Chapter 531

"Teacher, what surprise have you prepared for me!" boss Jia hurried to the United Laboratory and found Ni Lao in the laboratory.

"I thought you wouldn't come today!" Ni Guangnan rolled his eyes and said, "come with me."

"Good!" boss Jia nodded, followed chief engineer Ni all the way to the Research Institute, and finally entered a well guarded room inside the Research Institute and saw a large machine five or six meters long.

"What is this?" boss Jia asked curiously.

"This is the prototype of the 200 nm lithography machine!" chief engineer Ni said proudly.

"What! What do you mean?" boss Jia was shocked this time.

"I said this is a 200 nm lithography machine with independent intellectual property rights, which is completely produced in China!" Ni Guangnan's head was about to lift to the sky. "After visiting the ASML production base that day, I told you that I had a thorough understanding of the 200 nm lithography machine?"

"This is my achievement!" Ni Guangnan proudly pointed to the machine in front of him and said, "this is the first 200 nm lithography machine independently manufactured by Huaxia."

"75% of the original parts of this lithography machine are pure domestic, and the domestic rate of core components is as high as 70%. As far as I know, the domestic rate of Nikon is about 50%, while the domestic rate of ASML is only 10%, so our equipment has the highest domestic rate in the world."

"My teacher, you are too good. We have only been back for a few days, and you have built the equipment?" boss Jia said in shock.

[PS: explain that the current timeline is that boss Jia has just returned from the Netherlands, and the 70nm lithography machine is still in the Netherlands and has not been shipped yet]

"In fact, this machine was built before I left, but there were still some problems. On the day we left, didn't I tell you that I had to do experiments? It was just to test the problems of this machine."

"However, this problem was solved after I visited ASML's factory. It turned out that their factory installed the machine using oil pressure, so that the installation accuracy can be accurate to 0.001 mm. Our original installation method can only be accurate to 0.1 mm!"

"Although it's only 0.099 mm away, it's a gap of thousands of kilometers on the nm level machine. So when I came back, I reinstalled the machine and used the oil pressure installation method. It was a success!" Ni Guangnan said with a proud and happy expression.

However, this is also normal. Ni Guangnan's dream is to create Huaxia's own CPU and complete computer system. Now this dream has finally taken a big step. A lithography machine that can reach the world terminal level has finally been manufactured by Huaxia's own strength!

"So powerful, can it be mass produced?" boss Jia turned around the lithography machine for several times, and then couldn't help asking.

"Mass production will take some time, mainly the production equipment!" Ni Guangnan sighed. "Although 75% of the original parts have been made in China, about 50% of the parts can not be bought in China. They are made by our researchers in the laboratory."

"Although these parts have been made, the efficiency is too low. A researcher can manually make a part in 10 days. In addition, key lenses, laser heads and other equipment also need to be imported from Germany. We still have a gap in these parts!"

"So if you really intend to mass produce these equipment, you must design a special production line and customize some special equipment. I'm afraid it will cost two or three billion dollars together!"

"Another two or three hundred million!" boss Jia licked his lips. The 200 nm lithography machine is a mid-range lithography machine in the world, so the price is not too expensive. One is about US $10 million. 300 million is enough for boss Jia to directly sell the finished products of 30 200 nm lithographies.

"So I don't think it's necessary to mass produce 200nm lithography machines now. After all, the highest technology is 70nm, followed by 140nm, followed by 250nm. I'm afraid this technology will fall behind in a few years."

"We have mastered the technical reserves for manufacturing these equipment, and it is enough to prepare for the high-end lithography machine breaking through 70nm. Now mass production is purely a loss of money!" Ni Guangnan sighed.

Although he advised boss Jia not to mass produce, he wished that this equipment could be mass produced immediately, because it was the product that the whole institute had worked hard for six months. If mass production could not be achieved, a large part of these efforts would be in vain.

However, Ni Guangnan also knew psychologically that if he invested US $200 million or US $300 million in mass production of the 200 nm equipment, he would certainly not be able to recover the cost, so he had to give up.

"What if I want to invest hundreds of millions to build this factory?" boss Jia mused.

"Then I'm afraid you have to invest at least $1 billion!" Ni Guangnan shook his head "It's not as simple as you think. Even if we can mass produce lithography machines, it's ok if we want to mass produce chips, but not if we want to mass produce CPU. CPU is not simple. Only one chip is enough. They also need a lot of other semiconductor equipment, which requires a lot of capital investment The amount of gold will exceed one billion! "

"Let me think about it!" boss Jia fell into meditation when he heard chief engineer Ni's words.

"Come on, go home and think about these problems. Come with me. I have other things to show you!"

"There's something else!" boss Jia cheered up, then followed Ni Guangnan to go deep into the Institute and came to the door of a laboratory.

This is the only three first-class dust-free laboratories in the joint experimental center mentioned earlier.

"Put on this suit!" Ni Guangnan took out two sets of dust-free clothes from the wardrobe and asked himself and boss Jia to change into one. After 20 minutes of dust removal, the two talents finally entered the laboratory.

"This is another gift I gave you!" Ni Guangnan smiled and pointed to a machine on the experimental platform.

Boss Jia put his head in the past, and then the whole person showed a very surprised expression.

"This is... Mobile phone!!!" boss Jia exclaimed, "teacher, you are so awesome! You have made your mobile phone!"