In an office, Zhang Dongning and Enron met with Intel Corp. senior technical consultant, SEG Brown. Mr. Houghton.

Compared with the generally young teams in Silicon Valley, Intel, an established technology company, has an average age of personnel.

Mr. Houghton, who is in his forties, is starting to gain weight, and on his desk is a family photo of him, his wife, and two daughters taken at Disney.

Through his mentor at MIT, Enron contacted Mr. Houghton, who was also a Massachusetts graduate and a senior of Enron's school.

Mr. Houghton had heard of this genius who received a double doctorate from Massachusetts at the age of twenty-three.

In addition, there is another reason that causes Mr. Horton to attach great importance to Enron, and that is the Xingchen Technology represented by Enron.

Nowadays, who is in the science and technology circle, who still doesn't know the name of this Huaxia company, their continuous achievements this year can be described as miracles, which not only shocked the Huaxia science and technology circle, but also caused a serious sense of crisis in Silicon Valley, which is separated by the far Pacific Ocean.

Mr. Horton chatted with Enron about their professors at MIT, and after feeling a little about their school career, they went straight to the topic.

Enron took out an English version of the test report and placed it on Mr. Houghton's desk.

"The science and technology circle is rumoring that Xingchen Technology wants to be the upstream of semiconductors, it seems that this should be your research results." Mr. Horton said politely.

"Please also ask the seniors for advice." Enron said.

Mr. Houghton flipped through the report quickly, his eyes fixed on the strings of complex data, and he could not take it back.

Little by little, his facial expressions changed more and more seriously, and when he read the last few pages, the measured data of the all-synthetic photoresist, An Ran noticed that his legs were shaking rapidly under the desk.

Mr. Horton pulled a tissue from the tissue box and wiped his forehead.

"I see," he sighed, then stood up abruptly, took the report and walked out, "Wait a minute, you two, I'll go and ask the CTO." ”

An Ran nodded, CTO is the meaning of the chief technology officer, the big boss in R&D.

The current chief technology officer of Intel Corporation is Mike Murphy. Dr. Marbury, who is also the head of Intel Labs, specializes in quantum computing, neural computing, and semiconductor R&D.

How high is Dr. Marbury's position at Intel?

Before him, the position of CTO was vacant for five years, because there were too many big people in this company, and it was difficult for anyone to sit in this position, until Dr. Marbury took over, and Intel finally had a leader in research and development.

"It looks like there's a play." Zhang Dongning and An Ran glanced at each other and said in a low voice, An Ran nodded lightly.

In a short time, Dr. Marbury, who had silver hair, came to the office, his face was kind and somewhat feminine, and when he laughed, the corners of his mouth would rise sharply.

After all, in the technology world, most of the time it is still the world of gentle technology nerds, and a company composed of hardcore tech nerds like Xingchen Technology is actually quite rare.

At present, An Ran and Zhang Dongning are the kind of people who walk with the wind, and An Ran, who was originally thin, began to have a little muscle mass on his arm after more than three months of insisting on exercising.

The meeting between the president of Xingchen Technology Hardware, the chief technology officer of Intel, and the superbosses of the two companies was unexpected, with a slight smell of gunpowder.

Mr. Marbury did not directly mention the matter of photoresist, but talked about his biggest concern, wireless charging of energy waves.

Since the launch of the epoch-making super wireless charging of Xingchen Technology, it has set off a butterfly effect, and the whole world is accelerating research in an attempt to catch up with Xingchen Technology in this regard.

However, so far, no second company has been able to succeed.

Although Mr. Marbury is good-tempered, he is holding his breath in his heart, and he doesn't understand, why can't he make a wireless charging module like Xingchen Technology with Intel's strength?

Marbury and Enron spoke very quickly, and Enron's fluency in English surprised Zhang Dongning, who came with him, Zhang Dongning is also a genius, he can speak fluent English and German, and Enron's English level is obviously several grades higher than him.

Marbury had already read the December issue of the latest issue of the journal of the stars, and he and Enron had a fierce confrontation over the fluctuation of the energy field.

