Hu Yiting took a train from Puhai to Hushan overnight, accompanied by Dou Shicheng and Ji Yingying. When he arrived in Hushan, he didn't have time to talk to his mother more, so he just had a meal at home and hurried to the Lake Research Institute, and the memory of his career occupied his entire brain.

Xi Longshan is currently going all out to tackle the 0.35 micron process technology, using the 0.8-1 micron domestic step-by-step repeated projection lithography machine purchased from the Institute of Optoelectronic Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but it has been replaced with the new set of lenses designed by Hu Yiting, and at the same time, combined with the design scheme of the double-glue coating process secretly granted by Hu Yiting and the intelligent linkage lens image field precision calibration system of the lithography machine double workpiece table.

As soon as these three top-secret technologies were announced, they caused a great sensation in the Lake Research Institute, and the senior engineers in the institute all regarded Hu Yiting as a heavenly man, and usually spoke of his name with full respect and respect, for no other reason, it was really because he felt that he was too good, and now no one dares to see him as an 18-year-old young man.

Especially the new young people in the institute, now they regard Hu Yiting as the number one idol, inspired by him, they feel that the era of young people has come, all of them are enthusiastic, want to be on the top, and their enthusiasm for work is unprecedentedly high, the lights are bright every night, and the engineers are racing against time to overcome the 0.35 micron process technology as soon as possible and put a big satellite out.

According to the judgment of Xi Longshan, president of the Lake Research Institute, and Wang Xuanyu, vice president, if the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences can be developed before the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to develop a "complete set of 0.35 micron CMOS device LSI large-scale integrated circuit technology", a second prize of national scientific and technological progress will not be able to run.

When Chengguang first ordered their 0.8-1 micron lithography machine, Chengguang was very surprised, there was still someone to purchase a domestic lithography machine?

But since there are big dogs to buy, Chengguang is of course going all out to cooperate, patting his chest and saying that he will guarantee the construction period, and he must treat Chongguang and another buyer, Beidu Microelectronics Center, equally, and deliver them at the same time.

When Xi Longshan proposed to purchase three sets of equipment, Chengguang Institute thought that Chongguang Hushan Research Institute was crazy, and when he learned that they had 300 million R&D funds a year, Chengguang Institute was shocked and decided that the Lake Research Institute was rich and well-fed.

The purchase price of 12 million per unit can be described as expensive, and it is only one million cheaper than the imported Nikon lithography machine, and it is not as mature and reliable as the imported equipment in terms of work stability, but the Chongguang Lake Research Institute has ordered three such domestic equipment in one go, which really makes the scientific researchers who participated in the design of the lithography machine in Chengguang Institute smile, they really did not expect that this machine has a national task in addition to the customer of the Beidu Microelectronics Center, there is actually a second user in China who is willing to eat crabs, and it is real money to buy it。

Ma Jiaguang, director of Chengguang Institute, was excited, and immediately said to Xi Longshan that Chongguang's R&D arrangements would never be delayed, and even if the delivery of Beidu Microelectronics Center was delayed, the delivery of Chongguang's order would not be delayed, hmm...... But can you settle half of the 36 million yuan of the three pieces of equipment first? Now Chengguang is also very short of money...... Ma was worried.

For the first time in his life, Xi Longshan experienced the feeling of being a nouveau riche, and agreed to transfer 18 million purchases to the other party first, of course, Xi Longshan also took the opportunity to make a request, hoping that Chengguang could send technical backbones to participate in the research and development of the 0.35 micron technical transformation project of the Lake Research Institute, and simultaneously master the technology of advanced lithography systems, so as to lay the foundation for mass production as soon as possible in the future.

Ma Jiaguang is an expert in the field of photoelectric measurement and control technology in China, and when he heard that the Lake Research Institute planned to carry out the 0.35-micron manufacturing process, he was shocked on the spot, and said in his heart, could it be that the other party planned to rely on the three 0.8-1 micron lithography machines of the Chengguang Institute to carry out the Great Leap Forward? Since the other party purchased three in one go, it must have already had forward-looking technical reserves, but I don't know if their technology has any hope of success.

"What kind of technology are you going to use to achieve this?"

Xi Longshan thought that Hu Yiting asked to cooperate with Chengguang as much as possible, so he introduced the three technologies led by Hu Yiting to Director Ma.

