Chapter 588: MLC Flash is Born
After the Qingming Festival, Hu Yiting got up and went to Puhai to personally supervise the trial production of Chongguang MLC industrial tape-out, and the world's first MLC flash memory was about to be born.
Tong Mu also left Hushan to go to school in Beidu, in addition to redoubling his efforts to make up for the homework owed before, he also had to prepare for the Chongqing concert.
In the Puhai wafer factory, the empty frame of the workshop has no columns, constant temperature and humidity, and the valuable large-scale process equipment is distributed in each station of the workshop, forming an assembly line, a group of people wearing white dustproof and anti-static clothing are busy in the constant temperature and humidity workshop, Hu Yiting, Kang Yaoxiang and Jiang Yunshun stand in the center of the empty plant.
Kang Yaoxiang looked up at the LED electronic clock hanging high in the distance of the factory, and said with some difficulty: "There are still twenty minutes, and I feel that the CCTV of the Americans is all staring at us." ”
Hu Yiting laughed, feeling that an 18-year-old young man was more confident than Kang Yaoxiang, who was middle-aged.
In order to alleviate anxiety, he diverted the topic: "Pudong is very barren now, and if it is developed in the future, the population will explode, alas, the United States has clearly listed this kind of factory as a highly polluting industry, and the new wafer factories are all selected in the desert Gobi. ”
Jiang Yunshun's hoarse voice came out of the blue mask: "It's the same in Taiwan, the so-called Science Park is selected in the densely populated area, which is actually a satellite city, surrounded by residential areas. ”
Kang Yaoxiang said: "Fortunately, we have a total of two lithography machine dual-module production lines, and TSMC, Taiwan UMC's kind of more than ten or twenty module more than a dozen factories of the cluster factory can not be compared, TSMC's new investment plan have you seen, Zhang Zhongmou said that the current five wafer factories in Taiwan will be expanded to 12 within ten years! He is very optimistic about the future process industry. ”
Jiang Yunshun: "I also read the report of the Institute of Microelectronics Information that the ministry sent last week, and I feel that TSMC Zhang Zhongmou is very bold and dares to speak.
Cao Xingcheng, chairman of Taiwan Union Electric, said that 'the wafer foundry industry is a smart and intensive industry', and Mr. Zhang said that this industry is not so high, but it is just an industry that others are lazy and don't want to do.
TSMC has six or seven hundred people in the whole plant, only less than one-tenth can engage in advanced research and development, and the other more than ninety percent are just senior workers, and the masters and doctors do the same work as female workers in textile factories, repeating, boring, and tired every day, rarely use their brains, almost no need to think, and operate in full accordance with the prescribed process. ”
Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Zhang Zhongmou is qualified to say such a thing, we can't say that, although the advanced process is difficult for me, but the process equipment is my country's short board, as long as the Americans are stuck in the neck, we can only stare dryly." ”
Kang Yaoxiang sighed softly and said through the mask: "This factory, from laying the first pile to the commissioning of the lithography machine, almost all of us Chinese are doing it, and the experts of Cyrix have little effort, but they can take 49% of the equity, and we ourselves are only 45%."
Really, one day it would be good if we could catch up with the West in the whole process of China's various process equipment, and we don't need to catch up with it too closely, even if it is only a generation and a half away, why should we sign such a loss-making contract. ”
Jiang Yunshun said to Kang Yaoxiang: "Mr. Kang, last time Wu Shihuan told me that TSMC's foreign capital proportion is also very high, much higher than ours, 72% is now nearly 80%, is it true?"
Kang Yaoxiang was in a better mood and said with a smile: "That's right."
The foundry industry relies heavily on American equipment, and only advanced equipment can manufacture chips with the latest generation of processes, so as long as you master advanced process technology, Americans certainly know that as long as they sell you equipment, you will make a profit.
What's more, now that TSMC has won most of Intel's orders, Intel's R&D engineers are stationed in the factory to test whether Intel's design can be highly integrated with advanced processes, and to grasp the performance of chip designs in industrial process production for the first time.
So fools know that they have a good financial situation, and it is strange that the Americans don't want their shares.
You think, most of the important customers have become your shareholders, and of course the list is handed over to you first. ”
Jiang Yunshun nodded again and again: "It would be good if we Chongguang could build the most advanced wafer factory as a sole proprietorship, with our global exclusive mastery of the whole process of MLC flash memory patents from design to production, it will be a sure win!
Hu Yiting also smiled and nodded at this time: "There will be a day, I am not pessimistic at all." ”
After speaking, he paused, and suddenly played with it: "The Chinese people have the ability and confidence to achieve this goal in the near future, except for traitors and lackeys of course."
Let those internal and external reactionaries tremble before us, let them say that we can't do this or that, and the indomitable efforts of the Chinese people will surely steadily achieve their goals. ”
Jiang Yunshun looked at Hu Yiting in surprise: "Mr. Hu, what you said is arrogant!
Kang Yaoxiang smiled and couldn't close his mouth: "What is this what Mr. Hu said, is it Taizu's words?"
Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Taizu's words have spoken to the hearts of the people, so as long as they are Chinese, they will take this as their own." ”
At this time, eight-inch wafers began to be born on the flow table of the lithography machine in the distance, and the thin silicon cake went through one process after another, and finally completed the final etching.
Two engineers beckoned to this side, one of them holding the wafer up to his chest, looking like he couldn't hold it above his head, and the only eyes exposed under the dustproof clothes of the two were full of water and excitement.
Jiang Yunshun walked quickly to the front, and the three of them rushed over.
Kang Yaoxiang: "Send it to the testing table." ”
Jiang Yunshun's gloves clenched into a fist: "Yield rate, yield rate, yield rate, at least 50%, at least 50% ......"
Hu Yiting said with a smile: "I think 60% is promising, and the best piece of the laboratory in the Lake Research Institute has been 77% recently!"
In a short time, the electron microscope on the test bench quickly scanned and photographed all the chips on the entire wafer in turn, and the results of automatic monitoring came out, and the numbers made all the engineers in the workshop who were looking forward to this almost jump up and cheer for long live.
69%!
It's just a little bit closer!
This means!
Hu Yiting's chip design!
Almost perfect!
The first production line tape-out can produce such results, and the general wafer factory does not need to make any changes to the process at all! Instead, continue to keep the module in a hot state, continuously produce in large quantities, test the stability of the production process, and test whether the quality and parameter indicators of the process equipment can meet the original promise of the equipment supplier.
Jiang Yunshun rushed over and hugged Hu Yiting, Kang Yaoxiang was also excited, holding the two of them almost to tears, the surrounding engineers did not dare to leave their posts without permission, and they all raised their hands above their heads, some shook like bouquets, some kept applauding through their gloves, and some waved upwards with their hands in fists......
Hu Yiting's heart swelled with infinite relief.
"It's finally ......
This feeling...... It's so nice!"
In his opinion, after a successful project, it is time for him to leave.
Those who can work harder.
Hu Yiting knew in his heart that the development of the motherland was in full swing at this time, and he urgently needed to go all out like in his previous life!