Chapter 1097
What's more, if you've just taken the initiative to terminate the contract on your side, it's not likely that the yellowcake issue will be resolved on the back foot, so you really want to spit blood.
So, the tycoons can only stare in disbelief, there is no better way than to wait and watch.
In the end, they can only yell at the old U.S. to export the darkness, everything will not be absolutely bad, as the saying goes, the stuffed horse is not a blessing, there are gains and losses, there are losses and gains.
In the yellow cake on the issue of wrestling with the mouth, Wu Gang and other people's orca international security company but also in an orderly manner spread, and not affected by any, he is only an international security company, even if the old U.S. know but from the legal point of view with the focus of the issue at hand is not any relationship.
There is a relationship that is also later, which undoubtedly gives Wu Gang and others enough preparation time to set up, do not care what the result is, the guy first pulled over to say, there is a big stick in the hand, down to earth.
Although the surface is absolutely will not admit and the recent focus on the issue has any relationship, but there is something called hint na, can imply the other party my resolute attitude, but also can imply the dirt ah, as long as the dirt's comprehensive intelligence level is online, can certainly read.
This way, the tycoon is also relieved.
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The first research institute, the outer core research room.
The entire team is divided into several groups below, respectively responsible for different blocks of research, and the leaders are all Li Linfei, although there is no need to do anything, just keep an eye on it, but after all, these people are not internal robots.
It is clear that he is really busy during this period of time, so he has to put aside all his love for his children and so on.
It was the middle of the afternoon when Li Linfei put on a dust jacket and walked into the materials R&D lab.
"Director Ye, the results of the experimental data for the two-dimensional tin material are out." As soon as Li Linfei arrived at the laboratory, the person in charge, Dr. Zhu Feng, who was just thirty years old this year, came to report with quite a bit of excitement.
A thirty-year-old PhD could be said to have a promising future, having worked in the Laboratory of Low Dimensional Physics and Interface Engineering at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and was one of the few top scientific researchers in the First Postgraduate Peripheral Core Research Laboratory.
"Have the experimental materials come out yet?" Li Linfei said simply, he had come over today to pick up the materials, the other experimental R&D groups behind him were waiting to conduct their experiments.
"A small batch has come out." Zhu Feng said.
"Well, it's good to have materials to use." Li Linfei nodded his head.
But the young Dr Zhu Feng was excited now, "The results of the experiments show a perfect match with the theory you gave, the material conducts electricity when electrons pass through them."
"However with most other materials, the electrons are hindered by impurities or other substances thus creating resistance, and the resistance then heats up, so the electronics need to be cooled to prevent melting."
"But tinene materials can change this, as tinene two-dimensional crystal films are super materials that allow electrons to be emitted along a pathway without any resistance, and experimental data shows that tinene with a small amount of fluorine added becomes zero resistance at over 100 degrees Celsius."
The team leader for the development of this super material, tinene, was Zhu Feng, who knew exactly what a difference it would make to the world.
Tinene, which was actually also designed by Zhang Shoucheng, is what scientists call a topological insulator.
Tinene insulates internally while conducting externally, and a layer of tinene, or a sheet of tin one atom thick, is basically a full surface circuit of up to 100%.
Overall, this super material has more potential than the hotly marketed graphene, which may seem niche at the moment.
But not only can it be used as a cheap and plentiful alternative to silicon in the manufacture of computer chips, its non-heating, atomic-thick circuit connections allow designers to miniaturise electronic devices even further.
With chip components made from tinene that can be reduced to one-fifth or even one-eighth of their current size and consume 90-98% less energy, the creation of the tin chip is expected to bring an unprecedented explosion to a chip industry that is currently experiencing mediocre growth in processing performance.
In the clean room on the inner floor of the lab, two staff members carefully seal and remove a small batch of tin-ene 2D crystal films. They then put it into a sealed box and handed it out of the inner clean room to Li Linfei, who said, "How much purification has been achieved?"
Zhu Feng affirmed back, "Using the technology you provided, the purification reached 99% nine nines after the decimal point."
Nodding Li Linfei explained, "Prepare for shaping, the sooner the better, and immediately after completing shaping mass production of the tin material."
Zhu Feng nodded his head, but with a sudden shock suddenly busy: "What? Mass production right away? But, there is still one last experiment that has not been verified, although the epitaxially grown tinene film is very stable, but we have not yet determined how long its superconductivity can be maintained, of course, Mr. Li I do not doubt the theoretical data you gave, just think it is better to be cautious."
Obviously, Zhu Feng was still worried, although he said it rather euphemistically, after all, once mass production will be billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars of investment, in the future if the test product is not up to standard, the loss is incalculable, used in PHC may face a massive recall and brand reputation.
Li Linfei, who was about to leave, looked back at him, "I can't give you years to test its reliability, scientific research does require caution, but sometimes it's better to do it first."
Zhu Feng wanted to say something, but Li Linfei added: "PHC only has 14 million pieces in stock now, and that's only if the business in the overseas market is terminated and only supplies for the mainland, it has to be made up before the stock is broken, losing the overseas market can return in the future, but at the same time the mainland market is also broken, thousands of factories will close down and thousands of people will face unemployment. Do as I say, I'll take the blame if something goes wrong, I'm the overall person in charge."
"Okay, I understand." When Li Linfei said so, Zhu Feng had no choice but to carry it out.
It was proven that even a person who was open was still a person after all, not a god.
