Carbon-based chip research institute.
Lu Zhou didn't know how many times he had been here.
However, unlike in the past, he could clearly feel that the atmosphere here was different from the past.
How should I put it?
When he came here before, it was more or less for similar purposes, such as making some progress in their research. But this time was different. He could clearly see the joy in the researchers' eyes, as well as the relief of not letting them down after their long journey of ten thousand miles had finally come to an end …
At the same time, he could clearly sense that the root of all this was the thumbnail-sized, square-shaped, pitch-black sheet in his hand.
"This is it."
After Professor Wu Tianqun carefully handed the thin piece to Lu Zhou, he looked at it and said excitedly, "Dragon 1000, the first prototype chip of the Dragon series! It's also called Dragon One! The specific performance parameters are what you saw earlier. Currently, we are using the 28nm process technology, and we have successfully increased the integration from 3 million transistors per square millimeter to 10 million!
"Based on the needs of our friends, our initial positioning of this Dragon One chip is for high-end servers. The target is the Intel Xeon X56 series chip. Even though we are slightly inferior to them in terms of integration and process data, with the advantages of carbon-based transistors in terms of physical performance, I can say that we are way ahead of them! "
Professor Wu Tianqun tried to explain the characteristics of the chip to Lu Zhou in plain language.
Even though the density of 10 million transistors per square millimeter was nothing compared to Intel, which was able to achieve 100 million integration. However, carbon-based transistors and silicon-based transistors were two different things, so they couldn't be completely compared.
Taking the Xeon series of chips as an example, depending on the model and product positioning, the number of integration points was around 50 million. However, when compared horizontally, the Dragon 1, which had just reached 10 million integration points, was already superior to the Xeon X series chips, which had higher integration points!
It could even be said that he was most proud of the fact that he had achieved such results with only an integration degree of 10 million. Because this meant that there was more room for improvement in their technology!
Once they developed the integration degree and process technology to the same level as the carbon-based chips on the market …
Perhaps the entire industry would have to call them daddy from the bottom of their hearts.
All in all, even though the technology was still in its infancy, the performance of the Dragon One chip had already demonstrated the advantages of carbon-based chips.
Whether it was the power consumption of up to 20W, the clock frequency of 3.7 GHz, or the physical performance of carbon-based transistors compared to silicon-based transistors, Professor Wu Tianqun had the confidence to say this in a confident tone.
After listening to Professor Wu Tianqun's explanation, Lu Zhou became more and more interested.
Even though he didn't know much about chips, and his contributions to this project were mainly focused on the theoretical level and the improvement of the SG carbon material, from Professor Wu Tianqun's description and his excited expression, he could feel how nutty this technology was.
Lu Zhou carefully looked at the faintly visible engraved patterns on the surface of the chip in his hand. He felt the feather-light texture and couldn't help but praise it.
"So light!"
Compared to the texture and weight of silicon-based chips, this thing was as thin as a piece of paper … No, from a chemical point of view, it was the same as a piece of paper.
Professor Wu Tianqun smiled and said, "This is one of the advantages of carbon-based chips. Our weight per unit volume is less than half that of silicon-based chips!"
In fact, it wasn't just as light as paper.
Lu Zhou played with the chip in his hand. He suddenly discovered that this thing could be bent at a small angle. When he removed the force applied to both ends of the chip, the entire chip returned to its original shape like a spring …
It was like a piece of paper.
Suddenly, Lu Zhou realized something.
"Is it really okay for me to hold this thing like this?"
Professor Wu Tianqun smiled and said, "That's not a problem, this thing is already an assembly line product. You might not even believe me if I told you the price. Even if you break them, I still have a pile here. It's not a big deal. "
When Lu Zhou heard this, he finally relaxed. He exerted more force with his thumb and index finger.
He was curious about the limit of this chip.
The force applied to both ends of the chip continued to increase. Finally, when the bending angle reached more than 20 degrees, the black chip finally broke in the middle and broke into two pieces.
Professor Wu Tianqun looked at Lu Zhou's slightly surprised face and spoke.
"Our chips mainly use the SG series material, which is quite good at bending. I'm sure you know this better than me. But … I still don't recommend bending this thing like this. Generally speaking, bending it will affect its electric current transmission. "
"I was just giving it a try." Lu Zhou threw the remains of the chip into a special recycling bag. He then looked at Professor Wu Tianqun and said, "I didn't expect you guys to solve the industrialization problem after so long."
Professor Wu Tianqun said humbly, "The industrialization problem was mainly solved by HiSilicon and the Institute of Semiconductors at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. We're mainly doing carbon-based transistors and the specific integration process."
Lu Zhou nodded and said, "If everything goes well, when can we start production?"
Professor Wu Tianqun thought for a bit and said, "According to the feedback from HiSilicon, we can start production as soon as the end of the month … In fact, they're even more anxious than us. Foreign semiconductor manufacturers are becoming more and more unruly, and the US government is also suppressing them. I talked to their CTO about this issue. They're counting on our carbon-based semiconductors to take them to the international market."
Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows and smiled as he said, "I'm sure they won't be disappointed."
Professor Wu Tianqun smiled and said, "Of course! I'm quite confident in the power of our technology and the strength of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study! "
After staying in the carbon-based chip laboratory for a while.
Lu Zhou went back to the dean's office and thought for a bit. In the end, he decided to call Director Li from the State Administration for National Defense.
The phone rang three times before it was picked up. Director Li's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Hello? What's up? "
Lu Zhou: "Something's up."
Even though Director Li did say "call me if you need anything", Director Li was still speechless when Lu Zhou called him right after he left.
F * ck, can't you just say it in person?
Why do you have to wait until I'm in the car?
"Why didn't you say it earlier? Tomorrow, I'm at a meeting in the high-tech zone, I'll come find you tomorrow — "
"It's about the Dragon One, the carbon-based chip —"
Before Lu Zhou could finish his sentence, Director Li shivered and immediately said, "Where are you now?"
Lu Zhou heard the anxious voice from the other end of the phone. He smiled and spoke.
"I'm still in my office."
"Wait for me, I'll be there soon … Xiao Li, turn around! Go back to the Institute for Advanced Study! "
"But there's still an hour until the meeting in the high-tech zone —"
"Stupid! Is the meeting more important, or is Professor Lu more important? "
"Yes, sir …"
Amidst a cacophony of sounds, the phone was hung up.
Lu Zhou sat in his office chair with a slightly dumbfounded expression. He smiled and shook his head. He then threw his phone on the table.
Dragon Ascension One had already been built.
According to Professor Wu, there shouldn't be any problems with production. The Jiangcheng semiconductor industrial base and the entire semiconductor industrial cluster were all dedicated to this carbon-based chip project.
All of the supporting facilities were ready before the project even started. Huawei HiSilicon was moving from chip design to the top of the semiconductor industry chain, so they had enough motivation to industrialize the chip to the best of their ability.
The only thing Lu Zhou had to think about was how to play this card.
Lu Zhou tapped his finger on the table and thought for a bit. He then shook his head.
Forget it, this is giving me a headache. I'll discuss this with the professionals.
Thinking of this, he picked up his phone again and called a number that he rarely used.
In fact, he was surprised that this number was in his contact list. He had almost forgotten when he had been added in.
"Hello? Is this Mr. Wang? "
"Yeah, it's me."
"We've already made the chip you ordered."
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