After nightfall, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced an important decision, officially issuing 5G commercial licenses to domestic operators, and at the same time, Huaxia will lead the world and start the construction of a new generation of telecommunications standards.

Xingchen Technology's fourth-generation lithography machine, the national team's 5G license, and two blockbuster news were announced one after another on this night, which quickly ignited the world.

The first is the shock of the Western scientific community, the semiconductor industry has always been dominated by them, from the underlying machine language, to the manufacturing process, to the upper software cluster, more than 80% of the discourse power is in the hands of the West, which is already an absolute monopoly.

But suddenly, the Western monopoly is facing the embarrassing situation of the collapse of the whole line, the fourth generation of lithography machine can not represent the entire semiconductor industry, but it is an important foundation, the tools for manufacturing semiconductors Xingchen Technology has mastered, using tools to create semiconductor products, it is only a matter of time or time.

"Xingchen Technology is awesome!"

"I thought that they could catch up with ASML, and it would already be considered a miracle, but who would have thought that they would make a flat thunderbolt and directly eliminate the third-generation technology!"

"In the future, it will be the rhythm of Xingchen Technology, the fourth generation of lithography technology, even if the semiconductor design end is not yet the world's leading, with the leapfrog development of the manufacturing process, we can still beat the world!"

"Hahaha! Semiconductors have entered the next era below one nanometer, which is simply a dream! ”

The Chinese people rejoiced, while the West was in a state of shock and bewilderment.

What is corner overtaking?

That's it!

Xingchen Technology has not only caught up with ASML's lithography technology, but also achieved a Jedi overtake in one fell swoop, with the world's most advanced semiconductor process.

The process is the basis of all chips, just like when you were in the era when everyone still used bronze, you suddenly invented steel, and the Western army held a sword cast in bronze, although the craftsmanship was excellent, but after all, it was bronze, and it was an era worse than steel, even if it was a kitchen knife cast in steel, its combat effectiveness was far stronger than that of the bronze precision polished sword, no way, the foundation was too far behind.

Soon after, Luo Jia returned to the headquarters in Baoshan, everything was normal here, the straight men of steel did not set off fireworks excitedly, nor did they gather in the canteen to drink beer, the lights were bright in the quiet company, and most of the laboratories were still working overtime.

Lithography systems are just the beginning, semiconductors are a huge industry, and there is still a lot of work to be done.

And over the years, everyone has experienced too much, and they have long been used to it, they received a call from home to celebrate, and they were very calm, and they were not proud of having a lithography system.

When the problem of semiconductors is completely solved, it is not too late to celebrate, everyone actually thinks so.

"If there are no special arrangements, I will go to the life science center." Wen Chengling walked into Luo Jia's office and placed a stack of notes on the table.

That is all the work records of his work in the past six months as the head of the laser attack team, Wen Chengling, like some old-fashioned employees in the company, is not used to paperless office, and is still more willing to write down everything that is important.

"Are you planning to step down?" LUO JIA GOT UP, ASKED WEN CHENGLING TO SIT ON THE SOFA AND SAID: "MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE NEWS, SPACEX HAS LAUNCHED THE STARLINK PROJECT, THAT IS, THE COMPANY OF MUSK, THE NORTH AMERICAN SUPER GENIUS, AND THEY ARE READY TO ESTABLISH A STAR OBSERVATION CHAIN IN SPACE." ”

"At present, our company's counterpoint research institute in the field of space observation is the space observation group under the Ministry of Optics, that is, the group of people responsible for the development of astronomical telescopes.

Luo Jia said very seriously that he also felt that the company's R&D tasks were becoming more and more scattered.

It's a pity that this world is not subject to anyone's will, and as the confrontation between the East and the West intensifies, the battle line is getting longer and longer.

As a tough guy in the Chinese science and technology industry, Xingchen Technology wants to compete with Toyota and Volkswagen in the automotive field, resist DuPont and Shin-Etsu in the chemical field, challenge Canon and Zeiss in the optical field, pull Siemens and Mobil down in the energy field, and impact the domination of Intel and Samsung in the semiconductor field.

In a word, it is a prophecy.

At that time, Luo Jia said, it's not good, Xingchen Technology will single-handedly fight the world in the future, but it didn't take a few years, the prediction really came true, and the company was inseparable in almost all fields.

If life sciences and semiconductors are the first two arrows shot by North America, then Musk's Starlink plan is the third arrow.

On the bright side, Starlink is a space observation technology, but only senior experts will know that the most terrifying thing about Starlink is that it will test the space information transmission platform, that is, the legendary Starlink network.

5G technology in the foreseeable time, even if North America unites Europe, it is difficult to surpass Huaxia, the existing 5G patents, Huaxia alone accounts for one-third, which is the national team dares to issue 5G licenses in advance.

But the future is always ahead, North America lost 5G, and they are never willing to lose the future, so there is Musk's Starlink plan, whether it is more than ten years or decades, North America, which realizes that it will be beaten if it is backward, aims to win the interstellar network hegemony.

