Chapter 253 Unexpected Cooperation (Ch 826877336)

The third day in Beijing.
Jiang Miao meets two unexpected guests.
“Mr. Chen, Mr. Yang, please sit down.”
As soon as he sat down, Chen Nanxian got straight to the point: “Boss Jiang, I won’t beat around the bush since I’m visiting you today. After all, Boss Jiang has limited time.”
“I wonder what Mr. Chen wants to say?” Jiang Miao was also very curious about the other party’s purpose, because Hailufeng Company and Yangtze Memory Technologies did not have any business dealings.
Chen Nanxian didn’t hesitate and directly stated his purpose: “Mr. Jiang, I came to visit you on behalf of someone. Zhichun Technology, which provides us with water purification equipment, hopes to introduce your company’s strategic investment.”
“Pure Technology? Strategic investment?” Jiang Miao was stunned at first, then he realized: “They want to introduce our company’s silicon carbide nanotubes, right?”
“They do have this idea. If possible, they are willing to issue an additional 20% of the shares at a price of 1 yuan to obtain exclusive authorization for silicon carbide nanotubes.”
“Exclusive authorization is impossible.” Jiang Miao directly rejected the idea. As for obtaining 20% ​​of Zhichun Technology’s shares, it was not attractive to Jiang Miao:
“Let them communicate directly with our company. Our company will not refuse procurement cooperation, but the premise is that water purification equipment using silicon carbide nanotubes cannot be exported.”
“Can’t go abroad?” Yang Shining, who was standing by, was having his first encounter with an entrepreneur who took the initiative to reject foreign markets.
“Mr. Yang, you may not know that silicon carbide nanotubes are more important in seawater desalination and sewage treatment than the semiconductor pure water industry, because the energy cost of extracting pure water is very low, about 0.015 yuan per cubic meter.”
Upon hearing this answer, both Yang Shining and Chen Nanxian showed a hint of shock on their faces.
“It’s so low?”
At this time, Chen Nanxian also understood why Jiang Miao did not allow the export of such equipment and raw materials. It was estimated that even without the ban by Hailufeng Company itself, the official would include this technology in the special protection catalogue.
Yang Shining asked curiously: “Mr. Jiang, how pure can the pure water produced by this technology be?”
“In theory, it is pure water, because it is water vapor at room temperature formed by vacuum negative pressure, and the nanotubes only absorb water vapor through. However, if we want to achieve the level used in the semiconductor industry, we need to consider using vacuum containers and ultra-low solubility containers to prevent pure water from being contaminated by the containers.”
After hearing Jiang Miao’s explanation, Yang Shining had roughly figured out the principle of this technology: “So that’s it. It’s purified through room temperature evaporation technology. No wonder it can achieve such low energy consumption.”
However, Chen Nanxian was not too optimistic. He thought of a big problem with many reverse osmosis materials at present: “Mr. Jiang, how long is the service life of this material?”
“If used normally, it can last about 40 years.”
“What?” Chen Nanxian’s eyes widened. “Did I hear it wrong? It’s 40 years? Not 4 or 10 years?”
“That’s 40 years. Because the material is arranged vertically, other components dissolved in the water will not evaporate and float up through the nanotubes during the extraction of pure water. Naturally, there is no problem of pipe blockage.”
Although Chen Nanxian was very shocked, he looked very happy: “That’s how it is! It seems that our semiconductor factory can use low-cost pure water in the future.”
You should know that the cost of pure water in the semiconductor industry can often reach about 3% to 8% of the total expenditure, which is not a small expense.
In particular, the cost of domestic water purification equipment remains high, and the cost of processing pure water is relatively high. This is mainly because the core components are controlled by foreign companies.
In recent years, in order to suppress the domestic semiconductor industry, foreign countries have either imposed purchase restrictions or directly cut off supplies of related core components, or raised supply prices, or only allowed the sale of lower-level products.
Pure water production equipment has been affected in this regard.
Zhichun Technology recently discovered that Hailufeng Company was registering related technologies on a large scale, and only then did they discover the existence of silicon carbide nanotubes. They had not taken it too seriously at first.
It was not until a few days ago, when Hailufeng Company acquired a water purifier company, that they reacted.
Because they understand the development model of Hailufeng Company. If a technology is mature, Hailufeng Company will definitely make arrangements in advance.
Since they have acquired a fairly large water purifier company, it is obvious that the technology related to silicon carbide nanotubes has matured and can be put into large-scale mass production soon.
If they still haven’t reacted at this time, then the management of Zhichun Technology is too slow. After all, many of Hailufeng Company’s previous industries had traces to follow before they took off.
However, they couldn’t find an opportunity for the time being. After much thought, they could only ask Chen Nanxian, who happened to be in Beijing, for help and asked him to express their idea of ​​cooperation to Jiang Miao.
