Xu Yun continued to wait in the office for about ten minutes, Liu Xing walked in with three people, and turned around and left first after explaining the situation, leaving the people from Huawei Technology to talk to him alone.

Raising his gaze and looking up, the other party was a configuration of two men and a woman.

The man in the lead has a Chinese face, and he is estimated to be forty years old at most, which makes people feel quite decent.

The other two are clearly assistants or something.

Directly ignored by him.

"I don't know what Mr. Zhang is looking for me, so I came here on purpose." Xu Yun took the initiative to ask the other party, wanting to find out the purpose of Huawei first.

Liu Xing has already helped to make a brief introduction just now.

He knew that the man with the Chinese character face in front of him was the technical director of Warwick.

Zhang Tao didn't choose to solve his doubts immediately in the face of the inquiry, a professional smile appeared on his face, and he sincerely apologized: "I'm really sorry Professor Xu, I disturbed your work today, I hope this won't cause you too much trouble." ”

"Even so, there is no need to say these polite words, I don't have much free time."

Hearing the meaning of Xu Yun's words, Zhang Tao suddenly realized something, and he didn't dare to hesitate to express his intention in the next second.

"Yes, Professor Xu, in fact, we set up an EDA software development project a long time ago, and although there is still a gap between it and SynSkaiden's software, this gap is narrowing."

At this point, Zhang Tao paused, but his expression vaguely showed pride.

Xu Yun frowned slightly and asked, "So what does this have to do with you looking for me?" ”

"At present, the global semiconductor industry is surging, which is a huge hidden danger for us." Zhang Tao gradually entered the state and explained in detail.

"If the domestic EDA still maintains the current development speed, it will be difficult to go online in a short period of time to meet the needs of the industry, so our chairman wants to use your company's artificial intelligence model to speed up software development."

Listening to all the other party's words into his ears, Xu Yun secretly thought in his heart.

When he first came to Jincheng, Hou Shengchang told him about EDA and made it clear that there was already a company developing it.

I didn't expect it to be Warwick.

However, the other party thought of speeding up the development by being stupid, which surprised him.

It can be seen that they are also very good at research in the field of artificial intelligence.

Of course, Xu Yun did not let go directly, but watched Zhang Tao throw a question.

"With the current functions of our intelligent model, although it can be intelligently programmed, I am afraid that the effect on large projects is limited, how do you think it can improve the speed of development?"

"The clumsy version update speed is obvious to all, I think it has reached version 3.0 now." Zhang Tao replied tentatively.

Hearing this, Xu Yun was thoughtful.

Zhang Tao's guess was right.

Although the current permission open to the outside world is still version 2.0, in fact, it has been upgraded to version 3.0 internally, otherwise it would not have helped him to view all the information of the lithography machine project in the institute so quickly.

At least from his experience, it is true that Clumsy can improve the speed and even functionality of software development.

Although the growth progress has slowed down a lot after iterating to version 3.0, it is still in the world's leading level.

Sufficient for use at this stage.

From a long-term perspective, the launch of domestic EDA industrial software is urgent.

At the same time, it is also an important part of high-end chip manufacturing.

There is really no reason to reject these two points alone.

What's more, he has a good impression of this technology company that can be used all over the world.

And just as he was thinking about the solution, Zhang Tao, who was standing opposite, gradually became a little impatient, and a nervous expression began to appear on his face.

It seems that I am worried that today's negotiations will fail, so I ran this trip in vain.

Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming more and more anxious, Zhang Tao shouted again: "If your company cooperates with us, Deepin Technology can obtain part of the sales share of Yinglong EDA, and I can guarantee that this is a win-win cooperation." ”

"Share of sales?" Xu Yun was a little surprised when he heard this.

According to the information he currently has, the Yinglong EDA industrial software project in the other party's mouth should have been carried out for a long time, and it is not the kind of junk goods that are not on the table, and they can get a share of software sales by opening some of the permissions of the 3.0 version of the stupid version.

