Global Monopoly of Technology

On the early morning of June 15, Luo Sheng came to the Côte d'Azur laboratory. The most exciting news for him in the second half of this year is that the mass-produced EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography machine prototype will come out during this time.

At about 8:00 in the morning, Luo Sheng came to a 22,580-square-meter dust-free studio in the Cote d'Azur laboratory. All the people inside were wearing dust-free clothes to enter.

At this moment, there are more than 100 technicians in the room, all of them are top engineers, and more than two-thirds of them are technical masters from major companies in the domestic precision manufacturing field.

Luo Sheng used Shengfeng Capital as a link and took the lithography machine as the core to soften this force five years ago and launched a five-year tough battle against a target. This collective struggle was for five years.

Without the financial support of Shengfeng Capital and the technical support of Cote d'Azur, this team would not be able to form, and it would be even more impossible to die together on a technical node.

"Boss Luo is here!"

"Mr. Luo."

"Mr. Luo, it's early."

Everyone stopped communicating when they saw or heard this, and all looked at Luo Sheng who appeared here, and everyone respected him.

The lithography machine module is too complicated, and there are tens of thousands of precision components, which means that a huge industrial chain is needed for coordination, and it also requires long-term support of capital and risks that may be lost.

This is almost impossible, but Luo Sheng has given hope to all those who focus on this field and want to achieve a career and break the monopoly of ASML, and now it is even more promising for the future.

In fact, the world's first prototype of EUV lithography machine was born in 2006, which was launched by ASML. In 2010, the first R\u0026D prototype NXE3100 was built. This year was also the year when Luo Sheng initiated the research and development of domestic EUV lithography machine. In the first year of 2019, this technical pain point has been stubbornly faced since this year.

And this year, according to reports from foreign media, ASML finally produced a prototype that can be mass-produced this year, that is, in 2015. During this research and development process, the blood transfusions of major semiconductor manufacturers such as Intel, Samsung, and LSMC are absolutely not possible. Less.

However, the research and development of domestic EUV lithography machines is almost supported by Luo Sheng alone on the issue of blood transfusion. With this courage alone, no other person dares to do so, because the amount of money invested is huge.

Everyone made way for Luo Sheng. He came to a transparent glass partition wall and stood there, looking at the scene inside the partition wall. At this moment, a sophisticated equipment was being assembled modularly under the operation of dozens of staff.

"The art of this size is the best compliment to capital. It took me five years to burn more than 600 billion yuan in it." Luo Sheng muttered to himself while looking at the interior scene. He is quite satisfied with the development progress.

In the past five years, in order to build domestic EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment, 20 billion US dollars have been invested every year, and so far about 100 billion US dollars. The funders of this money are Azure Coast and Shengfeng Capital. third party.

Luo Sheng contributed money and technology, and other business partners allocated an investment fund and related technologies according to their own fields and began to fight around this industry chain. The companies that can join this team are basically doing practical things.

Of course, there are also scammers. In the past five years, more than a dozen manufacturers have defrauded Luo Sheng for dozens of dollars. This money is completely lost, but these manufacturers have also been kicked out of the game, and some people have been sentenced.

Such a risk is within Luo Sheng's acceptable range, and he wouldn't really expect that there will be no bad guys in the team. If there are bad guys, I'm not afraid. I'm afraid that there are bad guys who haven't been found out, but the team is clean now.

They may all have their own Xiao Jiujiu. Luo Sheng doesn't expect them to have lofty ideals of selfless dedication to the cause. This is also an unrealistic utopian idea.

But it doesn't matter, it's enough to maintain the market and common interests, and if you get a vested interest, you will do your best for this interest.

A technical leader from a friend businessman who was present walked up to Luo Sheng, "Mr. Luo, the main performance indicators of the lithography machine support the size range of the substrate, resolution, alignment accuracy, exposure method, light source wavelength, light source Technical pain points such as strong uniformity and production efficiency have now been resolved.”

Luo Sheng nodded and asked, "What about the technical problems with the light source system?"

The other party immediately replied: "It's basically solved."

Luo Sheng: "Basically? That is to say, it has not been completely solved yet. Solve it as soon as possible."

It is worth mentioning that the composition of the EUV light source system, the light source is composed of three units of light generation, light collection, spectrum purification and homogenization, and the relevant working components mainly include high-power CO2, laser, multi-layer coating Mirrors, loads, light collectors, masks, and projection optics form plasma, and the plasma uses a multilayer mirror to reflect and purify the energy spectrum multiple times to obtain EUV light at 13.5 nm.

The problem of just such a light source will involve more than a dozen manufacturers to develop and support it, which shows how difficult it is to manufacture this thing. Just spending enough money is secondary, and technology is more important. The relevant domestic manufacturers are actually There is no core technology.

But fortunately, Luo Sheng's own technology obtained the corresponding technology through Xiaona's complementary simulation for EUV lithography machine, and then distributed the technology to major manufacturers to manufacture according to the standard, and also authorized the technology to them.

It is precisely because of this technology authorization that the major manufacturers can be maintained together.

By consciousness and ideals?

Although Luo Sheng likes to say this, he never does it.

Otherwise, in such a complicated chain, once the manufacturers in a certain link get angry, everyone will stare blankly. This is something that Luo Sheng cannot allow to happen. The cost of capital, time and sunk costs are all astronomical figures. We must give them a little bit. Constraints, otherwise the team will not be easy to lead.

The name of the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine has already been determined, and the code name is "Purple Star Lithography Machine".

The advent of Zixing lithography machine will announce that domestic lithography machine equipment and EUV lithography machine under ASML are in the same echelon, completely breaking the monopoly of top lithography machine equipment by foreigners.

Luo Sheng retracted his gaze and looked at the technical masters who were sent by the major manufacturers to cooperate and said: "The Zixing lithography machine can use extreme ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers to realize chips with 14 nanometers, 10 nanometers, and 7 nanometers. Production, and through the iterative upgrading of technology, chip production of 9 nanometers, 8 nanometers, 6 nanometers, 5 nanometers, 4 nanometers and even 3 nanometers can also be realized in the future.”

"The technology upgrade plan has been in the blue coast laboratory, and the upgrade iteration must be coordinated. When necessary, major supply chain partners come to me and ask for technical authorization and distribution. When you go back, bring the words to your bosses, I won't contact them one by one."

Everyone nodded again and again. This model simply means that research and development are especially theoretical, and the Cote d'Azur laboratory is doing this.

The supply chain partner is responsible for realizing Luo Sheng's idea, which is to make the real thing according to the standard. No one is more difficult to say, it is difficult, but it is relatively difficult to be creative.

You must know that if you hand over these technologies to the third brother next door, and let them copy them, you must have a foundation to make physical equipment according to the standard. This is the foundation of the manufacturing industry.

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