Shenhao starts from the lottery of 1 million

Yi Anguo couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed after listening to Zhu Guanghui's compliments. This was not about how awesome he was, but how awesome a man named Jack Ma was, who came up with this awesome idea.

But now, I have been the first to come up with this method, launch it first, seize the market, and seize user resources.

He proposed the method, but they had to worry about how to implement it. Yi Anguo would not participate in the specific work, and he didn't understand it very well.

Therefore, professional matters should still be handled by professionals.

Yi Anguo is not a professional except for carpentry, but he knows a little bit about everything, and at least he is not wrong in the general direction, so he is suitable for command. If you have any ideas, just give an order and arrange the people below. Just do it and it will be OK.

What he can do is make enough money to provide sufficient development funds for each company, and provide sufficient R&D expenses for those that need R&D technology.

For example, Huaxing Microelectronics Equipment Company's sales revenue last year was less than one billion yuan, and its research and development expenses were more than eight billion yuan.

Huaxing Microelectronics Equipment Company is like a bottomless pit. Not to mention more than 8 billion yuan, more than 80 billion yuan is not enough for it to spend.

After all, if high-end photolithography equipment is so easy to study, it will not be stuck.

Before Yi Anguo was born again, he had seen a directory of companies. They were all key companies in the upstream and downstream industrial chain of domestic manufacturing of lithography machines.

In fact, the country has long attached great importance to the research and development of semiconductor technology.

The Netherlands does not sell us the latest extreme ultraviolet lithography machine. This lithography machine has more than 10 parts, but it does not have important components provided by my country, so we have no way to counter it.

A photolithography machine is more difficult to build than an atomic bomb. It is a collection of the world's top technologies and a comprehensive university.

ASML’s latest extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine, which only ASML can produce in the world

ASML in the Netherlands is the well-deserved leader in the field of lithography machines. The latest extreme ultraviolet lithography machine can produce 7-nanometer CPUs. It is the only company in the world with no semicolon and a market share of 100%.

Now that the world's mainstream processors are beginning to enter the 7-nanometer ranks, if you want to produce 7-nanometer chips, you must have ASML's EUV lithography machine.

Since it is a complete monopoly, ASML has the final say on the price. The price is not more than US$1 million per unit.

But if you buy it for 18 million U.S. dollars, it depends on Asmai’s face. If I’m not happy, I definitely won’t sell it to you! Is our country short of money? In 1.2, we spent million US dollars to buy it. Two years later, Mao didn't even see it. By then, Baodao had already bought more than a dozen units.

If it could be solved with money, the problem would be easier to solve, and Yi Anguo would not bother to do self-research.

Before his rebirth, the United States not only banned ASML from exporting advanced photolithography machines to China, but also banned Baodao's chip foundry companies from producing high-end chips for domestic companies in China.

Now that Huaxing has risen strongly, it will definitely threaten the interests of the United States. Therefore, if Yi Anguo does not make preparations early, he will definitely face pressure from the United States in the future.

Yi Anguo has already ordered a large number of the most advanced lithography machines from ASML, but the most advanced lithography machines now are not the most advanced lithography machines in more than ten years.

What’s more, ASML’s most advanced EUV lithography machines are also given priority to several other large cooperative companies, including PMC, but certainly not CSOT.

So even if Yi Anguo is rich, he can only buy their DUV lithography machine. Photolithography machine is one of the core equipment for manufacturing chips.

In the industrial field, the most difficult thing is not designing chips, but manufacturing them.

There are countless research studies on chip design around the world, and a large number of architectures such as ARM and x86 are available. It is not too difficult to re-develop a chip architecture. For example, the initial R&D team of the RISC open source architecture only had a few dozen people.

But chip manufacturing is different. To integrate billions of transistors into a chip of a few millimeters requires the integration of almost all high-end equipment technologies in the world, as well as related talents.

As we all know, the design of German machine tools is quite complicated, and there is still a big gap between it in China. However, the difficulty of manufacturing photolithography machines is probably more than a hundred times more difficult than the most complex machine tools.

The most similar thing between lithography machines and machine tools is that they both have extremely high requirements for accuracy. Machine tool processing generally requires millimeter-level precision, and even very backward photolithography machines require nanometer-level precision.

What you need to know is that 1 millimeter = 1 million nanometers, so the accuracy requirements of the photolithography machine are almost a million times that of ordinary machine tools! How difficult is it to get a photolithography machine?

An American engineer said that it would take decades to adjust a single part.

ASML's most advanced lithography machine in the Netherlands integrates a large number of technologies from Germany, Japan, and the United States.

The light source equipment of the lithography machine mainly comes from the American company Cymer, and the lens comes from Zeiss of Germany.

According to industry insiders, almost all parts of photolithography machines are customized, and 90% use the world's most advanced processing technology. Even some interfaces require engineers to polish them with high-precision machinery, and the number of size adjustments may be up to one million times. .

Such difficult technical requirements have resulted in extremely low output of lithography machines, and lithography machine technology will only be updated once every ten years.

An EUV lithography machine requires almost 100,000 parts. It is impossible for a company to produce these parts by itself.

The success of ASML is also the result of cooperation with many companies in the United States, Germany, etc., and it is only with the support of the U.S. military that it achieves its current status.

This is why, with just one sentence, the United States can ban it from selling high-end photolithography machines to China.

But no matter how difficult it is, Yi Anguo still has to challenge the difficulty.

Therefore, Yi Anguo not only invested huge sums of money in technology research and development for his own microelectronic equipment company, but also invested in companies in the supply chain to speed up the progress of technology research and development, and bought shares in these companies.

For example, the objective lens system of Guowang Optics and Sai Microelectronics.

Although they can only come up with a 90-nanometer node projection lithography exposure system, as long as they continue to research, they will always go further.

Moreover, Huaxing Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd. is also useful for the 90-nanometer node projection lithography machine exposure system.

If you cannot build an advanced lithography machine, you can just build a 90-nanometer lithography machine first. Not only will there be a huge domestic market, but there will also be a huge international market.

Not all chips require 60-nanometer, 45-nanometer, or 28-nanometer process technology lithography machines. In fact, for many ordinary chips, 90-nanometer process technology lithography machines are sufficient.

Huaxing Microelectronics also needs to survive. It cannot just maintain a group of technical research and development experts who specialize in the most cutting-edge process technology lithography machines. If it does not develop the most advanced lithography machines, will it not produce them?

It’s definitely not like this. It’s about conducting research while producing, starting with low-end photolithography machines, accumulating experience and improving technology step by step.

Producing low-end photolithography machines, etching machines, and packaging machines, you can make a little profit by selling them to make up for the loss of R&D funds.

And there is no need to pay taxes, because in order to develop high-tech industries, the state encourages companies to develop new technologies, and any amount of scientific research funds invested by the company can be tax deducted.