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At this time, Boss Jia didn’t seem to care at all about VCD, because at this time he was already entangled by Ni Guangnan.

“Boss, this time is an extremely rare opportunity, we have to win ASML!” Ni Guangnan kept repeating in Boss Jia’s ears, and I heard that Boss Jia’s ears are almost full of calluses.

Just yesterday, ASML announced a news that has attracted worldwide attention in the Semiconductor industry, that is, ASML has launched FPA2500, a 193nm wavelength scanning exposure machine, and the optical lithography resolution has reached 70nm level. This is an invincible achievement that has attracted worldwide attention. .

ASML is the global cream of the crop lithography machine manufacturer, producing the best lithography machines in the world.

Lithography machine is the most important equipment for making an electronic chip, not one of them.

As everyone knows, a computer chip, to put it bluntly, is a giant integrated circuit. On this integrated circuit are placed hundreds of thousands, 1000000 million, or even 10000000 million microtransistors.

The size of a computer chip, but about 14 in the palm of your hand. If you want to integrate 10000000 micro-transistors on such a small computer chip to have powerful computing power, then every transistor is so small that it is unimaginable. .

How to integrate these microcrystals on such a small chip has become the highest technology for computer chip manufacturing!

Now all chips are made of high-crystalline silicon, so the first step of making a chip is to purify quartz into pure silicon, then make silicon ingots, and finally slice it for the specific needs of chip production. Wafer.

The second step is to apply a thin film on the wafer. Wafer coating film can resist oxidation and temperature resistance, and this layer of film will be the template for the next 2 million microtransistors.

The third step is the time for the lithography machine to show its skills. The wafer is lithographically developed and etched through the lithography machine.

The thin film that was previously coated on the wafer is extremely sensitive to ultraviolet light in nature. As long as it encounters ultraviolet light, it will immediately become soft, and then it can be cleaned off by simple cleaning.

The role of the lithography machine is equivalent to pre-setting a pattern of various micro-transistor arrangements, each line of which is directly shielded, and then when such ultraviolet light is irradiated on the wafer.

Those films that have been irradiated by ultraviolet light are directly softened and dissolved, and can be washed away directly with a special solvent.

The part that has not been irradiated by ultraviolet light can still maintain the existence of that part of the film, allowing it to continue to adhere to the surface of the wafer.

This is somewhat similar to the principle of a seal. When you press the seal on the surface of the object, a detailed pattern will appear on the paper.

The Fourth Step is to add impurities, implant ions into the wafer, generate corresponding P and N semiconductors, and perform various special treatments on the positions that are not covered by the film, and then produce each and everyone Microtransistors with different functions came out.

Finally, testing and packaging are carried out, and then a chip with powerful computing power is born.

The principle of the lithography machine, to put it simply, is to make the circuits and functional areas required for chip production. The light from the photolithography machine is used to expose the photoresist-coated sheet through a patterned photomask. After the photoresist is exposed to light, the properties of the photoresist will change, so that the pattern on the photomask is copied to the sheet, so that the sheet has an electronic route. The role of map, this is the role of lithography.

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If you don’t understand the above paragraph, it doesn’t matter, there is a simpler explanation below.

Simply put, the computing power of a chip depends on the number of microtransistors on the wafer of the chip. The more microtransistors there are, the stronger the computing power of the chip.

For example, in supercomputers in various countries, the chips contain an astonishing number of microtransistors. For example, in 2018, one of the strongest supercomputers in the United States had 73.72810000 100000000 transistors on its chip. Of course, this is composed of 9216 CPUs in parallel, not so many transistors are engraved on the same chip.

Generally speaking, by 2020, the CPUs of consumer computers will contain more than 10100000000 million microtransistors. In 1993, this number was also above 10000000 million. In 30 years, the number of microtransistors has increased by more than 100 times.

But the size of a CPU is that big, only the area of ​​the palm 14, so the volume and size of each microtransistor is bound to be extremely small. In 2020, the standard for this size is 5 nanometers. In 1993, the standard for this size was 140 nanometers.

