From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

"Agent Stein, why are you here?"

Dawson Addinson frowned. What are these plague gods looking for him now?

Holland Stein raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? Mr. Edinson, have you forgotten something?"

"Forget what?" Dawson Edinson wondered.

"You said in Chapter 225 that if Lin Xiao helped Huaguo build a lithography machine, you would turn yourself in. Did you forget?"

Dawson Edinson was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned ugly: "Don't tell me, you came to me because of this matter? I was just joking at the beginning."

"Hehe, are you kidding? Let's talk about it after you go to our bureau."

Holland Stein said with a smile, and then his expression became serious.

"Now we suspect that when you invited Lin Xiaolai to your lithography machine assembly factory, you leaked the technical principles prohibited in the Wassenaar agreement. Now, we need to invite you to our place for a few cups of coffee."

Dawson Edinson's face changed drastically: "Are you fucking crazy? They made an X-ray machine, and I leaked the secrets of the X-ray machine? Are you kidding me?"

Holland Stein smiled, "So I said, these things, you can talk about these things in the game."

Then, he motioned to the other two team members, and they walked up, controlled Dawson Addinson, and dragged him out regardless of his struggle.

The employees outside were shocked when they saw it, and when they were about to go up to help, they saw the FBI ID in Holland Stein's hand, so they had to step aside and let their president be taken out.

Then, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

Just now, the president's secretary was fired by the president, and seemed to have been kicked, but it didn't take long, and their president... fired himself?

Of course, no matter what, although they still don't know what happened, it is obvious that today's incident will definitely make headlines tomorrow.

So they all took out their mobile phones, took pictures of their president being taken out, and started rushing to post headlines.

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Dingguang Research Institute, in Lin Xiao's office.

"What? The U.S. Secretary of State resigned? Then Dawson Edinson, the president of Asmer, was arrested by the FBI? Then there was another rumor that before Dawson Edinson was arrested, he first arrested his secretary Fried?"

Lin Xiao looked at the news in great surprise.

Could it be that these three people were all unlucky because they made a lithography machine?

This is interesting.

Of course, two of the people who lost their jobs were fine, but this Dawson Edinson, why did he get in?

On the other side, Kong Huaan was also sitting on a chair, looking at the news in his hand, and said, "According to the news from Europe, it is said that this Dawson Edinson leaked the lithography machine technology to us."

He couldn't help laughing: "I'm afraid this guy was pushed out to take the blame?"

But Lin Xiao shook his head and said, "There is one reason, but there is another reason."

"What's the reason?" Kong Huaan was taken aback.

Lin Xiao said: "They want to use this matter to make others think that we are not completely independent research and development, so as to reduce our weight in it."

Kong Hua'an frowned immediately: "I see, these little tricks are really disgusting."

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "They've always been like this."

Then he looked at the time, got up, and showed a slightly sarcastic look: "Okay, I'm ready to share the cake."

Kong Huaan was taken aback for a moment, then nodded silently.

Now that the X-ray project has been completed, and even the craftsmanship has been solved, it is time for all parties to share the huge benefits that will be brought.

"What are you going to do?" he asked.

Lin Xiao said: "See if their plan can satisfy me."

"Ah."

Kong Huaan nodded.

Then the two left the office and walked towards the meeting room.

Chapter 3 Angry Lin Xiao

Walking into the meeting room, there are already many people sitting in it.

Among them are people from the government, as well as people from companies such as Dianke Group, Modu Microelectronics, Huawei Semiconductor, etc. Of course, there are also people from many research institutes.

Because the meeting has not officially started, these people are also talking about their own things.

Ma Gaoliang was also sitting inside. He was the first to see Lin Xiao coming in, so he immediately got up and walked towards Lin Xiao, and said with a smile, "Mr. Lin, you are here."

"Director Ma." Lin Xiao nodded to him.

The other people in the conference room also stood up at this time, and greeted each other with smiles.

"Hello, Mr. Lin!"

"Finally met Master Lin himself, he is really young!"

"General Master Lin is young and promising, our country is very lucky!"

"..."

These people have respect in their words, and they are also flattering.

Among them, a middle-aged man also came up directly, and when he got to Lin Xiao's side, he was about to grab Lin Xiao's shoulders, and at the same time said: "Mr. Lin..."

However, at this time Lin Xiao directly avoided his arm and avoided his grasping movement.

The man was a little embarrassed, but quickly withdrew his hand, as if nothing happened just now, and asked: "Hello, Mr. Lin, I am Xu Zhiqing, the general manager of Modu Microelectronics Equipment Company. I wanted to meet and talk with Chief Master Lin, but I didn't expect to meet today."

