"Oh my God, this is too scary. Sugon Technology is willing to spend so much money to develop a lithography machine!"
“This Sugon Technology is simply crazy.”…
There was a huge noise at the scene, and people were all marveling and sighing at the madness of Sugon Technology.
After all, the minimum is 3 billion a year. What a terrifying figure this is.
What's even more terrifying is that 3 billion this year is the lower limit, not the upper limit. Lin Chen said that the upper limit of R&D funds for lithography machines in one year is unknown!
Of course, let’s not mention the amount of R&D investment with an unknown upper limit, let’s just say that the minimum R&D investment amount is 3 billion a year.
This is an amount of R&D funds that causes headaches and even scalp numbness for well-known domestic and even well-known foreign companies.
According to the current exchange rate of one U.S. dollar for 8.27 soft sister coins, spending 3 billion Xia Yuan a year is equivalent to spending 362 million U.S. dollars a year to develop a machine. How is this not a huge number?
Therefore, the reporters at the scene all looked at Lin Chen with shock, as if they were looking at a madman, a madman who does not regard money as money!
In this regard, Lin Chen said that this amount of R&D funds is actually not that much, because Intel's R&D investment in 2001 reached 7 billion US dollars!
As of the end of 2003, perhaps the unfavorable competition with .D Company in the past two years was the reason why .D's market share reached 25%.
Intel, whose revenue has dropped significantly, has reduced its R&D investment, but even so, their R&D funds reached US$4 billion last year in 2003!
Under this circumstance, Sugon Technology’s US$362 million to develop lithography machines in the next year is actually not a lot, or even a little less.
However, Sugon Technology’s financial resources of US$360 million per year is the upper limit. After all, although mobile phones are very profitable, there is also an upper limit.
"Mr. Lin Chen, are you sure you will spend at least 3 billion Xia Yuan, or 360 million U.S. dollars, to develop lithography machines in the next year?"
A reporter from Nanfang Metropolis Daily looked at Lin Chen in disbelief and expressed his doubts.
"Yes, it is indeed "at least" 3 billion a year, which means at least 360 million US dollars a year are spent to develop lithography machines."
Lin Chen said the exact words without any hesitation.
"Click, click, click, click, click, click, click..."
The scene was filled with the sound of cameras flashing wildly, and many reporters quickly wrote down relevant news content with their pens.
At this time, reporters had already foreseen that the world would be shocked when the news came out.
But what shocked them even more did not stop. At this moment, Dean Lu continued to say after the camera stopped flashing crazily:
“In terms of funding, 3 billion a year has laid the foundation for the development of the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine. The next step is the work of our Xia Ke Academy.
In this cooperation, our Xia Ke Academy dispatched a total of 3 academicians and a senior lithography machine research and development professor as well as hundreds of graduate students, doctors, postdocs, etc.
In addition, our Xia Ke Academy will also provide corresponding equipment, materials and even priority use rights of supercomputers, etc.! "
"Click, click, click, click, click, click..."
The reporters who heard Dean Lu's words naturally looked excited and clicked their cameras frantically. This was another big news.
It can also be seen that Xia Ke Academy is really domineering. There are a total of 3 academicians and a senior lithography machine R&D professor as well as hundreds of graduate students, doctors, and postdocs. This lithography machine R&D team is really huge.
In this regard, Dean Lu did not stop speaking. After the camera stopped flashing for a while, he continued:
“Let me announce the list next.
First of all, the first one is Academician Lu Ke, who is the youngest in Daxia. He successfully won two "Daxia Top Ten Scientific and Technological Achievements" in just a few years, and then won the title of academician at the age of 38 without any controversy. "
"Pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah..."
Upon hearing Academician Lu Ke's name, many reporters and guests applauded.
Speaking of which, Academician Lu Ke is also a super genius, a super genius in the field of metal materials. With two scientific research achievements, he successfully became the youngest academician of Daxia in history at the age of 38.
Two of his R&D results have had a profound impact on the world and can be said to have opened up new R&D directions.
One is nanotwinned copper. This nanotwinned copper has super conductivity and strength, which directly opens up the research and development direction of nanometal materials.
The second is the new technology of nanometerizing the surface of metal materials. This scientific research result directly defeats the surface nitriding process that originally took dozens of hours, was extremely energy-consuming, and even had poor results.
Using metal material surface nanonization technology, a variety of metals and engineering alloys can obtain nanocrystalline structures tens of microns thick.
Ultimately, the metal will have stronger surface hardness, wear resistance, fatigue resistance, and corrosion resistance, so this is a magical technology.
The only disadvantage of this is that this technology has only been achieved in the laboratory, and the equipment and technology for mass production have not yet been formed.
At this time, Dean Lu did not stop his introduction. He continued:
"Academician Lu Ke is an academician who is good at the research and development of metal materials. Academician Lu Ke will be mainly responsible for the research and development of metal materials for photolithography machines."
"Pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah..."
The scene burst into warm applause again, and at this time Academician Lu Ke also nodded and waved to the reporters.
At this time, Dean Lu focused his attention on one of the old men, and saw him introducing with a smile:
“The next person I want to introduce is Professor Xu Duangu, who is known as the father of lithography machines and optical disc technology.
The "color multi-level storage technology" originally invented by Professor Xu Duangu directly broke the problem that optical disks cannot directly rewrite data.
It started a major breakthrough in the world's optical disc industry and impressed experts from all over the world. It also won the "National Invention Award", the highest technology award in Daxia, and obtained an international invention patent!
Of course, in addition to the optical disc technology that is worth mentioning, what is more important is the photolithography machine.
To be honest, the step-by-step projection lithography machine I developed in Daxia was not lagging behind the world.
At that time, in March 1991, the step-by-step projection lithography machine we developed made foreign experts come with doubts and left with shock soon after.
And it is said that those foreign experts have also come to a conclusion. This conclusion is that Daxia has broken the blockade in terms of photolithography machines!
At that time, it was Professor Xu Duangu who was responsible for developing this blockade-breaking lithography machine!
Of course, in addition to the step-by-step projection lithography machine that broke the blockade of lithography machines, the first domestic projection lithography machine in 1980 was actually developed by Professor Xu Duangu! "
Hearing Dean Lu talk about breaking the blockade, the foreign reporters at the scene didn't look very good.
But for domestic reporters, they instantly became excited and looked at Professor Xu Gu with admiration in their eyes. (End of chapter)
