Zhou Zhen was stunned when he received the request from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The technology of ice engraving machine is basically familiar to users all over the world. Yuzhen Semiconductor is now fully capable of producing with 5nm process technology. Why should it suddenly keep it secret?

You must know that Zhou Zhen also wants to rely on this technological breakthrough in the field of semiconductor foundry to be well-pretended in front of global users... and gain a wave of reputation.

You must know that the semiconductor field in mainland China has been lagging behind the world for more than ten years.

Yuzhen Semiconductor now has the world's most advanced design level, coupled with the corresponding top chip production level, it is bound to become the brightest star in the industry.

This can greatly enhance the status of the domestic semiconductor field in the world.

I didn’t expect that such information would have to be kept confidential. Wouldn’t this cost Zhou Zhen his life?

You must know that if the news about this manufacturing process is revealed, Zhou Zhen and Yu Zhen Semiconductor will gain a lot of reputation points.

We can even rely on the corresponding technology to attract the attention of some users for chip foundry, although the current production line is still lacking.

When there are more ice engraving machines, Yuzhen Semiconductor's production line will naturally undergo large-scale expansion.

At present, many manufacturers are pursuing technological innovation and independent research. When the time comes, they can completely rely on joint design with these manufacturers and corresponding chip foundry to earn enough profits.

It can be said that if the news that Yu Zhen can produce 5nm OEM chips is revealed, Zhou Zhen will not only gain enough reputation points, but also get corresponding benefits.

"We are somewhat forced to do this because after all, the current leading chip manufacturing technology and most of the corresponding ultimate silicon raw materials are in the hands of other top semiconductor technology companies in the world!"

"Although Chinese companies have begun to purify and smelt corresponding silicon materials in recent years, the actual materials that can be used in chip semiconductor production are less than 1/40 of those in North America!"

"Nowadays, domestic semiconductor companies still need to develop dormantly. After the corresponding chip materials have a decisive breakthrough, they may be able to compete with the unscrupulous mid-gate of technology companies in North America!"

The explanation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is also very reasonable. After all, the current Chinese Academy of Sciences is more worried that the results it just made will be stillborn.

Without being able to completely break the entire global semiconductor system, the current Chinese Academy of Sciences still does not want to fully expose the latest technology in the field of semiconductor iron in China to the eyes of global users.

Although we are currently excited about Yuzhen Semiconductor's latest process technology breakthroughs, at the most critical moment, we still need to proceed step by step to prevent mistakes.

After Zhou Zhen heard the other party's explanation, a smile appeared on his originally tense face.

Materials! Haha? If the current production capacity of carbon-based semiconductor materials is not enough, it is estimated that carbon-based materials will be used on the just-released Tianxuan 8x1 and Tianxuan 9x1 processor chips.

It's just that although the current carbon-based materials can already be produced, because they have just been developed and produced, the overall material yield rate and cost are relatively high.

This also makes it impossible for the current Yuzhen Semiconductor to fully use this material in new chips.

However, according to the current production and R&D progress, large-scale mass production can begin in the second half of next year as the production technology becomes relatively mature.

By then, carbon-based chips will become new materials that shake up the traditional semiconductor field.

However, before that, in order to meet the import of silicon-based materials for chip production within the next year, Zhou Zhen still did not choose to expose carbon-based materials for the time being.

But starting next year, Yuzhen Semiconductor will have an overwhelming trend to carry out dimensionality reduction in the global semiconductor field.

"Okay, I understand!"

Zhou Zhen replied cheerfully, thinking about how to quickly get more ice engraving machines.

After all, the next development of Yuzhen Semiconductor will require more production capacity of ice engraving machine chips.

After all, although the current production capacity of an ice engraving machine can meet the development of the entire FlexPai, the number of remaining chips for outward expansion will become smaller.

Logically speaking, the chips designed by Yu Zhen Semiconductor are to be sold to other manufacturers.

Zhou Zhen hung up the phone, and in the next few days, he continued to receive calls from Yu Dazui and other colleagues.

When these manufacturers asked about Tianxuan chip foundry this time, Zhou Zhen answered directly: TSMC!

Regardless of whether the other party believed it or not, Zhou Zhen believed it anyway.

So a new rumor gradually spread throughout the technology industry.

The Tianxuan processor chips designed by Yu Zhen Semiconductor are all produced by TSMC, secretly produced in the dark at night after the lights are turned off.

This news even reached the ears of TSMC on the other side of the mainland.

