my return to life

"..."

In the end, Gu Yu said: "Among them, there is a total of about 80 billion remaining funds on the books of Luzhou Frontier."

"The balance on the group's book is about 35 billion, which is the rest of the research and development funds allocated by Nuwa Laboratory."

After listening, Fang Nian certainly knew what Gu Yu and the others meant.

After the routine repeated investment in research and development, the remaining funds have to be allocated in the past year.

After all, only Fang Nian can give the most accurate direction.

Fang Nian thought for a while, and said: "The money from Luzhou Frontier is allocated to the big CPU project team, urging them to continue to improve the performance of the architecture, and make more films!

Give half of it to Bai Ze②, and invest the rest in mobile phone SoC. "

Speaking of this, Fang Nian paused, waved his hand: "Forget it, I'll go to Luzhou myself."

Then he said: "The 35 billion on the group's book will be invested proportionally to Zhu Yan and Pangu."

"..."

This year is still a year of "militarism", but if there is any remaining funds, almost all of them are still invested in research and development.

The research and development funds shared by Taowu and Taotie are already enough, and no more will be of use.

Especially Wuwu, originally planned to invest 50 billion yuan this year, has now invested nearly 200 billion yuan, in order to infinitely accelerate the research breakthrough of DUV lithography machines.

"..."

After listening to Fang Nian, Guan Qiuhe said, "Both Changchun and Chang'an are interested in lending to relevant laboratories, so they came here on their own initiative. What's Fang's opinion?"

"What kind of loan?" Fang Nian looked at Guan Qiuhe.

Guan Qiuhe pursed her lips: "Loans from local commercial banks are related to the locality."

Hearing this, Fang Nian pondered for a while: "Not for now, just decline."

"Banks have always only added icing on the cake, and will not give charcoal in a timely manner. Now the frontier is actually in a low period, and it is a bit sensitive to send loans to the door at this time."

"..."

Are Wuwu and Taotie short of money?

That must be...not missing for now.

For example, in Wuwu, there are still 100 billion+ funds in the accounts, and the amount of funds reaches a certain level, and it cannot be burned.

Because research breakthroughs in basic science are sometimes not so easy.

However, if Wu Wu makes a major breakthrough, this amount of funds is not enough to see—whether it is a DUV breakthrough to 28 nanometers, or a major breakthrough in the development of EUV prototypes.

After all, if there is a breakthrough, a machine will require an investment of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

Moreover, DUV still needs to be mass-produced. After all, it is really a waste of money, and it is only 100 billion US dollars for [-] billion.

Unlike ASML, Wuwu started earlier and invested less. Relying on the mutual help of TSMC, which was also a "diaosi" at the time, it started playing with tens of millions of dollars in capital.

Frontier has never been short of money, but it has also been troubled by money.

…………

Two days later, Fang Nian arrived in Luzhou by taking the Guanzi shop.

Su Zifeng greeted Fang Nian at the airport in person.

For more than a year, Su Zifeng has not seen Fang Nian even once, but in the short period of two months now, Fang Nian has visited Luzhou twice uncharacteristically, which made Su Zifeng feel uneasy. I was a little nervous at the same time.

Even though Fang Nian looked quite young, like a young man, it didn't make Su Zifeng relax even a little bit.

The Mercedes-Benz S600 will soon arrive at Luzhou Frontier Industrial Park.

Now the industrial park has several more office buildings, and it no longer looks lonely.

When he was about to enter the park, Fang Nian stopped the driver and got off.

Su Zifeng didn't know why, but she also got out of the car.

Fang Nian looked ahead, and looked sideways at Su Zifeng: "Boss Su, I was in a hurry last time, why don't you show me this [-]-acre industrial park this time."

Hearing this, Su Zifeng made a gesture: "Fang Dong please."

Afterwards, Su Zifeng introduced while walking: "..."

Before coming to China, Su Zifeng never imagined that one day she would be in charge of such a huge 'industrial empire'.

It is said to be [-] mu, but in fact, the area that is two kilometers long from Wangjiang West Road to the west is a cutting-edge industrial park.

The total area is more than 1.5 mu, 100 million square meters.

Civil works here eat up a good chunk of the roughly $160 billion that Frontier spent last year between its total spending and R&D spending.

This year, a lot of funds have been invested one after another, and hundreds of millions have been lost in one stroke.

But now, there are many buildings here, all of which have already been capped, and even the basic decoration has been partially completed.

Even so, it has never been reported in any reports...

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PS: Good night~

Chapter 833 Those Great Efforts Behind Them (Part 2 Update)

"This is the wafer manufacturing factory park of the newly established Baize Semiconductor Integrated Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd."

The battery car in the park slowed down before reaching a park, Su Zifeng introduced to Fang Nian.

"Has the acceptance of the first phase of the project been completed?" Fang Nian looked sideways and asked.

Su Zifeng replied: "The cross-acceptance has been passed, and the equipment can be deployed next month."

Fang Nian nodded lightly and didn't say any more.

The battery car drove into the factory and shuttled past the factory room.

The entire Wangjiang West Road is a few kilometers westward from the Frontier Institute of the University of Science and Technology of China, and there is no sign of barrenness.

