Chapter 160 Development and Confidence

Huawei HiSilicon and ZTE Microelectronics are both large domestic chip design companies. After receiving instructions from the head office, they hurriedly organized teams to come over.

At the main venue, domestic chip design companies all sent people to observe more or less.

At present, in China, in addition to Huawei HiSilicon, ZTE Microelectronics, and Unisoc Spreadtrum, there are also China Microelectronics, Goodix Technology, etc.

These top chip designers in the country, as well as chip designers from Long Totem, are discussing chip design under the new process.

Next to the nanowire textile machine, there were a lot of computers arranged, plus the notebooks brought by these chip designers. The heat emitted by these computers raised the indoor temperature a lot.

Wang Zhiyuan and Lu Qifu, who passed the internship inspection in October this year, worked in the Lilong Optical Disc Division for a month and officially joined the Dragon Totem Microcircuit Design Laboratory last month.

At this time, they were explaining some problems to several colleagues.

"Researcher Wang, why is this transistor designed in this shape?" an engineer in his thirties asked, his face burning.

After all, they have been engaged in photolithography chip design all their lives, and now they have to take an unfamiliar path and have to ask for advice from a rookie who has just graduated. It is really embarrassing.

"This design is inspired by the square braiding in the knot. The purpose is to ensure that the transistor is not broken down and to facilitate manufacturing." Wang Zhiyuan explained while drawing a sketch on the draft paper.

"That's it." The middle-aged engineer nodded.

Wang Zhiyuan then explained: "Since the craftsmanship of the textile method is inspired by textiles, embroidery, and knotting, we will refer to professional books in this area."

Quickly jotting down notes, the middle-aged engineer asked some other questions.

During the preliminary exchange process, chip designers from various companies discovered that chip design based on the textile method has benefits that are difficult to achieve with photolithography.

For example, in the design of multi-layer three-dimensional chips, the textile method is simpler than the photolithography method. This simplicity is reflected in the manufacturing process.

Photolithography is not too difficult to manufacture single-layer chips. When humans need to arrange more and more transistors, they are getting smaller and more complex, and multi-layer three-dimensional chip designs have emerged.

But photolithography is, to put it bluntly, the nanometer version of printing. Printing is suitable for large-scale manufacturing of flat surfaces, but it is obviously not adaptable to three-dimensional structures.

Huawei HiSilicon engineers who are engaged in chip design often lose their hair due to the three-dimensional structure. Although the three-dimensional structure of a single-layer transistor is relatively simple, everyone knows that the future direction of chips is to move from flat to three-dimensional. Future chips The structure will become more and more complex.

The textile method provides another way of thinking. In the design and manufacturing of three-dimensional structures, the textile method has natural innate advantages.

Nowadays, photolithography requires back and forth photolithography, etching, and ion implantation on single-layer transistors. Once it enters the multi-layer three-dimensional stage, the hairline of all design engineers will only recede faster.

The basis of the manufacturing process determines the difficulty of product design.

On the other side of the venue, in a small conference room.

Li Yingjie put down the design sketch of the electronic control chip in his hand. When he saw an old acquaintance walking in, he stood up and said hello: "Old Zheng, you are so prosperous."

The middle-aged man with the Chinese character face was Zheng Shengbiao, who had previously switched jobs from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to Dragon Totem. He smiled and replied: "It's just for a living."

"I heard that Suiren Company's option incentives are pretty good, so they should allocate shares to you, right?" Wang Cunjie asked enviously.

"It's really good. It's a virtual stock of Long Totem Company. Are you interested in coming over?" Zheng Shengbiao said and invited.

"Well, you Zheng Shengbiao, you are so blatant about poaching." Li Yingjie laughed and scolded, but he then said:

"Cunjie, you can think about it. After all, the prospects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are just that. By the way, Shengbiao, Long Totem should have external consultants or cooperative laboratories, right?"

Zheng Shengbiao nodded: "Indeed, there are, but the core laboratory generally does not accept external consultants, only contracted scientific researchers. After all, there are many sensitive technologies in it."

"Oh?" Li Yingjie said thoughtfully: "Where is the progress of your new generation nanowire textile machine?"

"Haha, you can't say that."

Li Yingjie, a smart person, obviously read some information: "It seems that you are making good progress."

"After all, three generations living under one roof is the perfect thing." Zheng Shengbiao said cryptically.

Three generations living under one roof? Li Yingjie and Wang Cunjie reacted instantly.

The industry generally has a model of producing one generation, reserve one generation, and researching and developing one generation, although many companies can only produce one generation and research and develop one generation.

From Zheng Shengbiao's subtext, they knew that the research and development progress of the Zhenyi nanowire textile machine may have entered the third generation.

This information shocked Li Yingjie and Wang Cunjie.

Regarding this information, Zheng Shengbiao actually disclosed it to the Chinese Academy of Sciences on purpose. This was secretly instructed by Suiren Company.

Now that Suiren Company wants to develop a new chip system, it must give the above confidence. It has already reserved a generation of Zhenyi nanowire textile machines and is developing the third generation. This is a huge confidence.

Li Yingjie, who wanted to understand the intention, said with a smile: "Honestly, your kid's mouth is not that leaky. It was Suiren Company that let you know!"

"The third generation is real, and the second generation is already ready for production, but the current single-machine chip manufacturing efficiency is still not high enough."

"What's the accuracy and efficiency?" Wang Cunjie asked in a low voice.

Zheng Shengbiao said a number: "40 to 50 billion transistors every day, with an accuracy of 20 nanometers."

"Quite a few." Wang Cunjie said concisely and concisely.

Zheng Shengbiao shook his head: "No, the number of transistors in the CPU is now on the order of 1 billion. A production line can produce forty or fifty CPUs a day, which is not useful at all."

Wang Cunjie also expressed his understanding. After all, they are scientific researchers and their ideas are relatively simple. Naturally, commercial thinking cannot be like this. He changed the topic: "I am personally very optimistic about the technology of textile chips. After all, in terms of future three-dimensional structures, Textile law has a lot to offer.”

Picking up a piece of chip design information, Li Yingjie sighed with emotion: "Huang Xiuyuan was willing to disclose the design ideas and details of the textile chip directly."

"If you don't want to leave your children, you can't trap the wolf." Zheng Shengbiao spread his hands: "The ecology of textile chip requires the support of domestic enterprises. Mr. Huang does this to enhance the domestic chip design foundation. After all, foreign semiconductors will not give up."

"Yes! Next, it will definitely be a storm." Li Yingjie felt the same way.

It’s not that there were no plans to develop independent chips in China before, but due to various reasons, they all ended in vain.

Even the previous development of domestic operating systems was aborted because Microsoft deliberately allowed piracy.

But now Suiren Company wants to dig out the roots of Western Semiconductor. They are not jumping over the wall in a hurry, they are already very restrained.

The tightening of imports of precision instruments is just a foreplay.

Next, Western semiconductor companies and the big capital giants behind them will definitely try their best to undermine the promotion of textile chips and Fuxi architecture.

This is to be expected.

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