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Chapter 291 Semiconductor proposal, photolithography factory!

Seeing Wang Yi in a good mood, Director Qin couldn't help but ask one more question:
"Is it possible that your payment system is already under development? Is it almost completed?"
Wang Yi did not hide anything: "To be honest, Xingyi Technology's payment system has indeed been developed for a long time. After the license is issued and debugging for a period of time, it will be basically ready."
Payment is essential, let alone giving the license after half a year.
Even if he didn't give it, Wang Yi would have to spend tens of millions, or even 100 or 200 million to acquire a licensed company!
Therefore, the payment system Wang Yi has already arranged for people to develop, and in the later stages, he is waiting for the license to be in place.
Now the license is issued half a year in advance and is in place half a month later. Everything is just fine.
"Sure enough, you guys always take one step at a time and look at three steps before fighting an uncertain battle!"
Director Qin's expression was a little complicated, and he was curious:
'The payment license issue has just come out. Many companies have not come to their senses and do not know the meaning behind it. However, Wang Yi directly focused on it and even built the payment system in advance!'
'How can this guy have such a mature structure and vision when he is not very young?'
'It's incredible!'
In fact, in their previous lives, Rebus and Meituan Wangxing were both hesitant to pay for licenses.
When it was easy to apply in the past two years, they didn't apply because they had no idea.
It was difficult to apply after two years, so I started applying. Naturally, I couldn’t apply.
In desperation, Rebus spent 600 million to acquire a licensed company.
Evergrande Lao Xu and Meituan Wang Xing also spent money to acquire companies with licenses, and they also spent a lot of money.
It can only be said that if people have no foresight, they will have to spend money.
Five or six billion, even for Rebus, is not a small amount of money.
Wang Yi waved his hand decisively: "Director Qin is joking. Other giants have developed early, are strong, and have deep roots in traditional fields. Xingyi Technology started late and has insufficient foundation. It cannot compete with them in traditional fields, so it can only work harder in emerging fields.
!”
Wang Yi knew very well that Director Qin sounded like he was just a director and his position was not high.
But such a young director of a powerful department is no ordinary powerful person.
Moreover, Director Qin's position is not just a director, he also holds several important positions in other departments, and his future prospects are limitless.
Position is not just about reputation, but also about power. There are many people who rise and fall secretly.
On the contrary, for a position of real power like Director Qin, I don’t know how many big guys want to grab it!
Director Qin was speechless: "You are so humble!"
"too humble."
I even murmured in my heart: If I believe even a little more, I, Mr. Qin, will lose!
'But this guy Wang Yi is actually a hard worker, much better than those entrepreneurs who only know how to make money and run away by circling the pie!'
Wang Yi sighed: "The current Amap navigation still uses the imperial GPS satellite, which is somewhat controlled by others. To put it bluntly, once they block the signal for us, no matter how powerful the Amap navigation is, it will be useless. After the Beidou network is successfully established, we will switch to
Beidou Navigation can completely realize navigation safety!"
Director Qin agreed very much: "Yes, Wang Yi, you are very strategic and far-sighted. I will give you a thorough explanation of what you mentioned before. The top management attaches great importance to it and has organized a meeting of academicians and experts to study this issue."
"What about lithography machines and semiconductors?" Wang Yi couldn't help but ask, feeling even more excited.
Wang Yi can handle other aspects by himself, but the photolithography machine is too difficult to handle.
Wang Yi's Plan B is to buy a batch of DUV lithography machines in advance and build his own wafer factory in advance before the empire blocks and suppresses Xingyi Technology.
At the same time, we recruited experts such as Mr. Liang and other semiconductor experts and technical backbones, and invested heavily in developing our own chip processes.
In this way, even if it is blocked or suppressed, Xingyi Technology can produce its own chips.
And with the help of multiple exposure technology, DUV lithography machines can be used to mass-produce 7-nanometer chips and even 5-nanometer chips, which is enough to ensure worry-free chips for the next ten years.
But this is just plan B, or a bad policy, treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.