When he heard that the technology of the Lake Research Institute is so leading, and the idea is so advanced, Ma Jiaguang was also taken aback, and was full of curiosity about the new lens and double glue process of the Chongguang Lake Research Institute and the intelligent linkage lens image field precision calibration system of the lithography machine double workpiece table, these technologies he had only vaguely heard of when communicating with foreign experts in the past, but suffering from the blockade of Western technology, he has never seen any Western academic papers on this elaboration of these technologies, and now he heard that Chongguang actually made it, which makes him how not excited! How can you not be surprised! How can you not be curious!

Director Ma immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate with Chongguang Lake Research Institute, hoping that the two sides could reach technology sharing and make progress.

In his view, even if the Lake Research Institute is unable to achieve the set goals because of its immature technology, it has at least mastered some advanced technology, otherwise how could Chongguang, a company that has gained fame in China in the past two years, be willing to take action to eat the 214 Institute from the military? It has also given a research and development fund of 300 million yuan a year! This huge amount of money is completely enough to operate a state-level scientific research institute in China at present! Even if Chongguang is not successful, it will certainly be able to guide and inspire the Chengguang Institute's own technological development.

Of course, he still had doubts in his heart, thinking that it was impossible for the Lake Research Institute restructured from the 214 Military Institute to have such a clever technology, but curiosity still drove him to decide to send someone over to find out, hoping to get some technical inspiration from the Lake Research Institute and provide a certain reference for the future technology development of the Chengguang Institute.

After that, Director Ma really did not break his promise, when the Lake Research Institute got the first lithography equipment, it was only a week behind the Beidu Microelectronics Center, according to the engineer of the Chengguang Institute who came to Hushan to be responsible for the installation, this equipment is actually better than the one in the Beidu Microelectronics Center, and some improvements have been made in the copying.

Two months later, the Lake Research Institute got the second lithography machine manufactured by Chengguang, and at this time, the Chengguang Institute also saw the new lens of Chongguang for the first time, this set of 5.5 million yuan by Changguang Institute according to the drawings provided by the Lake Research Institute processing and assembly with 20 lenses, five sleeves, complete micro-pressure adjustment system and nano-level laser calibration system of the advanced lens group, immediately made the scientists and engineers in charge of technical cooperation in Chengguang stunned, thinking that there must be a strange person in the Lake Research Institute, and it is not too much to say that this artifact is designed by ten years of grinding a sword。

According to the arrangement of the Lake Research Institute, the first lithography machine delivered by Chengguang was used for the process experiment of tape-out and double adhesive coating process under the 0.8 micron process, the second one was naturally used for lens modification, and the third machine in the future was to carry out the precision calibration project of the intelligent linkage lens image field of the double workpiece table.

After several months of cooperation, Chengguang Institute is now admired by the technology of Chongguang Lake Research Institute, and there is no doubt about their three major technical routes, Director Ma has been to the Lake Research Institute three times, each time with excitement and excitement, every progress of the Lake Research Institute in the project is amazed, for the behind-the-scenes leadership of the three key technical transformation projects Hu Yiting is even more astonishing, Ma Institute always to the genius Hu Yiting called the favorite person who has not yet met, asserted that he will inevitably become the future leader of the domestic IC industry。

Therefore, after Hu Yiting returned to Hushan according to the schedule, he met Director Ma Jiaguang, who hoped to interview him, and a team of more than 20 top scientists and engineers currently stationed in the Lake Research Institute.

After discussion between the two sides, Hu Yiting and Director Ma Jiaguang jointly finalized the implementation plan for the joint research and development of a 0.35 micron advanced lithography system by Chongguang Lake Research Institute and Chengguang Institute.

"At present, Chongguang No. 1 wafer factory has entered the equipment, using ASML's I-line lithography system, their lithography machine, each set of equipment is worth 4 million US dollars, Ma Suo, if we Chongguang can get the laboratory technical transformation, I hope you Chengguang can come up with a complete set of prototypes as soon as possible, and then we Chongguang will also purchase from you at a price of 4 million US dollars, and in the future, Chongguang will also try to use the domestic lithography system for the new 0.35 micron process wafer factory! If China's own equipment is not used in large quantities in production, we will never find problems, and we will not be able to progress.

