I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 532 369-370: The action above! (4000 words)
Afterwards, many people commented that Hillhouse Capital’s boss Gao Huaijun was a typical example of “speaking softly but doing things firmly”!
All the companies in the United States are good. They participated in Hillhouse’s self-inflicted punishment out of necessity. We cannot blame them.

What is the beauty of the country's products? Don't reject the beauty of the country's products.

There are many advanced aspects in the system of the beautiful country, such as the emphasis on cultivating talents and so on.

but. . .

Gangvolt, Gangpingguo, and Gang Qualcomm have stood firm amidst the pressure from multiple companies in the electronic technology and automobile industries. There is not a single Chinese or even foreigner on the board of directors. It has come to this point and there is still no need. I will vigorously tackle the problems you sanction. Are you threatening me to give up investment in high-tech research and development?

no way!

Hillhouse has grown from a fan factory to its current size.

Apart from Gao Huaijun's golden finger guiding the way, what else do you rely on?
Isn’t it just relying on investment in high-tech research and development?
The labor cost of high-tech engineers in China is much lower than that in the United States and other developed Western countries.

In 18, if you give a newly graduated college student an annual salary of around 20, then three years later, there is a high probability that it will double.

For such job opportunities, not to mention science students from ordinary universities, even students from 985 and strong 211 schools are scrambling for them!
Even many students who studied abroad and ranked in the top 50 of QS are rushing to return to China.

You should know that in the United States, the early career salary of computer engineering graduates is about 60 to 000 US dollars, which is roughly equivalent to 70 to 000 Chinese yuan.

Although the salary for jobs related to Hillhouse is only half of that in the United States, the cost of living is much lower!

And you won’t be affected by zero-dollar shopping and boredom at night with no nightlife.

If you are Chinese, do you vote with your feet?
However, the biggest problem facing Xi’an University now is deindustrialization and the country being held hostage by the military-industrial complex and the financial complex. What’s worse, all the problems of China’s ancient dynasties have gathered together at once: the militarism of the Han Dynasty, the ethnic integration of the Jin Dynasty, the vanity of the Sui Dynasty, the separatist rule of the Tang Dynasty, the excessive currency issuance of the Song Dynasty, the untouchables and ignorance of the people of the Yuan Dynasty, the party struggles of the Ming Dynasty, and the rampant opium of the Qing Dynasty.

What a good guy!

Experience two thousand years of history in three hundred years.

Just like the story in ancient martial arts novels where both the Manggu Red Clam and the poisonous centipede entered Duan Yu's stomach at the same time, the main point is that one negative equals a positive.

Do you know what "Ten Thousand Poisons Body" means?

It’s me!
New increments can only be achieved through the continuous refreshing of high technology, constantly impacting high-dimensional barriers, releasing social productivity through high technology, and ultimately generating social increments, thereby promoting social development and progress.

Why is Gao Huaijun's 'ALL IN AI' so attractive? Isn't it because AGI can break the human labor barrier and significantly reduce the price of high-level labor, thereby triggering an industrial revolution and achieving the goal of the United States' industrial resurgence?
Hillhouse Capital is a company with large and powerful assets, and it is from a hostile country.

If you don’t die, who will?

It can be said that the overwhelming pressure has only come now.

More importantly, it is due to the slow action of Xida!
"Xi'an University has issued a 90-day delay in the ban on Hillhouse. In other words, Hillhouse has a 90-day temporary license. Can Hillhouse be prepared in just 90 days?" Leader Zhang from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, who had just got off the plane, rushed to Hillhouse's headquarters to communicate with Gao Huaijun.

This is the first time that a Chinese company has been treated like this.

Therefore, as a leader of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology who is inseparable from Hillhouse and has very close ties with it, Leader Zhang naturally needs to come over and have an in-depth exchange with Gao Huaijun.

Otherwise, if such an enterprise could not hold on and collapsed, who knows what kind of criticism would be leveled at domestic public opinion.

"90 days doesn't mean much to us. We are already prepared. The most important thing for us is to do what we can do well. What Xida does is not something we can control."