7nm chips can still be made, and 5nm can also be used.
But the higher-end 4nm and 3nm chips and DUV lithography machines will not work unless EUV lithography machines are developed.
Therefore, the best strategy is to achieve breakthroughs in EUV lithography machines or lithography factories to achieve overtaking in corners.
Only in this way can we catch up with or even surpass Europe and the United States, which is the best policy.
But this kind of thing is not something that Wang Yi can handle. It requires the machinery of a big country and the deployment of national power.
The role of Xingyi Technology is to introduce ideas and then invest heavily in technology research and development like Huawei.
Other aspects must be taken care of by the authorities.
Director Qin nodded: "Yes, after several consultations, although there were different opinions, we finally decided to completely localize the entire semiconductor industry chain to prevent being blocked and suppressed. The lithography machine is the top priority!"
"That's great!" Wang Yi was overjoyed. He didn't expect that he would make suggestions one after another. Unexpectedly, the officials really studied it seriously and attached great importance to it.
It is much better to attach great importance to it since 2012 than to attach great importance to it from 2018!
Director Qin's expression was a little complicated: "To be honest, I didn't pay much attention to the matter you mentioned at first. Many people objected and felt that at this point, it is not necessary to invest huge sums of money in the research and development of lithography machines, or even other semiconductor industry chains.
, we have more places where we need to spend money, waiting for us to make breakthroughs."
"But with the development of Meiyou Technology and the development of Xingyi Technology, you have changed from Boss Wang to Director Wang. With a higher status, your influence will be greater."
Director Qin said with a smile: "As a result, more and more important people began to pay attention to your proposal. Even many old academicians came forward to support it. After several rounds of research and consultation, it was finally included in the official strategic plan.
, must break through!”
Wang Yi suddenly realized that it was still the same principle: a person's name is like the shadow of a tree.
When Wang Yi's career was just starting out, not many people paid attention to his suggestion that the government vigorously develop photolithography machines and semiconductors.
But now Wang Yi is not what he used to be. He has become a famous Wang Dong, and even BAT dare not underestimate him.
That would be completely different.
This proposal also began to attract attention and be taken seriously.
The end result is naturally beautiful.
What Director Qin didn't say was that the reason why the license was paid to Xingyi Technology so quickly was because, on the one hand, Xingyi Technology was developing at a terrifying speed, with unlimited prospects and impressive strength.
In particular, the Xingyi Xphone 1 has completely sold out, proving that Wang Yi is a practical person and Xingyi Technology is really capable, not a hype person.
On the other hand, Wang Yi proposed the localization of the entire semiconductor industry chain, as well as the localization of the smartphone industry chain!
These proposals have won official attention, recognition and implementation.
As the proposer, Wang Yi and Xingyi Technology also came into the high-level view and were affirmed and supported.
Coupled with Wang Yi's acquisition of AutoNavi, which delisted AutoNavi from the US stock market and subsequently listed Big A, his awareness of protecting the strategic security of the Guo family also adds a lot!
Xingyi Technology’s industrial layout in high-tech fields such as smartphones, semiconductors, and data centers has also been recognized and praised by the officials.
If Xingyi Technology was just a clothes seller and beauty cosmetics company without these high-net-worth industrial layouts, it would not be worth mentioning.
The above four aspects are indispensable, so the payment license was issued half a year in advance!
As long as there is one less thing, it will be difficult!
The layouts made by Wang Yi have been spread to the minds of the senior management.
The cause and direction of development are also beneficial to the country and the people.
It's hard not to support it.
Wang Yixiao said: "With the help of state machinery, it is estimated that DUV lithography machines will achieve domestic breakthroughs in about five years. As for EUV lithography machines, it will be a little more troublesome, but it is only a matter of time. Sooner or later, there will be a breakthrough!"
Director Qin is not so optimistic: "DUV lithography machines have been invested heavily in research and development, and there is hope within five years. However, the EUV lithography machine project is very difficult and not optimistic. However, the official plan is to use EUV lithography machines as
It will be promoted simultaneously with the DUV lithography machine!”
