The president of ASML jumped out to make such a grotesque remark this time, in fact, he saw that the new microsemiconductor was about to conquer the ArF lithography machine.

The speed of this Nima's breakthrough is a bit fast, and I was really scared.

If it goes on like this, can it still be done?

The lithography machine is really important to the importance of chip semiconductors, but how big is its industrial scale, in fact, it is really not big.

The world's semiconductor industry can only feed one lithography machine to ensure its nourishment.

Because the R&D cost is left aside, if there are more lithography machine manufacturers and the cost cannot be amortized, it will lead to all manufacturers not being able to survive.

Because of this, there is now only one ASML in the lithography machine, and after other manufacturers gradually withdraw from the stage, there are no new players entering the game.

Now a powerful force has emerged from the big countries in the east to integrate almost the best industry resources in the country and launch a new micro-semiconductor, and the rapid progress of technology has made ASML President Peter feel threatened, not in the present, but in the future.

The scale of this industry is not large, and only one ASML is just right to be delicious, but one more one means that the original one will eat a lot less meat.

The sharp decline in revenue means that when developing a new generation of products in the future, the cost will be difficult to amortize, which is the real pain point.

Peter Bernard's latest remarks have been transmitted back to China, causing a lot of discussion among the people, and many public netizens have watched it comfortably, and some people have directly turned out that when the big fund landed in the first half of the year, the president of ASML also made remarks at that time.

At that time, he was not like this, and he once openly and arrogantly said in the media that he was disdainful of the research lithography machine of enterprises in the big eastern countries, and even threatened that even if he gave you complete design drawings, you would not be able to build a lithography machine.

In less than half a year, Peter Bernard's attitude has changed from "disdain" to today's "annoyance", and he can't sit still when he sees that the research and development progress of the lithography machine of the new micro semiconductor has greatly exceeded his expectations.

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But at this moment, when Fang Hong was looking at the news information of the president of ASML, after a while, Yu Qiu walked over to him, sat down beside him, and said with a smile: "There is good news, just now the third part of the 'Sky Mirror' project component vehicle was launched through the 'Blue Arrow 5' recyclable rocket under Kyushu Blue Arrow. ”

"The last part of the Sky Mirror project was successfully put into space orbit after the completion of the networking, and the Blue Arrow 5 successfully recovered its booster and second stage thruster, making the first commercial launch a great success."

Hearing this, Fang Hong closed the webpage and immediately said, "I almost forgot about this, okay, good job." ”

The scientific research team of the Sky Mirror project can complete such a harsh condition set by Fang Hong for them, even if it fails, Fang Hong will not say anything, but it is not easy to succeed, and it may not be possible to do it in ten years from the establishment of the project to the current realization of networking.

But Ning Xingqing's team really realized Fang Hong's request to launch it into space within three years, and then it was debugged and then put into operation, and this basic scientific research project with an investment of tens of billions of yuan was not wasted.

Moreover, the Kyushu Blue Arrow recyclable rocket "Blue Arrow 5" also completed the commercial launch mission for the first time, and successfully realized the recovery of boosters and secondary thrusters, which also benefited from the trust of the "brother" organization.

Other manufacturers are not too afraid to place orders for Kyushu Blue Arrow, and it is too necessary to break through from zero to one at this time.

With a smile of satisfaction, Fang Hong nodded to himself and said, "Okay, the investment layout over the years has now begun to gradually blossom and bear fruit. ”

The Sky Mirror project, that is, the space laser gravitational wave detection system, Lao Mei has a LIGO project on the ground, which also detects gravitational waves. The principle of the "Sky Mirror" is roughly the same as that of LIGO, but it is definitely more sophisticated than the ground.

Not only is the distance longer, but there is less information disturbance from the terrestrial environment in space, which means that gravitational waves can be detected more sensitively and the data is more accurate.

After the successful networking, it will take about a month or two to debug, and then you can officially start the task of detecting gravitational waves.

At this time, Yu Qiu couldn't help but say: "What do you say about this project, tens of billions of funds have been invested, if gravitational waves cannot be detected, it is estimated that there will be a lot of criticism in the future." ”

Fang Hong said disdainfully: "They know how to shovel, I believe in Einstein's prediction a hundred years ago, maybe we will be able to detect gravitational waves in a few months." ”

Not only believe in Einstein, but more importantly, Fang Hong has a clear memory of the top ten, 2015 is the time node for LIGO to discover gravitational waves, and the reason why Ning Xingqing's team has such a demanding requirement for three years is to discover gravitational waves before LIGO.

As the saying goes, there is no first in literature, and there is no second in martial arts.

In the field of scientific research, the first and the second are very different, you are the first to discover, all the honors and achievements are yours, and the latter is called verification, and you have nothing to do.

If the Sky Mirror project is the first to detect gravitational waves, then this scientific research achievement will land in China, and the honor will also be in the hands of scholars in China, and it will be in the hands of Xincheng University and Ning Xingqing's team.

What if gravitational waves are detected?

On the surface, gravitational waves cannot be directly converted into scientific research results and realized, but more honors and achievements.

But it would be a big mistake to calculate this account in this way.

This honor represents your strong scientific research strength, especially economic strength, I can engage in this equipment, I can do it, I can find it, so I am the best pen!

The same is true for Xincheng University, this kind of honor is not available to any school or institution, and the grade of the school is immediately different, and the more such honors represent your heritage.

Is this just an intangible benefit, and there is no real benefit?

Of course!

The establishment of a "Sky Mirror" project, which is behind the progress of modern industrial technology, has given birth to several new industries behind this project, with more than 200 participating enterprises, directly or indirectly feeding 200,000 or 300,000 people, bringing tens of thousands of new high-end jobs, as well as the most important technological progress, the accumulation of scientific research strength, so that more new generations yearn for and plunge into the cause of basic scientific research.

Because there are jobs here, and the income is not low.

In the past, there were young people who wanted to enter basic scientific research, but their family background was not very good, and they had to consider the problem of survival, and the previous investment in basic scientific research was small, and there were not many jobs and the salary was not high, resulting in some of them being extremely passionate about scientific research but having to bow to reality, which to a large extent restricted the progress of the country's overall scientific research level.

A project can bring such a huge number of jobs, coupled with a decent income, to solve the worries of these young people, they dare to enter this industry.

Not to mention the indirect driving effect, that is, the daily operation of the "Sky Mirror" will be put into use in the future, which also needs to recruit a lot of talents in place, and the estimated operating life of this project is more than 20 years, representing long-term stability.

At the end, Fang Hong said to himself comfortably: "LIGO has not been upgraded yet, even if the pressure from the Sky Realm is given, it will take half a year for them to speed up the progress, at that time, our Sky Mirror has been running for three or four months, and the achievement of human beings detecting gravitational waves for the first time must be ours, I want to see if the Nobel Prize judges will award the honor to Ning Xingqing at that time." ”

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