Chapter 176: Additive Manufacturing

Thursday, August 16.

Black Hole Lithography Machine Company, the second plant.

Wei Ming came here today to visit a new device that has just been assembled and debugged.

High-precision 3D printer.

This ten-nanometer 3D printer, which is huge, comparable to a standard container, and is said to be as difficult as the EUV lithography machine, Wei Ming circled around it several times and took a closer look.

Watch the operator import a model of a water cup into the operation panel, watch it work for five minutes, and use plastic particles to print out a delicately shaped cup.

Holding the cup in your hand, the surface is smooth, but the light frosted texture feels quite good in the hand.

"Put this cup in my office, and I'll use it to drink water later."

Wei Ming handed the cup to the little secretary, his eyes returned to the behemoth in front of him, and said to Pu Weicai beside him: "Old Pu, you said that this big guy is the real industrial machine, as long as there are one to several units, you can print out an industrial system?" ”

"Mr. Wei, this is what Expert Gu introduced to us, although it is a bit exaggerated, but it is not too much."

Pu Weicai said: "And one thing is certain, with this 3D printer, about 55% of the non-core parts of the Tyrannosaurus EUV can be produced by this printer, because it uses an additive manufacturing model, compared with traditional subtractive manufacturing, it can print parts with extremely complex internal structures, the yield rate is much higher than that of parts processed by traditional machine tools, and the quality of parts of the same material is better." ”

"Although the accuracy of the parts it prints is average, but the non-core components can be used completely, we can design and manufacture a Tyrannosaurus EUV reduced version on the basis of these parts, except for the core parts, all printed parts, lithography power is reduced to about 450W, cancel the furious mode, and the auxiliary system is reduced, then its manufacturing cost can be compressed to about 50 million, only one-sixth of the Tyrannosaurus EUV-plus."

"What's more, it's easy to achieve mass manufacturing, with the help of this 3D printer, the output of the reduced version of Tyrannosaurus EUV can easily reach ten units per month, and the subsequent cost will be further compressed."

"But even if it is a reduced version of the Tyrannosaurus EUV, its performance is much stronger than Elsemed's 3800i, the 3800i costs 700 million, then our reduced version of the Tyrannosaurus only sells for 500 million, not to mention that it is 200 million cheaper than them, and the performance is even stronger!"

"Our margins are still guaranteed."

"Mr. Wei, this is the advantage that high-precision 3D printers bring us, and it is not too much to use dimensionality reduction to strike! And this is still only in the field of lithography machine, if it is extended to automobile manufacturing, aerospace manufacturing, we can quickly turn a large number of tall things into cabbage, the cost is only a fraction of the original, only a little more expensive than the material itself. ”

Pu Weicai introduced the advantages of 3D printing.

"That's right, you can do it with the reduced version of Tyrannosaurus EUV, beat down the arrogance of some people, and force Esmai to cut the price again, and finally drag them down!"

Wei Ming nodded again and again, his eyes flashing with murderous aura.

The changes brought about by 3D printing technology, i.e., additive manufacturing, are indeed revolutionary.

As early as more than ten years ago, the 3D printing of large components of titanium alloy materials was realized, so that the field of military equipment has seen a blowout development, whether it is a warship, advanced fighter aircraft, or large transport aircraft, all of which are like dumplings in general production, making up for the shortcomings of high-end processing capacity.

It can be said that it is a real corner overtaking, opening up an extremely successful shortcut.

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"Why don't you go back to the countryside, rent a house with a small yard, and then grow some vegetables in the yard, raise some chickens and ducks, if you feel tired, you can put on a backpack and go to the neighborhood to go hiking, or bring a fishing rod and fish in the lake......"

"This kind of life may also be very good."

Wei Ming's face showed a look of longing, and even an impulse arose in his heart.

After all, as a freelancer, he can go anywhere in the world, and there is no need to stay stuck in a big city and breathe uncomfortable turbid air all day long.

Moreover, the cost of living in the countryside is not high, and you can also grow your own vegetables and breed them, which is suitable for health preservation and full of fun.

It's a good idea to go to the countryside and develop.

Quasar.

The oldest, most massive, and most energy-dense object in the universe.

They are the product of the evolution of galaxies to the end, and their core is generally a massive black hole with millions to tens of trillions of masses of the Sun, surrounded by nebula dust with a diameter of tens to tens of thousands of light-years.

Under the huge gravitational pull of the black hole at the core of the quasar, the dust of the surrounding nebula continues to fall into the center of the black hole, which is shaped like a giant eye-shaped accretion disk.

Due to the fall of a large amount of matter, at the poles of the black hole, a huge amount of conversion energy will push a large number of high-energy particles to be ejected outward at a speed infinitely close to the speed of light, forming two huge pillars of light.

Right here and now.

In a star field 12.7 billion light-years away from the blue star, a quasar with a core black hole with a mass of more than 1,000 trillion suns, after swallowing enough material, caused by quantitative change, suddenly exploded!

A violent ray burst eruption was formed.

Among the countless high-energy particles ejected, there is a strange high-energy particle, which contains unimaginable energy, very similar to the primordial particles that were born in a very short time during the Big Bang.

Then, at a speed far exceeding the speed of light, beyond common sense, he crossed endless time and space, and flew in a certain direction of the blue star.

As evening approached, it was getting dark.

The row of turquoise office buildings across the river began to light up with colorful neon lights.

I remembered my good years when I was only 26 years old.

It began to exude a thick twilight like the twilight of this evening, and I fantasized about living an idyllic and comfortable rural life.

Forty years of early retirement.

"Is it really appropriate to think about retirement so early, eat and wait for death?"

"Painting a two-dimensional cute girl every day, can you fill the emptiness of no object?"

"Isn't it better to have a house and a car in this prosperous world to have a place of your own than to be empty and not leave something in the world?"

"Life can't be as brilliant as summer flowers, but at least it must emit a little light and heat that people can see, just like that meteor, like a red line, although inconspicuous, but piercing the sky."

"No, why did that meteor fly towards me?"

I am surprised!

There was no time to dodge, and the thin red line went straight into Wei Ming's forehead and entered his brain.

Boom!

Wei Ming's eyes seemed to reproduce the scene of the Big Bang, endless energy and dazzling firelight, jumping and shining in front of him, showing countless changes, forming an orange world of fire, full of rage, disorder and chaos.

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