Wang Yi understood that the two lithography machines are two generations of technology, or the EUV lithography machine is a brand new technology.
Therefore, there is no need to wait for the development of DUV lithography machines in a few years before advancing the development of EUV lithography machines. This is too slow.
On the contrary, directly establish the project, and two generations of products and two generations of technology will be developed together!
Wang Yi admired such courage.
He simply said: "It is indeed difficult to build an EUV lithography machine. It requires too many upstream and downstream industrial chains, and we are far behind. But to put it another way, if EUV lithography machines are not easy to make, would it be possible to build an EUV lithography factory...
Easier?"
"EUV lithography factory?" Director Qin's eyes lit up: "Please explain in detail."
Wang Yi thought for a moment and was about to speak, but was directly interrupted by Director Qin:
"Dr. Wang, please wait a moment. I am not good at this kind of strict technical issues. Can you let me record a video and go back to show it to the experts and academicians?"
"No problem." Wang Yi waved his hand.
"Thank you!" Director Qin smiled kindly, and immediately took out Xingyi xphone 1 and turned on the video recording: "Okay, Director Wang, please continue."
Wang Yi nodded: "As we all know, the reason why ASML's EUV lithography machine is so powerful and can produce chips below 5 nanometers is because it can produce 5 nanometer extreme ultraviolet light sources. This kind of light source will be below 5 nanometers in the future."
The key to manufacturing chips."
"The deep ultraviolet light source of DUV lithography machines can produce up to 10 nanometer chips. Through multiple exposure technology, 7 nanometers and 5 nanometers can be mass-produced. Even the yield rate of 5 nanometers is not high, but the cost is not low. As for 5 nanometers
The above 4 nanometers and 3 nanometers are even more unrealistic and can only rely on the extreme ultraviolet light source of EUV lithography machines."
"Similarly, what we essentially need is not an EUV lithography machine, but a 5-nanometer extreme ultraviolet light source!"
"We currently cannot build an EUV lithography machine, and it will be very difficult in the future. But we are going in the opposite direction, using other methods to achieve extreme ultraviolet light sources, and we can also produce 4 nanometer, 3 nanometer, or even 2 nanometer and 1 nanometer chips.
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"For example, the photolithography factory I mentioned before!" Wang Yi paused and continued:
"Build a lithography factory, realize extreme ultraviolet light sources through particle collision, and then use the lithography factory model to achieve the effects of EUV lithography machines."

"Of course, I am not a semiconductor professional. The above content is just based on my immature ideas and I just said it casually."
"Whether it can be realized, I don't know. If it can't be realized, please forgive me."
As for whether it can be realized, he doesn't know, but in theory it should be possible.
In the previous life, Huaqing University's EUV lithography machine followed this route, which was completely different from ASML's technical route.
If it can really be realized, ASML's patent will be avoided directly from the source.
After all, extreme ultraviolet light sources are generated in different ways, so there is no patent infringement.
The difficulty of domestic technology breakthroughs is not only to produce the same product and equivalent technology, but also to avoid Western patent barriers and adopt a completely different technical route.
This becomes even more difficult.
But even so, in his previous life, he still almost stripped off all the jewels in the industrial crown.
Director Qin smiled and stretched out his hand: "Thank you, your opinions are very important, I will report them right away. Anyway, thank you very much."
"Director, what I said is serious. If what I said is wrong, you will treat me as nonsense, Haihan."
"Haha, that's not possible. Scientific exploration is all about telling everything you know. What's more, such an original suggestion is of great significance!"
Wang Yi waved his hand: "It's just an immature idea. I hope it has some reference value. The photolithography machine is difficult, and the photoresist is also difficult. It all depends on the state machinery."
Director Qin nodded: "Don't worry, photoresist is also an area that the government strongly supports, and breakthroughs must be made!"
Wang Yi breathed a sigh of relief. If the authorities can gradually solve these problems, it will be stable.
After another exchange, Wang Yi left the management committee.
Director Qin went straight to a confidential place to report Wang Yi's thoughts.
Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, it is a new idea, and it would be a good idea to let academicians and experts evaluate it.
If not, it can be used as an idea and has reference significance.
If it works, that would be great, as overtaking in corners is possible.
By then, Wang Yi will have done a great job.
There is no way. It is possible to build a wafer factory and develop chips, but Wang Yizhen cannot do it to develop photolithography machines.
too difficult.
I can only tell you all the ideas I know and provide some help.
It would be great if a photolithography machine factory is built and domestic EUV breaks through.
But if a breakthrough cannot be made, there is no other way but to make do by using multiple exposure technology of DUV lithography machine.
As for domestic DUV lithography machines, with strong official support now, it will take four to five years at the earliest to successfully develop them.
The first phase of Wang Yi's wafer fab will be completed by the end of this year, so we can't wait any longer.
You have to order ASML’s DUV lithography machine first!
ASML's lithography machines must be ordered about a year in advance.
It would be good to place an order in early 2012 and have it delivered in early 2013.
The wafer factory will be delivered at that time, and the products will be installed and debugged directly upon arrival.
As the saying goes, before the troops and horses move, food and grass go first.
Semiconductor experts and technical talents must start recruiting now.
This year we will spend one year recruiting talents, building a team, and then conducting research and development on the 65nm process.
At the beginning, Wang Yi didn't want to take too big a step, so he started from 65nm, one step at a time, and took his time.
After the wafer factory is debugged next year, trial production of 65nm will begin in the middle or second half of next year.
It will be considered a success if 65nm chips are successfully mass-produced before the end of 2013.
Of course, the gambling agreement with Imperial City is to invest more than 17 billion in equipment before the end of 2014 and successfully mass-produce 65nm.
There is plenty of time.
In the initial stage, pay attention to playing steadily and steadily, without being too radical.
In the later stage, when there are many soldiers and generals, and the structure is mature, cross-generation research and development can be carried out.
For example, Samsung in the previous life was lagging behind TSMC, but with the blessing of Mr. Liang, it skipped 16nm and directly developed 14nm, overtaking in corners.
So angry that TSMC sued Mr. Liang on the grounds of non-competition agreement and technology leaks!
Similarly, when the structure matures in the later period, Wang Yi also has a semiconductor giant like Mr. Liang, and recruits other semiconductor talents to form a research and development team, which can also conduct cross-generation research and development.
As for investing in SMIC... Wang Yi did some research and simply dismissed it.
The current SMIC, since Mr. Zhang was forced to leave by TSMC, has fallen into a chaotic era of power struggle.
In addition, TSMC controls 10% of the equity, which is a real troublemaker.
As a result, many of SMIC's senior leaders or middle-level leaders only know how to compete for power and intrigue.
On the contrary, hard-working talents who are diligent in R&D and do not take sides were squeezed out and had to leave SMIC.
This chaotic situation has led to slow breakthroughs in SMIC's manufacturing process and serious brain drain.
Wang Yi knew that this era of chaos would last for nearly ten years. It was not until Mr. Liang joined many years later that a new era of rapid breakthroughs began.
But this new era didn't last long, and Mr. Liang's old enemy Jiang Lao was invited to be the president, and he almost started a new era of chaos...
All I can say is it's chaotic, it's so messed up.
Wang Yi is too lazy to invest in such a quagmire company, so it is worthless.
As for a wholly-owned acquisition? It’s even more unrealistic!
With TSMC as the major shareholder, Wang Yi can't acquire SMIC!
Instead of doing this, it is better to concentrate on being your own Xingyi Semiconductor.
Wang Yi has made plans to purchase DUV lithography machines, recruit talents, and find semiconductor giants. These things must be put on the agenda.
Wang Yi acted vigorously and resolutely. As soon as he returned to the headquarters, he called Jian Ziyan:
"Ziyan, from now on, Xingyi Semiconductor will start recruiting talents. As long as they are strong, remuneration is not a problem."
"Okay, Chairman, I will contact a professional headhunting company soon to recruit and poach people."
