my tech museum

Chapter 92 This is not the point

For a special institution like the Chinese Academy of Sciences, any new project must go through a set of strict and cumbersome procedures to ensure that the progress of the technology will not be affected by problems that could have been avoided during the research and development process.

What's more, it is such an important equipment research and development related to the global semiconductor market structure.

In addition to being listed as a top-secret project, all participants are subject to detailed investigation and screening.

Plus the report submitted by Yang Senping.

The degree of emphasis is stronger than before.

As a result, Xu Lei could only move from the hotel to live in the courtyard and enjoy the same treatment as an academician.

I believe that being seen by others, it is estimated that they will feel incredible.

After all, as the president of a technology company, it is quite rare to enjoy such treatment in this kind of place.

that's it.

After Yang Senping made purchases through various channels according to the list provided by Xu Lei, and selected the researchers who participated in this project, the time just came to the new week.

It marks the official start of the research and development of domestic top lithography machines.

of course.

The smooth development of the project is also inseparable from the speeding up of all aspects of the process.

It is worth mentioning that during this weekend, Xu Lei also held a brief meeting with the company's top management to make careful arrangements for all aspects of the company's business.

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Monday, January 2019, 11.

Xinyue City.

The core conference room of the future technology company.

Different from the previous weekly routine meetings, the seat of the chief seat is vacant this time.

Except for Xu Lei who was not present, Lu Hongbo, Zhang Xia, Han Ge, Fang Yuan, Song Jie, Liang Fuxing and others sat on both sides of the conference table.

Since the company stipulated a weekly routine meeting, it must be held regardless of Xu Lei's presence or absence. Anyway, the company has no major issues to deal with right now, so there is no need to be so formal.

But a meeting leader is still needed.

But because Xu Lei didn't specifically explain this matter, in the end facing the quiet meeting room, it was Lu Hongbo who spoke first to break the embarrassing atmosphere.

Among all the people present here, he has been in the company for the longest time and has the oldest qualifications.

At this time, the principal and others will have no objection.

"Mr. Xu can't come back in a short time due to special circumstances, so today's meeting will be held normally by ourselves. In addition, I hope that everyone can seriously complete the work at hand, and don't embarrass the company when Mr. Xu is away."

As Lu Hongbo's voice fell, the others immediately started talking.

It made the atmosphere in the meeting room visibly more active.

"That's right. Although Mr. Xu is not here, we should manage the company well."

"I hope to surprise Mr. Xu by then."

"By the way, didn't our boss Xu go to the imperial capital just to meet the appointment? Why did we suddenly stay there and didn't specify the specific time when we would come back?"

Due to the confidentiality regulations, when Xu Lei held an online meeting with Lu Hongbo and the others on the weekend, he only said that he would stay here for a while, without revealing the specific content.

So much so that when everyone was communicating with each other, they also talked about this issue out of curiosity.

As the saying goes, gossip is human nature.

When this topic was brought up, it naturally attracted the attention of others.

So they all looked at Lu Hongbo with a tacit understanding.

"That's right, Hongbo, do you know how long Mr. Xu will stay there?" Considering the company's long-term development plan, Zhang Xia couldn't help asking.

After all, they can handle the company's various businesses in the short term, but long-term strategic planning cannot be done without Xu Lei.

At this time, Lu Hongboying met everyone's attention. Although he didn't know the details, he still made some guesses after thinking about it for a while.

"Don't worry everyone."

"I think it may be that the Chinese Academy of Sciences encountered a problem with the use of the star pupils, so Mr. Xu stayed to help him solve it. It is estimated that he will return to Binjiang City with Shihe and the others in a few days."

Because looking at the whole company, Lu Hongbo is the one who can figure out the leader's thoughts best, and has guessed Xu Lei's thoughts several times.

Relying on this background, everyone is more or less willing to believe Lu Hongbo's analysis and speculation.

Immediately after hearing someone sigh with emotion in a low voice.

"It's fine for our company to directly send technical personnel to help with this kind of thing, but Mr. Xu chose to stay and help solve it by himself. It's really touching!"

"Mr. Xu's efforts in domestic technology are indeed very comparable."

"This is what I admire the most about Mr. Xu. Even though he has achieved such achievements that others cannot match, he is still approachable and pays attention to the development of technology."

"In this case, we should work harder. Let our chip design software development department make a report first."

Accompanied by Liang Fuxing's voice in the meeting room, the others immediately focused on listening to his report on the current development of Yinglong EDA in the global market.

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at the same time.

In a room in the headquarters of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Xu Lei was sitting in front of a laptop, and a video chat window appeared on the screen.

