348: Sugon Semiconductor's factory construction plan!

Meanwhile, Lin Chen straightened his back and continued to introduce the Dawn Five-Axis Machining Center and the difficulties in researching and producing other semiconductor equipment.

During this, Lin Chen also praised the relevant contributors with his words.

Time slowly passed, and after about ten minutes, Lin Chen changed the topic to the next subject:

"Alright, the news about semiconductor equipment has been covered. Next is the main theme of our press conference.

That is, to officially announce our Shuguang Semiconductor's factory construction plan."

Upon hearing Lin Chen's words, the people present all pricked up their ears, and the reporters holding pens even gripped them nervously, wondering what big moves Shuguang Semiconductor was planning.

"First, the factories to be built will be 12-inch wafer fabs, and the number of these 12-inch wafer fabs will reach four!

The factory site will be in Tianjin, and these 12-inch wafer fabs will use our self-developed 12-inch domestic wafer production equipment.

If all goes well, the purity of the future 12-inch wafers will be able to reach 10 nines!"

"Wow!"

Hearing Lin Chen's words, the scene erupted in an uproar again.

Because Shuguang Semiconductor was truly making a big move this time.

They were building four 12-inch wafer fabs at once, a number three times that of Zhongxin International!

Moreover, the purity of the 12-inch wafers could reach 10 nines, which was extremely high, practically reaching the world's top level for the current era.

However, Lin Chen did not stop speaking at this time; he continued:

"In addition to establishing four 12-inch wafer fabs, what we will expand next are chip production lines.

The chip production lines to be expanded this time will primarily be 90nm process chip production lines, and their number will reach six, which will give us the leading 90nm chip production capacity in Asia in the future."

"Wow!"

Hearing Lin Chen's words, the scene erupted in an uproar again, with everyone astonished by Shuguang Semiconductor's ambitious factory construction plan.

To suddenly set up six 90nm chip production lines, Shuguang Technology was truly audacious.

Were they not afraid of a large amount of idle capacity when building so many 90nm chip production lines?

However, how could the reporters and guests at this time know that in the next ten-plus years, the Global chip supply would actually remain in a state of short supply?

It could be said that ever since online shopping began to flourish in the mid-to-late 2000s, Global home appliances and electronics were forced into the era of intelligence, accompanied by a terrifying demand for chips!

Because before the era of online shopping, goods and information did not circulate much, and people mainly relied on television, newspaper marketing, and word-of-mouth to learn about a product.

This easily created information barriers, but with the advent of online shopping, consumers could freely browse products from across the country online.

In this situation, more intelligent products were naturally prioritized by people.

After all, intelligent products often have more diverse functions, are more comfortable, and better align with people's desire for a beautiful and relaxed life.

And this behavior of people prioritizing intelligent products naturally forced those products to develop towards intelligence.

For example, newly released home appliances had to be called smart home appliances, possessing some magical functions, and what kind of comfortable life experience they could bring to people, and so on.

In this situation, under this strong chip demand, Shuguang Semiconductor's plan to establish six 90nm chip production lines was actually not crazy.

Moreover, this 90nm process, let alone in this era, still has strong demand even in 2023.

After all, the performance required for smart microcontrollers and WiFi/Bluetooth communication chips used in many home appliances is not that advanced; 90nm process and even 130nm process are sufficient.

In this situation, these 90nm chip production lines, once established, will actually remain in production for more than 20 years, practically making money from the moment they are built.

However, unfortunately, the people at this time were not aware of this; they were astonished and in an uproar over Shuguang Semiconductor's ambitious factory construction plan.

And so, time passed.

In the following time, Lin Chen answered other questions from the reporters present, and then, not long after, the press conference concluded.

In response, the reporters present also used their respective methods to publish the news as quickly as possible.

"The Nation is Jubilant, Great Xia Officially Conquers 90nm process!"

This was the headline of Penguin Portal Website.

The main theme of this news article was the official announcement that Shuguang Semiconductor's first 90nm chip had been produced and had passed the inspection and appraisal of the Xia Academy of Sciences!

Among them, the article also focused on introducing the semiconductor production equipment used for this 90nm chip.

For example, it highlighted that the 90nm lithography machine was the 5th generation lithography machine jointly developed by the domestic Shuguang R&D Center and the Xia Academy of Sciences...

For example, it introduced that the 90nm etching machine was Zhongwei Semiconductor Equipment Company's etching machine...

The entire article proudly declared that all production equipment for the entire 90nm chip production line was domestically developed!

Finally, the end of the article even proudly proclaimed that Great Xia had become a strong chip-producing nation.

It pointed out that Great Xia was only one generation behind the world's mainstream process technology and only two years behind the world's most advanced process technology!

This was a huge breakthrough!

It is important to know that the last time Great Xia was closest to the world's semiconductor process technology was 7 years, with a gap of 3 generations of process technology.

And this time, Great Xia is only one generation behind the world's most advanced process technology, with a time gap of only two years. What else could this be but a huge breakthrough?

Moreover, what is even more gratifying is that this time, the 90nm process technology is entirely based on domestic equipment.

This also indicates that Great Xia already has a mature semiconductor production equipment research and development team.

It also means that as long as there is sufficient funding, Great Xia can completely research and break through the next generation of 65 nanometer process!

This headline article from Penguin Portal Website was over five thousand characters long, with numerous reference photos, making readers who read the article feel inexplicably excited and deeply proud.

Of course, at the same time, other internet media, print newspapers, and television media were also reporting related news.

"The Nation is Exhilarated, Great Xia's 5th Generation ArFi Immersion DUV Lithography Machine Research and Development Completed!"

This was the headline of Souhu Portal Website.

"Shuguang Semiconductor's First 90nm Chip Has Landed!"

This was the headline of Sina Portal Website.

"What Does Shuguang Semiconductor Having 90nm process Mean?"

This was the headline of NetEase Portal Website.