Mu Yang spent a few days outputting the drawings of equipment such as EBL lithography machines, etching machines, ion implanters and coating machines for chip manufacturing.

The system drawings are already in Mu Yang's mind. He only needs to imagine that using the human brain converter can quickly render them in the software. A few days is not that fast. If he copies the drawings normally, with his drawing efficiency, it will probably take

Four weeks.

At the same time, make a list of materials and let the company's purchasing department be responsible for purchasing. Find out which parts can be purchased as soon as possible. If they cannot be purchased, start independent research and development immediately.

Ruhelan ASML, as the world's largest lithography machine manufacturer, occupies 80% of the world's market share.

A high-end photolithography machine has as many as 100,000 internal parts, but the parts are not from ASML alone, but are collected from many high-tech manufacturers.

Among these 100,000 parts, the Netherlands and Eagle countries account for about 32%, the beautiful countries account for about 27%, the German countries account for 14%, and the island countries account for 27%. In total, there are more than 5,000 suppliers.

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The difficulty in manufacturing a lithography machine mainly lies in the alignment system and ultraviolet light source system.

The EBL lithography machine that Muyang chose has a relatively simple structure. The parts are not as complex as the EUV lithography machine, but it also requires extremely high precision in the parts.

Many parts of the lithography machine are customized. The order volume is low, and manufacturers are not willing to accept orders. But the most important thing is that they will not sell to Chinese companies.

ASML's annual shipments in the past two years have been only about 15 units. In other words, Moss Semiconductor's chip manufacturing company has no more than 100 photolithography machines.

Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's purchase of photolithography machines from ASML was actually restricted by the United States. A few years later, it was restricted from selling chips to Warwick Company. If it disobeyed, Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. would no longer be able to buy photolithography machines, and it would be difficult to sell them.

Chips are sold to beautiful countries.

Answer: Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. wants to make money, but some things are helpless. Now, Mu Yang just wants to break the rules of the beautiful country. He will decide the rules of future chips!

If Xinghai Group dumps high-end chips at low prices for two years, the global chip manufacturing industry will be completely destroyed.

But if you want to dump, you can’t do it in a beautiful country;

For Mu Yang, it doesn't matter if he makes less money. He is happy if it makes companies like ASML and these developed countries uncomfortable.

Not to mention avenging Warwick, he just couldn't stand the faces of these countries and stepped on them as many times as he could.

If Muyang wants to occupy most of the world's high-end chip market, with the technical status and production efficiency of the EBL01 lithography machine, it will need 50 to 100 lithography machines in the next five years.

Therefore, Muyang customized parts according to the order of 50 units to avoid being unable to buy them in the future.

Xinghai Group has an advantage that Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and ASML do not have, that is, Xinghai Group has the world's top processing capabilities. As long as it can be manufactured with metal or 3D additive equipment, it can be directly manufactured with this equipment and solve the problem directly.

, meeting most parts needs.

For example, EBL lithography machines also require alignment systems. Generally speaking, alignment systems mainly have two major problems, precision mechanical technology and alignment microscope systems.

This should be easy to understand. After all, the electron beam line width is so small that if you want to draw it, you will definitely need high-precision mechanical equipment.

Xinghai Group has just solved the key technology of top CNC machine tools, so it is much easier to reproduce the equipment of the alignment system.

Therefore, if Xinghai Group has not laid a solid foundation, even if it has top-notch photolithography machine technology, it will not be able to produce its own parts if it cannot buy parts.

Xinghai Group's chip manufacturing project team has been established for several months and has about a hundred people. They are all graduates who have joined the company in the past three years, mainly master's degree candidates and doctoral candidates.

In the past few months, the progress of the project has been extremely slow. The main task is to learn chip manufacturing technology. In order to train this group of people, the company has invested a lot of manpower and material resources, including hundreds of millions of yuan in the purchase of precision equipment.

Now that the project has been officially launched, the project team continues to expand.

Muyang is divided into several according to the composition of chip manufacturing equipment.

Large group, and then subdivided into groups according to each model of equipment.

For example, a photolithography machine is divided into more than a dozen systems according to the overall structure, such as lighting system, mask stage system, automatic alignment system, leveling and focusing measurement system, and frame shock absorption system. Each system is composed of 5 to 30 R&D personnel.

Personnel composition.

If there are insufficient personnel, they will be transferred from other parts of the company.

The photolithography machine research and development project alone requires two to three hundred R&D personnel.

In order to complete this chip manufacturing, the initial investment of one billion yuan has almost been spent. Now that it is officially launched, it is the time to really spend money. The second batch is ready to invest 10 billion yuan.

Only the Xinghai Group is so "rich" and can easily spend tens of billions in cash.

Without investing tens of billions of yuan before and after, Mu Yang found it difficult to produce chip samples, even if he had the relevant technology himself.

On the morning of January 12, Muyang held a chip manufacturing project team meeting and required all members of the project team to participate.

Many staff felt a little strange. When the project team was established, the chairman called them for a meeting, and they never held a meeting again. They rarely visited the chip manufacturing laboratory and allowed them to learn and train freely without asking questions.

It seemed that they were not very optimistic about the success of this project, so they held their breath and tried to prove it to the chairman. However, chip manufacturing technology was really too difficult.

