Global monopoly of technology

"The current status of the industry is that the 193-nanometer liquid immersion lithography system is the most mature technology. It achieves a nearly perfect balance in accuracy and cost. It is difficult to be replaced in a short time, but it will eventually be replaced. Yes, it is the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine technology."

In the quiet conference hall, Luo Sheng methodically said: "The risk of doing so is very high, but it is undeniable that the development of the semiconductor industry has indeed reached a new turning point. Moore's Law is facing a huge challenge. No one It can be determined how the semiconductor industry with a total output value of 300 billion US dollars last year will guide its development in the next 5 or 10 years."

"No one can know what the future of the semiconductor industry will look like in the post-Moore's Law era." At this point, Luo Sheng added "except me", paused for a moment and continued:

"The decline in profits may also be unavoidable, but if Moore's Law can effectively avoid the decline in the turnover of the semiconductor industry, even if it is only 15%, its cash flow will still be twice the turnover of the entire US game industry."

Zhu Yu nodded subconsciously, and spoke when Luo Sheng paused: "The precision of lithography and etching system manufacturing depends on many factors, but the effective way to achieve leapfrog progress is to reduce the wavelength of the light source. For decades. , Lithography machine manufacturers did just that, starting from the blue end visible to the human eye, and gradually reducing the wavelength of the wafer exposure tool, until the ultraviolet end of the spectrum..."

Luo Sheng continued: “The end of Moore’s Law has been foreseen by everyone. The semiconductor industry has been looking for ways to maintain technological innovation and progress. Leading chip manufacturers around the world are also working hard to improve their technology, namely: After being processed and taken out in the engraving machine, it is put into it, and the next layer of image is accurately printed in the original position. EUV is a different one."

"I firmly believe that this technology can be realized, it is the future trend, and that this technology will become the most cost-effective choice for chip manufacturers. So my idea is to make a EUV lithography machine prototype at any cost and strive to be in 2015. To achieve this goal, so that other researchers can test this method."

After a while, Mr. Gao, the head of Shengli Precision, put forward a different view. He said: “But Mr. Luo, as far as I know EUV technology is very difficult. When using rays with a wavelength close to X-rays to etch, Knowledge of physics does not help engineers much."

The others at the meeting could not help but nod their heads. The extreme ultraviolet lithography technology has been proposed in the late 1990s. Now more than ten years have passed, and the leading ASML companies in the industry have made no progress. The difficulty can be imagined. know.

In the end, everyone couldn't help but look at Luo Sheng, surprised to find that the young world's richest man who was good at creating miracles had a relaxed face, which made everyone curious.

Luo Sheng called up a set of mathematical models, without him indicating that everyone had already looked at the big screen, and Luo Sheng methodically said:

"General Gao said it is not unreasonable, so I finally chose 13.5 nanometer wavelength rays, this kind of light can be easily absorbed by many materials, even if the air we breathe is completely black, because it also absorbs the last bit of rays, I I realized early on that EUV lithography machines can only operate under vacuum, and wafers enter and exit the lithography machine through an air lock."

Luo Sheng added: “The problem of bending rays is what comes next. EUV can also be absorbed by glass. Therefore, to change its direction in the equipment, it is necessary to use a mirror instead of a lens, and it cannot be an ordinary mirror. The reflectivity of ordinary polished lenses is not enough, so a multilayer mirror is needed, which can concentrate many small reflections into a single and powerful reflection, which is the so-called Bragg reflector."

After Zhu Yu and other industry leaders listened to Luo Sheng’s few words of description, all of them felt like they were kneeling. Suddenly they realized that he might really create something wrong again in the field of extreme ultraviolet lithography. Possible miracles.

"Mr. Luo, I have a question that has nothing to do with technology." At this time, the head of Micron Technology who attended the meeting spoke.

"Appreciate further details."

"Since you have a complete set of extreme ultraviolet lithography machine technology system, why not develop it yourself? It makes no sense."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present turned their eyes to Luo Sheng, and they couldn't help but nod secretly in their hearts. It really doesn't make sense. You Luo Sheng doesn't need money, people don't need people, and market, so kindly put the cake. Give it to everyone?

Hearing that, Luo Sheng showed a bright smile and gave a seemingly simple answer, but no one would believe that he was really simple.

"Half of all of you here are equity-holding companies of Shengfeng Capital. They are their own people, and it's good to leave them to their own people."

When they heard this, everyone looked at each other, and no one came out to answer, but they were complaining in their hearts: I believe you a ghost!

Don't look at Luo Sheng as a 25-year-old young man in the eyes of everyone present, but no one dares to underestimate this young man. What international jokes are you making? How can the existence of the world's richest man be as it seems on the surface? Innocent young man?

At this moment, everyone saw Luo Sheng suddenly amazed and felt inexplicable.

He looked up at the ceiling and muttered to himself: "I wanted to play with you as my own person, but in exchange for alienation and distrust, I won't pretend, I'm going to showdown. Study, lie down and earn technology patent fees, the market will do it for you, are you satisfied?"

Everyone: "..."

Luo Sheng’s slightly skinny tone made the crowd a little cold and uncontrollable, giving them the feeling that this young man suddenly had a child’s heart, but he would certainly not speak out what he thought. The ghost knows Luo Shengzhen. No one can guess what he really thinks in his mind.

However, this sentence also made everyone here understand that Luo Sheng did not want to go to the market in person, but to monopolize the upstream technology to play licensing solutions.

Simply put, it is to pull a team of kids, let the kids do all the dirty work, and then enjoy a bite of food. This is probably the truth.

In fact, everyone is very envious in their hearts, but they are helpless. In the end, they can only secretly sigh how important it is to master the core technology.

But to take a step back, everyone's heart is excited again. In the past, they wanted to take up this kind of dirty work. ASML and other European and American companies did not give it.

By now, Zhu Yu and others who participated in the meeting have suddenly realized that, it is no wonder that the country will support and actively promote it behind the scenes.

"Mr. Luo, what do you do? When will it start?" Mr. Gao, who is in charge of Victory Precision, meant to gear up, and everyone's hearts couldn't help but heat up.

"Of course, the faster the better, but the lower-key the better." Luo Sheng said, everyone nodded in agreement. After all, this is to challenge ASML's position in the field of lithography equipment, and the other party is very sensitive. In the short term, you have to rely on imported equipment from foreigners.

Luo Sheng is so generous to confess to everyone present that he is not afraid of "two or five boys" or something inside, because now a community of interests has been formed invisibly. The two and five boys betray others for their own benefit, and betraying Luo Sheng is equivalent to It is betraying one's own interests. There is no such kind of two or five boys in the world.

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