From all-round academic master to chief scientist - Chapter 235 Major update and restart of the production line

“What is this Qizhi company, and where does it come from? A new polishing liquid, and a new silicon wafer purification process?”

As Qizhi Company officially had employees, the promotion of their patents began.

Ning Yue officially joined the company and found out what Lin Xiao’s two patents were used for. Although she didn’t know how powerful these two patents were, she knew one thing after Lin Xiao’s explanation. They were world-class and very powerful. That’s right.

So she used her own method to find the contact information of the bosses or managers of these domestic polishing fluid and silicon wafer production plants, and then promoted it to them.

So these people have the above problem.

What is the origin of this company?

This also includes Dingguang Technology Company.

Of course, Luo Ming had received notification from Lin Xiao before, and he also knew that he was the one who registered this Qizhi company for Lin Xiao.

“Professor Lin, is the technology mastered by Qizhi Company real?”

After getting the news, Luo Ming called Lin Xiao directly.

“It’s true. Those two technologies are my patents. Our company should try them first.”

Luo Ming couldn’t help but be surprised: “You actually came up with two more technologies?”

“Well, I have done some research during this period. The purification process is just a matter of physics and chemistry. There is nothing to say. I thought about it for a while and figured it out.”

“As for the polishing fluid, I went to our school’s chemistry laboratory to do some research during this period and then came up with it.”

Lin Xiao said.

It is precisely because the research methods of these two technologies are not difficult and can be explained as being developed by him personally, so he did not spend too much time studying these two technologies. He poured the silicon powder-sodium hydroxide colloidal polishing liquid. It was indeed prepared in a chemistry laboratory. This kind of thing still needs to be handled by one’s own hands.

Hearing what Lin Xiao said, Luo Ming was speechless.

What you said…isn’t it a bit too simple?

Not to mention the purification technology.

If you are a production process design expert, you are indeed capable of designing this technology by yourself.

But if this polishing fluid does not go through long-term experiments and proportions, and then prepares the finished product and then takes it to the assembly line for testing, how to determine whether it is useful?

If the other party was not Lin Xiao, he could have suspected that he was trying to steal their company’s money.

Fraudulent patent licensing fees.

Lin Xiao said: “We will know when we test it on the production line. Our new polishing disc can only make the surface accuracy of our silicon wafers reach about 4nm. After using this new polishing fluid, I have Let’s make sure to double this precision to 2nm.”

2nm silicon wafers are enough to make them one of the top wafer manufacturers.

To reach the level of 1nm, their polishing machine needs to be able to reach the top level. For now, their polishing machine is not top-notch, because the polishing machine controls the polishing intensity and polishing depth. The better the polishing. The better the machine can control these two aspects.

Luo Ming was surprised when he heard Lin Xiao’s definite answer.

Can the accuracy directly reach 2nm?

How is this polish so good?

“Professor Lin, is this true?”

Lin Xiao smiled and said, “Don’t worry, I’m sure.”

“Okay, I’ll let our production line give it a try first when I get back.”

“good.”

After hanging up the phone, Luo Ming called again.

First, I called the director of the production line and asked him to replace the refining equipment and make detailed changes to various steps.

The silicon wafer purification step is to remove various impurities in the sand, and finally condense it into a crystal block that can be called a pure substance, with a purity of 11 nines. Every step in the process is very particular.

These include filtration steps, as well as chemical reaction steps. If it is allowed to react more fully, and the most critical purification efficiency and speed, all need to be carefully studied.

As for the effectiveness of Lin Xiao’s method, we need to wait and see before we can know. The development of the production process is actually the same as the research on polishing fluid. After the plan is developed, various adjustments to the production line need to be made, and finally one of them is selected. The best thing is, although there are professional software to simulate it, after all, it is not as good as actually walking it through.

So Luo Ming can only look forward to it.

Secondly, he also made a phone call, that is, contacting a domestic manufacturer that can customize chemical production, and asked this manufacturer to specialize in producing this new polishing liquid that is enough for them to test for ten days. Since Qizhi Company has permission, he is not worried. This would infringe the patent.

Now that there are new polishing discs and new polishing fluids, and even the purification process has been upgraded, he plans to go straight to a big one and use these three new technologies together to see what the combined effect is. , how much help it can bring to their production.

At the same time, although other domestic manufacturers also received the news, they did not plan to make the first attempt, but planned to wait and see.

Anji Technology is the leading company in the production of CMP polishing fluids in China. However, in terms of polishing fluid production, it is still far behind foreign countries, accounting for only more than ten percent of the domestic market.

Therefore, they are also the first companies to get the news.

At this time, in the headquarters office of Anji Technology.

“Old Feng, do we really not want to give it a try? Behind this Qizhi company is Lin Xiao, a very powerful scientist.”

“I know, but no matter how powerful a scientist he is, we can’t just believe him, right? How do you know what the other person is good at?”

Feng Jibei, chairman of Anji Technology, said to his general manager.

General Manager Shen Nan insisted: “We have to give it a try, right? I think the other party’s technology is really good, and I asked before. They only do patents, not production. They are the perfect partner for us.”

Feng Jibei stood up, walked forward and patted Shen Nan on the shoulder, saying, “Old Shen, I know your good intentions, and I also know that the material may be really good, but let’s take a look at everything first. And you also know that we are short of money recently, and the shareholders in the United States are planning to reduce their holdings recently, so let’s wait for a while, okay?”

