Speaking of the chips we use today on our computers and mobile phones, they are silicon transistors first made by the Americans in 1946, and then they made chips with transistors.

To put it bluntly, is it that more silicon transistors are placed on high-purity silicon crystal substrates, allowing electrons to travel through these transistors, using a unique binary 01 language to control the switch, and ultimately achieving the purpose of allowing the chip to perform tasks.

To put it bluntly, carbon-based chips are to replace silicon with carbon.

In fact, as early as the last century, someone proposed this idea and conducted experiments.

But people at that time did not discover graphene, they simply wanted to use carbon atoms to replace silicon atoms.

Later, it was found that the atoms connected to carbon and carbon have no structural stability as silicon atoms, and later no one continued to study carbon-based chips.

This situation was not until 2004 when two Manchester University professors discovered that they had tear off large pieces of graphene from graphite for the first time and won the Nobel Prize.

The concept of carbon nanotube chips has been re-appreciated.

Because people have discovered that as humans continue to deepen their research on chips, Moore's Law, which originally defined the electronics field, is no longer effective.

The original Moore's Law said that every 12-24 months, humans' efficiency in research and development results for electronic chips will double.

But after the chip process enters 14 nanometers, this law begins to fail.

People have found that as silicon nanotubes become smaller and smaller, the difficulty of upgrading the next generation is getting greater and greater.

So it takes about three years for humans to upgrade the silicon essence chips to break through from 7nm to 5nm.

The next step from 5nm to 3nm, or 2nm may take three or five years.

When it finally reaches 1nm, it may even take ten years.

After truly mastering the 1nm technology and wanting to upgrade, the physical properties of the silicon transistor have reached its limit.

So in recent years, scientists have been looking for suitable materials that can replace silicon transistors.

After British professors discovered graphene in 2004, the theory of carbon nanotube chips began to become very popular.

The Americans took the lead in conducting research, for example, at MIT, a large amount of scientific research funds are poured into this field every year.

It was not until 2019 that they finally successfully prepared the first carbon nanotube chip.

my country's research on this aspect is still relatively slow at present, and it is definitely not a little bit worse than the United States.

Because he understands the current progress of carbon nanotube research in China, Fang Zilu rejected the subordinate engineers and proposed the idea of ​​carbon nanotube research and development at the scientific research direction conference organized by the company.

Because that's totally a gambling.

As a hardware expert, Fang Zilu really understands the difficulty of developing carbon nanotubes.

Let’s not talk about carbon-based wafers or something. Let’s talk about the preparation of carbon nanotubes, which is the biggest obstacle that has plagued scientists around the world.

Even the Americans who are the leader in this field can only burn money crazy to get enough carbon nanotubes.

This is because they are rich and powerful and can afford to burn. If they do this, they will probably burn Company H.

And they don't have such time either.

There are several major problems in the preparation of carbon nanotube chips.

The first is the preparation of carbon nanotubes. We all know that graphite is formed by layered graphene superimposed together.

And when we roll up a single layer of graphene, it becomes carbon nanotubes.

However, after the carbon nanotubes are rolled up, their length and thickness are different. Some of these carbon nanotubes are semiconductors and some are conductors.

For carbon nanochips, what is needed is semiconductors, so how should you purify these carbon nanotubes?

You must know that if you want to reach the semiconductor process level, the semiconductor purity of such a bunch of carbon nanotubes must reach four nines after the decimal point.

The second problem is how to ensure that the directional arrangement of carbon nanotubes is consistent.

If you can't guarantee that the alignment of carbon nanotubes is consistent, then your carbon nanotransistors will make no sense.

The third problem is that you have to ensure the density of the accumulation.

That is, in a space of one micron, you have to accumulate at least 200 to 300 carbon nanotubes, and the directions of these carbon nanotubes must be consistent.

This is the first problem that we need to face in the preparation of carbon nanochips at present.

Consistency of arrangement, high purity and high density.

And these three difficulties alone are already 99.9999% of the world's scientific research institutions, companies and universities.

Next, there is the preparation of carbon-based crystals, followed by photoetching and etching of carbon-based crystals, and the photoresist to be used, etc.

Some of the preparation processes and the production processes of silicon-based chips are closely coincided with those of them.

