Boss Jia felt very helpless about this result. After all, from his point of view, Hua Xia's first wave of professional esports clubs had already been established. The esports system was also as comprehensive as possible under the Daqian's support. However, there was nothing he could do about the decline of the third wave of esports.
"Hua Xia has a market, but it doesn't have enough players and players who are proficient enough!" The president of Daqian Esports, Huang Xufeng, concluded when he reported to Boss Jia.
"Even though we have a population of 1.1 billion, we have far fewer computers, consoles, and handhelds than other countries. Therefore, we are a truly weak esports country. We lack the soil to cultivate esports experts. This is an indisputable fact!"
"Forget it …" Boss Jia felt very helpless when he heard this because this was an unavoidable fact. In the whole of 1998, Hua Xia's economy was still not very good. Computers and consoles were all luxury goods. The number of players was indeed very low, even though Boss Jia worked so hard to manage the esports industry.
In fact, it was because of Boss Jia's management of the esports industry that other countries' esports industries, such as Korea and Fusang, began to develop ahead of time.
Fusang entered the era of the OGN esports league seven years earlier than history. Fusang did not have its first professional esports league, LJL, until 2015. Therefore, Boss Jia entered the esports industry ahead of time. Although it could be said that Hua Xia's esports market was established ahead of time, it also pushed other countries with stronger esports foundations into the development of the esports industry ahead of time.
Therefore, in the end, it was Boss Jia's fault.
But then again, as long as Hua Xia's population base was there, Hua Xia's computers and consoles would be popularized. In the future, esports would still belong to Hua Xia sooner or later. However, Boss Jia could start to make money more than ten years earlier.
That's right. Due to the rapid development of the esports industry, Daqian Esports had already made a profit this year. Although the final profit was only a few hundred thousand USD, this was a good sign. Esports was finally no longer a scam.
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"Teacher, there won't be any problems this time, right?"
"If you have any more questions, I will quit. You are my teacher!"
This was the conversation between Ni Guangnan and Jia Yapeng.
After the failure of the experiment in the first half of this year, the entire research center was in a miserable state. Ni Guangnan chased after them like a crazy wild dog, forcing them to do all kinds of calculations and improvements. In the end, the data reset that was originally planned to take about a year to complete was completed in less than six months.
Therefore, Ni Guangnan once again invited Boss Jia to the research center to observe the second experiment. Then, he asked the question above.
Since Ni Guangnan dared to say this, he naturally had confidence.
Because our Chief Engineer Ni had learned his lesson from last time. He didn't even know the results of the experiment before he invited Boss Jia over to take a look, which made him lose face.
Therefore, this time, the experiment was actually repeated three times. After each success, he called Boss Jia over. Ni Guangnan didn't want to lose face a second time.
The results were naturally predictable. The experiment was very successful. After an hour of work on the lithography machine, the first batch of products was produced. Boss Jia personally tested it.
On a finger-sized piece of monocrystalline silicon, there were a total of 102 million transistors. This was more than 500 more transistors than the AMSL 70nm lithography machine. Therefore, this experiment was undoubtedly a great success. The Daqian lithography machine technology was now at the top of the world.
Seeing this result, Boss Jia's eyes were a little wet.
For a full six years, Boss Jia started planning and building this research center six years in advance just for this lithography machine. Now that it finally caught up, how could Boss Jia not cry?
Of course, this actually didn't mean that the Daqian had really caught up with the world's advanced standards. Although the number of transistors reached the standard, it couldn't be compared with the AMSL lithography machine in other aspects.
First of all, the yield rate.
The lithography machine developed by the Daqian could process 100 wafers in an hour. Currently, the chips used in the lithography machine were basically 10-inch wafers. One such wafer could be cut into about 100 chips.
But this didn't mean that a lithography machine could produce 10,000 chips in an hour. That would be 240,000 chips in a day.
Because the yield rate still needed to be considered.
Although one wafer could be cut into 100 chips, this didn't mean that all the engraving processes could be perfect.
Just like when printing and copying, it was inevitable that some black spots, omissions, and ink stains would appear. The lithography machine, which was supposed to be used for lithography, was more prone to all kinds of errors. Otherwise, the lithography machine wouldn't have to be produced in an absolutely dust-free, constant temperature, constant humidity, and constant light workshop. Any slight environmental change would lead to a myriad of differences in the engraving results.
But no matter how careful the engraving was, errors would still occur. And in the chip, as long as there was a problem with one transistor during the engraving process, it might lead to the entire chip being destroyed and unable to be calculated.
And this kind of problem was almost inevitable.
Therefore, after the wafer engraving was completed, the next process was to test whether the chip could work normally. If it couldn't work normally, it would be directly turned into a waste product.
In the end, among the 100 chips cut from a wafer, how many chips could work normally and pass the test represented the yield rate of the lithography machine.
As a veteran lithography machine manufacturer, AMSL's yield rate was only 65%. Sometimes it even fell below 50%, but this was already the highest level in the industry.
As for the lithography machine built by the Daqian, Boss Jia helplessly found that only 17 chips could work normally after checking the 100 chips cut from a whole wafer. The remaining 83 chips were all failures.
Therefore, the current yield rate of the Daqian lithography machine was only 17%, and the AMSL didn't even have 13%. This meant that three Daqian lithography machines were comparable to the efficiency of one AMSL lithography machine. It was only natural that the buyer would choose.
In addition to the crucial problem of the yield rate, the lithography machine in front of him was only a prototype. If he wanted to reach the level of a mass-produced model, there would still be many problems.
In addition, in the laboratory, many patents could be used whenever they wanted, and there was no need to worry about the patent issue at all. But once it was launched into the market, if the lithography machine used patents or technologies that were not authorized, it would definitely bring an astronomical amount of compensation.
In addition, there were also problems with the packaging technology, the detection technology, the lens, and so on. A lot of problems were placed in front of Boss Jia.
In general, although the technology had been broken through, it was still far from enough to actually manufacture and compete with the AMSL and other companies!
The revolution had not been successful yet, comrades still needed to work hard!
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