Lin Xiao showed doubts on his face: "I remember that except for hearing that you planned to meet me yesterday, and then I rejected you, I have never heard of you wanting to meet me before?"

Xu Zhiqing's face suddenly became more embarrassed. Unexpectedly, Lin Xiao did not, and said after a long while: "I was also very busy before."

Lin Xiao shook his head and said, "Forget it, General Manager Xu, let's sit down and talk about it later."

Then he went around and looked at the seats on the field. There were two seats in the first place, one was for people from the government, and the other was supposed to be for him. However, he didn't take his own seat, but He went around and sat in the back seat with Kong Huaan.

When the people present saw this scene, they immediately looked at each other in blank dismay, realizing that it was a bit difficult.

The head teacher seems a little dissatisfied with today's meeting?

But think about it, it is not surprising that Lin Xiao, who is mainly engaged in scientific research, is dissatisfied with this kind of cake distribution today.

After all, there are quite a lot of scientists like Lin Xiao.

When Ma Gaoliang saw this scene, he was obviously the most anxious person in the audience. Whether it was personal or business, he didn't want to see Lin Xiao dissatisfied, so he quickly walked to Lin Xiao's side and said, "Mr. Lin , What's the matter? Tell me if you have any comments, and I'll make adjustments."

When the people present heard Ma Gaoliang's question, they all turned their eyes to Lin Xiao again, not knowing what he would say.

Lin Xiao glanced at Ma Gaoliang, and finally gave him some face, and said directly: "I originally thought that after the success of the X-ray project, the first meeting held should be how to make preparations for the subsequent technology research and development, for the future. Continue to improve the technical level, ensure that we can always maintain a world-class level to make proposals, and then discuss how to arrange the whereabouts of every researcher who has worked hard in the X-ray project, and improve their treatment."

"As a result, the first meeting I have now is to tell you who has the most credit here, and then share the cake. It is really disappointing."

"Although the X-ray project is successful now, if you want to continue to succeed in the future, you still need to continue to invest in research. If you only think about the benefits for yourself, then I think it will not matter."

His voice was not too loud, but what he said made everyone in the meeting room look ashamed.

But at this time, Xu Zhiqing, the general manager of Modu Microelectronics, was the first to stand up and retort: ​​"Mr. Lin, we all understand the truth of what you said, but only after we have allocated it can we better Discuss this matter, who will get the most at that time, and then invest more in it in the future."

Obviously, Lin Xiao didn't give him face just now, which made him annoyed.

But Lin Xiao glanced at him, and just said lightly: "So you mean that if you don't see a rabbit, you don't scatter the eagle, right? If scientific research is done with your spirit of not seeing the rabbit, I'm afraid we won't even be able to get the Shenzhou V. Can’t even lift into the air?”

Xu Zhiqing froze immediately and opened his mouth, not knowing how to continue to refute. For them, it is easy to talk about continuing to invest in research and development, but this is all based on the benefits they can obtain.

They all know that this is not good, it is equivalent to Lin Xiao digging out a gold mine, and there are more gold mines under this gold mine, but if you want to continue digging, you need to invest money, and now Lin Xiao is looking for someone to come Let's invest money to dig gold mines together, and then everyone will share the entire gold mine together, but now they plan to divide the gold mines that have been dug out first, earn the money first, and then discuss the matter of investing money.

Obviously, this kind of thinking is really greedy.

However, this is actually a tacit understanding between these companies. Everyone abides by this tacit understanding, no one speaks out, and then each divides the cake according to his ability.

So he wanted to find Lin Xiao yesterday because he hoped that Lin Xiao could help him in the future, because as the chief designer, Lin Xiao must have the right to speak on this. After all, the final assignment needs to be reported to the top, and Lin Xiao His suggestion is more important, but it's a pity that Lin Xiao didn't agree yesterday.

It turned out that there was a meeting today, and now Lin Xiao directly said all the little things they thought in their hearts.

Immediately, most of the people in the room couldn't hold back their faces, but there was no reason to refute Lin Xiao, so they all lowered their heads and didn't say a word.

Seeing that these people stopped talking, Lin Xiao shook his head and said, "I'll just sit here, you can discuss it casually, anyway, I won't sign the final result."

Then he lay back, took out his phone and started playing.

The atmosphere on the field suddenly sank again. If Lin Xiao did not sign in the end, no matter how much they discussed, it was not a certainty whether the higher-ups would agree in the end.

Ma Gaoliang glared at Xu Zhiqing, then patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Master Lin, Professor Lin, calm down, if you are not satisfied, our agenda for today will be pushed back, and then Tell me what you think, after all, today's meeting is not about reaching a conclusion, and there will definitely be many more meetings in the future."

