Chapter 294 Lithography Factory
"Plan C?"
This is an easy-to-understand term, a term that has never been heard before, and Liang Mengsong immediately got excited.
“How come I have never heard of a Plan C before?”
“In key technologies like the chip industry, we have never thought of putting all our eggs in one basket. .
Although plans A and B appear to be two baskets, they are actually one basket.
The former relies on foreign suppliers such as Dow Chemical and Sumitomo Chemical and faces the risk of disconnection at any time.
The latter relies on domestic private enterprises. Although it is impossible for them to disconnect, they will do their best because the carrot is dangling, but there is still a risk of being manipulated.
It’s not that they are incompetent, but their attributes determine that they are easily controlled. They seem to be in control, but in fact they are easily out of control.
It is difficult to get them to develop according to the planned route, but it is easy to derail them.
Our opponents simply used poaching to derail them.
So there was always Plan C completely under my nose. "The helplessness just now disappeared, and Chen Yuanguang's expression seemed to tell the other party that everything was under control.
"Yuanguang, you still have the foresight, so what is Plan C? "Liang Mengsong said.
"The photolithography factory, from the first day I came to Mianyang, the photolithography factory here started at the same time. ”
From the day Chen Yuanguang arrived in Mianyang, there were only two projects in the 150 square kilometers of high-tech park planned for him, one was room temperature superconductivity and the other was a photolithography factory .
Just because of the emergence of topological semi-metal, the photolithography factory became Plan C.
But this plan never stopped.
"Beside the production base of topological semi-metal, there is a photolithography factory headed by Professor Zhao Ming from Shuimu University, who mobilized people from various fields to participate.
If the connection had not been disconnected, this If it continues, the photolithography factory may never become a regular company.”
Essentially, the reason why the photolithography factory has not become a regular company is because topological semi-metal is a better material than silicon. Chip raw materials, this is obviously a more promising technical route.
If it were not for the help of new photoresists, it would be impossible for you to use the light source of traditional silicon-based materials to burn topological semi-metals.
So if photolithography factories want to apply it in the field of topological semi-metal, they still need to use new photoresists. This is an area where technological breakthroughs will be achieved sooner or later.
The two parties have been cooperating before, and there is no need to pull out the photolithography factory.
The other reason is that the photolithography factory looks good, but in fact it requires a lot of electricity, and at the same time there needs to be massive demand for it to be profitable.
This time European and American semiconductor manufacturers took the initiative to disconnect, giving China hope.
First, use the photolithography factory to survive the period before the new photoresist is successfully developed. When the new photoresist is successfully developed, topological semi-metal will be responsible for high-end chips, and conventional silicon-based chips will be responsible for the mid-to-low-end, walking on two legs.
Liang Mengsong knew that China had plans for a photolithography factory. This was not just a media hype. After the project was established, he had been hearing about Professor Zhao Ming's whereabouts after leaving Shuimu University in the industry.
The colleagues who talked about this matter were not looking at it as a joke. They simply felt that Professor Zhao Ming was overestimating his abilities and was planning a photolithography factory that was unlikely to succeed.
SSMB is so easy to create.
It’s okay to write a thesis and do some feasibility research. If you really want to make this technical solution suitable for large-scale industrial production, even if it can undertake a small part of the chip production, it is unrealistic.
Based on the cost of a photolithography factory, a large amount of production capacity is required to ensure breakeven. If it is only a small part, the more production, the more losses will be incurred.
Not to mention that if you can’t even do a small part, no manufacturer will cooperate with you.
From the feasibility paper to industrial production, the distance between it and the distance between it and the industry cannot be overstated.
After hearing about it at that time, colleagues in the industry were optimistic that it would take 10 years to achieve small-scale trial production.
As a result, Chen Yuanguang now told him that it was ready for mass production and could be used as plan C to offset this round of Western offensive.
If anyone else said this, Liang Mengsong would not believe it, but this is Chen Yuanguang, a giant across academia and industry. He completely believes that the other party can shorten the progress from 10 years to 3 years.
"How far can the performance be achieved?" Liang Mengsong asked quickly.
“Equivalent to 4nm.” Chen Yuanguang said.
"That's good, that's good." Liang Mengsong's hanging heart relaxed, it was enough.
Although equivalent 4nm cannot be compared with the advanced topological semi-metal process, it is more than enough at this time point.
