Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 247 Let them jump into the giant pit

"Well, yes, yes, everyone is brave. However, EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is not so easy to develop~ you can take your time." Zhao Ye smiled.

In the previous life, only ASML in the Netherlands was able to manufacture EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography machines. It is a lithography technology that uses extreme ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 10-14 nanometers as the light source. It has a very high technical content and can be called the top product of mankind. , is also a historical turning point in the development of global lithography machines, known as "the flower of modern optical industry manufacturing".In the market, the value of an EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography machine even exceeds 27 billion yuan!

With the technical strength of Suguang Lithography Machine Company and China, it may not be possible to manufacture it within ten years.

Of course, everyone present knows the difficulty of manufacturing EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography machines. This plan has been discussed in internal seminars, and it is extremely difficult.Wujiang Light Source Company has not been able to produce a stable deep ultraviolet light source so far.

Therefore, the next best thing is to take the lead in developing an immersion lithography machine.

Zhao Ye celebrated with everyone for a while, clapped his hands, and focused everyone's attention on himself, and then told everyone: "Everyone be quiet, I want to announce something!!!"

"Please pay attention to all those present. It is forbidden to disclose to anyone outside the fact that we have successfully developed an immersion lithography machine! Everyone must strictly keep the secret!"

In fact, all researchers have signed a non-disclosure agreement before, and Zhao Ye is just repeating it here, lest some people get carried away and accidentally tell the story of the successful development of the immersion lithography machine.

Zhao Ye said: "Right now, companies in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea are putting their hopes on the development of dry lithography machines, but we know that it is extremely difficult for dry lithography machines to make further breakthroughs. So, then Let them continue to go further and further down the wrong path, consuming a lot of time, manpower and material resources, only to find out that everything they have done will be in vain!!!”

"In this way, we have enough time to widen the gap with them technically."

When everyone heard the words, they couldn't help but nodded, they understood Zhao Ye's intention very well.

Thinking that European, American, Japanese and Korean companies have been going astray, they feel secretly happy and gloat.

"Mr. Zhao, don't worry, we will definitely keep it secret, and let those idiot companies in Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea go the dark way to the end! Maybe when we develop the EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography machine, they will still be working hard on the dry type. Lithography machine!" an employee shouted.

"Hahahaha... That's right, maybe they really may have been developing dry lithography machines. After all, they have already invested so much money, so they can't give up halfway, haha..."

Everyone laughed.

Seeing this, Zhao Ye smiled slightly, thinking, this is not the case, the other party should stop the loss in time.

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After a while, Zhao Ye, Zhang Rujing, Lin Benjian, Ni Guangnan and other executives came to the office.

After everyone sat down, Zhao Ye took the lead and said, "The immersion lithography machine has been successfully developed, and it should be applied to the chip production in the factory as soon as possible to improve the chip manufacturing process."

"Yes!" Lin Benjian, Zhang Rujing and others nodded in response.

"Furthermore, spend more money to build more 8-inch wafer fabs!" Zhao Ye analyzed, "With the emergence of immersion lithography machines, Loongson Design Company can design and develop more advanced chips, and Wujiang Microelectronics Company can also manufacture In this way, not only will the chips of Loongson Design Co., Ltd. sell well and sweep the world, but also the chip foundry business of Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. will also increase sharply. Currently, Wujiang Microelectronics owns The number of fabs, the production capacity must be seriously insufficient!"

Zhang Rujing nodded and said: "What Chairman Zhao said is true, I already have a fab expansion plan! According to our company's market research and analysis, we plan to invest in five large fabs, each with an investment of no less than 50 billion yuan. U.S. dollars! We need the help of the parent company, Wujiang Group, in this regard!"

Zhao Ye was slightly startled when he heard this.

It seems that Zhang Rujing has long been prepared, but this ambition is quite big.

It is necessary to expand five large fabs at once, with a total investment of no less than 5 billion U.S. dollars, equivalent to about 250 billion yuan in current RMB.

However, after thinking for a while, Zhao Ye agreed with Zhang Rujing's plan.

Wujiang Microelectronics has an immersion lithography machine, which has great advantages. In addition, the strength of Godson Design Company itself is also very strong, and it is fully capable of consuming the production capacity of Wujiang Microelectronics.

Moreover, with the development of the global economy, the demand for chips is increasing day by day.

