Big Country Intelligent Manufacturing

"It's all right. As long as it's all about the money it's not a big deal!" Xu Zhenming took up the topic of academicians and waved his hand with a smiling face. In order to bring out the 130nm etcher as soon as possible, as well as the fourth generation lithography machine, he thought it was worth spending a little more money.

Putting the topic aside, he then asked Zhou Yang with a smiling face: "Dr. Zhou, are you free tomorrow? If you have time, fly with me to Nan'an."

"This ...... I have an experimental subject here." Zhou Yang scratched his forehead and turned his gaze back to his mentor, Academician Cheng.

Academician Cheng had received so many benefits from Xu Zhenming, how could he drag his favorite disciple's feet at this moment? "Go ahead, the subject over at Xu Dong is also very important!" He cheerfully raised his eyebrows at Zhou Yang, indicating that Zhou Yang and Xu Zhenming should go to the headquarters of Nan'an Group.

So, the next day, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Yang, Xu Zhenming, and Guo Liansheng had returned to the experimental building of the Yiming Group headquarters. They were not delayed in Mindu City, and hurried back to prepare for an emergency meeting on the semiconductor equipment development project.

The meeting was attended by Professor Hao Ning, who came from Jiangxia Optics Valley, Park Lingchu, who flew from Shenjing, and Hu Mingzhen and Zhang Neibeijing from the group's headquarters. It can be said that almost all the top experts in semiconductor equipment manufacturing in China came to this meeting.

On the second floor of the experimental building, the first public meeting room of the Yiming Group's laboratory center was filled with people. It was already full of people, and it was dark. On the podium, Xu Zhenming sat next to Hu Mingzhen, looking over the experimental summary report submitted by Hu Mingzhen, while speaking to Hu Mingzhen.

"The islanders have made a major breakthrough in deep-ultraviolet light source technology, and are expected to release their fourth-generation lithography machine by the end of this year. That's why we need to readjust our plans."

Xu Zhenming signed his name to the experiment summary report, put the pen aside, and rubbed his two temples with his hands.

This time and space and the situation before his rebirth had changed: Nikon hadn't worked on the dry lithography process, and now they were redirecting their efforts to the wet lithography technology. Because of their strong technical background, I heard that they have already mastered the immersion lithography technology that they bought from Yiming Group.

This is not good news for Yiming Group Company! With Nikon's financial strength, they should soon be able to solve the technical problems of the ArF light source. If so, Yiming Group's technical advantage in process technology will not be so much.

That's why Xu Zhenming rushed back to the group's headquarters and called all the experts in semiconductor equipment manufacturing from Yiming Group to discuss countermeasures.

"Colleagues, the Koryo branch sent back an email saying that Nikon had made a major breakthrough in the ArF lithography subject. This matter is very unfavorable to us, so let's all talk about what we should do."

When Xu Zhenming saw that the people who were supposed to attend the meeting had basically arrived, he told everyone present about the heavy pressure news he had received only yesterday.

"Eh? The islanders have picked up the pace quite a bit. They've already exceeded Moore's Law this time."

"Never underestimate the Islanders. If it weren't for the Yonkers keeping them down, they might have taken off long ago."

"In my opinion, our group company should invest more immediately and bring out the ArF lithography machine as fast as possible."

As soon as Xu Zhenming's words fell, the engineers in the conference room were shocked and lamented.