Chapter 350: Single Crystal Furnace
In June 1986, ten days after the registration of Linmeng Technology Company, the financial personnel were appointed by Xinchuang Electronics Group, because Xinchuang Electronics Group commissioned 200 million scientific research projects and paid a deposit of 40 million. Although the project cycle is completed within three years, and payments will be made successively according to the progress, the financial aspects must be supervised. And Meng Xin also simply handed over the financial and daily administrative rights, and she was personally responsible for research and development.
Of course, at the beginning, she recruited the first batch of employees in person, and later, as the team run-in ended and some outstanding talents surfaced, she would gradually give more rights to the discovered talents.
As for talent recruitment, it is also the trend of New Venture Electronics, which conducts joint recruitment with the Department of New Entrepreneurship. After the new venture electronics group has hired more than 100 new people first, the remaining large number of applicants have become valuable human resources for the major subsidiaries of the new venture department.
Lin Meng Technology Co., Ltd. also obtained the same qualifications as the subsidiaries of the new venture department, and was able to set up a booth at the talent recruitment fair of the new venture electronics group.
After a week-long recruitment, Meng Xin personally selected a group of science and engineering elites, who were first of all fresh graduates from prestigious universities, and secondly, the written test results of the new start-up electronics company were also relatively excellent. Most of the reason why it is behind is that there are problems in the interview process, and the polytechnic dog may not be able to adapt to some strange interview questions.
And Meng Xin's interview is not fake, it is purely to use some computer knowledge and program code to test the basic quality of the candidate. Although this kind of selection may not be comprehensive, basically, these people are elites who have passed the written examination of academic qualifications and new entrepreneurship departments, and the probability of parallel imports is not large.
In fact, Meng Xin is more appreciative of this dull science and engineering dog, which seems to be a nerd, but in fact, is an excellent scientific research talent. One billion people, 900 million businessmen, and 100 million in the wait-and-see era, perhaps, the social status of this kind of person is compared with all kinds of people who make a lot of money. But in fact, it is useless to do scientific research projects to be the kind of people who talk to people and talk nonsense.
On the contrary, the kind of nerd who can only take exams and do questions is more suitable for the laboratory.
Essentially, the process of reading the topic, understanding the question, and dismantling it is the R&D process, which is very close to the R&D process in the laboratory. In terms of China's education system, it can be said that it is an engineer education system through and through. In terms of the success rate of engineers, education in China is extremely successful. For a long time to come, China will be eating this cheap engineer dividend.
Historically, Japan's education system was similar, but in the 80s, Japan began to make fun of comparisons and continue to make subtractions in education to reduce the burden on students. As a result, there was a huge decline in the quality of Japanese workers, and data fraud occurred in a considerable number of industries. In addition to economic problems, the disillusionment of Made in Japan is due to problems in the education system, which will affect the competitiveness of Made in Japan in the longer term. The shattering of the myth of Japan's manufacturing is, in essence, the quality of the new Japanese workers, which is not as good as the previous one. To put it simply, if we want to destroy the quality of the whole people in a large industrial country, let the quality of the people deteriorate, and weaken its growth potential in the next few decades, the best way is to carry out educational reform to reduce the burden on the education of its people.
In the 80s, whether it was in China or Hong Kong, the education level was much stricter than a few decades later, so after passing layers of screening, the first batch of more than 30 employees of the technical team selected by Meng Xin was very good.
"You are all proud of the sky who graduated from a prestigious school, but after joining Linmeng Technology Company, please forget your pride. Your past achievements are not worth mentioning. "Whether it's in Hong Kong, there is a 1 percent chance of going to university. is still in China, thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge and were admitted to the famous schools among the famous schools. This is nothing, our company has two shareholders, one shareholder is Lin Qi, who is worth more than 100 billion yuan and founded the new venture electronics group, and the other shareholder is my Meng Xin. Our company has a capital of 1 billion yuan at the start-up, Lin Qi and I each account for 50% of the equity, we are now, poor and white, nothing, only 1 billion yuan in deposits, I have not paid a penny, accounting for 50% of the equity, why ......"
The employees present were shocked!