So at that time, Fang Zilu killed this plan when someone proposed to build a carbon-based chip.

But now, when a living carbon and chip are placed in front of her, Fang Zilu is already stupid.

This feeling is really sci-fi!

She couldn't believe that so far, even the most advanced United States had no technology to handle, but now it has become an entity and appears in front of her.

Especially just now, under the electron microscope, she had repeatedly confirmed that the substrate was indeed arranged behind layers of carbon nanotransistors.

Mr. Fang couldn't help but sighed deeply, then leaned back to sit back on the sofa.

"It's really a carbon nanotube chip?"

Mr. Yu asked next to him that he did not know much about hardware.

Especially when it comes to chip manufacturing, he only knows that chips of a few nanometers are better, but when it comes to the difference between silicon-based chips and carbon-based chips, he really doesn't know much about it.

At this time, Mr. Fang closed his eyes and nodded.

"It's confirmed that it's a carbon-based chip."

"Oh? What are the benefits of this chip compared to silicon-based chips?"

Mr. Fang suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Mr. Yu, and then said with a smile.

"If it is a chip of the same level, such as a chip with a 7nm, then the running speed of a carbon nanotube chip will be 10-20 times that of a silicon-based chip. This mainly depends on the purity of the carbon nanotube."

"In terms of power consumption, the energy consumption of carbon nanochips will be only 30 to 70% of silicon-based chips!"

"I'll go..."

After hearing Mr. Fang’s description, Mr. Yu, who was sitting aside, couldn’t help but slapped his face excitedly.

Isn’t this the chip they need most?

Previously, TSMC had begun to cut off supply to them.

And by the coming year, they will no longer get the top-level chips, although they have prepared many 1010 chips for the flagship phones that are not yet obvious.

But that's only enough for a year!

And by the year after year, if the political structure still remains unchanged, the United States will still be trying to kill H Company.

If there is no breakthrough in the field of chip manufacturing in China, then their H Company may really withdraw from the smartphone market.

As smart phones become more and more popular, almost everyone knows that smart phones are the future and tomorrow.

Their H Company finally managed to work hard in this field for more than ten years before they achieved their market position today.

It would be a pity if you just exit the market like this.

Maybe the company may be in a slump from then on, just like Toshiba and Hitachi back then, it gradually disappeared from the sight of consumers.

It is easy to exit, but if you want to get up, it is really a huge problem.

Look at Motorola back then, it was the only world giant that could compete with Nokia before entering the era of smartphones.

But once he entered the era of smart phones, he became the first giant to fall.

There is also Nokia, the overlord of the mobile phone field that was the most undisputed.

I was still proud of myself in the past two years and smashing walnuts with my phone.

But two years later, they were swept into the garbage dump of history.

After that, they also wanted to resurrect the corpse and return to the smart phone market many times.

It’s a pity that being eliminated means being eliminated. No matter how hard they try, they are not able to win back people’s recognition of this brand.

And such a scene is now facing the biggest dilemma of H Company.

Now the Americans have already used all their ultimate killer moves.

From the current perspective, especially from the hardware preparation, they really have no power to fight back against the Americans.

If they are in memory, screen, and other aspects, they can find ways to solve it.

But when they talk about this main chip, they really have no choice.

Because there are only a few companies in the world that can produce chips.

LFK, T-Chi, and Sansan, among which T-Chi and Sansan are closely related to Miligan's capital.

In other words, the real big boss behind them is actually the chaebol from the number one powerhouse.

As for LFK, they use ASML, a lithography machine that manufactures chips, and the big boss behind them is still the number one powerhouse.

Even domestic chip manufacturing companies use ASML...

So if they still fail to find a way to break the deadlock by then.

Then H Company will face a situation where there is no stock to use. If there is no main chip at that time, they will naturally lose products, let alone any market at that time.

And now suddenly at Spark Technology, they discovered that this mysterious company actually has carbon nanotube chips that can be completely replaced and even bypass American equipment.

How could Mr. Yu not be excited?

The dawn of breaking through the siege finally appeared!

If they can reach an agreement with Spark Technology, then their H Company is still afraid that you will be the most powerful G Hammer? They will definitely dare to go to the end with the most powerful G person!
Chapter completed!