In today's China, there are still enterprises with a scale of 10,000 people, and the enterprises that can reach this scale are generally concentrated in the fields of railways, tobacco, telecommunications, etc., and these fields have a common feature, that is, these fields belong to the forbidden land of private capital and foreign capital.

In addition to these fields, there are very few technology-based enterprises with a scale of 10,000 people. TCL is the largest private technology giant in terms of technology-based enterprises, with more than 50,000 people in 2000.

In the chip industry, Xinxina is unique, and in just three years, it has grown into a unique giant in the chip field, leading in terms of revenue, profits, and jobs.

Like Zhou Xin's previous public accusation of Jiaotong University and Chen Jin's fraud, and under the premise of Shen Hai's communication, he also held a press conference to publicize the scandal, a series of practices that did not give Shen Hai and even the entire Chinese university face at all, not only did not receive any punishment or suffer from public opinion pressure, but also received better support from Shen Hai than before.

The fundamental reason is that the strength of Xinxin is strong enough, and the speed of development has made the bigwigs of Yanjing and Shenhai see hope, and the hope of developing an independent and controllable chip industry.

For Zhou Xin, before he made a cross-line behavior, even if his behavior or remarks crossed the line, it would not be good.

At present, Xinxin, which provides tens of thousands of jobs, and the quality of jobs far exceeds that of Foxconn in the future, and Xinxin will not be treated as well.

After chatting with Hu Zhengming about the overall situation of Xinxin and Xiaomi, Zhou Xin said: "Uncle Lin has already told me that the Xinxin lithography machine will take the technical route of the immersion method in the future, and I agree with his idea." ”

Hu Zhengming nodded: "He also told me before, to be honest, this should be regarded as a long-cherished wish of his, and only in Xinxin can he have the opportunity to realize his long-cherished wish." ”

Zhou Xin was a little incomprehensible and asked, "Why do you say it's a long-cherished wish?" ”

Hu Zhengming explained: "This technical route of the immersion method was first proposed by Ben Jian, who believed that the immersion method may be one of the technical directions for the continued development of lithography machines in the 80s of the last century.

However, the right medium has not been found, and the rapid development of dry lithography machines has made the industry have no motivation or willingness to explore a new technical route. So Ben Jian, who was still working at IBM at the time, did not get the support of the company.

The patent for the immersion lithography machine technology has been applied for by neon man Takanashi, and Ben Jian has been haunted by this matter.

Now it's different, the lithography machine has reached a bottleneck, and 90nm is the bottleneck of the dry lithography machine, but for giants like Nikon and Canon, they are unwilling to change the technical route casually.

Changing the technical route means that the patents they have accumulated in the field of dry lithography machines will be buried, and they are back on the same starting line with us and ASML, and they will not be willing to do so.

On the contrary, latecomers like us are more willing to take risks in technology, not even in terms of risk, but only by adopting a radical technological route can it be possible to achieve overtaking, and there are too many similar examples in Silicon Valley. ”

After Hu Zhengming finished speaking, Zhou Xin somewhat understood why Lin Benjian would choose Xinxin between TSMC and Xinxin back then, because Xinxin planned to make lithography machines, while TSMC had no similar plans.

Only by making a lithography machine can we have the opportunity to switch to the technical route of immersion lithography machine.

According to Hu Zhengming, Lin Benjian has wanted to take this technical route for nearly 20 years, what kind of obsession is this.

Zhou Xin said: "I am also optimistic about this technical route, and Uncle Lin and I have reached an agreement in this regard, and we even have a tacit understanding of which medium to use for the immersion lithography machine." ”

Hu Zhengming said: "It's good if you support him, to be honest, whether it is Benjian or Lao Guan, everyone will come to Xinxin, and more or less the previous career is a little unambitious."

Lao Guan was driven away because of his partner, you should know better, Ben Jian doesn't communicate with you so much, and he is relatively taciturn, except for talking about technology, he rarely talks about his own affairs.

I have known Ben Jian for about 16 years, and I still remember that it was in the 80s, when there was a seminar, and Ben Jian, as a technical expert from IBM, gave a presentation, and his topic was what bottlenecks will be encountered in the future development of the chip manufacturing field.

