1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan continued to suppress his excitement: "Have you made the components?"

"I made the simplest test chip, and the yield rate...of course I won't talk about it. At least it was a success."

When he heard that the components had been successfully made, Su Yuanshan clenched his fists fiercely.

"Great job! Tell Mr. Zheng and I'll go over and take a look right away."

After hanging up the phone, Su Yuanshan raised his head, took a few deep breaths, and finally exhaled a breath of thick air.

Chen Jing looked at him with a smile. At first, she couldn't understand Su Yuanshan's cooperation with national scientific research institutions to research a device that was at least ten years behind the times. But as she got to know Su Yuanshan, or in other words, the entire Yuanxin ambition, she gradually understood.

"Congratulations."

"Thank you, Sister Jing." Su Yuanshan pursed his lips and said sincerely to Chen Jing: "Without you, the photolithography machine wouldn't be able to operate."

"You're welcome." Chen Jing smiled and shook her head: "If you want to go, just go. I have nothing to do here."

Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded, turned and walked into his office, called Zhou Xiaohui, and called Xi Xiaoding to ask if he was interested - of course Xi Xiaoding was interested.

The three of them went downstairs. Fu Zhenhua was already waiting at the door. After getting in the car, he stepped on the accelerator and drove quickly into the traffic.

Along the way, Su Yuanshan introduced the cooperation to Xi Xiaoding and told him the significance of this photolithography machine.

Its significance is not that it is simply "the first g-line distributed stepper lithography machine", but that in the process of realizing it, people from Chengdu Optoelectronics Institute, Yuanxin, and Electronic Science and Technology have gained experience in the past.

This experience is extremely rare.

And compared to the old days, it can actually make components - which means it can be put on the market!

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"Gong Zheng, congratulations."

"Rejoice together and rejoice together."

"This is Dr. Xi Xiaoding, chief scientist of Yuanxin."

"Oh, I have admired you for a long time."

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After the polite introduction, every wrinkle on Zheng Zhenchuan's face was shining. He pulled Su Yuanshan towards the office without closing his mouth.

Li Mingliu and Qu Hui were also a little excited to see Xi Xiaoding. After all, they were both Xi Xiaoding's old subordinates. Especially Li Mingliu and Xi Xiaoding were the only two people he admired.

"Senior Brother Xi." Li Mingliu stood in front of Xi Xiaoding, quite a bit asking for credit.

"Good job." Xi Xiaoding smiled and patted Li Mingliu's arm. He was one month younger than Li Mingliu in terms of age, but he couldn't resist the fact that he entered school early, had a high degree of education, and had senior qualifications.

Xi Xiaoding smiled at Qu Hui again: "Qu Hui, you too, thank you for your hard work."

"It's not hard." Qu Hui pursed her lips and smiled. Since she came to the Institute of Optics and Mechanics, she has even cut her hair into a boy's head to make it easier to enter the clean room. But it looks more cool this way.

"Come on, let's go take a look."

The three of them followed into the conference room. This time it was not a technical meeting, but a pure situation report.

Shen Haoran, who is in charge of the embedded system, did not come out. He was still staring at the data in the clean room and preparing for debugging. Qu Hui originally wanted to stay there, but when she heard that Xi Xiaoding was coming, she left her team members and came to see her old superior.

Zheng Zhenchuan introduced, Li Mingliu and Qu Hui added, Zhou Xiaohui kept taking notes here.

"But we don't dare to talk about the yield rate now. After all, we don't have process experts here." Zheng Zhenchuan touched the Mediterranean and said with a wry smile: "I just asked Huajing for help, but they directly refused and told us to find Shougang NEC..."

"Hua Jing is so unjust?" Su Yuanshan was startled subconsciously. But he immediately realized that it wasn't that Huajing was unjust, but that Huajing really didn't have time.

Recently, the first production line introduced by Huajing has begun trial production, but the process and yield have not improved. It is growing one by one. Although Bell Labs engineers are still continuing the installation and commissioning of other production lines, they have It doesn't matter the process technology.

Su Yuanshan also asked Carly for them if they could ask Bell Labs to help. The reply he received was that the contract was not responsible for the technology. To be responsible for the technology, you have to add money... and it's quite a lot of money.

So Su Yuanshan gave up the idea, after all, it won't be long before Huajing's people who went to UMC will return. Those ten or so people have stayed at UMC for nearly a year. No matter how stupid they are, they can still learn some skills. And to put it bluntly, you have to walk the road to improve the manufacturing process yourself.

"Let me give it a try. They have been using 2-micron lithography machines for several years, and they should have accumulated some technology in this area." Su Yuanshan took the call from Zhou Xiaohui and dialed Ma Pingnan directly. Big Brother.

"Mr. Ma, it's me, Yuanxin Su Yuanshan."

"That's right, I'm at the Chengguang Institute now. Yes... our Yuanxin and Electrical Engineering Department sent a total of three groups, with dozens of people coming..."

After Su Yuanshan exchanged a few pleasantries, he went straight to the topic and asked Ma Pingnan to send two process experts to help with consultation.

Over there, Ma Pingnan nodded and agreed without even thinking about it.

After hanging up the phone, Zheng Zhenchuan took a long breath.

"Xiao Su, thank you so much!"

"Uncle Zheng, you're welcome." Su Yuanshan smiled, and after pondering for a few seconds, he said: "Since the photolithography machine can already make components, it will definitely pass the inspection. It is of great significance. At least the country will Provide adequate policy and financial support.”

Zheng Zhenchuan nodded: "Yes, our domestic lithography machine business is promising!"

"But that still has to be put on the market. I wonder if the Institute of Optics and Mechanics has considered it?"

Su Yuanshan verbally suggested at the beginning of the cooperation that if it could be done here, Yuanxin would buy it and be willing to establish a joint manufacturing and sales enterprise.

But frankly speaking, the initiative is not in his hands.

When he mentioned this, Zheng Zhenchuan's expression immediately became cautious. After thinking for a few seconds, he said cautiously: "The institute is not considering this aspect at the moment. You know... we are a purely scientific research unit."

Su Yuanshan nodded: "I understand, but marketization is the only way for sustainable development of products, and enterprise is the prerequisite for marketization. I am thinking that as the lithography machine is a key project of the Academy of Sciences, if we want to establish an enterprise, I am afraid that even all We can’t make the final decision here, it’s up to the Academy of Sciences to have the final say.”

Zheng Zhenchuan sighed: "Yes."

Su Yuanshan was silent for a few seconds.

Frankly speaking, the progress of the lithography machine, or the strength of the people at Chengguang Institute, exceeded his expectations - he did not expect that the lithography machine that he remembered would only appear next year would appear earlier than expected. His expectation was that after Li Mingliu designed the chip, he would take his people out first, while Qu Hui and Shen Haoran would stay here to help with integration until the New Year.

Then next year, the lithography machine will be launched.

And now the early implementation shows that these people have a thorough understanding of the principles and systems of this lithography machine, and at the same time, the three teams of Yuanxin also cooperate well.

It took the joint efforts of several parties to create this miracle.

Well, if these people have enough financial support, they can make a difference.