Life 1984

After watching the test run of the lithography machine, Li Yunhai looked serious and calmly told everyone present: "No one can let the news out before the official release! This is our company's top secret."

Everyone knew the serious nature of the matter and nodded solemnly in agreement.

Professor Ni invited Li Yunhai to come to his office.

"Mr. Li, we finally fulfilled our mission and successfully developed a photolithography machine." Professor Ni took off his glasses, stretched out his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes, and said with a choked voice.

This is an ideal for professors.

The ideal light that was once thought to be unattainable now truly shines into reality.

No matter how excited he is, it's understandable.

After Professor Ni calmed down, Li Yunhai said: "Our goal is to develop and produce chips with independent intellectual property rights. The photolithography machine is only the first step. The main task of the research institute next is to overcome the difficulties of the X64 chip!"

Professor Ni wiped his lenses with the corner of his clothes, put them on again, and said: "Mr. Li, we have invited many high-tech talents from the United States, Germany, Japan and other countries. Our X64 chip will definitely be available next year at the latest. There will be a major breakthrough!”

Li Yunhai thought to himself that Intel would soon release the 586 chip, which is the Pentium generation chip.

Chips are about to enter a period of rapid development.

If Sihai Group cannot come up with blockbuster products in the past two years, it will be able to catch up with others in the future.

In addition, Li Yunhai also has the most important move in mind, which is the development of game graphics cards.

With the rapid development of computer systems, audio-visual entertainment and computer games are about to become one of the most important functions on PCs. CPU chips alone can no longer meet the demand, and game graphics cards have emerged as the times require.

Li Yunhai had far more things on his mind than Professor Ni and others.

The two talked about some technologies related to lithography machines and put forward some of their own ideas.

People without thought, he must worry about.

Professor Ni is also thinking about the next step.

Today's lithography machines use excimer lasers that have no thermal effects. They are pulse lasers with strong directionality, high wavelength purity, and high output power. The photon energy wavelength range is from 157 to 353 nanometers, which can continue to advance the chip manufacturing process.

But as Moore's Law moves forward, current wavelengths of light will not be able to meet demand.

Li Yunhai asked Professor Ni that in at most ten years, the current wavelength of light will not be enough. What is the next development direction of lithography machines?

This problem is so big that not even Professor Ni can solve it.

In fact, ten years later, this problem stumped scientists around the world.

It wasn't until an engineer from Taiwan proposed the immersion method that Moore's Law was broken and the dawn of the 21st century was brought to the entire chip industry.

He proposed using water to reduce the wavelength of light. Light will be refracted when it hits water. Then, add a thin layer of one millimeter thick water between the lens of the lithography machine and the wafer. The refractive index of water for the 193-nanometer laser is 1.44. Then the wavelength can be obtained. Is it about 134 (193/1.44) nanometers of light? Successfully bypassed the 157nm wavelength problem.

Li Yunhai knew this story because it was so famous.

Anyone who has paid attention to the development history of lithography machines has heard this story.

The decline of Nikon is also related to this story.

Both Nikon and Canon feel that the immersion method is not the best method. They believe that their huge investment in 157-nanometer wavelength lithography machines will be a waste, and therefore oppose the development plan of immersion lithography machines.

This is the most famous battle between wet and dry in the history of lithography machines.

Everyone knows the subsequent results.

ASML, the only company that insists on researching the water immersion method, succeeded and achieved remarkable results. It gradually emerged from a small factory and became an industry leader, leading the lithography machine market in the next few decades. However, companies such as Nikon and Canon fell deeper and deeper into the market, and ultimately regrettably missed the most important market for decades.

Toyo Manufacturing also came to an end sadly at the same time.

Although Nikon later launched

Li Yunhai probably knows the future research direction, and of course he must plan it in advance.

He explained the knowledge and assumptions he knew to Professor Ni.

Professor Ni listened with great interest and said that Mr. Li, your idea is really a stroke of genius. This idea may really be tried in the future, but it is not needed now.

Li Yunhai also knows that it is not yet at that point, and the manufacturing process of photolithography machines is still hovering around 400 nanometers.

