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Chapter 82 Photolithography Machine and Photoresist

[Item: Low-end lithography machine]

【Experience value: 100000/100000 (upgradeable)】

【Optimization point: 250.8】

The next day, after Cai Jin woke up, he came to the small factory and checked the lithography machine. The data had changed.

"System, upgrade!" Cai Jin chose to upgrade without hesitation.

Swish!
A gleam of light flickered!
Suddenly, the lithography machine changed.

At least it looks a lot more pleasing to the eye.

Cai Jin also understood the relevant information.

[Item: Low-end photolithography machine]

[Experience value: 0/500000]

【Optimization point: 250.8】

This lithography machine has been able to produce 300nm chips all of a sudden, and it has been raised to the level of 150nm chips.

However, 150nm chips are still low-end chips, and there is nothing to be happy about at all.

Cai Jin continued to run the lithography machine.

He then began assembling equipment for producing photoresists.

There is a saying in chip development called Moore's Law, that every 18 to 24 months, the performance will double.

One of the cornerstones of maintaining Moore's Law [vitality] is photolithography technology. Every 18 to 24 months, the feature size of the smallest pattern that can be formed on an integrated circuit board using photolithography technology will be reduced by 30%.

Photoresist is the core material of the photolithography process. It can react with light to make the required precise circuit pattern appear on the chip material.

The quality and performance of photoresist will directly affect the excellent rate in the integrated circuit manufacturing process.

In a word, the more precise the circuit pattern produced by lithography, the better the performance of the chip.

And China's semiconductor photoresist is simply horrible, with a domestic market share of only 1%!

China's annual photoresist production has reached an astonishing [-] tons.

But these productions are only primary products.

As for mid-to-high-end photoresists, none of the companies belong to China.

Yes, the reality is so cruel!
Dow Chemical, DuPont, Huntsman, Neon JSR, Shin-Etsu, Tokyo Chemical, Fuji, Sumitomo, Tok, Mitsubishi Chemical, Asahi Kasei, Hitachi Chemical, Nippon Steel Chemical, Sun Ink, etc. dominate this industry. Plus Dongjin Chemical of South Korea, LG Chemical, Morton of Italy and so on.

The clearest example is South Korea.

Since the huge conflict between the two sides in 2019, the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Japan announced that it will strengthen the review and control of semiconductor materials exported to South Korea, including fluoropolyimide, photoresist and high-purity hydrogen fluoride. Industry, I can only admit defeat obediently.

So although the global photoresist market is less than [-] billion US dollars, Cai Jin has to solve it.

If the lithography machine and photoresist are solved, then China Semiconductor will basically solve the dilemma it is facing.

As for the rest of the question, it is of little importance.

Moreover, Cai Jin has already decided to directly make the photolithography machine and photoresist the price of cabbage, and kill those bastards.

You must know that for a long time, if you want to buy a top-notch lithography machine, people have always been in a charity posture!

Thinking about it, Cai Jin felt angry.

Today you are superior, and tomorrow you will be bankrupt, frustrated and crying!

Consecutive days.

Cai Jin devotes time and energy to photolithography machines and photoresists.

Yesterday, after two upgrades, we have mastered the photoresist production technology and can produce various types of photoresist.

Semiconductor photoresists, PCB photoresists, LCD photoresists and other photoresists are all conquered.

Today, the lithography machine can almost be upgraded.

Put your hands on the lithography machine.

[Item: Low-end photolithography machine]

【Experience value: 500000/500000 (upgradeable)】

【Optimization point: 260】

"Upgrade!" Cai Jin chose to upgrade without hesitation.

Swish!
A gleam of light flickered.

Immediately, this lithography machine has undergone obvious changes, even the appearance is changing.

[Item: mid-range lithography machine]

[Experience value: 0/1000000]

【Optimization point: 260】

At the same time, Cai Jin also has an understanding of this mid-range lithography machine.

Lasers, beam straighteners, energy controllers, beam shape settings, shutters, energy detectors, and masks have all reached the most advanced technology level in the country.

In addition, the motion control precision of the mask stage reaches the nanometer level, and the objective lens, measuring stage, exposure stage, internal closed frame, shock absorber, etc. are also the most advanced products in China at present.

The light source of the lithography machine is no longer the deep ultraviolet light before, but the soft X-ray of 13.5nm, that is, the extreme ultraviolet light.

Most importantly, it directly realizes the production and manufacture of 60nm chips!
And you must know that there are no more than three companies in China that can make 60nm chips, and all of them are technologies that have just broken through in the second half of 2018, and they are still in the laboratory!
Now, at best, it is a small-scale moderate production.

But now, he has a lithography machine that can mass produce 60nm chips.

Such a lithography machine can produce hundreds of 12-inch wafers!

It can be said that this is a breakthrough, a remarkable breakthrough. If what happened here is announced, it will be enough to shock the whole of China, even the capital!

After all, in the field of lithography machines, China is so weak that even ordinary people know it, so that lithography machines have been given various titles many years ago.

Just like the fields that China has not broken through in the past!
However, this is not Cai Jin's goal!

If it stops here, it is barely enough at best, and it is not advanced!
He wants to create a top-end lithography machine that is more advanced than ASML's High-NA EUA lithography machine.

The minimum industrial node of the High-NA EUA lithography machine has reached 22nm~7nm, and his goal is 22nm~1nm!

Then, sell all types of lithography machines for the price of cabbage, and kill these giants!

Anyway, the lithography machine he made, no matter what, will be much cheaper than the lithography machines produced by these giants!
Even, Cai Jin's lithography machine, even if the price is much lower than the cost of these giants to produce lithography machines, it is absolutely fine.

After all, he does not rely on photolithography machines and photoresists to make money. What he really makes money is bionic robots and all-solid-state lithium batteries!

This is the biggest difference between him and those lithography machine and photoresist giants. Those giants rely on this superb art to make a living. The employees are paid high wages, work four or five hours a day, and can drink coffee slowly. But without this unique skill, their hard life will come, and their profits will definitely be greatly diluted, and even the more they produce, the more they will lose money.

The giants who have long been accustomed to being pampered, I am afraid that facing this situation, it will make them more uncomfortable than killing them, especially those bosses and shareholders, looking at the stocks that were originally worth comparable to gold, but turned into waste paper, think about it. It will be extremely crazy, angry but helpless!
This is what Cai Jin wants to see.

Killing and killing hearts, nothing more than this!

(End of this chapter)