When the new owner of the white house saw such publicity by these media, he also picked up his mobile phone with a smile, opened Zette skillfully and said: This is my wise and powerful spirit.
In the comments, many people shook their heads and said long live, the United States and Japan will be great again!
Here’s a little trivia: This person’s like data and frequency of likes in the polls are the highest among all politicians.
Because all non-foreign-funded high-end chip foundries in China have begun to limit production capacity in order to survive the cold winter, mobile phone manufacturers that need to use these chips have also begun to prepare to transfer future orders to foreign-funded foundries.
For example, Korean Star, TSMC...
Of course, there is something special about these two families.
In the category of storage chips, Hanxing's storage chips have the best performance and quality in the industry, even after encountering a fire.
TSMC is unique in mobile phone chip foundry, crushing its peers.
The orders placed by mobile phone manufacturers are all large, but from the beginning of the project to chip tape-out and then installation, it often takes the second year to get the finished product.
It can be said that the blond man single-handedly allowed Han Xing and other large companies with chip foundry business to enjoy a "snipe (yu) and clam fight, and the fisherman will benefit."
Of course, the American people have also enjoyed benefits - the prices of electronic products have "slightly increased" and the prices of daily necessities have "slightly increased".
In fact, from the beginning of the tariff adjustment, some economic experts pointed out that no matter how the tariffs on both sides are adjusted, they will ultimately be borne by the citizens of both countries.
There are many industries in the United States that do not engage in production, or the production costs are high. Even if the price of Daxia products increases, they are cheaper than the products made by themselves. Therefore, the purchase price increases, and the sales price will naturally increase.
One is a big importing country, and the other is a big foreign trade exporting country.
Whether there is a positive or negative difference between the two parties, the final cost will be passed on to the citizens of the country.
And those outside the two countries...
TSMC stock rose sharply.
And the newly appointed CEO of Han Xing Group Semiconductor Company is showing off, which is called good luck and joy.
The former CEO, Mr. Li Jingan, disappeared without a trace after he was ousted.
He hadn't done much before Xiuyi took office. He had just sorted out the internal affairs when something great happened. Daxia Semiconductor Company was sanctioned and their lithography machines would become lithography-free machines in a few months.
There were originally some factional conflicts within the semiconductor company, but they were covered up under such excitement.
Seeing this, Du Zaixiu felt that the people's hearts were in good hands and that destiny was in his grasp, so he sent a report to the head office.
Taking advantage of the fact that Daxia Semiconductor was about to fall into dire straits, it quickly reduced its production capacity and purchased high-end lithography machines in large quantities.
You must know that AS-ML1 sells only about twenty mid-to-high-end lithography machines every year, and Xiuli has issued a military order to take most of them!
Li Jianxi smiled and nodded in approval.
However, when Du Zaixiu contacted AS-ML, he was told that it could not provide so many photolithography machines.
The reason is also very simple, the board of directors does not allow it...
Although containing Daxia is a strategic policy, it is impossible to feed a dog to a dog.
I have a pack of dogs, so how can I tolerate one dog standing alone?
Therefore, Neon Xiaoxiang expressed very vividly: Neon is vigorously developing the semiconductor industry and is in urgent need of high-end photolithography machines.
The semiconductor industry companies on that side were singing and dancing, coming and going.
Semiconductor industry companies on this side are sighing, as if it is the end of the world.
Gu Qing glanced at the news and sighed in boredom.
He is still waiting for both parties to calm down and not cause any more trouble.
And he also believes that the people on the other side are not of the same mind. After all, some people gain while others lose.
The financial industry is too developed, leading to irreversible hollowing out of entities.
Bosses feel more uncomfortable watching others make money than losing money themselves, but labor costs in the United States remain high...
Therefore, in the end, amidst the contradictions and conflicts, the two families are bound to reach a certain degree of reconciliation.
It also takes time to replace the light sources of lithography machines from other domestic manufacturers.
Although the problem of the light source has been solved, whether it is DUV or EUV, the power, energy controller, interface and system adaptation of the lithography machine will take time.
Moreover, this matter cannot be done openly and can only be done secretly.
If someone accidentally leaks the news, I am afraid that items will be added to the semiconductor ban list.
Enter the village quietly, don't let anyone shoot you.
Li You and Zhang Yantai were divided into two groups. One group stayed in the semiconductor department and was responsible for bringing in new people and wafer manufacturing and production, while the other group started traveling around.
