My Return to Life

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"This is the wafer manufacturing plant park of the newly established Baize Semiconductor Integrated Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd."

The park battery car slowed down before arriving in a park, Su Zifeng introduced to Fang Nian.

"Has the acceptance of the first phase project been completed?" Fang Nian asked, looking sideways.

Su Zifeng replied: "The cross-acceptance has been passed, and the equipment can be deployed next month."

Fang Young nodded lightly, without saying more.

The battery car drove into the factory and shuttled past the factory rooms.

The entire Wangjiang West Road is a few kilometers west of the Frontier Courtyard of the University of Science and Technology of China, and there is no sign of barrenness.

However, because of its geographical location, it is still uninhabited, and there are not many people or vehicles.

Things that are on the move are basically similar to the park battery car Fang Nian rides.

Afterwards, Su Zifeng briefly introduced the role of each building, but Fang Nian didn't say anything.

Too much effort has been put into the frontier of this plant...

The full English name of IDM is: IntegratedDeviceManufacturing.

Some people call it full-process manufacturing, which is generally literally translated as integrated equipment manufacturing.

The new company chose literally translated Chinese.

Semiconductor refers to a material whose conductivity is between that of a conductor and an insulator at room temperature.

Usually divided into: integrated circuits, optoelectronic devices, discrete devices, sensors;

Since integrated circuits account for more than 80% of devices, semiconductors and integrated circuits are usually equivalent.

Integrated circuits are usually divided into microprocessors, memories, logic devices, and analog devices according to product types; they are generally collectively referred to as chips.

This is the origin of the new company name.

It is also the reason why there is no chip, no integrated circuit, and semiconductor.

simply put……

This newly established Baize Semiconductor will not only do chips, but also integrated circuits, but also various other devices, especially sensors!

The total area of ​​the Baize Semiconductor fab is over one million square meters, and it is planned for four phases.

The first phase of the goal is to produce 40,000 12-inch wafers per month, and will use 28-nanometer-level national silicon production technology.

The equipment, technology and even materials that need to be used in the entire chip production process will be supplied by domestic manufacturers.

Including photolithography machine, glue developing machine, etching machine (including silicon etching, metal etching, dielectric etching), thin film deposition equipment (including PVD, CVD), diffusion, ion implanter, CMP, cleaning machine, inspection Equipment used in the links;

Including semiconductor materials: silicon wafers, electronic specialties, photomasks, polishing materials, photoresist and photoresist auxiliary materials, process chemicals, targets, etc.

It even includes domestic eda software.

Inside the frontier, there are four laboratories, Baize, Taotie, Yinglu, and Zhu Wei, responsible for the efforts of different modules.

Externally coordinated nearly a hundred universities and research institutes, and dozens of companies cooperated in the division of labor.

Including companies that Frontier has spent 10 billion in shares.

For example, it promoted the reorganization of listed company Qixing Electronics and non-listed company Northern Microelectronics.

After the reorganization of the two companies, they will be responsible for the localization of almost all equipment from etching to cleaning.

If the overall coordination, technical standards, etc. go smoothly.

At the beginning of next year, the second phase of Baize Semiconductor's construction will be fully launched, rather than the current civil work is still in progress.

As for the third and fourth phases, they will not start at the same time until the right time, because the third and fourth phases are for EUV lithography process deployment.

Speaking of the first and second phases, the planned annual production target is one million 12-inch wafers.

A 12-inch wafer is a circle with a diameter of 305 mm. Taking the Shenlong 512 wafer size of 101 mm 2 as an example, based on the industry's basic yield rate, it can produce about 400 wafers.

So in an ideal state, the annual output is 400 million Shenlong 512.

In the short term, it can basically meet the production demand of Shenlong, Bailong, large CPU, GPU, and other non-core chips.

However, based on the construction area of ​​the first and second phases, the hourly production capacity of a single domestic ArFiDUV lithography machine that is required to be promoted has a higher performance.

