February 18, 2015, New Year’s Eve, 8:00 pm

The much-anticipated 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Gala will be broadcast live globally on CCTV Comprehensive Channel, Variety Channel, Chinese International Channel, multiple foreign language channels, and upgraded satellite TVs. It will be broadcast live online exclusively on iQiyi globally.

Throughout China, thousands of households are in front of the TV at this time, having a happy reunion dinner and watching the Spring Festival Gala.

Although with the development of the times, people have more and more entertainment methods and choices, and local satellite TVs such as Mango Channel are also diverting Spring Festival Gala programs to CCTV Spring Festival Gala, causing the Spring Festival Gala’s ratings to gradually decline every year. People

There are also many criticisms about the content of CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

But it is undeniable that CCTV Spring Festival Gala is still people’s first choice and the most influential.

This can be seen from the fact that celebrity artists are struggling to appear in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and CCTV only gives a pitiful subsidy of a few hundred yuan to those who participate in the performance.

In fact, many celebrities have to spend a lot of money in order to attend the Spring Festival Gala.

Eight hosts took the lead in appearing in the Spring Festival Gala, kicking off the Spring Festival Gala.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival Gala has reached its prime time, which is 10:00 pm.

The viewers in front of the TV are all curious about who will appear in this prime time of this year's Spring Festival Gala. After all, this can be said to be the c-position of the entire Spring Festival Gala.

"The next program is a special program. It is not a song and dance program or a sketch program, but a gift from the technology industry." The host of the Spring Festival Gala, Sa Beining, did not have the humor and smiles that usually host programs, but was full of solemnity.

Introducing the next program: "I would like to invite you to the next special program - the important weapon of the great power: the lithography machine!"

Suddenly, a video appeared on the big screen, which introduced the development history of Huaxia lithography machines and the current difficulties they face - high-end lithography machines!

Then the screen changed, and a video connection appeared. In the video was a laboratory, and a beautiful and tall photolithography machine appeared in the laboratory.

Then a CCTV reporter interviewed a middle-aged scientist with a microphone with the CCTV logo: "Director Huang, can you introduce the lithography machine in front of you!?"

"This is the high-end lithography machine 'Hanxing' developed by our laboratory at Kowloon University. It has completely independent property rights. Its birth means that our country has fully mastered the development technology of high-end lithography machines, and it also represents our country's chip manufacturing

The process has leapt from the 90nm process to the 7nm chip process, and our production of high-end chips has been started from scratch and is no longer controlled by others!"

A brief interview, but it reached thousands of households.

In this way, it is announced that China has mastered the development technology of high-end lithography machines, and it has complete independent property rights and is not restricted by others.

Although the Spring Festival Gala has already started other programs, it has caused a sensation throughout China and countless people have become excited.

In recent years, as China has developed, its requirements for chips have increased. The number of imported chips has increased sharply every year. Now, the total value of imported chips has exceeded imported oil. However, the development of China's chip manufacturing industry has not

Very slowly, 'Hanxin', which once had high hopes, turned out to be a complete scam.

Even though chip manufacturing has developed now, most of them are producing low-end chips, and mid- to high-end chips have to rely on imports.

As for mid-to-high-end chips, they are always used to make a fuss, wielding the "chip" stick, threatening to cut off the supply of chips at every turn, and threatening to choke the market.

Although China ranks first in the world in terms of the number of smartphones every year, it has very few core technologies. Communication chips and other mid-to-high-end chips must rely on imports. Once the chips are cut off, OEMs, mobile phone manufacturers, and computer and notebook manufacturers will all

Had to suffer a major blow.

For this reason, calls for increasing chip research strength are increasing year by year. It is hoped that China will realize its dream of domestically produced mid-to-high-end chips and get rid of the dilemma of being stuck.

Unfortunately, mid-to-high-end chips rely on advanced lithography machines, which China has not yet mastered. If you want to buy them, you not only have to pay a higher price than others, but delivery is often delayed.

Now, high-end lithography machines have finally been mastered by China, and they have independent property rights. This means that China has opened up the road to mid-to-high-end chip production.

Once upon a time, ASML once openly mocked us, saying that even if we gave the drawings of the lithography machine to China, they could not build the lithography machine.

This sentence made the entire Chinese people feel angry and aggrieved.

It's a pity that such irony is actually very flattering, because it does not tear off our last fig leaf.

This fig leaf is that among the top 100 chip experts in the world, the top 6 are all Chinese, and 5 of them graduated from Huaxia University of Science and Technology, but unfortunately they all stayed in Europe and the United States.

And now, all the grievances and anger have been resolved at this moment with this Spring Festival Gala special program.

