In mid-September, Lin Qi began to visit Shenzhen's electronics industry to learn about the strength of the new entrepreneurship department, as well as the specific strength of upstream and downstream industries. Technically, Lin Qi can't help much, but for some companies that lack funds but have R&D capabilities and enterprising, Lin Qi generously gives orders or investments, so that some companies can grow rapidly, so that they will not be knocked down because of practical factors because of ideals.

At the same time, Lin Qi is constantly demanding to take the initiative to raise wages and establish a better corporate culture for the manufacturing industry of the new entrepreneurial department. Although it is impossible to make domestic employees compare with developed countries all at once, however, the wage growth rate is faster than that of employees in developed countries, and the future is getting better and better year by year, at least the mentality will be very positive and optimistic.

This series of practices is to a greater extent to retain talent. Because, Lin Qi has discovered that a bunch of overseas friends have appeared in Shenzhen to poach.

Specializing in the technical backbone of the new entrepreneurship department and the upstream and downstream enterprises of the industrial chain, talking about the treatment when meeting people, raising wages by more than five times after changing jobs, and doing a good job in domestic joint venture factories, and helping outstanding talents to immigrate to developed countries in the future, so many people can't withstand this temptation and jump to foreign-funded enterprises.

Many talents who have been poached in the past may not have high-quality projects to do. It is only by digging up the past and doing some ordinary work to adapt, and then they will arrange these people to work at a higher level with the pace of foreign-funded enterprises investing in China.

Lin Qi competed against each other and instilled a bunch of national pride and the concept of a national enterprise. There is not only a salary increase, but also a set of cultural propaganda work, although it cannot be said that it can completely stop job hopping. But if you don't do anything, you have to poach two or three thousand people every year, and basically all of them who can be poached are not ordinary workers, at least at the level of engineers.

After digging quite painfully, the new start-up domestic enterprises are naturally constantly raising salaries.

In the coming decades, human beings will be inseparable from electronic products. Regardless of any industry, it is almost unrealistic to completely separate the processing and production of electronic products. Even for pure craftsmen, it is difficult for personal consumption to live without all kinds of electronic products.

As far as entertainment culture and the Internet industry are concerned, the future is inseparable from electronic products. Televisions, movie projectors, mobile phones, ...... On the surface, many people look at the content, but the decision of what kind of content they can have and how many people can see it depends more on the technology, that is, the level of hardware.

It is precisely for this reason that the entertainment and culture industry, simply taking the work as the king, may be right for individuals. Some companies say that the platform is king, as the secret of winning and undefeated. However, the deeper trend is the way that technology is promoted, and the core technology is used to drive the mainstream cultural entertainment of mankind.

Therefore, from Lin Qi's point of view, companies such as Disney, Warner, and Sony are not rivals in the real sense. The real opponent is the trend of future scientific and technological development!

The failure of the new entrepreneurship department is definitely not a loss of ten or eight movies, or a well-prepared game masterpiece hitting the streets. A greater degree of failure, an irretrievable failure, is the inability to dominate the future development trend of science and technology.

For the electronics industry, leading the development trend of the technology industry is actually to lead the improvement of the semiconductor process level. Whoever can continue to improve the level of technology can lead the future!

What level of machining accuracy determines what level of design. It's not that the designers are not powerful, but more importantly, there is no level of craftsmanship, and the design is useful?

In later generations, the talents cultivated by China's semiconductor industry were poached by overseas counterparts at higher prices, and they have become mainstays. To a greater extent, it is because the technological level of China's semiconductor industry limits the play of those talents. Unable to retain top talents, to a greater extent, in addition to low profits, to a greater extent, the level of technology is backward, and it has not been able to produce products that people are proud of. If you don't have a sense of pride and don't have much salary, you can't keep people.

The process of the semiconductor manufacturing industry not only requires lithography machines, but also requires the cooperation of complex industrial chains.

Just like the processing of wafer silicon wafer raw materials, it includes the gradual purification of sand, and the sand/quartz is deoxidized and purified to obtain silica with a silicon content of 25%. The silicon oxide is refined by an electric arc furnace, chlorinated with hydrochloric acid, and distilled to obtain crystalline silicon with a purity of more than 99%.