It is extremely necessary to overcome the ‘workpiece table’ system in the lithography machine.

It is Tsinghua University who has been urged to complete this system with a ‘whip’ at present.

And it is required to realize the dual-workpiece stage-currently this is the unique skill of ASML.

In short, the core components of the lithography machine mainly involve the light source, lens, and workpiece table.

These core components are relatively backward in the domestic field.

However, they are all making breakthroughs. Last year, the focus was on light sources and lenses. Through the massive acquisition, transformation, and control of overseas related enterprise technologies, great progress has been made in the DUV field.

In terms of light sources, a company called America is very powerful.

It is known as the only second manufacturer of EUV light sources in the world.

In the past two days, there has been a heated acquisition in the industry: ASML intends to acquire it at a price of about 2 billion euros.

Ok……

As early as the end of last year, several Wall Street investment companies under Chin moved through some of the core technologies that they had acquired through various channels.

Acquisition?

Sorry, Chin is so poor. You can't afford such a valuable company with a piece of it.

It’s still a matter of ‘spurring’ Shencheng’s Optical Mechanics Institute to learn techniques, and the transformation and mastery are reliable.

Of course, 梼杌 is not doing nothing, just take the whip.

At present, 梼杌 is studying the autonomy of EUV light source, while Shencheng Institute of Optics and Mechanics is mainly solving more problems of DUV light source system.

all in all……

In order for Baize Semiconductor to eventually use all domestically-made equipment and materials, Frontier has always been making unremitting efforts.

"..."

Little effort is needed, and the battery car slowly passed through an area with a little human voice.

This is what Fang Nian is also familiar with: a wafer test line with a monthly capacity of 3,000 wafers.

Fang Nian did not ask to stop.

Under the leadership of Su Zifeng, Fang Nian visited the entire area of ​​the Wanmu Industrial Park at the forefront of Luzhou;

Including the office building of the Zero Degree brand and the office buildings of the project teams of Baize Laboratory, including the industrial park part, including various core laboratories.

It also includes single-person apartments, senior engineer villas, etc.

If it is placed in a slightly better-developed area in Shanghai, someone will definitely scold the prodigal because there is only a 16-story building at the highest.

Even bachelor apartments are built in a low-rise, livable form.

"..."

In the end, Fang Nian walked into the tallest main building under the leadership of Su Zifeng.

Go to the large conference room on the top floor.

The floor-to-ceiling windows in the conference room overlook the entire industrial park, which is more or less inspiring, which is why there is such a tall building.

Sitting in the center, Fang Nian looked at the many faces at the conference table and smiled slightly: "Excuse me, everyone, everyone has worked hard."

"..."

No one opened their mouths.

Of course, Fang Nian is familiar with such small scenes, and he does not hesitate to say: "This time I am here to add tasks to you, please forgive me."

"..."

Then Fang Nian briefly mentioned the requirements of mobile phone SoC, desktop CPU/GPU, etc., and emphasized the big CPU.

Looking across the heads of the two academicians, Fang Nian glanced at Su Zifeng and said in an understatement.

"The big CPU project is arguably the most important right now. If the performance indicators cannot be reached as soon as possible, the future of this project will be bleak, all the initial investment will be wasted and will be shelved indefinitely."

"You should understand what I mean. This is also the reason why R&D funding has been repeatedly tilted since April."

Su Zifeng took the conversation quickly: "We will do our best."

"..."

Fang Nian just ended, and didn't say more.

Then he made a gesture: "Talk about the progress of each project."

"..."

To Fang Nian's surprise, the GPU project in charge of Baize in Changsha is progressing rapidly.

Su Zifeng's explanation is: because powerVR's technical accumulation in the desktop GPU field is actually relatively backward.

The so-called relative backwardness refers to: almost second only to the level of NVIDIA and ATI in desktop GPUs...three or four years ago.

And its level in the core unit of mobile phone graphics processing is very commendable, and it is the mainstream choice for most SoCs, whether it is Apple, MediaTek, Samsung, Intel, Zhanrui, etc., have or have adopted it.

