Chapter 95 Atomic Imprinter
The current chip technology is simple, it is very simple, it is to engrave patterns in silicon wafers and inject conductive impurities to form switches.
It is also very complicated to say that it is complex. If it is at the centimeter level, the texture engraving and conductive impurities injection are fine, but if it enters the nano level, it will be very troublesome to complete these processes.
However, Huang Haojie saw another processing method from the handling capacity of c31 fullerene.
That's right, it is to directly use the handling capability of c31 to carve the textures on the silicon wafer and inject conductive impurities into copper plating. These processes can all be completed by c31.
However, the premise is that Huang Haojie completes precise control of c31 fullerene.
Semiconductor Research Institute, Micro-Charging Laboratory.
A dozen researchers and engineers are debugging a huge instrument.
The Semiconductor Research Institute's own atomic printer.
Zheng Xinwang is a semiconductor master's student who just graduated this year. He never thought that he would come to work at Galaxy Technology.
Originally, he wanted to go to the doctoral program, but unexpected events happened. The doctoral program supervisor he applied for just now, and Zheng Xinwang happened to meet Galaxy Technology recruiting, so he came to work at Galaxy Technology.
After coming to Galaxy Technology, Zheng Xinwang discovered that the semiconductor technology that Galaxy Technology is studying has subverted all current chip manufacturing processes.
He was carefully manipulating the carbon nanoprocessing needle through an electron microscope and computer, carving it on the silicon wafer.
It took them half a month to complete this five-nanometer-level carbon nanoneedle to make this carbon nanoneedle.
Enter the circuit diagram of the chip into the computer, then calculate it through the computer, and cooperate with an electron microscope.
The carbon nanoneedle is quickly carved out the circuit grooves on the silicon wafer. The principle is very simple. The C31 of the carbon nanoneedle combines with the silicon atoms on the silicon wafer under the stimulation of specific conditions, and then removes the silicon atoms from the silicon wafer, thus forming a groove.
When countless grooves are connected together, a groove circuit is formed.
"Xinwang, how about?" a middle-aged man with gray hair came over and asked.
"Mr. Zhao, I am adjusting some data. The five-nanometer level is too small, and there is still an inaccurate circuit engraving of about 43." Zheng Xinwang said helplessly.
Gong Zhao did not show any disappointment.
"Everything is difficult at the beginning. Keep working hard, I'll go and take a look."
Of course, Zheng Xinwang knew that this kind of thing was too urgent, because once the first circuit chip was carved out.
Then the next step will be very easy.
On the other hand, Xingtu Company also took a lot of money and directly merged three domestic semiconductor design companies in Dongtang.
The domestic chip manufacturing industry is not good, but the chip design industry is still sloppy, such as Huawei's HiSilicon, which is a top semiconductor design company.
Huang Haojie, who had no time to procrastinate, directly asked Wang Bosi to launch a silver offensive and used the merger to give birth to the chip design capabilities of Star Map Company.
Du Wei and others, together with chip designers obtained from three semiconductor design companies and a large number of 30-90-nanometer chip patents purchased by Zhang Rujing, began their own design plan.
Although these chip patents have been eliminated by others, they do not mean they are all garbage. After all, many things in chip design are connected.
For example, a 5-nanometer chip design can be used in a 50-nanometer chip. The same is true for a 50-nanometer chip design on a 5-nanometer chip.
Doing this may lead to a regression in chip performance and original design, but the key lies not in chip design, but in chip manufacturing.
After all, you can design 1nm-level chips, so what if you don’t have the ability to make 1nm-level chips, everything is a mirror.
Just like Huawei's chips, your HiSilicon Semiconductor has very powerful design capabilities, the problem is that you do not have the chip manufacturing capabilities.
Once there is any winter melon tofu in Taiji Electric, Huawei Company will have chip shortages or supply cuts. This is not going to end.
The same is true for China News Service. In 2016, Mi Lijia was ruined by the Mi Li family. The fine of billions of yuan is equivalent to the profit of China News Service for two years, so it was in vain.
Huang Haojie would rather study it slowly than easily leave the production of core components to Weiguoren.
Like Sanxin, companies like to do things like this the most, whether it is the screen or memory of the mobile phone.
Dram, that is, dynamic random access memory, is our most common system memory.
Memory (such as memory sticks) in a mobile phone or any smart device is composed of a single or multiple dram particles.
According to data in 2016, the global Dram market size is about US$41 billion, of which Sanxin sk Hynix and Micron have shown a three-point market share, with the three companies occupying more than 95 market share, and the industry is characterized by oligopoly.
Sanxin has absolute advantages in both process capacity and share.
After the first mass-producing 20nmdram process in 2014, it once again led and mass-produced 18nmdram.sk Hynix mass-produced 18nmdram in early 2017. Micron is still on the road to 20nm and is expected to complete the migration to 1xnm-level products in the second half of 2017. The gap with Sanxin technology is about one year, and the industry monopoly tends to increase.
If Sanxin's factory is burned, it means that the memory output will drop by 57, and the supply and demand will be greatly imbalanced, so the world's memory will inevitably increase its price.
So these guys' factories will always catch fire for no reason or have some chemical pollution, and the memory stick price will soar.
Lao Ma once said: Once there is a proper profit capital, it will become bolder. If there is a profit of 10, it will be guaranteed to be used everywhere; if there is a profit of 20, it will become active; if there is a profit of 50, it will take risks; for the profit of 100, it will dare to trample on all human laws; if there is a profit of 300, it will dare to commit any crime or even risk the gallows.
This is the essence of capital.
So, it is best to be prepared for a way out for cooperation with these guys, otherwise they may be cheated to death.
Star Tu Design Company has initially designed a 5-nanometer-level chip. Of course, since it is a trial design, they directly copied some of the chip designs made by Qualcomm Intel.
Anyway, this design is just to test the performance of the atomic printer, and Xinghe Semiconductor has no intention of producing and selling it, so there is no problem of patent infringement.
This 5-nanometer-level chip consists of a total of 32 layers of circuits.
Therefore, the micro-engraving laboratory needs to carve out 32-layer circuits, but considering that extracting a little silicon atoms will be very slow and will not be conducive to large-scale production.
Therefore, Huang Haojie took a different approach. His solution was very simple. He separated the 32-layer circuit, carved a silicon wafer in one layer, and then made nanoneedles on these circuit grooves to complete the production of these nanoneedles.
You can directly make circuit printing machines. These circuit silicon wafers with nanoneedles can carve out a layer of circuit at one time.
A silicon wafer can complete 32-layer circuits as long as it is printed 32 times.
Of course, in addition to circuit printing machines, the Semiconductor Research Institute also needs equipment such as circuit injection machines and copper plating machines.
These devices are made based on c31 fullerene, so they are also called carbon nanocircuit production lines.
The first step in this method is to accurately complete the original film, which is the key point in producing the chip.
For example, this 5-nanometer-level chip designed by Xingtu Company requires 32 original sheets. Based on these 32 original sheets, 32 circuit printing heads, 64 circuit injection heads and several circuit copper plating machines are made.
These original films cannot be made incorrectly, otherwise problems will occur when the chip is produced or even scrapped.
Once these original films are made, the next work will be very simple.
This situation is equivalent to using laboratory methods to make high-precision chips, and then directly copy them with this high-precision chip. The two are produced exactly the same.
All atomic printers are the key equipment of Galaxy Technology, and c31 fullerene is the top priority.
Chapter completed!