This is a more secretive research base, guarded by active military personnel, and all researchers involved in the project have signed confidentiality agreements.
Somewhat similar to the Red Bank Base in Three-Body Problem.
As the initiator, investor, and major shareholder of the lithography machine project, Cao Weidong only has some privileges in this secretive lithography machine research base.
After repeated interrogations and reviews by gate guards and guards, Cao Weidong finally walked into the research base.
"Leader Wen, please call me."
He walked straight to the depths of the research room, where he met Wen Youming, the leader of the Ministry of Science and Technology, who was waiting in advance.
At this time, Wen Youming had a smile on his usually stern face, and his eyes were almost narrowed to a slit.
Cao Weidong's heart moved, and he had some vague guesses about the content of the next conversation.
"Could it be..."
"Yes, after so many years, we finally have the results."
The text is clear, concise and concise.
"finally!"
The excitement in Cao Weidong's heart was almost uncontrollable.
Over the years, he has invested almost all the money he earned here.
R&D expenses account for more than 70% of total revenue.
And he has persisted for so many years, and today he finally saw results.
Wen Youming's tone was also filled with emotion.
"Yes, we have developed an immersion lithography machine. Its performance is much better than the current most advanced dry lithography machine. No, it should be said to be a qualitative leap, and these are all your contribution."
"If you hadn't argued with the superiors, this project might have been canceled long ago."
At first, the above research was quite supportive of the photolithography machine project.
If you want people, give people, if you want money, give money.
But the people above don’t have rich money.
Moreover, there are countless new products developed at the same time, each of which is related to people's livelihood and economy.
In addition, with the changes in the international situation, Western countries no longer control the import of advanced technology and equipment. Gradually, the higher authorities began to neglect the lithography machine project.
The polarization lithography machine is another project that requires continuous investment and burns a lot of money. It requires at least 10 million US dollars to be invested in research and development every year, which is simply a bottomless pit.
Over the past few years, the superiors couldn't bear it anymore, and the photolithography machine project had not made much progress, so they decided to get rid of this burden.
Fortunately, Cao Weidong persisted.
He bore the cost of the research alone.
Although a lot of money was invested, an immersion lithography machine was finally developed, which means that China's lithography machine technology has been at the forefront of the world.
Wen Youming took Cao Weidong to visit the photolithography machine prototype.
When the two of them walked out of the workshop, Wen Youming patted Cao Weidong on the shoulder and asked.
"Comrade Xiao Cao, you are the greatest contributor to the development of photolithography technology, and the country will never forget you."
"By the way, what do you think about the application of this photolithography machine technology? Do you plan to use it commercially?"
"If you want to use it commercially, I don't think the country will impose restrictions on your contribution."
Cao Weidong thought for a while and said unceremoniously.
"It's not the time yet."
"Oh why?"
"Hide your clumsiness and guard your foolishness."
"Hide your stupidity and guard your foolishness..."
Wen Youming chewed on these four words, his eyes slightly changed, as if he was tasting something.
Cao Weidong talked eloquently.
"The current international situation is different from before. When Big Brother was still there, there was someone tall enough to hold up the sky when it fell. But now that Big Brother has collapsed, hawks are running rampant all over the world. As the pillars of Asia, we are
A thorn in Yingjiang’s side and a thorn in his flesh.”
"I understand this country. They have great internal conflicts and urgently need to establish an enemy to gather domestic will. At this time, we are one of the targets."
"So at this time we need to hide our weaknesses, cover up our strengths, and paralyze the hawks so that they don't regard us as opponents and buy us time to develop."
"So it is not appropriate to announce the lithography machine technology at this time. It is better to wait until other countries have relevant technologies put into commercial use, then we will announce the research and development, and then choose the time to take out the equipment."
Wen Youming sighed.
"Weidong, what you said makes sense, then we should..."
"We should keep researching!"
Cao Weidong said decisively.
"Continue to conduct in-depth research and study the next generation of lithography machine technology for smaller chip manufacturing sizes. When the immersion lithography machine reaches the point where we are 'too backward to demonstrate', we will use this technology.
When the technology is commercialized.”
Wen Youming clapped his hands.
"Very good, I will talk to the above and pass on your opinions. And I believe that as we develop the first generation immersion lithography machine prototype, the above will increase investment."
After talking for a while, Wen Youming reminded.
"Recently, there is an international EDA software brand called Cadence. They have been approved to enter the mainland market. You should pay attention."
"Yes, I will."
Cao Weidong nodded, indicating that he already knew.
After leaving the research base and looking at the blue sky, Cao Weidong sighed.
"We still hope that the country will become stronger as soon as possible. By then, we can come up with new technologies unscrupulously."
In fact, in terms of contribution, the ownership of the lithography machine belongs to him. If he commercializes the lithography machine technology as soon as possible, he will definitely make a lot of money. Even if he transfers this technology, the money will be enough for him to eat and drink for the rest of his life.
Worried.
But Cao Weidong did not do this.
He deeply understands the principle that only when a country is strong can the people be safe, otherwise the skin will not be preserved and the hair will not be attached.
Without equal strength, what awaits him is just that his technology will be taken away, his company will be divided up, and he will be framed personally.
Thinking of this, Cao Weidong had a faint sneer on his lips.
........
Time flies.
The wheel of history is rolling forward, and in the blink of an eye we have arrived in 1994.
Cadence held a grand press conference at the People's Hall. On this day, reporters from almost all electronic factories and well-known newspapers and radio stations gathered in the event.
Because this time happened to be around the Spring Festival, the impact was not yet obvious.
But as summer entered, Cadence's impact on Spark gradually became apparent.
"Director, no luck, our products have been attacked..."
Yang Xiaoxu told Cao Weidong the matter.
It turns out that not long ago, city agents in major northern cities such as Sijiucheng, Shandong, and Hebei suddenly decided not to provide sales and subsequent updates and maintenance of Spark EDA software, and instead acted as agents for Cadence's EDA software products. In addition, some cities in the south
, agents also began to call, expressing their wish to end the contract.
Then, Cadence announced the launch of a special edition of China's EDA software, aiming to allow China to use the most advanced EDA software in the world. The domestically supplied EDA software is only about one-tenth of the original price, which is just a bit lower than Spark EDA.
At the same time, some newspapers and radio stations also began to promote Cadence like rainbow farts.
"Dumping at a low price..."
After listening to Yang Xiaoxu's narration, Cao Weidong frowned.