If the cost advantage of Wujiang Microelectronics is included, then Canon, Nikon, Intel, TSMC, ASML and other companies can hardly survive.

"Okay, I agree with your plan!!! In addition, Wujiang Microelectronics is also preparing to develop a 12-inch fab!" Zhao Ye nodded.

In the previous life, 6-inch and 8-inch fabs were relatively backward.

When the 12-inch fab came out, many 6-inch and 8-inch fabs were shut down.

As we all know, the larger the wafer, the more chips that can be manufactured on a single wafer. Compared with the 12-inch wafer, the area of ​​the 8-inch wafer is 2.23 times higher, and the 8-inch wafer can produce 88 chips, while A 12-inch wafer can produce 232 chips, and the gap is still very large.

In the previous life, 8-inch wafers were mainly used in industries such as industry, automobiles, and mobile phones, mainly including power devices, power management chips, MEMS, display driver chips, and fingerprint recognition chips.The chips with advanced process technology are mainly 12 inches, such as CPU, GPU, memory chips and other high-end logic chips, as well as FPGA chips, WiFi Bluetooth chips, audio processing chips and so on.It can be seen that 12-inch wafers are the future development trend.

Zhang Rujing said in a deep voice: "Okay, Director Zhao, I will organize a technical team to study 12-inch wafers!"

Right now, 8-inch wafers have become the mainstream, but the development of 12-inch fabs is still far away.

The main reason is that the technology of dry lithography machine has not been broken through, and the chip manufacturing process is difficult to improve.

But Wujiang Microelectronics is different. It can master the immersion lithography machine immediately, so it is qualified to develop a 12-inch wafer fab.

Five or six years later, when other chip manufacturing companies were still complacent about owning 8-inch wafer fabs, Wujiang Microelectronics' 12-inch wafer fab has already been put into production.

In today's global semiconductor field, Wujiang Microelectronics will lead the trend of the times and develop cutting-edge semiconductor technologies!
……

The Dutch ASML company suddenly launched an IPO, which caused a wave of waves in the semiconductor industry.

Canon and Nikon in Japan feel a little uneasy.

ASML's lithography machine is not much weaker than their two products. If ASML succeeds in listing and financing, then ASML will have the funds to increase the research and development of a new generation of lithography machines.

ASML has a complicated background. Among its shareholders is Philips, and one of TSMC’s shareholders is also Philips. This has led to TSMC, the world’s second largest chip foundry, always being a major customer of ASML.

Canon and Nikon's lithography machines must rely on technology that is ahead of other lithography machine brands if they want to expand their market share.

In fact, since the mid-80s, the lithography machines of Canon and Nikon have defeated the lithography machines of the United States and become the most advanced lithography machines in the world.The Dawning lithography machine and ASML lithography machine have always been slightly weaker, especially the Dawning lithography machine. In recent years, there has been almost no replacement, and its main energy has been devoted to the research and development of the immersion lithography machine.

This may have given Canon and Nikon an illusion that the Suguang photolithography machine is not working, and it seems to be falling from the first echelon, and their only competitor is now ASML.

Japan.

Canon Corporation, lithography machine department.

Seeing the news that ASML was preparing for an IPO, the head of Canon's lithography machine, Fujita Kohe, immediately asked the secretary to notify the department executives to go to the conference room for a meeting.

"Does everyone know about ASML's launch of the IPO plan?" At the meeting, Fujita Kohe looked at everyone and asked.

"Understood!" Everyone nodded.

Fujita Takahe: "Well, that's good. Next, let's discuss and discuss how we should deal with this matter!"

As soon as the words fell, an executive said loudly: "I think that Canon should increase investment in research and development of dry lithography machines, continue to maintain its technological advantages in the field of lithography machines, and not let ASML catch up!"

As soon as the words were finished, the senior executives present all spoke in agreement.

"Ishikawa-kun's proposal is very good, and I support it. Only by maintaining our leading position in technology can Canon consolidate and develop more lithography machine market share!"

"The lithography machine market itself is based on technology. Whoever has advanced technology can seize more market share!!!"

"Well, I will apply for funds from the head office and invest more in the research and development of lithography machines. With ASML's strength, I will never surpass us!" Fujita Kohe also agreed, expressing disdain for ASML in his heart.

How can a small Dutch company compare with my big Japanese company Canon?

Fujita Hookhe looked at everyone and asked, "Shuguang Guangeng Machine Company, what do you think?"

