711. CCD and CMOS
It turned out that in his previous life, after two years, after this Shinda Yong suddenly woke up, he began to go to the dark @ Dao with people.
Later, after choosing to be an intelligence broker, it was through his former colleagues in the National Institute of Materials that he was able to continuously obtain information from the Institute of Materials.
And the channels he passed through were nothing more than those colleagues who were not very satisfactory in the materials research institute, especially those who were not very satisfactory, not very successful, and who were constantly discriminated against by the Japanese.
At that time, it was through these channels that he was able to provide himself with a steady stream of information, and he also boasted to himself at that time.
In this life, of course, I can't let go of such an opportunity!
After hearing Tian Zhiyong's affirmative answer, Li Yifan also nodded, the second important transaction of this meeting has been basically completed, so it is time to enter the third important transaction.
"Endo-kun, I don't know how much you know about high-end CCDs in electronics and microelectronics, I believe there should be a lot of such equipment, and you have done a lot of corresponding research, right?"
Li Yifan's sudden question caught Endo off guard, he thought he had completed the transaction, and he was feeling a little relaxed, and Endo, who wanted to take a bath and enjoy snacks and delicacies, was almost choked on a mouthful of water by Li Yifan's sudden question.
Because of this problem, the things involved are not ordinary goods, but another kind of treasure related to the Japanese, this guy, the ambition is really big!
First, he extended his hand to the special metal smelting that the Japanese are good at. Then the second time he put his hand directly into the pocket of the Japanese. I began to dig out the electronic jishu that the Japanese are good at. Now he actually put his hand on the head of the Japanese and touched the crown on their heads, do you think this guy is bold?
Speaking of the treasures in the pockets of the Japanese, there are really a lot of them, such as automobile manufacturing or something, not to mention these, just talk about those more high-end, this special metal smelting, and the production of high-end electronic components. Absolutely.
But even if these two things are combined, they can't compare to the high-precision machine tools that the Japanese attach the most importance to, and the jishu of this high-end CCD.
This high-end CCDjishu,To put it bluntly, it's a camera jishu,According to the current scientific field,It's related to optics,And chemistry,And physics in a comprehensive knowledge。
As everyone knows, we want to talk about playing optical equipment. This German Zeiss can definitely be called Shijie's NO.1!
But according to the division of industrial development now, this optical device. It can no longer be used not only for scientific research, but also for the production of high-end products, such as the lithography machine used to manufacture integrated circuits and cut wafers.
The high-end lens on it is not bragging, it can be pulled out of nonsense.
The essence of a lithography machine mainly lies in this lens, because with him, it means that there is precision, and in this regard, China has always been very lacking.
This kind of machinery is known as the most precise machinery on Shijie at present, and the real high-end lithography machine, the resolution of his lens is even required to be tens of nanometers, to a few microns, which shows that this kind of machinery has high requirements for lenses.
So far, there are only three companies on Shijie that can independently produce this kind of lithography machine.
One is ASLM from the Netherlands, and the other two are Nikon and Canon from Japan!
As for the Dutch ASLM, the lenses of their lithography machines are mainly from Germany, while the lithography machines of Nikon and Canon in small Japan are self-produced.
Such a machine, casually, will cost tens of millions of dollars, the lowest price will be 30 million dollars, and the low-end one will cost more than 10 million dollars, which shows the huge profits of this thing.
And a large-scale chip processing plant, for such a machine, the requirements are often hundreds or thousands of units, so the investment of those chip factories is so large, it is often billions of dollars?
It is because the investment in this lithography machine is a large amount, and dozens of machines will cost billions of dollars.
Later, when the two chip manufacturing companies on Baodao invested in the construction of factories, they were all calculated in billions of dollars, and many of them were used second-hand machines in Japan.
Such a lithography machine, the requirements for precision are too high, if there is no decades of effort, it is estimated that it will not be possible, according to the domestic scientific research situation, unless the country is willing to have a large investment, otherwise we will never be able to catch up with others.
And Li Yifan didn't plan to do it himself, after all, the difficulty of this thing is too great, but since the whole machine, we can't handle it, so let's get this camera.
