711. CCDs and CMOS
It turned out that in the previous life, after two years, Shintian Yong suddenly woke up, he began to mingle with others in the underworld.
Later, after choosing to be an intelligence broker, it was through his former colleagues at the National Materials Research Institute that they were able to continuously produce information from the Materials Research Institute.
The channels he has passed are nothing more than those colleagues who are not very satisfied with the materials research institute, especially those colleagues in China who are not very satisfied with the situation, are not very successful, and are constantly discriminated against by the Japanese.
It was through these channels that he was able to provide himself with information continuously, and he even boasted to him at that time.
Of course, I can't miss such an opportunity in this life!
After hearing Tian Zhiyong's affirmative answer, Li Yifan nodded. The second important transaction of this meeting has been basically completed, so it is time to enter the third important transaction.
"Endo, I don't know how much you know about high-end ccds in electronics and microelectronics. I believe there should be many such devices, and you have done a lot of corresponding research, right?"
Li Yifan's sudden question caught Endo's master off guard. He thought he had completed the transaction before, but he felt a little relaxed. Endo, who wanted to take a bath while enjoying snacks, almost choked on Li Yifan's sudden question.
Because this issue is not an ordinary product, but another thing that concerns the Japanese people as treasures. This guy has such a big ambition!
First, he reached out to the special metal smelting that the Japanese were good at. Then the second time he put his hand directly into the Japanese pocket and began to take out the electronic technology that the Japanese were good at. Now he actually reached out to the Japanese head and touched the crown above their heads. Do you think this guy is brave?
Speaking of this Japanese people, there are quite a few treasures in their pockets, such as automobile manufacturing, let’s not talk about these, but talk about the relatively high-end, special metal smelting and the production of high-end electronic components. It can definitely be considered.
But even if these two things are combined, they are not as good as the high-precision machine tools that the Japanese value most, and this high-end ccd technology.
To put it bluntly, this high-end ccd technology is camera technology. It is divided into current scientific fields and involves comprehensive knowledge in optics, chemistry, and physics.
As we all know, if you want to play with optical equipment, the German Zeiss can definitely be called the world's no.1!
However, according to the current industrial development, this optical equipment can no longer be used in scientific research, but also in the production of high-end products, such as the lithography machine specially used to make integrated circuits and cut wafers.
The high-end lenses on it are not something you can pull out by bragging or just pulling.
The essence of a lithography machine lies mainly in this lens. With it, it means accuracy, and in this regard, our country has always lacked it.
Not only is my country lacking, but many countries in the world lack technology. This kind of machinery is known as the most sophisticated machinery in the world at present. For a truly high-end lithography machine, the resolution of its lens is even required to be between tens of nanometers and a few microns. This shows how high this kind of machinery requires lenses.
So far, there are only three companies in the world that can independently produce this lithography machine.
One is Aslm from the Netherlands, and the other two are Nikon from Japan and Canon from Japan!
The lenses of the Aslm in the Netherlands and their lithography machines are mainly from Germany, while the lenses of the Nikon and Canon in Japan are self-produced.
Such a machine costs tens of millions of dollars, the lowest one costs 30 million US dollars, and the lower-end one costs more than 10 million US dollars, which shows the huge profits of this thing.
A large chip processing factory often requires hundreds or thousands of units of such machines, so why do those chip factories invest so much, and often invest billions of dollars?
It is because the investment of this lithography machine is big, and it will cost billions of dollars to go down dozens of machines at will.
Later, when the two chip manufacturing companies in Baodao invested and built factories, they used billions of dollars to calculate, and they also used a lot of them, both of which were Japanese second-hand mobile phones.
Such lithography machines have too high requirements for precision. If they don’t have decades of effort, they probably won’t be able to figure it out. According to the domestic scientific research situation, unless the country is willing to make a big investment, we will never be able to catch up with others.
Li Yifan had no intention of doing it himself. After all, the difficulty of this thing is too great. But since we can't handle the whole machine, we can do this camera.
