Chapter 1452 Nothing Is Impossible

It is impossible for any technology to be invented for no reason. Although talented scientists may speed up the development of technology, genius scientists also need to spend money.

It can be said that all the technological progress of human beings is made of money. Jiang Yanhai seems to be doing scientific research very fast, and it seems that he can't spend much money.

But is that really the case? Not really.

It’s a very simple matter. Just like last time, Jiang Yanhai was going to the research institute near Yangcheng to make video contact with Professor Liu and Professor Hu. At that time, the entire research institute was in a closed state, and all scientific research activities were suspended. The holidays that should be taken, the rest that should be rested, and the things that should be implemented behind are implemented behind.

These all cost money! Some studies stop for a day, and the power of the computer alone is not a small number.

And Jiang Yanhai can call any supercomputing machine if he wants to use it, and even use the strategic reserve directly. Does the strategic reserve not need money? These are all money.

Therefore, scientific research does not save money, but Jiang Yanhai's efficiency is higher here. Others may produce one effect for ten thousand yuan, but Jiang Yanhai's one hundred can produce one effect.

But this one hundred yuan also needs to be spent.

Warwick is today not because of how powerful their scientific researchers are, but because they are willing to invest.

What is the concept of throwing away a 100 billion company every year? How many companies have a national market value of more than 100 billion?

"Well, these are easy to say, let's speed up the progress, in fact, there is probably a rule in the design of the chip and the matching with the system..." Jiang Yanhai said with a smile.

Of course, they are all talking about chips based on silicon crystals. At present, the ultimate performance of silicon crystal chips has not been squeezed out.

The next step of 3 nanometers is 1 nanometer, and it is even possible to break through the limit value of nanometers and reach a few tenths of a nanometer.

What is the concept of a few tenths of a nanometer? It is the size of an atom! That is to say, in the future, the size of a transistor will be as large as an atom.

But is such technology the limit? No, even nano-robots can exist, which is nothing.

Therefore, there is no limit to technology. If you think about how a star several times larger than the sun will eventually shrink into a black hole with a diameter of a few centimeters, you will understand how amazing matter is.

After entering Huawei's research institute, Jiang Yanhai stopped talking to these bosses, because talking to them would have no effect on the upcoming research. He directly asked these researchers for the next-generation design drawings of the Kirin series chips.

This is a chip design drawing at the 3nm level. In fact, the entire drawing is already very complete. If it weren't for Jiang Yanhai, they would probably have entered the tape-out stage. If the tape-out is successful, it means that the chip is considered a success. .

Of course, the success of tape-out does not mean that the chip is perfect. There are not no chips with design defects, such as heat generation, energy consumption, power and other aspects.

This is why many chips are of one series and one architecture, because in this case, although these chips are constantly improving, the performance of this chip can also be continuously optimized by them.

But in China, all companies can only choose to overtake on corners, including Huawei, because they have too little reserves in this area.

Think about when the earliest IBM in the United States was established? Companies including intel have been around for decades.

But what about domestically? When was the first real chip company established?

The difference between the two is too great, and there is a huge lack of experience alone, which is why Li Ruobai and the others choose to directly invest in new materials and new structures.

Because the limit of silicon crystal materials is about to be reached, the current silicon crystal materials may still be used for 20 to 30 years, but if they have achieved results in new materials and new structures at the same time, these 20 to 30 years Inside, enough for them to go to the forefront of the world.

In this regard, they have advantages, at least those companies next door do not have many new materials.

Jiang Yanhai did not choose to procrastinate. After checking the new generation of Kirin chips, he directly said: "Your Kirin's design on the 3nm aspect is still based on the architecture design of the previous generation of Kirin chips. I probably have some ideas about this aspect. Improve ideas, you can record them together.”

It is inevitable for Huawei to adopt a series of architectures. It is impossible for them to design a new architecture and a new chip from scratch like Li Ruobai and the others, because the purposes of the two parties are different.

Huawei's idea is very simple, they want to put it into use quickly, but Li Ruobai and the others are in charge of the national strategic plan, so the level of support between the two parties is naturally different.

However, although Huawei's chip design is not as simple and efficient as what Jiang Yanhai and the others came up with, and has made progress in various aspects such as energy consumption, the performance gap is not that big.

At least the user can't actually feel it.

Jiang Yanhai kept putting forward some suggestions for improvement that he had discovered before, while the engineers on Huawei's side were constantly verifying. Some verifications can be directly simulated on the supercomputer, while others must be carried out. After the tape-out is successful, various limit tests are carried out compared with the previous chips to obtain the latest data.

If it was before, the speed of the second test method would be very slow, because we did not have a lithography machine ourselves before, but it is different now.

3nm lithography machines are being produced at a crazy speed in China. It can be said that foundry companies like TSMC and even Samsung have sought to purchase 3nm lithography machines.

Regarding orders in this area, the domestic market naturally does not refuse anyone who comes, not only does not refuse, but the price is lowered to the price of cabbage!

ASML’s 7nm lithography machine costs US$100 million a set. Sorry, we only sell it for US$80 million, 3nm.

And the data on the yield rate and other aspects are definitely not bad! All top international figures.

80 million US dollars is the price of cabbage!

This price is placed in the whole world, and no one can beat it.

Although ASML has been trying to speed up its progress, according to the data analysis of Erdan, it will take at least one and a half years for them to produce a mature 3-nanometer process lithography machine.

But in a year and a half, the day lily is cold, okay?

In fact, not long after Xiaomi's mobile phone went on sale, the Ministry of Commerce next door has quietly revoked all the regulations on the chip embargo and lithography machine embargo.

However, if Jiang Yanhai remembers correctly, not long ago, the Ministry of Commerce in China issued the latest relevant laws, and the export of 3nm lithography machines is strictly prohibited, but I can sell them.