One step behind, one step behind!

If you wait for Sugon Technology to develop semiconductor production equipment in half a year, then use one or two years to bypass the technical patent barriers of Western semiconductor production equipment and complete the research and development of 90nm process production equipment.

At that time, the day when the research and development of Sugon Technology's 90nm process production equipment is completed, it will definitely be the day when someone else's 65nm process technology will be mass-produced.

It was not easy to complete the 90nm process technology, but it suddenly lagged behind the West, which will make people vomit blood.

In this case, although it is possible to develop semiconductor production equipment half a year later, the negative impact is actually quite large!

Therefore, Sugon Technology must solve the problem of 90nm process technology as soon as possible, and independent research and development is the only way to do so when it is currently unable to purchase the corresponding semiconductor production equipment.

"Ugh."

In the face of Lin Chen's words, Rebus also sighed deeply.

Rebus naturally knew what Lin Chen's concerns were, but the research and development of semiconductor production equipment was really too expensive.

At least it takes more than a billion dollars a year to start, and it is normal to burn him two or three billion dollars a year!

The reason why so much money is needed is that semiconductor production equipment is mainly divided into three parts: wafer production equipment and chip production equipment and testing equipment.

The core equipment includes single crystal furnace, gas phase epitaxy furnace, oxidation furnace, molecular beam epitaxy system, low-pressure chemical vapor deposition system, chemical mechanical polishing machine, wafer cutting machine......

According to the statistics of semiconductor-related people, the production of a chip needs to go through thousands of processes, and there are 17 core equipment for chip production!

In the face of these 17 core equipment for semiconductor chip production, no country can cover them all.

At present, the production equipment of semiconductors is a part of the responsibility of various developed countries, and finally comes together to form the world's most advanced 90nm process chip production line.

Therefore, if you want to solve the problem of semiconductor production equipment and then be able to produce 90-nanometer chips, it is not just a lithography machine.

And the saddest thing is that these 17 semiconductor production equipment are almost complementary to each other, like you solved the problem of the lithography machine.

But if other core equipment is not up to standard, and the performance parameters cannot keep up with the demand for 90nm chips, then you will not be able to produce 90nm chips or more advanced 65nm chips.

Therefore, if you want to develop a lithography machine alone, it must be a joke to solve the 90nm process process.

Of course, among the 17 core semiconductor production equipment, the lithography machine is indeed the most critical thing, and it is also the most difficult thing to develop.

It can be said that as long as the problem of lithography machine is solved, it is almost equivalent to half a foot into the 90nm process process.

"Rebus, we really don't have money, but we don't need so much equipment to solve it together, and we can develop more important etching machines and lithography machines first."

Speaking of this, Lin Chen paused slightly, as if he was in deep thought, but soon Lin Chen continued:

"Among them, the etching machine can be developed together with Zhongxin International, and we don't have to bear it all.

Although we are competitors with Zhongxin International, we can also cooperate in the development of etching machines, and then share the equipment together, and the sales profits of the etching machines will be divided according to the shares.

Among them, I have some recommendations for etching machine talents, and I heard that I used to work in Medico Applied Materials and Lam Research Semiconductor.

Yin Zhixiao, who has presided over the research and development of etching machines for many times and holds more than 200 etching machine patents, returned to China under the persuasion of Jiang Haizhou of Zhongxin International.

And he didn't just return to China alone, he also brought back 10 old backbone talents of applied materials.

I heard that they are going to set up a semiconductor equipment company called Zhongwei in Daxia to completely solve the problem of backward semiconductor equipment in Daxia.

At present, their company is in the planning stage, and we may be able to join in with Zhongxin International to raise funds and invest in shares to support the research and development of domestic etching machines.

After all, our tripartite alliance is the best choice, and only in this way can we solve the landing problem of domestic etching machine faster. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Chen also felt a lot of emotion.

In the previous life, Yin Zhixiao led people to establish the micro company is a flag in the domestic semiconductor equipment industry, after all, they have successfully developed and produced an etching machine suitable for 5nm process technology, which is not the pride of Daxia semiconductor equipment?

However, although Daxia's etching machine is not lagging behind people or even world-class, chip production is a whole, and it is useless to single two pieces of equipment to shine.

After all, there are 17 core production equipment for chips, and 1 has been solved, and there are 16 left.

And in the previous life, the more important lithography machine did not make a big improvement.

"Yin Zhixiao? I know. ”

Rebus, who got the information from Lin Chen, nodded lightly and agreed, he would do this well.

Seeing this, Lin Chen continued:

"As for the lithography machine, we can only rely on ourselves, but we can't rely on ourselves without relying on external forces.

Rebus, you contact the Xia Academy of Sciences to see if the two sides can cooperate, we will pay them to send a few academicians and supporting R&D personnel and old lithography machine patents and R&D instruments, etc., and then work together to solve the problem of lithography machine. ”

"Hmm."

Rebus nodded slightly, although the pressure on Dawning Technology was a little high.

But if it is only the research and development of lithography machines and etching machines, the current income can barely support, as long as it is not 17 semiconductor core production equipment together, the financial pressure will be reduced a lot, and it can barely withstand it.

Seeing this, Lin Chen didn't talk to Rebus anymore, because Lin Chen was very busy.

The mobile phone screen needs to be developed by Lin Chen, the mobile phone lens needs to be developed by Lin Chen, and the future lithography machine also needs to be developed by Lin Chen.

At this time, Lin Chen deeply felt the pain of not having bigwig-level R&D talents, and now Lin Chen just wants to say to the outside world that Shuguang Technology is in urgent need of bigwig-level R&D talents, and the treatment will definitely satisfy you.

But it's a pity that bigwig-level R&D talents are not so easy to obtain, and the real bigwig-level R&D talents either can't look down on Shuguang Technology, or they have contracts and can't change jobs.

Therefore, it is really difficult for Lin Chen to want bigwig-level R&D talents at this time, especially the kind of academician-level bigwig-level R&D talents.

Lin Chen was actually quite lucky to be able to get an academician Ni Guangnan, and it was not easy to get a Daxia academician to join again.

"Alas!"

Lin Chen sighed deeply, then got up and left.

I hope that when we cooperate with Xia Ke Institute to develop lithography machines, Xia Ke Yuan can let a few Xia academicians join in the research and development of lithography machines, otherwise he alone will really lack skills. (End of chapter)