Now in terms of international market scope, the Japanese CCD is the dominant one. Although the Germans can also share a part of the market, they can only occupy a certain amount of high-end market.
In the mid- and low-end markets, Nikon and Canon are the mainstream!
In the next few years, it will be an era when card machines exit the market, and digital cameras will quickly become the mainstream of the market. However, what no one expected was that it will take less than ten years to go, when the leader of the Qiao Gang launched a monster like a smartphone, digital cameras will soon be launched on the market.
The digital camera that has just been hyped is now very popular. Although it is very prosperous now, it can't last for ten years. I'm afraid many people have never thought of such an ending, right?
But no matter what, in the next six to seven years, this digital camera will be popular for a while, so there are still some ccds.
These days, there are not many companies that can build good cameras, namely Kodak in the United States, Zeiss in Germany, Nikon in Japan and Canon in Japan, and several companies.
However, in a few years, such a scene will be quickly reversed. Samsung and several companies in Baodao will start with computer video cameras and quickly seize the Japanese mid- and low-end camera market.
Then with the rise of smartphones and the rapid decline of digital cameras, in the mid- and low-end ccd market, it will completely become the world of Samsung and Baodao companies. Even some domestic companies will get a share of the low-end ccd market!
But their greatest energy is to occupy the middle and low ends until they occupy the middle and high end products field, but their share has never been large, and it can even be said to be none. In that field, it has always been the world of Germany, the United States, and the Japanese.
Especially in Japan, the cameras they produce can really be said to be of good quality and low price. This is why their lithography machines can divide the world from the Dutch Aslm. Maybe they are not the most advanced, but their products are definitely the most cost-effective.
This is an absolute high-end market. Maybe we can't get those high-end lithography machines, but what if we can get this lens?
So Li Yifan took it for granted and hit the Japanese.
Because he knew that part of the predecessor of Japan's National Materials Research Institute was the National Inorganic Materials Research Institute of Japan, and this research institute first focused on research in the fields of chemistry and optics.
Back then, companies like Nikon and Canon spent a lot of money in this research institute. It can be said that these two companies can reach this day in the field of cameras, which is absolutely inseparable from the technical support of this Materials Research Institute.
Endo Dato looked at Li Yifan with a wry smile, and then said.
"Mr. Li, it seems that you know very well about our National Institute of Materials!"
Li Yifan smiled and shrugged, nonsense, I never fought and was ready for a war!
"To be honest, when we were still the Inorganic Materials Research Institute, we have indeed been focusing on the CCD field. However, after we merged into the National Materials Research Institute, with the increase in investment from Panasonic, Canon, and Nikon, in recent times, the Materials Research Institute has begun to change directions and has begun to increase efforts to develop like C-Touch S."
"Oh? So that's how it is?"
Li Yifan was a little confused when he heard this. After all, he was not very clear about the knowledge involved in the field of high-end cameras.
"CCD technology and C-Touch S technology are actually two types of charge-coupled elements that convert optical images into digital signals. However, in terms of urban and rural clarity, the imaging clarity of C-Touch S, that is, the resolution is higher than that of C-Touch S. However, C-Touch S technology has the advantages of low energy consumption and low cost. Therefore, the Materials Research Institute and several major optical camera research companies in Japan all believe that C-Touch S will have great achievements in the future market. Now, Sony is insisting on C-Touch technology, but I think they can't stand it for too long. After all, it's hard to sing alone. The production cost of this C-Touch S is too high..."
If it is not high, how can it be high? Hehe, if this ccd is done well, it can definitely be used in optical technology equipment.
Li Yifan said with a smile in his stomach, but since the National Institute of Materials has begun to increase efforts to study C-s, can't I miss this?
After all, most of the cameras used on popular smartphones in the future seem to use C-Touch S technology cameras!
"Haha, so that's the case. That's really a coincidence. It has both ccd technology and cushion technology. This is really great. Did you say it's not? Mr. Endo?"
Chapter completed!