Wang Yi nodded: "SMIC is paying close attention to those who want to leave, change jobs, and are excluded. As long as they are technical talents, have strength, and have no problem with their style, we will accept them all!"
"good!"
Many semiconductor talents, in order to strengthen the motherland's semiconductor industry, return to China for development and join SMIC.
As a result, he was full of enthusiasm, but in the end he was squeezed out and suppressed by the power struggle, and he could only leave sadly.
These people are the best targets for Wang Yi to recruit.
Wang Yi needs their technology!
Wang Yi appreciates their passion!
Their platform is given by Wang Yi!
With these talents, it will be safe to build a team and recruit big names.
After all, Daniel will also bring some close talents to join him.
"In addition, I contacted ASML and told them that we would order 20 DUV lithography machines and deliver them within one year."
"Okay, Chairman." Jian Ziyan responded.
Wang Yi continued: "As for other equipment, we will wait until the photolithography machine is finalized. We will recruit people first."
Other equipment is not as in short supply as photolithography machines, and there is still plenty of time.
At present, funds are limited, so it is better to get the lithography machine first.
Two months later, Xingyi xphone 1 continued to sell well, and with sufficient funds, we continued to gradually add other devices.
It is unrealistic to eat a big fat man in one go.
Wafer fab equipment costs too much money. It costs only RMB 20 billion to build it all, and Wang Yi can't even afford it.
Fortunately, the Amap Lifetime Membership Recharge 200 Refund 200 Campaign can temporarily encircle more than 10 billion, which is enough to buy lithography machines and other equipment.
I sold my mobile phone this month and made money. Next month I will return more than 10 billion to users, which is safe.
The main thing is the difference in capital turnover time.
There is also a need to prepare funds for the subsequent data center, order servers, network equipment, etc., which is also a huge sum of money.
But it's not a big problem. The money earned from shorting Baidu can just make up for it.
These projects are all money-consuming projects. Wang Yi has a big head, so he can only demolish the east wall and repair the west wall.
After explaining this, Wang Yi came to the payment system development department:
“How is the development of the payment system going?”
Project manager Chu Runshan replied: "Chairman, the basic framework is almost done. We just need the final test, which is estimated to take more than a month. If you work overtime, it will be about three weeks. Of course, you must have a license. If
Without a license, even though our system is ready, it’s meaningless.”
"About three weeks, the progress is good." Wang Yi nodded with satisfaction.
The license will be paid half a month later, which will be after the Spring Festival.
January 22, 2012 is New Year's Eve, which is earlier than previous years.
Coupled with debugging, it doesn’t matter that the payment will be launched after the year.
WeChat launched WeChat red envelopes during the Spring Festival of 2014, stealing the home of Alipay.
Wang Yida could have launched the Changchao red envelope during the Spring Festival of 2013, stealing Alipay’s hometown a year in advance.
As for the Spring Festival of 2012, forget about it. We can’t catch up in time, it’s too late, and the user base can’t support it.
It is better to launch an ordinary payment system first, so that it will not be targeted by Ali.
After all, a lot of payment licenses have been issued, and there are many payment companies, but they are all small in scale.
Xingyi Technology launches Changchao Payment. As long as there are no big moves, it doesn’t matter.
This year, we will keep a low profile and accumulate users.
When the number of chat users exceeds 100 million by the end of the year, chat red envelopes will be launched directly to defeat Alibaba!
No, it would be best if the number of users reaches 500 million or even 200 million.
If the number of people is small, there is no point in launching chatting red envelopes.
In this regard, Wang Yidao said: "After three weeks, the license plate is almost ready. Let's finish the test as soon as possible!"
"Okay, Chairman, we'll try to get it done within three weeks!"
"Yeah." Wang Yi looked at everyone's development results, pointed out some shortcomings and suggestions, and asked everyone to correct them before leaving.
Chu Runshan looked a little complicated: "The chairman understands technology, better than us!"
"Yes, the chairman pointed out the problem that I didn't even see."
"Other companies' senior directors don't understand technology and are easy to fool. Director Wang of Xingyi Technology has a technical background. If we can't do it well, we have to dismiss the get out of class collectively and work harder!"
