"Hello, distinguished gentlemen. My name is Lin Benjian. I'm an engineer from TSMC!" Lin Benjian looked at the Fusangpeople in front of him and said in broken Japanese.
"I'm from Hua Xia, not Fusangpeople!" Boss Jia said lightly in standard Mandarin. Lin Benjian was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that the person who called him from the front desk to the Mercedes-Benz commercial car was a Hua Xia man.
"You're from Taipei, and Kaohsiung …"
"I'm from Hua Xia!" Boss Jia repeated his words. Lin Benjian's eyes immediately revealed a different feeling. There seemed to be a hint of contempt in his tone. He shook his head and said, "Sir, it seems that you have found the wrong person. Please let me get off the car. I have something important to do." Lin Benjian nodded.
"I'm Jia Yapeng, the chairman of the Daqian Group. I can help you!" Although Boss Jia was very unhappy in his heart, he also knew that in the eyes of the Bay Area people, the Chinese were all a bunch of paupers.
Well, not in this year. Even in 2020, most people in Wanwan still thought so.
"I don't know any Daqian Group. Please let me get out of the car!" Lin Benjian shook his head and insisted on getting out of the car.
Seeing that Lin Benjian's face was still full of disdain, Boss Jia was stunned and then asked, "You really don't know our Daqian Group?"
"Why? Hua Xia is just a small company. Do I need to know it?" Lin Benjian said in a slightly sarcastic tone.
"Let him get out!" Boss Jia waved his hand. Boss Jia's bodyguards let Lin Benjian get out of the car.
"You guys keep an eye on this guy. Don't leave his sight for a moment!" Boss Jia ordered the bodyguards. Two bodyguards immediately got out of the car to keep an eye on him.
"Go to the company and find someone with good acting skills. Let him …" Boss Jia said a few words to his secretary. The secretary nodded and the car left the entrance of Nikon.
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"These damned Fusangpeople … I can't believe that even mainlanders can afford Mercedes-Benz. How dare they put on airs in front of me. I wonder if they rented it." Lin Benjian was drinking to drown his sorrows in an izakaya. He originally wanted to get himself drunk, but unfortunately, Fusang's sake wasn't intoxicating at all. The more Lin Benjian drank, the more miserable he felt.
"Sir, it's not a good thing to drink alone. Both of us are lonely and pitiful. Why don't we drink together?" A middle-aged man walked to Lin Benjian's side and said in Japanese.
Since someone was drinking with him, Lin Benjian didn't refuse. The two of them started drinking and chatting casually.
The middle-aged man was probably drunk, so he took the lead to tell his story. He said that he was an engineer at Nikon, but he was not valued by the company's top management. Many of his research results were ignored, and he was very talented.
This made Lin Benjian feel the same, and then he said, "I'm the same. The top management is not optimistic about my project. They want me to negotiate with those damned companies, but they don't even want to see me. Now, I really have no other choice but to go to the Netherlands!"
Once Lin Benjian opened his mouth, he immediately started talking non-stop.
It turned out that Lin Benjian was originally a researcher at IBM. He worked at IBM for 22 years. Later, because he was excluded within IBM, he jumped ship to TSMC and became a deputy research and development manager. He was a middle-level manager with a certain status. Lin Benjian studied imaging technology.
Lin Benjian really wanted to do a career. He accidentally learned that the technology of the lithography machine was stuck at the 70nm level. The current giants in the lithography machine industry, namely Nikon, Canon, and Samsung, were all stuck at the 70nm level and couldn't make any progress.
Because the limit of the traditional dry imaging method at this time was 70nm. This was a physical limit, and it was too difficult to surpass this limit.
Facing this dilemma, almost all lithography machine manufacturers began to invest a lot of money in dry imaging. They thought that they could only continue to make breakthroughs in dry imaging.
Lin Benjian accidentally learned about this. Combined with the immersion imaging method he was studying, Lin Benjian suddenly felt that this was the way to continue to improve the lithography machine.
So Lin Benjian proposed to TSMC to study the immersion lithography machine.
As a result, TSMC was shocked. Although they were one of the largest electronic manufacturers in the world, their main job was production. Research and development was secondary. They had no intention to develop a national treasure like the lithography machine.
TSMC rejected Lin Benjian's proposal very straightforwardly. They didn't even approve the research funds for Lin Benjian. Then they painted a pie in the sky and told Lin Benjian that as long as he could find a lithography machine manufacturer willing to cooperate and let them accept Lin Benjian's proposal, TSMC would consider cooperating with him to design the lithography machine.
So Lin Benjian first went to South Korea and found Samsung.
Later, he went to Fusang to find Nikon and Canon to promote his immersion imaging method. The result was the same as Lin Benjian's treatment at Nikon. He was humiliated and kicked out.
Nikon, Canon, and Samsung did not have any approval for Lin Benjian's idea. Instead, they severely reprimanded Lin Benjian. Lin Benjian even heard that these two companies pressured TSMC to fire Lin Benjian, who was disrupting the market. Although TSMC did not reply, Lin Benjian already had a bad feeling.
"I don't understand. I'm doing scientific research. Why doesn't everyone recognize me?" Lin Benjian lamented. He couldn't help but cry.
"Sigh, I understand you very well. Those bastards at Nikon don't know what technology is at all!" The Nikon engineer said empathetically.
"Friend, wait for a while. I'm going to the toilet. Let's talk later!" The Nikon engineer said and went to the toilet.
However, he was still drunk just now. As soon as he went to the toilet, he immediately became smart. Then, he called Boss Jia and told him all the information he got from Boss Jia.
"Immersion imaging method to create a photolithography machine!" Boss Jia muttered. In his previous life, he didn't know anything about the photolithography machine. He only knew that Huawei was severely strangled by the photolithography machine. However, Boss Jia didn't know the specific principles of the photolithography machine.
He also didn't know the story of Lin Benjian, a legendary figure.
Fortunately, Boss Jia himself was a top student. When he learned from Ni Guangnan, he more or less grasped some knowledge about the photolithography machine. He was not a noob. In fact, he knew the current situation of the photolithography machine very well. He was also clear about the current predicament of the dry imaging method.
"Immersing in water to create an image. Will this method work?" However, even the genius Boss Jia was completely confused when he heard the idea of completely abandoning tradition and immersing the lens in water to create an image.
"Hurry up, call the teacher's house and let Teacher Ni answer the phone!" Boss Jia immediately ordered his secretary. As a result, Ni Guangnan's wife answered the phone and said that Ni Guangnan was still in the laboratory.
"This old man doesn't want to live anymore!" Boss Jia muttered and then continued to call the laboratory. He connected the phone with his teacher and quickly told Ni Guangnan about the idea of the immersion imaging method.
Then, for a full ten minutes, the other end of the phone fell into complete silence.
"Teacher! What do you think? "Boss Jia couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know …" This was a voice that Boss Jia had never heard before. He said blankly, "From a theoretical point of view, this makes some sense. This path may work, but it may also be a dead end. If we take this path, it may cost billions of dollars, but all of it will be wasted. There won't be any results!"
"Then, can we take this path?" Boss Jia asked.
"I don't know … You make the decision …" Ni Guangnan was also terrified, so he threw the decision back to Boss Jia.
It seemed that this old man was also afraid of being blamed.
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