Interstellar Industrial Age

In the huge chip manufacturing factory, engineers and scientists are constantly busy. The entire chip manufacturing process is extremely complex and the requirements are very precise. Coupled with strict requirements such as dust-free, every link of the entire factory needs to be carefully, Careful design.

The technology of chip manufacturing is not a secret. Just like an aero engine, everyone knows its principle, but you just can't make an aero engine as advanced as others.

The same is true for this chip. It is not without reason that it and aero-engines are called the jewels of the industrial crown.

The manufacture of chips, starting from the transformation of quartz sand into monocrystalline silicon, and then into silicon wafers, has to go through extremely complicated steps such as IC design, IC manufacturing, IC packaging and testing, etc.

Everyone knows the whole process of chip manufacturing. There are many books on chip manufacturing on the market. This is no secret.

But there are very few countries in the world that can turn sand into gold.

Qin Yi carefully visited the factory and looked at the busy figures of the engineers. Many of them had just left the campus not too long ago, and their faces were still immature, but everyone was very serious.

The chip manufacturing technology also has very complete technical information in the science and technology tower. The reason why Shen Xu can master the core technologies of chip manufacturing very quickly.

On the one hand, it is because the chip manufacturing technology itself is bad. Everyone understands that the key is to see how to do it. On the other hand, Qin Yi has taken out a lot of key and core technical materials from the science and technology tower.

With these core and key technologies, coupled with large sums of money, and with the help of various precious equipment and instruments, it is reasonable to manufacture chips.

"It is expected that our factory will be almost ready for production by the end of June."

Shen Xu said while walking with Qin Yi.

"However, our factory only does photolithography, ion implantation, dry etching, wet etching, plasma rinse, heat treatment, thermal oxidation, chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition and other steps."

"The steps of wafer silicon, circuit design, mask manufacturing, etc. are not in this factory, but chip equipment cannot be completed by a factory."

"In the future, we plan to find a place specifically to establish a chip manufacturing industry group that will bring together all the steps, factories, etc. of the entire chip manufacturing."

Qin Yi looked and listened carefully. Regarding the chip, Qin Yi really intends to take everything into his own hands.

Unlike other industries and fields, Galaxy Technology Group only makes the most profitable cores, such as anti-gravity aircraft and anti-gravity spaceships. Galaxy Technology Group only does the core anti-gravity engine, controls the positioning and navigation system, etc. Others can Outsource as much as possible.

But the chip is different. Qin Yi intends to do it himself from start to finish. One is that chip manufacturing is a real high-precision technology field.

Even if it is the initial process of purifying and refining quartz sand into wafer silicon, there are not many companies in the world that can do it, not to mention the subsequent IC design, IC manufacturing and other processes. Do.

On the other hand, it is still a security consideration. Only when you master all the core things can you be guaranteed. It is very uncomfortable to be stuck in the neck.

"The annual output value of the chip industry exceeds 1.5 trillion US dollars worldwide.

This is a very large industry, doing well, but with great potential. "

Qin Yi smiled and nodded.

This chip manufacturing is also a pillar industry of Uncle Sam. Intel, Qualcomm, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, etc. are all familiar chip giants.

These chip-related companies can create more than $200 billion in output value for Uncle Sam every year and contribute tens of billions of dollars in profits.

More importantly, the chip is the core of modern industry. Whether it is mobile phones, computers and other electronic equipment that we use every day, or our bank cards, CNC machine tools, etc., small chips are inseparable.

If you can open a gap in this field, you can not only grab Uncle Sam's cake, but also strengthen your own chip manufacturing technology and ensure the safety of your own chips.

Time is passing slowly.

Qin Yi also attaches great importance to chips, and he will come to the chip factory for a walk almost every other day.

Soon it will be the end of June, and the chip factory can finally be put into production.

On this day, Qin Yi came to the chip factory early, ready to witness a miracle.

Originally, chip manufacturing was a major event, something worth celebrating and publicizing, but Qin Yi chose to keep a low profile and a low profile after thinking it over and over again. It was just the internal side, the company executives and the heads of various research institutes of the research institute came here. They presided over the commissioning ceremony together, and did not make any public announcements.

"Start~"

Under the gazes of everyone, Wang Xu gave the order gently.