Qualcomm used its Adreno series graphics processing core because it had cooperated with ATI, and later cooperated with AMD, which acquired ATI.

Arm also launched the mali series of graphics processing core IP through the acquisition of mali.

But at present, their comparison targets are all powerVR's SGX series.

After Guan Qiuhe's hard work for almost half a year, Frontier finally got the relevant core technology authorization of powerVR...

Then there is a breakthrough in the mobile phone SoC project.

Academician Chen Jianye can finally report on progress with confidence.

"The processing core unit of the mobile phone SoC project has made a certain breakthrough, and finally completed the 64-bit extension of the instruction set architecture with balanced performance and power consumption, which has been merged into the large CB12 architecture;

We name it as a whole: Zx64, which means that the instruction set also means the micro-architecture. "

"..."

Fang Nian: "..."

Zx?

For some reason, Fang Nian thought of Zou Xuan for the first time;

Very early, very early... About four years ago, Fang Nian, who had just returned to life, saw a full page of ‘zx’ in some of his drafts.

Zou Xuan, who has only been to Shencheng some time ago, seems to prefer to use acronyms to represent herself, such as the light chat number.

#送888移动红包#Follow vx. public account [Book Friends Base Camp], watch popular masterpieces, draw 888 cash red envelopes!

Oh Huo, she is too exposed.

I don't know if Chen Jianye saw Fang Nian's momentary confusion, and quickly explained the name: "Taken from the word'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'."

Without waiting for Fang Nian to ask, Chen Jianye added: "However... the simulation verification result is only less than 80% ahead of Shenlong 512, and it still has the light of 64 bits."

"The original default processing performance is three times ahead of Shenlong 512."

Hearing this, Fang Nian realized that when he changed his mind, he said: "Academician Chen is worried that he will not be able to significantly lead the A6 follow-up SoC that Apple is bound to release next year before the prescribed time?"

Chen Jianye said frankly: "There is indeed this concern;

We have conducted in-depth disassembly research on the A6 on the iPhone 5 released by Apple two months ago, and Apple’s self-research capabilities are very strong;

According to related news, Apple acquired a chip design company called PASemi in 2008. This company's design capabilities are actually very strong, um...under Apple's integration, it should now be slightly better than us. "

Thinking of being a bit more ambitious, Chen Jianye immediately added resoundingly: "Of course, we are not weak! Now our team is also very strong. It can be said that we have gathered the strongest group of people in the semiconductor field in China!"

Upon seeing this, Fang Nian smiled: "Of course Bai Ze will be the strongest."

In my heart: I'm not strong, sorry for the money I dropped.

Chinese people have never been less mindful than others, because they lack opportunities and money;

Many gangsters in the engineering industry in China became famous in their later years. Looking at their past experiences, it is almost a history of blood and tears.

For example, a certain team of the National Defense Science and Technology University that has a cooperative relationship with Baize, whose boss is a big-time academician Gao Bolong, specializes in laser gyroscopes.

The age of 50 or 60 suffers from lack of funds, self-learning programming, self-built equipment platform and so on.

Such a difficult environment can break through the technological blockade of European and American countries, which can explain the problem.

"..."

Slightlyton, Fang Nian pondered and asked: "I heard that Apple is already looking for new chips from TSMC?"

"I heard it." Chen Jianye replied.

Fang Nian thought for a while, and said: "For the first generation of self-developed chips, you have to make two-handed preparations. I will let General Guan and General Lu coordinate this matter."

"Huh?" Chen Jianye was taken aback for a moment, then showed his face.

"..."

The progress of the big CPU is still not particularly smooth, but it has been replaced with a new architecture, and the performance indicators have been improved.

Fang Nian calmly expressed his dissatisfaction: "I don't understand the technology. From now on, I will support up to 5 billion funds for large CPU projects;

SMIC’s 40-nanometer tape-out cost is less than 10 million yuan per time. Aside from other R&D investment, it will be enough for you to tape-out twice a day for verification before the specified time..."

