The construction of Yuzhou University Town is a major measure for Yuzhou to create a highland for the science and technology industry. It aims to form an industry-university-research system and transform Yuzhou's economy from a traditional industrial economy to a knowledge economy.

Use modern scientific and technological knowledge to empower traditional industries to develop to a higher level.

United University is a very important school in the planning of Yuzhou University Town.

Of course, Yuzhou University Town is not a completely new construction on a new piece of land. In fact, there was already a university in this area before.

Yuzhou University of Applied Technology is located here.

One of the important reasons why this area is designated as a university town is that the place is spacious enough.

Yuzhou University of Applied Technology is building a school here because the area is large enough.

In addition, it is relatively close to the city.

Although it is a suburb now, in a few years it will rapidly develop into a city.

Then when the city was planning the university town, there were actually some other options.

Chen Huaiqing suggested that the university town should be located on the edge of the city.

In ten years' time, the university town will develop into the center of the city.

Why should a university town be located in a city?

A very simple reason is that the university town is in a remote place, so there is no way to be organically connected with the urban economy.

After all, the purpose of building a university town is to form concentrated intellectual resources.

Intellectual resources are actually a type of human resources. People must be gathered together to be able to show their strength.

Union University is very fast in the construction of colleges and universities in the entire university town. From the decision to the completion of the construction, the time is extremely short.

The money is in place and the city is fully supportive.

The current development momentum of Union University is quite rapid.

There is currently no university ranking list. Otherwise, the ranking of United University will definitely continue to rise.

Especially in the academic area.

Chen Huaiqing has always felt that universities are more suitable for basic research work.

Because this matches the attributes of the university.

Basic research takes a lot of time and requires a lot of patience.

Not only researchers need to be patient, policymakers also need to be patient.

Because a lot of basic research has not produced results for several years, which is considered short-term. Some have persisted for more than ten years, but still have no results.

In universities, there are quite a lot of cheap or even free human resources that can be used.

Scientific research migrant workers are like specially made PhD students.

At this time, there are not many doctoral students in China, and every doctoral student is a very precious existence.

Studying for a Ph.D. is not about improving your academic qualifications as a bargaining chip for finding a good job.

At this time, people studying for a Ph.D. are really a choice they make only when they are ready to devote themselves to scientific research.

Having these excellent intellectual resources available can reduce funding investment in basic research to a great extent.

Of course, the most important point is that it can also cultivate talents by the way.

For example, the Motta Institute of Technology is all engaged in research on applied technologies, and the results are produced very quickly.

Basically, it can take a few months for a long time and a dozen days for a short time to produce results that can be commercialized.

The amount of money that can be spent every year is also quite impressive.

If it weren't for the super monetization capabilities of the technology developed, we would be unable to bear it.

In addition to the matter of United University, there is another thing that Chen Huaiqing is very concerned about.

That is the mota400 lithography machine.

The mota400 lithography machine is the latest product of Mota Microelectronics. It has purchased a large number of foreign parts. In some core components, the mota400 also has domestically produced parts.

Compared with the mota800 lithography machine, the mota400 lithography machine has a much higher localization rate of parts from the beginning.

For example, when the mota800 lithography machine was first released, the localization rate was only over 20%. But now, the localization rate of the mota400 lithography machine has started at 40%.

An increase of more than ten percentage points.

This is undoubtedly a huge progress.

The mota400 lithography machine belongs to the second generation lithography machine and is an upgraded version of the mota800.

The minimum process node of 400nm can be achieved. Of course, through special processes, chips with lower node processes can be produced.

But in terms of cost, it may be a little more expensive.

The most important thing about a lithography machine is the light source.

The light sources currently used are all deep ultraviolet light.

The first-generation lithography machine used a g-line light source with a wavelength of 436nm, and the current lithography machine uses an i-line light source with a wavelength of 365nm.

The next generation light source has also been determined, which is a krf light source with a wavelength of 248nm.

In the fourth generation, the ARF light source with a wavelength of 193nm was used.

However, a new concept has been proposed, that is, extreme ultraviolet lithography machine.

This may not be familiar to many people. Let’s put it another way: EUV lithography machine. Every improvement in the light source can significantly improve the minimum process node that the lithography machine can achieve.

It's just that the new concept of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines has been proposed, but no company has invested in it.

For a very simple reason, if extreme ultraviolet light is to be used as a light source for photolithography, the technical difficulty is too high.

Anyway, this is a conceptual thing.

The lithography machines on the market can still meet the demand, and everyone is not in a hurry to get this extreme ultraviolet lithography machine.

In fact, ASML only began to develop EUV lithography machines in 1999.

The plan is to launch EUV lithography machine products in 2004 in five years.

However, it was not until 2010 that the first EUV lithography machine prototype was built, and in 2016 it was officially supplied to downstream customers.

With EUV lithography machines, ASML has become the undisputed largest giant in the field of global lithography machines.

The importance of the light source to the lithography machine is actually too important.

Chen Huaiqing has also read some reports saying that China has made a breakthrough in extreme ultraviolet light sources.

I don’t know what the specific situation is.

A lot of the news on the Internet is just for fun.

In addition to light sources, workbench and new photolithography technology innovations can also improve the minimum process node and production efficiency as well as product yield.

At this time, no one has much confidence in extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, but Chen Huaiqing knows that this thing can really work!

Therefore, Chen Huaiqing has asked Mota Microelectronics to develop EUV lithography machines and has invested quite a lot in it.

The first thing is that in terms of light source technology, we must first develop a high-power extreme ultraviolet light source.

Chen Huaiqing felt that there must be no problem.

He remembered that the United States had been promoting the concept of laser weapons.

Then China's laser weapons were ready for actual combat, and then the United States suddenly stopped firing.

Why did China come up with the concept that I came up with first?

The extreme ultraviolet lithography machine was proposed by the United States. In order to suppress Neon's semiconductor industry, Neon was not involved in the research on extreme ultraviolet lithography machines.

In fact, relying on the capabilities of the United States and Europe, the entire research seems very difficult.

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