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Chapter 698 Preparing for the Wedding
Lin Benjian, who works at IBM, cannot let it go.

This guy has a genius idea about immersion lithography and must be recruited.

At this point, the genius had the idea of ​​immersion lithography.

When the chip process was stuck at 65nm, Lin Benjian saw an opportunity for immersion lithography.

In order to solve technical problems and eliminate manufacturers' doubts, Lin Benjian also spent half a year leading the team to publish 3 papers.

At that time, the industry questioned that water, as a cleaning agent, would wash out the dirty things on the lens, and some people worried that factors such as air bubbles in the water and light and shade would affect the refraction effect.

According to the research of Lin Benjian's team, they proposed an exposure machine that can maintain the cleanliness and temperature of the water so that the water does not contain bubbles.

Although this exposure machine has not been used in practice, Lin Benjian's research proves that the technical problems can be solved.

He also personally went to the United States, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands and other places to introduce the idea of ​​immersion lithography to lithography machine manufacturers. However, large manufacturers capable of research and development generally did not buy it.

The reason for this is not difficult to understand. Since the 20s, players have entered the lithography machine market and invested a lot of financial, manpower, and material resources in dry lithography technology, and finally embarked on a feasible technical route.

If Lin Benjian's idea of ​​"adding water" is followed, the predecessors will have to "go back to the pre-liberation overnight", and re-explore from technology to equipment, few people are willing to pay such a high sunk cost.

However, "few people" does not mean "no one".

But ASML is such a person who dares to eat crabs. For example, in the EUV LLC alliance, American members constitute the main body.

Intel and the White House disagreed on the selection of foreign members.

Intel took a fancy to the experience of ASML and Nikon in the field of lithography machines and wanted to recruit them, but the White House believed that such an important advanced technology research and development should not invite "outsiders" into the game.

At this time, ASML showed amazing forward-looking capabilities. It said to the Yankees: I am willing to fund the construction of factories and R&D centers in your village, and guarantee that 55% of the raw materials are purchased from the United States. I only ask you to research EUV. play with me.

The sincerity of the Nordic comrades made it difficult for Yankees to refuse. In this way, ASML became one of the only two non-US companies in EUV LLC, the other being the German company Infineon.

Although EUV LLC proved that it is feasible to use extreme ultraviolet light as a light source to build a lithography machine, it did not point out a clear path.

Several years have passed, and there is still no EUV lithography machine, but the huge R&D funds and insurmountable technical bottlenecks are enough to discourage most players.

However, ASML still did not give up and decided to lead the EUV research and development project in Europe.

If it is said that in EUV LLC, ASML is huddled in the corner and waiting to be "taken away" by other big players, but this time, ASML wants to be the leader.

It is such a powerful company that can go so far in the lithography machine market.

Mr. Su thought to himself, what kind of expression would he have if he found out that those companies had been acquired by him when the Yankee wanted to set up EUV LLC.

That must be wonderful.

Ten days later, the staff of Shengshi left Hong Kong and went to the countries designated by Su Chen.

And Su Chen also invited ASML's CEO Schmidt and another shareholder Arthur Del Prado to come to Hong Kong through the Hong Kong office to discuss the development of ASML.

Because there is a wedding waiting for him, there is no time to go to Holland for the time being.

We can only invite these two first, and let everyone sit down and talk about the development of ASML.

Of course, in order to acquire Arthur's shares, it was naturally impossible to disclose his plans in this field in the early stage, and at most it was a symbolic support.

When Arthur didn't want to play anymore, he took away his shares.

At this time, ASML, which is short of money and lacks optical devices, and ASML, which has a zero market share, what can they compete with?
Some time ago, when Schmidt went to the United States to conduct a conference, he asked Jim Morgan, CEO of Applied Materials, for advice.

Applied Materials is not a big company now, but it is already a direct competitor of ASM's wafer front and back process.

Smit was introduced by someone from Philips, so Morgan expressed his opinion frankly.

Morgan said that he would definitely not touch lithography. Photolithography cannot be said to be a process at all, but the ability to control machines and light.

