The rise of nanometers

The first batch of participants who came to the stage to observe included Wang Cunjie and Chen Liwei from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers from Huawei HiSilicon, the vice president of Ziguang, and Academician Fan Shoushan from Shuimu University.

The staff operated the equipment, selected a simple electronic control chip from the designed chip design, and then clicked the production button on the operating computer, and each lane of the Zhenyi nanowire textile machine started running quickly.

Huang Xiuyuan pointed to the transparent observation window and said to Wang Cunjie and others: "Everyone, the equipment is now starting to weave nanowire chips."

After such a long period of improvement, the Zhenyi nanowire textile machine has not only increased the production speed, but also reduced the environmental requirements of the production workshop.

Through the vacuum sealing transformation of the entire machine, the cleanliness requirements for the external production workshop have been reduced. In addition, an intelligent dynamic balancing system has been added to reduce environmental vibration and interference with the production process.

Various nanowires are programmed into transistors and microcircuits under the automatic program control of the operating system.

People in the audience also saw the live broadcast through the computer monitors attached to their seats.

Watching the nanowire-woven chip cloth being woven out little by little, the first section of the chip cloth is completed, and the silicon nanoplating system inside the Zhenyi nanowire textile machine is started to electroplat this section of chip cloth.

Immediately, the laser cutting system started, and the chip cloth was cut off. This was a large piece of wafer, a square with a side length of 400 mm, and 3,200 electronic control chips on it.

"Incredible." Wang Cunjie wore experimental gloves, his hands trembling slightly, as if he was having an intimate contact for the first time between a man and a woman.

The smooth surface is covered with silver-grey and brass-colored lines and knots. With the help of electron microscope observation, those lines are microcircuits, and the knots are transistors.

"Mr. Huang, your trial production of chips should have been tested, right?" Ziguang's vice president asked hurriedly.

Huang Xiuyuan nodded: "Of course, these electronic control chips are for our company to use."

After saying that, he ordered the staff to divide the large piece of film again into 3,200 electronic control chips, and then said to everyone through the microphone:

"Each group present can receive three semi-finished products of electronic control chips. These electronic control chips only need to be simply packaged before performance testing. The products of our Suiren Company have always been real gold and are not afraid of fire. "

The staff distributed the semi-finished electronic control chips wrapped in small sealed bags to representatives of various groups present.

The Zhenyi nanowire textile machine on the stage welcomed waves of experts, scholars, engineers and business representatives.

After observing the chip manufacturing process, those who returned to their seats immediately started discussing with their team members.

Xu Jun patted his forehead: "Mr. Ren, I'm very confused right now!"

"I know." Boss Ren was also confused.

In other words, many people present were trapped in this dilemma.

Because the technology of Zhenyi's nanowire spinning machine is very mature, and Suiren's nanowires can be mass-produced, this means that the second technological route for mass production of chips has emerged on this planet.

China, which is technologically blocked by Western forces, has never been able to obtain advanced photolithography machines, etching machines, ion implanters, etc.

As the only semiconductor manufacturing company, SMIC is still walking in chains, either with patent barriers or a ban on equipment purchases. TSMC also secretly controls 10% of the shares, so it has its hands tied in doing things.

Mr. Ren’s expression was very serious: “We must make a decision, which is related to China’s future voice in the semiconductor field and the security of our industrial chain.”

As someone who has led Huawei from switches to a comprehensive manufacturer of communications equipment, servers, mobile phones, and laptops, his strategic vision is certainly not short-sighted.

Although Huawei attaches great importance to foreign markets, this does not mean that it does not have the idea of ​​​​developing domestic chips.

No matter how good it is outside, it is not yours after all.

There was no opportunity before, but now the opportunity is in front of us. CEO Ren made a decision: "We must support Suiren Company. Even if foreign products cannot be used, domestic products must promote the localization of chips."

Representatives of companies such as Inspur, Great Wall, and Unisplendour, who had the speaker present, all made decisions. Those who did not came called to report the situation.

Vice President Liangxiang, who had questioned Huang Xiuyuan before, now looked a little confused and hurriedly called the Peking headquarters.

The person who answered the phone was Yang Yuanqing.

Liang Xiang’s president’s office at the Beiping headquarters.

After listening to the report, Yang Yuanqing's face turned ugly. A few days ago, he and Liu Hongyi looked down on Suiren Company, but they didn't expect that the slap in the face would come so quickly.

He was very torn, and immediately ordered the vice president to continue participating in the seminar. After hanging up the phone, he immediately called Liu Hongyi, who was on a business trip to New York.

New York, formerly IBM's PC business center.

Liu Hongyi, who had just had dinner with several heads of American semiconductor companies and was sleeping, was suddenly woken up by a phone call.

He suddenly woke up. This mobile phone number was his domestic exclusive number. Only a few close friends in Liangxiang knew it. If he called so late, something big must have happened in China.

"Hey, Yuan Qing, what's the matter?"

"Director Liu, I'm sorry to disturb your rest. I have an urgent matter that needs to be reported immediately."

Liu Hongyi picked up his glasses and put them on: "Speak, I'll listen."

"It's like this..." Yang Yuanqing kept his story short and spent more than ten minutes explaining the Fuxi architecture, Zhenyi nanowire textile machine, and nanowire chip production technology announced by Suiren Company at the seminar.

Liu Hongyi subconsciously looked at the clock on the wall and felt an unreal feeling: "Are you sure?"

No wonder he doubted his life. He had just been abroad for two days, and then domestic semiconductor technology advanced by leaps and bounds overnight.

"Director Liu, I don't want to believe it either, but all the domestic companies are attending the event, so they can't all be joking together!"

"Okay!" Liu Hongyi was silent for a while, calmed his blank mind, and took a deep breath: "Yuan Qing, what do you and others think?"

"..." There was silence on the other side of the phone for a while, and then came: "We have too many international businesses, and we have always used X86 architecture spare parts. If we support Suiren Company's Fuxi architecture, it is equivalent to starting from scratch. Then we The competitiveness of PCs is not even as good as that of Great Wall.”

Liu Hongyi heard the implication. This was a choice between two options. Choosing the American X86 meant parting ways with the Suiren system, and there might be big trouble in the domestic market in the future; choosing the Fuxi architecture was equivalent to abandoning martial arts. , practice again.

"How likely do you think they are to succeed?"

Yang Yuanqing, who was on the other side of the phone, thought for a while and replied: "The possibility of surviving domestically is 50-50, but there is basically no hope internationally."

After weighing the pros and cons for a while, Liu Hongyi, who was reluctant to part with the international market, made a decision: "Then just follow the slogan and let Suiren Company do it on its own. We will not use the Fuxi structure anyway."

"I see."

In this turbulent trend of the times, some people choose to follow the trend, some choose to fight against the world, and some choose to surrender.

Maybe this is human nature.

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