There are 1 billion yuan in cash, and it is still called "one poor and two white"?!
Moreover, it doesn't cost a penny to account for 50% of the equity, why?
Meng Xineng accounts for 50% of the shares, and the real reason is that Lin Qi is Meng Xin's husband. But this secret, Lin Qi will not say it for the time being, and Meng Xin will definitely not reveal it.
So, the explanation she gave was - ability!
"With my technical level and results, some of the results can be quickly produced and transformed into productivity. Meng Xin said, "I recruited you not because of how good you are, whether it is the top score of the provincial college entrance examination in the past, and you were admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University." I still keep getting scholarships in college, and my exam scores are among the best. It doesn't matter what honors you've won in national competitions! That's just the minimum threshold for you to join our team, in fact, you're still far from getting started. However, your main advantage is that you have no work experience, because you have no experience in other companies, and you are a fresh graduate, which means that the probability of you being a commercial spy is reduced, and it is precisely because of this that I chose you!"
Such a blow makes these elites inevitably a little embarrassed.
Meng Xin said calmly: "If you want to give up, you can quit the company now." In the future, the success or failure of our company has nothing to do with you, and of course, the exiters also miss out on the growth dividend of the start-up team!"
Saying this, naturally no one present withdrew. After all, the salary of the internship period of Lin Meng Technology Company is as high as 3,000 yuan a month. It is definitely a rare high salary in China, even in Hong Kong, it is a high salary level.
"Okay! In the future, our work will start with my lecture to you, and in the first week, I will first teach you some basic courses of the project you are about to do, and then, after the project starts, I will also teach and research at the same time. "Next, let's start with the most basic equipment in the semiconductor industry - the single crystal furnace! The first project we will carry out in the next few months is related to the single crystal furnace!"
A single crystal furnace is a kind of equipment that melts polycrystalline materials such as polycrystalline silicon with a graphite heater in an inert gas (mainly nitrogen and helium) environment, and grows single crystals without dislocation by the Zzopull method.
Although the single crystal furnace is much simpler than the high-precision and cutting-edge equipment such as the lithography machine in terms of processing difficulty, in fact, the single crystal furnace is also a very critical semiconductor processing equipment.
At present, the world's single crystal furnace is still in the era of no heat screen, that is to say, there is a gap between China's wafer factories and overseas, but the technical gap between the single crystal furnace is actually not far away, only there is a certain gap in material technology, but most of the single crystal furnaces in the domestic semiconductor industry are still domestic.
In the later era of thermal barriers, China was deceived by overseas manufacturers for a long time, and when overseas wafer factories have used thermal barrier monocrystalline furnaces, overseas suppliers sold equipment to China at high prices have been traditional monocrystalline furnaces without thermal barriers for a long time. As a result, for a long time in the country, such equipment was not known at all. As a result, in the competition with overseas giants, both the process and the cost were defeated.
After the domestic semiconductor industry has guided the small innovation of monocrystalline furnace hot screen, the scale and technology of domestic wafer factories have been greater than the cost of overseas manufacturers.
How far-reaching is the influence of single crystal furnace thermal barrier technology? The industry divides the single crystal furnace process into the era of no hot screen and the era of single crystal furnace with hot screen.
To put it simply, with thermal barrier technology, it is not only possible to reduce heat loss, thereby saving energy and reducing costs, but also to make wafers larger in diameter and produce higher quality monocrystalline silicon rods.
For the wafer factory, the larger the diameter of the wafer, the better, the larger the diameter of the wafer, the more transistors can be cut and processed, and the production capacity and yield rate of the chip will also be greatly improved.
To put it simply, the research and development of lithography machines, even if you have money to know the direction, it takes a relatively long cycle. Therefore, Meng Xin is ready to start a project that is relatively easy to produce results and will promote the domestic semiconductor industry.
This easy-to-produce project builds the confidence of the team before gnawing on the hard bones that are more difficult and require a longer development cycle.
This breakthrough in single crystal furnace technology, although it cannot immediately make the domestic semiconductor process technology reach the international advanced level, will also greatly reduce the cost and efficiency of domestic semiconductor production.