He added that semiconductor factories generally only buy lithography from one company and the decision can only be made at the board level.

Smit, who didn't sell a single machine, felt very heavy when he returned home, almost as heavy as going to a grave.

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If these two things are done well, Teacher Su will be busy with the wedding.

The He family had already released the news at the beginning, and now almost the whole of Hong Kong is staring at the wedding.

And the He family is already making arrangements everywhere, how to arrange the wedding ceremony, where to place the venue, etc. They are all ready, anyway, the public opinion has been done enough.

It is estimated that Ms. Lan's help is indispensable behind this.

Teacher Su, who is about to become the groom's officer, is naturally also busy, but it seems that there are not many places to be busy, because the He family has already prepared everything.

So, after only being busy with a few things, Mr. Su is already busy with what he needs to be busy with, such as entertaining guests, who to invite, and where to eat.

Moreover, his communication is not too narrow. In Hong Kong, I believe many people will come to his wedding, and these people will definitely not lose face.

For example, Boss Shao, Boss Zou, and several giants in New Art City in the film and television industry; Li Cucumber, Uncle Li, Boss Huo, Boss Qiu, etc. in business; and the people from the United States are not small people.

For example, Bush Jr. called a long time ago, saying that he must attend the wedding.

Because he said that he had never seen such a shameless person who actually wanted to hold two weddings.

In addition to Bush Jr., there are Eaton from Wells Fargo, Brian and others, as well as those professors and others.

It can definitely be regarded as a gathering of heroes, and all of this is done by Mr. Su himself, not like some second generations in Hong Kong, most of them rely on the shadow of their ancestors.

So when Mr. He saw the invitations sent by Su Chen, he laughed from ear to ear.

The radiance on his face all the time shows that he has a good vision, and he has long recognized that this young man has a lot to do, so he will marry off his precious daughter.

And he felt that he really had to thank those people in the Information Bureau. If they hadn't made that mess, this young man would never have had a chance with his daughter.

It is undeniable that Su Chen is really caring, but he has never touched a lot of beautiful female artists in the company.

Even after knowing Su Chen for so long, I have never seen Su Chen go looking for other women again, and they basically revolve around him.

Sometimes he could still see Su Chen go shopping for vegetables in person and cook for his daughter, without any drama.

My son-in-law.

"How do you plan to arrange this wedding?" Mr. He looked at Su Chen, who was hugging his son, and said, "My side is basically ready, and I have prepared a dowry of 10 billion Hong Kong dollars."

Mr. Su is very skeptical about whether there is any water in this billion.

He said: "For such an important event, it is natural not to make small fuss. The most important thing is to be grand. It can definitely be described as a wedding of the century. The banquet will last for three days and three nights."

"All the flowers used in the wedding were airlifted from the best flower farms in France and the Netherlands, and we also paid a lot of money to invite Dutch flower arrangement experts to come to Hong Kong to arrange the banquet in person.

It is guaranteed that all the famous celebrities in Hong Kong and Macau will come out. In the United States, there are also the son of the Vice President of the United States, people from the Boston Consortium, and several professors from Harvard University. "

Mr. He smiled from ear to ear.

Su Chen continued: "By the way, father-in-law, I plan to invest in Macau TV Station, are you interested in doing it together?"

"Yes." Mr. He agreed without even thinking about it. After all, the two are already tied together.

"Okay, let's talk about this after the wedding is over." Su Chen said.

Mr. He tactfully left, leaving a private space for the family of three.

"Give me your son." Miss He stretched out her hand, "You've been hugging me for so long."

Su Chen shook his head, and said with a smile: "You were pregnant in October, and it took so much hard work to give birth, so I need to hug him more. How does today's food taste?"

"It's okay. If others know that you, the richest man in Hong Kong, cook at home, they will laugh at you to death." Ms. He had a smile in her eyes. In fact, she also fell in love with this man.

She smiled brightly: "By the way, guess who my bridesmaids are."

(End of this chapter)