Chapter 200: The Press Conference of Tianqi Core Technology

After the group's affairs were handled.

Su Xin arrived at the Tianqi Core Technology factory.

Over the past month or so, intern engineer Zuo Xinpeng and the others, through repeated attempts and Su Xin's multiple video instructions, finally stumbled their way through assembling the Lithography Machine.

After debugging, it performed as expected, reaching a precision of 3nm.

Of course, during the assembly process, in order to improve efficiency, slightly damaged parts were simply discarded and replaced with brand-new spares, avoiding the trouble of repair and debugging.

The cost of this was that the damaged parts amounted to nearly the production cost of five Advanced Lithography Machines.

Approximately 1.5 billion Long Coins.

Some of these parts could be recovered, repaired, and reused, while others were directly scrapped.

To spend such a high price just on engineer training—perhaps only the wealthy, bold, and efficiency-obsessed Su Xin would be willing to do so.

Fortunately, these efforts were worth it.

Talent related to Lithography Machines in Long Country is already pitifully scarce, especially for Advanced Lithography Machines; even if one were researched and produced, there are few engineers who would know how to assemble and debug it.

If any problems arose during use, there would likely be no one to solve them.

These all require top-tier engineering talent.

And now, Su Xin has trained a team of three hundred and sixty high-level engineers at once, which is already enough to satisfy the initial production of Lithography Machines.

"Good! Everyone did a great job."

Su Xin clapped his hands, drawing everyone's gaze, and smiled:

"With the experience of this first success, I believe you will all become more and more familiar with it very soon."

"You have all worked hard these past two months; I'm giving you the next two days off, so go out and relax. There will be plenty to keep you busy later."

Zuo Xinpeng chuckled and asked: "Thank you, Boss! May I ask if it's a paid leave?"

Su Xin smiled: "Rest assured, it is paid leave. You will know in the future that as long as it is leave I initiate, it is always paid."

Zuo Xinpeng grinned happily: "That's good. If it weren't paid leave, I really wouldn't want to rest. I've been researching the Lithography Machine these days and feel like I've become a bit obsessed; only paid leave can pull me out of the ocean of knowledge."

This remark made quite a few people laugh.

Not just him, many others were also completely immersed in the research of the Lithography Machine.

Even when their relatives and friends gathered to celebrate the Spring Festival, they didn't feel aggrieved; instead, they were proud of their work.

The Advanced Lithography Machine is currently Long Country's greatest weakness, and being able to become the core talent to solve this weakness—even if not for their own future—this sense of mission and honor made them feel their efforts were worth it.

Especially when they finished assembling the Lithography Machine and learned that it was actually an Advanced Lithography Machine with a precision of 3nm, they were all so excited they couldn't control themselves.

This is indisputably the world's most advanced Lithography Machine, and all its core technologies are domestically produced.

How could this not make everyone excited?

Being able to join Tianqi Core Technology Company at its inception and grow along with the company is absolutely the greatest opportunity of their lives.

They all want to seize the opportunity to learn and grow as fast as possible and climb higher and higher.

Subsequently.

Su Xin summoned the executives of various enterprises in the Tianxin Industrial Park to discuss the mass production of the Advanced Lithography Machine and to coordinate the work between the enterprises.

……

February 12th, the Lantern Festival.

Everywhere in Long Country was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers; many places also had traditional folk performances like lion dances, dragon lantern parades, and yangge dances, as well as lively promotional activities in some shopping malls.

There was a festive atmosphere everywhere.

Meanwhile, in Tianjing, inside the large exhibition hall of a five-star hotel.

More than a hundred media outlets from home and abroad gathered here, setting up cameras all around, aimed at the podium in front.

Many high-tech enterprise executives from all over the world sat together, whispering to each other.

Today is the press conference for Tianqi Core Technology.

And it is being held by Su Xin himself.

With the two combined, let alone the media and the executives present, even netizens from various countries could guess what product Su Xin was going to release—

A Lithography Machine!

With the previous breakthroughs in various technologies, plus the large-scale recruitment of engineers before the new year, everyone knew without thinking that Su Xin must have successfully developed an Advanced Lithography Machine.

But guessing is one thing.

Everyone still couldn't help but feel expectant about this press conference, unable to suppress their curiosity, and followed the event closely.

On the internet.

Countless people were discussing it frantically.

"I bet a hundred spicy sticks that this press conference is definitely for a Lithography Machine, and it's very likely to be a high-end Lithography Machine of 10nm or better."

"After all, it's Boss Su himself taking the lead, and it's a product that took so long to research before yielding results; 10nm or better is a certainty."

"Most of the many products he developed before were completed in just a month or two, with one technology after another being released."

"But now, from the founding of the Tianqi Core Company until now, it's been at least several months; this should be the product that took Boss Su the longest to develop so far. If it's not a high-end Lithography Machine of 10nm or better, it wouldn't be worthy of his efforts."

At this moment, one netizen who seemed quite knowledgeable about the lithography industry said:

"I think you might be underestimating Boss Su a bit. The supporting technologies he developed for the Lithography Machine before are all industry-leading, whether it's the vacuum device, light source device, optical system, or materials; they are all at the world's top level."

"These are already enough to meet the manufacturing requirements of ASML's most advanced EUV Lithography Machine."

"To put it bluntly, these supporting technologies, when perfectly integrated, already have the conditions to manufacture the world's most advanced Lithography Machine."

These words made many Long Country netizens even more excited, and they shouted, "Boss Su is awesome!"

But some also raised doubts.

"A Lithography Machine is a very complex systematic project; it is absolutely impossible to break through to the peak in one go. Even for Boss Su, he has to take it one step at a time."

"The most advanced domestic Lithography Machine currently only has a precision of 90nm, which is still several generations away from being advanced. Even if Boss Su is amazing, he can't possibly exceed human common sense, right?"

"Meals must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked one step at a time."

"Never mind the most Advanced Lithography Machine; even if he could directly develop one above 20nm, barely keeping up with the international high-end standard, that would already be a very great improvement. We cannot ask for too much; that would only put pressure on President Su."

"The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. I suggest that brothers do not hold such high hopes."

"As a practitioner who knows a thing or two about the Lithography Machine industry, reason tells me that the Lithography Machine President Su is about to release might not even reach a precision of 20nm or better."

"Supporting technology is one thing, but Lithography Machine manufacturing is a brand-new, high-difficulty integration technology. Otherwise, if everyone could just take those top-tier materials and equipment and assemble an Advanced Lithography Machine at will, what would be left for ASML?"