From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Christmas passed with joy.

Although Professor Searle said that Lin Xiao could graduate, there were still some graduation procedures to go through, so Lin Xiao was not in a hurry to return to China.

Moreover, he still had one important thing to do.

That is to go to Asmael and uproot their home.

…

End of December.

Eindhoven, Netherlands.

These are the four major technology centers in Europe, and many important technology companies have set up branches here.

For example, Asmail, which monopolizes the world's sales of photolithography machines, is located here.

At this time, a world-renowned scientist was greeted at the door of Asmail's headquarters.

"Oh! Lin, welcome!"

Asmail's current CEO, Dawson Edinson, was already waiting at the door. After seeing Lin Xiao get off the Maybach they arranged to pick up, he opened his hands and walked up with a smile.

"Mr. Edinson."

Lin Xiao nodded towards Dawson Edinson and shook hands with him.

"We have been looking forward to your arrival for a long time. Now please come with me. We have prepared a sumptuous banquet waiting for you."

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Okay."

Although he can't wait to see the EUV lithography machine, after all, it is a precision instrument that they don't have in the entire Chinese mainland. It is known as the crystallization of human wisdom and the most sophisticated technological product in the world today.

Then, pick this crystal and transplant it to their Chinese land.

However, he cannot act too anxious. If he is too anxious, it will make others suspicious.

And when he came here, he seemed to be able to feel that there were all kinds of eyes around him staring closely at him, and these eyes came either from some corners or from those big-bodied security guards.

Now with a brain development level of 6.45%, he has an extremely sensitive feeling for his surroundings, probably like the so-called sixth sense. Although this is a mysterious and mysterious state, he does have such a feeling.

This may be because the frequency of electrical signal transmission between synapses in his brain is accelerated, resulting in such a situation due to magnetic fields and other reasons.

However, there is no need to worry too much about something that has no serious scientific explanation, and Lin Xiao didn't think too much.

You can't really get superpowers.

"plz follow me."

With Lin Xiao's agreement, Dawson Edinson smiled slightly, and then took Lin Xiao into the headquarters and came to a restaurant.

This should be the staff restaurant, but they were obviously not eating in this staff restaurant. Under the leadership of Dawson Edinson, they came to a gorgeously decorated room, with a table in the middle just suitable for two people to eat. , the cutlery and cutlery above are also ready, and there is a bottle of red wine next to it.

"Please take a seat."

Dawson Edinson reached out to ask for it, and then personally helped Lin Xiao pull out the chair and let Lin Xiao sit on it.

"Thank you."

"No, no, it's my pleasure."

Dawson Edinson smiled and waved his hand and said, "You are the top physicist and the person I admire most."

Then he sat down in his seat and clapped his hands.

Soon another door opened, and several waiters walked out one after another. They were all beauties wearing OL clothes. There were Slavs, Arabs, Germans, and even an Asian. All of them were tall and tall. Dazzling and dazzling, they must be the first-class goddesses in the eyes of others in their life circle.

And one of their hands is holding an exquisite dinner plate, which is also covered with a silvery dinner cover. Although they don't know what is inside, it is not difficult for people to guess that it must be some top-notch food.

Such a grand formality reminds people of the palace dinner scenes in those movies, and such luxurious treatment makes people feel immersed in it.

Then, these beautiful waiters put the dishes away one after another, showed a very seductive smile to Lin Xiao, and then opened the lids, and the delicacies inside finally revealed the true colors of Lushan.

In addition to Western food, there is also Chinese food, all of which are delicious and delicious, making people want to eat.

"How about it?"

Dawson Edinson said to Lin Xiao with a smile.

"very good."

"What's good?"

"These dishes."

Lin Xiao looked at the plate of braised pork inside. Judging from its color, it must have been made by top chefs.

He couldn't help but sigh: "Coming here, I haven't had such authentic Chinese food for a long time."

"Well... what about us beautiful ladies?"

Dawson Edinson laughed, and then pointed at the waitresses next to him who had not yet left.

Lin Xiao was stunned, turned around and saw these women showing him ambiguous smiles again.

Lin Xiao laughed: "Could they be your friends? I thought they were waiters."

Dawson Edinson was startled, then shook his head: "Well, they are indeed waiters, but there is no conflict between the beautiful lady and the waiter."

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "As for the waiter, please don't affect our meal. I don't like having people standing next to me while eating."

"Of course, you have the final say today."

Dawson Edinson smiled and nodded, then waved his hand to signal these women to leave.

These beauties, who all belong to the top ranks, all have disappointed expressions on their faces, but they can only leave here - according to the promise Dawson Edinson made to them before, if Lin Xiao can take a fancy to Whichever of them will receive a check in the amount of one million euros, which is enough money for them to live comfortably for a lifetime.

But now, obviously they don't have such a chance.

But Lin Xiao didn't pay attention to the departure of these enchanting figures.

He knew why Dawson Edinson arranged this. Over the past many months, he had often encountered this kind of thing, especially those research institutions and universities, each of which had given him very favorable treatment. Just like the conditions given to him by the Max Planck Society, he was given a separate research institute and made him the director. You must know that among the many research institutes of the Max Planck Society, the director is basically the most powerful and has the most control over funds. Huge amount of control.

As for Dawson Edinson's arrangement, maybe he wanted to attract him with the evil capitalism?

Lin Xiao had no trouble with this idea, and even wanted to laugh a little.

That's it?

Sorry, the education I received since I was a child does not support me in doing such a thing.

