Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1289 One Micron Process
After Wang Shi left, Duan Yun was a little excited, took out a cigarette, lit it, and smoked it.

Wang Shi is just an ordinary businessman. He can't understand what these four ASML lithography machines with a one-micron process mean to China.

If a few lithography machines can successfully enter China, it means that the chip production technology in mainland China has been connected with the world and has reached the same level. You must know that chips with one-micron process technology are generally used in the world. production line, and the 0.5-micron process technology is still under development. It was not until 1989 that the normal precision of the lithography machine broke through to 0.5 microns. The most advanced in the world.

In fact, in the current world, including American chip manufacturers, Intel and AMD, they also use one-micron process technology, especially AMD. The capability of the process has not been improved.

If Duan Yun has these 4 machines, it can actually be used as an OEM for companies such as Intel and AMD, but Duan Yun plans to use these 4 lithography machines to launch [-] new production lines, and is ready to develop a newer generation flash chip.

At present, Duan Yun only has a chip production line with a three-micron process, and the daily output of Flash chips can reach 1000 pieces. This output can no longer meet Duan Yun's current needs.

Because during the period when Duan Yun was abroad, the orders for repeaters reached a new high. With the overwhelming advertisements, and the strong recommendations of various "education experts", "highest candidates in the college entrance examination" and "returnees studying abroad", China, who was kidnapped by "hoping for a child to become a dragon", Parents even regard this product as an "artifact" for studying abroad for the college entrance examination. Despite the high price, they still bite their teeth to buy it.

It is precisely because of this that within a short period of one week, Tianyin Electronics Factory received orders for more than 30 repeaters from member dealers all over the country, which means that with the current daily output of the chip factory , It will take nearly a year to complete the total number of chips required by the order.

But the market is ever-changing, and Duan Yun plans to expand into the international market in the next step, which means that more flash memory chips are needed, but the current production capacity of only one production line is far from meeting the demand.

It is precisely because of this that Duan Yun will not hesitate to compete, 50% more than the international market price, plus a handling fee of more than 200 million US dollars, the main reason for buying these machines.

In the chip industry, if you have the most advanced process technology, you will have the opportunity to eat meat. If your technology is 3 to 5 years behind the international leading technology, you can only do some low-end chip industry with meager profits , and the technology is more than 5 years behind, then there is no profit at all, and we can only accept the fate of loss.

After sitting in the office and thinking for a while, Duan Yun immediately put on his coat and drove to the chip factory in Bagualing.

When starting this chip factory, Duan Yun applied for 200 mu of industrial land from the SZ municipal government in one go. Although there were some twists and turns, the mayor Li Hao finally made the decision himself, allowing Duan Yun to get the industrial land as he wished. .

In fact, as a chip factory with only one production line, 200 acres of industrial land is obviously too "luxury". In fact, a forty to fifty acres of land is enough for a workshop with only one chip production line, and the remaining land will be very Wealthy, there is no problem in building a few more standardized factory buildings.

However, when applying for industrial land at the beginning, the future expansion of the factory was actually taken into consideration, and the first dust-free chip workshop was built very large. In fact, all the equipment of the chip production line imported from Toshiba only occupies 1/3 of the space in the entire production workshop, and nearly 2/3 of it is in an idle state, and there is no other use except for building a laboratory and placing some raw materials.

And if the lithography machines purchased from ASML can be successfully shipped to China, Duan Yun can directly install these machines in the clean room of the car for debugging, which will save a lot of time.

In fact, in addition to lithography machines, the entire chip production line has many other equipment, including etching machines, single crystal furnaces, dicing machines, chemical vapor deposition systems, and so on.

However, compared with lithography machines, the technical difficulty of these other equipment is slightly inferior, and in China in the late 80s, the Batumi Agreement did not prohibit these products, and domestic related equipment can also be replaced to a certain extent, far Not as sensitive as a lithography machine.

Moreover, whether it is an etching machine or other equipment, it is far less important than a lithography machine. The lithography machine accounts for 40% of the entire chip production process, and the etching machine accounts for 20%. Duan Yun can purchase other related equipment from home and abroad in a short period of time to build a new production line.

"Hello Manager Duan!"

Seeing Duan Yun enter the workshop wearing a dustproof suit, Wu Gang who was organizing the production of the workers in the workshop immediately greeted him.

"How's the yield rate recently?" Duan Yun asked.

"At present, the yield rate of chips produced in our workshop can reach 87%, which is 3-4 percentage points higher than when the factory was first built. It may take a long time to break through this yield rate..." Wu Gang said.

"The yield rate of 87% is already very high..." Duan Yun nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "Their pass rate at the Toshiba factory is only between 85 and 89%, and it seems that they have never exceeded 90%. %, it is very good that we can maintain the same yield rate as Toshiba, which shows that you have really mastered the operation technology of this production line, which is worthy of praise."

"We just did what we should do." Wu Gang replied modestly, and then continued: "However, there has been no major breakthrough in production capacity. In the past month, we have produced 1100 finished chips in a single day at most. The engraving machine runs almost 24 hours a day, which is already the limit of production capacity..."

"En." Duan Yun nodded, and continued: "I came to you today to give you a new task."

"What mission?"

"Come with me." Duan Yun said, leading Wu Gang to the other side of the workshop.

Passing through a long and narrow aisle, the two of them entered Area C of the workshop.

The so-called C area is an idle clean room. The whole workshop is divided into four areas: ABCD. Area A is the workshop of Toshiba production line. Area B is the laboratory and the warehouse for storing raw materials. Areas C and D are currently still idle...

(End of this chapter)