It is when the electricity accumulates and strives to move forward.

China Sea.

Zhangjiang High-tech Park.

Inside an unknown little white building.

The quietly established China Overseas Microelectronics ushered in the most critical moment.

In 2002, lithography machines were included in the National 863 Major Science and Technology Research Plan, and were jointly promoted by the National Science and Technology Ministry and China Overseas City to establish the "China Overseas Microelectronics Company".

Making a lithography machine is to "build a house" in the microscopic world - a lithography machine is a super-complex thinking system composed of tens of thousands of precision parts, hundreds of actuator sensors, and tens of millions of lines of code. Its internal motion accuracy error is no more than one thousandth of a hair.

To give an analogy, it is like sitting on a supersonic flying plane and holding a thread head into a pinhole on another plane. Due to its super-high difficulty in technology and the complexity of the system, lithography machines have formed an extremely high technical threshold all over the world.

In order to realize the dream of "using Chinese lithography machines to build Chinese cores", Mr. Ming Rong, deputy chief engineer of China Overseas Electric, came to Zhangjiang with 10 dream-filled "comrades-in-arms" to take on the manufacturing and revitalizing the country and nation, and began the difficult journey of lithography machine research and development.

Dreams are full, but reality is skinny.

The domestic lithography machine-related industry is in a blank space, and Mingrong is unable to start with whether it is professionals or supporting parts supply chains.

Under such circumstances, Ming Rong, general manager of China Overseas Microelectronics, knew very well that "the only way out is to take the path of independent innovation."

This is a arduous road.

China Overseas Microelectronics is unrestrained.

On the top floor of Xiaobai Building, the door of the general manager’s office is closed.

Two middle-aged men sat facing each other across an office desk.

"It's been two years, and the company has been established for two years. Mr. Ming, please tell me what achievements have been made?"

opposite.

Wu Leen, the gentle director of the Science and Technology Bureau, growled in a rare heartbroken expression.

Wu Leen was just forty years old and sat in Zhonghai as the top leader of the Science and Technology Bureau of Big City.

Its background is unfathomable.

It is said that he has a very good relationship with the bosses in the ministry.

This time, we visited Zhonghai Microelectronics.

It's the sign of the boss behind it.

After all, China Overseas Microelectronics was established with a mission, but two years have passed, but there is no news.

This made the big guys anxious.

If there is no result, the superiors will question their abilities.

"I...I'm so hard!!"

A face with a Chinese character, so thin that it reveals its cheekbones.

Mingrong's face was full of haggardness.

He smiled bitterly: "A chip sized by fingernails is densely packed with tens of millions of wires and is not messy at all, so it requires extremely accurate lithography machines. It can be said that the accuracy of the lithography machine determines the upper limit of the chip. High-precision lithography machines are produced in Dongyang Nikon and Canon. Both of these companies have decades of history and heavy technology, but our technology is poor and careless."

"Poor and white?"

"Yes, we are still exploring technology today, and at least hundreds of technical patents are needed to achieve the first phase of the results."

"Hundreds of technical patents need to be explored?"

Wu Leen was extremely angry, "Mr. Ming, you must be responsible for your words. According to what you said, is it that I went to see Marx? You may not have achieved anything yet?"

"Yeah! This possibility is not ruled out." Mingrong answered honestly.

"I'm x~~" Wu Leen cursed in a low voice, and said for a long time: "Is there no drawings? Should we ask the above to find a way to get a set of drawings for a lithography machine?"

"The drawings are not the key!"

Mingrong shook his head and said, "When I went to Germany for inspection the next year, an engineer told me, 'I can't make it even if I give you a complete set of drawings.' I didn't believe it at that time, and now, I understand this sentence."

"What does it mean?" Wu Leen looked at him in confusion.

"I'm not saying that drawings are not important," Ming Rong said. "How to assign system errors to subsystems, designs are divided into high and low. But top lithography machines also require technical cleanliness in detail. A fiber, a line of software encoding, and a small action. If you don't do it diligently, the entire system will not be excellent."

"Developing lithography machines requires high-quality people. So although we have not achieved results after doing it, the most fruitful results are to cultivate people and change people." Ming Rong said, "This requires us to do things with a long-term perspective of fifty and one hundred years, rather than expecting to solve problems in a few months."

"What you mean is that only after you have talents can you succeed?" Wu Leen understood a little.

"No, this is just a gap in software. We still have a gap in hardware with developed countries, and it can also be said to be a gap in materials."

Mingrong sighed and said, "For example, the ancestral mirror polishing technique."

The lithography machine is similar to a camera. Its negative film is a silicon wafer coated with photosensitive adhesive. The circuit pattern is micro-projected to the negative film by the lithography machine, etching away part of the glue, exposing the silicon surface for chemical treatment. This process needs to be repeated dozens of times when manufacturing the chip.

The lens located in the center of the lithography machine is composed of more than 20 lenses with a large bottom of the pot. The lenses are polished with high-purity translucent materials and high-quality quality. These lenses often cost tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars a piece.

The lenses in Western countries are based on the foundation of Zeiss technology in Germany. The lens materials are even, which take decades to hundreds of years of technical accumulation.

Not to mention Canon and Nikon of Toyo, camera products are famous all over the world, and optical technology has always been world-class.

"The finish of the same lens is ten times different for different workers to polish it." General Manager Ming Rong said sadly. He saw in Germany that the three generations of workers who polished lenses were in the same position in the same company.

Wu Leen opened his eyes wide in surprise when he heard this.

He has heard of these technical gaps.

It’s just that it’s not as specific and so shocking as Mingrong said.

At this time.

"Dongdong" knocked on the door, and Secretary Mingrong's voice came from outside the door: "Mr. Ming, Deputy Mayor Xu is coming soon, do you want to go out to greet me?"

"Is it him? I'll arrive soon." Ming Rong was stunned, quickly tidied up his clothes, turned to Wu Le'en and said:

"Sorry, Director Wu, I'll go out to greet you first."

"Yeah, let's go together." Wu Le'en followed closely. As soon as he walked out of the gate of Xiaobai Building, he saw that the gentle and elegant Xu Wenyang had already got out of the car, but did not walk towards them, but faced a luxurious extended Mercedes-Benz Maybach behind.

The people inside Maybach opened the car door.

I saw a handsome young man with a slight smile on his face and said something to Xu Wenyang after coming out of the back seat of the luxury car. They laughed together.

Then the two of them stood side by side, and then they walked towards Mingrong and Wu Leen.

"wrong."
Chapter completed!