"Hello Dr. Chen, you have established a company by yourself. How about it? Our Fanhan Group is still keeping your promise? You have been focusing on the research and development of CVD devices in recent years. I wonder if the next generation of CVD devices have been finalized?"

Zhou Shuo held a meeting in the conference room and sent Tu Anbei and a group of scientists away. Shan Nuo also took his leave with knowledge and tactfully. However, he was not very idle. If he wanted to cause some trouble for Americans in the domestic market, he would still have to be busy. This is not the case. Dr. Chen Aihua was summoned by him soon.

Chen Aihua is not very famous in China, and the research direction he is engaged in is not so popular. Compared with Ma Yougong of Fanhan Optics, it is also the core equipment of wafer factories, and the importance of vapor deposition equipment is actually not much different.

However, lithography machine technology is closely related to chip manufacturing process, and chip manufacturing directly determines the performance of the chip, which makes people think that only lithography machines are the most important in wafer factories.

But if there is no CVD, that is, a vapor deposition device, there will never be a circuit in the chip, and there is no way to start with the diode forming an integrated circuit.

At least three companies are fighting in the world's lithography machine market. Nikon, Canon and Asmay have their own markets. Although Fanhan Optoelectronics emerged in this world, it has not been able to unify its power.

However, in other core equipment of wafer fabs, American Applied Materials Corporation is the leader in semiconductor production equipment.

However, after entering the new century, the emergence of a Chinese company has challenged this situation.

This is the Zhongcheng Optoelectronics Equipment Company established by Dr. Chen Aihua after the independence of Fanhan Group.

After completing the CVD equipment used in the 0.25 micron chip production line at the Panhan Research Institute, Dr. Chen Aihua received a "sized" investment from Liuer Investment Fund. He used this investment to establish Zhongcheng Optoelectronics Equipment Company and continued to develop the next generation of CVD equipment.

Nowadays, the industry generally predicts that in 2001, the chip process technology will develop to the 0.13 micron level. In fact, Fanhan Optics has indeed entered the countdown to update process technology.

An advanced wafer factory with a direct investment of RMB 30 billion has completed infrastructure projects in Fengtian, the capital of Bohai Province. It will be able to produce immediately after the new generation of production line systems are integrated. Advanced chip production technology will be the most powerful tool for Fanhan Group to promote its mobile phone industry.

Most of the mobile phones on the market are made of thick and stupid. The LCD panels are often only one or two inches long. Ringtones are generally used by the spiral technology. This is not because mobile phone manufacturers do not know how to use mp3 decoding technology. In fact, there is no technical problem with mp3 decoding, whether it is soft or hard.

However, soft solutions must occupy the computing resources of the mobile phone processor. Hard solutions must also add corresponding chipsets to the motherboard. What should I do?

Only after the mobile phone has sufficient computing power will mp3 ringtones gradually become popular.

With chip manufacturing processes that exceed other mobile phone manufacturers, Fanhan Group can naturally add more functional modules as they like.

Photography, video camera functions, mini-game functions, all of these contents require a strong heart for the mobile phone. The more modules you need to match, the more chipsets you need to configure on the motherboard, and the more unstable the entire system will be.

Therefore, using the base frequency chip to the processor can greatly reduce the complexity of the mobile phone motherboard.

The core of all this plan is the next generation of 0.13 micron chip production process. In terms of lithography machines, Fanhan Optics can be said to have completely inherited Nikon's legacy in recent years. After digestion and absorption, coupled with huge capital investment, it can ensure that the new generation of lithography machines will go down the production line on time.

The only possible shortcoming of the entire production line now is the CVD equipment that Dr. Chen Aihua is responsible for.

Chen Aihua is a technical expert who both returned from the United States and was involved in the arms of Panhan Group. However, unlike Deng Zhonghan's youth, Chen Aihua worked for the American Applied Materials Company for a long time, and his position at Applied Materials Company before leaving the company was also very important.

This caused quite a lot of trouble for him to engage in related industries after returning to China. In the past few years, although Chen Aihua established Zhongcheng Optoelectronics Company, there were few opportunities to appear in society. The company mainly engaged in research work, and its business was almost exclusively carried out for Fanhan Group.

In this case, the American Applied Materials Company did not receive any news, and it has passed the test temporarily.

"Mr. Zhou is also an expert in integrated circuit technology. He should know that with the advancement of process technology, the originally only a few atomic layers of silicon dioxide insulating layers will become thinner and lead to more current leakage. This puts forward new requirements on the performance of CVD equipment, and our research and development has encountered great trouble..."

