From all-round academic master to chief scientist

The conference site.

The excitement of the Chinese people was in sharp contrast to the silence of Asmail and other company representatives.

On the stage, Lin Xiao looked at the reactions of everyone in the audience, with a calm smile on his face, but the same joy in his heart.

The frustrations of the past will all become a thing of the past today.

He let out a long breath, and then he smiled and said: "Okay, everyone, today's introduction to the two important achievements of our X-ray project ends here."

"Next, it's question time. If you have any questions, you can ask them now."

Lin Xiao stood on the stage, looking at everyone below, waiting for someone to raise their hand.

However, the people below were stunned. Lin Xiao, the chief designer, answered the question personally?

And it seems that he still plans to face the problem alone.

Aren't you afraid of some malicious questions?

Of course, since Lin Xiao dares to stand on the stage, it obviously means that he is not worried about these things.

Immediately, many people below became interested, and many reporters present also became interested. They already had many questions to ask.

As a result, many hands were quickly raised in the audience.

Among them is the chief technology officer of TSMC.

Lin Xiao on the stage glanced at the people raising their hands, and finally pointed at the chief technology officer and said with a smile: "You do it."

After the chief technology officer stood up, he asked in a full Kojima accent: "Mr. Lin, I am Huang Hui, chief technology officer of TSMC. I have two questions I want to ask you now."

After hearing the questioner announcing his home address, everyone present was startled.

TSMC Chief Technology Officer?

It turns out that the friendly businessman Lin Xiao mentioned just now was also present, and was even the chief technology officer, which is interesting.

What questions will he ask?

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Ask."

Huang Hui nodded, and then said: "First of all, I would like to know the sales date of your X-ray lithography machine and what is the sales price? When can we OEMs start ordering?"

Hearing Huang Hui's words, all the Chinese people present laughed.

These words clearly indicate that they are greedy.

Although their X-ray lithography machines do not need to pursue the recognition of people in these specific regions and foreigners, it is still a refreshing thing for them to see this scene.

But Huang Hui doesn’t have much to say about this. It’s not shabby to make money. If all their EUV lithography machines were replaced by X-ray lithography machines, their annual profits would increase by ten digits, still in US dollars.

Regarding this issue, Lin Xiao smiled and said: "We have not yet made a decision in this regard, but in the future we will separate these two technologies and operate them separately by two companies. One is engaged in the production of X-ray lithography machines. The other one will be engaged in the chip foundry business, so if we take this into consideration, our X-ray lithography machine will first satisfy our chip foundry company."

"As for other details, you'd better ask for the information you want after these two companies are established."

Huang Hui's face suddenly showed disappointment.

If the X-ray lithography machine first satisfies the foundries in China, God knows how much it will cost, and maybe they won’t even sell it to them by then!

And this is very possible. With the 3.56nm wavelength of the X-ray lithography machine, coupled with the advantage of not requiring a mask, and their chip process advantages, he seems to have seen in his heart the scene where TSMC's profits have suffered a huge loss. Got it!

Originally, he thought that the birth of the X-ray engraving machine would be good news to them!

Thinking of this, he became more and more worried, and then he also asked a second question: "Thank you Mr. Lin for your answer, so what I want to ask now is the second question, what is the real 5nm process you just mentioned? , does it refer to the gate length?”

When he raised this question, he immediately stared at Lin Xiao closely. He wanted to confirm whether the guess he just made was true.

Of course, not only the people from TSMC, but also other companies such as Samsung, Asmail, and even Intel representatives from the United States were also keeping a close eye on Lin Xiao.

Intel has its own chip factory, but they have always only produced their own chips, and technically speaking, the 10nm process used in their current 12th generation CPUs has better performance than TSMC's 7nm process in terms of final performance. , so Intel is also a top chip factory in the world, but they don't accept OEMs.

In the past, Intel has always shown its disdain for the processes of foundries such as TSMC and Samsung. It felt that they were falsely standardizing their processes and did not follow business rules at all. It also called on everyone to abide by Moore's Law and take it one step at a time. After all, the person who proposed Moore's Law Moore is one of the founders of Intel.

However, the X5 process announced by Lin Xiao is really beyond their imagination. Even if they have only used their own factories to produce their own chips, what if the guys in the massage parlor find this Chinese company for OEM?

As a feud, Intel, which has squeezed out the toothpaste in 2022, definitely does not want the voice of "AMD-yes!" to appear in the market again.

In this way, under the attention of so many manufacturers, Lin Xiao smiled slightly and said: "Yes, our X5 process, the real 5nm process, is a process with a gate length of 5nm!"

