Chapter 160 Development and Confidence
Huawei HiSilicon and ZTE Microelectronics are both large domestic chip design companies. After receiving instructions from the head office, they hurriedly organized a team to come over.
At the main venue, domestic chip design companies sent more or less people to watch here.
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Currently, in China, in addition to Huawei HiSilicon, ZTE Microelectronics, Unigroup News, and China Microtian, Huiding Technology, etc.
These top domestic chip designers and Long Totem chip designers are discussing chip design under the new process.
Next to the black-clothed nanowire textile machine, a large number of computers were arranged, and together with the laptops brought by these chip designers, the heat emitted by these computers has caused the indoor temperature to rise a lot.
Wang Zhiyuan and Lu Qifu, who passed the internship inspection in October this year, worked in the Lilong CD business department for a month and officially joined the Long Totem Micro Circuit Design Laboratory last month.
At this time, they were explaining some problems to several colleagues.
"Researcher Wang, why does this transistor design adopt this shape?" An engineer in his thirties asked with some hot face.
After all, they have been working on chip design with lithography for life, and now they have to take a strange path and ask for advice from the newly graduated novices. It is indeed quite embarrassing.
"This design is inspired by the four-sided knots in the knot. The purpose is to ensure that the transistor is not penetrated, and it is also to facilitate manufacturing." Wang Zhiyuan explained while drawing a sketch on the draft paper.
"So that's it." The middle-aged engineer nodded.
Wang Zhiyuan immediately explained: "Because the inspiration of textile technology comes from textile, embroidery, and knots, we will refer to professional books on the law."
After quickly writing it down, the middle-aged engineer asked some other questions.
During the preliminary exchange, chip designers from various companies found that chip design by textile method has the benefits that lithography is difficult to achieve.
For example, in the design of multi-layer three-dimensional chips, the textile method is simpler than the lithography method, and this simplicity is reflected in the manufacturing process.
The difficulty of photolithography is not too great in manufacturing single-layer chips. As more and more transistors are needed to arrange, smaller and more complex transistors, multi-layer three-dimensional chip design emerged.
But to put it bluntly, it is the nano version of printing technology. Printing technology is suitable for large-scale manufacturing of planes, but in three-dimensional structures, it is obvious that it is not suitable for the local environment.
Huawei HiSilicon engineers who do chip design often lose their hair by three-dimensional structure. Although the three-dimensional structure of a single-layer transistor is still simple, everyone knows that the future direction of chips is to move from plane to three-dimensional, and the structure of chips will become more and more complex in the future.
The textile law provides another idea. In the design and manufacturing of three-dimensional structures, textile method has natural innate advantages.
Now, photolithography methods require photolithography, etching, and ion implantation back and forth on single-layer transistors. Once the multi-layer three-dimensional stage is entered, the hairline of all design engineers will only retreat faster.
The basis of manufacturing process determines the difficulty of product design.
On the other side of the venue, there is a small meeting room.
Li Yingjie put down the design sketch of the electronic control chip in his hand, saw an old acquaintance walking in, stood up and greeted, "Old Zheng, you are well-developed."
The middle-aged man with a national face is Zheng Shengbiao, who had previously switched from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to Long Totem. He smiled and replied, "Just make a living."
"I heard that the option incentives of Suiren Company are good, so I should give you shares, right?" Wang Cunjie asked enviously.
"It's really good. It's a virtual stock of Long Totem Company. Are you interested in coming?" Zheng Shengbiao said, and then invited him.
"Okay, Zheng Shengbiao, you're so blatant." Li Yingjie cursed with a smile, but he said immediately:
"Savejie, you can consider it. After all, the prospects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are just that. By the way, Shengbiao and Long Totem should have external consultants, or cooperative laboratories, etc., right?"
Zheng Shengbiao nodded: "It is true, but the core laboratory generally does not accept external consultants, only contracted scientific researchers. After all, there are many sensitive technologies in it."
"Oh?" Li Yingjie thought: "Where is the progress of your new generation of nanowire textile machine?"
"Haha, this cannot be said."
Li Yingjie, who is a talented man, obviously read some information: "It seems that your progress is good."
"After all, three generations of people live together are perfect." Zheng Shengbiao said obscurely.
Three generations live together? Li Yingjie and Wang Cunjie reacted instantly.
The industry generally has a model of one generation of production, one generation of reserve, and one generation of R&D. Although many companies can only achieve one generation of production, one generation of R&D.
From Zheng Shengbiao's subtext, they knew that the research and development progress of the black-clothed nanowire textile machine may have entered the third generation.
This information shocked Li Yingjie and Wang Cunjie.
In fact, Zheng Shengbiao deliberately revealed this information to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which was secretly instructed by Suiren Company.
Now that Suiren Company wants to develop a brand new chip system, it must give it confidence, and has already reserved a generation of black-clothed nanowire textile machines and is developing the third generation. This is a huge confidence.
Li Yingjie, who wanted to understand the purpose, smiled and said, "To be honest, your mouth is not so leaky. It was Suiren Company who asked you to penetrate it!"
"The third generation is real, and the second generation can already be produced, but the current single-machine chip manufacturing efficiency is still a bit unreachable."
"How much precision and efficiency?" Wang Cunjie asked in a low voice.
Zheng Shengbiao said a data: "40 to 50 billion transistors per day, with an accuracy of 20 nanometers."
"It's a lot." Wang Cunjie said concisely.
Zheng Shengbiao shook his head: "No, the number of CPU transistors is now in the order of 1 billion. A production line produces forty or fifty CPUs a day, which is not useful at all."
Wang Cunjie also expressed his understanding. After all, they are scientific researchers, and their ideas are relatively simple. Naturally, commercial thinking cannot be like this. He changed the topic: "I personally am very optimistic about the technology of textile chips. After all, in the future three-dimensional structure, textile methods have great potential."
After picking up a piece of chip design information, Li Yingjie sighed a little: "When Huang Xiuyuan said that, he was willing to do so, and he actually directly disclosed the design ideas and details of textile chips."
"I can't bear to leave my children and can't trap a wolf." Zheng Shengbiao spread his hands: "The ecology of textile chips requires the support of domestic companies. Mr. Huang did this to enhance the domestic chip design foundation. After all, foreign semiconductors will not give up."
"Yes! Next, there will definitely be a storm." Li Yingjie felt deeply.
It was not that there was no plan to develop independent chips in China, but because of various reasons, they all ended in vain.
Even the development of domestic operating systems before was due to Microsoft's intentional piracy, resulting in the domestic system still in the womb.
Now Suiren Company has even dug up the roots of Western semiconductors, and they are already very restrained if they are not in a hurry.
The tightening of the import of precision instruments is just a foreplay.
Next, Western semiconductor companies and the big capital giants behind them will definitely find ways to destroy the promotion of textile chips and Fuxi architecture.
Chapter completed!