According to Moore's Law, it will take about ten years to reach the bottleneck of 193 nanometers.

Li Yunhai proposed that before this, we can do relevant research and development first.

He also talked about the most important layout, which is cooperation with important raw material suppliers.

What Li Yunhai can think of right now is TRUMPF, a well-known German CNC machine tool brand.

and Ximeng Corporation, a supplier of excimer light sources.

There is also, most importantly, Carl Zeiss, a German company that manufactures optical and optoelectronic equipment.

These are core technology companies, and Li Yunhai plans to tie Sihai Group to these important companies through cooperation, equity participation, exclusive supply, and the establishment of technology institutions.

Li Yunhai didn't want to block anyone, but he didn't want to be blocked either.

Therefore, he must make arrangements in advance to make Sihai Group the most important part of the entire lithography machine industry.

However, these companies are all large enterprises. If Li Yunhai wants to cooperate with them, he needs to improve his strength and have sufficient funds, otherwise he will not even have a stepping stone.

During dinner in the evening, Li Yunhai, Professor Ni and others all drank too much.

Lin Zhi was pregnant, and her belly was getting bigger day by day. She didn't dare to help her, so she called Li Yunfang and Shen Xiulan to help her enter the house.

Li Yunhai's eyes were blurry as he hugged Shen Xiulan and kissed her.

Shen Xiulan shouted in confusion: "Ling Zhi, take care of your man! He's kissing me!"

Lin Zhi also saw it, and said with a smile: "On behalf of Yunhai, I want to apologize to you. He drank too much and recognized the wrong person, so don't mind it."

Li Yunhai held Shen Xiulan's little face and said with a smile: "I did not admit the wrong person, you are my wife Lin Zhi!"

He said he was going to kiss her again.

Shen Xiulan covered his mouth and said, "You have recognized the wrong person. I am Shen Xiulan, and your wife is over there!"

Lin Zhi and Li Yunfang both burst into laughter.

With great difficulty, he helped Li Yunhai upstairs.

Li Yunhai lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

Shen Xiulan helped him take off his shoes.

Li Yunfang fetched hot water and helped her brother wash his face and body.

After finishing her work, Shen Xiulan said goodbye and went home.

While she was attending the Canton Fair, she called her mother Fang Peihua to take care of her son. With her sisters Shen Xiuling and Yang Xiaoying at home, Li Yanjin was taken care of very well.

When Shen Xiulan returned home, her son was already asleep.

She came to the bedroom, leaned over and kissed the baby.

Fang Peihua sighed and said: "Xiulan, you are so busy at the same time, being a father and a mother, it is not a problem! The child is growing up day by day, shouldn't your personal problems also be solved? "

Shen Xiulan helped her son tuck in the quilt and said, "Mom, don't worry about my affairs. I know the severity myself and I can handle it."

"This is not a question of whether you can handle it well. This is your lifelong event, and you can't delay it! Just listen to your mother's advice and find a man to marry while you are young."

"I have a child, who wants to marry me?"

"Hey, not necessarily. You have good conditions and have the capital to negotiate. Let me tell you, as long as some men like you, they don't care whether you have children or not."

"He covets my youth and beauty, and of course he says he doesn't care if I have children. After three years and five years, will he still not care? How many stepfathers and stepmothers are good at being prostitutes? Have you seen them?"

"If you are afraid that your stepfather will treat Xiao Jin badly, then leave Xiao Jin to me and your father to take care of him. He is our biological grandson, and we will definitely treat him well."

"That's not possible, my son, I must keep him with me."

"Xiulan, we found a man for you. He's not married yet, but he's a bit older. He's 30 years old. We told him everything about you, and he said he doesn't care if you have a son. He also said that after I get together with you, I can stop having children. Do you think you want to see him?” ˆ ˆ ˆ “Mom, why are you planning my marriage all day long? I’ve been very busy recently and have no time for blind dates.”

"It's not a blind date, it's just that you meet each other, treat each other as friends, get along for a while and see, if it can develop, then develop it."

