IT之家 May 17 news, in last night's 央视 program "对话", Yin Zhiyao, chairman and general manager of 中微半导体设备（上海）股份有限公司, known as the "father of China's etching machines", said that in December 2023, 中微 decided to enter the field of large flat-panel equipment (previously, about 17 types of process equipment were all dependent on imports). This equipment weighs 150 tons, is 15 meters long and 15 meters wide, and is as tall as a two-and-a-half-story building.

According to Yin Zhiyao's experience, developing such equipment would take at least 3-7 years. However, 中微's elite team took only 12 months to build a functioning equipment from scratch, less than 4 months to meet the customer's next-generation requirements, and 18 months to ship it to the production line and pass approval. He said that now they have the ability to produce the most advanced equipment.

According to information obtained by IT Home, Yin Zhiyao was the first Chinese international student to join Intel. After working in the United States for over 20 years and holding hundreds of patents, he single-handedly helped build two world-class equipment companies. At the age of 60, he resolutely gave up his million-dollar annual salary to return to China and start a business, at a time when China's semiconductor equipment market was almost nonexistent. He then founded and led AMEC (Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China) to become one of the leading etching machine giants, on par with the American companies he had previously worked for.

According to Yin Zhiyao, when he returned to China, no employees were allowed to bring any files; they started from scratch using blank computers. Twenty-two years later, AMEC's market value exceeded 200 billion yuan, and its equipment entered the supply chain for TSMC's 5nm and 3nm advanced process nodes. He himself also regained Chinese citizenship.

According to CCTV Finance, today China's semiconductor equipment has achieved a breakthrough from zero to a systematic capability, with mature process nodes largely self-sufficient, and core equipment now among the world's first tier. In areas of weakness, the gap with international levels is also continuously narrowing.

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