Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

The photolithography machine is equivalent to the industrial mother machine in the post-industrial era and is widely used in semiconductor manufacturing, integrated circuits, flat panel displays and other fields.

The first generation of contact proximity lithography machine was born in Bell Labs in 1955, which opened the true era of lithography.

In 84, Philip discovered the importance of the lithography machine market and founded ASML, which provided a boost to the development of lithography machines.

In the manufacturing of lithography machines, technology is only one of the keys; the more critical factor is the diverse upstream and downstream industrial chains.

An ASML lithography machine contains 10 components, which require 40 standard containers to load, and involves more than 5000 upstream suppliers.

It is difficult for one company to own the entire industry chain.

At least not in the original world.

According to history, it was not too late for Zhihua to enter the field of lithography machines.

Eleven years after the birth of the photolithography machine, in 11, my country's first photolithography machine, the Type 66 contact photolithography machine, came out.

In 1981, we successfully developed the first proximity lithography machine.

In 1985, the first distributed lithography machine in China was successfully developed and manufactured.

At this stage, the gap between our lithography technology and the world's is not that big.

But in the late 80s, the trend of "it's better to buy than to make, and it's better to rent than to buy" prevailed, causing research to stagnate.

Jiang Chen didn't want to repeat the same mistake.

He wants to use his current influence, as well as the support from above and the Ministry of Industry, to build a complete industrial chain for the core components of lithography machines.

Now, it is different from later times.

The current lithography machine market is still a blank. With the support of the system, Jiang Chen is fully capable of developing first, succeeding first, and occupying first.

Take advantage of its own advantages to seize or even monopolize the lithography machine market.

By then, I will have the technology in my hands and the advantage, and I will have the final say in this field.

The reason why he is so confident is that the flower growers have a magical power that can always make some high-tech products as cheap as cabbage.

Graphene that was 510 grams now costs 50 cents per gram.

The shield machine that cost 700 to 800 million now costs more than 20 million.

A heart stent that costs tens of thousands now only costs seven hundred.

The world's most advanced active phased array radar is used by ordinary people to prevent wild boars. Not everyone has one, but it is definitely very cheap.

Because of our physical condition, cost control has unique advantages, and it is more obvious in this era.

For example, the international selling price of Sangang machine tools is currently US$40, and the demand is in short supply.

But the actual cost, including manpower, material resources, raw materials and transportation, all added up to less than 10,000 Flower Coins.

Even if someone spends a lot of money to develop the Sangang machine tool, he can be defeated by a simple price war.

Although the price of lithography machines is not cheap, with the entire industrial chain, the price definitely has a huge advantage.

When the time comes, I will ask you whether you want to follow or not.

Follow me, invest a lot of capital and research, and when you figure it out, I will reap the benefits at a bargain price and upgrade to the next level.

You announce the success of R&D, and I announce a price reduction.

All previous investments are destined to not even recover one-tenth of the cost.

If things get more serious, their products may not even cover the cost price.

Since most of their parts are purchased through international channels, shouldn't I make some money?

If they make money, you lose money.

If you don't follow, your lithography machine technology will stagnate, and your technology will always lag behind us and be controlled by us.

When the time comes, I will have the final say on you and can mold you into any shape I want.

Even if the other party adopts a regional protection policy and does not allow flower lithography machines to enter their market, no single country's market can support the huge expenditure on lithography machine research.

Follow, it’s a huge loss.

If you don't follow me, I'll pinch your neck until it bleeds.

It's all bleeding anyway, it depends on your choice.

Ah, what a thrilling business war!

Plain and simple, but bloody.

Of course, the actual operation is definitely more complicated, but this is roughly the situation.

It's cruel, that's what you do.

When you don’t have a complete industrial chain, most of the components need to be imported, and you can’t control costs, the result is already doomed.

What was given to us in the beginning, I will now return double.

Luo Xue was stunned: "Photolithography machine, I have heard of this thing, but I have never touched it."

At present, the lithography machine is still a new thing, and she has only heard of it.

Jiang Chen said: "This thing can be said to be the mother machine of future industry. It is the foundation of many high-tech technologies and has a huge impact."

"There are already lithography machines available overseas, so we must also start research and development as soon as possible to avoid falling too far behind."

"But my point of view is that if we want to do something, we should do it the best. We should not try to prevent copycats, but innovate."

"The principle of this lithography machine is very simple, but it is not an easy task to make a high-precision lithography machine."

"In addition to improving technology, it is also necessary to integrate a large amount of resources and build a large and complex industrial chain."

"But you don't have to worry about these. Li Guangfu and the Ministry of Industry will coordinate and communicate on the resource integration."

"What you need to do now is to find data, check information, and have a preliminary understanding of the lithography machine. Then we can discuss from which angle to innovate and improve it."

Luo Xue nodded: "Okay!"

Jiang Chen said: "The significance of the lithography machine is very important, and the burden on your shoulders is very heavy."

"This is a long and complicated research process. You may even have to deal with lithography machines for your entire life. You have to be mentally prepared."

Luo Xue said: "I don't feel any pressure. Anyway, you let me do it, and I will just do some research. If I can't get any results, you will support me. I don't feel any psychological pressure at all."

Jiang Chen touched her head and complimented her: "The future of the flower-growing industry depends on you."

Luo Xue hummed comfortably: "Don't worry, leave it to me."

That's just her personality. Once she decides on something, she'll do it.

Whether it can be done or not is another matter.

Even if she really couldn't do it, Jiang Chen would guarantee her a backup, so she was not afraid at all.

Jiang Chen said: "Well, just work hard and focus on the technology, and leave the rest to Li Guangfu and the Ministry of Industry."

"Oh, by the way, please don't misunderstand me. I don't need you to manufacture a photolithography machine, but to provide the technology to manufacture the core components of the photolithography machine."

"This technology includes at least three aspects: the raw material composition of each component, raw material processing technology, and related machinery for raw material processing."

"In this process, we will definitely encounter many, many problems. Our goal is to discover and solve them."

"We will develop and lay out the layout at the same time. When the development is completed, the layout of our lithography machine industry chain will be nearly complete. This is the plan of planting flowers in the 'lithography world'."

"We want the whole world to use flower-growing photolithography machines."

Luo Xue was a little confused. She scratched her head and said, "Leader, the more you talk, the more complicated it becomes. I feel dizzy."

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "To put it simply, there are only two things we do together: the manufacturing and assembly of lithography machine parts, and the development of instruments needed to manufacture lithography machine parts."

“Of course, there is the problem of infinite nesting dolls, but once it comes to a certain professional field, other companies will take on the responsibility.”

For example, we do not have machine A needed to produce a certain component of a lithography machine.

Okay, let’s develop machine A.

However, during the development of A, it was discovered that machine B was needed to produce a certain component of machine A.

So they developed machine B

Then, to produce a part of machine B, machine C is needed.

so cycle.

Until it is finally implemented in each relevant enterprise.

However, the development of photolithography machines is inherently a complicated process.

Then we will counter it.

Once we encounter a technology or machine that has no alternative, we will set up a new project department to conduct special research.

These all sound complicated, but they are actually not that difficult as long as there is someone with outstanding coordination skills who can arrange each line reasonably.

Of course, among the people Li Xiang has come into contact with, only Li Guangfu has the most outstanding coordination ability.

Although it is still slightly inferior, it can be used when there is no more suitable candidate.