Xu Yun continued to wait in the office for about ten minutes. Liu Xing walked in with three people, and after explaining the situation, he turned around and left first, leaving the people from Warwick Technology to talk to him alone.
He raised his gaze and looked up. He saw that the other party was composed of two men and one woman.
The leading man had a Chinese-character face and was estimated to be forty years old at most, giving him a rather decent feeling.
The other two were obviously assistants.
He was directly ignored.
"I don't know what business Mr. Zhang has with me, so he came all the way here." Xu Yun took the initiative to ask the other party, trying to find out Warwick's purpose first.
Just now Liu Xing has helped with a brief introduction.
He knew that the man with the Chinese character in front of him was the technical director of Warwick.
Zhang Tao did not choose to answer the question immediately. A professional smile in a shopping mall appeared on his face, and he sincerely expressed his apology: "I am very sorry, Professor Xu, for disturbing your work today. I hope this will not cause too much trouble to you." Troubled.”
"In this case, there is no need to say these polite words. I don't have much free time."
Hearing the meaning of Xu Yun's words, Zhang Tao immediately realized something and did not hesitate to express his intention for the next second.
"Professor Xu, in fact, we established an EDA software development project a long time ago. Although there is still a gap compared with the new Scaden software, this gap is narrowing."
At this point, Zhang Tao paused, but his expression vaguely showed pride.
Xu Yun frowned slightly and asked, "So what does this have to do with you guys looking for me?"
"The global semiconductor industry is currently turbulent, which is a huge hidden danger for us." Zhang Tao gradually entered the state to explain in detail.
"If domestic EDA still maintains the current development speed, it will be difficult to go online to meet industry needs in a short period of time, so our chairman, Ren, wants to use your company's artificial intelligence model to speed up software development."
After listening to all the other party's words, Xu Yun thought secretly in his heart.
When he first came to Jincheng, Hou Shengchang told him about EDA and made it clear that a company was already developing it.
Unexpectedly, it was Warwick.
However, the other party's idea of speeding up development through Benben surprised him.
It can be seen that they also have great research in the field of artificial intelligence.
Of course, Xu Yun did not let go directly, but watched Zhang Tao ask a question.
"With the current functions of our intelligent model, although it can carry out intelligent programming, the effect on large projects may be limited. Why do you think it can improve the development speed?"
"Benben's version update speed is obvious to all. I think it has reached version 3.0 now." Zhang Tao answered tentatively.
Xu Yun was thoughtful when he heard this sentence.
Zhang Tao's guess was good.
Although Benben’s permissions currently open to the outside world are still version 2.0, it has actually been upgraded to version 3.0 internally. Otherwise, it would not have helped him view all the information on the lithography machine project in the institute so quickly.
At least judging from his experience, Benben can indeed improve the speed and even functionality of software development.
Although the growth rate has slowed down a lot after iterating to version 3.0, it is still at the leading level in the world.
Sufficient for current use.
From a long-term perspective, it is urgent to launch domestic EDA industrial software.
At the same time, this is also an important part of high-end chip manufacturing.
There is really no reason to refuse based on these two points alone.
What's more, he has a pretty good opinion of this technology company that can take action from a global perspective.
While he was thinking about the solution, Zhang Tao, who was standing opposite him, gradually couldn't hold himself in any longer, and a nervous expression began to appear on his face.
It seems that he is worried that today's negotiation will fail and this trip will be in vain.
Seeing that the atmosphere was getting more and more anxious, Zhang Tao shouted again: "If your company cooperates with us, Deepin Technology can obtain part of Yinglong EDA's sales share. I can guarantee that this will be a win-win cooperation."
"Sales share?" Xu Yun was a little surprised when he heard this.
According to the information he currently has, the Yinglong EDA industrial software project mentioned by the other party should have been in progress for a long time, and it is not the kind of junk that is not on the market. If they open some rights to Benben 3.0 version, they can obtain Software sales share.
