My science and technology museum

Just a few days after Xu Lei arrived at the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the invitation of Yang Senping, he made such incredible suggestions to them. It is difficult not to think of the research and development of lithography machine technology.

Only with the advent of domestic high-end lithography machines can they design chips with stronger performance without any scruples.

By stabilizing the powerful advantages brought by Tamron chips, we still maintain our position as the leader in the chip industry, allowing Tamron series chips to always top the chip performance rankings.

At this point, Ren Yuanwei affirmed Peng Xiangqian's idea.

"I think the probability of this possibility is extremely high."

"The Chinese Academy of Sciences has just announced the news of a breakthrough in domestic lithography machine technology. Xu Lei was invited by Dean Yang to go to the Imperial Capital. Now he has specifically made this suggestion to us. It is estimated that there must be good news."

"If this is the case, we must seize this opportunity."

At present, the world's top chip companies are moving towards the 5-nanometer chip field. In addition, everyone uses Yinglong chip design software. You can imagine how fierce competition will be by then.

If domestic lithography machine technology really achieves overtaking in corners, it will be able to produce chips with 3 nanometer specifications.

They are starting to design now and will be able to go directly to tape-out for mass production.

Just think about it.

When other chip companies confidently release their latest 5nm chips, they find that Warwick has already launched 3nm. I believe it will be a very interesting scene.

With his mind running rapidly, Ren Yuanwei was also excited.

After all, the instant transition from the previous situation where no chips were available to the leading technology in the industry is indeed a big emotional fluctuation.

At this time, Ren Yuanwei could not delay anything, and immediately issued an order to Peng Xiangqian.

"Lao Peng, you are personally responsible for this matter."

"Starting from today, we will set up a special design team to temporarily abandon the research and development of 5nm Tamron chips and directly enter the field of 3nm or even 1nm. This time we must seize the opportunity to become the leader in the industry."

Compared with Ren Yuanwei's determination, Peng Xiangqian was still a little worried.

I am afraid that if domestic optical technology cannot reach the technological level of producing 3nm chips by then, their vacancy in 5nm specifications will be very fatal.

Therefore, out of consideration for the company, Peng Xiangqian did not respond to Ren Yuanwei's decision for the time being, but instead raised his own doubts.

"Chairman."

"Currently, even the world's top lithography machine manufacturing companies are unable to manufacture lithography machines that can produce three-nanometer chips. Can our domestic lithography machines really reach this level?"

"What's more, 1-nanometer chips are said to be impossible to manufacture. They have reached the theoretical and physical limits of silicon-based chips."

"So, should we discuss this matter carefully?"

How could Ren Yuanwei not consider the issues that Peng Xiangqian was worried about, but unfortunately they had no chance to choose.

Regardless of whether the research and development of 5-nanometer chips is stopped or not, there will eventually be no foundry production.

This alone disqualifies them from competing with other overseas chip companies.

If you want to break the situation, you can only place all your hopes on domestic lithography machines.

"Lao Peng, there are some risks that you have to bear."

"Even if we fail in the end, given our current situation, we will only lose some funds."

"Besides, we all know what kind of person Xu Lei is. I trust what he said very much, but what you said makes some sense. Then give up the research and development of 1 nanometer chips and focus all your energy on 3 nanometer specifications. On the chip.”

With all Ren Yuanwei's words reaching his ears, Peng Xiangxiang will definitely have no objections.

"It's the chairman, I know what to do."

He responded in a deep voice and prepared to turn around and leave.

But just as he took a step forward, Ren Yuanwei's shout came from behind him again.

"By the way, how many Tamron chips do we have in stock now?"

"More than 40 million." Peng Xiangqian answered truthfully.

"To use these chips on our mid-range models, it's time to clean up the inventory." Ren Yuanwei made this decision after hesitating for a while.

Currently, as the company's most powerful chip, it is only used in high-end flagship models because it is temporarily unable to be produced.

But since the production issues are likely to be resolved, and it won't be long before higher-end chips with higher performance are available, there's no need to keep so many Tamron chips in stock.

You must know that in addition to the high-end brand of flagship phones, Warwick also has a mid-range brand called Xingyao.

Even its sales volume is higher than that of Warwick.

If a certain number of Tamron chips are installed in Shining mobile phones, it will inevitably cause a strong response from the market.

It was snapped up by users crazily.