"A large number of parts and components manufacturers have given us great support over the years."

"Now a large number of companies in Xida are working overtime to provide us with parts, which we also find a bit incredible."

Gao Huaijun smiled and said.

After hearing this, Leader Zhang's face also flashed with a hint of surprise.

Western countries are famous for not working overtime!
But now, for Hillhouse, I have to work overtime.

It seems that Hillhouse offered a good price.

Many of the processes used by Hillhouse's SOC chips produced by TAIC come from the United States, and some of Hillhouse's matching components also come from the United States.

So now they are working overtime, and it can be seen that Hillhouse is launching an emergency plan.

"When you were interviewed by the media some time ago, you said that 'Hillhouse does not need Western chips, Hillhouse is fine'. Where does Hillhouse's confidence come from and what preparations have you made?" Leader Zhang continued to ask.

Gao Huaijun nodded. He knew that the higher-ups were also afraid that Gao Ling would just hold on by himself.

This is really not the time to act on impulse.

Hillhouse should and can give in.

It feels good to be tough for a while, but it would be bad if you lose your company because of your anger!

China is also reluctant to give up such a rare treasure, a high-tech cluster company, which is also a major taxpayer comparable to large state-owned enterprises, and there will be an unexpected series of reactions.

"First of all, we still need Taiwan and electricity!"

"Our own chip manufacturing plants are still unable to mass-produce 10nm chips, let alone the more advanced 7nm chips."

"But more importantly, we at Hillhouse need the cooperation of China's domestically produced lithography machines!"

"Without domestic lithography machines, we simply cannot produce more advanced chips."

Gao Huaijun said lightly.

Hillhouse can now maturely mass-produce 20nm chips.

However, this is based on ASML's stable supply of lithography machines.

Now, due to the self-regulatory measures, not only will Taipower be withdrawn after 90 days, but ASML’s maintenance personnel will also be withdrawn after 90 days!
That is to say, after 90 days, Hillhouse's chip manufacturing plant will be working in an exposed environment without any parts supply.

This is not something to be alarmist about.

But fact!

Not to mention in this era, even in 2023 before Gao Huaijun traveled through time, chips have always been the sword of Damocles for China's electronics industry.

Moreover, there is no possibility of a solution in a short period of time.

Although Xida's move caused 1000 casualties to himself, it also caused 800 casualties to the enemy!

However, no matter what, clamping down on companies like Hillhouse is still very practical and effective.

Although Gao Huaijun has a cognitive cheat code, there are some things that you can't do just because you want to.

Although he has a backup plan, he doesn't want to take any action for now.

He wants to increase the priority of lithography machines in China!

To this end, he deceived himself first, even if it was within Hillhouse, he wanted to force them to unleash their greatest potential. "Lithography machine..."

"I know that you, Hillhouse, have been injecting funds into the 05 Special Project, which has enabled this project to make substantial progress."

"but..."

At this point, Leader Zhang hesitated.

He knows the progress of lithography machines better than anyone else.

In the original 05 special plan.

The goal of the project is to use various parts in the world to assemble a practical DUV wet lithography machine!
However, Gao Huaijun hopes to have a plan B and provide additional research and development funds, hoping to have independent and controllable component configuration.

So, as expected, the 05 special project was delayed.

Gao Huaijun was helpless, but there was nothing he could do.

Because there are three biggest difficulties with lithography machines.

One is the light source.

To produce extreme deep ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers, the current practice is to use a high-power laser to bombard a small tin ball (tin in metallic tin) with a diameter of only one thirty-millionth of a meter.

Only one German company in the world can produce this type of laser. This German company, TRUMPF, took ten years to develop it. This laser alone has more than 45700 parts.

But what was unexpected was that this laser from Trumpf relied on a Lithuanian company to provide key equipment. Without the light source equipment manufactured by this Lithuanian company, Trumpf would not be able to succeed.

The next challenge is how to collect this extreme ultraviolet light to form a beam of extreme ultraviolet laser light.

Optical system.

Only one German company in the world can manufacture this optical system developed for EUV, and that is the famous Zeiss.

