The rise of nanometers

After getting a large amount of chip design information from Long Totem Company.

Huawei HiSilicon's chip design team temporarily rented an office building in Shanmei City. This is also the current practice of many companies.

The originally planned three-day seminar was extended to half a month. After all, many details and technical standards must be discussed and finalized, so that in the future they will not be defeated by Western semiconductors because they are fighting on their own.

Considering the convenience of communicating with Suiren in the future, companies such as Huawei, ZTE, Datang, Ziguang, Inspur and Great Wall have all chosen to set up offices in Shanmei.

In Huawei's temporary office building.

Several project leaders of the chip design team and the leaders of the strategic research team were discussing future strategies with Mr. Ren and Xu Jun.

"Mr. Ren, technically speaking, Suiren Company has basically completed the foundation for semiconductor innovation. They have also opened up the Fuxi architecture, the design details of the textile chip, and the actual design drawings of some chips. We only need to follow this framework. Design your own chip," explained chip design engineer Zhao Anbang.

Mr. Ren thought for a while, rubbed his temples, and asked tiredly: "If we want to design a CPU chip similar to ARM, how long will it take?"

Zhao Anbang made an estimate in his mind before replying: "A conservative estimate is that it will take at least a year and a half. After all, this is a brand new process and we need to accumulate many areas."

"Mr. Ren, it will definitely be difficult to launch the CPU at the beginning. Dragon Totem currently only has electronic control chips and audio chips. It is still in the trial production stage. Their CPU is probably also being designed." Xu Jun said some of his own idea.

"Of course I know how difficult it is to design a CPU."

Zhao Anbang suggested: "The top priority now is actually to get a production line. We can design and verify the technology on the production line at the same time."

At this time, Xu Jun remembered something: "By the way, Mr. Ren, today we have to go to Long Totem's Haifeng County Semiconductor Base. It's almost time."

"Then let's go!"

They took a minibus and headed from the city to Gongping Town in Haifeng County, where Long Totem's semiconductor base was built.

The high-intensity seminars over the past few days had left everyone in the group exhausted physically and mentally. As soon as they sat down on their seats, they closed their eyes and rested their minds.

after an hour.

The minibus arrived at Fair Town.

The gate of Dragon Totem’s semiconductor base.

Huang Xiuyuan is also here. In addition to meetings these days, he comes to the semiconductor base when he has time, because some of the semiconductor research projects and laboratories of the Scientific Research Department have been moved here.

Although Lu Xuedong, Zhang Jingjian, Zheng Shengbiao and others have been tempered, they can stand alone and lead the design of semiconductor equipment and chips independently.

But they are still not as good as Huang Xiuyuan. After all, the terrifying thing about super-memory people lies in the huge amount of knowledge brought by photographic memory, coupled with the rough control of memory, forming a model similar to mind maps and memory palaces.

Moreover, the technology in Huang Xiuyuan's mind for more than fifty years in the future is not in vain.

He personally joined the project, provided guidance on some issues, and put forward many valuable ideas and plans, reducing detours.

Huawei happened to be coming over today, and he was at the semiconductor base, so he came over to receive it in person.

"Mr. Ren, welcome."

"Mr. Huang is too polite. Let's chat while walking."

The group of people came outside the production workshop of the base. After changing their protective clothing, they passed the dust removal and cleaning area and entered the white and silver-gray production workshop.

Looking at the workshop without production, Mr. Ren asked curiously: "Mr. Huang, these production lines haven't been debugged yet?"

Huang Xiuyuan explained with a smile: "Currently, the Shanmei Semiconductor Base has relatively few production lines, with only 20 arranged, because there are currently no production tasks here, and the production tasks are all concentrated in Texas?"

"Texas? Haha..." Mr. Ren seemed to have thought of something: "Mr. Huang's Texas makes Texas Instruments have trouble sleeping and eating!"

"Times are changing. Maybe Texas chips can counterattack Texas Instruments in the future." Huang Xiuyuan also replied with a smile.

Walking to one of the production lines in the production workshop, this is a chip production line jointly built by Long Totem and Snail Industry. In addition to developing its own components, other parts are also made from domestic companies.

This production line is currently in trial production, and its task is to tape out chips for chip design laboratories. Compared with the photolithography method, which starts at tens of millions per tape, the tape-out cost of the textile method is pitifully low.

"Mr. Ren, the recent chip production line orders may need to be queued for a while, and the fastest can only be around June next year."

Mr. Ren expressed his understanding: "No problem. Anyway, HiSilicon is adapting to the new process. We initially plan to design some simple chips. CPU and GPU are not that fast."

"Simple chips also require tape-out. If necessary, you can contact Dragon Totem. Our production lines here are currently used for tape-out."

"Thank you so much."

Looking at the fast-running production line, Boss Ren, Xu Jun and others could not help but show envious expressions.

The current sales price of Zhenyi-1 for a production line and supporting equipment is a total of 60 million.

Huawei ordered 50 production lines in one go, with a total order of 3 billion.

In fact, the production cost of Zhenyi-1 is only about 7 million, and the real big deal is intellectual property.

At a price of 60 million, the price-performance ratio is quite good. Even if it is used to produce 40-nanometer CPUs, the Zhenyi-1 can still be used.

Compared with the photolithography method, which starts with a production line of several billion, the textile method can use the number of production lines to increase chip production.

In addition, Long Toteng sells production lines. Although the profit of the equipment itself is quite high, the real profit lies in the supply of semiconductor materials.

In fact, the technical content of Zhenyi-1 is not high. If Huawei, ZTE and others are determined, they can imitate it within a year or two.

But the key to the textile method lies not in the processing equipment, but in the large-scale mass production of nanowires.

After all, when the Western industry was considering the nanowire route and the wet lithography route, they chose wet lithography because nanowires could not be produced in a large-scale standardized manner.

As for Dragon Totem's Zhenyi-1, the key lies in the large-scale mass production of nanowires. The technology of nanowire semiconductor materials is basically monopolized by Suiren Materials.

Various nanowires, silicon nanoplating agents, and ion deposition agents can only be purchased from Suiren Materials.

In fact, with the news of textile chips, the world's semiconductor industry, except chip manufacturing companies such as Intel, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, GlobalFoundries, TSMC, Samsung, and MediaTek, are all feeling tremendous pressure.

Lithography giant ASML and other semiconductor upstream companies such as Tokyo Electronics, Applied Materials, Shin-Etsu, LG, and Siemens have been hit hard.

ASML's stock price fell by 28.6% in three days. Other semiconductor materials and semiconductor equipment were basically in a miserable state.

Huang Xiuyuan in Shanmei did not care about the experiences of these companies. He accompanied Mr. Ren, Xu Jun and others to inspect the chip production line.

That night, the two parties reached a preliminary cooperation plan on chip patents.

Although companies such as Huawei, ZTE, Datang, and Ziguang do not have the ability to produce chips, they have accumulated quite a few patents in the field of chip design.

These patents are a huge fortune for Suiren Company, which lacks any background.

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