I Have a Little Black Hole

Because the materials that can get to this point have corresponding advantages, maybe which materials can directly become the next-generation chip materials after further breakthroughs, so these materials that have passed multiple rounds of screening are all The objects of our laboratory's key research, the material companies are also stepping up further research on these materials.

However, we are still focusing on the company's advantageous materials, such as graphene materials, carbon nanotube materials, and some composite materials doped with metal materials or other materials.

It is hoped that substantial progress can be made in the research of these materials, the 2-nanometer chip manufacturing technology can be solved, and the related technical difficulties of 1-nanometer can be further solved.

Liu Lishuang is very familiar with these data, so he introduced the relevant data to his boss without any stumbling. From the data he said, it is not difficult to see why the company invests more than 5 billion in the lab-on-a-chip every year. USD research and development funds.

This is because many related resources are circulated within the company. If there is no help from the many laboratories in the material company for the research of such a variety of new materials, this investment amount will not be doubled, let alone there are Parts needed for the research and development of related chip manufacturing equipment such as lithography machines.

In the field of optics, there are optical laboratories to help share research and development, and other various component technologies also have laboratories on the side of smart equipment companies to help in tackling key problems. Otherwise, how can these three-layer laboratories complete the research in the entire chip field.

Well, if you try more, there will always be surprises. Anyway, the company has this advantage, isn't it a waste not to use it! Lei Tiantang said with a smile.

Liu Lishuang also nodded with a smile. That's true. The linkage effect between the company's laboratories is also an important reason why the company's related technologies can make breakthroughs from time to time.

After randomly selecting some projects under R\u0026D experiments and looking at them, Lei Tiantang smiled with satisfaction: Generally speaking, the progress is not bad. Although the 2nm technology has not completely broken through, I believe that solving these problems in the future will also help. Not a big deal.

And you have also done a solid pre-research work on 1-nanometer technology, which is very good, unlike those laboratories that dare to announce that we have broken through 1-nanometer chip manufacturing technology as soon as they have a little experimental results.

From the discovery of the laboratory to the large-scale production, I don’t know how many difficulties there are to overcome. I may fall into the pit halfway, and I don’t know if the person in charge of the laboratory is really stupid or pretending to be stupid, but I guess The possibility of using this method to pull investment is the greatest!

Speaking of this Lei Tiantang couldn't help shaking his head and burst into laughter, you must know that until now, not only in foreign countries, but even in China, two laboratories have announced that they have broken through the related technology of 1 nanometer chips.

In total, more than 10 companies have advertised this way.

The earliest one was announced even before the Infinite Gravity Group entered the field of chip research and development. It has been more than 5 years, and there has been no text for such a long time.

It is estimated that after some hype, they found the next company to sell the laboratory, or the investor could not bear the huge investment for a long time without substantial progress and interrupted the investment, so it went bankrupt? Anyway, there has been no latest trend of these laboratories for more than a year.

Hearing his boss say this, not only Liu Lishuang laughed, but even the researchers who were working next to him laughed heartily.

There's no way around that, after all, not just any laboratory can invest in R\u0026D with no upper limit like our company's laboratory.

Besides, we are also very clear about our own research in this area. The current chip technology is already moving towards the technical limit. Not every company has a technical reserve and R\u0026D system like ours.

Moreover, every step forward requires a huge investment in R\u0026D. Not everyone can maintain the R\u0026D investment of tens of billions of dollars every year but see no return. For many investors who pursue profits, such investment is a It's very uneconomical, so it's not a strange thing to run halfway through! Liu Lishuang said with a smile.

Before the manufacturing process reached 28 nanometers, every advance in the manufacturing process could make chip manufacturers huge profits, and many chip companies made a lot of money in that era.

However, after the manufacturing process reaches 14/16 nanometers, technological progress will increase the cost of the chip - when Intel first developed the 14 nanometer manufacturing process, it was reported that its mask cost was $300 million. , the cost of each advancement of the latter technology will have a substantial increase.

The reason why the new manufacturing process is expensive is, on the one hand, the high R\u0026D cost and low yield of the new process, and on the other hand, the price of equipment such as lithography machines and etching machines is extremely expensive.

Therefore, even if the advanced manufacturing process is technically mature, the excessively high mask cost will make customers think twice when choosing to adopt the most advanced manufacturing process.

And the relatively small number of customers makes it difficult to spread the cost with the huge volume, and ultimately slows down the development and commercial application of advanced manufacturing processes.

It is precisely for this reason that the low-end 7-nanometer technology and the mid-to-high-end 5-nanometer manufacturing process in the world are considered very dynamic by some industry insiders, and will still be used for several years. The 4-nanometer technology of Infinite Gravity Group is The best chip technology in the world is currently on the market.

But isn't it important to study at more extreme chip sizes? No, this kind of research is still important - it proves that we can use new materials to produce smaller transistors to further improve the power and efficiency of computers.

But the key is that the huge R\u0026D investment and uncertain future income make many investors unable to bear the pressure and give up when they are halfway through, unless it is a national laboratory or a company laboratory controlled by a consortium. Long-term investment, otherwise it is difficult for many investors to bear the feeling of throwing a lot of money into the water.

That's why outside researchers envy those working in the Infinite Gravity Group. Unlimited R\u0026D investment, various advanced research equipment and conditions, and even more enviable treatment, such a research environment is like paradise for all researchers who are interested in developing in the field of scientific research!

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