It's a great deal to work with.

Not so easy to refuse.

Industrial software, such as EDA, mainly operates on a paid basis.

Although it is not yet possible to compete with Xinsikaiden, the cake brought by the completion of the domestic high-end chip manufacturing industry chain cannot be underestimated.

Speaking of which, if you refuse, it seems that the pattern is too small.

The thought stayed here, Xu Yun no longer continued to sell Guanzi, and immediately opened his mouth to settle the matter.

"I agree to the cooperation, and I will arrange for the person in charge of the artificial intelligence laboratory under the company to connect with you."

"You can discuss the specific situation for yourself."

"Great, thank you, Professor Xu, for giving us this opportunity." Zhang Tao heard the answer he wanted, and a smile appeared on his face.

In fact, he proposed to speed up software development with the help of the artificial intelligence model of Deepin Technology, and although he was questioned by the company's senior management as too much to take it for granted, he finally succeeded in convincing the chairman and immediately rushed to Jincheng to discuss cooperation.

Originally, he was not 100% sure, so he was also relieved when Xu Yun agreed.

However, after the relaxation and excitement, he was more secretly happy in his heart.

The reason for the company's top management is that they believe that the functions of Ben Ben 2.0 alone cannot achieve the auxiliary development of complex industrial software.

After careful study, he felt that Clumsy should have grown to version 3.0 according to the previous update iteration speed.

It can play a role in auxiliary development.

It's just that Deepin Technology has not opened the corresponding permissions to the outside world.

This matter is also very understandable, after all, rashly opening up a powerful AI model to everyone for free will bring a lot of chaos to society before the corresponding system comes out.

If they develop this AI model that is many versions ahead of the world, they will make the same choice.

It turns out that his guess is very correct, and Xu Yun did not deny the existence of version 3.0.

In particular, the fact that we were able to agree to this cooperation shows that the AI model updated to the latest version can indeed play a supporting role in large-scale software development projects.

After calming down his mood a little, Zhang Tao said again: "Then let's not disturb Professor Xu's work first, I believe that Professor Xu will definitely be able to develop a domestic extreme ultraviolet lithography machine." In the end, he did not forget to express his true thoughts to Xu Yun.

If the domestic high-end chip manufacturing industry chain is not solved, it will be difficult to develop even if it develops its own EDA software.

Xu Yun knew this very well, and when he heard this, he threw a smile at him, nodded and saw the other party leave.

Soon after he was the only one left in the office, he was able to send a notice to the AI lab.

Leave this matter to Yan Kaiming to be responsible for docking.

"Now that the software side is fully guaranteed, the next step is to make every effort to conquer the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine."

After finishing it, Xu Yun stood in the office and said in a slightly emotional tone, and then his eyes became more and more determined.

Originally, he was still a little worried about the quality of domestic industrial software, and he was afraid that he would hold back the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine when the time came, but now the idea of stupid assistance suddenly disappeared.

Thinking of his stupid performance in the past two days, even he couldn't help but want to be highly praised.

After Zhang Tao got the desired result, he naturally took the two assistants to take the nearest flight back to Shenzhen non-stop to report to the company.

Then you can lead the team to Jingzhou Deepin Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

On the way back, he did not hide the joy on his face.

As for Zhang Tao's performance, Xu Yun is naturally not too clear, because he is holding the second project meeting.

In the project seminar room, Xu Yun sat on the main seat in the middle and was confident.

Researchers such as Luo Changhui and Yang Jing are on both sides, as well as research assistants with postdoctoral status.

As soon as possible, the seminar room fell into silence at this moment, but if you look closely, you will find that everyone has doubts on their faces, curious about the purpose of Xu Yun's sudden project meeting.

In the hearts of these people, at this time, Xu Yun should forget to sleep and eat to check the project information.

Question marks gradually appeared in my mind after thinking?

"Could it be that Professor Xu has figured it out and plans to study the lithography machine first?"

"That's good news."