Starting from wafer manufacturing, it has entered the middle reaches of the semiconductor industry chain. Therefore, Daxia's domestic companies with chip manufacturing business are not disgusted with anyone coming from Jiuzhou Technology Company, the current leading wafer manufacturing company.
The chip manufacturing business is basically OEM.
It means that the wafer factory will etch large-scale integrated circuits onto large silicon wafers through a photolithography machine based on the circuit drawings designed by Party A's chips to make specific chips.
For example, Xia designed the Kirin chip for HiSilicon Semiconductor and then placed an order with TSMC for chip manufacturing.
These two links are the midstream links in the semiconductor industry chain, and they are also the two links with the highest added value in the semiconductor industry chain.
In the entire semiconductor industry chain, the most difficult and valuable aspects are chip design and chip manufacturing.
(So please don’t think that designing a chip is easy)
In fact, Daxia has been catching up in the semiconductor field in recent years. Although 55% of the entire semiconductor industry chain requires American companies to provide relevant equipment, technology, and raw materials.
But finally a number of companies emerged.
For example, Charcot Sugon is a leading domestic high-performance computing company; Zihui Xiaxin is a listed company in the semiconductor industry under Zihui Group and is currently the leading domestic chip design and system integration solution provider;
There are also companies that focus on memory chips (that is, hard disks and memory cards), as well as influential companies such as Dajiang Storage, Hefei Xiaxin, and Furui Jinxia.
In August 2018, Dajiang Storage released the king 3D NAND memory chip architecture. The interface speed is twice as fast as V-NAND (Korean Star), and the storage density is only 10~20% lower than competing 96-layer NAND chips.
According to internal sources, Zihui Hongmao, a subsidiary of Zihui Group, has been able to carry out laboratory packaging and is expected to be able to carry out large-scale mass production of large-capacity enterprise-level 3D NAND chip packaging and testing in early 2019. This means that the truly domestic Zihui brand ( UNIC) solid-state drives will meet ordinary consumers in 2019.
On this road destined to be full of thorns, some people are forging ahead, localizing related product technologies at extremely low profits or even losses.
There are companies that have stepped up in terms of storage chips, and there are also warriors who are struggling with the core lithography machines.
After visiting several chip foundries, Li You and his party finally arrived at Pudong Microelectronics, the current leading company in the manufacturing of finished lithography machines in Daxia.
Pudong Microelectronics was founded in 2002 at the beginning of the century and has been engaged in research and development in the field of lithography machine manufacturing for 16 years.
Since Daxia's experience and technical reserves in this area were due to the chronology of the last century, and the existing available technology is almost zero, Pudong Microelectronics did not aim too high, but positioned its products in the mid-to-low-end market.
There is also a reason for daring to do this. Since the United States has made more and more efforts to curb the development of Daxia in recent years, Pudong Microelectronics is not backed by ordinary capital investment.
The largest shareholder is now Xia Qi Pudong Electric.
And the chip process is from 90 nanometer technology to the next generation 45 nanometer, then the next generation is 28 nanometer, the next generation is 14 nanometer, and then 7 nanometer.
In fact, it is not "worthy of the name".
xx nanometers reflect the comprehensive performance indicators of the process, not the specific accuracy.
In the past, 600 million R&D was spent on careful budgeting to live a poor life. Now, with the support of Xia Zi, progress is accelerating.
In 2016, three step-scanning projection lithography machines of Pudong Microelectronics' S1X600 series achieved mass production, among which the S1A600/20 lithography machine has a resolution of 90nm.
People are forced out, and the semiconductor industry is the cornerstone of the modern Internet economy. Daxia imports more than 300 billion US dollars in chips every year.
Therefore, under this heavy pressure, Pudong Microelectronics has mastered more than 2,000 patents. Although it does not have a perfect supply chain system that can match AS1ML, it also has the full support of other companies with Xia capital background.
Today, Pudong Microelectronics welcomed another good friend who came to help out. Gu Qing also personally led the team here in order to achieve cooperation.
Unfortunately, Xia Wei and Yu Chengdong still have some friendship with a certain manager of Pudong Microelectronics.
So the manager led Gu Qing and his party through the security check and inspection before entering Pudong Microelectronics.
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Perhaps the temperature of the central air conditioner is set a little low. When you enter the company, you can obviously feel a solemn and slightly cold atmosphere.
The employees who passed by from time to time either had their brows furrowed or were in a hurry. It was rare to see anyone smiling.