"Isn't that a waste of time? Where do I have time and energy to fall in love now? Even if I go out on a date and watch a movie, I don't have time. If I have this time, I might as well play with my children!"

"Xiulan, you can't think like that. You are still young. You are only 24 years old. You have to consider personal issues!"

"Let's talk about it again! Fate has come, and there is no way to stop it. Otherwise, it will be useless for any of you to force me."

Fang Peihua had no choice but to shut up.

Now her voice in this family is getting weaker and weaker.

The eldest daughter is promising and is the vice president of finance of Sihai Group. She has a high salary and good benefits, and the family relies on her for financial support. Whoever has economic power has the right to speak.

In today's Shen family, Shen Xiulan has whatever she says, and even Shen Guoming and his wife do not dare to object.

In addition, due to their opposition, Shen Xiulan missed out on such a good man like Li Yunhai. How could they have the dignity to introduce a partner to Shen Xiulan?

As soon as they pressed her, Shen Xiulan would talk about Li Yunhai, saying that the man I liked was so good, but we broke up because of you. This shows how bad your taste is! I've fallen into this situation because of what you said, and you still want to interfere with my affairs? How much more do you want to harm me?

This is Shen Xiulan's nuclear weapon!

Once the sacrifice was made, the Shen family immediately became silent.

The younger daughter doesn't listen either. Shen Xiuling is a college graduate and works as Li Yunhai's secretary in Sihai Group. She has a decent and easy job, a high salary, the blessing of academic qualifications, and an avant-garde and open mind. How can she listen to her parents?

Seeing that both daughters are so promising, Fang Peihua is both happy and helpless.

The only thing she can comfort herself now is: children and grandchildren will be blessed by themselves.

Shen Xiulan said: "Mom, are you sleeping? I've been tired for a day and need to rest."

Fang Peihua sighed: "Go to sleep! I heard that your company has built a villa building? When will the houses be divided?"

Shen Xiulan said: "It should be soon. I said I will move into a new house before the end of the year."

Fang Peihua said: "When you move into the villa, can your dad and I move here?"

Shen Xiulan said: "Mom, this house belongs to the company and is allocated to me to live in. It is not a house I bought myself. Didn't Yunhai give you money? I asked her to give you the money. You take the money and go Buy a commercial house to live in! That old house was too old and it was inconvenient to go to the bathroom and take a shower. You should have moved to a new house long ago."

Fang Peihua said: "Why waste money on buying a house when you have such a good house? You know Yun Hai well, tell him, there is no way he will not let us live in him."

Shen Xiulan said: "I don't have the face to tell him. If you want this house, just tell him."

Fang Peihua said angrily: "Okay, I'll talk to him! I'll go to your company to find him tomorrow!"

Shen Xiulan was so tired that she fell on the bed and fell asleep.

The next day, everyone at the Sihai Group headquarters was in busy mode.

This time we won a lot of orders at the Canton Fair, and all departments were busy.

As soon as Li Yunhai sat down to work, he received a call from Zhu Lin.

Zhu Lin said that he was very bored after confinement and wanted Li Yunhai to arrange work.

Li Yunhai said what are you in a hurry for? The New Year is coming soon, let’s talk about it after the New Year!

Zhu Lin It’s only November, and it’s still early before the Chinese New Year!

Li Yunhai said, your task now is to take good care of your children, don’t think about anything else.

Zhu Lin said that if I stayed here doing nothing all day long, I would become useless and lose touch with society. If you can't arrange work, then I'll still go back to Beijin.

Li Yunhai said I would visit you tonight and we would discuss it then.

Zhu Lin said okay, I’ll wait for you to come tonight!

Li Yunhai said yes.

Before he put down the phone, another phone rang again.

Li Yunhai grabbed the phone and heard a deep and steady voice.

"Hello, are you Mr. Li from Sihai Group?"

"I am Li Yunhai, who are you?"

"Mr. Li, I am Huang Ying from the City Department!"

"Leader Huang, what can I do?"

