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Chapter 480 SW65
In the previous life, Shencheng Microelectronics was always stuck at 90 nanometers in the field of front-end lithography machines, and it took a long time to realize the mass production of lithography machines.

Now, in 2013, Shencheng Microelectronics has broken through the mass production of 65nm front-end lithography machines.

It's not easy.

In order to realize the mass production of 65nm front-end lithography machines, to a certain extent, the most advanced manufacturing enterprises in the entire country of China have been mobilized to do it together.

Many technologies were not mastered by Hua Guo in the past.

It is to invest a lot of money and start from scratch.

It cannot be said to start from scratch, because in Huaguo, no matter what technology is available internationally, if you search carefully in Huaguo, you will find that there are similar studies.

It's just because they didn't pay attention to it before, so this kind of researchers are also people who don't pay attention to it.

It is difficult to get some money or something.

In other words, this is called follow-up research.

If it is found that this technology is very important, a lot of money and manpower will be invested in it.

Shencheng Microelectronics cannot buy parts for lithography machines from abroad, so it invests its own funds for research and development.

Do it in conjunction with other research, or set up a research and development project team by yourself.

"Director Wei, this lithography machine is waiting for you to name it!"

"Call it SW65, it's simple and easy to remember."

Don't make it so complicated about the product model or something, you don't even know what it is.

Anyway, the various product models, if it is not specialized in this area, outsiders will not understand at all.

For example, the rice cookers we usually use, under the same brand, there are many kinds of rice cookers.

Internally, it is divided into models, anyway, it is a combination of more than a dozen letters and numbers.

Outsiders will definitely not understand.

In fact, this coding, if you understand the rules of writing, you can understand it all at once.

It's the same as our ID number.

Provinces, cities, counties, and lines all correspond to different numbers.

SW65 has been continuously improved, and now the good product rate has reached more than 90.00%.

Basically, it meets the needs of commercial production.

At this time, Chen Wei was full of admiration. There must be no way to earn back the research and development costs if this thing is sold.

In other words, relying on SW65 alone, Shencheng Microelectronics cannot make money at all.

After all, SW65 has to focus on economy, and it is impossible to set the price too high.

If the price is set too high, companies will not buy SW65 at all. The strategy of Shencheng Microelectronics is very simple now, to engage in price wars.

SW65 is the cheapest selling 65nm front-end lithography machine in the world, and it is one-third lower than the price of international mainstream manufacturers.

It's that low!
Even if the SW65 cannot be sold, it will force other lithography machine manufacturers to lower prices to sell lithography machines of the same level.

Anyway, in addition to the research and development cost, the production cost of SW65 must be much lower than that of foreign countries.

"How about the research and development on the EUV lithography machine?"

Chen Wei knows the EUV lithography machine, and also knows that this lithography machine is the key to the production of 14nm, 7nm, 5nm and even 3nm chips.

EUV lithography machine represents the crystallization of global industrial technology, which makes countless people feel that it is an unrealizable human industrial product.

Many experts and scholars think that Huaguo does not understand EUV lithography machines, but the general public is confident in Huaguo's EUV lithography machines.

Chen Wei is the same, full of confidence.

Since 2010, our manufacturing industry has accounted for 19.8% of the world, ranking first in the world.

In the following time, our manufacturing industry has always been the number one in the world.

And its proportion in the world has been expanding all the time.

Chen Wei remembers that in 2019, this proportion reached 28.1%.

Such a large-scale manufacturing industry, even though most of it is in the middle and low end, can still give birth to high-end manufacturing companies.

In many technologies, Huaguo now lacks, even lacks talents.

But these are all solvable.

Because Huaguo has enough population, with a huge population base, there are too many talents.

As long as you think about it, you can achieve it!
It just depends on the length of time.

Just like the steel balls used in ballpoint pen refills, many well-known people have a rhythm, and directly say that the technology of the entire steel industry is not good because the steel used in the steel balls for pen refills cannot be produced in China.

Really can't make it?
Rather, the entire market doesn't use that much material at all. After one batch is produced, it will be directly enough for the world to use for a year or two.

He Mingjun hesitated for a moment, EUV lithography machine is the direction of development of lithography machine in the future, He Mingjun naturally knows this.

ASML started the research and development of EUV lithography machine in 1999 and plans to launch the product in 2004.

But in fact, the first EUV prototype was only produced in 2010!
Seems like a long development time, right?
Do you think that the research and development of EUV lithography machine is particularly difficult, and it took 11 years to get it out, and it is still a prototype.

It is still unknown when the actual supply to downstream customers will start.

There is a problem that must be said here. ASML's development of EUV lithography machine is just a choice for the company on the technical route.

No one knows what technical route is the ultimate success.

So what is the safest way for companies?
That of course is to choose a few more routes to go.

The research and development of EUV lithography machine was led by the United States at the end of the last century, in order to exceed 193nm.

At that time, in the semiconductor industry, the chip process technology was stuck at 193 nanometers.

At that time, many technical routes were naturally given, and EUV was one of them. At the same time, Intel also resolutely chose EUV as a technical route.

At the very beginning, ASML did not devote all its resources to the research and development of EUV lithography machines, and was still maintaining the research and development of other technical routes.

With this, the development time of EUV lithography machine will progress slowly.

Now that we know this, it is not surprising that Chen Wei has confidence in the successful development of the EUV lithography machine.

If you don't succeed in a few years, it will take ten years.

If there is a lack of technology, then research and develop that technology.

Chen Wei still doesn't believe it. After ten years, he still can't figure it out.

As for R&D funding?

Just throw money at it.

He Mingjun: "There are two big obstacles in the lens and light source, and it will take a lot of time to break through."

Chen Wei also knows about these problems, and now there are two specialized companies developing this.

The two companies were established in cooperation with the state, and Hengtong Group has shares in the two companies.

The management is in charge of Hengtong Group, and the technicians transferred many people from the research institutes, and even directly annexed several research institutes.

After carrying out corporate operation, it is natural that we cannot ignore marketization as before.

Hengtong Group is responsible for the company's management, so the management system of the Hengtong Department was naturally introduced.

Directly stimulate money, honor, status and other aspects, and then everyone is like chicken blood, from research and development to production, and then to the office, the atmosphere has changed all of a sudden.

Chen Wei and He Mingjun did not say much about the development of EUV lithography machines. Now the research and development of EUV lithography machines has just begun, and there is still a long way to go in the future.

There are only two things to do now: maintain R&D investment and patience.

"I heard that in the recent period, Shenwei has performed well in the back-end lithography machine market, sweeping all the way?"

He Mingjun said with a smile: "The main reason is that compared with our international counterparts, we are not inferior in technology, but our price is the lowest."

(End of this chapter)