Interstellar Energy Tycoon

November 2029.

Suhong City, Industrial Park.

Xingyuan Bingyun Chip Manufacturing Company, in the clean room workshop.

Nan Yibing, who is wearing a mask and a white coat, still has shrewd light in his eyes, which can always bring people a kind of confidence and peace of mind.

But only inadvertently, the employees can notice the exhaustion and anxiety deep in her eyes, even though she is always calm and composed on the surface.

Three hundred days.

She has been working overtime for more than 300 consecutive days. The average daily working time is more than 12 hours. She never takes a day off on weekends and stays in the factory during holidays. She is even more workaholic than a workaholic.

And no one knew that she actually went to the hospital for two minor operations and got some things out. Although they were all discharged on the same day, the negative sequelae were still not small. For a few days, the pain was so painful that she couldn't sleep at night.

until now.

Such a crazy job with overtime down the line.

Nan Yibing can feel that his body is obviously sub-healthy, and his energy can't keep up. The aunt only comes once every two months, and she is a bit of early menopause symptoms.

His complexion also changed a lot.

Many parts of the body are sending out signals of being overtired.

If it weren't for the anger in her heart, she wouldn't be able to persist until now, she would have relaxed long ago and given up the pursuit of her goal.

After all, in June of this year, her Xingyuan Bingyun company had conquered the manufacturing technology of 5nm chips, caught up with the domestic first-class echelon, and was able to achieve a yield rate of 80%, with better energy consumption performance , which once caused a sensation in the industry.

However, Xingyuan Bingyun's 5-nanometer chip has not achieved mass production, nor has it been introduced to the market. Even if billions or tens of billions of chip foundry orders came in, Nan Yibing also chose to reject them all.

"Our company does not make second-rate chips, but only super-first-rate chips."

This is Nan Yibing's reply to those interested customers, and it also makes the employees under him excited and more motivated.

They worked overtime for two consecutive months. In August, they successfully developed a 3-nanometer advanced chip, reaching the leading level in China, with a yield rate of about 50%, which also exceeded Huaxin International’s 30% yield level. Top domestic first.

at this time.

If Nan Yibing changes his strategy and announces that Xingyuan Bingyun Chip Company will officially enter the chip foundry market, it is estimated that it will cause a huge sensation, immediately get no less than 100 billion chip foundry orders, and the profit margin will not be less than 50% %, like turning a stone into gold, using cheap sand as a raw material to create chip products whose value is much higher than gold.

And at the right time!

Because the current Huaguo has entered three new eras, the demand for high-performance chips continues unabated.

One is the era of smart electric vehicles. On average, each electric vehicle needs to consume thousands of various chips. Reliable chips, to replace the previous 28-nanometer chips, the number should be reduced to about 200, and the computing power should be increased by more than ten times. The saved power can increase the battery life of electric vehicles by two or three percentage points, that is, electric vehicles Entered the track of high-performance chips.

The second is the era of artificial intelligence and supercomputing. Needless to say, artificial intelligence is used everywhere in people's work and life, and the demand for computing power is huge. Even ordinary home computers do not have a 100 billion times. With chip computing power, many high-end online entertainment cannot be enjoyed.

The third is to enter the era of virtual online games.

That's right, it is the kind of game that needs to wear a helmet and enter the virtual reality environment. It can already achieve 99% visual fidelity, and can use the form of consciousness + gesture control to experience the content of the virtual game. When the game AI After learning your operating habits, you can know what the player wants to do even with a change in your eyes. The accuracy is extremely high, and the game experience is amazing. It is infinitely close to mind control.

But whether it is a server device for building virtual online games or a gaming helmet for players, the requirements for chip performance are too high.

The total computing power on the server side must not be lower than 100 billion billion operations per second, which requires a P-level supercomputer to run.

The computing power driving the gaming helmet should not be lower than 5 billion operations per second, which is equivalent to a small supercomputer, otherwise it will not be possible to obtain a smooth gaming experience.

However, such a huge computing power can only be provided by low-process high-performance chips, and low power consumption must be guaranteed.

At present, in the world, only the equivalent 1.5-nanometer chip produced by Baoji Electric Co., Ltd., which integrates hundreds of billions of transistors, can use a single computer CPU to obtain a terrifying computing power of 655 billion billion, which barely allows players Let's play virtual online games.

