Chapter 166 What lithography machine? This is a metal recorder
The person who just spoke was Nikon's senior vice president Tok Chengji Liang. His mention of Americen made the atmosphere in the entire conference room suddenly become solemn.
Joseph's death was right before his eyes. Many media reported his death. The Internet linked this incident to the European Space Agency's getting too close to Light Armor Aerospace.
Everyone here has heard about this. If you dare to cooperate with China, you must be prepared to accept revenge.
But when an opportunity appears in front of you, no one is willing to give up.
The Chinese have clearly come up with a brand new system, which has huge potential and can help Nikon realize its long-cherished wish to return to the top. The Nikon executives here are unwilling to give up no matter what.
“America didn’t say it couldn’t cooperate with China. American can curb Nikon’s development and deliberately cultivate ASML to surpass Nikon. Can Nikon just wait to die?” Morita’s tone was full of anger. .
He had been working for Nikon before becoming the general manager of Nikon’s semiconductor business unit. He had been working for Nikon’s lithography machine business for nearly 30 years.
As a veteran who has experienced glory and is now at an unprecedented trough, Morita knows very well that ASML can catch up with Nikon and that TSMC and ASML cooperate privately to overtake by infiltration. This is just a business story created by the media.
In fact, this is entirely an offensive launched by the entire Americen semiconductor industry chain's upstream and downstream companies under the leadership of the Americen Department of Energy against Neon Enterprises.
Because of the most advanced EUV, that is, deep ultraviolet lithography machines, most basic research is completed under the leadership of the Americen Department of Energy.
As for Intel, TSMC, Texas Instruments, and Samsung, the major chip manufacturers at that time, switched to ASML overnight, not giving Nikon a chance, and Morita did not believe that there was no national will behind this. .
“We are all forced to make 250nm lithography machines now. I didn’t fall asleep in the bedroom that night when I made this decision. I thought about it for a long time, how could Nikon end up like this?
When I went to the semiconductor exhibition, ASML was introducing how they broke through the advanced process and how they were marching towards 1nm. When I was so proud of their products, I really couldn’t tell what our new products this year were. 250nm i-line lithography machine.
This is a shame for Nikon, but now that I have the opportunity to overtake it, I don’t want to give it up no matter what.”
Although during the interview, Morita claimed that it was to achieve differentiated competition with competitors, in fact he was forced to do the scrap business that others looked down upon.
“This is our only advantage compared to ASML. Washington is staring at ASML. They are bent on forcing ASML to relocate to America, and we have been lagging behind in the field of lithography machines for too many years.
They will not notice that we are cooperating with China.
Who said this is a photolithography machine? It is a device for silicon wafers. Topological semi-metal, this is a brand new chip manufacturing equipment, we should not call it a lithography machine
I think the name metal recorder is quite good.
We can set up a new company to cooperate with China through layer-by-layer penetration. We have many shell companies in Brazil, so we can do more penetrations.
Besides, Washington did not say that we cannot jointly develop with China. Their restrictions have not reached this level.
If the future is discovered and someone has to sacrifice, I am willing to make sacrifices for the future of Nikon. You can pass all decision-making responsibilities to me.
Please everyone, even if I can't see it, I hope that one day Nikon can surpass ASML and return to the throne of the number one lithography machine. "After Morita finished speaking, he stood up and walked to the middle of the conference room to bow to all his colleagues.
The Nikon executives present here have worked at Nikon for at least fifteen years. After hearing Morita's heartfelt words, they thought about the current situation. , there is a feeling of tears.
This is the good thing about this kind of run-down wealthy family. The executives who can insist on staying are not cliquey. Everyone has feelings for the company, and those who don't have left early.
The Neon Semiconductor industry has also experienced great success, and there is no shortage of places in the industry for those who can become senior executives.
"Morita-kun, I am serious. I believe that none of you here do not want to get rid of the current situation and bring Nikon back to its peak.
What you just mentioned is a solution, this is not Lithography machine, and this is not done by Nikon.
We did a good job of packaging in the initial stage. After the results were achieved, it was too late even Amerikan could react. At that time, we were cooperating with China on semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Large-scale shipments are already underway." Decheng set the tone, and the atmosphere has reached this point. I can't do it anymore.
Decheng continued: "I will find someone to do the hiding work. It is not enough to penetrate the empty shell.
We must be more prepared so that Amerikan cannot react.
I think there are many people in Chiyoda who will be willing to help us.”
(The Neon Diet Building is in Nagata Town, Chiyoda District)
After Morita finished speaking. , Decheng has figured it out, and a lot of neon people will support them.
Let’s not talk about the old tradition of Neon, which is to defeat the superior. More importantly, if we do not cooperate with China, Neon will be the first to fall behind in the chip industry.
Decheng has a hunch that not only will they cooperate with China, but also Neon semiconductor companies such as Neon Chemical, Sumitomo Chemical, and Kyoto Chemical are waiting to cooperate with China, trying to develop a new system Get a piece of the pie.
Once China blazes a trail by relying on topological semi-metals and topological semi-metals become the new basic raw materials for chips, most of the previous chemical raw materials surrounding silicon will have to be shuffled.
