433 Lithography machine enters a new era
Time flies very quickly, and more than ten days pass in blinking.
Kewumingxin Microelectronics Company.
"The captain is here! The captain is here!"
The blue Bentley stopped slowly, and Chen Yao, wearing a mask, got out of the car, which immediately attracted a burst of excitement from the surroundings!
They are all technicians at the Institute of Microelectronics, most of them are under 35 years old, and are a very young team.
This team has a very tall and handsome name, Microscopic Essence Dragon!
When Chen Yao developed the first generation of lithography machines, he established such a unit, and their mission was to become the king of the microscopic world.
Molecules, bacteria, and photons that are invisible to the naked eye are all their research areas.
It’s not an exaggeration. These people are the strongest people in the micro field, and Chen Yao is naturally their captain, and they have long been used to this title.
Very rarely come here, Chen Yao has only one purpose today to release a new generation of lithography machines!
The company will be listed tomorrow, and this press conference will ignite the capital market in minutes.
Last night, Chen Yao posted a Weibo post on the Weibo platform, which immediately attracted the attention of many media. Today, at least hundreds of reporters came.
He got out of the car, and a large number of reporters surrounded him like bees, holding microphones.
"Director Chen, what will the new generation of lithography machines bring?"
"Compared with the previous generation, what kind of black technology will it bring, and what new changes will it bring to the development of domestic mobile phone chips?"
"How much do you think today's press conference will have to promote the company's stock price tomorrow?"
The reporters' microphone reached to Chen Yao's mouth, and the microphone almost penetrated into his mouth.
Chen Yao responded: "It is Zhou Weiming who will host the press conference later. It is not me, and I have nothing to say.
I'm just the audience, looking forward to it with everyone!"
Zhou Weiming is an engineer of lithography machines. He has participated in the development from the first to the second generation. He knows better than Chen Yao. Naturally, this press conference was handed over to him to host.
Chen Yao speeded up and walked through the crowd into the exhibition to listen.
In addition to reporters, there were also representatives from lithography machine parts suppliers, all of whom were domestic suppliers.
The lithography machine is a large hardware system integrated with 100,000 parts and extremely demanding accuracy requirements.
Their heartfelt thanks to Chen Yao were simply impossible to achieve without him.
As time approaches 10 o'clock, the launch conference of the new generation of lithography machines of Kewumingxin has begun!
The big screen in front of him lit up, and a tall man in a blue shirt and jeans appeared in the picture.
"Hello everyone, I am Zhou Weiming. At this moment, I am excited. I will give you a live broadcast in the chip factory!
Live broadcast of the new generation of the unforgettable core lithography machine!”
Chen Yao checked the background data on his mobile phone, and the online audience has exceeded 5 million.
Netizens are quite curious about these black technology equipment.
Next to Zhou Weiming is a photolithography machine, which is about the same size as the bottom of the pot that you usually cook.
He smiled and introduced: "This is the lens of the lithography machine, and there are a total of 20 lenses installed inside.
To achieve high-precision lithography, ultra-high lens purity is required to ensure its light transmittance.
In the past, only Zeiss, the German one could make photolithography lenses in the world.
And what company did the lenses I touched now produced?"
Zhou Weiming reached out and touched the camera: "This is a camera from Shining Company, which is also a company under Legendary Trajectory!
We have developed a brand new light transmittance material with better light transmittance than Zeiss and the process does not need to be too complicated to achieve chip lithography.
The cost is reduced, and the efficiency is accelerated."
Live broadcast room barrage.
"Awesome! The pride of domestic lenses!"
"The camera of the legendary mobile phone is made of a shining camera. No wonder it is so powerful. Even the photolithography lens can be made."
"Thank you Mr. Zhou Weiming for your popular science. It turns out that the circuit diagram of the chip is drawn like this, it really looks like a projector."
While explaining the principle of lithography machine, Zhou Weiming operated the lithography machine to engrave a piece of crystal.
Netizens can clearly see that extreme ultraviolet light is working and projecting the pre-designed circuit diagram onto the crystal.
Chip crystals are smaller than bacteria, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, but dense lines must be engraved on them.
How difficult is this? It is very high in accuracy for lithography machines. If there is a slight deviation, it will fail.
Zhou Weiming said: "Usually, it takes 10 to 50 lithography times to make a chip.
Our new generation of lithography machines, combined with the newly upgraded process, only need one, yes, the lithography of the chip can be completed in one go.
The speed of producing chips is faster and the cost is reduced.”
Then, he instructed the workers to disassemble the machine and let netizens see the interior of the lithography machine.
It can be seen that the parts inside are very refined, not only can there be no flaws in the naked eye, but even if they are enlarged with a microscope, there is no deviation at all.
Here, there is a component that is the hardest to make.
Zhou Weiming said: "What you see now is the workpiece table.
These two workpiece tables need to move simultaneously, and their acceleration is like missile launch.
Moreover, there is no slight deviation between the two workpiece tables.
It’s like two planes take off and land at the same time, always advancing in unison, plane a sticks out a knife and carves the rice grains on plane b!”
Live broadcast room.
"Damn, this accuracy requirement is simply abnormal. I finally know why high-end lithography machines are so difficult to do."
"Those high-precision parts are densely packed, and I doubt whether this thing can be made by humans?"
"Mr. Zhou, what other black technology does the new generation of lithography machines have? I haven't seen the black technology I want to see the most."
Zhou Weiming said in an excited tone: "The second generation lithography machine of the Immortal core is the only lithography machine that can support graphene chip manufacturing today.
besides……
Let me give this to Mr. Chen for introduction.”
I didn't want to go on stage, but Chen Yao walked onto the stage, and the scene in the live broadcast room immediately moved to him.
Facing all the audience reporters on the scene, he raised his volume and said: "The Engraved Minute 500 is the first leather-grade lithography machine in history today!"
These words are like spring thunder blew up!
Not only did it shock the audience, but it also shocked the live broadcast audience online!
"Click click click click..." The reporters pressed the camera at him.
The flashlights on the scene were too dazzling and people could hardly open their eyes!
Chen Yao clenched his fists and raised them high:
"The birth of the pico-level lithography machine will lead chips into a new era!"
Chapter completed!