my return to life

Fang Nian explained: "Because of the superiority of the research and development results, no matter what the frontier does, it seems too white."

"And, easy to take for granted."

"These are clearly not conducive to the development of the frontier."

In the end, Fang Nian said quietly, "I'm not a selfless person."

Everyone was stunned.

Wen Ye stuck out her tongue even more: "My, my, my rank is not enough."

"..."

Everyone laughed.

Fang Nian drank a few sips of tea, and suddenly looked at Liu Xi: "Liu Xi, you have worked so hard to find ways to improve the efficiency of internal capital landing."

"Understood." Liu Xi nodded.

"..."

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The next day, the weekend.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the Guanzihao plane took off from Pudong Airport and headed for Changchun.

Guan Qiuhe coordinated other itineraries and spared time to follow to Changchun.

Anyway, everyone on this business trip knows that they leave early and return late.

At [-]:[-], Fang Nian and his party arrived at the Zhuwu Semiconductor Equipment Laboratory next to Chang Guang Institute.

It has been more than three months since the establishment of Wuwu.

The development is quite smooth. There are 210 R&D personnel and more than 30 administrative personnel.

The reason why it is said to be smooth is that all R&D personnel started with a master's degree, one full-time academician, several visiting academicians, and more than 20 visiting professors.

It can be regarded as the light of Changguang.

Of course, the more important thing is that at the beginning, relying on Academician Chen Jianye's face, he pulled two, two, three, four, five, and almost searched for the leaders in the related fields that are rare in Northeast China.

"..."

Academician Wang, the administrative director and R&D director of the Zhuwu Laboratory, and several senior executives greeted them.

The administrator said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Fang is welcome to come to Wuwu to inspect and guide the work."

"Hello, Academician Wang." Fang Nian smiled slightly.

The air in his demeanor suddenly made people ignore Fang Nian's age.

She doesn't look like a lazy student at all.

Fang Nian made a gesture: "Please also invite me to show me around one or two."

"Okay, please." The administrator couldn't help but put on his honorific title.

"..."

The office area of ​​Wuwu Laboratory is not small. Although there are less than 300 people, it occupies a total of three floors of a small high-rise office building.

The total area is over ten thousand square meters.

Each floor is equipped with precision instrument room and so on.

The mature entry and exit management system of Nuwa Laboratory is followed, and the confidentiality work is in place.

Looking around, Fang Nian praised a few words with satisfaction: "It's in order, everyone has worked hard."

"..."

Then they listened to the work reports of the administrative director and Academician Wang in the conference room.

The Wuwu side is the laboratory with the least technical accumulation, and all initial technical information comes from cutting-edge academics.

Although the work modules are properly divided, they are not quantified enough, so that the progress is not optimistic.

Strictly speaking, it is the second-to-last in the progress of the seven laboratories in the country.

The penultimate place is of course the Pangu Laboratory, which was established only last month.

Of the last five laboratories, the one with the most smooth progress in research and development is not Zhu Yan, but Changan's Taotie.

It can be described as veritable greed.

However, it was well coordinated before its establishment, and the beginning was a joint cooperation framework agreement with 27 universities.

So there are breakthroughs.

But if I had to say it, in fact, among all the laboratories including Nuwa and Bai Ze, Shengyu was the one who made the fastest progress.

It's just a win under the surface.

Moreover, Shengyu took a relatively 'dirty' path, because the accumulation of basic technology of Shengyu is actually the most important part of cutting-edge academics;

There are various technical authorization accumulations at home and abroad.

More than 7% of the laboratory members are Ph.D. graduates from home and abroad.

Just one thing, Shengyu has applied for thousands of communication standard patents, most of which are in 5G.

But basically no patent fees.

It is to occupy the patent quota, and use the patent law to apply for non-payment annulment for rolling protection.

In this way, the right of priority can be claimed, and the patent protection period can be extended by renewing the right of priority through new applications again and again.

It's kind of basic.

What's interesting is that the research of Shengyu Lab doesn't cost much money. Apart from technical reserves and basic R&D environment expenditures, the biggest expenditure is actually the salaries of R&D personnel...

After listening to the report, Mr. Fang, who had also finished his errands in his mind, thought about it and said: "A joint meeting will be held in the afternoon, and some cooperative units such as Changguang Institute need to participate."

"I'll coordinate." The administrator said in succession.

"I will help." Academician Wang followed up.

"..."

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Xuejun, the deputy director of the Chang Guang Institute, and representatives of most of the cooperative scientific research units came to the Zhuwu Laboratory.

Fang Nian sat in the center.

The demeanor is relaxed and at ease.

It's hard to ignore.