Of course, he didn't say anything on the surface, he just dealt with it calmly.

However, Dawson Edinson is obviously not just prepared for such a thing.

"Come on, don't talk about this, let's have a drink first."

Dawson Edinson smiled slightly, picked up the bottle of red wine on the table, and said with emotion: "Romanee-Conti 1990, I bought this bottle of red wine at an auction, and it cost me nearly 50,000 yuan." I have always been reluctant to drink euros, so I thought of having a meal with you today, so I decided to open it.”

"Thank you very much." Lin Xiao nodded and said with a smile: "I really want to try the taste of Romanée-Conti."

"Oh? That's just right!" Dawson Edinson said with a smile: "No nonsense then, let's drink first."

Then he opened the cork, brought two goblets, and poured some for the two of them.

With a gentle touch, the two took a sip.

"How does it feel?"

"It's really good."

Lin Xiao replied.

Dawson Edinson smiled and said, "That's it. If you like me, I will give it to you. It can also be regarded as a gift from me to my idol."

"That's no need." Lin Xiao smiled and waved his hand: "It's so expensive, I can't afford it."

"Not always."

Dawson Edinson shook his head, "When Einstein was working at Princeton, his annual salary was as high as 24 kilograms of gold."

"It's different now than before. You can definitely get more salary and better treatment."

He smiled and said: "I don't know if you know a friend of mine in the United States, but maybe everyone in the world knows him. His name is Cook, who is the CEO of Apple. He is willing to offer you 5,000 yuan." With an annual salary of 10,000 U.S. dollars, I will hire you to be the chief scientist of Apple, and I may even give you shares in Apple. I wonder if you are willing?"

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows, Apple actually wanted to hire him?

They even took out shares.

Apple has a market value of over one trillion US dollars, and even one ten thousandth of its shares are worth hundreds of millions.

This is not without weight.

Of course, this is still nothing.

The richest 'boss' in the world is in their country, China, so these top companies are nothing.

So he replied: "Edinson, let's not talk about these boring things. What I like to study is theory, not application. Look at how many of the most famous physicists in history were because of their Be remembered for applying the above developments?”

"I am willing to accept your invitation, and I just plan to make a sum of money so that I will no longer have to worry about the needs of life in the future."

"So, let's start my work early after we finish eating. I can't guarantee that I can solve this problem for you. Time is of the essence."

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, Dawson Edinson could only say regretfully: "This may be quite sad news for us entrepreneurs."

"You don't lack me either."

Lin Xiao shook his head, picked up the knife and fork, and began to taste the steak in front of him.

Dawson Edinson didn't say any more. Since Lin Xiao had said that, of course he didn't need to say anything more.

It's just a pity that Cook told him that if Lin Xiao agreed, he would be willing to give him a generous reward. Now that he failed, the reward was naturally gone. Of course, he didn't lose anything, it was just this bottle. Wine, in fact, he had wanted to drink this bottle of wine for a long time, and now it just gave him a reason to open it.

…

In this way, after finishing the meal, Dawson Edinson took Lin Xiao out of the restaurant and headed to their factory.

The lithography machine itself needs to operate in a dust-free environment, so even this production factory is a dust-free workshop.

Lin Xiao put on dust-free clothes and walked into the place where the world's EUV lithography machine was born with Dawson Edinson.

Even the color of the lights needs to be controlled here, because the photoresist that must be used in the photolithography machine is a photosensitive material that changes when exposed to light, so these lights also need that special light source.

Finally, they came to a photolithography machine.

The clean surface and the artistic look make it hard to imagine that this thing is an instrument that can carve at the nanometer scale.

Lin Xiao sighed in his heart, something worth 150 million US dollars.

Equivalent to RMB one billion.

This thing in particular is a high value-added product.

It can probably produce products worth billions of dollars in its lifetime. It can be said that this is definitely a super profitable machine. Just look at TSMC's world ranking.

"This is a lithography machine we have just produced and are now testing its lithography stability."

At this time, Dawson Edinson said next to him.

"testing?"

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows and asked, "Does that mean the wafer, photoresist, and mask are all in it?"

"Of course, these are what we need to use when manufacturing chips."

Dawson Edinson nodded.

Lin Xiao nodded slightly.

Does this mean that he can catch all these things in one go?

Manufacturing chips does not mean that you can make them with a photolithography machine, because raw materials are needed to produce chips.

Wafers, or silicon wafers, which are the sand in the so-called "chips are made of sand", require a purity of up to 11 nines to be qualified.

Then there is the photoresist, which is also one of the essential raw materials for the chip production process. The photoresist is evenly applied on the wafer, and the light passes through the photoresist to produce fine patterns. These tiny graphics are the circuits that allow the chip to function.

There are also masks that also play an extremely important role in the photolithography process.

In these, China lags far behind foreign countries.

So for China, the problem is not just photolithography machines, raw materials are also a problem.

Now, Lin Xiao was thinking in his mind, can the materials in these items be analyzed together when asking for them?

So, he no longer hesitated and said to the system in his mind: "Use [Request for Real Things] to scan the area, centered on the photolithography machine in front of me, and all areas that I can currently bear."

The system's voice rang.

"[Case Item Request] is in use."

"Please wait."

About a moment later.

"[Request for Cash] has been scanned, and the scan result number is '1'. If you want to open it, please use this number."

"[Request for Cash] has been used."

"Open '1'."

There was no time to argue with the system, so Lin Xiao directly opened the scan results.

Then, his eyes involuntarily showed shock.

This is……

What a treasure!