"I've long said that those materials are too cumbersome and cumbersome, and it won't take long for them to be abandoned."

Just thinking about it, Luo Changhui, who was on the right side, took the initiative to ask: "Professor Xu suddenly called us over today, did you encounter any problems in the project materials?" ”

"Not really." Xu Yun looked at Luo Changhui and shook his head.

After answering, I will continue to talk about it.

"Asking everyone to come over today is mainly to announce things, and I plan to start working on the technical problems facing the project from tomorrow."

As the saying goes, one stone stirs up a thousand waves, and when I heard Xu Yun say that he would start solving technical problems tomorrow, the originally slightly dull atmosphere disappeared in an instant, and was occupied by the atmosphere of active emotions and violent fluctuations.

Several researchers seemed to have been opened into a conversation, and they all spoke up.

"It's right to start the project early, the data technology in the institute is already very backward, and it doesn't have much value."

"Fortunately, Professor Xu figured it out in time, otherwise I really don't know how much time would have been wasted."

"What to do next, Professor Xu, you can arrange it."

Listening to the words of the researcher beside him, Xu Yun was a little foggy, but soon he understood what was going on.

I felt a little crying and laughing.

Everyone thought that he had given up checking all the information halfway, but he didn't know that he had already finished reading this thing.

Faced with this situation, he immediately explained: "I have read all the previous lithography machine project materials. ”

Although he said this as calmly as possible, it was no less than thunder when it reached the ears of others.

Everyone exploded in an instant.

"I've read it all, how is that possible?"

"I read it in two days, and according to the normal situation, so much information, even if you don't eat or drink, it is estimated that it will take ten days and a half months."

"It's incredible."

……

"As I said before, I'm still relatively fast at seeing things."

Xu Yun added with some embarrassment when he heard this.

And this still makes everyone feel complicated, and I don't know how to describe this feeling.

I thought to myself that this is simply faster, it is simply too fast.

After about three or four seconds, Yang Jing couldn't help but say, "It seems that we have greatly underestimated Professor Xu's talent." ”

In the end, it was Luo Changhui who spoke out to resolve this embarrassing atmosphere and put the topic back on track.

"Alright."

"We should all be happy that Professor Xu can show such a strong talent."

"That's how we can hope to solve the lithography machine problem."

When the words fell, he saw that everyone was deeply concerned, so he turned his head and looked at Xu Yun again and threw out a question.

"Professor Xu."

"I wonder which problem you're going to solve first?"

After speaking, not only Luo Changhui, but everyone else present also focused their eyes on Xu Yun for the first time, quietly waiting for the answer.

After spending two days to read the project information of the lithography machine in the institute, Xu Yun knew that the main problems faced by domestic extreme ultraviolet lithography machines were mainly divided into light sources and masks and projection optical systems.

The extreme ultraviolet light emitted by the light source of the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is extremely easily absorbed by the substance.

After multiple reflections of the beam, less than 2% of the light is usable.

The energy conversion rate is extremely low.

Therefore, a strong light source is required to ensure that the ray light source is strong enough.

In addition, extreme ultraviolet light has a wavelength of 13.5nm, and because it is easily absorbed by materials such as lens glass, it will also be attracted by air and gas, which will affect the refractive index change.

The chamber needs to be vacuumed.

Projection optics must use mirrors instead of lenses, which makes mirrors highly accurate and expensive to manufacture.

In terms of masking, due to the particularity of extreme ultraviolet light, ordinary masks are very easy to destroy, which requires the development of special masks.

It can be said that each of these problems requires a lot of long-term research by the institute.

And it doesn't always have to be fruitful.

It shows the difficulty of manufacturing the entire extreme ultraviolet high-end lithography machine.

It is no wonder that the overseas semiconductor field has no fear, and is not worried that they can realize the localization of the high-end chip manufacturing industry chain.

Fortunately, the problem of high-end photoresists has been solved, otherwise it would be equivalent to adding more difficulty.