Even when they saw the senior executives leading Gu Qing and others, they just nodded.
"Although we now have state-owned capital as a shareholder, it cannot solve the technical problems, so the R&D team is still communicating with other technology suppliers to try to solve the light source problem."
The executive's tone was somewhat low.
"Is there a solution?" Gu Qing asked.
"Alas, this kind of thing cannot be miraculous with great efforts. The excimer laser light source system made by Xia Ke Academy of Optoelectronics can only be said to be usable, but it does not help the latest research and development projects."
"The latest research and development project?"
“It’s no secret that the next step for 90nm is 45nm.
The photolithography machine that produces chips of this level is enough for chip manufacturing for ordinary electrical appliances. "
Gu Qing sighed: "Those companies have patent ownership that can be called a moat. When we were manufacturing wafers, we were doing it alone."
"I heard that Mr. Gu wants to come and discuss the cooperation project of light source equipment,"
"Of course, after years of research and development, our company has also produced results in light source equipment. Today we just want to see if we can help a group of friendly companies."
"That's what you asked for. I'll take you to the laboratory to have a look."
This executive is not a nerd. Jiuzhou Technology Company has risen like a comet, and its technologies are diverse and mature. With a little thought, you will know that the other party must have a deep background.
Although the laboratory of Pudong Microelectronics is called a "room", its area is not that small.
Looking around, in a space of several hundred square meters, equipment of various sizes is arranged in an orderly manner, among which many R&D personnel are immersed in their work holding reports and folders.
Zhao Xingxia, the head of the Pudong Microelectronics Headquarters Laboratory, is surrounded by more than a dozen young and older R&D personnel.
But none of them spoke, they were all focused on looking at the instrument in front of them.
Gu Qing led his team to a stop on the side.
It was obvious that the other party was at a critical moment in the experiment, and no noise should be made at this time.
About three minutes later.
As the values on the display fluctuated and returned to zero, Zhao Xingxia sighed.
"The light source is still not enough, other aspects have matured, alas!
Basic science, basic science, if no one can conquer our materials science, when will the light source be qualified? "
An old man beside him patted Zhao Xingxia on the shoulder.
"Xiao Zhao, don't be discouraged. Comrades at Xia Ke Academy are also working hard. I heard that several old friends have issued a military order to strive for a qualified light source within three years."
"DUV or EUV?"
Although this question was not loud, it was clearly audible in the quiet laboratory.
Zhao Xingxia looked over with a sad expression.
I saw a strange young man standing in front of a group of people, with a green face but a calm demeanor.
"Where did this young man come from?" he asked the assistant beside him.
As the head of the laboratory, it is naturally impossible for him to take care of everything.
"Old Zhao, this is Mr. Gu from Jiuzhou Technology Company, and the R&D personnel from their company's semiconductor R&D department."
At this time, the executive who introduced Gu Qing into the laboratory stood up and introduced him.
"This is Zhao Xingxia, Professor Zhao, who is also the head of the laboratory and the chief engineer of the project."
The reputation of Jiuzhou Technology is not small now.
Zhao Xingxia came back to his senses, thought for a moment and said: "Isn't your company engaged in wafer manufacturing? Are you interested in chip OEM?"
Then he added: "Yes, it's cheaper to do this, and sales will definitely not be a problem."
Gu Qing smiled and shook his head. After shaking hands with Professor Zhao, he glanced at the display of the equipment they had just observed with concentration.
“The DUV light source is an excimer laser, and there is a reason why the AS-ML1 EUV lithography machine uses lasers to excite plasma to emit EUV photons.
The wavelength of the DUV lithography machine can reach 193 nanometers, while the wavelength of the EUV light source is 13.5 nanometers.
I believe you, Professor Zhao, also know that the difference between the two is very obvious. The shorter the wavelength, the higher the resolution that can be achieved. This enables EUV lithography machines to undertake the production of high-precision chips.
Therefore, although DUV can do 48NM, it is too difficult and must be replaced by EUV. "
Professor Zhao did not speak, but a young developer next to him said: "EUV light sources have been covered by foreign companies. How can they be so easy for us to use?"
“German Leica lenses, TRUMPF light sources, and patented technologies from Germany, the U.S., Japan and South Korea are indeed covered.
But it’s not like we can’t replace it directly from the source. " Luo Jia said.
The young R&D staff snorted coldly: "It's so simple. How can it be so easy to develop a new light source?"