"Holy shit~~~ I'm so confused. The 7-minute program made me confused. We just conquered the high-end lithography machine!? (Doubtful)"

"I'm also confused. Isn't it said that there is a 50-year gap between us and Europe and the United States in lithography machines? Even if we give us the drawings, we can't make them? How come we have mastered the development technology of high-end lithography machines all of a sudden?

(Doubt life)"

"Completely independent property rights, focus on key points! Must be tested in the exam! (Funny)"

"Woooooooo~~~Why am I bursting with tears? It's just that I love too deeply! (Excited)"

"A high-end lithography machine. This is a high-end lithography machine. It was actually mastered by the laboratory of Kowloon University. They developed a high-end lithography machine!? (Unbelievable)"

"Nima~~~ I was scared to death! What's going on, are you cheating!?"

"The important weapon of a great power: the photolithography machine! We have mastered it. Can we still be far behind in mid-to-high-end chip manufacturing? (Leisurely)"

"My heart is so excited and I feel so proud!"

"It won't be another 'Hanxin', right?"

"...."

In modern society, the Internet is so developed that it is accessible to almost every household. The news spread instantly throughout the Internet. Some people even jumped over the wall and posted the video on overseas forums. It can be seen everywhere on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

This is a way to retaliate against the guys who used to show off their power, and let out a good sigh of relief.

The more restrictive you are, the more you want to choke me, the less I will let you succeed, and we will never give in!

In front of the TV, Liu Yichen did not expect that the interview in the laboratory would appear directly on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. He thought the news would appear on the 7 o'clock news or the science and technology channel tomorrow.

The specifications given here are too high!?

"It's so refreshing. I didn't expect that the laboratory has quietly developed a high-end lithography machine. I heard that one of these high-end lithography machines is more expensive than a Boeing airplane!" Feng Lin, who was watching the Spring Festival Gala, also said

I was so shocked that I couldn't even speak.

As a scholar who studies international political economy, Feng Linke understands the significance of high-end lithography machines better than ordinary people. They are truly important tools of a big country and are related to the chip industry.

Its impact is not just on the photolithography industry, nor is it just on the chip industry. It affects the world economy and world politics.

Because mastering high-end lithography machines means that you have opened the way to produce mid-to-high-end chips!

Although the lithography machine is only one step in the chip process, mastering the high-end lithography machine and achieving mid-to-high-end chip production are two different things.

However, there is a connection between them. It is the photolithography machine that determines the chip process.

After solving the problem of high-end lithography machines, it is only a matter of time before we can solve the design and manufacturing of mid-to-high-end chips.

And China's mastery of high-end lithography machines means that the few guys who once showed off their power will inevitably decline. Bankruptcy is their only option.

The completion of design and production of mid-to-high-end chips in China means that those mid-to-high-end chip design and manufacturing factories can only stay in China and obey the rules.

It can be said that China's mastery of high-end lithography machines will not increase the number of hundreds of thousands of R&D personnel and manufacturing personnel in the field of lithography machines, but will increase the number of millions of chip manufacturing jobs. Moreover, they are of high value and can provide

Employees are offered relatively high wages.

Why can Europe and the United States have such high GDP per capita and income so many times higher than that of China without having to work so hard? The reason is that ASML can sell 60 lithography machines in a quarter, with a net profit of 8.7 billion yuan in a quarter and a net profit of one year.

Up to 35 billion yuan. ASML company has 16,000 employees, including more than 6,000 R&D personnel. It relies on the establishment of smart phones

Imperial Apple has a cash flow of US$200 billion, annual revenue of US$220 billion, and net profit of US$39.5 billion! At Apple, the average annual salary of industrial designers reaches US$170,000, and the average annual salary of senior hardware engineers reaches US$14.

Absolutely no, the average salary of other product design engineers, mechanical engineers, and hardware engineers is more than $100,000.

Only mid- to high-end manufacturing industries are able to provide high wages to employees. As for low-end manufacturing industries, the profits themselves are very thin and they are simply unable to provide good wages to employees.

And this kind of breakthrough in a certain field does not mean that it is just that, the market is just that big, the market is there, there is one more player, you have more, others have less, it is a situation of waxing and waning!

"Look, within a few years, ASML, Nikon, and Canon will all go bankrupt and close down!" Liu Yichen said with a faint smile.

The indifference in those words made Feng Lin shudder. She could only mourn for a second of silence for ASML, Nikon and Canon.

For some things, if you sacrifice short-term profits appropriately, you can occupy the market and have the right to speak in the market. How much you will price at that time is just a matter of words.
Chapter completed!