The black technology empire started with a debt of one billion

In a secret laboratory of Magic City Microelectronics.

A worker carefully places a wafer on the scanning electron microscope frame.

"Mr. He, the wafer has been placed and can be scanned," Jiang Yaqiang said.

He Ming pressed the scanning button on the scanning electron microscope, and the scanning electron microscope started running under the software. This process took about 3 minutes, which was much faster than before.

A few years ago, a scanning electron microscope would have taken at least half an hour to scan.

He Chaoyang, Zhang Yongsheng and a group of R&D personnel stood silently behind He Ming, waiting for the results.

tick tock tick tock
As time passed by, everyone became more and more nervous.

Scan completed
A chip picture appeared on the monitor. On the left side of the picture was the picture content information. He Ming used the mouse to frame a section of the wafer and went through some measurement calculations by the system.

The three words 7nm appear in the new information column on the left side of the picture.

Everyone held their breath when they saw this number. The number 7nm represents their success. The photolithography machine in the laboratory can produce 7nm chips.

"We succeeded." He Ming said excitedly.

Some researchers at the scene even burst into tears, and some hugged each other excitedly.

The first time China surpassed Europe in lithography machines was in the 80s. This number represents the second time China surpassed Europe in lithography machines. The most advanced technology in Europe now is only 14 nanometers.

But the photolithography machine produced by Modu Microelectronics can produce 7-nanometer chips.

In other words, this lithography machine is two generations ahead of AMSL in technology.

Of course, if you want to mass-produce, you also need to solve the problem of automatic replacement of reflectors. Of course, manual replacement is not unavailable, but it will be very troublesome. Just debugging will take a whole day.

"Next, we just need to solve the problem of automatically replacing the reflector." He Ming stood up and looked at the people behind him with his bloodshot eyes.

However, a little man in the crowd suddenly raised his hand.

"Xie Fangping, what do you have to say?" He Ming looked at him and asked.

At this time, everyone turned their attention to him. Xie Fangping was a little transparent in the team because he had a little social fear, but his skills were not bad at all, and his ideas were much more out of the ordinary than ordinary people.

This prototype was able to be built in such a short period of time because he proposed many key solutions.

"Mr. He, actually I think that even if the problem of automatic mirror replacement can be solved as an upgrade project, we only need to reserve a certain space on the lithography machine, because we don't know how long it will take to solve this problem. .

If we study this issue as an upgrade project, we can immediately achieve mass production of 7-nanometer lithography machines. "Xie Fangping said.

However, not everyone agreed with Xie Fangping's idea. At this time, a person not far from him raised objections.

"If we can't solve the problem of automatic replacement of reflectors, wouldn't we have to spend a day or two every time to replace and debug it?" Gu Guangli said with a frown.

Many people present agreed with Gu Guangli's statement that manual replacement and debugging every time was a waste of time, and the factory could not be shut down for a day or two every day.

"Tell me what you think?" He Ming asked.

"In my opinion, it doesn't matter even if it takes five days to replace the mirror and debug the lithography machine. For the wafer factory, the production capacity may be reduced a lot because of this, but the wafer factory can produce the most advanced chips, and the production capacity It doesn't matter if it's less. The most important thing is that we can produce the most advanced chips.

The only problem we have now is automatic mirror replacement. We can first supply customers with 7-nanometer photolithography machines, and then help customers install automatic replacement modules after the problem is solved. "Xie Fangping said.

When everyone heard Xie Fangping say this, they felt like this was the case.

Doing so will not only put us ahead of Europe in the chip industry, but also put pressure on the European chip industry invisibly, and doing so is also very consistent with the company's business philosophy.

"I think Xie Fangping is right. Since you can walk on one leg, why do you have to have two legs?" He Ming said with his eyes shining.

"Yes, we can solve this problem while mass-producing lithography machines. It doesn't matter to the factory to stop for a few days every month. If they can produce 7-nanometer chips, they are already ahead of Europe."

"Automatically changing reflectors is within the scope of automatic machinery. Many of us don't understand this. We don't need everyone to study this. Let the automatic machinery team study it, and we can just mass-produce lithography machines."

