The next morning, Shanghai Convention Center.

Red flags flutter outside, hunting in the clear blue sky!

The 3,000-square-meter multimedia hall can accommodate more than 1,600 people at a time.

In the back rows, there are media representatives from mainstream scientific and technological journals and business magazines, as well as the best circuit engineers, materials scientists and optical researchers in the semiconductor industry, and chip engineers above the P4 level in the three major R&D centers of Shanhai Microelectronics.

Wu Maozhe, Xie Shengdong, Ye Youcheng, Noyce and Liang Kaiji and others, all looked excited, sitting in their seats and waiting for the start of the press conference.

The middle area is the partners and customers of Shanhai Microelectronics, including the heads of more than a dozen companies such as Hotong, Pinghua, Huayao, Zhongxin, etc., as well as the CEOs of Huaxin International, Jinling Hi-Tech, Ouda Heat Treatment and other companies.

In the front two rows, there were several bigwigs from Shanghai, Qin Lao and Zhou An sat on chairs, accompanied by the people around them to talk, unlike the reporters, they had already learned the content of the press conference, and under the calm appearance, there was a turbulent heart.

What makes people wonder is that in the center of the first row, no one has been seated for a long time.

Even Qin Lao could only sit on the edge of the first row, so who were these seats for?

For a while, everyone couldn't help but raise their expectations, and the pattern of this press conference seems to be very high!

Suddenly, a black sedan slowly stopped at the door of the hall, and a trembling old man walked down, full of silver hair, and his face was covered with gray-brown spots, which were loose.

Every step I take, I feel extremely struggling, at least over eighty years old, and I look like I am dying.

Wearing a gray tunic, ironed meticulously, He Tingbo, CEO of Shanhai Microelectronics, immediately trotted over after seeing the old man for the first time, supported each other, and greeted politely: "Teacher, you are here." ”

"Xiao He, I can still walk, let me come by myself."

Seeing this, the old man waved his hand and lectured with a straight face.

This strong woman in the mountains and seas who is in charge of the trillion-dollar chip empire is like a primary school student at the moment, nodding her head again and again, obediently stepping aside to take care of her teacher.

"Wow! Who is this man? What a big shelf! ”

"When Mr. He greeted Elder Qin just now, he didn't grovel like this, right?"

"Could it be the big guy from Yancheng? It doesn't look like it! ”

"I remember! Shanhai Microelectronics actually invited this big guy, oh my God! ”

The audience in the middle and back rows whispered, and some of the top engineers in the industry subconsciously stood up and looked at the teacher in unison.

In the past, they had only met this old man in textbooks, papers, and literature.

"Xu Lao, passing on the torch from generation to generation, endlessly, Huaguo's semiconductor road has finally continued."

At this time, Qin Lao actually took the initiative to stand up and made a student salute, Wen Xu said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, then I'll take a good look."

Xu Lao raised his right hand and patted Qin Lao's shoulder, as always, as if he had returned to thirty years ago in an instant, when one of the two was a doctoral supervisor of Huaqing University, and the other was a young and immature graduate student majoring in electrical engineering.

Qin Lao helped Xu Lao to the first row and sat down, and after a few words of greeting, he sat back in his place.

"Boss, who is that?"

Zhou An couldn't help but ask curiously.

With his understanding of Qin Lao's character, even if Meng Lao was in person, he would not put on such a posture.

"It's normal that you are a liberal arts student who doesn't understand, this is my teacher when I was studying, Mr. Xu Duanyi Xu."

Qin Lao smiled slightly and explained simply.

Xu Duanyi?

Zhou An was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered that he was the chief engineer of Huaguo's first step-by-step projection lithography machine, and the optimus jade pillar of the domestic lithography machine back then.

Thirty years ago, by virtue of its own efforts, it promoted the production and manufacturing of self-developed lithography machines, forcing some countries to lift the encirclement and blockade of semiconductor equipment and photoresist materials.

