The year before last was a watershed for Rising Technology, since the successful development of immersion lithography machine, Rising Technology began to extend these technologies to all product lines in large quantities, and the product lines of krypton fluoride lithography machine and argon fluoride lithography machine were quickly purchased by wafer factories at home and abroad. "Eight" "Eight" read "book, .2 ■ ⊥

A large number of wafer factories began to abandon the lithography machines of Neon Country and turned to purchase products from Rising Technology.

Especially last year, well-known semiconductor manufacturers such as Intel in China purchased products from Ruixing Technology Company, which caused the business of Canon and Nikon in Neon Country to produce lithography machines suffered a heavy setback, and their market share plummeted.

This year, the output of lithography machines of Ruixing Technology Company has also reached a peak level, and Acemoore Company has only sold 50 units so far, and the output of two lithography machines in Neon Country is even more pitiful.

Optimistically, this year, Ruixing Technology Company can achieve net sales of more than 9 billion US dollars and net income of more than 4 billion US dollars in the lithography machine business alone, with extremely high profit margins.

If you add the business of etching machine and ion evaporation equipment, the total revenue of Ruixing Technology Company has exceeded 20 billion US dollars a year.

And because the customers are all enterprises, Ruixing Technology Company does not need to advertise or anything, and there are very few sales personnel, and they sell high-tech products, and the natural profits are extremely high.

And these companies that provide parts for Ruixing Technology Company at home and abroad are also very profitable.

There are about 5,000 parts of the lithography machine, and most of the parts of Ruixing Technology Company are purchased from home and abroad, and the purchased parts can account for about 78 percent, of which foreign procurement can account for 40 percent of the total procurement volume, and domestic procurement can account for 60 percent. ∷VIII8∷Reading∷Book,.2∞≠

The design standards of these parts are formulated by Ruixing Technology Company itself, and the standards are very strict, which naturally ensures the quality and accuracy of lithography machine products.

The main technologies developed by Ruixing Technology Company are in terms of assembly, calibration, accuracy, and the stability and reliability of product hardware and software.

The company has reached a very high level through seven or eight years of polishing and technology accumulation, and this standard has to be further improved with the progress of the manufacturing process to reach the product design requirements, which can be said to be an endless road.

The standards set by these companies are the most important thing, and now it is impossible for other companies to imitate all the parts.

Yang Jie is also very concerned about the launch of similar immersive lithography machine products by Esmore this year, this company will be a strong opponent of Rising Technology in the future, the number of roads is very similar to Rising Technology, and it is also a bypass of Rising Technology's technical patents, which is enough to prove the company's deep technical foundation accumulated before.

He Yuguang also suggested to Yang Jie that he initiate a patent infringement lawsuit against Acemoore, but Yang Jie did not lose it.

It's also a good thing to have such a company to compete with Rising Technology, and if there is really only one company left in this market, it will also make Rising Technology lose momentum.

Originally, the market relied on the technical strength of the product to speak, and it was said that the sky was broken, and the result was that the product technology was not good, and everything was false.

The lithography machine is an expensive machine tool, and Intel, as the promoter of the deep ultraviolet lithography machine, has long hoped that the lithography machine manufacturer can launch this kind of lithography machine, but at this stage, no lithography machine manufacturer can mass produce it, because this technology is too difficult, and now Huaxing Group has only mastered part of the technology.

Yang Jie also asked Rising Technology to speed up the research and development progress of the deep ultraviolet lithography machine, and also hoped to make most of the technology mature within five years, at least before Acemoore to achieve mass production of this set of deep ultraviolet lithography machine.

Because the 193nm wavelength argon fluoride light source of the immersive lithography machine can only reach 22 nanometers, although chip manufacturers can use the 193 nanometer argon fluoride immersion lithography machine to use multiple imaging technology to reluctantly improve the process process to 16 to 14 nanometer nodes and even 10 and 7 nanometer nodes, but this multiple exposure technology increases the number of exposures, resulting in a significant increase in cost, yield, and a significant decrease in output.

If the deep ultraviolet lithography machine cannot be mass-produced at this time, then the domestic process technology will also fall into a state of stagnation, which Yang Jie does not want to see.

He hopes that the deep ultraviolet lithography machine will be mass-produced at the 28 to 14 nm process node, and continue to push the process technology down.

Compared with immersive lithography and triple imaging, deep ultraviolet lithography can reduce the production cost of metal layers by 9% and the production cost of vias by 28%.

As the process technology gradually approaches the limit, the light source of the deep ultraviolet lithography machine needs to be continuously improved, and the aperture value of the lens group needs to be higher, which are the extreme challenges of human technology.

However, as a technical freak, the extreme challenge of technology like this makes Yang Jie tired, and if he doesn't break through these technical difficulties in front of him, he can't tolerate it.

At that time, he also hoped that he would tell the media very much: "If we can't hand over the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine, Moore's Law will stop here." ”

This feeling is the most enjoyable thing for sensory technology workers.

In the previous life, due to the technical difficulty of the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine and the high amount of investment required, the other two major micro-imaging equipment factories - Nikon and Canon in the neon country gave up development, and Acemoore became the last hope for the semiconductor industry to continue to sprint to the next generation of advanced processes and develop more power-efficient and faster transistors.

Now Yang Jie hopes that his Rising Technology Company will become the last hope, so that the domestic semiconductor industry can continue to lead in this regard.

If he can do this, it will be one of the proudest things he has done in his life.

At this stage, the principle of deep ultraviolet lithography machine is no secret, and many companies can make the principle prototype of deep ultraviolet lithography machine, but in the light source, lens group, lithography mask mask, There are a large number of engineering and technical problems that need to be overcome in lithography machines, but many research institutions and companies at home and abroad are studying solutions to these difficulties.

Yang Jie knows that this is an incomparably huge project, and there is no way to do it by relying on Huaxing Group alone, so he can only work with these suppliers of the company to solve it. 11