Xu Yun naturally had a direction while figuring out this, and at this time, he did not hide anything in the face of Luo Changhui's inquiry, and even generously told his next plan.

"I'm going to fix the light source first."

The researchers present were well aware that these problems had to be solved, and it didn't make much difference which one to focus on first.

Naturally, he will not question Xu Yun's decision.

On the contrary, when they heard this answer, they nodded their heads in agreement.

"The light source is really a very important issue, and the extreme ultraviolet light source that we can make now simply does not meet the requirements in terms of power."

"I have no opinion."

"I also support Professor Xu's decision."

Xu Yun is very satisfied with everyone's performance, but it would be a mistake to think that he can only do it to this extent.

Before everyone could come to their senses, he dropped another bombshell.

"After a period of time, I will come up with the design plan of the light source, and I will also complete the optical system and mask plan in the future, and then I will ask everyone to work together to complete the lithography machine."

If everyone just now was just surprised and surprised that Xu Yun had read all the information in a short time.

Then after hearing this sentence at this moment, his expression suddenly stiffened on his face, and he was completely in a state of confusion.

The pupils constricted as if there had been an earthquake.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

It's just a short time to come up with a light source design plan, and it even said that the mask and optical system will also be no less, and the key to listening to this seems to mean that Xu Yun wants to complete the plan independently.

Even though Xu Yun has a very high talent, and has created a number of miracles to promote industry change.

Nor could they have imagined that possibility.

As long-time members of the lithography project, no one knows better than them how difficult it can be.

It can only be said that Xu Yun's words are not like the people who go to develop lithography machines, but they have mastered all the technology.

Take the relevant design solutions directly from their heads to them to complete.

But this is obviously impossible.

However, Xu Yun's tone was full of confidence, and the whole person looked confident.

It's really hard for them to judge the situation.

A long silence spread through the room, making the atmosphere seem eerie.

As for Liu Xing and several other postdoctoral research assistants, they are even more afraid to come out at the moment.

I don't know how long it took, Luo Changhui was the first to calm down, and asked Xu Yun with an extremely solemn face: "These items are the core problems in the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine, Professor Xu is really sure that he can complete the plan?" There was a hint of anticipation in his eyes as he spoke.

"It shouldn't be a problem." Xu Yun nodded and replied seriously.

These problems are indeed difficult for the institute to solve, but he has the brain to overclock and come up with the best solution.

It may be more stable than overseas lithography machines in all aspects.

So there is still some confidence in this.

Luo Changhui was repeatedly confirmed by Xu Yun, and finally stopped hiding the joy on his face.

Subconsciously clenched Xu Yun's palm, and hurriedly said, "I believe in you." ”

Although the others were still skeptical when they saw this scene, they thought about it carefully and now there was no better way than to believe in Xu Yun.

Whether a feasible solution can be come up with is only known after experiments.

But there is no doubt that if Xu Yun does what he says, then the domestic extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is bound to usher in rapid progress, and the previous decline in the field of semiconductor materials will also be swept away.

But whether it should be said or not, Xu Yun did give them too many surprises today.

In the following time, after Xu Yun made corresponding arrangements, he announced the end of this short but shocking meeting.

This was followed by a study of the feasibility of the light source.

……

At the same time, on the Shenzhen side, Zhang Tao and the company reported the negotiation results of the trip to Jincheng, and then set off to the Jingzhou Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to complete the relevant docking as soon as possible.

After returning to the headquarters of the company in Shenzhen, it also marks the official start of the actual verification experiment by using artificial intelligence models to assist in the development of domestic EDA industrial software methods.

If the results don't work as expected, then it doesn't work at all.

At that time, Zhang Tao, as the proposer, will definitely face part of the responsibility of the company.

After all, he was the one who pushed the bill through.

When he arrived at the software development office area at 9 o'clock in the morning, he couldn't help but feel apprehensive compared to the technical engineer sitting in front of the computer.

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(End of chapter)