Because it is pointless to continue like this, it will only allow China to catch up and erase the gap with the Western world.

In order to suppress the projection lithography machine developed by Xu Duanyi's team, overseas semiconductor companies have made big moves, as long as they purchase their imported lithography machine equipment, they can get the opportunity to go abroad for "exchange and study", and bear all the round-trip air tickets, hotel accommodation and travel expenses.

You know, it was 1991, which entrepreneur didn't want to go abroad to meet the market and open foreign meat?

In this case, the domestic projection lithography machine soon lost its living space, and years of hard work were in vain, and the Huaguo semiconductor industry chose to swing its knife from the palace and completely gave up the research and development and manufacturing of the lithography machine.

This break is thirty years!

Xu Duanyi went from an energetic middle-aged man to a gray-haired and gray-haired man, and he was about to step into the coffin with one foot, but he didn't expect that the younger generations gave him a big surprise.

Shanhai Microelectronics, overcoming obstacles, leading the semiconductor industry in Dahua District, standing at the peak!

"I'm not lonely, I'm not lonely!"

Xu Duanyi's eyes fell completely on the red silk on the stage, his eyes were hazy with tears in an instant, and the corners of his mouth were full of gratifying smiles.

In front of the main gate of the convention center.

Chen Heyu was dressed in a straight suit and quipped at Lei Jun: "What? Rice's next-generation new product, want to be equipped with Shanhai M-5 chip? ”

"Boss, that's for sure, as for the price, can it be cheaper?"

Lei Jun grinned.

"It's all my own people, can I still kill you?"

Chen Heyu asked rhetorically.

"I'm afraid that the boss will be ruthless and slaughter my old thunder."

Rebus joked.

At this moment, a low-key and restrained black sedan turned to the road, escorted by an off-road model in front of and behind, left and right, and as the window was lowered, a familiar face appeared in front of the two of them.

"What are you two doing here?"

Meng Lao asked lightly.

"Of course, I'm waiting for you to come over and support Shanhai Microelectronics."

Chen Heyu replied with a smile, with a big grin.

The Commerce Department of the beautiful country wants to engage him, although he is not afraid at all, but if there is Meng Lao's support, he can naturally sit back and relax.

"You! It's really a bit of mud monkey nature. ”

Meng Lao smiled, waved his hand, and asked the driver to continue driving inside.

"Mr. Lei, this battle is about to start!"

Chen Heyu said meaningfully, then beckoned, and took Lei Jun straight to the conference hall.

When he accompanied Meng Lao into the hall with his feet raised, the noise in the room suddenly dissipated, and they all looked at Meng Lao with an expression of disbelief on their faces.

"Old Meng? He actually came to attend a new product launch conference of a private enterprise? ”

"I'll go! What did Shanhai Microelectronics come up with? Attracted Meng Laodu over! ”

"There is no one before and no one after us, mountains and seas microelectricity, cattle batches!"

The reporters in the audience didn't even have the sound of discussion, they only dared to sigh silently in their hearts, a little dizzy in their minds, and forgot the action of pressing the shutter.

Chen Heyu led Meng Lao to the first row and sat down, then turned to Xu Duanyi and smiled, and greeted softly: "Hello Old Xu." ”

"Young man, you are much better than me, I was wrong back then, ignoring the value and promotion of commercialization, and I will lose everything.

I heard Xiao He mention that your achievements in the field of business are far greater than those in the field of scientific research, so that I can rest assured that China has mountains and seas, and we can also touch this pearl in the crown of industry. ”

Xu Duanyi raised his eyelids and said strongly.

"Mr. Xu has won the award, He is always your student, and he can be regarded as inheriting your mantle."

Chen Heyu smiled faintly.

Xu Duanyi shook his head, and just as he wanted to say something, he saw He Tingbo wearing a light gray suit and walking on the stage calmly.