Wen Chengling shook his head and said very calmly: "Science and technology is a war without gunpowder, and it will never end, I have seen Musk's Starlink plan, instead of letting me lead, it is better to invite a big bull in the field of quantum communication to come out of the mountain, as for me, although I studied laser and studied laser communication technology, but for so many years, my brother and I have been engaged in life sciences and have become accustomed to it." ”

Luo Jia nodded lightly, "Okay, I'll let the new person in charge be selected, you will hand it over, and then you will go to the Department of Life Sciences, and you will work with your brother and the two, and the life science front is also very important." ”

Wen Chengling wanted to speak and stopped, he hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Luo, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not. ”

"It's all my own brothers, so it's boring to be polite." Luo Jia said.

"Well, I have a feeling." Wen Chengling said, "The opposite side is accelerating again, and I am afraid that the confrontation between various scientific research fronts will become more and more intense in the future." ”

Dialogues between smart people are often incomplete, because everyone has a strong ability to understand, Wen Chengling made a start, and Luo Jia immediately understood what he meant.

With the continuous expansion of Xingchen Technology, the West is becoming more and more united, which is not a good thing.

With the company's current manpower and strength, it can still withstand it, but if it continues to develop like this, sooner or later there will be a day when it can't be resisted, and the tough guy Tiantuan is not a god, and it is impossible to advance in all fields at the same time.

"Grasp the big and let go, I understand, the strategy of life sciences and semiconductors first will not change, and on the side of Starlink, we will just open a research group to do some pre-research and preparation, and will not invest a lot of resources." Luo Jia said, "I won't be fooled if the other side wants to rely on the accumulation of scientific research to attract us to stretch the front longer and longer, and drag us to death." ”

Wen Chengling showed a satisfied look on his face, he said goodbye to Luo Jia, and turned around to come to the life science department that his younger brother was in charge of.

In a gloomy operating room, the stiff and blue corpse was being cut open by a sharp scalpel, and the hands were unusually stable, and with a flick of the blade, the entire pancreas of the deceased was removed, still in the tray that had been prepared.

"The internal organs are very badly damaged, and the pancreas of this test subject has atrophied." Wen Chengfeng said: "I really want to know how Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dr. Reinhardt's team, how they overcome the problem of supermitochondrial overcombustion." ”

Wen Chengling shrugged his shoulders, "Probably like us, desperately conducting human experiments, using human lives to pile up data, when this project is finished, our brothers are afraid that they will go to hell, after all, as scientists, we have too much blood on our hands." ”

Wen Chengfeng said lightly, "Maybe, but I don't care at all." ”

"Because I've been in hell since the night I saw Mom and Dad leave."

……

On New Year's Day, a sudden southward Siberian cold snap sent the temperature plummeting to near freezing.

The north wind blew all night, and when Luo Jia got up the next morning, he found that the robots had prepared a down jacket for herself, as well as a cup of unsweetened hot coffee.

Walking out of the meditation center, Luo Jia took a short tour of the company, and then got into a business car and went to SMIC in Pudong.

It has been a month since the release of the fourth-generation lithography machine, and the prototype zero machine was shown to the outside world at that time, and today, it is the first machine of the fourth-generation lithography system, the big day of the official test machine.

"Why didn't Enron come?" SMIC's boss Tang Boyun asked a little nervously.

"His wife is going to give birth."

"Today? That's a coincidence. ”

"It's really a coincidence, I proposed that the children of the two of them should be called An Lithography, because our lithography machine was also tested today, but Senior Sister Qi Mengzhou disagreed, and almost beat me up." Luo Jia said.

Puff~

Tang Boyun laughed out loud, "It's time to fight, the name An Guangke is really terrible, as a result, what are they going to name the child?" ”

Luo Jia thought for a while, "Peace of mind, whether it's a boy or a girl, it's called peace of mind." ”

Tang Boyun was slightly stunned, praising the name Anxin, in fact, parents don't expect their children to get ahead, and they can live a peaceful life, and they will be at ease.

An Ran and Senior Sister Qi Mengzhou are both people who have made immortal contributions to the country and the nation, I hope that good people will have good rewards, and the two of them can have a happy and healthy life with little peace of mind.

While chatting, Luo Jia and Tang Boyun walked into the just-built SMIC C1 production line, only to see the huge fourth-generation lithography system, standing quietly in the dust-free workshop, ready to go, surrounded by countless engineers, excited to the point of reddening faces.

The release of the fourth-generation lithography system is actually just the beginning, and the whole world is waiting for this epoch-making machine to really start.

Ultra-ultraviolet hybrid laser etching, ultrasonic motor stabilization system, ultra-high power laser scattering system, any component, even a screw and a capacitor, can not have any problems.

Tang Boyun sighed deeply, he glanced at his watch, and said to Luo Jia: "It's done, we are the heroes in the semiconductor field, no, we are the joke in the eyes of the West, we have been preparing for so long, it's all up to today." ”