One step behind, every step behind!
If Sugon Technology waits for half a year before developing semiconductor production equipment, it will then take a year or two to bypass the technical patent barriers of Western semiconductor production equipment and complete the research and development of 90-nanometer process production equipment.
When Sugon Technology completes the research and development of its 90nm process technology production equipment, it will definitely be the day when other people's 65nm process technology is put into mass production.
After finally developing the 90-nanometer process technology, it suddenly fell behind the West. This will make people vomit blood.
In this case, although it is okay to develop semiconductor production equipment later than half a year, the negative impact is actually quite large!
Therefore, Sugon Technology must solve the problem of 90nm process technology as soon as possible. Now that it is unable to purchase corresponding semiconductor production equipment, independent research and development is the only way.
"well."
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 expensive.
It only takes at least one billion US dollars a year to get started. Burning two to three tens of billions of US dollars a year is normal and terrifying!
The reason why so much money is needed is because 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 statistics from semiconductor related people, the production of a chip requires thousands of processes, and there are a total of 17 core equipment for chip production!
Faced with these 17 core equipment for semiconductor chip production, no country can cover them all.
The current semiconductor production equipment is part of the responsibility of various developed countries, and is eventually brought together to form the world's most advanced 90-nanometer process chip production line.
Therefore, if you want to solve the problem of semiconductor production equipment and be able to produce 90-nanometer chips, it is not just about solving a photolithography machine.
And the saddest thing is that these 17 semiconductor production equipment are almost complementary to each other. For example, you solved the problem of the photolithography machine.
But if other core equipment does not meet standards and performance parameters cannot keep up with the demand for producing 90-nanometer chips, then you will not be able to produce 90-nanometer chips or more advanced 65-nanometer chips.
So it must be a joke to just develop a photolithography machine and claim to solve the 90-nanometer process technology.
Of course, among the 17 core semiconductor production equipment, the photolithography machine is indeed the most critical thing and the most difficult thing to develop.
It can be said that as long as the problem of the photolithography machine is solved, it is almost equivalent to having half a foot in the 90nm process technology.
"Rebus, we do have no money, but we don't need so much equipment to solve it at the moment. We can develop more important etching machines and photolithography machines first."
After saying this, Lin Chen paused for a moment, seemingly lost in thought, but soon Lin Chen continued:
“We can jointly develop the etching machine with Zhongxin International, so we don’t have to bear all the responsibility ourselves.
Although we and Zhongxin International are competitors, we can also work together to develop etching machines and then share the equipment together. At that time, the sales profits of the etching machines will be divided according to the shares.
Among them, I have some recommendations for etching machine talents. I heard that I once worked at Meditech Applied Materials and Lam 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 the persuasion of Zhongxin International Jiang Haizhou.
And he was not the only one to return to China, he also brought back 10 key talents from Applied Materials.
I heard that they are going to set up a semiconductor equipment company called China Microelectronics in Daxia to completely solve the problem of Daxia’s backward semiconductor equipment.
Their company is currently in the planning stage, and we may be able to join hands with Zhongxin International to raise capital and invest in it 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 the problem of the implementation of domestic etching machines be solved faster. "
Speaking of this, Lin Chen was also filled with emotion.
The AMEC company founded by Yin Zhixiao in his 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 the 5-nanometer process. Isn't this the pride of Daxia Semiconductor Equipment?
However, although Daxia's etching machines are not lagging behind others or even world-class, chip production is a whole, and it is useless to just have one or two pieces of equipment stand out.
After all, there are 17 core chip production equipment. After 1 is solved, there are still 16 left.
Moreover, the lithography machine, which was more important in the previous life, has not made much progress.
"Yin Zhixiao? I understand."
After receiving the information from Lin Chen, Rebus nodded lightly and agreed that he would do a good job in this matter.
Seeing this, Lin Chen continued:
“As for the lithography machine, we can only rely on ourselves, but we cannot rely on ourselves alone without relying on external forces.
Rebus, please contact Xia Ke Academy to see if we can cooperate. We will pay them to provide several academicians and supporting R&D personnel, as well as old lithography machine patents and R&D equipment, etc., and then we will work together to solve the problem of lithography machines. question. "
"Um."
Rebus nodded slightly, although Sugon Technology was under a bit of pressure.
But if we only develop photolithography machines and etching machines, the current income can barely support it. As long as 17 core semiconductor production equipment are not installed at the same time, the financial pressure will be reduced a lot and we can barely withstand it.
Seeing this, Lin Chen stopped chatting with Rebus because Lin Chen was very busy.
The mobile phone screen needs to be developed by Lin Chen, the mobile phone lens needs to be developed by Lin Chen, and the future lithography machine will also need to be developed by Lin Chen.
At this time, Lin Chen deeply felt the pain of not having boss-level R&D talents. Now Lin Chen just wants to tell the outside world that Sugon Technology is in urgent need of boss-level R&D talents, and the treatment will definitely satisfy you.
But unfortunately, boss-level R&D talents are not so easy to obtain. Real boss-level R&D talents either look down on Sugon Technology, or they have contracts and cannot change jobs.
Therefore, it is really difficult for Lin Chen to want boss-level R&D talents, especially academician-level boss-level R&D talents.
Lin Chen is actually quite lucky to have academician Ni Guangnan. It is not easy to get another academician from Daxia to join him.
"well!"
Lin Chen sighed deeply, then stood up and left.
I hope that when cooperating with Xia Ke Academy to develop lithography machines, Xia Ke Academy can let several Daxia academicians join in the development of lithography machines. Otherwise, he alone will really be unable to do all the work. (End of chapter)
