"Mr. Chen, could you please prove that the news is true?"
"Can you please let us see the photolithography machine you developed?"
The media asked Director Chen a lot of questions.
Director Chen waved his hand, "Friends from the media, please don't be impatient. Next, I will show you the first fully domestically produced 14-nanometer extreme ultraviolet lithography machine - Tian
Worker No. 1!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several staff members in work clothes carefully rolled out a special glass box on a wheel truck.
And inside the glass box lies a high-precision equipment like a sleeping beauty.
A layman may not know it clearly at first glance, but an expert will recognize what it is when he sees it.
Lithography machine!
That’s right, it’s the photolithography machine known as the “Crown of Industrial Pearls”.
"Tiangong-1 has assembled our Changguang Mechanical and Electrical Research Institute and collaborated with other companies to finally develop this 14-nanometer EUV lithography machine. The key equipment of the extreme ultraviolet light source lamp used in this lithography machine is all made by independent domestic companies.
Accessories, we will announce relevant information later. After many tests, the photolithography resolution of Tiangong-1 reaches 14 nanometers. Combined with multiple exposure technology, it can be used to manufacture 7 nanometer-level chips, with a yield rate of over 95
%, the performance is beyond imagination!"
"This is impossible! You must be lying! How can you master EUV lithography machine manufacturing technology? Only ASML in the world can manufacture lithography machines up to 5 nanometers!"
Wells stood up and said, attracting unkind looks from many rabbit reporters.
Putting aside the question of whether it is fake or not, this foreigner actually questioned it on the spot, which naturally made many rabbits dissatisfied.
Director Chen also recognized Wells, just when he wanted to reply.
Xu Li suddenly stood up.
"Nothing is impossible Mr. Wells, I'm right!"
Xu Li looked flatly at Wells.
"It's you." Wells was stunned and his eyes narrowed.
Sparks burst out where the eyes of the two parties met.
"It seems you know me, not bad. Let me introduce myself again. I am Xu Li, the boss of Suiren Technology. I would like to ask Mr. Wells why he doubts that our Dragon Country cannot produce EUV lithography machines?" p>
At this moment, everyone turned their attention to Wells.
If this crooked nut didn't answer well, then today's news would be big.
Moreover, the reporters on the scene already have their keyboards in hand and are waiting to show off their skills.
"Why? Isn't your Dragon Country famous for its copycat technology? I dare not say anything else, but this extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is a work of art that we combined with many companies in the Semiconductor Alliance to put it together. You
Our technical strength cannot meet such standards!”
Wells is not afraid of offending people. Anyway, he does not believe that the Longguo people have mastered the 14-nanometer EUV lithography machine manufacturing technology.
"Oh, since our Mr. Wells doesn't believe it, then please go up and verify it. I believe that Mr. Wells's eyes can distinguish the true from the false!"
Xu Li was not angry at Wells's gaffe. After all, the foreigner didn't believe it was his fault, and it would be very painful to be slapped in the face.
"Huh! Just give it a try!"
After all, Wells is also the CEO of Eagletel, so he naturally has certain technical skills, but to be on the safe side, he asked Tom and several experts from Sansang Group to go up and verify it.
Representatives of other domestic semiconductor companies also raised their hands to indicate that they wanted to go up for verification.
When Director Chen saw so many people wanting to check the authenticity, he agreed, but he would still watch from the sidelines to prevent these people from damaging this little baby.
Wells and others came on stage, and then the staff opened several ports of the glass box and began to operate the machine before operation.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the staff took a few silicon wafers and started photolithography.
Several domestic and foreign experts present were watching with bated breath, but Director Chen took a chair and watched leisurely.
Everyone in the audience was also nervous, looking at the screen image of the experts projected onto the screen.
Although they didn't know the details of the operation, they could feel that the atmosphere was very tense.
Reporter Long Guo also hopes that the performance of this photolithography machine will be as good as Director Chen said, otherwise it will be humiliated internationally.
This will be a heavy setback for Longguo’s semiconductor industry.
The higher-ups are also paying attention to this press conference.
The operators began to take action.
They followed the chip manufacturing process, cleaning, drying, coating, polishing...
Some processes need to be repeated, such as cleaning and drying. Every time the silicon wafer is polished and lithographed, it needs to be cleaned and dried to ensure that there are no debris on the silicon wafer, so as to ensure the performance of the chip.
Every step of the operation must be done with great caution and patience, and cannot be done in a hurry.
If you are not careful, this silicon wafer will be scrapped.
In total, I waited for almost four hours.
The first batch of chips are freshly released, and they are densely covered with chips, waiting for the final step - segmentation and final packaging and testing.
However, since it is an on-site test, the step of packaging and testing is omitted.
Under the operator's operation, chips are accurately segmented.
These chips are still semi-finished products, but they are ready for testing.
After the experts got the chips, they started testing with testing instruments.
The audience is also waiting nervously.
Several semiconductor experts looked at the pictures in the electron microscope and saw the neat 14-nanometer circuit transistors, and their eyes widened.
Wells couldn't believe it and continued to use the electron microscope to check the condition of the transistor.
Then after a series of quick tests, such as how much computing power can be provided.
Generally speaking, in theory, the higher the CPU frequency, the faster the running speed and the better the performance.
Therefore, the detection will focus on the basic performance and overclocking capabilities of the CPU.
These can basically be calculated through specialized computer software.
Except for Wales, several foreign experts had complicated expressions.
"What do you think of Dr. Charlie?"
Sansang's semiconductor experts asked in a low voice to Qualcomm's experts.
"There is no doubt that 14nm, the view of the electron microscope cannot deceive anyone. After multiple exposures, it can indeed be made into a 7nm chip. After our simulation tests, its computing speed is twice that of ordinary CPUs, and its power consumption is reduced by 25%.
."
Qualcomm experts smiled bitterly.
"Okay, it's time for us all to get the result together, so as not to wait too long!"
After discussion among several experts, it was decided that experts from Qualcomm would state the facts.
After all, this can’t deceive people. All they can do is make the true results of the test public.
"Everyone, after testing by me and several other colleagues, it has been confirmed that the chip of this Tiangong-1 lithography machine reaches 14 nanometers. After combined with multiple exposures, it can reach the 7 nanometer level, and can reach a maximum of 6.5 trillion per second.
Floating point."
There was an uproar at the scene.
"How is it possible? They actually succeeded!"
Li Junen, the executive president from Sansang, exclaimed in disbelief.
"..." Yingtel's Wells looked complicated and didn't know what words to use to express it.
Just now, he laughed at Ryugu's impossibility of developing a 14nm lithography machine, but he was suddenly slapped in the face.
But this is only a 14-nanometer EUV lithography machine, not a 5-nanometer EUV lithography machine. Rabbit and the others cannot catch up with this level.
Yes, Western semiconductors are still ahead of Longguo.
When he thought of this, Wilson suddenly felt a little hypocritical relief.
Then they will step off the stage following the other experts.