Technological Hegemony

North America, Silicon Valley.

"Luo Jia is a profit-seeking businessman." The Jewish dwarf Larry Page said with a playful face when facing many bigwigs in the technology field: "You have to believe me, the current Luo Jia and Xingchen Technology, it seems It seems aggressive and has launched a crazy offensive against us, but all of this is nothing more than weight on the negotiating table."

Larry Page turned his head and looked at his old partner Sergey Brin. This Russian fighting nation still didn't like to talk. His face was cold, like the cold current of Siberia that froze people to death.

"About Luo Jia, Sergey and I are very familiar." Larry Page raised his chin and said: "I think back then, the star search engine was born, and the screening mechanism of that engine, even today, is still the same. It is at an unprecedented level, it seems to have grasped the human mind, what kind of result you want, the engine will show you what kind of result, its algorithm is so clever, we have to bow down."

"In just a few months, Xingchen search was like a Mongolian cavalry sweeping the world, completely overthrowing Baidu and Bing, and extending its tentacles to North America. For a while, Sergey and I thought that Google really We are going to die, it is impossible for us to resist those Chinese barbarians, but what about the result? Aren’t we still alive and well now?”

After hearing the shameless bragging of the Jews, someone finally couldn't hold back, snorted coldly and said, "Hmph! The reason you are still alive is because of compromise! Although Google's search engine has been saved, your Android has been blocked. Star system to the end!"

"That was a complete massacre! Starting from the Great Wall built by their ancestors, the Chinese have killed the Middle East and Africa, Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, the Andes and the Mariana Trench! Just because you are powerless to stop, put The crucial mobile phone operating system has been lost! How dare you mention it today?"

Larry Page's face was cloudy and uncertain, and uncontrollable laughter came from all around.

Although Google seems to have a good reputation among the people, many ignorant people like Google very much, but in the technology circle, everyone knows what kind of virtue Google is.

For example, Google has always advertised that it does not do evil, but what about the truth?

According to the Prism project leaked by Snowden, North America monitors the world, and the only major technology group to object and refuse to cooperate is Apple, which everyone thinks is the most domineering and least favorite.

And Google, which is usually full of benevolence and morality, went to cooperate with the North American authorities to monitor all netizens. Google did it the most. They even helped the North American authorities develop cyber weapons.

The world is complicated,

Living in this complex world, we should not only listen to their words, but also observe their actions. True benevolence, righteousness and morality do not need to be advertised with great fanfare, and those who shout slogans loudly, lest others will not know, are often male robbers and female prostitutes. .

"Actually, my partner just wants to express a core meaning, that is, for a businessman, everything is negotiable." Sergey finally couldn't help but said: "According to our experience in dealing with Luo Jia, he is a typical businessman, we should negotiate with him as soon as possible."

"So far, Xingchen Technology has only three cards in its hands, lithography machines, photoresists, industrial software, and semiconductors. Only lithography machines are not enough, so Xingchen Technology can't make any big waves, but if we Continue to wait until they get the mask, the wafer, the packaging, and more upstream semiconductor technologies before they can negotiate, it will be difficult.”

This is Google's attitude. Everyone is a businessman seeking money. Don't fight any longer. Take the time to negotiate before Xingchen Technology has obtained more key technologies.

Some of the bigwigs on the scene nodded in agreement. They are a hardware manufacturing group headed by Intel, Nvidia, and AMD. Although the Xingchen brand photoresist is just a very basic chemical material, the price is also very low, but for the semiconductor manufacturing industry , this thing is really terrible.

The Xingchen brand photoresist is modified and fully synthetic, which can greatly increase the yield rate. With the Xingchen brand photoresist, the cost of a single chip is 100 US dollars. If you replace it with the Shin-Etsu brand produced by Neon, it will cost 150 to 100 dollars. One hundred and seventy dollars, the cost is too high, and there is no money to make in making chips.

Who will do business that doesn't make money these days?

Therefore, Intel and the others are eager to negotiate quickly. The sky is big and the earth is big, making the most money.

As for Google, this unlucky boy and Xingchen Technology clashed, and was still on the cusp every time. It seemed that whoever hit Xingchen Technology, Xingchen Technology would hit Google.

Those who opposed the negotiation were software groups headed by Synopsys and Oracle, plus the strength of the North American scientific research community and the military.

"We're screwed!"

Just when everyone was arguing, there was a sudden exclamation. Following the voice, I saw a young man sitting in a corner. I didn't know if he was the servant of the big boss. He was not qualified to attend the meeting. table, so I hid in the corner and played with my phone.

Facing the questioning and angry eyes of many bigwigs, the young man was taken aback for a moment, and said in a difficult voice: "I am watching a live interview on Star TV, and Luo Jia said that they are going to replace the existing silicon wafers with graphene, and directly Enter the picometer-level manufacturing process!"

Graphene?

picometer level! ?

Perhaps it was because the news came so suddenly that in the conference room of the Semiconductor Alliance, there was no sound at all, with increasingly ugly faces, staring at each other.

The bosses are a little confused at the moment. Is the fourth-generation lithography machine of Xingchen Technology powerful?

Of course it is powerful, super invincible and powerful, and the high-power machine that can be used to manufacture the next generation of chips, I am afraid that no one will be able to surpass it in the next few decades.