At that time, the chip manufacturing process was still 1,000 nanometers, oh yes, it was 87 years, and then Benjian proposed how to break through these bottlenecks, including the infiltration method. There were many ways to do it at that time, and no one noticed his methods.

It's a bit far-sighted, just said that Ben Jian was not ambitious at IBM, because he did deep ultraviolet light when he was at IBM, and the main research direction of IBM's optical department at that time was X-ray, which also led to him not being so ambitious.

Otherwise, he would not have applied for IBM's internal retirement business at the age of 50.

Therefore, Benjian has always believed that if the chip manufacturing process wants to break through, the light source is the key, and the current light source is deep ultraviolet light, and if you want to go from deep ultraviolet light to extreme ultraviolet light, the infiltration method is the key. ”

I have to say that Lin Benjian's technical sense of smell is extremely keen, extreme ultraviolet light is the key technology of the chip manufacturing process into 10nm, and if the dry lithography machine is continued, the problem caused by extreme ultraviolet light cannot be solved.

When Xinxin from Zhou Xin to Hu Zhengming to Lin Benjian, everyone in this line reached a consensus to take the immersion lithography machine route, Xinxin's main opponents in the field of lithography machines are charging towards the field of 157nm dry lithography machines.

The current 90nm process relies on a dry lithography machine with a wavelength of 193nm, and the limit of the light source at this wavelength is 65nm, which is almost impossible to go any further.

The industry has verified this in the laboratory, if you want to continue, you have to change the light source, the industry and academia have thought of a variety of methods, these methods all point to one direction to change the light source, change the light source with a shorter wavelength.

It is clear that without Lin Benjian, ASML would have continued to develop in the direction of dry lithography machines, because they acquired SVG in 2000, a company focused on 157nm wavelength light sources, which is the closest to commercial mass production on this technology route.

ASML invested heavily in the 157nm dry lithography machine, and if it weren't for Lin Benjian first convincing TSMC President Jiang Shangyi, and then Lin Benjian attended the 157nm wavelength lithography machine technology seminar in Brussels to persuade most of the experts.

Later, relying on TSMC, Lin Benjian completed the feasibility study of the immersion lithography machine, and ASML would not take this technical route at all.

The inflection point of history has led to the fact that the current global Xinxin Technology is the only manufacturer that has invested resources in immersion lithography machines.

According to what he learned about the industry, Zhou Xin had a sense of change, and his influence made ASML enter a technical route with limited prospects.

Relying on the previous technology accumulation, ASML, Nikon, and Canon can catch up at 45nm with dry lithography machines and new light sources, but after 45nm, the technical route of dry lithography machines will definitely have problems, and the problem is that no matter how the process is optimized, the yield rate will not go up.

Of course, it is not excluded that they follow Xinxin Technology to take the route of immersion lithography machine, but this also means that the patents accumulated by Xinxin and the patent wall built by Xinxin can charge them high patent fees.

"Hello Mark, you've done a great job of talking faces." After returning to San Francisco, Zhou Xin met with Zuckerberg.

In just two months, the number of users in the United States has successfully exceeded 1 million, creating the history of mobile phone applications and becoming the fastest non-original application to reach the achievement of one million users.

So much so that Zuckerberg has become the new favorite of Silicon Valley, and a large number of media pages have focused on this young man.

Face Chat has a unique profit model, members are charged in tiers, and the optimized Face Chat payment is divided into nine grades, with prices ranging from $1 to $9, corresponding to different grades.

The highest grade is 50% off, for example, the original 100 messages can unlock all the information of the other party, and now it is 50. And $1 is 9% off, which means that 90 messages can unlock all the information of the other party.

This kind of payment method gives users a variety of choices, and even leads to a lot of additional payments, for example, when the other party doesn't reply to me when I talk to 80 sentences, I want to continue chatting in order to find a topic, to charge a member who can be unlocked at the moment, and then continue to chat after checking the other party's specific information.

This kind of payment method is unprecedented, and this innovation is shining in the eyes of users at the moment, not only has it not been criticized, but it is considered cool by a large number of users, which is in line with the habits of young people.