After that, polysilicon, which has a purity of 99% or more, is used as a raw material, and is continuously molded at high temperature in a single crystal furnace and rotated and stretched to form a round crystal rod. This kind of crystal rod can be cut into many thin slices, and the cut thin slices are considered wafers.

The production process of the above wafers and silicon wafers is much more complicated than the traditional steel-making, glass-burning and other processes.

It's similar to glass, but it's a more valuable thing to burn sand. However, the value of silicon wafers is far greater than that of most glass.

There are even some wafers that are processed into chips that are worth as much as the same weight of gold. Even the most ordinary semiconductor chips, the value of the same weight and volume is far more than that of traditional manufacturing.

Even if it is just polysilicon and monocrystalline silicon that burns sand, the process level is actually very particular. Even if polysilicon is concerned, it has low requirements for equipment and technology, mainly because of high power consumption, as long as there is enough energy, there is no difficulty in manufacturing polysilicon. Usually polysilicon is either used to make low-end semiconductor components such as solar power generation.

As for the more complex chips, polysilicon will not be used at all, only monocrystalline silicon with higher purity. Because the purity of the wafer silicon wafer greatly affects the subsequent yield rate. The higher the process water quality of the wafer processing, the less meaningless waste will be carried out on low-end materials with low purity and poor quality, and the silicon crystal with the best purity will be used as the raw material first.

It is precisely for this reason that in order to pursue stable quality, high-end wafer processing factories in the future will not import wafers from unknown sources and do not know whether the quality is reliable, and will only choose manufacturers with long-term stable supply.

Therefore, although Japan in later generations has gradually begun to lag behind in the field of high-end chip processing with higher added value. However, as the most basic silicon wafer material, most of the high-end chip factories give priority to wafers supplied by Japanese manufacturers.

Take China's semiconductor industry as an example, it produces very few high-end wafers, and it is basically a Chinese manufacturer that manufactures most of the world's polysilicon. Polysilicon is exported to Japan, and Japanese manufacturers use polysilicon as a material to refine higher-grade monocrystalline silicon, and then export it to semiconductor chip processing industries around the world, including China.

The United States can import lithography machines from Europe and wafers from Japan, but it still maintains its leading position in the semiconductor industry, because high-end technical standards and designs are in the hands of American companies. In addition, the political and military strength of the United States makes it not afraid that others will not sell products and technologies to him.

The difference between China and the United States is that others may not really sell technology to China. Because, in the world, a bunch of technical restrictions are aimed at the export restrictions on China's various technologies, equipment and products

It is almost impossible to expect to introduce a full set of technology and equipment, including education and education, and learn the R&D and design, technical standard formulation, worker training, and equipment manufacturing of many industries at one time, as in the first five-year plan of the Sino-Soviet friendship era.

It is too naïve and romantic to dream of using money to buy core technology. In fact, if you only want to buy and don't want to learn and build by yourself, then you will never be able to master the core technology. Because the core technology is not a one-shot deal, the key is a complete set of industrial systems, which can self-improve, self-upgrade, and continue to encounter and solve problems. Instead of buying a ready-made factory assembly line and a set of equipment, even if you have mastered the technology.

In terms of wafer processing and production, it can be divided into 7 independent production areas: Thermal Process, Photo-lithography, Etch, Ion Implant, Dielectric Deposition, CMP, and Metalization. These 7 main production areas and related steps and measurements are carried out in the wafer clean room. There are several types of semiconductor equipment in the production area to meet different needs. In the lithography area, for example, in addition to the lithography machine, there will be a matching gluing/developing and measuring equipment.

Although the lithography machine is the most high-tech piece of equipment, any other process requires a large number of supporting equipment.

In order to diversify risks and support the upstream and downstream development of the industrial chain. Many core equipment, such as etching machines, ion implanters and other equipment that is less difficult than lithography machines, have directly supported several domestic scientific research institutions to specialize in this business through technology transfer and project outsourcing.

In addition, we also support suppliers such as substrates (silicon wafers, sapphire, GaAs, etc.), photoresists, electronic gases, sputtering targets, CMP materials, masks, electroplating solutions, packaging substrates, lead frames, bonding wires, molding materials, etc. Although the overall scale of these industries is not large, the gross profit is very high, as long as you can get orders, then it can be called a huge profit. As a result, even with high technical requirements, there is a constant need to invest in research and development.