For Lightyear's chip project, manufacturing equipment is essential.

After all, Lightyear Technology's chip project only designs chips with Huawei Company, and the production process is handed over to the foundry for OEM production, so there is no need to manufacture equipment.

However, Lightyear Technology Company does not only design chips, but also independently designs and produces chips, and all links must be done.

In this way, manufacturing equipment is a very important part of Lightyear Technology, without which it would be impossible to produce, and the chip project would be half of the failure.

Of course, manufacturing equipment alone is not enough to complete the plan, which is only one of the important parts, but not the most important part.

In the production of chips, manufacturing equipment is important, but design and process are also more important.

For example, EDA is more important than lithography machines and other manufacturing equipment, and plays a huge role in chip design.

In terms of EDA tools, there is still a huge gap between Zhenguo and the United States, and the gap in this regard is very obvious, and it is even completely dependent on foreign EDA tools.

In the EDA link, Zhenguo enterprises are at a disadvantage, and there is no way to reverse the disadvantage in a short period of time, this is also a winner-takes-all link, in this market, it is difficult to accommodate too many EDA manufacturers, and no EDA enterprises, it is equivalent to being controlled by the lifeline.

The deeper Su Rui invests in the chip project, the more he finds that Zhenguo's foundation in this industry is too poor.

In this industry, Zhenguo has a big gap with foreign countries in many aspects, and if you want to catch up with the first-class level, if there is no miracle, there is no hope to do it in a short time.

Before this industry was involved, Su Rui always thought that what Zhenguo lacked in the chip industry was only manufacturing equipment such as lithography machines, and thought that if this problem was solved, Zhenguo's chip industry could develop rapidly, catch up with the world-class level, and no longer be limited by foreign countries.

But after he really entered the industry, after really understanding the industry, he found that this was not the case.

Lithography machines and other manufacturing equipment do occupy a very important position in the chip industry, but they are definitely not an important position, but only one of the core links, not the absolute core.

In fact, what Zhenguo lacks is not only manufacturing equipment, but also software such as EDA and design.

Manufacturing equipment, due to the ban on foreign sales, it is indeed not easy for Zhenguo enterprises to get, but ASML semiconductor equipment manufacturers have slowly relaxed the ban on Zhenguo enterprises.

Even if Zhenguo semiconductor companies have no way to get the most advanced equipment in the first time like Intel, Qualcomm and other foreign companies, as long as they spend money and wait a little longer, they can also get the manufacturing equipment, but the time will not be so fast, but this is enough, even if it is a generation behind, it can still be used, that is to say, the problem of manufacturing equipment is no longer a big problem.

It's just that what Zhenguo semiconductor companies lack is not only these manufacturing equipment, but also the relevant design, that is, other links can't keep up.

This means that Zhenguo semiconductor enterprises, even if they get the most advanced lithography machine, will not be able to produce first-class chips, because other links simply cannot keep up, and the gap between these aspects and foreign countries is still very large.

Therefore, a chip industry can independently produce chips without getting manufacturing equipment, which is wishful thinking.

Because of this, Lightyear Technology has now obtained manufacturing equipment, but it still does not mean that it can produce chips, there are still many things to do, such as EDA, ic design must be overcome, and manufacturing equipment is only one of the steps.

Therefore, regarding the EDA of the chip, Su Rui must win it, and other links must not lag behind, so that he can not be held by others.

It's just that everything has to be done step by step, and there is no way to do it overnight.

Regarding this, Su Rui naturally understood.

Therefore, after the company has completed the manufacturing equipment, it has not slackened, but is actively dealing with other links, and it is also based on acquisitions, even if it is a backward design, Lightyear Technology can accept it, which reduces the difficulty of the task, and the current progress is still very good.

And now, Su Rui has to deal with this batch of manufacturing equipment first, first arrange the production line, and after achieving this level, after the design and process are also completed, production can be realized immediately.

The most important thing is that he only has time to do these things, and in a few days, he will be ready to compete again.

In the next first time, Su Rui has a lot of games to participate in, one after another, each of which is very important, which makes him unable to be absent, and other important things must be done in advance and dealt with before participating in the competition.

In this way, he can participate in the competition without worries and can play his best.

In this way, Su Rui left Shenzhou City on this day and went back to Yanyun City alone, just to visit this batch of manufacturing equipment and see if he could upgrade this batch of manufacturing equipment.

After all, he is relatively unfamiliar with this part, and he doesn't know what conditions need to be achieved to upgrade these manufacturing equipment.

On top of that, Su Rui didn't know how much faith was needed to upgrade these manufacturing equipment, and whether his faith was enough to complete all the upgrades of the manufacturing equipment.

If the faith value is enough, it is naturally the best, but if it is not enough, he should know the approximate number in advance, so that he can also make preparations in advance, such as earning enough faith points and then coming back to upgrade the faith points, this is the main purpose of his visit to Yanyun City this time.

Regarding the upgrade of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, although Su Rui has not tried it, he knows that the upgrade of scientific and technological equipment consumes a lot of faith points, such as servers, supercomputers, etc., and the faith points consumed are very large, which is not comparable to the upgrade of ordinary equipment.

Therefore, he knew that all the upgrades of these manufacturing equipment would require far more faith than he had now.

In other words, that is, Su Rui is mentally prepared, knowing that his belief value has no way to complete all the upgrades of the manufacturing equipment, at most only a part of it can be upgraded, and the number may not be much.

And now, his main purpose is only to know the faith value of upgrading all the manufacturing equipment, and then find a way to earn it, which is his main task.