Great Country Academician

For a chip, its manufacturing principle is known to the whole world.

In simple terms, it is nothing more than designing and planning the circuit diagram first, then extracting high-purity silicon crystals from the sand, cutting them into wafers, then coating and etching, and finally integrating tens of billions of transistors on an area the size of a finger, and cutting them into single chips.

But in this whole process, the technical difficulties and cutting-edge equipment involved are the key core.

For example, the purification of single-crystal silicon requires a single-crystal silicon growth furnace, the design of chip circuits requires EDA software, and the engraving of transistors requires a photolithography machine, etc.

Among a series of technical and equipment problems, the most difficult one is the photolithography machine.

The more advanced the chip, the higher the requirements for the photolithography process, which also means the higher the requirements for the photolithography machine.

Especially for chips at the 7-nanometer level, only the EUV ultraviolet lithography machine of ASML in the Netherlands can do this process.

And the manufacturing of EUV ultraviolet lithography machine, needless to say, the technical difficulty.

For countries that are not Western interest groups, as long as you still need to use chips, then the lithography machine is a threshold that cannot be bypassed no matter what.

Especially the United States, which has tried to control the entire semiconductor field and the development of other countries, has never worked.

But now, at this product launch conference, a technology that can prepare chips without a lithography machine suddenly emerged?

Looking at the technology displayed on the big screen, the press conference site was almost boiling.

The technology that can prepare chips without a lithography machine is like a thunderbolt for the semiconductor manufacturers present, especially for the representatives of TSMC, Samsung, ASML and other manufacturers.

If the release of carbon-based chips was a devastating blow to semiconductor manufacturers such as Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and Nvidia at the beginning, it didn't matter to foundries such as TSMC, Samsung, and ASML.

After all, the preparation of chips always requires foundries. Perhaps SMIC, as the first company to produce carbon-based chips, can take a lot of orders, but other foundries will also be allocated resources.

They are the real production equipment companies, not only mastering various equipment for chip processing, but also mastering the core cutting-edge lithography machines.

But now, it's their turn to panic!

Staring at the big screen on the stage, TSMC's vice president Hou Yongqing couldn't help swallowing his saliva, his pupils under his glasses slightly dilated, and his fingers under his suit couldn't help trembling.

It turns out that what China wants to do is not to replace the silicon-based chip-related industries with carbon-based chips.

What they want to do is to subvert the entire semiconductor industry!

Not only the ecological chain of silicon-based semiconductors, but also the upstream means of production, they want to grasp the whole in their own hands!

If the production of carbon-based chips still requires lithography machines, then both the United States and TSMC can use this to negotiate with them.

At least, they can use cutting-edge lithography technology and a complete processing industry to force Xinghai Research Institute to open up the carbon-based chip and carbon-based semiconductor industry chain, so that they can join in and share a piece of the pie.

But what if the production of chips no longer requires lithography machines?

This is a terrifying thing for both TSMC and the entire semiconductor industry.

Xinghai Research Institute, or China, is creating a new world of carbon-based chips, and the silicon-based semiconductor industry will be abandoned by them.

This ship of the times not only has no place for old semiconductor companies such as Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, but also no place for semiconductor foundries like them.

At 11:30 in the morning, the product launch of carbon-based chips officially ended.

Although Xinghai Research Institute prepared lunch and banquets in the hotel, it is obvious that not many semiconductor manufacturers chose to attend this event.

Almost all the representatives of manufacturers participating in this conference quickly walked out of the venue as soon as the report ended.

Some wanted to quickly return to the company headquarters to report the relevant work, some wanted to talk to the senior executives of Xinghai Research Institute, and some wanted to talk to Xu Chuan.

Inside and outside the venue, many media reporters who participated in this press conference were also looking for people to interview.

After all, the product launch of carbon-based chips attracted so many presidents and vice presidents of top semiconductor manufacturers, and it is basically impossible to interview them at ordinary times.

But unfortunately, at this meeting, few presidents or executives were willing to be interviewed. Even if the media reporters put the microphone to their mouths and chased them for interviews, it was difficult to get them to stop for a moment.

Of course, there are definitely people who are willing to be interviewed.

For example, Liu Fengxun, the president of SMIC, happily accepted the interview with the media reporters.

"Mr. Liu, when will carbon-based chips be able to go to the market and be officially commercialized?"

"Hello, Mr. Liu, what is the cost of carbon-based chips? Compared with silicon-based chips?"

"Hello, Mr. Liu, is it true that carbon-based chips no longer require photolithography machines for preparation as you said at the press conference?"

"Mr. Liu."

Liu Fengxun, the president of SMIC, who was blocked in the venue, looked at the media reporters who surrounded him, listened to the various questions that seemed to be racing against time, and answered them one by one with a smile on his face.

