Since I Was a Special Soldier

　　No technology can be invented for no reason. Although genius scientists may speed up the progress of technology research and development, genius scientists also need to spend money.

　　 It can be said that all the technological advancement of mankind is the result of money. Jiang Yanhai seems to be speeding up scientific research, and it seems that it doesn't cost much.

　　 But is that really the case? Not really.

A very simple matter, as for the last time, Jiang Yanhai was going to the research institute near Yangcheng to have a video contact with Professor Liu and Professor Hu. At that time, the entire research institute was in a closed state, and all scientific research activities were suspended. The holiday is the holiday, the rest is the rest, and the things that should be executed behind are executed behind.

　　 These all cost money! Some studies have stopped for a day, and the power of the computer is not a small number.

　　 And Jiang Yanhai wants to use any super calculation, he calls any super calculation, and even directly uses the strategic reserve, don't the strategic reserve need money? These are all money.

　　 Therefore, scientific research does not save money, but Jiang Yanhai is more efficient here. Others may produce an effect with 10,000 yuan, and Jiang Yanhai may produce an effect with one hundred.

　　 But this one hundred yuan also needs to be spent.

　　Huawei is today not because of how strong their scientific researchers are, but because they are willing to invest.

　　 Throw away a 100 billion company every year. What is the concept? How many companies in the country have a market value of more than 100 billion?

　　 "Well, these are all easy to say, let's speed up the progress, in fact, the design of the chip and the matching with the system, etc., probably have a pattern..." Jiang Yanhai smiled and said.

　　 Of course they are talking about silicon chips, and the extreme performance of silicon chips has not yet been squeezed out.

　　 The next step of 3 nanometers is 1 nanometer. It is even possible to break through the limit value of nanometers and reach a few tenths of a nanometer.

　　 What is the concept of a few tenths of a nanometer? It's the size of an atom! In other words, the size of a transistor will be as large as an atom in the future.

　　 But is such technology the limit? No, even nano-robots can exist, which is nothing.

　　 So, there is no limit to technology. Think about how a star that is several times larger than the sun will eventually shrink into a black hole with a diameter of a few centimeters. You will understand how magical matter is.

　　 After entering Warwick’s research institute, Jiang Yanhai stopped talking to these bosses, because talking to them has no effect on the upcoming research. He directly asked these researchers for the next-generation design drawings of the Kirin series chips.

This is a 3nm-level chip design drawing. In fact, the completion of the entire drawing is already very high. If it is not for Jiang Yanhai, they estimate that they will enter the tapeout stage. If the tapeout is successful, it also means that the chip is even successful. .

　　Of course, the success of tape-out does not mean that the chip is perfect. There are not no chips with design defects, such as heat generation, energy consumption, power and other aspects.

　　 This is also the reason why many chips are a series and an architecture, because in this case, although these chips are constantly improving, the performance of the same chips can also be continuously optimized by them.

　　 But in China, all companies can only choose to overtake on corners, including Warwick, because they have too little reserves in this area.

　　 Think about when the first IBM in the United States was founded? Including intel, these companies have been companies for decades.

　　 But what about China? When was the first true chip company established?

　　 The difference between the two is too great. There are huge shortcomings in experience alone, which is why Li Ruobai and the others choose to directly work on new materials and new structures.

Because the limit of silicon crystal materials is about to be reached, the current silicon crystal materials may still be used for 20 to 30 years, but if they have achieved results in new materials and new architectures at the same time, it will take 20 to 30 years. Inside, enough for them to get to the forefront of the world.

　　 And they have an advantage in this regard, at least the companies next to many new materials do not have them.

Jiang Yanhai did not choose to delay. After checking the new generation of Kirin chips, he directly said: "Your Kirin's design for 3 nanometers is still based on the architecture design of the previous generation of Kirin chips. In this regard, I probably have some ideas. You can record the idea of ​​improvement together."

　　 It is inevitable for Warwick to adopt a series of architectures. They can't be like Li Ruobai and the others, directly designing a new architecture and a new chip from the ground up, because the goals of the two parties are different.

　　Warwick’s idea is very simple. They want to put it into use quickly, but Li Ruobai and the others are responsible for the national strategic plan, and the support between the two sides is naturally different.

　　 However, although the chip design of Warwick is not as concise and efficient as Jiang Yanhai and others have made, it has made progress in various aspects such as energy consumption, but the performance gap is not big.

　　 At least users can't feel it.

Jiang Yanhai constantly puts forward some suggestions for improvement he found before ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the engineers on Warwick are constantly verifying. Some verifications can be directly simulated on the supercomputer. Some of them must be taped out successfully, and compared with previous chips to perform various limit tests to obtain the latest data.

　　 If it were before, the speed of the second test method would be very slow, because we didn't have a photoetching machine before, but it's different now.

　　 3 nanometer lithography machines are being produced at a crazy speed in China. It can be said that because foundry companies such as TSMC and even Samsung have sought to purchase 3 nanometer lithography machines.

　　 Regarding the order in this regard, the domestic is naturally not rejecting those who come, not only the ones who come, but also the price of the cabbage!

　　 ASML’s 7-nanometer lithography machine is asking for one hundred million US dollars. Sorry, we only sell it for 80 million US dollars, 3 nanometers.

　　 And the data on yield and other aspects are absolutely not bad! All are the top international data.

　　80 million dollars is the price of cabbage!

　　 At this price, there is no one that can hit the world.

　　Although ASML has been constantly trying to speed up its progress, according to the data analysis of Erdan, it will take at least one and a half years before they can come up with a mature 3nm process lithography machine.

　　 But in a year and a half, the day lily is cold, okay?

　　Actually, not long after Xiaomi’s mobile phones went on sale, the Ministry of Commerce next door had quietly revoked all regulations on chip embargoes and lithography machine embargoes.

　　 But if Jiang Yanhai remembers correctly, not long ago, the domestic Ministry of Commerce issued the latest relevant bill, which prohibits the export of 3nm lithography machines, but I can sell them.