Chapter 252 Unexpected Cooperation
The third day after coming to Beijing.
Jiang Miao met with two unexpected guests.
"Mr. Chen, Mr. Yang, sit down."
As soon as he sat down, Chen Nanxian opened the point: "Mr. Jiang, I will not beat around the bush when I visit today, after all, Mr. Jiang has limited time."
"I wonder what Mr. Chen has to do?" Jiang Miao was also very curious about the other party's purpose, because Hailufeng Company and Changjiang Storage had no business dealings.
Chen Nanxian did not delay and directly explained his purpose: "Mr. Jiang, I was entrusted to visit me. Zhizhu Technology, which provides us with water purification equipment, hopes to introduce your company's strategic investment."
"Zhizhu Technology? Strategic Investment?" Jiang Miao was stunned at first, and then reacted: "Do they want to introduce our company's silicon carbide nanotubes?"
"They do With this idea, if possible, they are willing to issue a 20% stake for a price of 1 yuan to obtain an exclusive license for silicon carbide nanotubes. "
"Exclusive license is impossible." Jiang Miao directly rejected this matter. As for obtaining 20% of Zhichun Technology's shares, it was not attractive to Jiang Miao:
"Just let them communicate directly with our company. Our company does not refuse procurement cooperation, provided that water purification equipment using silicon carbide nanotubes cannot go abroad."
"Can't go abroad?" Yang Shining on the side still had the first time Once I met an entrepreneur who took the initiative to reject foreign markets.
"Old Yang doesn't know that silicon carbide nanotubes are more important than semiconductor pure water industry in seawater desalination and sewage treatment, because their energy consumption cost of extracting pure water is very low, about every cubic cube The rice is about 0.015 yuan."
When hearing this answer, both Yang Shining and Chen Nanxian showed a hint of shock on their faces.
"It's so low?"
Chen Nanxian also understood why Jiang Miao did not allow the export of such equipment and raw materials. It is estimated that Hailufeng Company will not ban it itself. The official must include this technology in the special protection directory.
Yang Shining asked curiously: "Mr. Jiang, how pure water can be produced by this technology achieve?"
"In theory, it is pure water, because it is formed by vacuum negative pressure. The medium temperature water vapor is only absorbed by nanopipes, but if we want to achieve the level of use in the semiconductor industry, we need to consider using vacuum containers and ultra-low dissolution containers in the future to avoid pure water contamination by the containers." br>
Hearing Jiang Miao's answer, Yang Shining had roughly figured out the principle of this technology: "So that's it. It's purification through room temperature evaporation technology. No wonder it can achieve such low energy consumption."
< br>However, Chen Nanxian was not very optimistic. He thought of a big problem with many reverse osmosis materials at present: "Mr. Jiang, how long does this material last?"
"If it is used normally, it can be used for about 40 years."
"What?" Chen Nanxian widened his eyes: "I heard it right, is it 40 years? Not 4 years or 10 years?"
"It's 40 years, because this material is arranged vertically, during the process of extracting pure water, other components dissolved in the water will not evaporate and float up through the nanopipes, so there is naturally no problem of pipeline blockage."
Although Chen Nanxian was very shocked, his face was very happy: "It turns out to be like this! It seems that our semiconductor factory can use low-cost pure water in the future."
You must know, pure The cost of water in the semiconductor industry can often reach about 3% to 8% of the total expenditure, which is not a small expenditure.
In particular, the cost of domestic water purification equipment remains high, and the cost of treating pure water is relatively high. This is mainly because the core components are controlled by foreign companies.
In recent years, in order to suppress the domestic semiconductor industry, foreign countries have either adopted purchase restrictions or directly cut off supply for related core components, or raised supply prices, or only allowed to sell secondary-level products.
The pure water production equipment has been affected in this regard.
Zhichun Technology recently discovered that Hailufeng Company was registering related technologies on a large scale, and only then did it discover the existence of silicon carbide nanotubes. They did not pay much attention to it.
It was not until a few days ago that Hailufeng Company acquired a water purifier company that they realized it.
Because they have understood the development model of Hailufeng Company. If a technology has matured, Hailufeng Company will definitely make arrangements in advance.
Since we have acquired a large-scale water purifier company, it is obvious that the related technology of this silicon carbide nanotube has matured and can be mass-produced soon.
At this time, the management of Zhizhu Technology was too slow to react. After all, many of the previous industries of Hailufeng Company had traces before they made efforts.
But they couldn't find the opportunity for a while. After thinking about it, they could only ask Chen Nanxian, who happened to be in the capital, and asked the other party to help express their cooperation ideas to Jiang Miao. After talking about Zhichun Technology, Chen Nanxian did not say goodbye at this time, but talked to Jiang Miao about some things about semiconductor materials.