In addition, Face Chat deliberately induces an atmosphere in the community that you are not cool enough if you are not a member, and the attitude of girls towards members and non-members is very different. In addition, those who can afford to use Mphone basically have a certain economic foundation, and the payment rate of face chat is not generally high due to comprehensive factors.

The number of millions of users, the high payment rate, and the rapid growth rate all kinds of factors have superimposed to make Facebook Chat the hottest unicorn enterprise in 2003.

Zuckerberg grinned happily: "Newman, you're my idol, and when I was in high school, you had a fun time with me when you made Quora. ”

The fact that Zhou Xin is his idol is not flattery, but a fact, but it is not a contradiction to want to surpass Zhou Xin, achieve greater achievements, and replace Zhou Xin's title as the king of the Internet.

Zhou Xin said: "You are similar to me, and I also made Quora at your age.

I think we all have a lot of insight. ”

There have always been various rumors about Zuckerberg, such as robots and lizardmen, so much so that he has become another tech tycoon who has been subjected to various conspiracy theories after Gates. But there are indeed a lot of well-founded rumors, and what Zhou Xin understands is that FB often plagiarizes the ideas and technologies of other companies.

Perhaps it's because of this that people have doubts about FB and Zuckerberg's moral standards, and so many conspiracy theories have been born.

Later, after the news of Musk and Zuckerberg's octagon cage battle came out, many Ameriken netizens expressed their hope to see Zuckerberg beaten back to his original form, revealing the real body of a lizardman or robot.

After a brief pleasantries, Zuckerberg went straight to the point: "Newman, I feel like the face chat has entered a bottleneck.

I don't really know how to continue to give it more features that are fun to the user without breaking the original structure. ”

Xinxing Investment offered an interest-free loan of $20 million to Facebook, and in return, Xinxing Investment will receive a 50% share of Facebook's next round of funding.

After finishing speaking, Zuckerberg took out Mphone2 and briefly showed the current functions of Face Chat in front of Zhou Xin.

After reading it, Zhou Xin thought to himself, isn't this a revision of Soul in the future, can you still play flowers? Zhou Xin knows soul, this software is a bit similar to the literary version of Momo, to put it bluntly, it is also a place for users to know the opposite sex.

Face chat is an anonymous version of Soul, and Soul is also anonymous, but face chat has more real information about users.

Because Face Chat is competing with WeChat for instant messaging software users, Zhou Xin doesn't want to say too much substantive content with the other party.

Zhou Xin said: "You can try to add the call function to it.

For example, what conditions can be met, two people can talk.

The call will be full of a hazy feeling, and it will be more attractive and contagious than words. ”

Zhou Xin's suggestion is also ill-intentioned, for startups to support the call function, it means that the network needs to be upgraded, the broadband needs to be increased, and it is a big cost for the enterprise.

This also means that Facebook Chat should speed up the pace of financing, and Xinxing can obtain the shares of Facebook Chat faster and then realize it.

In Zhou Xin's understanding, the upper limit of Facebook Chat, a software that relies on membership fees, is far inferior to advertising.

Whether in China or Ameriken, the Internet advertising revenue linked to traffic will always be much more than the membership income, even if it is a TV application, all kinds of bells and whistles for members, you have to find ways to implant ads.

Zuckerberg's eyes lit up after listening to it, and the idea they had been thinking about before was to dig deep into user needs towards anonymity and community building, and they had never thought about the road of voice.

He went on to say in Zhou's new words: "After the user who is equivalent to face chat achieves a certain achievement, the two of them can voice chat.

This further closes the relationship and gives users of Facebook Chat a reason to continue to stay in Facebook Chat after knowing the real information of the other party. ”

This is the dilemma of Face Chat, that is, after users complete the construction of a stable intimate relationship through Face Chat, they will uninstall Face Chat and transfer it to WeChat, which means that both customers are lost, and the membership fee can no longer be collected.

I was going to write this morning, but the crow was wobbed to sleep at two o'clock by the family cat last night, and he really couldn't get up this morning.

At the beginning of the month, I asked for a ticket, but I didn't dare to set up a flag for more in September, alas, the crow has been lazy for too long.

(End of chapter)