However, because of the geographical location, it can still be called uninhabited, and there are not many people or vehicles.

Things that are on the move are basically the park battery car that Fang Nian rides on.

After that, Su Zifeng briefly introduced the functions of each building, Fang Nian didn't say anything.

Too much effort has been put into the forefront of this factory...

The full English name of IDM is: Integrated Device Manufacturing.

Some people call it the whole process of manufacturing, which is generally translated as integrated equipment manufacturing.

The new company chose literal Chinese.

A semiconductor is a material whose electrical conductivity is between that of a conductor and an insulator at room temperature.

Usually divided into: integrated circuits, optoelectronic devices, discrete devices, sensors;

Since integrated circuits account for more than 80% of devices, semiconductors and integrated circuits are usually equivalent.

Integrated circuits are usually divided into: microprocessors, memories, logic devices, and analog devices; generally referred to as chips.

This is where the new company name comes from.

It is also the reason why there are no chips, no integrated circuits, and semiconductors.

simply put……

This newly established Baize Semiconductor not only makes chips, but also makes integrated circuits, as well as other various devices, especially sensors!

Baize Semiconductor Fab covers an area of ​​more than one million square meters and is planned for four phases.

The goal of the first phase is to produce 4 pieces of 12-inch wafers per month, and will use 28-nanometer domestically produced silicon process technology.

The equipment, technology and even materials needed in the entire chip production process will be supplied by domestic manufacturers.

Including photolithography machine, glue developing machine, etching machine (including silicon etching, metal etching, dielectric etching), thin film deposition equipment (including PVD, CVD), diffusion, ion implantation machine, CMP, cleaning machine, detection Equipment used in other links;

Including semiconductor materials: silicon wafers, electronic special gases, photomasks, polishing materials, photoresists and photoresist auxiliary materials, process chemicals, targets, etc.

Even domestic eda software is included.

Inside Frontier, there are four laboratories, namely Baize, Taotie, Zhuwu, and Zhuyan, which are responsible for the efforts of different modules.

Externally, nearly a hundred universities and scientific research institutes have been coordinated, and dozens of companies have divided labor and cooperated.

Among them are companies that Frontier spent 100 billion shares in.

For example, it promoted the listed company Sevenstar Electronics and the non-listed company North Microelectronics to start a reorganization journey.

After the reorganization and merger of these two companies, they will be responsible for the localization of almost all equipment in the process from etching to cleaning.

If the overall coordination, technical level, etc. are smooth.

At the beginning of next year, the second phase of Baize Semiconductor's construction will be fully launched, not that the civil work is still in progress.

As for the third and fourth phases, they will not start at the same time until the right time, because the third and fourth phases are deployed for the EUV lithography process.

Just talking about the first and second phases, the planned annual production capacity target is one million pieces of 12-inch wafers.

一张12寸晶圆是直径305㎜的圆形，以神龙512单片尺寸101㎜2为例，按行业基本良率计算，可产出约莫400片。

So ideally, the annual output is 4 million pieces of Shenlong 512.

In the short term, it can basically meet the capacity requirements of Shenlong, Bailong, large CPU, GPU, and other non-core chips.

However, based on the construction area of ​​the first and second phases, it is required that the domestic ArF i DUV lithography machine promoted by Wuwu should have a relatively high hourly production capacity.

It is extremely necessary to overcome the 'workpiece table' system in the lithography machine.

Currently being urged to complete this system with a 'whip' is: Tsinghua University.

And it is required to implement a double workpiece table-this is the unique skill of ASML at present.

In short, the core components of a lithography machine mainly involve light sources, lenses, and workpiece tables.

These core components are relatively backward in the domestic field.

However, they are all making breakthroughs. Last year, the focus was on light sources and lenses. Through the massive acquisition, transformation, and control of technologies from overseas related companies, great progress has been made in the DUV field.

In terms of light sources, there is a company called Cymer in the United States that is very powerful.

Known as the only EUV light source manufacturer in the world.

In the past two days, there has been a buzzing acquisition in the industry: ASML intends to acquire Cymer at a price of about 20 billion euros.

Ok……

As early as the end of last year, several Wall Street investment firms under Chin acquired some of Cymer's core technologies through various channels.

acquisition?

Sorry, Chin is so poor that he can't even afford such a valuable company.

It was Yu Wu who came to 'urge' Shencheng's Institute of Optics and Mechanics to learn technology, and the transformation and mastery were reliable.

Of course, Wuwu didn't do nothing, just take the whip.

At present, Wuwu is researching the autonomy of EUV light source, and Shencheng Institute of Optics and Mechanics is mainly solving more problems of DUV light source system.

all in all……

For Baize Semiconductor to finally use all domestic equipment and materials, Frontier has been making unremitting efforts.

"..."

After a short time, the battery car slowly passed an area with a little voice.

It is a place Fang Nian is also familiar with: a wafer test line with a monthly production capacity of 3000 wafers.

Fang Nian did not ask to stop.

Under the leadership of Su Zifeng, Fang Nian visited the entire area of ​​the [-]-mu industrial park in front of Luzhou;

Including the zero-degree brand office building and the office buildings of several project groups of Baize Laboratory, including the industrial park part, including various core laboratories.