"Can Zhongcheng Optoelectronics not take out the next generation of CVD equipment on time?"

Zhou Shuo of course also knew that what Chen Aihua said was true. This problem had occurred in the development of CPUs in history. Later, Intel's method to solve this problem was to simply continue to upgrade the technology in 2005, directly using the 65nm process, and change the technical direction of the CVD to avoid the leakage current problem.

"This, I'm afraid I can only disappoint Mr. Zhou." Chen Aihua lowered his head with shame, and indeed felt a little sorry for Zhou Shuo's trust.

He knew that his CVD equipment could not be completed on time, and the deployment of the entire new production line would be affected. But this is the case with technological research and development and will not change due to human subjective will.

Chen Aihua could not lie, and used the unfinished products for Fanhan Group. If someone found out, this would be a more serious incident than the inability to supply.

"This matter was a mistake, and I didn't remind Dr. Chen in time." Zhou Shuo also felt a little regretful. This was something that happened in history, so why did he ignore it?

"Where? I'm not working properly and I haven't estimated the difficulty of the technology in advance. How can I say it is Mr. Zhou's responsibility!"

Chen Aihua waved his hand quickly and sighed: "I am willing to compensate for the losses caused to Fanhan Group. My personal shares account for 51% of Zhongcheng Optoelectronics. I can take out 31% of the shares and transfer them to Fanhan Group for free. Mr. Zhou, what do you think?"

Zhou Shuo lowered his head and thought, what is the most valuable thing about Zhongcheng Optoelectronics? It is not the instruments and equipment worth tens of millions of dollars, the venue, the buildings and anything else, but Chen Aihua's brain.

To be honest, his brain can be worth 100 million US dollars. If you don’t believe it, you can go to the American Applied Materials Company to ask if you are willing to spend 100 million US dollars to buy Chen Aihua’s brain?

If Qian Xuesen could reach five divisions, then Chen Aihua could reach at least one tank regiment - it would have to be the kind used by Zhu Ri and D-li Chenyang Military Region.

Zhou Shuo waved his hand, looked at Chen Aihua deeply, and then said, "It's good if Dr. Chen has this intention, but after all, it has not yet reached the last date specified in the contract, so it may not be without variables."

"Haha, Mr. Zhou has confidence in me. Unfortunately, I am my family member and I may not be able to produce qualified CVD equipment before the contract is over."

"That may not be." Zhou Shuo smiled mysteriously and continued: "Have Dr. Chen heard of strain silicon?"

“Strained silicon?”

Chen Aihua frowned deeply. This is the speed of modern science and technology progress. Even if he is a genius in one field, it is impossible to know all the research directions. He can only choose a path that seems possible in countless directions, and the one who succeeds in the end is the big guy in this field.

In terms of semiconductor materials, although Chen Aihua is already considered a big shot, he should also think about this term for strained silicon.

"I remembered it, I'm talking about a technology that lengthens silicon atoms? After the silicon atom is lengthened, the number of silicon atoms per unit length is reduced, thereby increasing the speed of electrons passing through."

"Yes, it's this strained silicon technology. I've calculated that if the transistor twist can be increased by 15%, the leakage problem can be improved by 25%, and the transistor's response speed can be increased by 30%!"

"But the current strained silicon technology can only increase the transistor twist by 5%..."

Zhou Shuo smiled confidently and said, "That's because the material you are using is in the wrong direction. If Dr. Chen believes in me, you can try the compressive strain method of silicon germanium material, which may have unexpected results?"

In later generations, strain silicon technology has long been the basic technology for chip manufacturing. Chips with a process of less than 65nm must be made with strain silicon, otherwise the heat dissipation and power consumption are simply unbearable. In order to improve the leakage problem, Intel later used strain silicon technology, in addition to using strain silicon technology, it even comprehensively innovated the materials of transistor gate dielectrics, which made a huge investment in this area.

Zhou Shuo believes that he has taken out mature strain silicon technology so early, and the chips he made can even be higher than Intel. If it is matched with copper interconnection technology, I am afraid that the chip technology of a mobile phone will be higher than Intel's computer CPU. In 2001, the Arm10-level processor was produced, with a main frequency of 300mhz. This is definitely the well-deserved King of Machines, right?

"Silicon germanium material?" Chen Aihua nodded subconsciously. Zhou Shuo's technical intuition had been confirmed countless times. Although he is not a professional R&D personnel, who dares to underestimate the direction he chose?

Anyway, it's just a research on strained silicon, and the technology of silicon germanium materials is not too difficult, so let's try it out for now.
Chapter completed!