Feng Jibei shook his head and said very seriously: “Old Feng… Director Feng, please trust me this time, okay?”

Feng Jibei smiled, took Shen Nan in his arms, and said, “Okay, okay, you’ve said so. I’ll think about it later. Let’s not talk about this for now. We’ll talk about it later, okay?”

Seeing that Feng Jibei still resisted, Shen Nan’s eyes showed disappointment.

Feng Jibei recently studied how to make money from the stock market, so he transferred all the money from the company’s accounts to the stock market account.

But now they can transfer the money out, and even if they buy a patent license, it probably won’t cost much.

Shen Nan is very optimistic about the new polishing fluid material because he has a PhD in materials from Xi’an Polytechnic University. In addition, he also has an MBA from Xi’an Jiaotong University, which is why he can serve as the general manager of this company.

But now it seems that Feng Jibei is no longer his ideal boss. This boss who once pursued wealth through technology has begun to pursue wealth through finance.

Sighing, he said no more.

Leading domestic polishing fluid companies like this have chosen to wait and see, not to mention other companies.

At the same time, in the headquarters of Japan’s Mitsubishi Group.

“President, this is an important thing that has happened in China’s semiconductor industry recently.”

In an unpretentious office, a man in a suit handed a report to an old man sitting next to a tea tray.

This old Japanese man is none other than Taro Iwasaki, the current head of the Mitsubishi Group.

Iwasaki Taro did not take it, but just said: “Just tell me directly if there is anything worthy of attention.”

“Okay president.” His secretary bowed respectfully, and then said: “The first thing worthy of attention is that China’s CMP polishing disc material has made a breakthrough. According to what we know now, their The comprehensive performance of this new material has reached the world’s top standards.”

“Well, is there anything else?” Iwasaki Taro continued to ask without any emotion.

“In addition, there is a newly established company in China called Qizhi Technology Company. This company is recommending two patents they have to China’s CMP polishing slurry production company and silicon wafer production company, one of which is a A new type of polishing fluid, and the other is a new type of silicon wafer purification process technology. The specifics of these two technologies are not yet known.”

“However, these three technologies could have a huge impact on our silicon wafer share.”

“First of all, we found that these three technologies are related to one person, that is the famous scientist, Lin Xiao. All three technologies were created by him, including the new structure of the previous encoder. This matter is Mitsubishi Electric The company has made a report.”

“In addition, after the Mitsubishi Electric people failed in cooperation negotiations with them, they tried to anger Lin Xiao. Based on Lin Xiao’s reaction and his past behavior, we conducted a personality analysis on him.”

“First of all, he is an idealist and a national idealist. Many of his recent actions have shown this. In addition, he is also a bit individualistic. There is a certain probability that he believes that he can promote the development of China. , especially the semiconductor industry.”

“In view of this situation, we judge that he will be committed to promoting the development of China’s semiconductors. At present, as long as his three technologies can reach world-class levels, he will basically use these three technologies at a lower level. The cost is provided to Chinese manufacturers, and considering that China has sufficient labor force, raw material production costs, electricity costs, and transportation costs are cheaper than here. Once they form an industrial closed loop, we will lose our supply of silicon wafers to the world. control ability.”

Hearing this, Iwasaki Taro finally frowned.

Silicon wafers account for as much as 40% of the market in the semiconductor material industry chain, with a total market size of more than 10 billion US dollars. It can be said that silicon wafers can be at the core of the entire semiconductor upstream market.

Their market share in silicon wafers in Japan is as high as 70%, which means that 70% of the silicon wafers in the market are exported from them.

As one of Japan’s largest chaebols, Mitsubishi directly or indirectly controls many interests in this regard.

Therefore, Taro Iwasaki had to pay attention to this matter.

He picked up the teacup next to him and drank all the tea in it. The secretary next to him quickly refilled his teacup with tea.

However, Taro Iwasaki didn’t look much. He just stood up and after thinking for a moment, he said: “Continue to keep exploring. We must be vigilant about this kind of thing. Even if we grant them a patent or start a price war with them, we must dissuade them.” momentum.”

They are not afraid that their neighbors across the sea will borrow theirs or even steal theirs, but they are afraid that their neighbors will make their own.

Technological breakthroughs are the most unstoppable, and once this neighbor can continue to make breakthroughs in these technologies, they will all be afraid.

And not only are they afraid, the whole world is also afraid.

“yes.”

The secretary nodded and understood what the president meant.

…

Time passed quickly. After nearly a month of replacement and debugging, the silicon wafer production line under the name of Dingguang Technology Company was finally operational again.

They have improved the two most critical parts of the silicon wafer production process with a new purification process and new polishing materials.

Of course, the actual effect will still have to wait for the next ten days of experiments.

Many people have already come to the factory for this production line.

Lin Xiao came, of course Luo Ming came, and Ning Yue also came.

Some people from the silicon industry, the original owner of this production line, also came.

They all wanted to witness how efficient this brand-new production line could be.

“Mr. Lin, everything is ready.”

The director of the production line workshop shouted to Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao nodded and said: “Start!”

The power switch was pulled down, and the production line that had been idle for a month was powered on again. Workers in various departments began their work again.

With their labor, this production line will witness its final results.

I took my graduation photos today, and suddenly I remembered a song, “Old Boy”. I recommend everyone to listen to it. You can listen to it again after you have heard it.