Chapter 195 Chip Designer
When Chen Jie heard what he said, he immediately opened his mouth to explain.
However, Professor Kruger said slowly: "Mr. Ni, the original accuracy of this lithography machine is one hundred and ninety nanometers, but we used a special method to roughly double its accuracy.
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"How is this possible? How is it possible that this kind of technology is possible!"
Ni Guangnan was dumbfounded and still couldn't believe it.
Even Director Zhang, who stood behind and remained silent, looked like he had seen a ghost.
How can we make such a big technological leap? Or in chip manufacturing, a cutting-edge field that the world is working hard on.
This can no longer be described as overtaking on a curve.
It’s basically a new track!
Seeing that they didn't believe it, Chen Jie had no choice but to let Professor Kruger explain it briefly.
Infinite Company, the "first" immersion lithography technology, uses various liquids with different refractive index, such as liquid materials from 1.55 to 2.0.
After many experiments and technical improvements, a special liquid was finally selected as the main material for immersion lithography technology.
The refractive index of this liquid is as high as 1.7, and its light transmittance can be applied to mass production.
As long as Professor Kruger successfully transforms this photolithography machine, Infinite Company can be far ahead of the world level!
Even if more advanced photolithography machines are introduced abroad, they can immediately use immersion technology to surpass their opponents!
Moreover, the biggest advantage of this technology is its manufacturing cost.
Generally speaking, newly developed photolithography technologies in the world will have immature technology and low yield rates.
This resulted in mass production being impossible for a long time.
The immersion technology used by Infinity Company relies on already mature and stable photolithography machines. After solving the core liquid material problem, its yield rate is several times higher than that of new technologies!
Simply put, they only need to use a variety of liquids with different refractive indexes, and they can freely adjust them to obtain photolithography machines with different precisions!
What Professor Kruger said was true to form and did not seem to be fake at all, while Ni Guangnan and Director Zhang just froze on the spot, their mouths wide open, and their minds went blank.
They didn't expect that this seemingly simple method would have such a big impact on the chip manufacturing process.
The several major disciplines are indeed complementary to each other.
There have always been shortcuts in science, you just didn't find them.
After a long time, Director Zhang changed his usual calm attitude and said in an extremely serious tone: "This technology must be kept strictly confidential and must not be spread out!"
"Also, if you need any support, you can just ask and I will apply to the higher authorities!"
He added another sentence.
Chen Jie nodded and grinned: "Director Zhang, we are short of professional researchers now. I hope you can think of a way."
After he finished speaking, everyone looked at Ni Guangnan.
At this time, Ni Guangnan had not yet come to his senses. When he came to Infinite Company today, what he saw and heard in the laboratory shocked him too much.
But when he thought that he could participate and design a truly domestic chip that was world-leading, he couldn't help but feel excited.
He raised his head and saw everyone looking at him, and he couldn't help but sigh. Although the senior management of such a private company was not highly educated, their patriotism was unquestionable.
He had also heard a little bit about the fact that they had gone to great lengths to protect the Xiangjiang stock market before, even at the expense of their fortunes.
Perhaps it is precisely because they have this sentiment that they are willing to spend huge sums of money on chip research.
After thinking about this, he immediately expressed his willingness to join Infinity Company and participate in the research and design of chips!
Chen Jie and Lin Zeju were also very happy to receive his personal commitment.
They appointed Ni Guangnan as the chief chip designer on the spot, with a monthly salary of 700,000 RMB.
This salary standard is not arbitrary.
Ni Guangnan once studied in Canada. Because of his research on pattern recognition and graphics, he got the opportunity to work in a Canadian research institute.
The monthly salary given by Canadians is about 7,000 Canadian dollars (equivalent to about 38,000 RMB)
This is still 1981.
But Ni Guangnan gave up and returned to China with a salary of 70 yuan a month to engage in computer research.
At that time, when he returned to China, he could have worked on the world's cutting-edge pattern recognition project at the Institute of Computing Technology, "reaching or approaching the world's advanced level" to gain respect.
But Ni Guangnan did not. He chose to study the Chinese character processing technology that has the most application value and is most urgently needed by the market.
It has to be admirable.
With the addition of Ni Guangnan, Professor Kruger did not make any reservations and directly told him all about the immersion lithography technology.
Including my own ideas during this period, I expressed them in one go.
The two sat together and had an in-depth discussion.
What Director Zhang is most concerned about at this time is the source of this technology. Who invented it?
If it was developed by this foreigner, then the ownership of this technology would be somewhat controversial.
He quietly walked up to Chen Jie and asked about it.
However, Chen Jie deliberately played it off and said that he would wait until a new batch of researchers arrived, which made Director Zhang blow his beard and stare in anger.
Unexpectedly, Chen Jie was actually scheming and wanted to negotiate terms with him.
At the critical moment, Lin Zeju stood up and told him that it was Chen Weidong who called Professor Crook and then improved it through many experiments.
This answer made Director Zhang take a breath of air.
He shook his head repeatedly, not believing it.
Chen Weidong, a high school dropout, is very good at finance, and everyone can barely accept it, because finance does not involve hard technical aspects.
It is not impossible to get started and become proficient.
But now you tell him that he even understands semiconductor chip research, isn’t this nonsense!
They had already found out everything about Chen Weidong and Chen Jie. Even the physics teachers at their school in a remote village only had a college diploma.
Let alone chips, if they can understand even the most basic household circuit diagram, it means they are no longer messing around in high school.
"Believe it or not, don't come over and beg us if you want to use it."
Chen Jie turned around angrily, a little unhappy that he looked down on them so much.
Although Director Zhang still couldn't believe it, when he heard Chen Jie say that this technology belonged to Infinite Company, his heart gradually dropped.
This time I visited Infinite Company and I gained a lot.
The only thing that worries him is this foreigner named Kruger.
Regarding his identity information, all the resources used above have not been able to find out the reason, not even any clues.
I only know that he was found by Chen Weidong himself.
Now Infinite Company has the preliminary conditions to develop high-precision technology. Given time, he does not doubt that it will produce some scientific research results.
But these technologies must be in the hands of their "own people".
He wanted to talk to Chen Weidong about this topic, but when he thought that he was still in the island country, he would not return.
I couldn't help but let out a deep sigh.
Chapter completed!