The function of the lithography machine is to be able to imprint each and everyone nano-level microtransistors on a small wafer. Of course, the specific process is not as simple as engraving. If you want to understand it in detail, you can read the above explanation. If you are not interested, just skip it. Anyway, you can understand it like this.

Ever since, for a lithography machine, how small the limit optical resolution it can engrave is, then how powerful this lithography machine is.

As I said before, in 1994, the highest size of a lithography machine is a lithography machine with an optical resolution of 140 nanometers.

But now, AMSL has launched the latest model, which is a super lithography machine with an optical resolution of 70 nanometers.

Now, the opportunity to buy this super lithography machine has come. At this time, AMSL publicly sold two such super lithography machines to the outside world, and it was only two in the first half of 2. If you can buy these two super lithography machines, The lithography machine equivalent to possesses the world’s most advanced chip manufacturing capability, and even ADM and inter have no such chip manufacturing capability.

Therefore, Ni Guangnan entangled Boss Jia. Must Boss Jia bought these two machines… If you can’t buy two, you must buy at least one.

“My Teacher, are you crazy? Why are you buying that stuff now? Even if we bought this machine back, it has the world’s highest chip manufacturing capabilities, but we don’t have the corresponding CPU design capabilities. What’s the use of being able to eat ashes?”

“Didn’t I already buy a 200nm-level lithography machine for the laboratory? That cost me a full US$400010000. Can’t you use that machine first?” Boss Jia said with a depressed look.

“Boss, I didn’t buy it for use, I used it for dismantling, it was used for technology!” Ni Guangnan said seriously.

“I…” Hearing the word splitting, Boss Jia was a bit speechless. He had bought a lithography machine for the laboratory before, and now this lithography machine has become each and everyone part, which is assigned to different parts. Inside the laboratory.

This lithography machine valued at US$400010000 didn’t even earn a penny for Boss Jia, so it was dismembered.

“Boss, that machine is only at the ordinary level of the world, and the technology used is also very backward. Our scientific research team has eaten all the technology inside, so we need the most advanced 70-nanometer level lithography machine to give us Eat technology!” Ni Guangnan said.

“What! 200nm technology, you have already eaten it?” Boss Jia looked at Ni Guangnan in shock. It took only 8 months for the machine to be bought, but it has already been eaten now?

“Almost, our team has compiled a few 1000000 million words of data, would you like to read it? Your current physics is also pretty good, these things should be understandable!” Ni Guangnan said with a smile.

“No, I don’t have time to watch…” Boss Jia shook his head quickly, and then asked, “Can you produce the 200nm lithography machine?”

“Give me another year!” Ni Guangnan said. “Although the technology of the lithography machine has been thoroughly understood, there are still many difficulties in the production process. Give me another year and I can overcome these difficulties. Produced our own 200nm lithography machine in China!”

“Similarly, if Boss, you can get a 70-nanometer lithography machine this time, and then give me 2…… 3…… 4, at most 4 years, I can guarantee you can give you a 70-nanometer lithography machine Conquered!” Ni Guangnan solemnly vowed said.

“Four years!” Boss Jia muttered. According to Boss Jia’s memory, the development history of lithography machines is particularly famous.

Since the production process of the lithography machine entered 70nm, it has become extremely difficult to break through the limit of this number. From 1993 to 2002, for a full 10 years, the production process of the lithography machine was fixed and dead. At the level of 70 nanometers, we cannot go further.

It was not until 2002 that a new production process was proposed, and the lithography machine began to develop advanced by leaps and bounds, and finally evolved to a precision of 5 nanometers.

In other words, if Ni Guangnan really, like what he said, can get the technology of lithography machine in 4 years, then in 1998, China’s lithography machine production process can catch up with the world level, reaching 70 The nano production process will then remain level for at least 4 years in the future, and will have the world Peak level.

This is extremely important for Great-Thousand, which means that Great-Thousand has the opportunity to catch up with the gap between AMD and inter.