"Mr. Yu, Mr. Fang, this is a real carbon nanotube chip..."

"It's true, but we are not very clear about the specific calculation principle."

"Mr. Yu, Mr. Fang, we have no way to crack their intelligent AI system. I need time and team..."

Mr. Fang brought a huge team of engineers, with about 30 people. She can be said to be the top hardware and software talents in Warwick at present. They were all brought by her at the general requirements.

Since getting off the plane, their group was directly picked up by people from Xinghuo Technology and moved directly into Xinghuo Factory.

Under the special approval of the CEO of Spark Technology, they were allowed to use Spark's laboratory for three days.

And the next day, they got shocking news from the engineers.

Mr. Yu had always felt the strange chip before, but it was indeed different from the ordinary silicon-based chips on the market.

This is actually a carbon nanotube chip!

"Are you sure?"

After hearing the report from his number one hardware engineer, Fang Chang, who has the title of chip queen, could no longer sit still.

He stood up from the chair directly. As a hardware engineer, who knows better the importance of carbon nanotube chips than she?

In fact, since the birth of silicon-based chips, the technological upgrade of this chip has been dominated by Moore's Law.

From the original transistor to the silicon-based chip, then from the micron level to the nano level, it has evolved to the level of several nanometers.

But when humans have achieved silicon-based chips to this point, they have basically reached the physical limit of silicon-based chips.

Many people even say that the limit of silicon-based chips is 1nm.

According to the current process of lithography machine development, silicon-based chips will reach this physical limit in the next five years or ten years.

So, in what direction should human computers develop next?

Quantum computer?

Indeed, the legend about quantum computers has been around for decades, and it is undeniable that this kind of computer does sound amazing.

But the problem now is that there are still many key problems that have not been solved, such as what materials are used to make chips for quantum computers?

There are also quantum computer applications, how to set them up, etc.

So quantum computers are still a long way from us.

Currently, Google is the most researched in the field of quantum computers, but it is only in its infancy.

Unless humans can make major breakthroughs in materials science within the next hundred years, it is unlikely that they will want to make quantum computers.

There is also a photon computer that has been legendary with quantum computers for a long time, and the same is true.

Unless humans make major breakthroughs in materials science in the next hundred years, there is no chance to make photon computers.

However, this carbon nanotube computer is more realistic.

Moreover, the idea of ​​using carbon-based chips has long been proposed, but it has not been implemented because it is very difficult to manufacture.

But it is undeniable that in recent decades, countries around the world have been quietly studying the manufacturing technology of carbon nanotube chips.

And again, without exception, the Americans are still at the forefront.

Even as early as 2019, a scientific research team at MIT used 14,000 carbon nanotubes to create a 16-bit microprocessor.

In my country, although there are scientific research teams in conducting research on carbon nanotube chips, they have never made any public technology.

No one can tell the exact effect.

Recently, because of being sanctioned by the United States, their team was discussing how to bypass the sanctions of the Americans.

An engineer under her command suggested that it would be better to start studying the manufacturing of carbon nanotube chips.

It caused heated discussion at that time, but unfortunately, this idea was finally killed by Mr. Fang.

Because there are not many people in the company who know how to manufacture carbon nanotube chips.

There are not even many experts in the international field, and the number of experts in this field is basically in the United States.

It is obviously unrealistic to invite these people to work for Warwick.

Even in China, there are not many people who are really familiar with and understand carbon nanotubes. How should they carry out research in this regard?

Even if they are willing to invest, they dare to try to innovate in this field, but the company can’t afford to wait!

Maybe after waiting for more than ten or twenty years, they can make breakthroughs in this field, but by that time, the company may be in a mess.

And now, they have discovered carbon nanotransistor chips in Bincheng, a company that suddenly emerged.

How do you think this party can still sit still?

Although his engineers have confirmed with her again and again.

But Mr. Fang still couldn't help but follow the engineer to the microscope.

It was not until I personally confirmed in the microscope that the chip was not the trench etched out by a traditional silicon-based chip by a lithography machine, but the architecture built with carbon nanotransistors.

