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Chen Yao checked the points on the Universal Space USB flash drive, and now the pan-entertainment points have become 0.
The fourth partition of the USB drive is Cancer, which requires 800 points and the difficulty has doubled.
Ignore this for now, Gemini has just been lit up, and there are many black technologies in it that have not yet been obtained.
If you can successfully develop a chip, it can bring you hundreds of billions of income, which is an astonishing number, and you can reach the pinnacle of life.
What¡¯s more important is that you can get rid of the stranglehold of the Americans. No one wants their lifeline to be in the hands of others.
Chen Yao has mastered a complete set of technologies from chip design to production, but it is impossible to create a chip production line by just tapping his head.
Even with the help of golden fingers, we must follow the laws of reality.
The industrial chain involved in the chip industry is very large and complex. It is not like the hero in some novels who has a system and can create a production line out of thin air.
Even if it were created out of thin air, it would still not be possible. Not to mention other things, without a photolithography machine, a chip factory alone would not be able to do it.
In the afternoon, Chen Yao called Professor Zhong Guoqiang from the University of Science and Technology.
He is not only an artificial intelligence scientist, but also a top expert on AI chips.
"What, you want to make a chip?" Upon hearing his call, Professor Zhong wondered if he had heard wrongly.
?? Can the most cutting-edge things in the world¡¯s electronics industry be developed by just a start-up company?
With decades of technology accumulation and tens of billions of R&D funds invested in the company, Huawei has only managed the chip design aspect, while the production aspect has been strangled.
????????????? Chen Yao is very vocal, saying that the design, development and production of chips must be done in one stop.
I really don¡¯t know who gave him the courage?
"I advise you to think carefully. Chips are not as easy to make as you think. The investment is high and the risks are high. Many domestic semiconductor companies have gone bankrupt."
Zhong Guoqiang is worried that he came up with the plan in a hot head. It is a good thing for young people to be motivated, but don't be carried away by enthusiasm.
Chen Yao said confidently: "I never do anything I'm not sure about, so don't worry."
Zhong Guoqiang said: "Come to my laboratory and I will talk to you again."
3 pm, Shencheng University of Science and Technology.
Professor Zhong Guoqiang, in addition to teaching, spends most of his time in the laboratory doing research.
At this moment, he was wearing a lab coat and facing a microscope to observe the fine density of graphene material.
"Professor, I'm here." Chen Yao walked in.
Every time I see him, he is so energetic. Professor Zhong smiled: "To be honest, have you really fully assessed the risks of making chips?"
There are really too many hot-headed chip companies in China, and the number of companies that have gone bankrupt can¡¯t be counted on ten fingers.
The chip industry seems to have bright prospects, but in fact it is a pit, a huge pit that most people cannot jump over and fall to death in it.
Chen Yao said with a serious face: "Legend making chips is not a question of whether we should do it or not. It's a matter of what we must do."
"You know, the artificial intelligence our company is doing now requires high-end chip support, and these technologies are all controlled by the United States. Once they are blocked by their technology, our company is likely to be paralyzed."
A big tree attracts attention, and now the products made by Legend Company have been targeted by the United States.
"I never fight an unprepared battle. I definitely have confidence and I am very sure of it."
Zhong Guoqiang smiled. Although I don¡¯t know where his confidence comes from, he can always give people strong confidence.
"The R&D and production of chips is very complex. Where do you plan to start?"
The industrial chain is very long, and it is impossible to swallow it all at the beginning. Focus on the key points and make breakthroughs in key areas.
The question is, what are the key areas?
In the field of design, Huawei has reached the top level. The key lies in production. There is no top chip foundry in China.
Chip manufacturing includes many processes such as deposition, photoresist coating, exposure, development, etching, transplantation, and stripping.
??Among them, exposure is the key to chip production. If you want to make high-end chips, you must use a photolithography machine.
What the hell is a lithography machine?
To put it simply, its working principle is a bit like a projector, but its precision requirements are very high. It draws patterns and highly complex circuits on a wafer that is only a few nanometers.
A big boss once described how difficult it is to make a high-precision photolithography machine?
It¡¯s like two planes, moving hand in hand from takeoff to landing. One plane stretches out a knife to carve words on the rice grains of the other plane.
It is no exaggeration to say that making a photolithography machine is more difficult than making an atomic bomb.
There is only one company that can make high-end lithography machines in the world today, which is ASML in the Netherlands, called ASML in Chinese.
ASML¡¯s lithography machines monopolize more than 70% of the global market. It is the absolute overlord in high-end lithography machines made of 7nm and 5nm.
This company was very inconspicuous before 2004. It was born in a small laboratory of Philips, the razor company.
Fortunately, we caught the tide of the times and developed a new generation of photolithography machine technology, which immediately beat the Japanese Nikon company to pieces.
ASML occupies an absolute monopoly in the field of lithography machines.
A lithography machine costs about 120 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to the price of a Boeing aircraft. It weighs 180 tons and involves 100,000 parts.
These parts are all from the world¡¯s top high-tech suppliers!
No country in the world can independently produce lithography machines, not even the United States.
From this point of view, you know how difficult it is.
Professor Zhong Guoqiang said seriously: "The biggest reason why China cannot produce top-notch chips is because of the photolithography machine. The technology gap between ASML and ASML is too big."
Having money is a passport. This is not simple. If you buy a few photolithography machines from ASML in the Netherlands, you can produce them, right?
The key is that rich people will not sell it to you. Although ASML is a Dutch company, it is actually controlled by the United States.
"Zhongxin International", the best chip foundry in China, purchased two ASML lithography machines, but they have not shipped them for several years.
So don¡¯t have any illusions about foreign technology, self-reliance is the right way.
Chen Yao has made up his mind to master the lithography machine before making chips!
"Are you really sure you want to make a photolithography machine?"
Chen Yao nodded with a serious look on his face: "We must build a lithography machine, and we must surpass ASML!"
"The ideal is really lofty. This kid thinks about things that you don't even dare to think about."
Being able to reach Asmai¡¯s level is awesome, but he still wants to defeat him.
But think about it, in the field of lithography machines, it is impossible to tolerate two tigers. Either you die or I die.
If you can't surpass him, the only outcome is to wait to be defeated.
In the field of high-end lithography machines in the world, only one company can be allowed to exist.
Professor Zhong extended his words and said: "Later, I will take you to meet someone. It depends on you whether you can change the times!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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