Reborn 80s

Chapter 641 New Generation Lithography Machine
The construction of Yuzhou University City is a major measure for Yuzhou to build a high-tech industry highland. The purpose is to form an industry-university-research system and transform Yuzhou's economy from a traditional industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy.

Use modern scientific and technological knowledge to empower traditional industries to develop to a higher level.

Lianhe University is a very important school in the planning of Yuzhou University Town.

Naturally, the Yuzhou University Town is not a completely new construction on a newly designated piece of land. In fact, there were already universities in this area before.

Yuzhou University of Applied Technology is located here.

One of the most important reasons for designating this place as a university town is that the place here is spacious enough.

Yuzhou University of Applied Technology is building a school here, and it is also fancy that the area here is large enough.

In addition, it is relatively close to the city.

Although it is a suburb now, it will rapidly develop into a city in a few years.

Then, when planning a university town in the city, there are actually some other options.

Chen Huaiqing suggested that the university town should be located on the edge of the city.

In ten years, the university city will develop into the center of the city.

Why let the university city be located in the city?
A very simple reason is that the university town is in a remote place, so there is no way to organically link it with the urban economy.

After all, the purpose of building a university town is to form a concentrated intellectual resource.

Intellectual resources are actually a kind of human resources, and people have to gather together to be able to show their strength.

The United University is quite fast in the construction of universities in the entire university city. From the decision to the completion of the construction, the time is extremely short.

The money is in place, and the city also fully supports it.

The current development momentum of the United University is quite rapid.

Now there is no list of university rankings, otherwise, the ranking of the United University will definitely continue to rise.

Especially academically.

Chen Huaiqing has always felt that universities are more suitable for basic research work.

Because this matches the attributes of the university.

Basic research takes a lot of time and requires a lot of patience.

It's not just researchers who need to be patient, but policy makers need to be patient too.

Because a lot of basic research has not achieved results for several years, it is considered short.Some have persisted for more than ten years, but still have no results.

In universities, there are quite a lot of cheap or even free human resources available.

Migrant scientific research workers are like specially-made doctoral students.

At this time, there are not many doctoral students in Huaguo, and every doctoral student is a very precious existence.

Reading a Ph.D. is not to improve your academic qualifications as a bargaining chip for finding a good job.

People at this time are studying for a Ph. D., which is really a choice made only when they are preparing to devote themselves to scientific research.

The availability of these excellent intellectual resources can greatly reduce the funding investment in the field of basic research.

Of course, the most important point is to cultivate talents by the way.

For example, the Mota Technology Research Institute is all engaged in the research of applied technology, and the results are quite fast.

Basically, it takes a few months for the elders, and the results that can be applied commercially can be produced in a short period of ten days.

The amount of money that can be spent every year is also quite touching.

If it weren't for the super cashability of the developed technology, it would have been unbearable.

In addition to the matter of the United University, there is another matter that Chen Huaiqing is very concerned about.

That is the Mota400 lithography machine.

The Mota400 lithography machine is the latest work of Mota Microelectronics. It has purchased a large number of foreign parts. On some core components, Mota400 also has domestic components.

Compared with the Mota800 lithography machine, the localization rate of parts and components of the Mota400 lithography machine will be much higher at the beginning.

For example, when the Mota800 lithography machine was first released, the localization rate was only 20.00%, but now, the localization rate of the Mota400 lithography machine directly started at 40.00%.

increased by more than ten percentage points.

This is undoubtedly a considerable progress.

Mota400 lithography machine belongs to the second generation lithography machine and is an upgraded version of Mota800.

The minimum process node of 400nm can be realized. Of course, chips with lower node processes can be produced through a special process.

It's just that in terms of cost, it may be a little more expensive.

The most important thing about a lithography machine is the light source.

The light sources currently used are all deep ultraviolet light.

The first-generation lithography machine used a g-line light source with a wavelength of 436nm, and the current lithography machine uses an i-line light source with a wavelength of 365nm.

The next-generation light source has also been determined, which is a KrF light source with a wavelength of 248nm.

In the fourth generation, an ArF light source with a wavelength of 193nm was used.

However, a new concept has been proposed, that is extreme ultraviolet lithography machine.

This may not be familiar to many people, and it is replaced by a saying: EUV lithography machine.Every improvement of the light source can significantly improve the minimum process node that the lithography machine can achieve.

It's just that the new concept of extreme ultraviolet lithography machine has been proposed, but no company has invested money in it.

The reason is very simple. If extreme ultraviolet light is to be used as a light source in lithography, the technical difficulty is too high.

Anyway, this is a conceptual thing.

The lithography machines on the market can still meet the demand, and everyone is not in a hurry to get this extreme ultraviolet lithography machine.

In fact, Asml only started the research and development of EUV lithography machine in 1999.

The plan is to launch EUV lithography machine products in 2004 through five years.

However, it was not until 2010 that the first EUV lithography machine prototype was produced, and it was officially supplied to downstream customers in 2016.

With the EUV lithography machine, Asml has also become the well-deserved biggest giant in the global lithography machine field in one fell swoop.

The importance of the light source for the lithography machine is too important.

Chen Huaiqing also read some reports saying that Huaguo had made a breakthrough in the extreme ultraviolet light source.

I don't know what the specific situation is.

Most of the news on the Internet is just for fun.

In addition to the light source, the workbench and new lithography technology innovations can also improve the minimum process node, production efficiency and product yield.

At this time, everyone has no confidence in the EUV lithography machine, but Chen Huaiqing knows that this thing can really work!
Therefore, Chen Huaiqing has asked Mota Microelectronics to develop an EUV lithography machine, and the investment is not small.

First of all, in terms of light source technology, a high-power extreme ultraviolet light source must be developed first.

Chen Huaiqing felt that there must be no problem.

He remembered that the United States has been pushing the concept of laser weapons.

Then Huaguo's laser weapons were already ready for actual combat, and then Miguo suddenly fell silent.

Why did Huaguo come up with the concept that I put forward first?

The extreme ultraviolet lithography machine was proposed by the United States. In order to suppress the semiconductor industry of Neon, Neon should not be involved in the research on the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine at all.

In fact, relying on the capabilities of the United States and Europe, the entire research appears to be very difficult.

(End of this chapter)