of silicon wafers, so you don't have to be so anxious."

After hearing this, Wu Lihong finally breathed a sigh of relief...