Chapter 253 New Technology Center!

Even if Warwick declares in a big way that they want to study the chip manufacturing process, Warwick's situation will not get worse.

But at this time, if the contributions of Xingchen Technology and Shengzhou University are mentioned, they will undoubtedly become targets of attack.

It is better to let Warwick Company bear all this on its own, and wait until they successfully overcome these difficulties before announcing the contributions of others.

Ning Chen is not worried about the situation of Xingchen Technology, because Xingchen OS system is the real target of public criticism. The core of the joint statement of these companies is to prevent Xingchen OS system from directly cooperating with other mobile phone manufacturers.

But Ning Chen still hopes that Shengzhou University will keep a low profile among them. Once Shengzhou University's participation in the research of photolithography factories is known to the outside world, the school will still be affected.

While finishing the experiment, Xu Zhou found Ning Chen and chatted about some recent events.

"Ning Chen, I can't believe that the new mobile phone system you are researching can arouse such a strong reaction from them. I wonder if Warwick is willing to continue to carry the Star OS system. This is also a difficult choice for them."

As a colleague and friend of Ning Chen, Xu Zhou was very concerned about Xingchen Technology and did not want such an outstanding company to die because of these things so quickly.

But even so, Xu Zhou could not help Ning Chen. After all, these opponents were too powerful, and Xu Zhou could only feel that he was unable to do anything.

"Other mobile phone manufacturers will definitely not launch the Star OS system for the time being. But Warwick will not waver in any way because of this and can only continue to move forward on this road."

"That's true, otherwise there would be no need for Warwick to develop its own mobile phone chips from the beginning. To a certain extent, Warwick and Star Technology are companies in the same category."

Ning Chen understood what Xu Zhou wanted to express. Although the current Xingchen Technology could not be compared with Warwick Company in terms of size, it did have similar goals to Warwick Company.

A few days later, Warwick Company released news about the lithography factory as scheduled.

Warwick Company announced on its official website and on many other social platforms that they are already building a photolithography factory, and expressed its determination to resolutely research chip manufacturing processes.

Now that Warwick has lost the supply chains of many companies, there is nothing to worry about at this time. They can only bravely launch their resistance.

In addition, Warwick also announced their remaining chip storage quantity, indicating that they will not be short of chip supply in the short term, so that friends who support Warwick need not worry too much.

Before this, Warwick Company deliberately reserved enough chips and other mobile phone accessories. This was also one of the suggestions Ning Chen provided to Warwick Company.

After all, the completion time of the lithography factory project cannot be determined. In order to ensure that Warwick Mobile Phone has sufficient chip supply, it should still store more chips in advance.

After the news was announced in Warwick, it quickly aroused heated discussion.

None of them expected that Warwick would give such a strong response so quickly, which would suddenly give China's chip industry hope.

"It seems that Warwick has come prepared. It has already prepared to complete the entire chip manufacturing process by itself. This makes the joint statement of those companies meaningless and will only speed up Warwick's chip development process."

"Although I don't understand the principle of this photolithography factory project, it looks very powerful. According to the introduction of this project, we are fully capable of independently manufacturing high-precision chips. There is no need to rely on foreign suppliers. Chips are supplied.”

"Now we already have a domestic mobile phone operating system, and we will soon have domestic chips. If this continues, we may become the world's new technology center!"

"It's too early for a new technology center, but this kind of progress is already a huge breakthrough. Compared with chips, we still have many areas of technology that need to make breakthroughs."

Soon after, the news quickly spread abroad, attracting widespread attention around the world.

The process idea of ​​this kind of photolithography factory is completely different from the idea of ​​​​producing chips by previous chip manufacturers. It is a brand new idea.

In order to verify the feasibility of this idea, many foreign scientific researchers immediately conducted an in-depth analysis of this plan together.

After their careful analysis, they finally concluded that this solution can indeed produce high-precision chips in theory.

However, the disadvantage of this solution is that building a photolithography factory requires a very large area, and it is impossible to independently produce a light source with a specific precision. The efficiency of photolithography is relatively low.