After talking about Zhichun Technology, Chen Nanxian did not say goodbye at this time, but chatted with Jiang Miao about some things about semiconductor materials.
“Mr. Jiang, your company is developing rapidly in the field of materials. Maybe we will have opportunities to cooperate in the future.”
Yang Shining, who was standing by, also echoed, “Hailufeng’s new material research and development capabilities are indeed very strong. For example, silicon carbide nanotubes are also widely used in the semiconductor field.”
Jiang Miao thought of the silver-coated nanotubes he had developed before: “Speaking of new materials, I discovered a new material some time ago, but I have no idea about its specific use. I wonder if you have any insights.”
“Oh? I wonder what material it is?” Chen Nanxian asked curiously.
“It is a derivative material of silicon bean silk material, a silver-coated silicon nanotube with a minimum pore diameter of 14 to 16 nanometers. It can attract and eject charged particles through electromagnetic acceleration.”
“Mr. Jiang, do you mean the aperture is 14 to 16 nanometers? It can also eject and attract charged particles?” Chen Nanxian’s breathing suddenly became rapid.
“Yes, this is the minimum scale.”
Chen Nanxian asked, “Are there any limits on the charged particles that can be ejected and attracted?”
Jiang Miao answered truthfully: “No, as long as it is a charged particle and the particle size is less than 10 nanometers, it can pass through the pipeline.”
“So is the speed of electromagnetic acceleration fixed, or can it be adjusted?”
“It can be adjusted.”
Chen Nanxian and Yang Shining looked at each other and saw surprise and excitement in each other’s eyes.
Chen Nanxian couldn’t wait and quickly suggested: “Mr. Jiang, let’s cooperate! I think this material has great uses in the semiconductor industry.”
“Semiconductor?” Jiang Miao didn’t really know the details of semiconductors: “Mr. Chen, can you tell me how this material can be used in semiconductors? I only have a vague understanding of the semiconductor industry.”
Chen Nanxian did not feel impatient, but explained in detail: “The material you developed can eject nanometer-level charged particles. The first application is in the etching machine. It can use the high-speed ejected charged particles to carve the required circuit on the wafer.”
Yang Shining wanted to be more direct: “In fact, we can go a step further and directly use injection casting to stack circuits on a nanometer scale.”
“Didn’t they say that foreign countries have achieved 3-nanometer and 5-nanometer processes? It’s hard for my material to achieve this scale, right?” Jiang Miao was a little puzzled.
Yang Shining shook his head and explained: “Mr. Jiang, in fact, the current lithography machines and etching machines cannot directly manufacture 3-nanometer and 5-nanometer circuits. Even 10-nanometer circuits are difficult. They just call it equivalent to 5 nanometers. The material you developed can manufacture 3-nanometer and 5-nanometer circuits.”
“Yes, we can use a process similar to multiple exposure. If there are no other defects in the materials developed by Mr. Jiang, we can indeed produce circuits at the 3-nanometer to 5-nanometer level.” Chen Nanxian said with a hint of excitement.
Yang Shining looked thoughtful: “Compared to producing general-purpose chips, it is actually easier to manufacture memory chips in terms of technology.”
“Indeed, the memory circuit structure is simple, and this material is easy to stack in multiple layers, making it easier to manufacture memory chips.” Chen Nanxian quickly proposed to Jiang Miao again:
“Mr. Jiang, I am serious about the cooperation I mentioned. This is a huge opportunity for both of our companies. Your company has no experience in developing semiconductors, but we can provide help in this regard. This is a win-win cooperation.”
Jiang Miao did not refuse: “Our company does not have experience in developing semiconductor products. It is difficult to quickly realize applications by building or acquiring a wafer fab now. However, our company has only started preliminary research on this material. How about this! We will first secretly set up a research and development center in Minqin to facilitate confidentiality and local research.”
“Minqin? That’s fine. Since we don’t involve production in the initial stage, it won’t hurt to set up a research and development base there.”
Jiang Miao certainly knew that Minqin was not suitable as a semiconductor base. After all, semiconductors are large consumers of electricity and water, and it also requires a place with few earthquakes, and Minqin clearly does not meet these requirements.
Therefore, he added: “If the technology matures in the later stage, it will naturally be produced at Yangtze Memory’s semiconductor base, and we will be the supplier of raw materials.”
“No problem.” Chen Nanxian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Jiang Miao did not insist on building a semiconductor production base in Minqin.
Jiang Miao continued, “Regarding this cooperation, I think it’s better for both parties to keep it confidential. At least our senior management will know about it, and other researchers must sign a confidentiality agreement.”
“Okay. It’s still unknown whether the technology will be successful. I agree to keep it confidential.”
The two sides discussed for half an hour and finalized some details of the cooperation.
Chen Nanxian and Yang Shining, who had left, rushed back to the headquarters without stopping, began to deploy troops and personnel, and transferred relevant researchers to secretly form a technical team for the Minqin Semiconductor R&D Center.