Chapter 322 Huge R&D Funding Promised
"Chief Engineer Hu, are these things you said reliable?" Xi Longshan asked with some excitement and some suspicion.
"Yes, the thickness of the double glue is repaid!
"Doesn't the chemical reaction produced by the exposure of the double glue corrode the deposits on the silicon wafer?"
"Yes, corrosiveness aside, what two kinds of adhesives should be used to match, and how to eliminate the refraction between different adhesive layers after coating?"
"You still think about the problem after coating! I think the coating itself is a big problem! This is not to make a cream cake, it doesn't matter if it is thick, the glue layer is a few tenths of a micron thick, after the primer is brushed, how to ensure the uniformity of the coating of the two layers of colloid? How to control the thickness of the coating? Our current gluing equipment is a high-speed rotary coating process, if you brush the second layer of glue, the primer will definitely be scratched!"
"You only consider photoresist, I think Mr. Hu's idea of solving geometric distortion is the most difficult process to solve, which requires separate experiments on the lens of each lithography machine, collecting parameters, and then making different fine-tuning of the marking points between the lens and the silicon wafer, how much effort does it take. ”
According to Mr. Hu's idea, the lithography machine must fine-tune the positioning punctuation according to the exposure pattern every time it is exposed, which is simply too precise, which is equivalent to saying that the silicon wafer positioning system needs to engage in a new set of design in order to meet the needs. ”
Engineer Wang Xuanyu said with some excitement: "Mr. Hu, do you have any papers on this subject? If so, why don't you publish them?
Hu Yiting said: "These are the most advanced processes in the world, how can it be possible to write a paper for everyone to see in vain!"
And fundamentally speaking, without better lithography machine support, the improvement of the process process is just a means to forcibly improve the process, in order to maximize the yield rate under the laboratory process. ”
Director Gu Xiasheng said excitedly: "But if the experimental line under the 0.8 micron lithography machine can be forcibly upgraded to 0.35 micron process, and the yield rate of tape-out can be improved, this is of great significance!"
This is tantamount to helping our country develop a new generation of IC design processes in advance! This is a technology that only a few giant integrated circuit companies in the West could use in the past. ”
Xi Longshan also said: "Yes! Even if it is to forcibly improve the process of the test line and the yield rate of tape-out, it is a great technological breakthrough!
I heard that in the laboratories of Intel and Texas Instruments, the next generation of linewidths that lead the world's most advanced fab processes can be made with flat or even low-level process equipment to be used as IC design experimental lines, if only our country could do this, then there would be no embarrassment of IC design such as fabs!"
Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Yes, this is the positive significance of the experimental line, in the future, Chongguang will invest a lot of money in the technology research and development of process technology and even process equipment, the amount is astronomical anyway!"
Director Gu exclaimed: "China is still relatively backward in the manufacturing process, which is also the reason for the long-term lack of research and development funds after the reform and opening up.
Mr. Hu, you are willing to make a large investment in the country's scientific and technological shortcomings, which is really good! I admire you, this is much better than those people who are engaged in real estate with empty gloves and white wolves!"
Xi Longshan asked Hu Yiting bluntly: "Mr. Hu, what is the astronomical number you are talking about? 1 million, 10 million, 100 million?"
After listening to Xi Longshan's question, everyone also looked at Hu Yiting with concern, wanting to hear what he said clearly.
Seeing this, Hu Yiting stopped beating around the bush.
"There is no cap, continuous investment, at least 300 million yuan per year. ”
Everyone present was stunned.
300 million a year!
This is absolutely astronomical in 1996, and it is still a bottomless pit of process technology research and development, ordinary people have so much money, they have already gone to do real estate, 300 million yuan is enough to build a building in a city like Hushan, and even bank loans do not need to borrow!
Gu hurriedly asked: "All on our experimental line?"
Hu Yiting said: "The equipment cost of the experimental line transformation is estimated to be 100 million, although the domestic equipment used is relatively cheap, but this money is necessary."
Then I have to place an order for equipment transformation, order a batch of process equipment and precision parts that we have designed ourselves, and I will spend this budget at 100 million first.
In addition, in order to ensure that the soldiers are strong and strong, it is not too much to invest 100 million yuan a year.
By next year, although the equipment procurement has been completed, various technical transformation projects will also enter the stage of spending money, so the 300 million budget can still be spent.
In short, we are determined to be deeply rooted in the IC industry, no matter how much money is invested, how many years of investment, we must put China's integrated circuit manufacturing industry up!
If there's only one thing I'm asked to do in my life, it's this!"
Hu Yiting's statement ushered in thunderous applause from the engineers.
Xi Longshan said: "It seems that I was right to decide to stay, Mr. Hu, don't break your word! As long as the treatment is passable, but the scientific research funds must be guaranteed! As long as they are willing to spend money, there is absolutely no technology that Chinese scientific researchers cannot come up with!"
Wang Xuanyu also said: "Since Mr. Hu, you are a person who really understands technology!
I have always felt that China's integrated circuit industry will not be able to get through by importing technology! Eating the dregs that others have chewed and spit out is a wild dog, and it will definitely not be fat!
China buys Japanese second-hand equipment for tens of billions of dollars every year, so it is better to invest this money in our own equipment research and development!
Back then, the Chinese relied on their own full set of equipment and technology to successfully copy the 8080 processor one year earlier than West Germany! Integrated circuit technology was only 5 years behind the United States!
But now, begging people to buy equipment all day long, and sending tens of billions of yuan into the pockets of foreign devils!
Everywhere in the country, large sums of money are spent on loans to build projects to engage in the economy, and as a result, they are engaged in the export of light industrial products such as clothes, shoes, toys, etc., and when it comes to scientific research, they say that there is no money!
Let's not talk about other technologies, but the integrated circuit industry is a money-burning business, how can it be good if there is a lack of money!"
Gu Suo became more and more resentful when he heard what he said, and hurriedly stopped: "Stop, stop, and there will be no bounds, besides, no matter how poor the country is, it hasn't starved us engineers to death, and the welfare benefits are the same, don't you all share a big house, and you also marry a wife and have a baby, and you are not worse than a foreigner, if you really want to go to a foreign country, can you stand the life of that big countryside? How can we be comfortable in the city! I have been to foreign countries three times, and I have not been a dull idle bird this time." ”
Everyone laughed out loud when they heard Gu Suo's words.
Hu Yiting also smiled: "What Gu said is right, it is really good for us to develop our own country."
In short, Chongguang will never be stingy in research and development, what I said today is a certainty, in the future, we will be to throw money! Keep throwing money! Use money to smash out our technology and equipment! Sooner or later, we will kill Western equipment manufacturers and process companies!
If you have ambitions and want to leave footprints in China's IC industry, please stay! Chongguang is now full of projects, waiting for everyone to claim! Full of funds! Waiting for everyone to spend!
Chongguang is willing to do its best to provide you with the biggest platform for you to display your talents, if you miss this opportunity, you will definitely regret it!"
Hu Yiting said sincerely, as soon as these words came out, the corridor of the factory broke out into warm applause again, and at the same time, everyone began to think about their choices, and those who didn't want to stay before became hesitant, thinking about whether to join Chongguang...... Maybe it's just for a dream......
But what could be more important than a dream?