It is indeed a very cost-effective cooperation.
Not easy to say no.
Industrial software like EDA mainly adopts a paid operation model.
Although it is not yet able to compete with Xinsi Keden, when the domestic high-end chip manufacturing industry chain is completed, the cake it will bring cannot be underestimated.
Speaking of which, if you refuse, it will appear that the situation is too small.
With his thoughts stuck here, Xu Yun stopped trying to hold back and immediately made a decision to settle the matter.
"I agree to the cooperation. I will arrange for the person in charge of the artificial intelligence laboratory under the company to connect with you."
"You can discuss the specific follow-up situation yourself."
"Great, thank you Professor Xu for giving us this opportunity." Zhang Tao had a visible smile on his face when he heard the answer he wanted.
In fact, it was he who proposed using Deepin Technology's artificial intelligence model to speed up software development. Although he was questioned by the company's senior management and thought it was too natural, he finally succeeded in convincing the chairman and immediately rushed to Jincheng to discuss it. cooperate.
He wasn't 100% sure at first, so he breathed a sigh of relief when Xu Yun agreed.
But after being relaxed and excited, he felt more secretly happy.
The reason why the company's top executives questioned it was that they believed that the auxiliary development of complex industrial software could not be achieved only with the functions of Benben 2.0 version.
After careful research, he felt that Benben should have grown to version 3.0 according to the previous update iteration speed.
It can play a role in assisting development.
It’s just that deep technology does not have corresponding permissions open to the outside world.
This matter is easy to understand. After all, rashly opening a powerful artificial intelligence model to everyone for free will bring a lot of chaos to society before the corresponding system is released.
They would make the same choice if they developed this artificial intelligence model that leads many versions of the world.
Facts have proved that his guess was very correct, and Xu Yun did not deny the existence of version 3.0.
Especially since we can agree to this cooperation, it means that the artificial intelligence model updated to the latest version can indeed play a supporting role in large-scale software development projects.
After calming down a little, Zhang Tao said again: "Then let's not disturb Professor Xu's work. I believe Professor Xu will definitely be able to develop a domestic extreme ultraviolet lithography machine." Finally, he did not forget to express himself to Xu Yun. True inner thoughts.
If the domestic high-end chip manufacturing industry chain is not solved, even if you develop your own EDA software, it will be difficult to develop.
Xu Yun knew this very well. Hearing this, he gave him a smile, nodded and watched the other party leave.
Soon after he was the only one left in the office, Benben sent a notice to the artificial intelligence laboratory.
Leave this matter to Yan Kaiming to take charge of the docking.
"Now that the software is fully guaranteed, we will go all out to conquer the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine."
After finishing, Xu Yun stood in the office and said with a slightly emotional tone, and then his eyes became more determined.
Originally, he was a little worried about the quality of domestic industrial software, fearing that it would hinder the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine. Now that Benben assists him, this thought has disappeared.
Thinking of Benben's performance in the past two days, even he couldn't help but want to praise him highly.
After Zhang Tao got the results he wanted, he naturally took the nearest flight with his two assistants back to Shenzhen to report to the company.
Then you can lead the team to the Jingzhou Deep Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
On the way back, he didn't hide the joy on his face at all.
Naturally, Xu Yun was not very clear about Zhang Tao's performance because he was holding the second project meeting.
In the project research room, Xu Yun sat on the main seat in the middle with a confident mind.
Researchers such as Luo Changhui and Yang Jing are on both sides, as well as research assistants with postdoctoral status.
As soon as possible, the seminar room fell into silence at this moment, but if you observe carefully, you will find suspicion on everyone's faces, curious about the purpose of Xu Yun's sudden project meeting.
In their minds, Xu Yun should spend all his time checking project information at this time.
Questions gradually emerged in my mind while I was thinking?
"Could it be that Professor Xu has figured it out and plans to study the photolithography machine first?"