Ma Gaoliang is the highest-ranking person in the field, and there is no problem in postponing these agendas.

Hearing what he said, Lin Xiao simply stood up and said, "I don't have any other ideas. My current idea is to concentrate on big things."

"We have now developed a lithography machine and solved the problem of the lithography machine, but what about the process?"

"Now we have only developed a 5nm process, but now there are 7nm, 10nm, and 12nm common chip processes in the market. Huaxin International has a 14nm process. The previous processes are also very important."

"According to the formula of lithography machine resolution, CD=K1*λ/NA, our X-lithography machine relies on the shorter wavelength of X-rays, and our research process is actually simpler than their research process with EUV and DUV. "

"Just like the 14nm chip made by DUV, it actually undergoes a considerable number of exposures, which makes their actual process quite complicated, but our X-lithography machine can completely avoid this."

"Using the boss fighting in the game as an analogy, it means that their lithography machine is an ordinary weapon. If they want to win the boss, they have to use more skills, but our X-lithography machine is a For more powerful weapons, we don't need to study particularly complicated techniques, everything can be simplified and perfected."

"However, we can't stop researching skills, otherwise, we still won't be able to beat the BOSS, so my suggestion is that we set up a company similar to TSMC, which will specialize in the research of X-lithography machine technology and undertake chip foundry work."

"As for the company that produces X-lithography machines, it will also set up a separate company to continue researching technologies that can improve the performance of X-lithography machines."

"You want to share the benefits, so I have prepared two companies for you to distribute."

"However," speaking of this, Lin Xiao looked at the people present, "I will strongly request that the profits you earn, in addition to the necessary funds to maintain the company's operations, and bonuses for scientific research talents , At least 50% of the remaining money needs to be used for research and development.”

"I'm not worried that these two companies will lose money. Our X-lithography machine is definitely a better lithography machine than EUV lithography machine now, because we don't need masks, we use digital masks. version, which will leave a lot of cost for those chip design companies, so they must choose our X-lithography machine. In the future, X-lithography machines will not need to worry about sales at all. Second, our 5nm process will only It is better than the 4nm process that TSMC is talking about now, which will be highlighted in our upcoming press conference in a few days."

"So even if these two companies don't have leaders, I won't worry about not making money. So in the future, the leaders of these two companies must accept that at least half of the money their companies make has nothing to do with them."

"The above is my request."

Speaking of this, Lin Xiao looked at these people present, as expected, these people present frowned tightly because of the conditions he said, obviously they were very dissatisfied with this request.

Lin Xiao couldn't help shaking his head again, and then said: "Everyone, how many of our companies are among the top [-] companies in the world in terms of R&D investment?"

"Now, I think it's time to add two more."

"That's all."

After speaking, he sat down again.

The meeting room fell silent again.

However, Ma Gaoliang, who was next to Lin Xiao, opened his mouth and asked after a while, "Then Mr. Lin, you...don't plan to continue researching and developing semiconductors?"

Lin Xiao let Huaguo own the lithography machine and even the craftsmanship from scratch, but now it seems that he doesn't intend to take care of it?

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "From now on, I will only provide help, and I won't put too much energy into it."

"This..." Ma Gaoliang was helpless, and asked, "Then what do you plan to study in the future?"

"Go back to school and take a good class for a while, and take a look at the theoretical research by the way."

Ma Gaoliang couldn't help but said: "Why don't you think about it again? There are still many needs for you in the research and development of semiconductors."

Lin Xiao smiled, "As I said, I will also provide help in the future, but I can't do everything by myself in the research and development of semiconductors. The production of semiconductors is a labor-intensive job. R&D is also a R&D-intensive job, which requires more talents to join in.”

"So, I will guide these talents, but I will not come here again unless the necessary technical needs are required. In fact, even the 7nm, 10nm and other processes I mentioned just now can completely follow my 5nm process. It is enough to research and develop the technology, and I believe that domestic talents can also do this.”

"And myself..."

"I think my mission is to make our country stronger in more aspects, not just semiconductors. Now that semiconductors have become stronger, I should change the direction."

Lin Xiao's words made Ma Gaoliang silent, and then he nodded emphatically: "I see, I will report your words to the higher authorities."

"Ah."

Lin Xiao nodded.

The next meeting seemed to have nothing to do. The original cake sharing meeting turned into a reflection meeting because of Lin Xiao.

However, Lin Xiao believed that as long as this group of people listened even a little bit, he would not need to worry about Huaguo Semiconductor's decline again in the future.

Of course, even if they didn't listen, he still has a way to make them listen.