Director Ma Jiaguang was very moved when he heard Hu Yiting's words: "A word is a certainty! I agree with Mr. Hu's statement, only production practice can make domestic equipment continuously improve its level! Developing equipment is not equal to mass production equipment! Whether the final manufactured equipment can be stably and continuously produced for a long time is the biggest test! Is the difference between the etching rate of the first afer and the etching rate of the 40,000th sheet the same as that of the 40,000th sheet? How long can the failure rate of the equipment be controlled in the first year of continuous operation? After a few years of operation, can the equipment be transformed and upgraded, and can the life and price of the lost parts reach a high cost performance? All of the above need to be verified by time. The world's top ten equipment manufacturers have at least ten or twenty years of practical production history, and the equipment has withstood the test of time and been sharpened like a big wave of sand. Although China's domestic equipment has made some progress, it still takes some time to accumulate. If Chongguang is willing to use domestic equipment in production, I think the state should support it even if it smashes the pot and sells iron!"

Hu Yiting nodded again and again: "Ma Suo's insight, amazing!"

Ma Suo smiled kindly and asked again: "However, can Chongguang let our people from Chengguang Institute go to your first fab to see that ASML I-line lithography machine?"

Hu Yiting knew what Ma was thinking, and said frankly: " According to our agreement with the United States, AMAT Applied Materials and ASML will set up an independent office in China in our first wafer fab to monitor our operation of lithography machines and ion implantation equipment, and a total of 16 sets of CCTV closed-circuit television have been installed in the lithography workshop and wafer processing workshop, which will monitor these equipment 24 hours a day, 7 times a week, and inspect the equipment intact every week, as long as we breach the contract, they have the right to cut off our electricity! At the same time, the equipment can be locked by remote control, according to the contract, Chongguang will face huge compensation in the future, and also face US government sanctions! You must know that we Chongguang can get this import through Cyrix, and has paid a great price, 49% of the equity is given to the United States for free as a technology shareholding, and as far as I know, the 49% equity Cyrix only took a part of it, and several major equipment manufacturers in the United States have also obtained the corresponding part of the equity, but it is only held by Cyrix. ”

Ma Suo's eyes quickly dimmed: "Alas...... I have heard from the people of the Institute of Microelectronics before, but I didn't expect that the management would be so strict, and you will be able to make money by focusing on this wafer factory? Although flash memory chips are currently very popular, I have heard that the United States, Japan, and even South Korea are all going to wafer factories, and I hope that you will hurry up and put them into production this time and strive to get them back. ”

Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Don't be discouraged, as long as we Chinese compete for our own strength and come up with equipment with the same performance, the Americans' offices will be withdrawn sooner or later." As for recovering the investment, Chongguang is fully confident! Our particle design is the world's first-class! The process technology is also the world's first!"

Ma Suo did not doubt him, nodded his head in approval: "Great, I know you can do it, if others say that, I must think he is talking big, but Hu Yiting, you are the most outstanding scientist I have ever seen among the young people in China, and the future is limitless! From the moment you proved the Poincaré conjecture and made the Shadow Overlord instruction set, I knew that China's IC industry has produced a once-in-a-century genius, and there is hope for China's integrated circuit industry! This hope lies in your generation! Especially in you! Since you are so confident, then I am waiting to see the good news of your first wafer factory, after your first batch of engineering particles are taped out, you must give us Chengguang a glimpse and insight as soon as possible. ”

Hu Yiting smiled shyly: "Definitely, but Ma Suo you have won the award, I just do my best, my ideal is to make Taizu his old man's words come true, he old man said that the Chinese people have the ambition and ability, and will definitely be able to catch up with and surpass the world's advanced level in the near future, which is also my lifelong goal." ”

This sentence is also well-known in our institute, haha, a big red acrylic slogan is posted on the wall of the microcomputer laboratory, you are afraid that you have not been to our institute, hahaha. ”

After saying that, Ma Suo became excited, and patted Hu Yiting on the shoulder: "You must be able to do it!" I saw these three technical changes of yours, and I was really shocked, how do you have such a long brain, how can you understand everything?"

Hu Yiting was a little embarrassed to be praised, and said with a smile: "I don't know, I feel that the idea seems to be in my head, and when I think about it, it seems to recall what I have done, and the ideas continue to flow out." ”

Ma Suo was amazed and said to several scientists of the Chengguang Institute beside him: "Do you see it! This is a genius! It's the real thing! It's the first time I've seen such a person! Xiao Hu won't be able to run away as an academician in the future!"