The camera lenses produced by Zeiss are among the best in the world, but the difference between camera lenses and lenses used in EUV optical systems is like the difference between a propeller-spraying airplane and a jet fighter.

This optical system involves at least the following technical challenges: high-precision aspheric processing, multi-layer film mirrors, high-quality melting, ion beam polishing technology, and extreme precision grinding.

The ultimate goal is to produce an absolutely smooth and flat lens. How smooth should it be?

It is as smooth as a water droplet in the three-body system. The fluctuation of the lens is about an atom error, which is close to the theoretical physical limit.

To use Zeiss's own promotional metaphor, even if this lens was enlarged to the size of the entire country of Germany, the fluctuation would not exceed 0.1 mm.

If a virus falls on this mirror, it would be like a hundred-meter hill rising from the ground.

The last one is the console.

This is the precision instrument workbench.

In order to engrave tens of billions of transistors, an extremely high-precision control console is needed. This console is made up of 55000 high-precision parts, and these parts rely on patented technologies provided by at least the Island Country, the Cold Country, the Daiwan Country, the Beautiful Country, Germany and the Helan Country. None of them can be missing.

Now this lithography machine needs to be autonomous and controllable, so it is no longer a one-vs-one fight, but a one-vs-many fight!
In the past, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology did not pay much attention to this 05 special project lithography machine.

Although the market size of lithography machines is so small, ASML alone has relied on its own technical capabilities to occupy more than 90% of the market share of lithography machines.

Therefore, the two companies in the island country that originally had the ability to produce lithography machines had to gradually withdraw from the lithography machine market because they could not make money from the market.

In other words, the lithography machine market is actually a mature market, and ASML's monopoly has existed for a long time. Unless there are major changes in technology, this situation will continue for a long time.

The first thing any new lithography machine manufacturer needs to consider is where the demand is.

So, you can imagine.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is actually also treating it as a strategic project and is working on a long-term replacement project.

If Gao Huaijun had not been promoting autonomous control, he would not even be interested in knowing the detailed details of this project.

After all, this is the Ministry of Science and Technology’s business!

But. . .

Now comes the problem!

It's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Photolithography machine, I guess I’ll have to go to the top one!
Leader Zhang hesitated for a moment and continued, "I understand your opinion! I will report it to my superiors."

"My opinion only represents my personal opinion!"

"One is to contact the German Trumpf Group through the government to see if it can set up a branch in China."

"As you know, Trumpf provides Cymer with the drive laser part, and Cymer provides the light source system for ASML's lithography machine."

"Another 365nm wavelength light source from the Institute of Optoelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a maximum line width resolution of 22nm for a single exposure. You know this information, but it is not stable yet and needs further deepening and optimization. In this regard, I have applied to the higher authorities to set up a special lithography machine team to specifically solve the problems existing in the research and development of light sources."

"Third, the precision of the dual worktable of Huazhong Precision Technology and Huaqing University can reach 1.8 nanometers. This has made some progress and will also be solved by a joint solution in the lithography machine group."

"The last one is the laser interferometer from Harbin Institute of Technology. As the second generation of immersion type, it does not use a multi-axis laser interferometer but a large-size plane grating measurement system. Its resolution reaches 0.05 nanometers, which is even better than the first one!"

"So Mr. Gao, you don't have to worry about this. We will strive to develop an independently developed and controllable lithography machine within two years."

Some of the things that Leader Zhang talked about were clear to him, but some of them were not very clear to him.

When he heard that TRUMPF was being introduced at the national level.

I couldn't help but feel a little happy in my heart!
This will cost national capital.

But Trumpf is really, really important in the research and development of independent and controllable lithography machines.

Because the 365nm wavelength light source of the Institute of Optoelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is not the most advanced light source in the world, this may delay it for a long time.

If China’s top level design is done, the result will be even better!

More importantly, the special lithography machine team.

This is definitely weighty information!
In China, Zheng Zhi is in charge!

Without a special working group at the top level, the people below are not taken seriously at all.

No matter how anxious Gao Huaijun is, it's useless!

(End of this chapter)