"I won't say anything more."

Su Zifeng stood up almost immediately.

Before she could speak, the two middle-aged and elderly academicians also stood up and said solemnly, "Absolutely complete the task!"

They are not only burdened by the pressure brought by Fang Nian, but also by various ministries, scientific research units, and the military.

They also know that Bai Ze's support is so great that it is rare in the world!

They are more aware that only 2.5 billion yuan was supported by the above. This part of the funds has been used up in the past few months, and Bai Ze has already invested more than one billion yuan.

Calculating the 5 billion mentioned in the next year, this process is only a 40-nanometer high-performance CPU research and development investment that has been close to 1.5 billion US dollars, which is approximately equal to the limit of the future 3 nanometer chip research and development expenditure, which is three times that of the 5 nanometer chip.

Although the research and development funding for chips such as Apple's A4 was also over 1 billion US dollars earlier, there are reasons for that.

At present, Bai Ze’s large CPU has a solid accumulation of technology and a massive actual test environment.

Some servers in the Luzhou Frontier Data Center have changed their CPUs twice.

"..."

This time when he came to Luzhou again, Fang Nian Zheng personally issued various task indicators.

Including the internal chip project, also including the arrangement of the zero degree brand, and the strategic cooperation with Pangu Laboratories, etc.

Of course, Fang Nian stayed in Luzhou for another day.

Went to visit Sun Ganlong and others.

It was heard that Luzhou local and local banks both intend to give Luzhou Frontier a certain amount of money, and Fang Nian also politely declined.

Luzhou's confidence in the frontier is extraordinary.

Because the existence of the frontier of Luzhou has brought about changes that can be called earth-shaking changes in Luzhou.

Thousands of trillions of market changes have been triggered in one or two years, which is exaggerated enough for an ordinary city.

…………

In a flash, nearly a month passed.

At the beginning of November, Shencheng can already feel the taste of late autumn and early winter.

It's hard to see the long, white legs of the little girl and the wife in the streets.

Starting from the 5th, Fang Nian has been staying at the cutting-edge company~www.ltnovel.com~ as an intern secretary for President Lu with peace of mind.

As always, he was only responsible for pouring Lu Zongduan tea.

On the surface, there is no change in the frontier, even if there are a large number of new employees joining each subsidiary, the total number is as high as thousands, and it seems relatively calm.

But the front office at the highest level has suspended most of its affairs, and people also appear in front of the company every day to work.

Everyone knows in their hearts that the frontier may once again face some kind of thunderous pressure.

On the 7th, Fang Nian received a call and learned that everything was ready.

On the morning of the 8th, a lot of eyes were drawn to the capital. The 18th big meeting was opened. Fang Nian received a call again, and the cross-sea bridge closure project in North Island Middle Island was fully launched.

Sitting in the office, Fang Nian muttered to himself: “I specially selected a plan that took the longest time. What could be done in 5 months was changed to 9 months, and the capital investment more than tripled. It's worthy of my hard work behind the scenes."

Lu Weiyu next to him smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, Brother Fang is strategizing and can win a thousand miles."

There was no movement on the whole this day.

Satellite signal jammers were deployed in the Qilianyu area, and related parties did not pay attention to it for a while.

Next are the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th...

Fang Nian received several calls every day, and he could feel that the other party's confidence was getting stronger and stronger.

at last……

On the early morning of the 14th, the first phase of the North-South-South Sea-crossing Bridge was completed.

Everything settled quietly in the public.

In fact, on the afternoon of the 9th, the news of the project was exposed again, but by then it was too late.

Even Beep C, who is not afraid of the sky, does not dare to engage in the underworld filter at this time.

Knowing the final result, Fang Nian breathed a sigh of relief. In the wee hours of the night, he hit a carp, and in a short time he helped Lu Weiyu's buttocks...

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