"Mr. Li, I have something to inform you. Compaq has decided to invest in our city. It will build a factory in the spring of next year and officially put it into production the year after that."

"Oh, this is a good thing. Congratulations to Xizhou for successfully attracting investment."

"Haha, yes! This is indeed a good thing. Mr. Li, we have reached an agreement with Compaq. In the future, we will no longer set a purchasing unit. You will compete fairly. What we do is equivalent to doing things for your group. It’s a huge concession!”

Li Yunhai thought to himself, isn't this a basic operation? Why are you making concessions for our group? Aren't you shocked by what I said? When I mentioned relocation, you immediately became intimidated!

But Li Yunhai would still appreciate Huang Ying making the call in person.

"Thank you, Leader Huang." Li Yunhai said, "I'll treat you to a drink some other time when I'm free."

Huang Ying said: "Just forget about eating and drinking! Mr. Li, there is something I want to ask of you."

Li Yunhai said: "Leader Huang's words are serious. Is there anything you need to do with us? Just ask for help."

Huang Ying said: "There are several factories in your industrial park. They originally promised well and agreed to move to the new economic development zone. However, they recently changed their words and said that Sihai Group threatened them not to cooperate, so they No more relocation? What’s going on?”

Li Yunhai was stunned because he had just come back and had never heard of this matter.

Huang Ying said in a deep voice: "Mr. Li, your industrial park and economic development zone are both industrial parks in our city. They are not far apart from each other. Companies can go wherever they want. This is their freedom. How can you Threatening them with the termination of the cooperative relationship? The establishment of the Economic and Technological Development Zone is in response to the call of the country and is imperative. No one can stop the historical trend! No matter how powerful the Sihai Group is, it will never think of destroying the Economic and Technological Development Zone on its own. Big construction plan!”

Li Yunhai was shocked when he heard this!

It turns out that Huang Ying made this call for this purpose!

What I said before was just foreshadowing.

Huang Ying put a big hat on Li Yunhai's head!

An unaffordable hat!

Li Yunhai coughed lightly and said: "Boss Huang, you also know that I just came back from attending the Canton Fair yesterday, and I know nothing about the situation you mentioned. I only know that I have never threatened you. Those companies. I don’t need to threaten them. They did come to me before and asked for my opinion. My attitude is very clear, I can come and go freely, and I also promised not to terminate the cooperation relationship. Previous contract It continues to be effective. I don’t know where Leader Huang heard the gossip from?”

Huang Ying was surprised to see him speaking so firmly and said, "Those business owners came to talk to me personally. Can there be any lies?"

Li Yunhai said: "I wonder if there was any misunderstanding? Why don't you ask Leader Huang to ask again? Our Sihai Group has no intention and is unable to undermine the establishment and construction of the Economic Development Zone."

Then there was a knock on the door.

Li Yunhai said into the microphone: "Leader Huang, I still have things to deal with here. Goodbye."

After saying that, he hung up the phone and shouted: "Come in!"

Su Hong opened the door and came in and said, "Mr. Li, there are a few people from Sichuan who want to see you."

"People from Shuchuan? What's wrong with them?"

"I said there is something very important and I have to see you."

"They didn't say what happened?"

"If I say that I must see you, I still mean that human life is at stake."

"Oh? You invite them in."

Su Hong hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Li, I see they are a little excited. Do you want to arrange for bodyguards to be in the room?"

Li Yunhai said blankly: "Is it so serious? Then you just have to look at the arrangements! By the way, ask the secretary at home if anyone from the industrial park has come to see me recently? Or has he left any words?"

Su Hong said: "Okay, Mr. Li."

She turned around and left, and after a while, she called Zhuang Yong, Shitou and Liang Tian in first.

Li Yunhai asked Zhuang Yong and others to sit on the sofa.

After another two minutes, Su Hong invited a few people in.

Li Yunhai looked at the people who came. They were dressed simply and looked like ordinary people. However, they were better dressed than ordinary farmers. They should have a good family background.

Before he could speak, as soon as those people entered the door, they knelt down in front of his desk with a bang, and their knees hit the ground with a dull sound. (End of chapter)