At present, in terms of the scope of the international market, the Japanese are still the only CCD, although the Germans can also get a share of the market, but they can also occupy a certain amount of high-end market.
In the low-to-mid-range market, Nikon and Canon are the mainstream!
In the next few years, it will be the era when the card machine will withdraw from the market, and the digital camera will quickly become the mainstream of the market, but what everyone did not expect is that it will not take ten years, when the Qiao gang leader launches the monster of the smart phone, and soon the digital camera will also be launched on the market.
Now the digital camera that has just been hyped up, don't look at the current momentum is very prosperous, but he can't last ten years, such an ending, I'm afraid many people have never thought of it, right?
But no matter what, in the next six to seven years, this digital camera will be popular for a while, so this CCD is still available.
In recent years, there are really not many companies that can make haode cameras, that is, Kodak in the United States, Zeiss in Germany, Nikon and Canon in Japan, and so on.
However, in a few years, this scene will be quickly reversed, and several companies in Samsung and Baodao will start with computer video cameras and quickly seize the low-end camera market of the Japanese.
And then with the rise of smart phones, the rapid decline of digital cameras, in the low-end CCD market, will be completely reduced to the world of Samsung and Baodao enterprises, and even some domestic companies will also get a share of the low-end CCD market!
But their biggest energy, that is, to occupy the middle and low-end, in the field of high-end products, their share, has always been small, or even none, in that field, has always been Germany, the United States, and the Japanese world.
Especially in Japan, the cameras they produce can really be said to be of high quality and low price, which is also the main reason why weishenme, their lithography machine can compete with the ASLM of the Netherlands, maybe they are not the most advanced, but their products are definitely the most cost-effective.
This is an absolute high-end market, maybe those high-end lithography machines, we can't get them, but this lens, what if we can get it?
So Li Yifan took it for granted and hit this idea on the heads of the Japanese.
Because he knew that part of the predecessor of Japan's National Institute of Materials was the National Institute of Inorganic Materials, and this research institute, in the earliest days, focused on research in the fields of chemistry and optics.
At that time, companies like Nikon and Canon spent a lot of money in this research institute, and it can be said that these two companies, in the field of cameras, can go to this day, absolutely inseparable from the support of this materials research institute.
Tatsuto Endo looked at Li Yifan with a wry smile, and then said.
"Mr. Li, it seems that you really know enough about our National Materials Research Institute!"
Li Yifan smiled and shrugged his shoulders, nonsense, Lao Tzu never fights unprepared battles!
"To be honest, when we were still the Institute of Inorganic Materials, we did focus on the field of CCD, but now after the merger into the National Institute of Materials, with the increase in investment from Panasonic, Canon, and Nikon, the Materials Research Institute has begun to change its direction and begin to increase its efforts to develop like CMOS."
"Oh? So that's the case, huh? ”
Li Yifan was a little ignorant when he heard it, after all, he was not very clear about the knowledge related to the field of high-end cameras.
"CCDjishu, and CMOS jishu, in fact, are two kinds of optical images, converted into digital signals of charge-coupled elements, but from the perspective of urban and rural clarity, CCD imaging clarity, that is, the resolution is higher than CMOS, and CMOS jishu, but has the advantages of low energy consumption and low cost, so now the Institute of Materials, as well as several major optical camera research companies in Japan, all believe that this CMOS will be in the future market, Much will be done. Now it's only that, Sony is insisting on CCDjishu, but I don't think they can stand it for too long, after all, it's hard to sound alone, and the production cost of this CCD is too high......"
It's not high, how can it be high, hehe, if this CCD is haode, this is definitely a device that can be used in optical technology.
Li Yifan said with a secret smile in his stomach, but now that the National Institute of Materials has begun to increase its efforts to start research on CMOS, can I not miss this?
After all, most of the cameras used in smartphones, which will be widely popular in the future, seem to be CMOS jishu cameras!
"Hehe, so that's the case, that's such a coincidence, both CCDjishu and CMOS jishu, which is really good, don't you say? Mr. Endo? ”
Li Yifan showed a mouthful of white teeth and said to Tatsuto Endo with a smile...... (To be continued......)