Daguo Science and Technology started from the copycat system

Of course, most journalists at this time do not know how to produce 90nm and 65nm chips.

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

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

However, we should not consider the short-term in doing things, but also consider the long-term and even longer-term future development routes.

The fifth-generation immersion lithography machine technology is a magical technology. This technology was officially developed and launched in October 2003 last year and the first-generation lithography machine product was launched.

At this time, although the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine has many technical patent walls in front of it, it has not yet formed an iron wall of technical patents that is absolutely impossible to break through like the previous life.

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

Otherwise, when ASML and TSMC register more and more patents on immersion lithography machines, and then completely become an impenetrable iron wall, Sugon Technology will completely lose the research and development of the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine technology. possible.

Although it seems that 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 new field.

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

But the actual EUV lithography machine is not easy to implement. At present, major companies around the world have been developing the sixth-generation EUV lithography machine for several years.

However, according to previous history, the first commercial mass-produced EUV lithography machine that was truly commercially available was still in 2019, which means that it took more than 20 years to develop the sixth-generation EUV lithography machine!

So 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 mass-produce EUV lithography machines. At this time, Sugon Technology wants to use one or two years to get EUV lithography machines to the ground. How is this possible?

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

But the problem is that Lin Chen did not have a deep 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.

Under such circumstances, if Sugon Technology really develops an EUV lithography machine, it will be quite difficult, and it may not produce results within a few years.

That's why Sugon Technology is thinking about developing the fifth-generation immersion lithography machine that is easier to produce results, instead of developing the sixth-generation EUV lithography machine that may not be able to land within 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 with a maximum of 7 nanometers.

This 7-nanometer chip is the real 7-nanometer chip gate length. It is not a 7-nanometer chip as in the previous life, but it is actually a 7-nanometer chip that modifies the algorithm to deceive itself and promote marketing.

In the previous life, the most exaggerated process technology was Sanxing's process technology. They used a new algorithm to define the 10nm process technology as the 7nm process technology.

As a result, the Yuantong company in the previous life really believed it, and was overjoyed to ask Sanxing to produce 7nm mobile phone chips for Yuantong.

As a result, the fake ones are fake after all, and the name of "Jiaotong Big Fire Dragon Processor" has spread all over the world, which directly caused the market share of Yuantong mobile phone processors to experience a significant decline and shrink.

As for Gaotong Company, which was miserably cheated by Sanxing, its face turned dark, and the head of Yuantong even publicly announced that it would no longer find Sanxing to manufacture chips.

From then on, Sanxing ushered in a devastating blow in the semiconductor foundry industry and never recovered.

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

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

Therefore, at this time, if the joint R\u0026D team of Xia Keyuan and Sugon Technology successfully bypasses the technical patents of ASML and TSMC, and then develops its own fifth-generation immersion lithography machine technology.

In the next ten years or so, they only need to continuously overcome material technology, processing precision technology and detection technology.

Then Daxia's chip process technology will break through 65 nanometers, 45 nanometers, 32 nanometers... up to the level of 7 nanometer chips.

The reporters at the press conference didn't know this, and they were looking at Lin Chen and Dean Lu of the Xia Ke Academy in shock.

"Really? It turned out to be a research and development lithography machine?"

"Damn it, it turned out to be the development of a lithography machine. It is said that the development of a lithography machine is quite difficult. Without a billion or even tens of billions of dollars, it is impossible to get this thing."

"Really? Is it a joke? Today is not April Fool's Day."

"This matter is too big, if it is true, it will be enough to shake the world."...

Many reporters at the scene started discussing with each other. Although they just heard a lot of words from Dean Lu, Dean Lu should not be joking.

But many reporters still feel a little unbelievable. After all, if you want to develop and conquer lithography machines, you have to spend at least a billion or so to qualify.

Facing a research and development project that started at least a 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 who was at the side when people were surprised, and then said with a smile:

"As for the total research and development amount of our joint cooperation this time? It's up to Mr. Lin Chen to say."

The reporters who saw the scene all focused their attention on Lin Chen, and those cameras also focused on Lin Chen who was aside.

"This lithography machine research and development project is mainly funded by our Sugon Technology, as for how much it contributes.

We can promise that the research and development funds for lithography machines in the next year will not be less than 3 billion Xiayuan, and there will be no ceiling! "

"Wow!"

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

"Crazy, is Suguang Technology crazy?"

"My God? 3 billion a year is used to develop lithography machines. Is this true or not?"

"It's crazy, it's crazy, 3 billion a year is equivalent to 360 million US dollars, so much money is used to develop a machine, it's really scary."

"3 billion a year is just to develop a machine. This is really crazy. How difficult is this lithography machine to develop? How much money does it cost?"

"Crazy, crazy." (End of this chapter)