Reborn 80s

There are many difficulties in the development of EUV lithography machines, mainly in the light source.

Chen Huaiqing was not in a hurry, nor did he think that the EUV lithography machine could be done in a short time.

His psychological expectation is that if it is successfully developed within twenty years, there will be no problem at all.

After all, EUV lithography machines are mainly used below 10 nanometers.

But EUV lithography machines are not the only ones that can achieve processes below 10 nanometers. DUV lithography machines, for example, can achieve up to 7 nanometer process nodes.

Chen Huaiqing even knew that as far as civilian products are concerned, the performance of 14-nanometer chips is sufficient, and it can even be said that it is excessive in performance.

Based on the current development situation of Mota Microelectronics, Chen Huaiqing does not think there will be any problems in mastering 14nm lithography machine technology in the future.

In terms of technology, Mota Microelectronics is also in the first echelon in the field of global lithography machines.

Especially in the field of back-end lithography machines, Motta Microelectronics is the number one company in the world, and other lithography machine companies simply cannot compete with Motta Microelectronics.

The advantages are too obvious.

Technical advantages and price advantages, these two are core advantages, which directly defeat the opponent in the market competition and have no ability to fight back.

It was a matter of course that the market was taken over.

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were dozens of photolithography companies in the world, but now, there are only a few left.

Mainly in Neon, China, North America and Europe.

As for other parts of the world, they are no longer qualified in this area.

The technical threshold and technical barriers are too high, and it is simply not something that ordinary countries can play successfully.

Note, we are not talking about companies here!

Enterprises are very strong, but in front of the country, no matter how strong they are, they are still weak.

The fourth generation deep ultraviolet (DUV) ArF light source has been successfully developed, and now all that remains is continuous improvement.

The research and development of Motar Microelectronics' ArF light source lithography machine is also progressing quite smoothly. Such smoothness is decisively related to the fact that Motar Microelectronics has gathered the most cutting-edge talents from all over China and received full support from the country.

Another point is that in the past ten years, Mota Microelectronics has cooperated with various universities to carry out special training for talents.

A large number of outstanding science and engineering graduates are continuously joining Mota Microelectronics.

"The fourth-generation light source lithography machine is expected to advance the chip manufacturing process to 65 nanometers."

This means that in the next five years, China will not have to worry about being surpassed by others in the semiconductor field and will always remain in the first echelon in the world.

"Boss, this is our immersion DUV lithography machine prototype."

At this time, dry lithography machines are mainly used worldwide, using air as the medium and 193nm wavelength light to directly perform lithography.

The immersion technology uses water as the medium in the photolithography machine, allowing light with a wavelength of 193nm to enter the water for refraction, and then change the wavelength to 132nm, thus achieving photolithography from 45nm to 10nm level.

In the past, Motta Microelectronics naturally produced dry lithography machines, and in the field of dry lithography machines, Connie and Nengjia were super giants.

Mota Microelectronics can only rank third.

As for ASML, it is still only a small company at this time.

In the last life, ASML relied on the immersion DUV lithography machine to completely crush Connie and Nengjia under its feet.

The successful development of EUV lithography machines has completely established ASML’s dominance in the field of lithography machines.

"With immersion technology and fourth-generation light sources, we expect that the photolithography process can be advanced to 28 nanometers or even below 10 nanometers."

Chen Huaiqing couldn't help pinching his chin as he listened to the introduction. In his last life, he had his eyes fixed on the EUV lithography machine. He really didn't pay much attention to what the lithography machine was before the EUV lithography machine.

But Chen Huaiqing knows that the global shipments of EUV lithography machines are not large, or that there are still very few chip products that can use EUV lithography machines.

The price is expensive and some consumers cannot accept it.

And at that time, civilian computers and mobile phones all had excessive performance.

For example, a mobile phone has 256G of memory. What is such a large memory used for?

Unless you take photos every day, the photos will not be deleted.

Even so, it's hard to keep it full.

Even if a photo is 3M, 256G can store more than 80,000 photos.

Taking into account the memory required by other programs in the phone, if you fold it in half, it will be 40,000 photos.

Taking an average of 10 photos a day means 3,650 photos a year, and it would take 10 years to take 40,000 photos.

A mobile phone will obviously last less than ten years.

Mobile phone hardware has excessive performance, quite a bit.

Chen Huaiqing looked through the information on immersion technology. This technical route was proposed by Lin Benjian in 1987.

But for a long time, no one paid much attention or thought to it.

For a very simple reason, dry lithography machines are still developing rapidly.

It was only recently that it hit a bottleneck, making progress slightly more difficult.

But at this time, no one has any idea of ​​changing course. So much money has been invested in the research and development of 157 nanometer wavelength before. It goes without saying what it means to change the technical route.

All the money invested before was wasted.

At this time, who dares to make a decision?

Besides, everyone knows about Neon’s corporate nature.

Even if there is a problem, it won't be able to turn around for a while.

In other words, before others have done something better, even if Neon's companies find mistakes themselves, they will continue to run along the wrong technical route.

Fight to death!

Just fight to the death.

Why?

This technical route is not related to one or two people, but to a series of people.

In Neon, authority is unquestionable.

In Mota Microelectronics, authority is meant to be questioned!

After realizing that the technical difficulty of immersion technology was lower and easier to implement, Mota Microelectronics quickly invested in the research and development of this technology.

And get in touch with the proposer of this technology and invite him to join the project.

But sometimes, invitations are not always guaranteed.

Although it was a pity that Lin Benjian was not invited, Chen Huaiqing didn't care.

There are so many talented people in the world, and it is impossible for everyone to be with me.

Mota Microelectronics is now a mature company. Chen Huaiqing did not say anything except that he continued to invest in research and development and increase the localization rate.

Regarding the localization rate, Chen Huaiqing actually no longer needs to push for it.

Because Mota Microelectronics was up and down, I felt restricted.

In the past, some advanced equipment was not sold, and I have become accustomed to this.

But even the parts are restricted, which is something that many people have not thought of.

After experiencing the painful experience, everyone finally gave up their illusions and prepared to fight.

At this time, Mota Microelectronics' main competitors were still two companies, Connie and Nengjia.

Since we are competitors, we naturally need to collect intelligence.

Chen Huaiqing does not pay much attention to Connie and Nengjia, but pays more attention to ASML.

Intel and several other companies have placed their wealth on ASML.

In fact, Motta Microelectronics also tried to join their EUV research plan and conducted some substantive negotiations.

It's just that Asmai is more interested in being a dog, while Mota Microelectronics is more interested in being a human being, so the negotiations naturally did not proceed.