Daguo Technology started from the Shanzhai system

One step behind, one step behind!

If you wait for Sugon Technology for half a year before developing semiconductor production equipment, then spend one or two years to bypass the technical patent barriers of Western semiconductor production equipment and complete the research and development of 90nm process production equipment.

At that time, the day when Sugon Technology's 90-nanometer process technology production equipment is completed, it must be the day when other people's 65-nanometer process technology will be mass-produced.

After finally developing and completing the 90-nanometer process technology, the result is that it lags behind the West all of a sudden, which will make people vomit blood.

In this case, although it is possible to develop semiconductor production equipment half a year later, the negative impact is actually quite large!

Therefore, Sugon Technology must solve the problem of 90nm process technology as soon as possible. Now that the corresponding semiconductor production equipment cannot be purchased, independent research and development is the only way.

"Ugh."

Facing Lin Chen's words, Rebus also sighed deeply.

Rebus naturally knew what Lin Chen's concerns were, but the research and development of semiconductor production equipment was really too expensive.

At least one billion dollars a year is required to start, and it is normal to burn two to 300 billion dollars a year, which is a terrifying level!

The reason why so much money is needed is that semiconductor production equipment is mainly divided into three parts: wafer production equipment, chip production equipment and testing equipment.

The core equipment includes single crystal furnace, vapor phase epitaxy furnace, oxidation furnace, molecular beam epitaxy system, low pressure chemical vapor deposition system, chemical mechanical polishing machine, wafer cutting machine...

According to the statistics of semiconductor stakeholders, the production of a chip needs to go through thousands of processes, and there are 17 core equipment for chip production!
Faced with the core equipment for the production of these 17 semiconductor chips, no country can cover them all.

The current semiconductor production equipment is a part of the responsibility of various developed countries, and finally they are combined to form a world's most advanced 90-nanometer process chip production line.

So if you want to solve the problem of semiconductor production equipment and then be able to produce 90-nanometer chips, it is not just a matter of solving a lithography machine.

And the saddest thing is that these 17 semiconductor production equipment are almost complementary, for example, you solved the problem of lithography machine.

But if other core equipment is not up to standard and performance parameters cannot keep up with the demand for 90nm chip production, then you will not be able to produce 90nm chips or more advanced 65nm chips.

So if you want to develop a lithography machine and claim to solve the 90-nanometer process technology, you must be joking.

Of course, among the 17 core semiconductor production equipment, the lithography machine is indeed the most critical thing, and it is also the most difficult thing to develop.

It can be said that as long as the problem of the lithography machine is solved, it is almost equivalent to half a foot stepping into the 90-nanometer process technology.

"Rebs, we really don't have money, but we don't need so many equipment to solve it together. We can develop more important etching machines and lithography machines first."

Lin Chen paused for a moment when he said this, as if lost in thought, but soon Lin Chen continued:

"We can develop the etching machine together with Zhongxin International, and we don't have to bear all of it ourselves.

Although we and Zhongxin International are competitors, we can also cooperate to develop the etching machine together, and then share the equipment together. When the time comes, the sales profit of the etching machine will be divided according to the shares.

Among them, I have some recommendations for etching machine talents. I heard that I have worked in Medigo Applied Materials and Fanlin Semiconductor.

Yin Zhixiao, who has presided over the research and development of etching machines many times and holds more than 200 etching machine patents, returned to China under Zhongxin International Jiang Haizhou's persuasion.

And not only did he go back to China alone, he also brought back 10 veteran talents from Applied Materials.

I heard that they are going to set up a semiconductor equipment company called Zhongwei in Daxia to completely solve the problem of backward semiconductor equipment in Daxia.

At present, their company is in the planning stage, and we may be able to join hands with Zhongxin International to raise funds and invest in shares to support the research and development of domestic etching machines.

After all, our three-party alliance is the best choice. Only in this way can we solve the landing problem of domestic etching machines more quickly. "

Speaking of this, Lin Chen also had a lot of emotion.

The Zhongwei Company founded by Yin Zhixiao in the previous life can be regarded as a flag in the domestic semiconductor equipment industry. After all, they have successfully developed and produced an etching machine suitable for 5nm process technology. Isn’t this the pride of Daxia Semiconductor Equipment?
However, although Daxia's etching machines are not behind others or even world-class, chip production is a whole, and it is useless for a single or two equipment to shine.

After all, there are a total of 17 core production equipment for chips, and 1 are left after solving one.

Moreover, the more important lithography machine in the previous life did not improve much.

"Yin Zhixiao? I know."

Rebus, who got the information from Lin Chen, nodded slightly and agreed, and he will do this well next.

Seeing this, Lin Chen went on to say:

"As for the lithography machine, we can only rely on ourselves, but we can't rely on ourselves without relying on external forces.

Rebs, please contact Xia Ke Academy to see if the two parties can cooperate. We will pay them for a few academicians and supporting R&D personnel, as well as old lithography machine patents and R&D equipment, etc., and then we will solve the problem of lithography machines together. question. "

"Ah."

Rebus nodded slightly, although Suguang Technology was under a lot of pressure.

But if we only develop lithography machines and etching machines, the current income can barely support it. As long as 17 semiconductor core production equipment are not installed together, the financial pressure will be reduced a lot and we can barely withstand it.

Seeing this, Lin Chen stopped chatting with Rebs, because Lin Chen was very busy.

The mobile phone screen needs Lin Chen to develop, the mobile phone lens needs Lin Chen to develop, and the future lithography machine also needs Lin Chen to develop.

At this time, Lin Chen felt deeply the pain of not having big-level R&D talents. Now Lin Chen just wants to tell the outside world that Sugon Technology is in urgent need of big-level R&D talents, and the salary will definitely satisfy you.

But it is a pity that it is not so easy to obtain big-name R&D talents. The real big-level R&D talents either look down on Sugon Technology, or they have contracts and cannot change jobs.

Therefore, it is quite difficult for Lin Chen to find master-level R&D talents at this time, especially the kind of academician-level R&D talents.

Lin Chen was actually quite lucky to be able to get an Academician Ni Guangnan, and it is not easy to get another Academician Daxia to join him.

"Ugh!"

Lin Chen sighed deeply, then got up and left.

I hope that when we cooperate with Xia Ke Academy to develop lithography machines in the future, Xia Ke Institute can let a few Daxia academicians join in the research and development of lithography machines, otherwise it is really useless to rely on him alone. (end of this chapter)