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Aris finally couldn't help but ask: "How do you transcend?"

Xia Chuan asked: "Today's chip manufacturing uses air as the medium, right?"

"That's right. You want to change the medium?" Aris seemed to understand.

"Don't you think it's wrong for air to be the medium?" Xia Chuan asked.

Aris said blankly: "What's wrong?"

"Is your computer prone to crashing due to overheating? Don't tell me it's not the processor. The performance is unstable when used on computers, how can it be used on smart mobile phones?"

This is a lot of information. Xia Chuan wants to make a smart mobile phone?So what kind of chip can withstand it?

"Can changing the medium solve the problem?" Aris asked.

"Yes. I believe that if water is used as the medium, these problems will disappear."

Aris asked incredulously: "Can the current technology use water as the medium?"

Xia Chuan smiled slightly: "I asked Steve Jobs, and he said it can't be done."

Aris was stunned, he couldn't do it, what nonsense did you say?

Shiyun suddenly realized that his little brother’s chip knowledge came from Steve Jobs, so he was more confident.

But Xia Chuan added: "It's precisely because others can't do it that we can overtake in corners. I guarantee that this direction is correct. Air is the medium. We will hit the wall in a few years."

Aris' blood suddenly boiled and he said with emotion: "Okay! Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. I believe you are right. Those who can guide the direction do not necessarily need to understand technology, as long as they stand high enough."

But after she finished her flattery, she changed the subject: "This needs to be changed by the whole industry together, otherwise who will we produce and sell to? How can we convince those giants to follow us?"

You are absolutely right. Everyone uses "dry lithography" technology to produce chips. If you build a "wet lithography" machine, who will you sell it to?

Chip manufacturing giants such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC must all develop wet lithography technology. Only then can they sell lithography machines, convert them into profits, and then invest in research and development, and they will be far ahead.

But Xia Chuan asked: "You are now disclosing your research and development direction, and Canon will immediately follow up. Are you sure you can surpass it?"

Aris was stunned and said:

"Wet lithography machines serve chip manufacturing companies, and technical communication must be maintained. Otherwise, each will do their own research, which is a waste of time and money. They will not retain this technology from us, and we do not need to retain it from them. .

The most important point is that we have to produce according to their requirements, otherwise what will happen if they can't use it? "

Xia Chuan's smile slowly bloomed, a bit strange:

"You don't understand what I mean. Let's transcend together, from chip manufacturing to lithography machines, leaving them all behind. Just sell the lithography machines you produce to my chip manufacturing company. Pull away first When Intel and others catch up, won’t our lithography machines monopolize the global market?”

Aris took a breath of air, Xia Chuan really wanted to build an industrial chain.

"Then you have to acquire it. It's too late to start from scratch." Aris reminded.

Xia Chuan: "Who do you think is suitable to acquire?"

"Technica Semiconductor has just become popular and has not yet become big. Unfortunately, the barriers to governance are too strong and will not let you acquire it. Unless our lithography machines monopolize the market and strangle Taichi's neck, that is still possible. " Aris said.

Xia Chuan smiled and said, "You haven't thought about the IBM model?"

Aris was stunned and suddenly said: "This is also a solution. If you develop chip manufacturing technology from scratch, I guarantee that no one will stop it except Yike's shareholders. You first develop the technology, then sell the patent licensing fees, and then Slowly establish your own chip manufacturing. By the way, you can open your chip company next to here. It will be so convenient for us to communicate."

At the end of her sentence, she suddenly became excited.

Xia Chuan was noncommittal, but said: "The key is to find a few leading figures. Can you recommend a few?"

Aris tilted his head and thought for a while, then said: "There are two people who are suitable. The first one is Lin Benjian, who has just retired from IBM and has a doctorate in optics. He is 50 years old this year... Hey, what's that look in your eyes?"

Shiyun immediately looked at Xia Chuan, but he had already come back to his senses.

"You have really good vision. I was just looking for him." Xia Chuan sighed.

Lin Benjian is the person who invented wet lithography technology in history.

After he retired from IBM in 92, he ran his own company for eight years. In 2000, he suddenly discovered that a competitor's company had been acquired by a large company.

He felt that it was too difficult for small companies to survive and even patented technologies could not be preserved.

He very much hoped that a big company would acquire him. At this time, Sun Zhongmou, the head of TSMC, called him and invited him to join TSMC.

Then, he began to shine brilliantly.

In 2001, he argued against all opinions and believed that dry lithography would hit a wall at 153 nanometers and that the direction must be changed immediately, and then wet lithography was proposed.

In the end, of course it was a success.

He was later called the father of wet lithography and was elected as an academician of the American Academy of Engineering.

Xia Chuan smiled and said: "There is nothing wrong with this person. But he is a technical talent and is not suitable for leadership. Is there anyone else who would recommend him?"

Everyone suddenly believed that Xia Chuan really knew Lin Benjian.

Aris is very happy. It's refreshing to work with such an awesome person. Although he doesn't understand technology, he has good vision.

She mentioned another person: "There is also Liang Mengsong, who has a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he worked at AMD, a major American processor manufacturer... Hey, do you want to be with you again?"

Xia Chuan didn't hide it this time and just looked at Aris blankly.

Shiyun coughed lightly and said inexplicably: "Ordained by God?"

All three of them were stunned.

They didn’t know that Liang Mengsong would later become the technical leader of TSMC.

His most impressive battle was to change the aluminum manufacturing process into a copper manufacturing process before IBM did.

If in the history of chip manufacturing, there are countless small breakthroughs that have accumulated into the current achievements, then there are two huge breakthroughs among them.

The first is wet lithography, which directly advances chip manufacturing technology by two or three generations.

The second is the conversion of aluminum process into copper process led by Liang Jinsong.

At that time, the aluminum process had hit a wall and had to be changed, especially since a competitor had signed a technology licensing contract with IBM. If it could not develop the copper process before IBM, TSMC would be completely left behind.

At this critical moment, Liang Mengsong led the R&D team, working hard day and night for a month, overcoming all technical difficulties, and applied for a copper process patent first.

It is a pity that TSMC did not reuse Liang Mengsong and did not promote him to the technical president when he retired. In anger, he defected to Samsung.

Then Samsung surpassed TSMC.

Xia Chuan sighed: "It's that simple to build a great high-tech enterprise. With two people and two breakthroughs, we will be number one in the world."