NOVEL WEB Chapter 125
The tough statement of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has triggered widespread discussion in society and internationally!
“Good! Well done!!”
“Our country should have done this a long time ago. We should instead sanction American companies and let them also taste the feeling of being sanctioned!”
“Even if there is no chip, we can’t suffer this loss in vain”
“It seems that after the incident with Hua Wei, the country has realized that the only way to fight against sanctions is to impose counter-sanctions.”
“It’s a pity, it would be great if all the companies related to the United States were banned!!”
“Man, that’s not realistic. After all, the economic impact of doing so is huge. Even the United States doesn’t dare to do that… As for the real ability, I think it’s better to break through the technological blockade as soon as possible.”
“Anyway, I’ve finally gotten some relief!!”
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China responded.
It can be said that they have never been timid.
This time, the official took a strong move.
Let the netizens who were watching the hot search feel refreshed!!
Regarding China’s countermeasures, the
United States did not react much. After all, before the sanctions, the consequences had been preset.
They believed that the loss of chips by Chinese companies was much more valuable than the loss of several insignificant military companies.
As long as the Hongqi company can be strangled in its development,
China’s new energy route and military strength will suffer losses at the same time.
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Two weeks have passed.
There is a surge of people inside the Hongqi Super Factory.
Many core workers responsible for the construction of the production line are busy outside. The core developers are all concentrated in a huge centralized laboratory.
This centralized laboratory occupies a huge area and is fully enclosed.
Every R&D staff inside wears white protective clothing and masks to ensure the absolute purity of the internal environment.
The wafer production line built on the outer layer transports the extremely pure cut round silicon wafers to the inside.
Then, it is coated with photoresist and transported to the EUV lithography machine, where it is projected and reproduced by different light source reflectors.
In this process, the lithography machine is a super high-precision camera that can project and reproduce the internally designed circuit diagram onto the silicon wafer.
In fact, China is not completely without lithography machines.
It’s just that those low-end packaging panel lithography machines are mainly used for thin-film transistor manufacturing. The laser accuracy itself is not enough to make high-end chips.
You know.
At present, the world’s high-end lithography machines have a minimum requirement- that is, the laser error itself cannot exceed two nanometers.
What is this concept?
Simply put, it is one-fifth of the width of a hair.
For the production of chips with higher precision, such as chips below 5 nanometers, the precision requirements are even more abnormal.
The difficulty is almost doubled.
The centralized laboratory currently built by Hongqi is trying to put 1 nanometer chips into production. It has reached the verification stage.
Because the internal IC chip has not been designed yet, a simple chip circuit is temporarily used instead of testing.
Even so.
Under the microscope, under such a high precision stacking, the density of the entire round silicon wafer is extremely amazing. Countless gully lines are stacked layer by layer in an orderly arrangement to build a complex”three-dimensional structure”.
From a macro perspective, this complex”cubic structure” is like the details of a super city, with seven or eight-story roads and millions of buildings, among which hundreds of millions of doors and windows have to open and close hundreds of millions of times a second, and each time must be accurate…
It can be said that even TSMC is far from being able to produce transistors of such density.
Under the current world’s top 5-nanometer small-area chip, the number of transistors can reach 18 billion, but on this 1-nanometer chip, the total number of transistors in the same area is more than 70 billion!!
Lu Yan, wearing a white coat for R&D, stood in front of the huge panel of the EUV lithography machine with a group of developers.
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The developers are responsible for supervising the equipment, and the EUV lithography machine starts to work according to the set automatic process.
Because the whole process is fully enclosed, the inside must be vacuum operated.
So it can only be observed through the external panel.
At present, the precision of Hongqi’s production has reached 1 nanometer, which is the most complex chip in the world.
It takes more than ten hours just to verify.[]
But once the verification is completed, a photolithography machine can produce at least tens of thousands of chips in a day.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, EUV light source began to etch grooves on the surface of the wafer chip that were difficult to observe with an ordinary microscope.
The breathing at the scene was tense.
Everyone stared at the display panel.
Ten minutes passed… half an hour passed… the etched lines became more and more complicated, to a level that was difficult to understand.
At this time, all the developers showed extremely surprised eyes!!
“Boss, the verification is basically successful… The overall error and the predicted result are no more than 0.1%！！”
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This is extremely exciting news!
Crossing this step means that the biggest obstacle has been overcome.
External sanctions and blockades are basically completely ineffective against Hongqi!!
Lu Yan smiled.
The production line equipment produced by the system, from low-end to high-end, is as powerful as ever.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to achieve such progress in such a short time.
This is a real 1-nanometer chip. On a chip area the size of a fingernail, there are more than 70 billion transistors!!
The computing power is probably several times more than the chips they purchased before!!
Of course, there are still many subsequent processes that need to be verified. The overall process will take at least dozens of hours before the first chip can be seen on the ground, and it is not a real computing chip, but just a sample for testing accuracy.
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But being able to achieve this level is enough to shock the world!!!
“The next verification work will be handed over to you. As long as the chip design can keep up, I believe we will be able to complete the trial production soon, and even resume production before the inventory is consumed.”
Lu Yan said with satisfaction.
This progress is a little faster than he expected.
In addition to the external force of the system, of course, it is also inseparable from the efforts of Hongqi itself!!
Just as Lu Yan was about to go to the chip design department to check the progress.
Suddenly, a call came to his private mobile phone.
An old and powerful voice sounded over there.
“Hello, Mr. Lu. I am Bai Yuanming, the president of the current Longke Institute. I have received internal instructions. I heard that your Hongqi is currently in trouble. I wonder if your Hongqi needs some help at the chip level. I have a student who is one of the shareholders of Modu Microelectronics.……”
“If you need it, I can act as an introducer and let Shanghai Microelectronics sell a 28-nanometer precision experimental lithography machine to you, Hongqi.”
Hongqi was sanctioned, and the state began to exert its strength in various aspects.
At present, there are only three institutions in China that have the ability to develop lithography equipment, namely Huaxia Electronics, Shanghai Microelectronics, and Changchun Optoelectronics…
Among them.
Only Shanghai Microelectronics has made a breakthrough in the development of 28-nanometer DUV lithography this year.
Although it lags behind the world, it has reached the forefront of China’s chip technology. Shanghai Microelectronics’ current 28-nanometer lithography machine is said to be in the experimental trial production stage and has not yet been sold to the outside world.
And now, through some level of contact, it is possible to transfer an experimental machine to Hongqi V..