"As for when carbon-based chips can be fully marketed and officially commercialized, I can tell you that it can be done now! At least we have prepared the mature Longzang generation series of memory chips, and I believe that its excellent performance will be discussed at the press conference. I also saw that it can be said that it completely crushes Micron Technology’s UMCP5 flash memory products!”

“As for the cost of carbon-based chip products, I don’t deny that the current cost of carbon-based chips is indeed a little higher than that of traditional silicon-based chips.”

"But for a newly emerging industry, this is an inevitable problem. Whether it is high-quality carbon nanotube materials, the scale of the industrial chain, even the preparation technology of carbon-based chips, or even the size of the market, it all affects The cost of carbon-based chips.”

"Just like mobile phones more than ten years ago, for most ordinary people, they are expensive luxuries, and only rich people can afford them. But now, we can say that almost everyone has one. Even people in their 80s and 90s can now buy mobile phone products at will.”

"And I believe everyone has seen the excellent performance of carbon-based chips. If it uses the same level of manufacturing technology, its performance will far exceed that of traditional silicon-based chips. Even if the price is slightly more expensive, I believe the market will do it." out of choice.”

"Of course, we are also optimizing and adjusting the production process of carbon-based chips. We believe that we will soon be able to reduce the cost of preparing carbon-based chips."

"As for whether carbon-based chips no longer require a photolithography machine to prepare, I believe that in the future, we can communicate with the 'laminated weaving engraving technology' to prepare low-nanometer chips! This is also our goal!"

"I can stand here and guarantee that in the next three years, SMIC will invest at least 10 billion every year in the research and development and optimization of carbon-based chip technology!"

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Perhaps out of joy, or perhaps out of some pride and bragging, the president of SMIC answered every reporter's interview question one by one.

After all, we have been targeted by those unfriendly Western interest groups for so long, and today we finally have the opportunity to be proud of ourselves in the areas where the other side is best at. How can we not 'show off' our country's technology and strength more?

When the product launch of the carbon-based chip ended, the video of the scene was quickly spread to every corner of the world through the Internet.

It was obvious that those who were shocked by this product launch were not only the manufacturer representatives who attended the launch, but also countless ordinary people and consumers who were paying attention to the launch.

Carbon-based chips are actually real!

Moreover, Xinghai Research Institute has also produced a memory chip on site that is fully capable of commercial use, which is simply unbelievable!

After the video of the product launch was leaked, relevant news reports quickly became hot searches on major platforms.

[Holy shit, it’s really made of carbon-based chips! ? 】

【Awesome! (roar)】

[Carbon-based chip? Oh my god, is SMIC so awesome? Did you actually get this out? 】

[It’s not SMIC, it was created by the Xinghai Research Institute led by Sichuan God. 】

【? ? ? ? No, when did Sichuan God go to study chips? Never heard of it at all! 】

[I didn’t believe it at first, but if you say it was Sichuan God who did it, then I will believe it! 】

[And carbon-based chips don’t require a photolithography machine! Completely bypassing Lao Mi’s sanctions! So fierce! 】

[Hahaha, laugh! Do you remember that a large number of experts and scholars said that carbon-based chips are impossible to achieve? People now? Where are people? If you're not sick, come out and take two steps and squeak! Does your face hurt now? It's crackling! 】

[Isn’t a product launch just a place for bragging? Who doesn’t know how to brag about the concept of carbon-based chips? You don’t need a photolithography machine yet. Let’s learn more about semiconductors before talking about it. 】

[Ah, yes, yes! You know better than the big guys who attended the press conference. There are many CEOs of Intel, AMD, Apple, Samsung and other companies that you boast about. You should sit in their seats. 】

As the news spread to the Internet, discussions about carbon-based chips and semiconductors quickly occupied the top of the hot searches on major online platforms like a single spark that can start a prairie fire.

Almost all netizens who saw the news couldn't help but click on the relevant news reports, and even couldn't help but comment or give a like or something in person.

Carbon-based chips!

This technology has been discussed for N years and is considered to be China's overtaking technology in the field of chips. In the past ten years, this technology has been denied by countless people and thought to be unworkable, but it has successfully worked!

This made almost all Chinese people feel deeply surprised at this moment.

Of course, there is more pride!

Those Western countries that have been deeply involved in the semiconductor field for decades have not been able to do things, but they have done it, and they are still in the cutting-edge technology field of chips. Isn't this proud enough?

For a time, almost the entire Chinese population was looking forward to the arrival of the carbon-based chip era.

Even the Dragon series of smartphones, PCs, routers and other products previewed by Warwick at the press conference are all highly anticipated.

In any case, no matter whether there are still people who continue to secretly smear carbon-based chips, or whether there are still people who can't eat grapes and say sour grapes.

In short, carbon-based chip technology is completely popular!

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