Facing the participants of the black crow in the audience, especially the few heavyweight guests in the first row, she couldn't help but feel a little timid and panicked after a long time.

It wasn't until her gaze met Chen Heyu's eyes that she settled down.

The boss crossed Erlang's legs, with a relaxed and comfortable look, as if the upcoming press conference was just an ordinary meeting.

She exhaled a heavy breath and raised her voice: "Distinguished guests and friends, good morning!

It has been a year since the last new product launch conference, and it seems that Shanhai Microelectronics is silent and has entered a bottleneck period, but in fact this is not the case. ”

He Tingbo paused and said: "In the field of chip research and development, Shanhai Microelectronics is constantly breaking through the barriers of the current production process, optical materials and lithography devices with a high-speed and galloping attitude, so today, we will have a total of three new products to be announced." ”

"First, a mature 7-nanometer chip manufacturing process!"

"Second, the new Shanhai M-5 chip processor!"

"Third, the first generation EUV lithography machine of the Candle Dragon 10800!"

"Next, let Shanhai Microelectronics' genius chip engineer, Mr. Wu Maozhe, explain the R&D process and performance advantages of the 7nm chip process."

He Tingbo's brief opening remarks were like throwing a boulder worth tens of thousands of tons into a calm lake, and the splash lingered in everyone's hearts.

7nm process?

Lithography machine?

Or EUV lithography machine?

What did Shanhai Microelectronics do in the two years of silence?

Shock, joy, madness, suspicion, all kinds of complex emotions flashed in everyone's heart!

In the past ten years, although domestic lithography machines have been frequently patented, they can only create low-end, industrial lithography machines above 90nm.

Shanhai Microelectronics unexpectedly broke the convention, bypassed the encirclement of Ames, Nikang and Glenton, and announced the birth of domestic lithography machines!

Wu Maozhe was wearing a casual suit, obviously dressed up on purpose, and in his opinion, he was purely chasing ducks to the shelves.

When he stood on the podium, thousands of pairs of eyes immediately cast over, and the meaning of the eyes was very clear: "Brother, hurry up and finish speaking, let Mr. He introduce the lithography machine!" ”

If it is ordinary, the 7nm manufacturing process may cause a big earthquake in the industry, but today, everyone only wants to understand the domestic lithography machine first.

The semiconductor industry in Dahua District has been stuck for decades at this step!

"My name is Wu Maozhe, I am an ordinary circuit engineer of Shanhai Microelectronics, and I was fortunate to improve the 16nm, 14nm and 10nm chip production process with the assistance of my colleagues.

This time, my lucky aura still played its role, and with the help of Xie Shengdong, Noyce and others, I shrunk the company's semiconductor process level to 7 nanometers, and as the worst and most expressive engineer in the team, I stood on the stage......"

Wu Maozhe said eloquently.

The media reporters in the audience smiled kindly, his life history was picked up as early as the first year when he received a high year-end bonus.

The second young master of Yibin Electronics!

Former senior engineer of Maiweida!

Loser in the competition for family property!

After joining Shanhai Microelectronics, relying on his own scientific research talent, he turned the tide and brought Huaguo's semiconductor industry into the 16nm era in one fell swoop.

No one will believe the other party's self-deprecating words.

Everyone knew very well that this was a real genius!

"Getting back to the point, I take the Shanhai M series of chip products as an example, and briefly talk about the superiority of the 7nm process, Shanhai M-4 is a 10nm process chip, and Shanhai M-5 is a 7nm process chip.

In terms of the number of transistors, Shanhai M-5 has 7.8 billion transistors, and Shanhai M-4 has 5.6 billion transistors, an increase of about 39.3%.

However, in terms of performance, it is certainly far from being as simple as 39.3%, and the comprehensive upgrade and optimization of IP cores such as CPU, GPU, NPU and so on will bring users a completely different experience.