"What a fucking fart! How could it be our TSMC? Who on earth made such malicious and slanderous rumors? This is to roast our TSMC on the fire!"

After Xu Cong, the head of TSMC, received such news, he couldn't help but slap the table with a crack.

You must know that the current overall development of TSMC is very smooth, but it also has more or less conflicts with the current global technology alliances.

And if this rumor reaches the ears of other technology companies, what will these technology companies think of TSMC?

Even if these technology companies knew that the news was false, they would still have other thoughts about TSMC.

TSMC, which has never been born in the face of suppression by the technology alliance, finally couldn't sit still after facing these rumors.

"The Tianxuan chip that has been circulated on the Internet recently is not produced by TSMC. I hope netizens will know it!"

Obviously at this time, TSMC quickly issued a corresponding statement in order to completely get rid of the difficulties caused by rumors.

After all, sometimes gossip kills people.

Other technology company executives who learned the news from Zhou Zhen, looking at the current reaction of TSMC, began to have new speculations about Yu Zhen Semiconductor in their minds.

However, before Yuzhen Semiconductor released any news, they were not good or dared to break it.

After all, the current Yu Zhen Semiconductor and the Zhou Zhen supply chain system behind it have brought new development trends to the entire technology industry.

Many manufacturers have even seen the infinite possibilities for future development of Zhou Zhen's supply chain system. Under such circumstances, the natural first choice is to hold on tight.

Don't even think about doing things that are thankless and easy to offend others.

The senior executives of these technology companies are able to make the company so big and are very shrewd in handling relationships with supply chain companies.

If others don’t tell me, I won’t point it out.

Mid October!

What is unexpected is that the Fire Dragon processor chip officially appeared in the public eye in mid-October this year. It can be said that this year's Fire Dragon processor chip explains what three generations are in a year.

There is the Fire Dragon 8gen1, which has mixed reputations and was scolded by users.

There is also TSMC Fire Dragon 8gen1, which has a recovering reputation and has completely acceptable performance and power consumption.

This time, Gaotong finally understood it clearly. Faced with the current market situation, he also began to consider the obstacles that his company was about to face.

The rise of MediaTek! Coupled with the sudden appearance of Tianxuan processor chips recently, Gaotong is extremely uncomfortable.

This time, the Fire Dragon 8gen2 processor chip still uses TSMC’s 4nm process, but there have been very big changes in the CPU design of the corresponding chip.

This time, Fire Dragon 8gen2 adopts the "1223" architecture.

One 3.12ghz x3 super core, two 2.72ghz a720 large cores, two 2.4ghz a710 mid-cores, and three 1.8ghz a520 energy-efficiency cores.

It can be said that the design of the chip this time is very bold.

There are five performance cores alone!

Of course, in terms of energy efficiency cores, the daily performance capabilities of these three energy efficiency cores are a little stronger than this year's Fire Dragon 8ge1!

And the corresponding test scores have also come out, with the single-core score reaching 1420 points and the multi-core running score reaching the level of 4660 points.

The overall multi-core CPU running score has basically reached the level of a15.

In terms of GPU, it uses the latest adreno740 graphics processor, which has a performance improvement of 30% compared to the previous generation of GPU.

In other aspects, the performance and power consumption of this time are basically the same as the previous generation Fire Dragon 8gen1.

It is said that the overall performance of Fire Dragon 8gen2 is improved by about 25% compared to Fire Dragon 8gen1, and the overall AnTuTu benchmark score is between 1.21 million and 1.24 million.

If combined with the latest ufs4.0 and lpddr5x transfer and storage protocols, the overall running score can be maintained between 1.23 million and 1.28 million points.

It can be said that this performance is very close to the a15 processor chip, and it can compete well with Tianxuan 1000.

Of course, as the corresponding revelations were released, netizens discovered that although this chip is powerful, it is still much worse than the Tianxuan 8x1 released in October this year.

Most netizens even think that the performance level of Tianxuan's processor chip has completely surpassed that of many mobile phone chips in terms of energy consumption ratio.

However, Fire Dragon has also tried its best. This chip can be said to be the processor chip that has cost Gaotong the most effort and energy among the Fire Dragon processor chips in recent years.

In order to ensure its current market share in the high-end flagship market, Gaotong maintains performance and power consumption at a balanced point on this chip to ensure the improvement of the daily use experience of this chip.

It's just that the current Fire Dragon processor chip has completely destroyed the reputation that it had managed to build in the past few years in the past two years of development. This makes it difficult for most users to regain their trust in the Fire Dragon processor chip.
Chapter completed!