But the yield rate of this chip is only 5%.

The price is 150,000 per piece, and there is no market for it, so it is snapped up all over the world.

The power consumption performance is also very good, because the superconducting material of Xingyuan Group is used, and it works at a low temperature of minus 90 degrees to ensure high performance while keeping the temperature under control.

Even so, Baoji Microelectronics has not been able to make much money from this 1.5nm chip, because the yield rate is too low, and it cannot make huge profits unless it is increased to more than 20%.

However, Nan Yibing's current technological research project is to continue to break through to the equivalent of 1 nanometer on the basis of the successfully developed 3 nanometer chip.

The number of integrated transistors is not less than 1 trillion.

The computing power of a single chip is no less than 1 billion billion operations per second.

The performance of power consumption is basically the same.

The yield rate must not be less than 20% during manufacture.

It is necessary to comprehensively crush the most advanced level of Baosmoc chip foundry company.

only……

Is this possible?

Baojidian is the overlord of the chip foundry, with more than 100,000 senior engineers, more than 30 years of technology accumulation, and trillions of dollars invested in the research and development of the most advanced process chips. If the ground does not move, it will take at least ten years for people to catch up.

Xingyuan Bingyun Company only has more than 3,000 senior technical personnel.

The total R \u0026 D expenditure is less than 100 billion, and it has not even achieved any results in the market. It is completely fledgling.

Such Xingyuan Bingyun company, what can they compete with? Why do you boast that you dare to say that you will create a chip equivalent to a 1-nanometer process?

That's right.

The technical difficulty is indeed very great.

I have encountered countless technical difficulties along the way, and many times I have despaired of solving the problem.

But now, Nan Yibing's confidence has increased from the previous 50-50 to more than 90%, and he is confident enough to produce a chip equivalent to 1 nanometer within this year.

And ensure that the yield rate is not less than 40%, and the performance, power consumption and other performances can beat the equivalent 1.5nm chips of Baoji Electric.

Because Nan Yibing has several advantages in his hands.

Her right-hand assistant, Xi Chanjuan, a 30-year-old short-haired business woman, concluded:

"Mr. Nan, the photoresists, electrochemical gases, and wafers used by our company are all high-tech materials purified by space factories, with a purity of more than 18 nines. The purity of the raw materials is at most 11 or 2 nines. Although it has been purified to the extreme on the ground of the Azure Star, how can it be compared with our space materials? In terms of the purity of the raw materials, we are the first to win the round."

"Second, the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine we use is more advanced, with less stray light, higher power, and higher irradiation accuracy. We have tuned it to the most perfect working state, as well as post-process lithography machines and ion implanters. , cleaning equipment, etc., all of which are domestically produced first-class machines, which are not weaker than similar foreign equipment, and also cooperate closely with the technical personnel of the manufacturer to participate in the adjustment, and they have all reached perfect working conditions to ensure that there will be no accidents. any mistakes."

"Furthermore, the chip manufacturing process we choose is not a traditional large-scale integration technology, but is divided into an instruction management module, a logic operation module, and a data storage module. The management module is manufactured using a 5-nanometer process to ensure sufficient reliability; logic operation The module is manufactured using a 3nm process technology, and then stacked three-dimensionally, with at least 20 layers. The transistor structure of the logic operation module is simple and highly repetitive. Even if the manufacturing process is low, it can ensure a high yield rate; It is also a 3-nanometer process, but it takes about ten layers of three-dimensional stacking to ensure sufficient data capacity; finally, the three major modules are connected through superconducting materials and packaged into a single CPU. This is the so-called small chip splicing technology. It is complicated and troublesome, but it can significantly reduce the risk of failure and improve the yield rate of a single chip. After being combined together, the overall yield rate is also significantly improved. Even if the total number of transistors exceeds 1 trillion, it can still be normal and stable. At most, the power consumption is slightly higher, and the data exchange is a little more troublesome, but it is not a big problem.”

"Finally, another advantage of our Xingyuan Bingyun company is that the proportion of female employees is very large, exceeding 60%, and the male employees are only less than 40%. On the one hand, it is not tiring to work with men and women; on the other hand, our female employees are generally more careful. , I am more patient, and many male and female employees become partners. After solving the single problem, they can devote themselves to work wholeheartedly. Those who have children can be taken care of in the company nursery. There are few distractions. There are many beautiful engineers, and many excellent chip talents have jumped to our company, and the salary drop can be accepted. After leaving the order, they can often calm down and work without always thinking about changing jobs to raise wages. The talent team is very stable, which is why we One of the strengths of the company."