In terms of specific values, like the CPU score, Shanhai M-5 is about 67% higher, the GPU part is 1.2 times higher, and the NPU score is 1.3 times more, the overall performance has increased by 83%, and the power consumption has decreased by 23%.

Sorry, I seem to have stolen another colleague's line, so I'll stop here when it comes to performance. ”

Wu Maozhe waved his hand at Ye Youcheng, made a "hug" expression, paused for a moment, and then said:

"From a professional point of view, Shanhai Microelectric Energy has broken through from 10 nanometers to 7 nanometers in such a short period of time, mainly due to four points:

First, equipment upgrade: Candle Dragon 10800 EUV lithography machine, replacing some AMES products, has been greatly improved in resolution, stability and production efficiency, the defective rate is only 13%, at the beginning of the birth of the 10nm process, 80% yield rate is the goal we have been pursuing;

Now, it's easy! In the next three years, we will phase out AMES' lithography products!

The 10800 EUV lithography machine can achieve higher precision and smaller gate width at the micro and nano level, accommodating nearly tens of billions of transistors on a tiny silicon wafer, with millions of transistors per square millimeter.

Second, material selection and iteration: The new materials developed by Chief Engineer Liang Kaiji have more superior optical and electronic properties, which can provide higher resolution and lower power consumption, which is also a major help for us to break through the process limitations. ”

Wu Maozhe smiled and beckoned in the direction of Liang Kaiji.

"This kid! Do everything you can! ”

Chen Heyu was helpless and covered his face in embarrassment, Ye Youcheng should be the first to come to the stage to show the mature and stable image of Shanhai.

"The new generation of researchers seems to be more energetic than we are."

Xu Duanyi said with emotion.

With Wu Maozhe's out-of-the-box temperament, he threw himself into a domestic research institute or photovoltaic company, and he didn't know how many small shoes he had to wear.

"Old Meng, don't mind, this guy has made an old mistake."

Chen Heyu explained in a low voice,

"It doesn't matter! Do technicians want to lose stereotypes, he is Wu Maozhe? Very good. ”

Meng Lao commented softly.

"Is his electronics factory finally coming back?"

Meng Lao obviously understood Wu Maozhe's experience, so he gossiped and asked.

"Last year, I took the channel of Shanhai Capital and took back the full capital."

Chen Hayu replied.

Originally, Wu Maozhe wanted to completely drive out his half-brother, but he chose to give up at the last moment.

He paid for it, but he just wanted to fight for his breath.

"He's an interesting person, he can't do business, but he's a good hand at scientific research."

Meng Lao bowed his head slightly and said with a smile.

"Third, software and algorithm optimization: Xihe 2.0 improves the synergy between chip design and manufacturing, and by optimizing algorithms and using technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, it can better achieve accurate chip layout and pattern generation ......"

Wu Maozhe on the stage gradually got better, calmly and calmly analyzed them one by one.

But outside the venue, semiconductors from all over the world suddenly exploded, and the 7nm process was like a slap in the face.

You haven't been familiar with the 10nm production process, and you've made a 7nm?

Still don't let people live?

As for Huaguo's self-developed Candle Dragon 10800 EUV lithography machine, it is like a stick, smashing them to pieces!

After hearing the news, Bernard heard the news from the headquarters of Ames and exclaimed loudly: "Shit! It's absolutely impossible! ”

Neon Country, Nikang Club Building, Ryosuke Matsubara held the document in his hand and was silent for a long time.

Beautiful country, the office of the Semiconductor Association, Prime Minister Matthew sat on the chair in a dejected manner, he just wanted to attack Shanhai Microelectronics, and the other party raised his hand and gave him a punch!

"Labor and management haven't made a move yet! Don't talk about martial arts! ”

Matthew scolded.

He knows very well in his heart that the stronger Shanhai Microelectronics, the more heavy the loss of the semiconductor industry in the beautiful country will be!

For a time, all the continents and five oceans shook! (End of chapter)