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The current chip process is simple. It is very simple. It is to carve patterns on the silicon wafer, inject conductive impurities, and form switches.

It is said to be complicated, and it is also very complicated. If it is at the centimeter level, texture engraving and conductive impurity injection are fine, but when it reaches the nanometer level, it is very troublesome to complete these processes.

But Huang Haojie saw another processing method from the handling capacity of C31 fullerene.

That's right, you can directly use the C31's handling capacity to carve patterns on the silicon wafer, inject conductive impurities, and plate copper. All of these processes can be completed by the C31.

But the premise is that Huang Haojie completes the precise control of C31 fullerene.

Semiconductor Research Institute, in the micro-engraving laboratory.

A dozen researchers and engineers are debugging a huge instrument.

The atomic imprinting machine made by the Semiconductor Research Institute itself.

Zheng Xinwang is a semiconductor master's student who just graduated this year. He never thought that he would work at Galaxy Technology.

Originally he wanted to study for a Ph.D., but something unexpected happened. Something happened to the Ph.D. supervisor he applied for, and Zheng Xinwang happened to be recruiting at Galaxy Technology, so he came to work at Galaxy Technology.

After arriving at Galaxy Technology, Zheng Xinwang discovered that the semiconductor technology being researched by Galaxy Technology had subverted all current chip manufacturing processes.

He is using an electron microscope and computer to carefully manipulate the carbon nanoprocessing needle to carve on the silicon wafer.

In order to make this carbon nanoneedle, it took them half a month to complete the five-nanometer level carbon nanoneedle.

Input the circuit diagram of the chip into the computer, and then calculate it through the computer and cooperate with the electron microscope.

The carbon nanoneedle is placed on the silicon wafer to quickly carve circuit grooves. The principle is very simple. Under the stimulation of specific conditions, the C31 of the carbon nanoneedle combines with the silicon atoms on the silicon wafer, and then the silicon atoms are removed from the silicon wafer. Take it out of the piece so that a groove is formed.

Countless grooves are connected together to form a groove circuit.

"Xinwang, how are you?" A middle-aged man with gray hair came over and asked.

"Gong Zhao, I am adjusting some data. The five-nanometer level is too small, and about 43% of the circuit engraving is inaccurate." Zheng Xinwang said helplessly.

Gong Zhao did not show any disappointed expression.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, keep working hard, I will go and take a look."

Of course Zheng Xinwang knew that there was no rush for this kind of thing, because once the first circuit chip was carved out.

Then the next step will be very easy.

On the other side, Star Map Company also took a lot of money and directly merged three domestic semiconductor design companies in Dongtang.

The domestic chip manufacturing industry is not good, but the chip design industry is still so-so. HiSilicon, like Huawei, is a top semiconductor design company.

Huang Haojie, who had no time to wait, directly asked Wang Bosi to launch a financial offensive and use mergers to promote the chip design capabilities of Star Map Company.

Du Wei and the others started their independent design plan with the addition of chip designers obtained from three semiconductor design companies and a large number of 30-90 nanometer chip patents purchased by Zhang Rujing.

Although these chip patents have been eliminated by others, it does not mean that they are all garbage. After all, many things in chip design are similar.

For example, a 5-nanometer chip design can be used on a 50-nanometer chip, and the same applies to a 50-nanometer chip design on a 5-nanometer chip.

This may lead to a regression in chip performance and original design, but the key lies not in chip design, but in chip manufacturing.

After all, it doesn’t matter if you can design a 1-nanometer chip. Without the ability to manufacture 1-nanometer chips, everything is just a mirror image.

Just like Huawei's chips, HiSilicon Semiconductor's design capabilities are very powerful, but the problem is that you don't have chip manufacturing capabilities yourself.

Once Taiji Electric has some winter melon tofu, Huawei Company will experience a shortage of chips or cut off supply. This is not to end the calf.

The same goes for China-Singapore Communications Company. It was disgraced by the Mi Li family in 2016. The fine of several billion was equivalent to China-Singapore Communications Company's two years' profit, so all the work was in vain.

Huang Haojie would rather research it slowly by himself than leave the production of core components to Waiguo Keren.

Companies like Sanxin like to do this kind of thing most, whether it is mobile phone screens or memory.

DRAM, dynamic random access memory, is our most common system memory.

Whether it is a mobile phone, a computer or any smart device, the memory (such as a memory stick) is composed of single or multiple DRAM particles.

According to 2016 data, the global DRAM market size is approximately US$41 billion, of which Sanxin, SK Hynix, and Micron already represent three-thirds of the world. The three companies account for more than 95% of the market share, and the industry has oligopoly characteristics.

Sanxin has absolute advantages in terms of technology, production capacity and share.

After being the first to mass-produce 20nm DRAM technology in 2014, it once again took the lead and mass-produced 18nm DRAM. SK Hynix mass-produced 18nm DRAM in early 2017. Micron is still on the 20nm road, and is expected to complete the migration to 1Xnm-level products in the second half of 2017. The technology gap with Sanxin is about one year, and the industry's monopoly is on the rise.

And if Sanxin's factory is burned down, it means that memory production will plummet by 57%, supply and demand will be greatly imbalanced, and memory prices around the world will inevitably rise.

So these guys' factories would always catch fire or be chemically polluted for no apparent reason, and then the price of memory modules would skyrocket.

Lao Ma once said: Once there is appropriate profit capital, be bold. If there is 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; if there is 20% profit, it will be active; if there is 50% profit, it will take risks. ; For 100% profit, it dares to trample all human laws; for 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime and even risk the gallows.

This is the nature of capital.

Therefore, when cooperating with these guys, it is best to prepare a retreat, otherwise you may be tricked to death by them.

Star Map Design Company has preliminarily designed a 5-nanometer chip. Of course, since it is a trial design, they directly copied some chip designs from Qualcomm, Intel, and Huawei.

Anyway, this design is just to test the performance of the atomic imprinting machine, and Galaxy Semiconductor has no intention of producing it for sale, so there is no patent infringement issue.

This 5-nanometer chip is composed of a total of 32 layers of circuits.

Therefore, the micro-engraving laboratory needs to carve 32 layers of circuits, but considering the extraction of a few silicon atoms, it will be very slow and not conducive to mass production.

Therefore, Huang Haojie found another way. His solution was very simple. He separated the 32 layers of circuits, carved a silicon wafer on one layer, and then made nano-needle heads on the grooves of these circuits to complete the production of these nano-needle heads.

You can directly make a circuit printer. These circuit silicon wafers equipped with nano-needles can carve out a layer of circuits in one go.

A silicon wafer only needs 32 circuit printings to complete a 32-layer circuit.

Of course, in addition to circuit printing machines, the Semiconductor Research Institute also needs equipment such as circuit injection machines and circuit copper plating machines.

These equipment are made based on C31 fullerene, so they are also called carbon nanocircuit production lines.

The first step of this method is to accurately complete the original piece, which is the key point of producing the chip.

For example, the 5-nanometer chip designed by Star Map Company requires 32 original pieces. Based on these 32 original pieces, 32 circuit printing heads, 64 circuit injection heads, and several circuit copper plating machines are produced.

There cannot be any errors in these original chips, otherwise problems will occur when the chips are produced, and they may even be scrapped.

Once these original films are produced, the next step is very simple.

This situation is equivalent to using laboratory methods to produce a high-precision chip, and then directly copying this high-precision chip. The two produced will be exactly the same.

All atomic imprinting machines are key equipment of Galaxy Technology, and C31 fullerene is the top priority.