My science and technology museum

"Mr. Mike, I have news here that I believe you will be very interested in."

In the top office of the Hutt Building.

Brady's first words when he met the business manager Mike gave him away, but the joy on his face showed that this was definitely good news.

At least that's how it works for them.

Mike has trained Brady to be his right-hand man, and he knows very well what his personality is like.

To be able to go to his office to say something like this, this news must be what he wanted to hear the most, so he immediately stopped what he was doing and asked.

"Say it."

"What's the news?"

Seeing that Mike's curiosity was successfully aroused, Brady stopped showing off and immediately said in a deep voice: "Mr. Mike, according to the information I got from special channels, Yanguo has stopped testing the photolithography machines. Research."

"Stop researching?"

"This doesn't seem to be in line with their style of doing things." Hearing Mike repeat this sentence, his face was full of suspicion.

Through the experience gained from previous dealings, the other party will never give up easily on high-end technology research and development.

Even though we know that this technology is very difficult.

Otherwise, things like the Magic Star engine and Yinglong chip design software would not have appeared recently to change the industry structure.

A high-end photolithography machine has hundreds of thousands of parts, and the technology contained in it needs to be provided by multiple forces. Although Mike did not think that the other party could produce it, he did not expect that they would give up so easily.

It's simply jaw-dropping.

"The source of the news is absolutely true and reliable. The entire project research and development team was disbanded just a few days ago." Brady noticed the change in Mike's expression and thought he was suspicious of the news, so he added these two sentences.

"The project team was disbanded. Could it be that we realized the difficulty of high-end lithography machines during the research and development process and did not want to continue investing money and human resources in them."

"If that's the case, it would be a good thing for us."

After listening to Brady's words, Mike's mind suddenly started running at high speed, and various thoughts continued to emerge in his mind, analyzing the pros and cons of this matter.

If the other party really gives up the development of high-end lithography machines, then if it wants to continue to use chips, it will have to be OEMed by the wafer factory. When the two parties sit down at the negotiation table for discussions, the initiative will be firmly in his hands.

Even if you want to ask for something, it will become a matter of course.

After thinking about the key, Mike suddenly felt much more comfortable. With a bright smile on his face, he walked to the wine cabinet next to him and praised Brady: "You really brought me a good one this time." The news is that as long as they come back and continue to cooperate with us, they no longer need to care about the impact of the previous Yinglong chip design software and Chaos Intelligent Connected Operating System."

"Then first congratulations to Mr. Mike."

Brady reached out and took the wine glass from Mike, with a smile on his lips as well.

After raising his head and taking a sip, he continued to say coldly: "I think they made a very correct choice this time. High-end lithography machines are not equipment that can be developed independently."

The words just fell.

Then he seemed to think of something, so he took over his words and tentatively asked Mike.

"Mr. Mike."

"Then do we need to show some attitude at this time to attract them to come and cooperate?"

When Mike faced Brady's question, he did not give him a direct answer. Instead, he also asked a question to confirm another thing to Brady.

"This is not urgent."

"correct."

"They have stopped researching lithography machines and disbanded the R\u0026D project team. They haven't announced this news yet, right?"

"Not yet. I think they are blocking the news intentionally." Brady didn't hesitate and told the truth about what he knew.

After getting the answer he wanted, Mike immediately fell into silence. He took the wine glass and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window next to him. He looked down at the scenery outside the window and seemed to be thinking about something.

Faced with this situation, Brady had no choice but to stand quietly behind.

Don't dare to disturb me rashly.

About half a minute later, Mike finally turned around, looked at Brady and said, "Then let's do a small favor. You find a way to spread the news on the Internet."

With Brady's IQ, how could he not know what Mike was planning, which was just to cause trouble in this way.

But since it was an order from his superior, all he could do was follow the order.

Then he nodded and said, "I understand, Mr. Mike, I will take care of this matter."

Finished.

He didn't stay too long in the office and immediately turned around and left.

…

…

Early November.

Because the popularity of Tamron chip mobile phones has gradually passed, and there is always an unlimited rush to buy them, users who are in need of them have also made purchases.

This makes the Internet significantly more peaceful.

The hot search lists of major website platforms are once again occupied by trivial matters about celebrities’ entertainment life.

But as the saying goes, there will be a brief calm before the storm. No one expected that when everyone was happily surfing the Internet and watching videos and catching up on anime, a topic called the Chinese Academy of Sciences to stop the research and development of lithography machines appeared without warning, and it was difficult to spread at the speed of imagination.

