Of course, the vast majority of journalists at this time did not know that if they wanted to produce 90-nanometer and 65-nanometer chips.

In fact, it is not necessary to use the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine technology, but it is also possible to directly develop and adopt the fourth-generation ArF dry lithography machine technology.

Because the wavelength of the light source of the fourth-generation ArF dry lithography machine is 193nm, the wavelength of this 193nm light source can theoretically produce 65nm chips.

However, we should not take into account the short-term, but also the long-term and even longer-term future development line.

The fifth-generation immersion lithography machine technology is a miraculous technology, which was officially developed and launched in October 2003 last year.

At this time, although the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine has many technical patent walls in the past, it has not yet formed an iron wall of technical patents that can never be broken through like the previous life.

At this time, Sugon Technology still has the possibility of bypassing the patent walls of many immersion lithography machine technologies in ASML and TSMC stores, so it is better to enter the game in advance.

Otherwise, when ASML and TSMC will register more and more patents on immersion lithography machines, and then completely become an iron wall that cannot be broken through, then Sugon Technology will completely lose the possibility of research and development of fifth-generation immersion lithography machine technology.

Although even if the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine is lost, it seems that the sixth-generation EUV lithography machine can be directly developed, but this EUV lithography machine is actually equivalent to a completely new field.

The EUV lithography machine uses a 13.5nm extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source, which can process chips below 7 nanometers, and it is theoretically better to directly launch the sixth-generation EUV lithography machine.

However, it is not easy to implement the actual EUV lithography machine, and it has been several years since major companies around the world developed the sixth generation EUV lithography machine.

However, according to the history of the previous life, the first commercial mass production EUV lithography machine was still in 2019, which means that it took more than 20 years to complete the development of the sixth-generation EUV lithography machine!

Therefore, it is not impossible to directly launch the EUV lithography machine at this time, but it does not meet the chip production needs of the current era, and it is not easy to get results.

It took more than 20 years of research and development in the West to make the EUV lithography machine go into mass production, and at this time, Sugon Technology wants to use one or two years to make the EUV lithography machine land, how is this possible?

Among them, if Lin Chen knew how the EUV lithography machine made a breakthrough in his previous life, he would definitely be able to produce results quickly after knowing the correct research and development direction.

But the problem is that Lin Chen did not have an in-depth understanding of the technical knowledge of lithography machines in his previous life, nor did he know how ASML solved many technical problems of EUV lithography machines in his previous life.

In this case, if Sugon Technology really develops EUV lithography machine, it will be quite difficult, and it may not be able to produce results in a few years.

That's why Sugon Technology is thinking about developing a fifth-generation immersion lithography machine that is easier to produce results, rather than developing a sixth-generation EUV lithography machine that may not be implemented in a few years.

Of course, the most important reason is that the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine is actually sufficient, and the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine technology can theoretically produce chips up to 7 nanometers.

This 7nm chip is the real 7nm chip gate length, not the so-called 7nm chip in the previous life, but actually a 7nm chip that modifies the algorithm and deceives itself for marketing.

In the previous life, the most exaggerated process technology was the process technology of Sanyi, who once used a new algorithm to define the 10nm process process as a 7nm process process.

As a result, the manuscript company in the previous life really believed it, and directly overjoyed to let Sanyi produce 7 nanometer mobile phone chips for manuscript.

As a result, the fake is fake after all, and the name of "Manuscript Big Fire Dragon Processor" has spread all over the world, which directly makes the market share of Manuscript Mobile Phone Processor usher in a significant decline.

The company was naturally darkened, and the head of the company publicly announced that he would no longer be looking for foundry chips.

Since then, Sanyi has ushered in a devastating blow in the semiconductor foundry industry, and since then it has been sluggish.

So in this case, the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine, which can produce chips up to 7 nanometers, is actually enough.

In the next ten years, there is no need for Sugon Technology to focus on the sixth-generation EUV lithography machine.

Therefore, at this time, the joint R&D team of Xia Keyuan and Sugon Technology will successfully bypass the technical patents of ASML and TSMC, and then develop their own fifth-generation immersion lithography machine technology.

In the next ten years, they only need to continue to conquer material technology, processing accuracy technology and testing technology.

Then Daxia's chip manufacturing process will break through 65nm, 45nm, and 32nm...... Up to the level of 7 nanometer chips.

In this regard, the reporters at the press conference did not know this, and at this time they were looking at Lin Chen and Dean Lu of the Xia Academy of Sciences with shocked expressions.

"Really? It turned out to be the development of lithography machines? ”

"Damn, it turned out to be the research and development of lithography machines, it is said that the research and development of lithography machines is quite difficult, and there are no billions or even tens of billions of summer dollars that can't take this thing."

"Really? It's not a joke, it's not April Fool's Day. ”

"It's too big, if it's true, it's enough to stir up the world." ……

Many reporters at the scene discussed with each other, although they had just heard a large number of words from Dean Lu, Dean Lu should not be joking.

But many reporters still feel a little incredulous, after all, if you want to develop and conquer the lithography machine, you have to come up with at least more than one billion dollars to qualify.

In the face of a R&D project starting at least one billion yuan, how can this not make people feel crazy and even wonder if Dean Lu is joking.

At this time, Dean Lu turned his head to look at Lin Chen on the side when people were surprised, and then said with a smile:

"As for the total amount of R&D for our joint collaboration? This is still left to Mr. Lin Chen. ”

The reporters who saw the scene focused their attention on Lin Chen, and those cameras also pointed their cameras at Lin Chen on the side.

"The R&D project of this lithography machine is mainly funded by our Sugon Technology, as for how much this investment.

We can promise that the R&D fund of lithography machine in the next year will not be less than 3 billion summer yuan, and there is no cap! ”

"Wow!"

Hearing Lin Chen's words, the scene instantly fell into a huge uproar, and all the domestic and foreign reporters at the scene opened their eyes wide and looked at Lin Chen in disbelief.

"Crazy, is Dawning Technology crazy?"

"Oh my God? Take out 3 billion a year to develop lithography machines, is this true or false? ”

"It's crazy, it's crazy, 3 billion a year is equivalent to 360 million US dollars, and so much money turns out to be used to develop a machine, which is really terrifying."

"3 billion a year just to develop a machine, this is really crazy, how difficult is this lithography machine to develop, it costs so much money?"

"It's crazy, it's crazy." (End of chapter)