"That's good news."
"I have long said that those materials are too bloated and cumbersome, and I will give up soon."
Just as he was thinking about listening to Luo Changhui on his right, he took the initiative to ask: "Professor Xu suddenly called us over today. Did he encounter any problems with the project materials?"
"That's not true." Xu Yun looked at Luo Changhui and shook his head.
After answering, he continued.
"Let everyone come here today mainly to announce things. I plan to start solving the technical problems facing the project starting tomorrow."
As the saying goes, one stone stirs up a thousand waves. When Xu Yun said that he would start solving technical problems tomorrow, the originally dull atmosphere disappeared in an instant and was replaced by a breath of active emotions and violent fluctuations.
Several researchers seemed to have their chat boxes opened, and they expressed their opinions one after another.
"It's right to start the project early. The data technology in the institute is already very backward, and it doesn't have much value in the first place."
"Fortunately, Professor Xu figured it out in time, otherwise I don't know how much time would have been wasted."
"What to do next, Professor Xu, you can arrange it."
Xu Yun was a little confused when he heard the words of the researcher next to him, but he soon understood what was going on.
I felt a bit dumbfounded.
I bet everyone thought he gave up checking all the information midway, but little did they know that he had already read this bit.
Faced with this situation, he immediately explained: "I have read all the information on previous lithography machine projects."
Although these words were spoken as calmly as possible, when they were heard by others, they were no less than thunderous.
Everyone immediately exploded.
"I've read it all, how is this possible?"
"I finished reading it in two days. According to normal circumstances, it would take ten and a half days to read so much information even if I don't eat or drink."
"It's incredible."
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"As I said before, I'm relatively fast at seeing things."
Xu Yun added a little embarrassedly when he heard this.
And this still makes everyone feel complicated, and they no longer know how to describe this feeling.
I thought to myself that this was simply faster, it was simply too fast.
After about three or four seconds, Yang Jing could not help but say: "It seems that we have greatly underestimated Professor Xu's talent."
In the end, it was Luo Changhui who spoke out to resolve the awkward atmosphere and get the topic back on track.
"alright."
"We should all be happy that Professor Xu can show such a powerful talent."
"It is precisely in this way that there is more hope to solve the problem of lithography machines."
After he finished speaking and saw that everyone was deeply concerned, he turned around and focused his attention on Xu Yun again and asked a question.
"Professor Xu."
"I wonder which problem you plan to solve first?"
After speaking, not only Luo Changhui, but also everyone else present immediately focused their attention on Xu Yun and waited quietly for the answer.
After spending two days reading the institute's lithography machine project information, Xu Yun knew the main problems faced by domestic extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, which were mainly divided into light sources, masks, and projection optical systems.
The extreme ultraviolet light emitted by the light source of the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is extremely easily absorbed by substances.
After the light beam has been reflected multiple times, less than 2% of the light can be used.
The energy conversion rate is extremely low.
Therefore, a powerful light source is needed to ensure that the ray light source is strong enough.
In addition, the wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light is 13.5nm. Since it is easily absorbed by materials such as lens glass, it will also be attracted by air and gas, affecting the refractive index change.
The cavity requires a vacuum system.
The projection optical system must use reflectors instead of lenses, which requires high precision and expensive manufacturing costs.
In terms of masks, due to the particularity of extreme ultraviolet light, ordinary masks are very easy to damage, which requires the development of special masks.
It can be said that each of these issues requires a large amount of long-term research by the institute.
And it may not necessarily be fruitful yet.
This shows how difficult it is to manufacture an entire extreme ultraviolet high-end lithography machine.
No wonder the overseas semiconductor field is confident and not worried about their ability to localize the high-end chip manufacturing industry chain.
Fortunately, the problem of high-end photoresist has been solved, otherwise it would be equivalent to increasing the difficulty.