"Okay, when will the docking test and subsequent production start?" Liang Mengsong asked.
"Don't worry, wait for the bullet to fly for a while."
Why we have to wait for the bullet to fly for a while, it is obviously because Xida has not used up its tricks yet.
A series of combination punches have not been finished yet.
As expected, after various semiconductor manufacturers successively announced that they would stop exporting to China, Western University announced new regulations. The new regulations require Western University companies to cooperate with Chinese companies in order to prevent Eastern Large overcapacity requires Western University companies to add a special clause to their cooperation terms.
What special clause is that once the products of Dongda companies use chips from Western University, they can only be sold in their own country.
In other words, products equipped with Qualcomm, Intel or Nvidia chips can only be sold in China.
The targets here are not only traditional consumer electronics products such as mobile phones and computers, but also new energy vehicles equipped with on-board chips.
This combination of punches caused an avalanche of A-shares, and the defense battle of 3,000 points will begin in a week.
Netizens all called Huojiujian, thinking that Big A could reach 10,000 points. After all, in a sense, the industry upgrade has been successful.
Even though the moment is brutal, you can clearly feel that there are powder kegs everywhere.
But being in Dongda, there is still a sense of pride that arises from the bottom of my heart. Whether it is the success of industrial upgrading in the past or the recent universal welfare fund, it is difficult for even a slightly rational god to stand up and sing the opposite. .
After all, giving money is a real development bonus.
In addition to the demons and monsters who can also express yin and yang in strange ways, even dissatisfied individuals remain silent at such times.
This combination of Western University's punches has made the people of Eastern University realize that Western University's accumulation over the past few decades is no joke. Unless you can completely start from scratch like room temperature superconductors, you will still be constrained. .
The White House spokesperson still left room for cooperation during the interview.
If room temperature superconductor technology can be obtained, then it is acceptable for them to continue cooperation in the semiconductor field.
The electromagnetic emission device brought by normal temperature superconductivity completely stopped Western University from having a hot war with Dongda personally.
Because you can never predict how far Dongda will be able to utilize room-temperature superconductivity.
And now it is only one-dimensional normal temperature superconductor. When will it become two-dimensional? Under the confidentiality of Dongda, this is completely a black box. If a strategic misjudgment occurs, the consequences will be disastrous.
So Western University will communicate with Dongda repeatedly on the surface. We cannot end the game in person, and we cannot have a hot war.
No one would be foolish enough to start a hot war with an industrial country, and it is also an industrial country that has achieved technological breakthroughs in a large number of key technologies.
“The door to negotiations has always been open to Tokyo University, and we hope to reach an agreement on room temperature superconducting technology.
This technology is related to global information security and whether the global climate crisis can be solved To solve it properly, we hope that Dongda will shoulder its due responsibilities instead of treating technology that should play a positive role in the welfare of all mankind as its own private property." The blond and blue-eyed host stood in front of the podium. He said while reading the manuscript.
People with insight can clearly feel that the offensive and defensive trends between Eastern University and Western University have been reversed very early.
Not after Chen Yuanguang, but before Chen Yuanguang.
Who attacks and who defends is very clear from one point of view, that is who makes the request.
Before, it was usually the University of Tokyo that made the request. We wanted to join the WTO, we wanted to cooperate, etc.
After a certain point in time, the two sides began to make demands on each other. In the past few years, Western University has continued to make various demands. Eastern University has read them all and has been unable to reply. You say what you want, let me do it. of.
This time it was clearly a combination of punches, but to put it bluntly it was still trade protection, but Western University still found a bunch of beautiful excuses.
The outside world can understand the relationship between room temperature superconductivity and information security. After all, room temperature superconductivity is related to quantum computers, and thus to global information security.
In this information age, this is indeed critical. Only China has mastered the world of universal quantum computers. Western countries shudder when they think about it.
The time when Alpha Technology showed its power with the help of quantum computers was also an important reason why Western University was unwilling to engage in a hot war.
After all, you can’t win in cyberspace. If the entire communication and command network is knocked out, and cold weapons attack the modern tactical network, wouldn’t it be funny?
This is why 4v doesn't even have the slightest will to resist now. You can't win in electromagnetic warfare anyway, so what can you use to resist?
