Technological Hegemony

North America, California.

The video finally finished playing, but there was still no sound in the office, only the heavy panting of Denap and Jerry could be heard, the voices were like two desperate beasts being cornered.

"How is this possible!"

After a few minutes of silence, Denap finally stood up, he waved his arms vigorously, and then pressed the replay button, as if he couldn't believe what he saw just now, and thought it was not true.

Jerry En took his friend's arm and said in a deep voice: "Forget it, don't read any more, we are all scientists, and everything Luo Jia introduced is flawless. We know this very well, but it's just a fluke mentality that humans are accustomed to. Let us not accept it for a while.”

poof~

Denap seemed to be in a daze, and sat back on the sofa, his eyes were dull, his face was pale, and he kept chanting the same sentence, "Impossible...it's impossible..."

Jay Ryan shook his head. He understood the pain of his old friend. Ultrasonic motors are the treasures of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They have devoted themselves to research for decades, but in the end they lost completely in the confrontation with Xingchen Technology. The blow was too great.

Jarian stood up, frowned and walked to the window, letting the sun fall on him, but for some reason, the bright California sun no longer made him feel warm, and the office was filled with a chill, as if someone had secretly turned on the air conditioner, making Jarian I got goosebumps all over my body.

Time and time again, Xingchen Technology shattered the confidence of the West and achieved things that the great powers could not do. This situation is too bad. Seeing the group of barbarians from China unscrupulous all over the world, the Western scientific and technological circles are powerless to resist .

Jerry En comforted Denapp and said: "Cheer up, my old friends, you are the famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the ultrasonic motor is just one of the countless black technologies you have mastered. Even if you are surpassed by Star Technology, it is nothing special." .”

"It is said that ultrasonic motors belong to the space age, but what can they do with ultrasonic motors? Can they land on Mars? Can they explore the distant Pluto and the Ebola belt?"

"cannot!"

"Technology is a complete system, composed of thousands of technologies. An ultrasonic motor is nothing. If they want to challenge us, unless they can make up for all the technological gaps!"

"Don't forget my friend, as early as 1969, we landed on the moon! At that time, China had not officially started their industrialization. This is not a gap of decades, but a gap of hundreds of years. Years difference!"

"It's still too early for the Chinese to challenge us!"

After listening to Dr. Jerryn's words, De Knap was not encouraged, but instead let out a series of wry smiles.

"Perhaps what you said makes sense, but don't forget that Xingchen Technology has only been established for four years!" Denap twitched all over his body and shouted with grief.

 …

Shanghai, Pudong District, SMIC.

Tang Boyun wiped away his tears, washed his face with cold water, and looked at himself in the mirror.

The temples are already graying, and the wrinkles on the forehead are like a chisel. At this age, he should have seen through everything in this world.

But after learning that the ultrasonic motor of Xingchen Technology surpassed the extremely powerful Jet Propulsion Laboratory in terms of technical indicators, Mr. Tang still couldn't help but shed tears.

He calmed down his excitement, walked out of the bathroom, and saw that the supposedly serious company had turned into a sea of ​​joy, and everyone was discussing excitedly.

"What is a ox fork? This is it!"

"Fix the industrial software first, and then install the ultrasonic motor. Xingchen Technology is simply using its own power to pull the Chinese science and technology community forward!"

"Now we are blessed. Ultrasonic motors should be very helpful to solve our current difficult machine accuracy problems?"

"No mistake,

The research and development department has gone crazy, and they are all crowded in the laboratory. "

"Wait for me after get off work."

"What are you doing?"

"I treat you, have a good drink tonight!"

As the boss of the company, Tang Boyun looked at the messy office, couldn't help but put on a straight face, and wanted to reprimand him, but for some reason, his nose was a little sour when he just opened his mouth.

He thought of the accusations that the company had borne over the years. As a semiconductor company supported by the state at all costs, SMIC had spent a lot of money on the state.

However, when TSMC and Samsung are rushing to 5nm or even lower process, SMIC is still spinning at 22nm.

For this reason, the masses have poked the backbone of SMIC, and the employees of SMIC also feel very wronged. It is not so easy to catch up with top technology.

"Forget it, let everyone be happy." Tang Boyun thought to himself.

Not long ago, Star Technology's industrial software enabled SMIC's old customers Huawei, ZTE, and Ziguang to get rid of the embarrassing situation of being stuck by the big powers at the software level. At that time, the company was already very happy.

Immediately afterwards, there was an ultrasonic motor, and the miracles were superimposed one after another. Finally, everyone couldn't bear it anymore and started an explosive celebration.

Tang Boyun ignored the chaotic office, let the young people make trouble, turned around and came to the laboratory, put on dustproof clothes, walked in, and saw the company's main research and development personnel.

They are doing research on the machine and want to know how much it will affect the yield of the production line if the fully automatic machine is driven by an ultrasonic motor.

Those who are not familiar with the industry may not understand at all that the yield rate problem in the semiconductor manufacturing industry has always been very serious.

The yield rate is not only a problem for SMIC, but also for TSMC, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, and even the mighty Intel.

Back then, when TSMC launched 7-nanometer technology, their old rival Samsung held back for several months, and finally only came up with 8-nanometer technology.

The production lines are all the same. Why is Samsung's manufacturing process one nanometer lower than that of TSMC?

This number is weird and disgusting, okay?

No more, no less, only one nanometer lower than TSMC? What is the story behind it?

The real reason lies in the yield rate. Of course, Samsung can use 7nm for production, but out of 10,000 products, 6,000 will be scrapped because they are unqualified. Although Samsung has a big business, it does not dare to play like this.

So, they bit the bullet and launched 8-nanometer technology. Although the manufacturing is only one nanometer short, the yield rate can reach 60%. Samsung runs this production line, so it won't lose its pants.

Some people may not understand, the gap of one nanometer, the yield rate is so much worse?

Yes, it is so much worse, Intel is considered the global hegemony, right? But you may not know that many I5 CPUs are actually substandard I7s. After shielding some cores and caches, they will be sold to you as I5s.

This is the reality of the semiconductor industry. The manufacturing process has reached the level of several nanometers, and further development will soon lead to electron migration. Simply put, it has entered the limit of the current technological level.

Unless a new technology emerges, the good product rate will never be too high, reaching 50%, TSMC should thank the ancestors.

The ultrasonic motor of Star Technology, although it is just a kind of motor, seems to have nothing to do with the semiconductor industry.

However, this kind of motor with nanometer precision can improve the accuracy of machine operation, thereby improving the yield rate and solving the big trouble in the semiconductor manufacturing industry!

So when this kind of motor came out, it was not the motor builders who were crazy, but a group of semiconductor builders!

"How?" Tang Boyun asked with concern, "How much accuracy can our machine improve if we replace it with an ultrasonic motor?"