20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2084 Immersive Lithography Theory

Of course, this idea also coincided with Zhao Changan's idea, so of course he applauded enthusiastically.

Only R&D personnel like Su Bo and Nan Li know that it is easy to boast, but it is really not easy to realize many things.

It is just an integrated circuit design center. If it wants to achieve the world's cutting-edge design, it needs hundreds of thousands of first-class engineers to make unremitting efforts all the year round. However, even if it can do this, there is only a possibility of success. .

You must know that you are just learning to walk, but others are not idle either, they are all running with big strides, even flying.

And this is just the link of integrated circuit design. Now Jiangcheng and Zhao Chang'an don't know that they have put forward so many unbelievable and unimaginable requests and ideas, which have completely subverted their three views.

To say it is more elegant means that the integrity of the three views is completely broken!
Not to mention anything else, but this optical technology, even the price of selling a hundred one nanometers, may not be enough to invest in funds.

And even if you invest, the possibility of success is not high.

And even if it is a fluke, a qualified lithography machine is produced, with Nikon, GCA, Siemens (Siemens), Kasper Instruments, Canon, Kuli Sofa, PerkinElmer,——

No matter how you look at it, both Su Bo and Oriole believe that under the competition of the free market, there is no chance of winning. It is completely throwing away billions or even tens of billions of funds to do things that others have repeatedly done. money!
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In April 1965, Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, proposed a famous industry norm called Moore's Law.

The number of components that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double every 18 to 24 months (the corresponding chip manufacturing process will also continue to shrink), which will also bring a leap in chip performance. This growth rate is at least It will be almost maintained as a constant in the next ten years.

This is a requirement for chip design, but it also requires that the lithography machine must be one step ahead of the design link and deliver equipment with corresponding specifications.

The essence of the lithography machine is actually similar to that of a projector + a camera. It uses light as a knife to project the designed circuit diagram onto the silicon wafer.

Before 78, lithography machines were monopolized by Western countries such as Europe and the United States, occupying the vast majority of the market share. Being a rising star, Nikon, which has been making cameras for decades, has equaled or even overtaken, and the established lithography machine company GCA has almost monopolized the sales of most of the micron-scale chips in the world.

By the 90s, Nikon had become a well-deserved lithography machine giant in the world. Intel, IBM, AMD, and Texas Instruments lined up at Nikon's door every day waiting for the latest products to go offline.

Nikon even threatened in private that 'if we can't hand over the lithography machine, Moore's Law will stop from now on'. ——This sentence was said in Zhao Changan's previous life more than ten years later, and ASML also said this sentence in a similar way: "If we can't deliver EUV, Moore's Law will stop from then on."

Obviously, Nikon's extremely arrogant words also deeply hurt the fragile and sensitive nerves of the European and American Western hegemons, like monkeys' red buttocks.

Although Nikon is still the leader in the lithography machine industry so far, the Western consortium headed by Mr. M has been committed to using venture capital to invest huge amounts of funds in the research and development of some small emerging lithography machines in Europe and the United States. In terms of business, it is expected to cultivate a world-class lithography machine company that is truly controlled by Europeans and Americans. At least it has to be on par with Nikon, or even overtake it.

Destroy this small Dongyang lithography machine company that doesn't know who is your master, and sell the insolvent liquidation machines as junk.

In this way, as their masters, they will feel happy and feel relieved when they see the dishonesty, lack of water in their eyes, and the unlucky misfortune of slaves who dare to try to surpass their masters in technology.

So under the leadership of old m, a small joint venture company ASML under Siemens, which has been established for nearly 20 years and has only 31 employees in total, was taken by old m and launched to the platform.

Gather the power of a large number of top scientific research universities in Europe and the United States and first-class semiconductor companies to fully support ASML in the development of a new generation of lithography machines below the 193nm process, and to overthrow the short-sighted minions.

In October of 00 in this world, the wavelength of the light source of the lithography machine was still stuck at 193nm for several years.

Nikon advocates using the 157nm F2 laser on the basis of the previous generation technology and taking a stable road.

And this choice, in fact, has a very strong meaning of the ultimate limit, because even if Nikon successfully develops the F157 laser lithography machine with a 2nm process, how can it develop this type of laser source after 18 to 24 months? A lithography machine below the 157nm process that has reached the limit?

The nascent EUV LLC alliance is betting on more radical extreme ultraviolet technology. Its vision for the future is to use extreme ultraviolet light of only a dozen nanometers to engrave chips below ten nanometers.

In other words, ASML is currently developing lithography machines below the 193nm process, using extreme ultraviolet technology, which is the starting point of a new journey in the field of lithography machines.

It is making a tentative leap from zero to one, from nothingness to substance.

If it can be successful, then from one to two, from two to three, it is logical to proceed by analogy.

The 157nm F2 laser lithography machine that Nikon wants to develop is the last glory, dignity and pride of an old man returning to the light, and then he has to face the limit of the 157nm process that cannot be crossed, and he is destined to be swept into it. Inside the trash can of time.

It is already clear at a glance which one is better or worse according to the reason.

But what Nikon has to do has great success, but ASML's concentration of tens of billions of funds to bet on extreme ultraviolet light is tantamount to a century-old gamble.

If you win, everyone will go to the clubhouse to be young models, and if you lose, you will go to the brick kiln to move bricks and work as a coolie. Although both do manual labor, one is a man's paradise and the other is a man's purgatory.

In this era of Zhao Chang'an, some small details in history are still slightly different from the previous life in his memory.

In the time and space of Zhao Changan, Dr. Lin, who traveled all over the world's first-class lithography machine companies with his own set of "immersive lithography" theory, met again because of his sudden fortune in this time and space. My true love, who enjoys a happy married life all day long, never thought of this method at all.

If you want to reduce the wavelength of light, starting from the light source is the fundamental method, and water will affect the refractive index of light—add a layer of water between the lens and the silicon wafer, and the original 193nm laser will be refracted, and it will directly cross the 157nm laser. Tianzhu, down to 132nm?

In other words, in this world now, only Zhao Changan knows this 'immersive lithography theory'!
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