"Ren Dong."

"I've already said what I had to say."

"It's up to you whether you can seize this opportunity."

Almost at the same time as Xu Lei finished speaking, a familiar voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Mr. Xu, it's time for us to go to the laboratory. The members of the project research team are still waiting for you."

When Xu Lei heard this, he didn't continue to talk any more, and immediately closed the video window and closed the computer and walked out the door.

Unlike the usual state of wearing professional clothes, Chen Shihe also changed into experimental operation clothes today.

Most of the originally excellent figure and pretty face are wrapped up, but she really has the temperament of a female scientist.

"Let's go."

But Xu Lei just glanced at this, and after leaving this sentence, he walked straight to the laboratory, planning to say hello to the members of his project research and development team first.

As for Chen Shihe, he followed closely behind Xu Lei.

Chen Shihe was originally arranged to live in the hotel, but because of the confidentiality regulations of this project, he had to go through cumbersome procedures every time he came in.

It can be described as quite inconvenient.

So Xu Lei also simply arranged for Chen Shihe to come in, and asked her to accompany him as a recorder when he was developing the research and development of the top lithography machine.

However, when Xu Lei headed to the project laboratory confidently and prepared to lead the selected project team members to develop a top-level lithography machine capable of producing 1 nanometer as soon as possible, Ren Yuanwei, who was far away in the Huawei headquarters building in Shenzhen, Surprised.

Without much thought, he picked up the internal phone on the table and said, "Let Peng Qianqian come to my office immediately."

"It's Ren Dong."

When the answer came from the microphone, Ren Yuanwei immediately hung up the phone, still thinking about what Xu Lei had said to him just now.

Soon.

There was a knock on the door outside.

"Come in."

Peng pushed the door forward and entered, walked quickly to the desk and stood still, then hurriedly asked: "Chairman, you are in such a hurry to call me over, do you have any new tasks to order?"

It can be seen that he still pays more attention to this matter.

The main thing is that Peng Xiangqian and Ren Yuanwei have worked together for so many years, and they are very clear about their behavior styles. At this time, they must have encountered a relatively serious situation by calling themselves over by phone.

It is normal for Peng Xiangqian to be so anxious.

Facing Peng Xiangqian's question, Ren Yuanwei had no intention of hiding anything, and immediately explained: "I received a video call from Xu Lei just now, and he is currently staying at the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

"I know about this. I heard that Dean Yang sent the invitation himself."

"That's not the point."

Seeing that Peng Xiangqian didn't understand what he meant, Ren Yuanwei shook his head and continued: "The point is that he suggested that we start designing 3nm or even 1nm chips from now on."

"Designing a 3nm chip?"

"Hi~"

Originally, after Peng Xiangqian entered the office, he only guessed that Ren Yuanwei might have some important orders, but he never expected that he had something to do with Xu Lei, and also involved chip design issues. .

His eyes were full of strong doubts.

As the dean of the Warwick Strategic Research Institute, he knows exactly what this suggestion means.

Today's mainstream high-end chips in the industry have a specification of 7 nanometers.

Although companies such as Pingguo Qualcomm have begun to march towards the layout of 5nm chips, and plan to officially launch them next year to compete with Tamron chips, this is also based on the fact that 5nm fabs are being built in terms of semiconductor manufacturing.

And their chip design department is also using Yinglong EDA to upgrade Tamron chips.

It’s just that due to various restrictions, if the problem of high-end lithography machines cannot be solved next year, Tamron series chips will not be able to be produced even if they are designed.

At that time, the share of the high-end chip market will be taken away by overseas companies.

But in this predicament, Xu Lei actually suggested that they design 3-nanometer or even 1-nanometer chips. Anyone who heard it would probably think it was a joke.

After all, whether the chips of these two specifications can be produced is still completely unknown.

Especially the 1nm chip, since it is called the theoretical physical limit of silicon-based chips, there is basically no hope of it coming out.

At least not for the last few years.

If we really want to design chips with these two specifications, it is almost a waste of resources invested. In addition to being unable to tape out, we can only pass the functional simulation verification of Yinglong chip design software.

But if you settle down and think about it carefully, with Xu Lei's character, he will never be aimless.

Since they dared to make such an unimaginable suggestion, there must be some reason in it, but they couldn't know it due to poor information.

When Peng Xiangqian's thoughts stayed here, he suddenly understood the real reason why Ren Yuanwei called him over.

Then he paused and asked tentatively, "Chairman, do you suspect that Mr. Xu has made new breakthroughs in the research of lithography machines?"

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