my tech museum

Chapter 95 Stop R&D
"Mr. Mike, I have some news here that I believe you must be very interested in."

Inside the highest office of the Hurt Building.

When Brady saw the business manager Mike's first words, he was offended, but judging from the joy on his face, it can be seen that this must be good news.

At least for them.

Mike has trained Brady to be his right-hand man today, and he knows exactly what the other person's personality is like.

Being able to come to his office to say such things on purpose, this news must be what he wanted to hear the most, so he immediately stopped what he was doing and asked.

"Say it."

"What news?"

Seeing that Mike's curiosity was successfully aroused, Brady stopped showing off, and immediately said in a deep voice: "Mr. Mike, according to the information I got from special channels, Yanguo has stopped the sales of lithography machines. Research."

"Stop researching?"

"It doesn't seem to be in line with their style of doing things." Hearing Mike repeating this sentence, his face was full of suspicion.

Through the experience gained from previous dealings, the other party will never give up easily in the research and development of high-end technology.

Even knowing that this technology is very difficult.

Otherwise, there won't be things like Phantom Star Engine and Yinglong chip design software that change the industry pattern in the near future.

A high-end lithography machine has hundreds of thousands of parts, and the technology contained in it needs to be provided by multiple parties. Although Mike didn't think the other party could manufacture it, he didn't expect to give up so easily.

It is simply eye-popping.

"The source of the news is absolutely true and reliable. Just a few days ago, the entire project research and development team has been disbanded." Brady noticed the change in Mike's expression and thought he was suspicious of the news, so he added these two sentences on purpose.

"The project team was disbanded. Is it because we realized the difficulty of high-end lithography machines during research and development, and we don't want to continue to invest money and human resources in vain."

"If that's the case, it's really a good thing for us."

After listening to Brady's words, Mike's thinking immediately started running at high speed, and various thoughts kept appearing in his mind, analyzing the pros and cons of this matter.

If the other party really gives up the research and development of high-end lithography machines, then if you want to continue to use chips, you must need the foundry of the fab. When the two parties sit at the negotiating table to negotiate, the initiative will be firmly in his hands.

Even if you want to ask for something, it will become a matter of course.

After thinking about the key point, Mike immediately felt much more comfortable. With a bright smile on his face, he walked towards the wine cabinet next to him and praised Brady: "You really brought me a good wine this time. News, as long as they come back and continue to cooperate with us, then the impact of the previous Yinglong chip design software and Chaos Zhilian operating system will no longer need to be cared about.”

"Then congratulations to Mr. Mike first."

Brady reached out to take the wine glass offered by Mike, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

And after raising his head and taking a sip, he continued to say in a cold voice: "I think they made a very correct choice this time. A high-end lithography machine is not a device that can be developed alone."

The voice just fell.

Then, as if thinking of something, he took his own words and asked Mike tentatively.

"Mr. Mike."

"Then we need to let go of our attitude at this time and attract them to come and cooperate?"

However, Mike did not directly answer Brady's question, but instead raised a question to confirm another matter with Brady.

"It's not urgent."

"correct."

"Stop the research on the lithography machine and disband the R&D project team. They shouldn't have announced this news yet?"

"Not yet, I think they deliberately suppressed the news." Brady did not hesitate about this, and directly told the truth what he knew.

After getting the answer he wanted, Mike immediately fell into silence. Holding his wine glass, he walked to the French window next to him, looking down at the scenery outside the window, as if he was thinking about something.

Faced with this situation, Brady had no choice but to stand quietly behind.

Don't dare to disturb me rashly.

About half a minute later, Mike finally turned around, fixed his eyes on Brady and said, "Then let's do a little favor, you find a way to spread this news on the Internet."

With Brady's IQ, how could he not know about Mike's plan? He just wanted to make something happen in this way.

But since it was an order from his boss, all he could do was follow the order.

Then he nodded and said in response: "I understand Mr. Mike, I will take care of this matter."

Done.

He didn't stay in the office for too long, so he turned around and left immediately.

……

……

early november.

Because the popularity of Tamron chip mobile phones is gradually passing, and there is always an unlimited rush to buy, users who need it have also purchased it.

This makes the Internet significantly more peaceful.

The hot search lists of major websites and platforms are also once again occupied by trivia about celebrities' entertainment and life.

But as the so-called storm comes, there will always be a brief calm. No one would have thought that when everyone was happily surfing the Internet, watching videos and chasing animations, a topic called Chinese Academy of Sciences stopping the research and development of lithography machines would appear without warning, and with difficulty Spread at the speed of imagination.