She finally confirmed that this is really the legendary carbon nanotube chip.

After confirming this chip, Mr. Fang couldn't help but burst into tears.

Our country of China finally has a technique that we can do on our own!

Moreover, the discovery of this chip can be said to be a true manifestation of overtaking on the curve.

With such a chip, there are really too many things they can do.

No matter how fiercely restricted foreign countries are, we are not afraid, because we have already broken out of your system.

Speaking of the benefits of this carbon nanotube chip, there are so many.

In terms of electron transmission speed, because it is transmitted in carbon nanotubes, it is hundreds or thousands of times faster than silicon-based chips.

The most important thing is that during the electron transmission process, because it is inside the carbon nanotube, the entanglement and interference between electrons are also avoided.

Therefore, the running speed and efficiency of carbon nanotube chips are much higher than that of silicon-based chips.

Therefore, in terms of efficiency and speed, carbon nanotube chips have this natural advantage over silicon-based chips.

Basically, the running speed and efficiency of chips with the same specifications start ten times compared to silicon-based chips.

Moreover, the production processes of the two are very different. Of course, many of the processes are the same in the manufacturing of carbon-based crystals, as well as the photolithography or etching.

The process of producing silicon-based chips is equivalent to the commonly used subtractive processing in metal processing plants today.

It is equivalent to sending an iron ingot to the machine tool, and then letting the machine tool use various tools to continuously cut, turn, mill and grind on this iron ingot.

The production process of chips is to send the silicon wafer into a lithography machine, use lasers to carve the trench on the wafer, and then apply photoresist, and use various chemical agents to corrode the trench.

Then, layer by layer, the operation and engraving...

Therefore, the process speed is very slow, and it is often prone to errors. The yield rate has always been the main problem that plagues major chip manufacturing companies.

For carbon nanotube chips, the production process is very different.

If the production process of silicon-based chips is a process of reducing material processing, the use of equipment is equivalent to a five-axis machine tool.

The production process of carbon nanotube chips is an additive processing process, and the equipment used is equivalent to a 3D printer.

The production principle of this carbon nanotube is to use carbon nanotubes as raw materials, and then build these carbon nanotubes together like building blocks to build an electronically accessible city.

Because of the natural advantages of carbon nanotubes, electrons operate faster in cities constructed by carbon nanotubes, weaker interference with each other, and less likely to heat up, so the advantages of carbon nanotube chips can be said to be innate.

A carbon nanotube, which is only one nanometer in size, is the main raw material of graphite crystals.

The thickness of a hair is about 50,000 to 60,000 nanometers, which shows that the slightness of this carbon nanotube is definitely comparable to the size of a bacteria.

Moreover, the manufacturing of this carbon nanotube is very difficult.

When you produce the same batch, the length and thickness of the carbon nanotubes are different.

Different forms lead to different properties. Some are nanotubes with pure metal properties, while others are nanotubes with semiconductor properties.

If you want to prepare a semiconductor chip, you need a semiconductor nanotube.

So how to select semiconductor nanotubes from the generator furnace are all problems that plague developers from all over the world.

So regarding carbon nanochips, although there is currently the most promising material for the next generation of computer chips that can replace silicon-based chips.

But so far, we are still far from real carbon nanotube chips.

Mr. Fang remembers that two years ago, she attended a world-class computer chip development conference.

At that conference, some experts said that we may still have twenty to fifty years to the birth of a true carbon-based chip.

Because there are too many new processes, new materials, new equipment, and even new drivers involved.

Once carbon-based chips are really born, they will definitely be epoch-making.

This means that we have to talk about the traditional world pattern.

A brand new era is coming!

You should know that so far, humans have experienced four large-scale industrial revolutions.

The first was the emergence of steam engines, the second was when humans entered the era of electricity, and the third was when Americans entered the era of electronic automation led by the last century. To put it bluntly, computers began to become popular and applied to various fields.

The fourth time was the era of information explosion brought about by the Internet tide.

And if carbon-based chips are born, it will definitely mean that a new era of industrial revolution is coming!
Chapter completed!