"If we can't solve this problem in three to five years, then we won't be able to produce it until three to five years later. By then, our production technology will be backward. If we can't solve this problem in our lifetime, then we won't be able to produce it in our lifetime." Lithography machine."

"Sometimes Xiao Xie's brain works better than ours, and sometimes we pursue the ultimate too much. It is best for a product to be the ultimate, but we must also consider the market effect. We cannot let the entire semiconductor industry wait. Let’s give it three to five years.”

"If nothing else, let's talk about Deep Blue Technology. Deep Blue's chips have been completely cut off. No factory dares to manufacture for them now. If Deep Blue Technology hadn't had a strong foundation, it would have gone bankrupt if it had been another company. "

"Yes, we can still produce chips even with less production capacity, but we can't let Deep Blue Technology wait for us. The light source and reflector are all solved by others. Although this solution is only a little bit better, it is still better than a single chip. It can’t be produced well.”

"Let's do what Xie Fangping said. This time I'm going to slap AMSL hard in the face." He Ming said with clenched fists.

In March 2002, He Ming had just served as the general manager of Modu Microelectronics. At that time, the entire Modu Microelectronics could be described as poor and in vain.

There is no talent team, no technology accumulation, and no supporting supply chain. Western countries have many restrictions on this technology.

Once, He Ming took his team to AMSL to discuss technical cooperation, but AMSL experts said: "Even if I give you a complete set of drawings, you can't make it!"

Now, with the technical support of Deep Blue Technology, Modu Microelectronics is able to produce the world's most advanced photolithography machines.

How can we not give AMSL a hard slap in the face at this time?

Conference room in Building 3, Shenlan Industrial Park.

Guo Kezun brought the Deep Blue Semiconductor team to the conference room for a meeting. However, it was not Guo Kezun who presided over the meeting this time. It was a stranger who presided over the meeting. They had met this stranger downstairs in the company, but what exactly did the other person do? They don't know.

People in the semiconductor team are used to this kind of situation.

People in the laboratory will not greet or communicate with people from other teams unless necessary.

The culprit behind all this is the laboratory confidentiality system, but the people in the laboratory have long been accustomed to this situation.

"Hello everyone, my name is Meng Jiacheng. I see a lot of familiar faces here. I believe many people here have also seen me. It's just that due to the confidentiality system, we couldn't get to know each other before.

The reason why I can come here to meet with you today is because our project has been successfully researched.

I believe everyone is very curious about what our team is developing. What our team develops is the EDA that everyone often uses. Our independently developed EDA is called Orion EDA. Our EDA combines the advantages of Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics. .

In addition, we also use independent innovative hardware acceleration and cloud solutions. "Bara Bala from Mengjiacheng began to introduce.

The Orion EDA independently developed by Deep Blue can support a maximum capacity of 300 billion gates, and can mobilize up to 64TB of HMBSR memory during debugging and memory simulation.

The highest task can support 512 concurrent users at the same time, which means that 512 simulation tasks can be executed at the same time.

Currently, Orion EDA can support chip design up to 1 nanometer, and can design a chip containing 1000 billion transistors.

Supported by the collaborative computing of Orion and Pegasus chips, the performance is a hundred times that of other EDAs.

In other words, it may take 100 hours for other software to simulate an EDA, but it only takes one hour to complete it on Orion.

In addition, Orion also supports AI assistance functions.

Designers of some chip basic links can use AI to help write this part of the code. The designer only needs to describe the AI ​​through language, and AI can automatically generate these codes through text description. With the support of AI, at least 65% can be saved. View time above.

Everyone present couldn't believe their ears when they heard Meng Jiacheng's introduction.

They knew that Andromeda could write code, but they didn't expect the company to use it in EDA.

Guo Kezun couldn't help but sigh that her choice to work at DeepBlue Technology was a very right thing.

"Meng Meng, I have a question." A researcher from the R&D department raised his hand and asked.

"You mean." Meng Jiacheng looked at the other party and nodded.