Take chemical grinding as an example. In the past, the raw materials used for chemical grinding were targeted at silicon, but in the future you will not be able to use the raw materials used to grind silicon to grind topological semi-metals.
Therefore, in the chip F4, Neon is the easiest to betray. Neon’s own share in chip manufacturing is already very small, not to mention the two major producing countries, Wanwan and Korea. They even have Ami Even Liken can't compare.
Their semiconductor industry is focused on chemical raw materials. If they do not start cooperation with China, then in the future process of topological semi-metal replacing silicon, the Neon semiconductor industry will be wiped out like their once brilliant semiconductor manufacturing. As for topological semi-metal, which is China's technology, can it become the cornerstone of the future chip industry? Will the global industry accept this? Neon companies dare not bet, what if?
They dare not place their hopes on Americen’s will to resist, and American’s performance in perovskite cells is just around the corner.
“Hi! Then there is another question, will China accept our cooperation? You must know that China’s own photolithography machine process has advanced to 28nm, and our advantages are not Not obvious.”
After hearing this, Morita said: “China’s 28nm is still in the laboratory, and our most advanced lithography machine process has reached 5nm.
Not to mention that our accumulation of semiconductor equipment far exceeds that of China. If China pursues yield and technology, it will definitely choose to cooperate with us. "
Nikon is really miserable. It can achieve 5nm accuracy in technology, but no customers buy it. Everyone would rather wait for ASML's production capacity schedule than buy Nikon.
It has become a vicious circle. .
Decheng thought for a long time, and after the other executives had finished the discussion, he said: "If necessary, we can trade that thing with China. ”
The most advanced photolithography machine that can be found on Nikon’s official website is the NSR-S635E with 5nm precision. In fact, their most advanced internal photolithography machine process can already reach 2.1nm.
Nikon is spending a lot of money hoping to get on the high-speed train of topological semi-metal.
When countries around the world began to take action, the Internet in China was still full of joy, and the pride and joy brought about by the chip's breakthrough filled the entire Internet.
The playback volume of related videos on station b remains high, and everyone's creative enthusiasm has been stimulated as never before.
Someone edited together what Chen Yuanguang mentioned in an interview, "I will reverse all this and bring everyone the next golden era", and the appearance of the Ark 100 at the Huawei press conference. The BGM of "Chasing Dreams".
The number of likes easily exceeded 10,000.
"I'm still too conservative. I thought the golden age mentioned by Guangshen would take five years, but it turns out that it's already arrived in just one year. When I looked at the comparison between U.S. stocks and A-shares, I thought I was looking at the opposite. I kept thinking, Damn it, is this still a U.S. stock? "
"Isn't this better?"
"I asked you if there is such a reversal? The reversal is so light and easy!”
“I am afraid that no matter how optimistic you are, we will not think that we will break through the 1nm process first.”
“I can only buy one. Xiaomi Ultra is now supported, but Xiaomi has to wait in line for more than half a year. It’s still a great time. ”
"Huawei's press conference caused Xiaomi's sales to skyrocket, which I have to say is ridiculous."
Affected by Huawei's press conference, Xiaomi ultra's sales experienced another surge, even if the waiting time for the car is half a year , there are a large number of users willing to wait.
Huawei’s Extraordinary Master will only be released in the second half of the year, and Xiaomi Ultra is right around the corner. Chinese consumers hope to express their support for Chen Yuanguang in this way.
"Being far ahead is finally more than just a slogan, this time we are really far ahead!"
"I just want to ask who else? The God of Light is a bit too invincible."< br>
"Last year it was room temperature superconducting, this year it's topological semimetal. I would like to ask Guangshen what he will use to shock the world next year."
"Don't be shocked, the US stock market will be on the same level as Myanmar A if it is any more shocking. "
"Haven't you seen how fast the old man has aged? No matter how shocked he is, the old man will probably have to go to the ICU. "
"The old man has really aged a lot this year, I guess he has. I have to regret doing this for the past four years. If I don’t do it in the past four years, I will definitely miss it this year.” , 20 years is his last chance.”
"In order to ensure the security of the supply chain, Amerikan will diversify its industrial investment instead of concentrating it in China as in the past.
They don't dare to break up and say that I am targeting you and are looking for all kinds of Various reasons.
It is actually the luck of our era to limit war to the field of science and technology.
From the hot war to the cold war to today's technological war, the hypocritical peace in the world is like the Iron Curtain. Around our heads, those who want to watch a world war lose, and those who want to live a stable life win.
Let’s enjoy the good life. The semiconductor-related industry is a big piece of cake.
During this period, many self-media have explained to everyone what topological semi-metal is and why this technology can achieve overtaking in corners.
For China, it has become impossible to limit the development of AI in China through chips. We can produce 1nm chips ourselves. What does this mean?
The Ark chip is only for consumer applications. Huawei did not introduce the more important AI chip at the press conference. Using the 1nm process on the AI chip, there is no gap in computing power with Nvidia’s most advanced chips. Even our chip computing power is even more powerful.
After all, 1nm vs. 3nm, the advantages of process can offset the advantages of architecture and adaptability.
The computing power limit has failed, and it is impossible to rely on AI to widen the gap. Finance, public opinion, and health have all tried various tricks, but now they are obviously out of options. ”
(End of this chapter)