Li Linfei had many epoch-making knowledge in his head, but in order to turn the knowledge in his head into a product in reality, he had to have the assistance of a reliable team to achieve it, and some of the technology that was ahead of its time would instead cause big trouble, just like that seawater desalination technology that caused so much trouble.
Chapter 1098
As time passed, Li Linfei led the entire semiconductor team in an intense technical development, one result accumulated over time, and interviews for new products were about to begin.
A week later, at around 11am, a convoy of three or five cars arrived at this R&D room in the First Research Institute, and the head of the R&D centre came out to greet the convoy as it arrived.
For the person who came was none other than Li Linfei.
"Mr Li, the tin flake material has arrived?" That person in charge said with a face of impatience.
At this, Li Linfei looked sideways at a man who was following him and indicated a sophisticated sealed box that he was carrying in his hand. "
"Chief Huang, how is the preparation on your side?" Li Linfei asked.
"It's been ready for a long time, we've been waiting for three days, we're just waiting for the tin piece." Team Leader Huang said bluntly.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get started."
"Mr. Li, please!"
The outer research room of the First Research Institute, a large laboratory with closed, burglar-proof tempered glass doors, giggled as Li Linfei and the others approached about three or five metres, and the glass doors suddenly opened on their own.
At this time, Li Linfei and the person in charge of the research and development centre, together with an important person in charge of SMIC, came to this laboratory, and all kinds of instruments and equipment were immediately exposed to the view of everyone, especially in the central position of the laboratory, a four-metre-high, matrix structure equipment was particularly remarkable.
There were several rather young engineers in the laboratory, and at this time Li Linfei, who was wearing a dust-free suit, did not ask for any instructions from the head of the R&D department, but directly took up the work himself and said to the engineers, "Don't stand still, let's start."
They immediately started working.
Li Linfei skilfully opened the lithography machine, which was developed entirely by domestic parts, and a conical funnel-shaped instrumentation appeared inside, which was hooked on the top.
Cable wires about two fingers wide were densely packed, outer layers of purple copper wires surrounded the interior of the bare body, thousands of parts were densely aligned and linked together to form a precise miniaturised closed structure, which was spectacular to see from a smaller angle up close.
As Li Linfei directed the five engineers who assisted him in final commissioning operations, one of the staff brought the sealed box he had brought with him from which he removed the tinene 2D wafers, which were the fabricated tin wafers.
The manufacturing process of the chip is very complex, firstly to provide a high purity tinene 2D crystal film, after absorbing the core technology in the production of the raw material process, and then to increase the purity of the tinene material to the world's top level as well.
It is worth mentioning that, in addition to lithography, etching machines are also needed to make chips. If lithography is the soul of chip manufacturing, then etching machines are the prana of chip manufacturing, and both must be top-notch if we want to create a truly high-end process chip.
Before that, the development of domestic photolithography and etching machine is very awkward, belong to the serious bias of the situation, in micro semiconductor has been able to carry out 5 nanometer level etching machine mass production, directly no suspense into the ranks of the world's first-class, quantum etching machine is also in the test stage, but this is the result of no help from Ye Hua.
But the lithography enterprise whether it is microelectronics 90nm class lithography, or shadow speed 200nm class lithography, and the current world ASML most advanced 5nm class process is difficult to look at the gap.
These two machines and equipment are, simply put, photolithography machines that project circuit diagrams onto silicon wafers covered with photoresist, now tin of course, and etching machines that then etch away the excess circuit diagrams from the chips on which they have been drawn.
This may not seem difficult, but there is a figurative analogy that the circuit mechanism on top of each chip is several times more complex than the whole when viewed magnified countless times, and this is how difficult the photolithography and etching machines are.
The process of photolithography is to coat the surface of the tin wafer with a layer of photoresist, a so-called photoresist is a gel-like substance that can be corroded by light, and then mapped onto the surface of the tin wafer by extreme ultraviolet light through a mask, similar to projection.
Because of the photoresist coverage, the part that is irradiated is eroded away and the part that is not illuminated is left behind, which is the desired circuit structure.
The photolithography function is similar to that of a camera, in that the circuit diagram of the chip route and function is exposed to the photolithography chip wafer through a photomask with graphics.
Figuratively speaking, it is like a planar printing process, once the architectural scheme is determined, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, the production is done by brushing up on the volume. There are two types of etching, dry etching and wet etching, and the second type of etching solution is the one offered by SMIC.
As the name implies, wet etching is a process in which water is added to the wafer, and the wafer that has been lithographed above is reacted with a specific chemical solution to remove the unwanted parts, and what remains is the circuit structure.
Dry lithography, on the other hand, is not yet available for commercial mass production and is based on the principle of replacing the chemical solution with plasma to remove the unwanted part of the wafer.
SMIC is also one of the core members of the CSAC club alliance system and is also very excited because with the strong theoretical technical support received from Linfei Li, commercialisation of plasma etching is already a promising future.
After the modulation was completed, Li Linfei drew a holographic panel in front of him and output a string of instructions for the photolithography machine to start automating its operation. The so-called automatic control is from the uploading and downloading of the substrate, the exposure duration and the cycle are all controlled by the program.
The next step is to produce 34 different chips with different functions, and it is basically upstream suppliers, of which Intel is one, that make up exactly 34 different chips inside a PHC machine.
It is clear that the semiconductor industry is as difficult as it is to get to the top.
From one point it is not difficult to see that, wanting the dependence of foreign IC manufacturers, Li Linfei must take the lead in getting CSAC out of the way, relying on Future Technology alone, even if he is open to hang it up, it is impossible to get it done within six months.