In fact, it is not only Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai who are paying attention to the scientific research institute, but also all the senior officials above, as well as people who know some of Pangu Program, but Pangu Program has not been disclosed to other research institutes.
Everyone is currently waiting for this test. Although the entire scientific research institute is private, it is also part of the national strategic plan, just like Warwick's communication equipment technology.
Not all top technologies need to be mastered by state-owned enterprises. Even if private research institutes conduct research in these advanced aspects, they can receive special state funding support.
Therefore, for this production plan, the state directly allocated special funds and then delivered them to relevant production companies.
In addition, the 7-nanometer chip currently has independent design property rights in China, namely Warwick's Kirin series chips, so the chips produced for testing must also be authorized by Warwick.
In addition, several chip manufacturers have also received the news, but they are not nervous. There are actually quite a few lithography machine manufacturers in China that design 14 nanometers or even above 14 nanometers. However, these precision chips can only produce some industrial chips, and in fact they have no market competitiveness.
Most of them are used by some domestic enterprises, and their international competitiveness is not sufficient.
However, if there is really a domestic research institute capable of designing a 7-nanometer lithography machine, then this thing will be a lot of fun.
It is a fact known to the whole world that China can toss out any high-end and sophisticated things, and then make their prices cheap.
There is really only one top lithography machine company in the world, and it has a complete monopoly on production.
That is the ASML semiconductor manufacturer. The lithography machines produced by this company account for more than 75% of the world's share. The remaining 25% are chips with low requirements. There are other companies that do not need top lithography machines.
In fact, the truly high-precision photolithography machines are all produced by them.
But although ASML is a Dutch company, are their photolithography machines produced by them? No! Although their lithography machines have the highest precision, highest production efficiency, and most extensive applications in the world, in fact, the core components of their lithography machines come from different top powers in the world.
For example, Germany provides the world's top mechanical industry, the top Zeiss lens, the United States provides the top light source, etc. There are more than 8,000 parts in a top ASML lithography machine from different countries, and these parts are all top-notch.
Is there any domestic production capacity?
In fact, Jiang Yan Hai can answer now, yes!
This is really not a lie. With the continuous development of some of Daqin's material resources, domestic new materials are growing rapidly, and the technological production strength is also growing rapidly. As the only country in the world with a full industrial system, more than 8,000 parts can be produced domestically.
Of course, if you have to get all of these 8,000-plus parts at the top level in China, you don't have that capability yet.
However, not all of the more than 8,000 parts are important, and the most critical ones, such as light sources and lenses, have no problems in China.
The remaining parts can be imported, because these parts are used in many places, and other countries do not ban them. They only ban the most critical parts of the photolithography machine.
And now these things can be produced!
So when Warwick and other companies learned about this, while keeping it secret, they were also looking forward to it! Because like Warwick, they have been choked by the United States countless times! Why do they use their own chips? Isn't it because they are prohibited from selling them due to the embargo?
There is no other way. I can only develop my own chips.
However, chips are currently manufactured by OEMs because the top lithography machine ASML does not sell China.
If China can now solve the 7nm lithography machine, then this means that everything that limits Warwick will disappear! And when domestic production is possible, that means ASML is expected to sell the lithography machine to China immediately. By then, domestic chip production will obviously increase sharply.
So Qualcomm, Intel and other Chip Design manufacturers will not have an easy time.
At least Huawei has begun to use its own mobile phone sales to drive their chip market share. When other manufacturers start to use Huawei chips, then companies like Qualcomm will be waiting to be copied.
How many foreign companies have been bankrupted in this way.
To paraphrase the saying, if you ignore me today, I will make it impossible for you to reach tomorrow. This is what I mean.
Everything needs market support. Even some domestic state-owned enterprise systems allow us to develop and produce some products even without market support. But if there is market support, it is naturally better.
For example, Zhenhua, a heavy industry company, etc., isn't that the case?
Of course, the reason why several domestic lithography machine manufacturers are not nervous is because the scientific research institute itself does not have the strength to manufacture lithography machines. Even if they develop it, they will authorize patent production. By then, as domestic companies, it can be said that everyone will have a chance.
In fact, it is difficult to accommodate just a few of the top lithography machine companies in the world, or even two or three. If it rises in China, ASML will probably die.
Of course, perhaps in order not to be subject to China, European and American companies may spend huge sums of money to keep ASML. This is what the West calls democracy and the West calls market economy.
To put it bluntly, the market economy they talk about every day means that when I have an advantage in trading with you, I will follow the market economy with you. But when I am at a disadvantage in trading with you, then various trade wars, antitrust, information security and other routines will come.
You see, this is their freedom and democracy, so the struggle is everywhere!
The manufacturing of a 7nm Lithography Machine is very complicated, especially for domestic novices. However, they do not completely restart production. Instead, they replace some key parts of an experimental photolithography machine that was originally designed and produced before, and change some control programs, etc.
Therefore, the entire progress was completed in about 10 days. When the lithography machine started trial production, there were more than 20 people waiting here in the observation room where it worked.
Among these 20 people are the top leaders from several important electronic product manufacturers such as Warwick and the Center, as well as the heads of relevant national departments.
Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai did not appear here. They are not suitable for exposure yet. They are in another room, and not only are they in this room, but also the leaders are waiting.
As for the researchers at the scientific research institute, they are directly on the front line of the machine and do not need to be in the observation room.