Soon, the entire huge factory began to operate. Unlike ordinary factories, this chip production factory is very quiet, and the sound of the machines is very low. In addition, it is a dust-free and fully automated factory. more quiet.

Qin Yi and others came to the front-end area of ​​the factory, and saw that silicon wafers were sent into the production line one by one, and were cut into very thin pieces under the sharp blade of a high-precision automatic slicing machine.

"This is a silicon wafer. Its purity reaches 99.999999999%. By converting the quartz sand into a silicon wafer, its value has been increased by tens of thousands of times."

Shen Xu acted as a commentator, and while showing everyone around, he also explained every step of chip manufacturing in detail.

"Everyone, please see, this is the circuit diagram we designed. Did you find anything special?"

Soon, under the leadership of Shen Xu, everyone came to the place where the IC was engraved.

The engraving of the chip is different from the general engraving. It uses light and shadow engraving. In simple terms, it is to coat the photosensitive material on the wafer, and then use ultraviolet rays to irradiate the silicon wafer through the mask, and it will be easy to be illuminated. It is washed away, and the unphotographed areas are left as they are, so the desired pattern can be carved on the silicon wafer.

The complex circuits on the chip are engraved on the wafer in this way, and the key core is the circuit of the chip.

Qin Yi looked at the circuit displayed on the huge display in front of him. It was very complicated.

But soon, Qin Yi discovered the difference in the circuit diagram he thought he had seen.

The circuit diagram in front of me looks a bit like an abacus. It seems like tiny abacuses are mixed together in an extremely complicated way to form an extremely large and complex circuit diagram.

"It looks a bit like an abacus~"

Lin Ye is a complete layman and doesn't know anything about technology.

But after he took a closer look, he soon discovered something special.

"Haha~ Lao Lin can see it."

"Yes, our chips are different from traditional chips. Traditionally, chips are complex circuits designed based on binary. Our chips are decimal circuits based on abacus operation rules."

Shen Xu smiled and explained to everyone.

In a fully automatic and intelligent factory, the machines are constantly running and very few workers are needed. Of course, the workers here are not ordinary workers, they are actually engineers.

After half an hour, Qin Yi and the others finally arrived at the end of the factory. As time went by, the chips that had been produced were delivered here.

Qin Yi took a chip and observed it carefully.

The chip is only the size of a fingernail and is very thin. The logo of Galaxy Technology Group is branded on it. If you look closely, you can find that it has extremely small and complex patterns.

"Such a chip is worth more than 1,000 Chinese dollars, but only when its quantity reaches a certain level can we be profitable."

"The higher the quantity produced, the lower the cost of it."

Shen Xu also held a chip and said with a smile.

"It's only 1,000 Chinese dollars, so it's not expensive~"

When Lu Qingwei heard this, he said somewhat unexpectedly.

"It's not expensive, do you know that this thing is made of sand, how much is a bit of sand worth?"

When Liu Peiqiang next to him heard it, he couldn't help but curl his lips. This Lu Qingwei is getting more and more inflated now. This chip is worth thousands of Chinese coins, and he actually said it is not expensive.

"Of course I know it's made of sand. Originally, I thought this chip was very expensive, but I didn't expect it to be as expensive as I thought."

Lu Qingwei said with a smile.

"A single chip is already worth thousands of dollars. You must know that the number of the chip market is very huge. If nothing else, the number of mobile phones in the world is billions of units. You can imagine, If our virtual machine comes out to replace mobile phones and computers."

"In the field of chips alone, even if a chip costs 1,000 Chinese dollars, you can calculate how much its output value is."

Liu Peiqiang smiled and shook his head.

When Lu Qingwei heard this, he immediately counted with his fingers.

"This chip is worth 1,000 Chinese dollars, and these 100 million pieces are worth hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars. If the output reaches 1 billion a year, it will be worth trillions of Chinese dollars~"

"I'm obedient, it's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked, the market demand is too great."

After careful calculation, Lu Qingwei couldn't help but exclaimed, the market demand for this inconspicuous chip is too great, and if you calculate it casually, its annual market value is also trillions of dollars.

"Hehe~ Now the global chip market exceeds 1.5 trillion US dollars!"