Chapter 1590 Summit

When conducting analytical derivation of SS1MB radiation theory and cooperating with engineers from the semiconductor department to develop relevant numerical programs, Gu Qing also asked Li You to urge relevant departments to build the largest optical research platform in Daxia, not for anything else, but to cultivate optical talents.

In the view of practitioners in other semiconductor-related industries, lithography is the most complex and critical process step in integrated circuit chip manufacturing. After all, lithography machines require light source equipment, lighting equipment, projection lenses, machinery and control systems. Each generation of technology changes requires reducing the wavelength of the light source, reducing the process factor, and increasing the numerical aperture of the lens.

For more than half a century, the wavelength of the lithography machine light source has gradually evolved from the initial visible light to 13.5 nm extreme ultraviolet lithography and the even smaller SS1MB light source.

At present, the world's only EUV lithography machine supplier is still ASML in the Netherlands, but this company is no longer the world's most powerful lithography machine supplier.

Pudong Microelectronics' lithography machine is equipped with Jiuzhou Technology's SS1MB light source and Jiuzhou Technology's specially developed photoresist and polishing process. Now Pudong Microelectronics is the world's top lithography machine supplier.

Therefore, when Pudong Microelectronics knew that Jiuzhou Technology wanted to upgrade its light source and needed money and resources, it immediately mobilized its capital backers.

As one of the core cities of global finance, Pudong City's urban investment capital has always been very rich.

Originally, watching Jiuzhou Technology's venture into the aerospace field, Pudong City Investment Capital was very envious, but it did not dare to really take out a large amount of funds to follow up, and Jiuzhou Technology has not opened up investment channels for external capital, so it has not taken the initiative to give money.

But this time there was an opportunity, Pudong City Investment Capital immediately "generously donated" and took out 20 billion semiconductor development funds for Jiuzhou Technology.

The requirements were not many, just simply wanted Jiuzhou Technology to land more engineering and projects in Pudong.

Originally, they were planning to support the Bluestar Second Center of Jiuzhou Technology in the Qingpu Office R&D Center. With the help of Pudong City Investment Capital, Gu Qing also cooperated very well and returned the favor by placing part of the project in Qingpu.

"The research project of SS1MB light source with high average power, narrow bandwidth and high collimation, high stability continuous wave output, clean radiation and strong scalability settled in Qingpu, which will bring new development vitality to the entire Pudong City."

On December 1, 1025 of the Yin calendar, at the 1025 Daxia Integrated Circuit Summit, Li You, the head of the semiconductor department of Jiuzhou Technology, and the guests of the summit said that they would start to implement the Jiuzhou Semiconductor 2.0 plan in the new year.

"The 8-inch line capacity of the semiconductor factory we cooperated with Chengdu Urban Investment Company reached 120,000 pieces, the 12-inch line capacity reached 30,000 pieces, and the 18-inch line capacity has exceeded 20,000 pieces.

In 2026, the capacity of the 12-inch line will reach 50,000 pieces, and the capacity of the 18-inch line will exceed 40,000 pieces.

Chengdu Semiconductor is our Daxia semiconductor and integrated circuit industry, accounting for three-fifths of the world's high-end capacity share.

As the global information technology industry and semiconductor industry enter a period of adjustment and transition, our Jiuzhou Technology Semiconductor will also closely follow the overall strategic deployment of Daxia officials, accelerate the upgrading of outstanding shortcomings in the design, manufacturing and other chains, rely on market advantages, and enhance industrial security.

Therefore, Jiuzhou Technology will focus on the development of semiconductor industries in Dongguang Pengcheng and Pudong Qingpu, and strive to make silicon-based chips, carbon-based chips, and quantum chips the world's first share!"

This is the first time that the senior management of Jiuzhou Technology has spoken out its development plans and technological ambitions in public.

Some media reporters even said jokingly: "This is the death knell for technology companies such as Intel and IBM that have been working on quantum chips."

Ten years ago, European semiconductors developed rapidly in EDA, automotive-grade chips, industrial-grade chips and other fields, but ten years later, these fields were beaten to a pulp by semiconductor companies in Daxia.

Texas Instruments, General Motors, and American Semiconductor were once the strongest semiconductor companies in the United States, and they were unrivaled in EDA, high-end chip design, manufacturing processes and equipment.

And now, they can only rank below Daxia Semiconductor and Goryeo Hanxing Semiconductor as the third batch of players.

It was at this summit that people were surprised to find that the once famous semiconductor companies in Neon Island seemed to have disappeared. In many project discussion meetings, not even a word of Neon could be heard.

Gu Qing was watching Li You's speech in the office, but the screen in front of him was filled with dense "transcripts".

Since he went to the semiconductor department, Jiuzhou Semiconductor has started a new round of rapid development, and this time the cooperation model is very different from the previous one.

Jiuzhou Technology used to provide technology and then cooperate with semiconductor companies with Xia capital background. Both parties held shares, but Jiuzhou Technology must take the lead in technical solutions.

Now Jiuzhou Semiconductor 2.0 industrial upgrade, those semiconductor companies that once cooperated have not had time to increase capital, and the municipal investment companies in various regions of Daxia have already rushed into the market waving money.

For a time, the figures of 100 million and 200 million seemed like "shame" and could not be spoken out. Only when they reached 1 billion could they be considered to be able to speak normally.

The content on the screen in front of Gu Qing is the list of money waved by the urban investment companies with Xia capital background during this period.

"In 2021, the total revenue of the integrated circuit industry in the three cities represented by Pengcheng City in Dongguan Province was only 197.2 billion yuan. Last year, their revenue rose to 300 billion yuan. No wonder they dared to invest 25 billion yuan directly."

Faced with Gu Qing's sigh, Xuanwu was very sensible and listed a group of cooperation companies in Dongguan.

Among them, there are 200 chip design companies, and only 10 semiconductor material manufacturing companies, which account for a pitiful small proportion.

Seeing this list, Gu Qing's sigh became more melancholy. "They are still doing subtraction in this way. The most troublesome things are all handed over to us for cooperation and self-production. Design is of course simple, but it is difficult for a good cook to cook without rice. It seems that they still trust us too much."

In the many years of cooperation with the Daxia official, Gu Qing has now become a "veteran", maintaining a pessimistic attitude, but actively doing things.

That's why Li You went to the summit for this kind of business trip, just to "make money" and "make friends".

Now, Jiuzhou Technology has obtained a small amount of funds by making friends through this trip.

In the eyes of other companies, this is simply a fantasy, and they dare not even think about it.