But for the current situation of China's chip industry, these problems are not problems. On the contrary, it is very conducive to obtain light sources of various precisions at the same time to complete the processing of chips with different processes.

After all, not all chips in all fields require very high process precision. In many fields, a process technology of tens of nanometers is enough.

These beams are not only used to process mobile phone chips, but can also be used to process chips in other fields.

After drawing such a conclusion, many companies undoubtedly felt a little panicked.

Originally, they were pulled together by Google to issue a joint statement just to prevent other companies from trying to develop their own technology and get rid of their dependence on their industry like Warwick and Star Technology.

But if this continues, not only will they be replaced by Chinese technology in the field of mobile phone systems, but other fields may also suffer from the same situation.

This caused these companies that originally maintained the same goals to begin to fall apart.

Qualcomm was the first to stand up and issued a brand new statement.

In a statement, Qualcomm said it would not stop selling its chips to any company, including Warwick.

Although Warwick has developed its own chips, and most of the company's models use self-developed chips, Warwick has not completely given up on chips from other manufacturers.

Because for some models, due to configuration reasons, using self-developed chips will actually cost more. For these models, using chips from other manufacturers is a more cost-effective option.

As long as it has its own core technology, Warwick does not have to completely use its own chips. After all, the company also needs profits, and there is no need to keep losing money in a loss-making business.

Soon, ASML also stood up and stated that it would open the sale of lithography machines and welcomed major companies to order lithography machines produced by ASML.

Once the lithography factory project is proven to be feasible, more companies will surely follow the example of Warwick to build lithography factories and get rid of their dependence on traditional lithography machines.

Although it is difficult for photolithography factories to completely replace photolithography machines, if such a thing really happens, it will undoubtedly have a huge blow to ASML's orders.

Originally, the crisis that Google encountered was not directly related to ASML. There was no need for ASML to make any joint statement with Google. It would be better to hurry up and make a joint statement when lithography machines are still the mainstream in the industry. Earn the money you can, lest it's too late to make money later.

With the announcements from Qualcomm and ASML, more and more companies have indicated that they will cancel their previous joint statements with Google and are willing to liberalize their product supply.

As the saying goes, "Everyone flies away when disaster strikes." When it comes to his own interests, no one wants to become a victim with others.

In the end, there were only a few companies with particularly close business ties with Google. Due to their relationship with Google, they had to continue to maintain the previous joint statement and did not issue a new statement.

This makes Huawei and other Chinese mobile phone manufacturers feel a lot less pressure.

However, Warwick Company did not take it lightly and continued to speed up the construction and research progress of the lithography plant. It would not really place its hopes on those foreign companies.

Because of the first "joint statement", they can completely replicate this behavior again. Once there is any problem with the photolithography factory project, there is no guarantee that they will not go back on their words again.

Although other Chinese mobile phone manufacturers continue to carry out in-depth customization work on the Star OS system, they have not put the launch of the Star OS system on the agenda, but continue to wait and see the situation of the lithography factories.

If Warwick can really manufacture chips independently, they will naturally be willing to use China's own mobile phone systems and chip technology.

But before the latest progress of the photolithography factory project, they did not dare to take too many risks and did not take the next step easily.

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These days, Ning Chen has not been affected by various external information, but continues to carry out his work as usual.

Ning Chen didn't avoid this information completely, but he learned all kinds of information immediately.

With the help of Xiaozhi, Ningchen can get all kinds of information related to herself at the first time. And because of Xiaozhi's intelligent information filtering function, it can automatically help Ningchen filter out all kinds of meaningless information, and only get those information that is important to Ningchen. More important information.

In fact, the reactions of these companies were completely within Ning Chen's expectations, and no matter how they reacted, they would not have much impact on Ning Chen's work.

Now, Ning Chen's main work every day is still on scientific research and paper review. He doesn't even interfere too much with the company's affairs, and he only makes decisions on some major matters.

On this day, when Ning Chen was reviewing the manuscript, he saw a very good paper.

This is a mathematical paper, and the specific research direction is the Navier-Stokes equation that Ning Chen has studied before.