There are even some video bloggers with millions of fans all over the Internet who repost it.

As a result, this topic quickly rushed to the top of the website's hot search list in less than half an hour.

It aroused heated discussions among a large number of netizens.

"Okay, how could it be possible to stop the research and development of lithography machines? This must be false news. It is recommended that everyone ignore it and don't take care of it, and don't forward it to the heat."

"Really, if you don't develop a domestic lithography machine, will you have to let others produce chips in the future?"

"But don't do it like this, no matter how difficult it is, you must persevere."

"I knew that this kind of thing would happen. Although the emergence of future technology has enabled us to achieve cornering overtaking in software technology, hardware is always an embarrassing problem. It is almost impossible to manufacture a high-end lithography machine that catches up with Shanghai's overseas technology level. possible."

"All technologies are constantly improving with the passage of time. Even if we persist in research for a few years, when we reach the current level of the industry, I am afraid that people will go far away."

"I hope the Chinese Academy of Sciences will come forward to respond."

"Would anyone really believe it? I don't know who made this rumor."

……

For netizens, some time ago, Magic Star engine dominated the engine licensing market, Yinglong chip design software was used by well-known overseas chip design companies, Chaos Zhilian operating system ignored Google's restrictions and many other exciting events.

It was as if the blood in his chest was boiling and burning.

Even in the comment area below the relevant content, there is a strong pride between the lines.

Now that I suddenly learned that the research on high-end lithography machines has been stopped, this huge contrast is really unacceptable, and the depressed mood will naturally speed up the spread of this topic.

As the saying goes, three people make one tiger, one mouth makes one gold, when more and more people talk about this matter, even if a discerning person thinks it is a rumor, his belief will gradually be shaken.

Moreover, the original source of this topic has long since been found.

And as the popularity became higher and higher, it was spread to the Internet, and even overseas media reported it.

There is a great sense of the truth.

of course.

Compared with the Internet that has become more lively about this matter, the interior of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is also not very peaceful at the moment.

"Who spread the news? Now that there is such a big public opinion, the impact on us is not a little bit."

Inside the Dean's Office.

After Yang Senping saw the hot discussion on the Internet, his whole face was flushed with anger, and he didn't care about his own image, venting his suppressed anger in front of other people.

It is true that the previous lithography machine research and development project team was disbanded, but a new one was re-established, and various specifications were given more attention.

The reason why it has not been announced to the public for the time being is purely out of confidentiality regulations to worry about the information leakage of the top lithography machine.

The original consideration was to wait for this top-level lithography machine to be manufactured before officially announcing it to the outside world, so as to surprise everyone and the domestic semiconductor industry.

Who would have thought that instead of seeing the surprise now, she would be frightened a lot.

Later, when Yang Senping's mood gradually stabilized, Hao Yaoping, who was called to discuss the solution while sitting in the office, said: "You are the person in charge of the disbanded project research team, and now the news has been leaked out of nowhere. It won't fall."

"You are right. I will investigate the leaked information." Faced with Hao Yaoping's accusation, Yang Senping did not raise any objections this time.

The news circulating on the Internet only mentioned the disbandment of the project team, but there was no relevant content about the establishment of a new project, indicating that the problem was with the members of the project research and development team he was in charge of.

It is not difficult to investigate the situation clearly.

The most important thing right now is to eliminate the negative influence on the Internet.

So thinking of this, Yang Senping quickly turned his attention to Xu Lei who was next to him, and asked softly: "Mr. Xu, now you are the person in charge of the lithography machine project research team, but you have to come up with an idea."

"It's simple."

"The announcement said that we are developing a top-level lithography machine, and it is expected to be put into use around the Spring Festival."

Speaking of which, Xu Lei didn't pay too much attention to the topic on the Internet, but because this matter wasted his time, he had to go from the laboratory to the dean's office to discuss a solution.

In this case, Xu Lei naturally advocated the most effective means.

Quit the turmoil as soon as possible.

Announcing the current research and development progress of the top lithography machine, any rumors will naturally be self-defeating.

After listening to Xu Lei's suggestion, Yang Senping fell into deep thought again, weighing the pros and cons of this approach.

After a pause for a few seconds, he asked Xu Lei solemnly: "This is not a joke, are you really sure that this top-level lithography machine will be put into use around the Spring Festival?"

(End of this chapter)