They know that the company is developing wafers, but they can't find out the news about the wafers. It seems that all the information is blocked.

There were still about ten minutes until ten o'clock, and everyone entered the conference room with doubts and sat waiting for the chairman to arrive.

When it was almost ten o'clock, Mu Yang walked into the conference room, glanced at the people in the conference room and said: "In more than ten days, the company will be on holiday, and many departments are starting to relax.

However, your project team is about to get busy. There are many things that need to be done before the holiday. If the chip manufacturing is successful one day later, the variables will be greater.

Now, each team leader will first report on the work of the project team since its establishment."

After Mu Yang finished speaking, the team leaders of each group began to report on their work.

While Mu Yang listened to the work reports of each team leader, he observed the employee loyalty in the conference room.

In order to prevent spies from entering this core project team, he had to conduct a loyalty test on every member. This money had to be spent. It cost nearly 100 million yuan in one go. He was still very worried about the system's money.

After each team leader's report, Mu Yang also tested the loyalty of all personnel. Their heads were all green, and they were all above 80.

These graduates are extremely loyal to Mu Yang. It can be said that Mu Yang is their idol.

"It is normal for R&D projects to fail. The most important thing is whether you have made progress and whether you will make the same mistakes again.

The meeting held today represents the official launch of this project team. After the meeting, I will transfer the relevant information to the technical system. Everyone can view the technical information and work tasks according to their own responsibilities and permissions. You should familiarize yourself with the information as soon as possible.

Many parts need to be customized, and you need to be personally responsible for them. You need to communicate with the manufacturer in person with the purchasing department. If necessary, you also need to go to the manufacturer in person to inspect the actual situation.

If you can't purchase it, report it as soon as possible, then we can only develop it independently.

I will work with you on this project until the chip sample is produced," Mu Yang concluded.

As soon as he finished speaking, all the R&D staff in the conference room were surprised that the chairman was finally taking them to the project.

"I once said that Xinghai Group wanted to develop its own chips. It was not a joke. Although this project has only been established for a few months, we have actually been preparing for it for two years.

In the past few months, you should also understand that EUV lithography machines, key equipment for chip manufacturing, and other related equipment, if we follow their path, we will not be able to bypass the scope of their technology patent protection.

Therefore, EBL electron beam lithography machine is our way. The information I sent you is the result of our company within two years. The theoretical technical level can reach the first place in the world.

However, theory is theory and still needs practice.

Now, I need you to check it out

Prove it, make it, and optimize and improve it." Mu Yang said this to explain the source of the data, which would not be released in a short while.

EBL electron beam lithography machine?

I just heard about it. Has another secret team of the chairman already developed it?

These employees were surprised after hearing Mu Yang's words. They really didn't expect that the company had a secret scientific research team that had already advanced chip research and development to the point where it had relevant technical information.

When the technical manager saw his colleagues exclaiming and discussing, he couldn't help but raise his hand and ask: "Chairman, do we really want to develop an EBL electron beam lithography machine?"

"Yes, the drawings and craftsmanship are out and you need to verify them." Mu Yang nodded lightly.

After receiving confirmation from the chairman and the drawings already coming out, these scientific researchers were overjoyed, indicating that the chairman was very confident.

This news also gave these researchers who were helpless a shot in the arm.

There is hope!

"Again, please pay attention to confidentiality. Except for members of your department, you are not allowed to talk about the project content outside the project team, including your family members, and you are not allowed to disclose to the outside world that we are conquering chip manufacturing technology." Mu Yang knocked on the table and gave a serious order, "

I hope you understand the importance of this project and the serious situation we are in.

I also hope that you must remember that technology has national boundaries. Developed countries would like us to go bankrupt. Once they discover that we have developed advanced chips, they will definitely impose various restrictions on us and even use state means to destroy us.

You are not marginal figures in a small company, but core personnel of a top technology company. Everything you do can lead the development of the world.

I hope that you can produce the world's top domestic chips and give foreigners a resounding slap in the face with your outstanding results.

However, I also want to remind you that before you achieve results, please put aside your pride and past achievements and work hard with a low profile."

Mu Yang's last few words made many employees excited, but at the same time they also faced up to their work mentality.

Next, Mu Yang opened the PPT, explained the general situation and framework technology of EBL, and assigned tasks at the same time.

Mu Yang is not verbose in meetings, and he doesn't like to discuss issues in meetings. Discussing issues in the conference room wastes the time of other participants who have nothing to do with the issue. Moreover, discussing issues cannot be solved in a short time.

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After the meeting, Mu Yang had a lot to do before the year ended.

On January 15, 2014, Mu Yang went to BJ to attend the 2013 National Science and Technology Awards Conference.

Xinghai Group has been nominated for many projects, including one technology, automotive lithium battery NCMS01, which won the first prize of the National Technology Invention Award. Mu Yang attended the award as the legal representative of the company.

It can be said that except for the two winners of the highest science and technology award and the first prize of natural science, the first prize of the National Technology Invention Award is too difficult to win. There were ten nominations this time, but only two were selected in the end. Xinghai Group still

Just like last year, it was obtained through strong strength.

This was the second time he stepped into the Great Hall, feeling less excited and more calm.
To be continued...