"Mr. Jiang, your company is developing rapidly in the material field, and maybe we still have opportunities to cooperate in the future." Yang Shining, who was standing by, also echoed: "Hailufeng Company's new materials research and development capabilities are indeed very strong. For example, silicon carbide nanotubes, this material is also widely used in the semiconductor field. "
Jiang Miao remembered the silver-plated tube nanotubes he developed before: "When it comes to new materials, I discovered it some time ago There is no clue about the specific purpose of the development of new materials, and I don’t know if you have any insights."
"Oh? I don’t know what material it is?" Chen Nanxian asked curiously. "It is a derivative material of silicon bean silk material, a silver-plated silicon nanotube with a minimum pore diameter of 14 nanometers to 16 nanometers. It can attract and spray charged particles through electromagnetic acceleration. ”
"Mr. Jiang, do you mean the aperture is 14 nanometers to 16 nanometers? Can you still spray and attract charged particles?" Chen Nanxian's breathing became rapid in an instant.
"Yes, this is the minimum scale." Chen Nanxian asked afterwards: "Is there any limitation to charged particles that can be sprayed and attracted?"
Jiang Miao answered truthfully : "No, as long as it is charged particles and the particle size is less than 10 nanometers, it can pass through the pipeline."
"Is the electromagnetic acceleration speed fixed or adjustable?"
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading! "It can be adjusted." Chen Nanxian and Yang Shining looked at each other, and both saw surprise and excitement from each other's eyes.
Chen Nanxian couldn't wait and quickly proposed: "Mr. Jiang, let's cooperate! I think this material has a huge purpose in the semiconductor industry."
"Semiconductor?" Jiang Miao is still real I don't know the details of semiconductors: "Mr. Chen, tell me, how does this material be used in semiconductors? I also have only a little understanding of the semiconductor industry."
Chen Nanxian did not feel impatient, but explained in detail: "The material you developed can spray charged particles at the nano-level. The first application is to spray charged particles at high speed on the etching machine. Carve the required circuit on the wafer."
Yang Shining wanted to be more direct: "In fact, we can go further and directly use injection casting to stack circuits on nanometer sizes."
< br>"Didn't it mean that 3-nanometer and 5-nanometer processes are implemented abroad now? It is difficult for me to achieve this scale, right?" Jiang Miao was a little puzzled.
Yang Shining shook his head and answered his questions: "Mr. Jiang, in fact, the current lithography machines and etching machines cannot directly manufacture 3-nanometer and 5-nanometer circuits, and even 10-nanometer-level circuits are very good Difficulty, they just call equivalent 5nm, and the material you develop can instead make circuits of 3nm and 5nm sizes. "Yes, you can use similar multiple exposures. Process, if Mr. Jiang develops materials without other defects, it can indeed produce circuits of 3-nanometer to 5-nanometer level." Chen Nanxian's tone was a little excited.
Yang Shining's eyes were filled with thoughts: "It is actually easier to implement in terms of process than producing general-purpose chips."
"Indeed, the circuit structure of the memory is simple, and this material is more convenient to implement. Layer stacking is easier to use to manufacture memory chips." Chen Nanxian quickly suggested to Jiang Miao again: "Mr. Jiang, what I said is serious about cooperation. This is a one-time for both of our companies. With a huge opportunity, your company does not have the experience in developing semiconductors, we can provide help in this regard, which is a win-win cooperation."
Jiang Miao did not refuse: "Our company does not have the research and development of semiconductor products. Experience, it is probably difficult to quickly implement application of this material or to acquire a wafer factory. However, our company has only conducted preliminary research on this material, so why not do this! Let’s secretly set up a R&D center, and this R&D center will be placed in Minqin is convenient for confidentiality and nearby research. "
"Minqin? It's OK. It won't involve production in the early stage, so it's not harmful to set up the R&D base there."
Of course, Jiang Miao knew that Minqin was not suitable as a semiconductor base. After all, semiconductors are big users of electricity and water, and there are also places where there are fewer earthquakes. Minqin obviously does not meet it.
So he added: "If the technology is mature in the later stage, we will naturally produce it at the semiconductor base of Yangtze River Storage, and we will be a raw material supplier."
"No problem." Chen Nanxian secretly replied. After breathing a sigh of relief, fortunately, Jiang Miao did not force himself to build a semiconductor production base in Minqin.
Jiang Miao continued: "As for this cooperation, I think it is better for both parties to keep confidentiality. At least at the top of our executive level, other researchers must sign confidentiality agreements."
" Yes, it is still unknown whether the technology can succeed now, and I agree to keep it confidential."
The two sides discussed for half an hour and finalized some details of the cooperation.
There were departures of Chen Nanxian and Yang Shining rushed back to the headquarters without stopping, began to dispatch troops, and dispatch relevant researchers to secretly form the technical team of Minqin Semiconductor R&D Center.
(This chapter ends)