There are even some video bloggers with millions of fans on the Internet who repost it.

This topic quickly shot to the top of the website's hot search list in less than half an hour.

It aroused heated discussions among a large number of netizens.

"How could Haohao stop developing lithography machines? This is definitely fake news. I suggest everyone ignore it and don't pay attention to it, let alone forward it to heat it up."

"It's true. If we don't develop domestic lithography machines, will we have to let others manufacture chips in the future?"

"Don't do this. No matter how difficult it is, you must persevere."

"I knew something like this would happen. Although the emergence of future technology has allowed us to achieve overtaking in software technology, hardware has always been an embarrassing problem. It is almost impossible to create a high-end lithography machine that can catch up with Shanghai's overseas technology. possible."

"All technologies continue to improve over time. Even if we persist in research for a few years, by the time we reach the current level of the industry, I am afraid that people will be far away."

"I hope the Chinese Academy of Sciences will respond."

"Does anyone really believe it? I don't know who started this rumor."

…

For netizens, they just experienced many exciting events such as the Magic Star engine dominating the engine licensing market some time ago, the Yinglong chip design software being used by well-known overseas chip design companies, the Chaos Intelligent Operating System ignoring Google restrictions, and so on.

It was as if the blood in his chest was boiling and burning.

Even in the comment area below the relevant content, there is a strong sense of pride in every word.

Now I suddenly learned that the research on high-end lithography machines has been stopped. This huge contrast is really unacceptable, and my depression will naturally accelerate the spread of this topic.

As the saying goes, when more and more people talk about this matter, even if they think it is a rumor, their belief will gradually be shaken.

Moreover, the original source of this topic has long been lost.

As the popularity grew, it was spread to the Internet and even reported by overseas media.

It seems that this is really the case.

certainly.

Compared with the Internet, which has become lively again over this matter, the situation within the Chinese Academy of Sciences is not very peaceful at the moment.

"Who spread this news? Now that it has caused such a big public opinion, it will have a huge impact on us."

In the dean's office.

After Yang Senping saw the heated discussion on the Internet, his whole face turned red with anger. He didn't care at all about his image and vented the pent-up anger in his chest in front of others.

It is true that the previous lithography machine R\u0026D project team was disbanded, but a new one was re-established, and a higher degree of emphasis was placed on various specifications.

The reason why it has not been announced to the public for the time being is purely due to confidentiality regulations and concerns about the leakage of information on top-level lithography machines.

The original consideration was to wait until the manufacturing of this top-level photolithography machine was completed before officially announcing it to the outside world, giving everyone and the domestic semiconductor industry a surprise.

Who would have thought that instead of seeing the surprise now, I was actually quite frightened.

Later, when Yang Senping's mood gradually stabilized, Hao Yaoping, who was sitting in the office and was called to discuss a solution, said: "You were the person in charge of the disbanded project research team. Now that the news has been leaked inexplicably, you are not responsible for this." It won’t fall off.”

"You are right. I will investigate the leakage of the information clearly." Faced with Hao Yaoping's accusation, Yang Senping did not raise any objection this time.

The news circulating on the Internet only mentioned the dissolution of the project team, but there was no relevant content about the establishment of a new project, indicating that the problem lay with the members of the project R\u0026D team he was responsible for.

It is not difficult to investigate the situation clearly.

The most important thing now is to eliminate the negative influence of the Internet.

So thinking of this, Yang Senping quickly turned his attention to Xu Lei next to him, and asked softly: "Mr. Xu, now you are the leader of the lithography machine project research team, but you have to come up with an idea."

"It's simple."

"The announcement stated that we are developing a top-level photolithography machine and it is expected to be put into use around the Spring Festival."

Speaking of which, Xu Lei didn't pay too much attention to the topic on the Internet, just because it wasted his time and he had to run from the laboratory to the dean's office to discuss a solution.

In this case, Xu Lei naturally advocated the most effective method.

Calm down the storm as soon as possible.

By announcing the current research and development progress of top-level lithography machines, any rumors will naturally be self-defeating.

After listening to Xu Lei's suggestion, Yang Senping fell into deep thought again, weighing the pros and cons of this approach.

After a pause for a few seconds, he asked Xu Lei solemnly: "This is no joke. Are you really sure that this top-level lithography machine will be put into use around the Spring Festival?"