"With the development of Orion in the future, will we be replaced by Orion?" Guan Jiantao asked.

"I can tell you responsibly that if you still want to work in this industry, you have to transform to the architecture. AI can fully satisfy the basic code filling, but the chip architecture cannot be designed by AI.

Of course, this is not absolute. AI will completely replace you in ten years.

But by that time, we should have entered the era of quantum computers. "Meng Jiacheng replied very honestly.

Hearing Meng Jiacheng's words, everyone present took a breath. They didn't expect that the function of AI would be so powerful, but this is also very reasonable. After all, the chip is something within the rules, and AI can do anything within the rules. Do it.

Perhaps AI cannot design the chip architecture, but it can develop it through experimentation and try different solutions for simulation.

With 100 million plans, you might be able to come up with a plan that surpasses human design.

If 100 million solutions don’t work, try [-] million solutions.

As long as there is enough computing power, the chips developed by AI will definitely be more powerful than those developed by humans.

"But this is already ten or eight years later. What you have to do now is learn how to use Orion." Meng Jiacheng said with a smile.

America February 2016, 8.

After Europe experienced the bombardment of Deep Blue Cars TV ads last night, Deep Blue Cars' bookings in Europe have reached 127 million units, and Deep Blue Cars' global bookings have reached 267 million units. It took Deep Blue Cars two days to complete what all car companies could not do. things.

These data are published on the official website of Deep Blue Auto. There is a real-time data statistics table on the official website of Deep Blue Auto.

Users can check who buys Deep Blue cars on the official website, and what age people buy Deep Blue cars. In addition, users can also check which areas have more people buying Deep Blue cars.

According to statistics, 41% of users are female users, and the remaining 59% are, needless to say, male users.

The youngest user who buys a Deep Blue car is 18 years old and the oldest is 76 years old.

Most users are concentrated between the ages of 24 and 35, because this age group has the strongest purchasing power.

Deep Blue's two-day booking volume of 267 million also shocked the media throughout Europe.

After seeing the official website data, the American media chose Wall Street, the place where the largest number of Dark Blue cars are purchased in the United States, for random interviews.

At this time, a female reporter was holding a microphone and chatting with passers-by in front of a financial building on Wall Street.

"Can I excuse you, ma'am? I'm a reporter from the Wall Street Journal." Miram Doherty stopped a woman in business attire and asked.

The reason why Milam Doherty stopped this woman was because she was wearing designer clothes.

Women like this must be managers of financial companies or successful people on Wall Street.

"Well, I can only give you 5 minutes." Olga Bryan stopped and glanced at Milam Doherty and said.

If the other person was a male reporter, she might not accept the interview.

"Madam, I wonder what your name is?" Milam Doherty asked.

"Olga Bryan." Olga Bryan replied.

"Do you know about the Dark Blue Car?" Milam Doherty asked.

"I know, I placed an order for one yesterday." Olga Bryan replied.

"We have so many car brands in the United States, why would you choose to buy a dark blue car?" Milam Doherty asked.

"Although I have been driving cars for many years, the problem of reversing into the garage has always bothered me. I chose the dark blue car because it can automatically reverse into the garage, so that I will no longer be late for reversing into the garage. We Every minute and every second in finance is important.

If I am unable to get to work in time due to the problem of reversing the truck into the warehouse, I will most likely cause the company to lose a lot of money due to this matter.

Things like this have happened many times, and Deep Blue Auto solved this problem for me very well.

Moreover, the assisted driving function of Deep Blue Car is very good. It can assist me in driving a car very well and also allow me to avoid unnecessary traffic accidents.

In addition, its automatic parking function is very powerful. I only need to drive the car to the entrance of the parking lot, and then activate the automatic parking function, and it can drive to the parking lot and park by itself.

When I use the car, I only need to remotely activate this function, and the system can automatically drive the car to the entrance of the parking lot and wait for me.

Although I'm not very interested in high-tech products, this feature is so great that even I can't refuse it. "Olga Bryan replied. (End of Chapter)