Zhang Xuejun also remembered the meeting more than two years ago, and really did not expect that it would be like this when we met again.

Fang Nian glanced at the participants: "Good afternoon everyone, I am Fang Nian, this is the first time we meet, please take care of me."

"Hello, Mr. Fang."

"Boss Fang is too polite."

"..."

After the simple greetings, Fang Nian said bluntly, "Forgive me for taking the liberty, but in order not to waste more time for everyone, I'll get straight to the point."

"Luzhou Frontier is building a 12-inch wafer test line. In order to cooperate with this test line, Wuwu will fully enter EUV lithography research. I hope everyone can give us the necessary support."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.

Including Academician Wang of Wuwu.

"EUV?" Zhang Xuejun raised his eyebrows and said in deliberation, "Mr. Fang, may I ask, do you seem to have a special liking for EUV?"

"In theory, only the most advanced lithography needs to use extreme ultraviolet lithography. DUV (deep ultraviolet) can theoretically achieve 7nm lithography by means of immersion solutions. It seems that there is no need to fully enter EUV?"

"..."

Everyone here is a knowledgeable person, and they expressed their views one after another.

For example, DUV technology accumulation and so on.

After all, 85% of the five words 'semiconductor equipment' in the name of Wuwu Laboratory are aimed at:

Integrated circuit front-end manufacturing lithography machine.

Lithography machine is actually a general term, which can be subdivided into front-end manufacturing, back-end packaging, lithography applied to TFT (thin film transistor), and lithography applied to advanced lithography of small and medium substrates.

The lithography machine in the general public's cognition is the lithography machine for the front-end manufacturing of integrated circuits...

Listening to everyone's different opinions, Fang Nian smiled slightly: "Didn't DUV have everyone working hard?"

"The frontier cannot be called the frontier for nothing, and the field of EUV is basically a winner-take-all, which is in line with the goal of the frontier."

Academician Wang immediately said: "But ASML's EUV experimental machine was shipped to TSMC for use last year."

"..."

"This field requires a huge investment."

"..."

Of course Fang Nian knew.

What he knows better is that the global gap in EUV lithography machines is actually not too big.

Either I didn't think about it, or I gave up.

The only company that sticks to the end is ASML.

Interestingly, the final level actually depends on the degree of spending money and the degree of technology integration.

Of course, ASML is very fast. It started to invest in 06, and launched the first EUV engineering prototype last year, and TSMC, a major customer, is using, verifying, and giving feedback.

but……

ASML is short of money. All the media reports about ASML that Fang Nian has seen mentioned the customer joint investment plan initiated by ASML in July 2012.

The plan raised more than 50 billion euros, half of which was used for EUV lithography research and development.

And because the large-scale mass production of EUV lithography machines has not been realized, Samsung, TSMC, and Intel participating in this plan have successively reduced their holdings.

Money is something that is also lacking at the forefront.

But the frontier can have no shortage of money in a sense...

After everyone finished discussing, Fang Nian said calmly: "Frontier plans to invest the first batch of 10 billion US dollars this year, including but not limited to global acquisitions of related companies, patent licensing, and R&D investment;

In the three years from next year, the average annual pure R&D investment of the frontier company will not be less than 50 billion yuan, and the subsequent increase will be made according to the situation. "

The conference room was silent.

Fang Nian continued: "Secondly, Wuwu will take the lead in promoting a large pan-technology joint investment management unit, and Wuwu will only undertake part of the research and development work and the bulk of capital investment, and each unit will do what it is best at;

For example, Changguang is working hard on light-related work, such as microelectronics to make the assembly. "

"Coordinate the frontier to get it done, including the funding level of other units, etc., everyone will give you an answer after thinking about it."

Zhang Xuejun: "..."

"..."

Finally someone said weakly: "What about DUV?"

Hearing this, Fang Nian's eyelids moved slightly, and he smiled: "I almost forgot, Luzhou Frontier needs a domestically produced high-precision DUV lithography machine for experiments, preferably a laboratory product, can you help me?"

"..."

Zhang Xuejun took the conversation after deliberation: "I can help you, there is a laboratory with a 90nm DUV lithography machine that is not easy to use, and you can lend it to Frontier for free;

but……"

"I heard that some foreign companies like to list hundreds or thousands of difficult problems, and then urge scientists to keep working hard..."

Before Zhang Xuejun finished speaking, Fang Nian looked over with a smile, and interrupted: "It seems that Zhang Institute is very well-informed, and he understands some of our frontier internal styles."

"Actually, the frontier usually takes the 'little whip'. I think Bai Ze Laboratory will look forward to cheering with you."

"..."

Zhang Xuejun: "..."