After Xu Yun figured this out, he naturally had a direction. At this time, he didn't hide anything when faced with Luo Changhui's inquiry, and he generously told his next plan.
"I plan to solve the light source problem first."
The researchers present knew very well that these problems had to be solved, and it didn’t make much difference which one to focus on first.
Naturally, Xu Yun's decision will not be questioned.
On the contrary, after hearing this answer, they all nodded in agreement.
"The light source is indeed a very important issue. The extreme ultraviolet light sources we can create now simply cannot meet the power requirements."
"I have no opinion."
"I also support Professor Xu's decision."
Xu Yun is very satisfied with everyone's performance, but it would be a big mistake to think that he can only do this.
Before everyone could recover, he dropped another bombshell.
"I will come up with the design plan for the light source in a while. In addition, I will also complete the optical system and mask plan in the future. At that time, I will ask everyone to work together to complete the photolithography machine."
If everyone was just surprised and surprised that Xu Yun read all the information in a short time.
So after hearing this sentence at this moment, the expression on his face instantly froze and he was completely confused.
The pupils shrank suddenly as if an earthquake had occurred.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
It was enough to come up with a light source design plan in a short time, but he also said that there would be no shortage of masks and optical systems. The key point seems to be that Xu Yun wanted to complete the plan independently.
Even though Xu Yun has extremely high talent and has created many miracles to promote industry changes.
They couldn't imagine this possibility.
As old members of the lithography machine project, no one knows the difficulty better than them.
It can only be said that Xu Yun does not look like someone who develops photolithography machines. On the contrary, he has mastered all the technologies.
Give them the relevant design plans directly from their minds to complete.
But this is obviously impossible.
However, Xu Yun's tone was full of confidence, and he looked confident.
It is really difficult for them to judge the specific situation.
A long silence spread in the room, making the atmosphere feel strange.
As for Liu Xing and other postdoctoral research assistants, they were even more afraid to show off at this moment.
I don't know how much time had passed, but Luo Changhui was the first to calm down. He asked Xu Yun with an extremely solemn expression: "These are all core issues in extreme ultraviolet lithography machines. Are Professor Xu really sure that he can complete the plan?" There was a little expectation hidden in his eyes.
"There should be no problem." Xu Yun nodded and answered seriously.
These problems are indeed difficult for the institute to solve, but he has an overclocked brain and can come up with the best solution.
It may be more stable in all aspects than overseas lithography machines.
So I still have some confidence.
Luo Changhui received Xu Yun's repeated confirmation and finally no longer concealed the joy on his face.
Subconsciously holding Xu Yun's hand tightly, he quickly expressed his stance: "I believe you."
Although others were still suspicious after seeing this scene, after thinking about it carefully, they had no other choice but to believe Xu Yun.
Whether we can come up with a feasible solution can only be known after experiments.
But there is no doubt that if Xu Yun does what he says, domestic extreme ultraviolet lithography machines will surely make rapid progress, and the previous decline in the field of semiconductor materials will be wiped out.
But whether it should be said or not, Xu Yun did give them too many surprises today.
In the following time, Xu Yun made corresponding arrangements and announced the end of this brief but shocking meeting.
What followed was research on the feasibility of light sources.
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At the same time, in Shenzhen City, Zhang Tao and his company reported the negotiation results of their trip to Jincheng and immediately set off for the Jingzhou Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to complete relevant docking.
After returning to the company headquarters in Shenzhen, it also marked the official start of actual verification experiments using artificial intelligence model Benben to assist in the development of domestic EDA industrial software methods.
If the final result does not meet expectations, it means that this method simply does not work.
At that time, Zhang Tao, as the proposer, will definitely face some responsibilities from the company.
After all, he was the one who fought against all odds to get this project passed.
When he arrived at the software development office area at nine o'clock in the morning, he couldn't help but feel nervous compared to the technical engineer sitting in front of the computer.
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(End of chapter)