After all, it was the technology he had spent 45 truth points to exchange for. If he couldn't reach this top level, it would be a real loss.

As for telling it directly, there is no problem at all, because when they take out the produced chips, others will be able to know whether it is true or false by just testing it, so there is no need to hide it at this time.

As he announced it, representatives from TSMC, Intel and other companies showed expressions of disbelief.

This is actually true!

The guess was confirmed, and Huang Hui felt as if he had been hit in the heart.

He opened his mouth and murmured: "This... doesn't make sense..."

He suddenly raised his head and asked: "How did you solve the leakage problem? Did you use surround gate transistors?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "There is no need for me to explain this question to you, because it is useless to explain it. So, Mr. Huang, please sit down. I need to answer the next question."

It’s no use explaining?

Huang Hui was a little confused, but Lin Xiao now asked him to sit down. Even though he was a little unwilling, he finally sat down.

Then, Lin Xiao directly asked Asmail's representative to stand up.

His first two questions were asked directly by his two biggest competitors. This also made everyone present admire Lin Xiao's confidence. Of course, they were also amazed by it. This is the advantage of having technology!

If you have technology, you will have confidence, and naturally you will not worry about any questions that your competitors may ask.

However, Asmail's representative obviously acted with some evil intentions. He asked: "Mr. Lin, I am the Chief Technology Officer of Asmail. When you just introduced your X-ray lithography machine, did you also We have not introduced the stability of your lithography machines. How long can they support operation? What is their lifespan? Can they continue to work for a month? Please do not avoid this question."

Lin Xiao smiled, "Our lithography machine has only been inspected once since it was turned on, and has been running continuously since then without any shutdown problems. In addition, our X-ray source does not have to worry about airborne The existence of impurities, the wavelength of the Keep the vacuum inside the lithography machine.”

"So, I believe that in terms of stability, it should be better than EUV lithography machines."

People present couldn't help laughing.

Asmail's representative's face sank, and then his eyes became playful again, and asked: "So, how do you respond to the fact that our former president leaked the secrets of our EUV lithography machine to you? As far as I know I know that in your official media announcement, the main technical difficulties of the X-ray lithography machine were solved by you alone. But now it seems that this is not the case, and in any case, one person can solve so many different problems. Problems in the field cannot be solved even by geniuses.”

"In fact, we at Asmail have been conducting research and development on X-ray lithography machines for many years. Many technologies related to your X-ray lithography machines are all our technologies. You are openly and openly acting as a thief. , is it a bit shameless?”

As soon as this question was asked, the whole audience burst into uproar.

The Chinese audience started to curse.

"Gringos get out!"

"You direct and act on your own, so you have the nerve to come over and have fun?"

"shameless!"

In the live broadcast room, after someone translated these words on the barrage, the live broadcast room also started to quarrel, and everyone cursed in every barrage.

"How dare you put gold in your own face? That's what Asmail is doing."

"Technology is not good, courage is commendable"

"How shameless!" 』

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Amid the excitement, everyone was looking forward to how Lin Xiao would respond next.

Whether in the live broadcast room or on site.

In a seat in the front row of the audience, Ma Gaoliang also frowned. Previously, they felt that there was no need for a question-and-answer session. Even if a question-and-answer session was arranged, other professionals could answer the questions. But in the end, Lin Xiao said that he would answer the questions himself. , they couldn't persuade her, so they could only let Lin Xiao go.

And since Lin Xiao plans to take the stage to answer these questions himself, he will inevitably face these deliberately difficult questions.

In this regard, they can only hope that Lin Xiao can give a good answer.

At this moment, Lin Xiao's smile on the stage did not change at all because of the question of the person in front of him.

Then, he said calmly: "First of all, about your former president leaking the secrets of the X-ray lithography machine to me——"

Lin Xiao showed a puzzled expression on his face: "The technology I solved includes an ultra-precision polishing technology. However, isn't your ultra-precision polishing technology all handed over to Zeiss? Could it be that your president still Stealing Zeiss secrets?”

"In addition, I have also solved the problem of the RDX lens. If you could make it, do you still need to stand here and ask me? You would probably have made the X-ray lithography machine long ago."

"As for the dual workbench technology, well, it seems like it is a secret that you can leak. However, your former president poached the experts in our X-ray project who were responsible for conquering this technology while leaking this to us. confidential."

"Is there something wrong with him or with you?"

Lin Xiao shook his head, showing a look like "This person is hopeless", and then continued: "In addition, I also agree with what you said, geniuses really cannot solve so many problems by themselves."

"But you may have overlooked the special value of being a genius among geniuses, and unfortunately, I am."

"So what you think is impossible, I can do."

"Thanks, next one."

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