Since the fourth-generation lithography machines of Star Technology are so powerful, why are North America and the West not afraid?

The reason is simple, the material is not good.

One nanometer is equal to one thousand picometers. To allow the semiconductor manufacturing industry to enter the picometer-level process, the existing silicon wafers will fail, and tunneling and electron migration will occur. Therefore, if you want to create the next generation of semiconductors, you need the next generation. Generations of new wafer materials.

As far as the current situation is concerned, there are not many choices for next-generation semiconductor materials, either silicene or graphene. The common characteristics of these two materials are explosive performance, and at the same time, the research and development is difficult. The West has been engaged in it for decades. Haven't been able to find a clue yet.

Therefore, if Star Technology wants to become a real opponent of the West, only four generations of lithography machines are not enough, and the big problem of wafers must be solved. As for how rare wafers are electrically packaged, what mask materials should be used for exposure , these problems are still on the way.

In short, technological research and development is a very difficult thing. It is by no means like in the movie, where the lithography machine is done in one second, and the chip can be mass-produced in the next second.

"Quick! Put the live broadcast on the big screen!"

"Translation, we need Chinese translation!"

After a brief silence, the scene completely exploded.

"Could it be fraudulent? If Xingchen Technology really manages the graphene material, it will be a milestone event equivalent to Armstrong's moon landing! They didn't even hold a press conference, just announced it casually?"

"Who says it's not? Let's take a look first. We're not even prepared for such a sudden event!"

"Translation! Where is the translation!?"

After some confusion, the projector was finally connected successfully, and the translator was found, and there was more than one translator. Since the Star Journal has been rampant in the academic world for the past few years, people who engage in scientific research must learn some Chinese, otherwise they will not understand academics. Report.

In the picture, Luo Jia looked calm and calm, and said to Professor Yuan Lanfeng: "I need to explain to the audience friends that large-area graphene is not actually a semiconductor, armchair-shaped graphene nano Tape is the semiconductor material that can be used to build chips."

Boom~

Far away in North America, the conference room of the Semiconductor Alliance was bleak. All scientists who have worked on graphene know that what Luo Jia said is correct. Graphene is directly used to make chips, which is nonsense. If you want to achieve next-generation semiconductor materials, you must first It is necessary to mass-produce graphene, and then continue to refine the technology to produce armchair-shaped graphene nanoribbons.

Professor Yuan Lanfeng's eyes lit up, and he asked excitedly, "Has our graphene nanoribbon been successfully developed?"

Luo Jia nodded slightly and said: "Of course, in order to solve the problem of energy band distribution, we first choose to calculate the crystal structure of graphene and the inverted lattice. The so-called inverted lattice is the wave transformed by Fourier corresponding to the lattice space. Vector space sounds complicated, but in short, it means momentum space, this space is very important, because all the descriptions about the motion of graphene electrons must be unfolded in momentum space.”

"The energy band distribution of graphene is calculated by using the tight-binding model. In the tight-binding model, if an electron wants to jump to other places, it needs to leave the potential field of the atom. We regard the electron near the atom as The main effect of the atomic potential field and the effect of other atomic potential fields are regarded as perturbations, and a mathematical model is established to obtain the energy band distribution..."

Although it was only a live broadcast of popular science interviews, Luo Jia still tried to maintain a high professional standard. The North American colleagues watched it with great interest, but it was actually too late when they started watching the live broadcast, and the focus was over. Before that, Luo Jia Jia explained Cao Yuan's important invention, the Ultrasonic Deconstructor.

The ultrasonic deconstructor is a bit like the expensive instrument used in the medical field, the ultrasonic knife, except that the ultrasonic knife is used for surgery, while the sonic deconstructor is used for large-scale graphene decomposition and peeling.

In general, simplicity, brutality, and effectiveness are the biggest features of this ultrasonic deconstructor. He opened his mind and used the lithium niobate nano-piezoelectric film developed for ultrasonic motors into the graphene peeling experiment. Ultrasonic peeling of helical arrays yielded amazing results.

As we all know, graphene is a kind of carbon atom sp2 mixed orbital domain, which forms a hexagonal honeycomb lattice. It is only a two-dimensional material with a thickness of one atom. As the thinnest and hardest material known in the world, the thickness of graphene is only 0.335 nanometers. When 200,000 sheets of graphene are stacked together, it is only as thick as a hair.

If you want to peel off graphene with a thickness of only 0.335 nanometers, a scalpel will not work, but ultrasound can! Cao Yuan's ultrasonic deconstruction array created a miracle and solved the big problem of human beings obtaining graphene raw materials.

With enough and cheap enough raw materials, there will be armchair graphene nanoribbons for making chips, and there will be more applications of graphene materials in the field of science and technology.

"Probably like this." Luo Jia said with a smile in the studio: "Now we can manufacture graphene on a large scale. After the lithography machine, we have solved the second major problem of the next-generation chip, but there is still It’s not a time to celebrate or be proud because we still have mask and package test to deal with, there’s a lot of issues to work out.”

Luo Jia talked eloquently, the problems of lithography machines, the problems of next-generation wafers, and all the problems against the sky have been overcome.

Far across the Pacific Ocean, the bigwigs in the North American semiconductor field turned pale, shuddered, and swallowed hard.

They remembered what Luo Jia said a few months ago in the same studio.

"Children make choices, adults want all of them!"