After all, the performance of flagship phones is superior, but the price will always keep many people away. Since Tamron's new film has such powerful performance, it should serve more users.

After Peng Xiangqian heard this sentence, he naturally understood what Ren Yuanwei meant, nodded again and answered before exiting the office.

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Let’s talk about Xu Lei.

When he led Chen Shihe to the lithography machine project laboratory, he finally met all the developers of the project.

This time, in order to produce a top-notch lithography machine that Xu Lei said could produce chips that could break through the limits of physical theory, Yang Senping recruited leading figures in related fields from major branches and general academies, including many academicians.

However, it is worth mentioning that Dean Yang Senping’s research field is not lithography machines, and he was only busy because he was appointed as the project leader.

Now that the person in charge has been replaced by Xu Lei, there is no need for him to come to the project laboratory.

Although he had to face so many top elites in the industry at once, Xu Lei felt no burden at all.

For technicians, there is no intuitive connection between technical level and age. At least now Xu Lei is confident that his mastery of photolithography machine manufacturing-related technologies is higher than that of everyone present.

Even being their teacher is no problem.

Therefore, the state he showed was also full of relaxation, with a confident smile always hanging on the corner of his mouth.

Chen Shihe, on the other hand, seemed a little cautious and looked slightly downward, not daring to look at the many industry bosses in front of him.

"Seniors, I believe you are all familiar with me, so I won't introduce myself here."

"Since we are involved in the research and development of this project, I hope everyone can cooperate with each other and strive to manufacture this top-level photolithography machine as soon as possible."

"Shihe."

After Xu Lei said these few words briefly, he suddenly called Chen Shihe who was standing up and took a stack of paper documents from her hand.

And he spoke again: "Here is the project division of labor that I have arranged for everyone. You can take a look first."

Although Xu Lei has transferred all the top-level photolithography machine manufacturing technology into his mind, he cannot complete it by himself. After all, a top-level photolithography machine has hundreds of thousands of parts. If all the parts are given to You don’t even know how long it takes to assemble it.

What's more, many of the parts and equipment owned in China cannot meet the requirements of top-level photolithography machines.

Additional optimization studies are needed.

So after Xu Lei got the list of project R\u0026D personnel, he conducted a detailed investigation on each of them and assigned tasks based on their expertise.

It is obviously impossible for these people present to say that they have no criticism of Xu Lei.

In the past, when they wanted to lead any project research, the process in between, from report application to approval to the official start of the project, took a long time.

But Xu Lei was not even a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but he was able to get such a large scientific research project approved in just a few days.

It's simply enviable.

The other is the problem of top-level photolithography machines mentioned by Xu Lei.

Their theoretical knowledge and practical experience tell them that it is basically impossible to break through the physical limits of silicon-based chips and produce 1-nanometer chips.

But Yang Senping trusted them so much that he even transferred them from major branches.

If the final project research fails, this responsibility will definitely not be small.

But doubts remain doubts.

They are quite certain about Xu Lei's abilities.

It’s just that the research and development work of lithography machines is not as good as the software technology. No one can guarantee how Xu Lei will perform this time. But since he has become a research and development staff of this project and is quite satisfied with Xu Lei’s attitude just now, he can I had no choice but to do my best to cooperate with him to conquer the top lithography machine manufacturing technology.

In this way, even if the final project development fails, they will not have any responsibility.

Not long after.

When everyone present carefully looked at the project division of labor document planned by Xu Lei, their expressions suddenly became very strange.

In the end, only a middle-aged man with half-white hair and glasses couldn't help but question: "XCMG, the laser is responsible for the generation of the light source, and its power wavelength directly affects the chip manufacturing process. Is it too few that you only arranged two assistants?" A little bit?"

Xu Lei knew that the person speaking was Hao Yaoping, an academician in the field of optics. He had made significant contributions to the research of optical technology and was almost the most senior among the R\u0026D personnel of this project.

So he showed great respect and quickly answered: "The laser is indeed the core component of the entire lithography machine, but I am sure to obtain the extreme ultraviolet light source with the shortest wavelength, so two assistants are enough for the time being."

“Assigning more personnel to the research of other components can effectively improve the efficiency of research and development.”

Under Xu Lei's arrangement.

He is mainly responsible for laser light sources and photoresist issues.

Xingtong assisted in the development of the control software.

As for components such as the objective lens system and composite materials, they need to be upgraded and optimized on the existing basis, so he arranged most of the R\u0026D personnel in this place.

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