Enron has long been accustomed to this level of confrontation, because when he was in the company, Luo Jia pulled him up at every turn and engaged in brainstorming.

Luo Jia will gather the brightest brains in the company, everyone is at full power, and the intensity of crazy thinking is by no means comparable to today's office-level conversations.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that in addition to the tough guy group, the higher-level brainstorming group of Xingchen Technology has gradually become famous and has become the object of imitation by countless technology companies.

After a while, the high-speed conversation between the two people gradually eased.

People with technical backgrounds have relatively simple thinking, and if you want to gain the respect and trust of the other party, please show real skills.

Marbury finally understood that this young man with black hair and black eyes was far more powerful than he had imagined.

At this time, Horton added on the side, "Mr. Enron is my alumnus in Massachusetts, and he was only twenty-three years old when he received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. ”

Marbury was slightly stunned, and looked at An Ran's eyes, and there was a noticeable change.

The United States is different from China, the university is wide and strict, it is easy to enter the university, but it is difficult to graduate, and Enron can obtain a double doctorate degree at the age of 23, which is definitely a genius among geniuses.

Dr. Marbury turned his gaze to the photoresist test report on the table, which he had already read, a fully synthetic modified photosensitive colloid.

According to the research of Xingchen Technology, if the semiconductor factory uses this new photoresist, it can increase the chip yield rate by 2%.

For all semiconductor fabs, yield is the most troublesome issue.

When the chip is made by the fab, it will enter the testing stage, and the engineer will use the ATE automatic tester to run the program given by the chip designer to divide the chip into two parts: good and bad.

If it is bad and cannot be used, it will naturally be discarded directly, and every time a chip is discarded, it is all money!

After passing the test, the wafer is cut and sent to the packaging factory for system-level testing, or SLT, where scrap is still detected and discarded a second time.

And with the improvement of the process grade, the yield rate is also getting lower and lower, which is an objective law that the semiconductor industry cannot bypass, and even Moore's law has a limit, not to mention the complex semiconductor manufacturing.

Anyway, for people engaged in the semiconductor industry, how to improve the accuracy of photoetching, and then improve the yield rate, is a hurdle that can never be bypassed.

Let's put it this way, which semiconductor factory, if the yield rate can exceed 90%, basically set off firecrackers for three days and three nights to celebrate wildly.

The photoresist newly developed by Xingchen Technology, don't look at the data, only improves the yield rate by 2% on average, but the value of this 2% is simply more expensive than gold!

In the case that the technology is close to the limit, it can also be increased by two percent, and Intel sells hundreds of millions of various chips around the world every year, two percent, which is millions of pieces!

It's just that as an American company and a giant in the global semiconductor industry, it is not easy to convince Intel to believe in a Chinese company, so there is this visit between Enron and Zhang Dongning.

"We will schedule the test as soon as possible." Dr. Marbury said.

"But it's Christmas holidays soon." Horton said with a frown.

Americans attach great importance to Christmas, which is the biggest holiday of the year, equivalent to the Chinese New Year, and it is very inhumane to ask employees to work overtime during Christmas.

Dr. Marbury's eyes were firm, "Our largest overseas factory is in Malaysia, and they are not for Christmas, so they put it there for testing. ”

An Ran and Zhang Dongning glanced at each other, in the context of the increasingly serious game of great powers, it is not easy to get to this point.

If it weren't for the excellent performance of Xingchen Technology's photoresist, it would have been impossible to break into Intel's supply chain.

An Ran and Zhang Dongning stood up and shook hands with Dr. Marbury in farewell.

When they walked out of the Intel Tower, the sun was still shining in California, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Unlike Xinyang, the four of them are fighting from low to high, Xingchen Technology is fighting from high to low, and directly kills Tianwang Mountain in the semiconductor industry, Intel Corporation! Copy the base camp of those international giants led by Xinyue Chemical!

"Shin-Etsu's New Year, I'm afraid they won't be able to celebrate it." An Ran opened the door of the Lincoln car, smiled slightly, and said to Zhang Dongning.