Dongguan doesn’t need missiles. Direct electromagnetic warfare to destroy your radar and communication network, and then relying on unmanned equipment to land on the island is enough.
Therefore, there will be a magical phenomenon. The higher the possibility of unification, the weaker the will to resist.
It’s just that people don’t quite understand what this has to do with the climate crisis.
After some explanation, they learned that room-temperature superconducting technology was related to information security and, in turn, to the large-scale promotion of driverless driving.
The large-scale promotion of autonomous driving can significantly reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate warming.
But if you can’t even protect the most basic information security, then no one will dare to promote autonomous driving on a large scale.
"Ms. McNerney, so what the White House means is that if Tokyo University agrees to export room-temperature superconducting technology, the chains surrounding the semiconductor field will be unlocked?" A black reporter asked very directly.
"There is not much connection, but if China is willing to cooperate with the international community in the field of room temperature superconductivity, then the White House believes that the international community is also willing to cooperate with China in the semiconductor field." McKenna Ni's subtext is, hurry up and talk, and then let you go.
According to Washington's calculations, China's losses from this round of offensive are at least hundreds of billions of dollars.
In the long term, this number will be higher.
So they feel that this price is enough to buy room temperature superconducting technology.
This is pure gangster logic.
If I want to buy your treasure with the money I stole from you, you have to sell it to me.
Based on the underlying logic of the West, it is believed that China will compromise.
China will definitely not compromise. Let’s not talk about whether there is a Plan C. Even if there is no Plan C, even if they have to tolerate it for a period of time, they will not compromise on this core interest.
There may have been some internal noise before. Should we sell room temperature superconducting technology in exchange for time? After all, the advantage is mine.
Exchange space for time.
Yes, now Eastern University wants space for time, and Western University wants time for space.
How strange it seems.
This kind of sound disappeared instantly after Xida's combination of punches. Anyone who dared to mention it again would not be able to get away with it.
In a sense, the important significance of Western University is to unite within.
After all, you really want my life, and you want it unabashedly.
All Lao, Chinese and ordinary people cannot live the same life as ordinary people in Laos and the United States. This kind of naked gangster mentality is really unacceptable to the Lao and Chinese people.
“If more than one billion Lao and Chinese people live like kangaroo countries and the United States, then all of us will be in a very miserable situation, because that is something that this planet cannot bear.”
Even Meda couldn't accept this kind of original words, unless the physical body was no longer in Todai.
As soon as the White House reporter’s interview came out, Chinese netizens fell into a state of frenzy. Originally, everyone was immersed in the frustration that Lao and China were not that strong and would still fall into difficulties in the face of suppression.
This kind of news is like a shot of chicken blood.
Netizens all said they would fight to the end to see who in the semiconductor field could not bear the consequences of being without the other party first.
Originally, Chinese netizens would not be so confident, but now why do they feel that I have the advantage, because the key technology is in my own hands.
As long as topological semi-metal is not conquered, China will catch up sooner or later.
This may be a bit abstract. To explain with a more intuitive example, it is now a racing competition. Topological semi-metal is like a car, and the United States can only rely on bicycles.
But Lao America has oil, but if Lao China wants oil, they have to dig it out of the ground. Lao Americans don't sell oil to you, they just ride away on their own cars. Lao China thinks that I have a car and as long as I dig out oil, I can catch up with you in minutes.
This is my mentality where the advantage of the old Chinese lies.
The only people with a lot of surrender mentality are the stock investors.
"I'm about to cry. I finally got rid of the nightmare of having Big A foot the bill for every war, and now I'm back to my original form."
"It's amazing that I can fight another 3,000-point defense war in my lifetime. , being able to drop from 4,000 points back to just over 3,000 points in two weeks is a testament to history.”
“It’s really outrageous. Even if it was disconnected, it wouldn’t have fallen like this.”
< br>"If you want me to say that Lao and China have to surrender, it's not surrender. We are a cooperative relationship."
"If you can't save the stock market, then sell technology. You can If you rely on the market to ask others to sell you high-speed rail technology, why can’t others ask you to export room-temperature superconducting technology?”
After all, investors lose real money, and the pain of having their wallets pierced is in a sense more painful than the physical body.
We have lived a good life in the past two years, but now it is finally the turn of the stock investors to suffer, and everyone can no longer bear it.
(End of this chapter)