"yes!"
In the evening, the ratings of "Cliff" were still a blockbuster, ranking first in the same period.
The number of views on Xingyi Video has exploded again.
In order to watch "Cliff", the number of new members exceeded 1.5 million!
There is no way, Xingyi Video is very good at anti-theft, it is the only one in the whole network, and there are no pirated resources, so I can only bite the bullet and sign up for membership!
In a tavern near the company, Ye Changpeng and Gu Qing were sitting opposite each other.
While eating the food, Ye Changpeng sighed: "Director Wang has a very high vision. "Cliff" was not expensive to buy. I didn't expect it to be so popular. The best spy drama of the year must be him!"
Gu Qing, who was on the opposite side, agreed very much: "Yes, the permanent online exclusive broadcast rights + the second, third and fourth round satellite TV rights are only 20 million in total. It's really not expensive and super cost-effective. I guess Xinli Media now
I have to cry."
"Yes, Wang Ziyi called me today and said he regretted it. A golden phoenix worth hundreds of millions was sold for 20 million! What a huge loss!"
Ye Changpeng said with a smile: "Yesterday, "Cliff" premiered. Not many companies on the Internet platform were willing to sponsor advertising, so we had no choice but to arrange it for Meiyou, Zhenyou and Xingyi xphone 1. Now it's better, the ratings exploded last night
Well, advertisers came to our door today, and four big brands came together!"
"Yes, on Guang Xingyi's video, the advertising fees and naming fees of these advertisers for "Cliff" can exceed 20 million! It has already paid back. "Cliff"'s new membership income currently exceeds 2,000
It’s all for nothing, it’s all for nothing!”
"Not only that, "Cliff" became a big hit, and satellite TV will inevitably buy it in the second, third, and fourth rounds. From now on, there will be tens of millions of satellite TV copyright income every year."
"It's really a huge profit, haha."
"Wang Ziyi probably fainted in the toilet from crying!"
"Director Wang also asked us to take the opportunity to launch a special espionage area to attract espionage fans and become loyal members of Xingyi Video. This is even more far-sighted!"
"Yes!" Gu Qing held up the wine glass: "Celebrating the popularity of "Cliff"."
"Cheers!" Ye Changpeng was in a good mood.
After drinking for three rounds, Gu Qing said quietly: "It's time to call Mr. Wang and drink together!"
"Don't disturb Mr. Wang's review, in case there is another exam tomorrow." Ye Changpeng shook his head.
"You should have finished the exam, right?" Gu Qing's expression became complicated: "Oh! Who would have thought that Director Wang, who built Xingyi Technology by himself, is actually a freshman."
"There's nothing I can do. Director Wang is too strong. Fortunately, I joined Xingyi Media, otherwise I would have regretted it to death!"
Ye Changpeng was filled with emotion, and then changed the subject: "By the way, how are the copyrights that Director Wang asked you to collect going?"
"The conversation was getting a little better. Originally, Shanda had a few copyrights that Shanda didn't want to sell, so I fooled him."
Gu Qing grinned: "Let me just say, don't you want to go public? You have to have enough performance to go public, and you have to prove that the novels on your website have enough IP value."
"You just package these and sell them to me, and I'll give you a terrifying price, a price of several hundred million."
"With this transaction, the value of your IP has been recognized by capital, and you can hype it up and go public strongly."
"Guess what happened?"
"What's wrong?" Ye Changpeng was full of curiosity.
"As soon as he heard that it was on the market, Director Chen was very excited. He changed his mind and considered some of the final masterpieces that he originally didn't want to sell."
"Hahaha, old brother, you are so witty!"
"There is no way, these entrepreneurs just want to go public to make money. Once they hear that it will help to go public, they are like a woman who can't hold back after seeing Helena!"
"Gao Ming, cheers!"
"Dry!"
"But the Three-Body Problem is not going well. It's troublesome. The professor and his wife have too big an appetite."
"Take your time, don't rush."
"Well, we can only take our time!"
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