Hearing Xi Chanjuan's words.

nod.

Nan Yibing nodded repeatedly, and had to admit that she summed it up very well.

In particular, among the more than 5,000 employees of Xingyuan Bingyun Company, there are 3,000 female employees, accounting for more than 60%. Nan Yibing did it deliberately, and during the interview process, he tended to recruit beautiful women. At least you have to have a good figure and facial features, and you have the potential to become a beautiful woman after dressing up.

It doesn't matter if they have a university engineering education background, they will receive professional training.

Then, using these beautiful employees as bait, they poached many single chip talents in their thirties, and promised to help him solve the problem of his partner.

The reason why a large number of high-quality beauties are willing to join Xingyuan Bingyun Company is because of the high monthly salary of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan; Come here often for inspections, to cheer everyone up"——just because of this sentence, many beautiful job applicants, except Xingyuan Bingyun Company, do not join, because they can meet the national husbands and have the opportunity to have some contacts.

After joining Xingyuan Bingyun, I found out that I was cheated. The national husband Li Xingyang only came to inspect every two or three months. He brought many bodyguards with him. As long as there were more women gathered at the scene, he would make excuses and leave in a hurry. He could not see her for a year. National husband twice.

At this time, Nan Yibing packaged himself as a technological pioneer representing the vast number of independent women. He wanted to break the world's stereotypes of their women and lead them to create chips that shocked the world. He wanted to represent the majority of women and win the world's number one chip field. one! It proves that they are no worse than men, and can even do better... Do ideological work for the female employees of the company, pour a lot of chicken soup, but those female employees love this set, all of them are full of enthusiasm and energy.

Even many media praised it vigorously, erected it as a banner, and attracted more female employees to join Xingyuan Bingyun Company, making Nan Yibing a role model for many women to admire and learn from.

hey~

In fact, if there is a better way, Nan Yibing does not want to be such a banner and role model.

Because she knew it was very hypocritical and not true.

She claims to be independent, but if she is not backed by the giant Xingyuan Group, it is estimated that the bank will not agree to a large loan to her.

If it wasn't for the name of the boss, Li Xingyang, there wouldn't be too many female job seekers interested in Xingyuan Bingyun Chip Company.

Even her Nan Yibing's purpose of making an equivalent 1-nanometer chip is for her own future happiness, to win the bet she doesn't want to lose and can't lose.

She relies on and needs that man everywhere, yet she becomes a representative of women's independence and self-improvement. This is really...

But no matter what!

1nm chips must be made! She has bet everything and must not become a loser.

...

November 12-22.

In this round of pipeline chip tapeout experiments.

All kinds of good news came one after another.

"The tape-out of the 5nm instruction management module is successful! The yield rate is 85.3%, which fully meets the mass production standard."

"The tape-out of the 3nm logic operation module is successful! The yield rate exceeds 90%. After completing the 20-layer three-dimensional stacking, the overall yield rate is 45%. Difficulty."

"The large-scale tape-out of the 3nm data storage module has been successful! After three-dimensional stacking to ten layers, the overall yield rate is 47%, and it can quickly increase to more than 50%."

"The assembly and packaging of the three major chip modules is complete! The efficiency rate of the chip function is 97.5%, the maximum computing power exceeds 1 billion billion operations, the power consumption can be suppressed, and it maintains a stable working state."

"Successful, we have successfully created an advanced chip equivalent to a 1-nanometer process! We reached the top, proved our ability, and achieved the number one in the world. As long as we put our 1-nanometer chip on the market, we will definitely get it. Countless orders, grab a large number of chip foundry orders, and you will be able to make a lot of money next year!"

The technicians in charge of chip testing said extremely excitedly.

These good news also made more than 5,000 employees in the factory fall into boiling and carnival, hugging and crying for each other.

As the boss, Nan Yibing was quite calm and just breathed a sigh of relief.

She said to her assistant Xi Chanjuan: "Xiao Xi, give Li Xingyang a call and ask him to come over tomorrow and fulfill the promise he made with me."

"Good Mr. Nan."

Xi Chanjuan nodded and started making calls.