"Dawn Lithography Machine Company has not released a new generation of lithography machines for several years. It seems that they have been sitting on their laurels and eating their laurels. There is nothing to be afraid of. Although it is not ruled out that they may be holding back a big move, the possibility is very low! I heard that Wujiang Group has focused its business on real estate development and is mobilizing a large amount of funds to purchase land in mainland China and build the 'Wanjiang City'!"

After a senior executive finished speaking, he couldn't help showing a mocking look.

It is obvious that Wujiang Group is contemptuous of engaging in real estate business without doing business properly.

The overall output value of the global lithography machine market is actually not large, and it has not exceeded 500 billion US dollars.

However, the threshold for developing lithography machines is quite high.

However, in China, the comprador thinking that "making is worse than buying" is still prevalent, and Wujiang Group is also a shareholder of ASML. A lithography machine may be purchased from ASML.

In fact, the Suguang Lithography Company has not moved much for six years, while ASML has developed rapidly, which inevitably leads to misunderstandings.

This also led to Canon and Nikon not paying attention to Suguang Lithography Machine Company.

As everyone knows, there is a kind of bird on the earth mountain in the south of China. It does not sing or fly for three years, but it can soar into the sky when it flies, and it can be astonishing when it sings.

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A few days later, Canon's lithography machine department applied for 5 million US dollars in funding to increase investment in research and development of dry lithography machines.

The entire Canon lithography machine department was triumphant and excited, and expressed disdain for any competitors, going further and further down the black road, deeply trapped in it, and unable to extricate themselves.

Another lithography giant in Japan, Nikon, also increased investment in research and development after learning that ASML was preparing to go public.

ASML's IPO action has stirred up the situation in the lithography machine market, causing Canon, Nikon and other companies to lose more and more, and the mud is deep.

Zhao Ye, the chess player behind the scenes, watched them come and go, adding more investment in the research and development of dry lithography machines, and sometimes couldn't help laughing.

All of them are scrambling to jump into the huge pit, and they are quite happy... Forget it, let’s not bother them anymore, let’s play music and dance, and watch the show quietly!

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The IPO of ASML Company, Zhao Ye is the shopkeeper and doesn't care at all.

With the help of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, the listing time has finally been set, which is expected to be May 5 next year, which is May 1, 1995.

Zhang Rujing seems to have planned the location of Wujiang Microelectronics' five large-scale 8-inch fabs, and it was determined soon.

With such a large investment in five large fabs, it is difficult not to cause a sensation in the industry.

In order to paralyze other companies, Zhao Ye has decided to ask Wujiang Microelectronics to send personnel to negotiate lithography machine orders with ASML in the future, and let the outside world know that Wujiang Microelectronics will purchase lithography machines from ASML in the future.

Moreover, ASML is about to go public. This huge good news will definitely cause the stock price of ASML to skyrocket. As the major shareholder, Wujiang Group will be able to harvest a wave of leeks and make a fortune.

For Wujiang Microelectronics, although there is an immersion lithography machine, the ASML lithography machine is still useful.

Immersion lithography machines are used to manufacture the most advanced chips, while ASML lithography machines can produce sub-level chips, replacing some previous faulty dry-type Suguang lithography machines.

It is only July, and the construction of five 8-inch fabs has just started, so there is no rush to buy lithography machines from ASML. It is best to finalize the cooperation on the eve of the listing, so that the effect will be the best.

However, Wujiang Microelectronics has already greeted ASML, Philips, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase in advance, and they all know about this plan.

Of course they were ecstatic about this.

It's just that they don't know how many lithography machines Wujiang Microelectronics will purchase.

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Of course, Loongson Design Company knew of the birth of the immersion lithography machine at the first time.

Wujiang Microelectronics has broken through the chip manufacturing process, and Godson Design can design more advanced chips.

Therefore, at this moment, many chip design projects of Loongson Design Company have been put on the agenda, especially the 64-bit "Kirin" series CPU and "Kunpeng" series GPU graphics processor, which are the top priorities.

When the 64-bit "Kirin" CPU is released, it will definitely overthrow Intel directly.

The "Kunpeng" GPU will also sweep the world, dominate the GPU market, and become an invincible existence!
It's just hanging up!

Zhao Ye came to Godson Design Company and personally participated in the chip design work. At this time, he could no longer contain his inner excitement...

(End of this chapter)