A few days later.
In the Garden of Eden, the main laboratory.
On the table in the main laboratory were the design drawings of the "Glove of Destruction" and the scroll of the "Right Hand of God" that he had copied not long ago. Richard sat at the table and squinted at it.
In a short period of time, no further clues about "Artis" could be found, so Richard temporarily set his goal on the production of "World-Destroying Gloves" and prepared to try to study it seriously. Ideally, it would be even better to be able to prototype the design drawings.
Of course, this is very difficult.
It is true that the "World-Destroying Glove" is a magic spell prop, but compared with other magic spell props, it is not an order of magnitude more complicated. According to what was said before, the magic patterns on ordinary magic pattern props are like circuit diagrams with anti-counterfeiting means, which require certain methods to be cracked and used. The magic patterns involved in the "World-Destroying Gloves" are more like chips.
Yes, chips!
Of course, this is just a metaphor, and it does not mean that the "Glove of Destruction" really needs a chip, but the difficulty is similar.
Speaking of chips, this is almost one of the products that best represents high-end technology on the planet.
A chip of one square centimeter or less that can be held in the palm of the hand can integrate billions of transistors, complete trillions of operations in one second, simulate a fictional world in a square inch, or calculate a All possible outcomes were almost unimaginable beforehand.
And if you look at the chip in the current medieval wizarding world, it is equivalent to a flawless illusion or an omniscient prophecy.
Of course, the fact that the chip is so powerful did not happen overnight. It has gone through a long development path to become what it is. .
Before the most rudimentary chip, the transistor, electron tubes were widely used on the earth.
The first computer, the Atanasoff Berry Computer, was born in the United States in 1942. It occupied an area of 150 square meters, weighed 30 tons, and used 17,468 electron tubes, 7,200 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and 500,000 lines. It is a machine rather than a building. It cannot be moved, let alone used.
Because of its obvious disadvantages, scientists have invested a lot of energy since then in trying to develop new, lighter computers.
then…
In 1947, the first semiconductor transistor was produced.
In 1950, the junction transistor was born
In 1958, the integrated circuit was invented.
In 1960, the photolithography process was invented.
In 1963, CMOS technology was proposed, and most integrated circuit chips thereafter were based on this technology.
In 1964, Moore's Law was proposed, predicting that the level of transistor integration would double every 18 months, and integrated circuits began to enter a stage of rapid development.
In 1971, large-scale integrated circuits appeared.
In 1978, very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) appeared, integrating 140,000 transistors on a silicon wafer of less than 0.5 square centimeters.
In 1988, very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI) were further improved, with 35 million transistors integrated on a 1 square centimeter silicon wafer.
In 1989, the transistor integration process in the chip reached the 1μm level, which is 0.0001cm.
In 2001, the transistor integration process in the chip reached the 0.13μm level.
In 2003, the transistor integration process in the chip reached 90nm process, which is 0.000009cm.
In 2018, the transistor integration process in the chip reached the 7nm process, and the number of integrated transistors reached tens of trillions.
In this way, chips have gradually become the most cutting-edge technology products.
Chips on earth are an extremely typical knowledge-intensive and capital-intensive industry that can only be supported by super attacks or countries.
Not to mention anything else, the general price of the photolithography machine, the necessary instrument for making chips, is around 1 billion yuan. The entire set of equipment requires more than ten Boeing 747 flights to complete the transportation.
And this is just a photolithography machine. To make chips, a photolithography machine alone is not enough. Countless instruments and equipment are also needed to form a complete production line.
Outside of the assembly line, more research work is invested.
Without investing an astronomical amount of money, the chip industry will not achieve results.
And the results do not mean success, because if the quality of the produced chips is worse than the top chips, they will not have enough market. Even if such low-quality chips are sold at a low price, not to mention whether consumers will buy it, just how much to sell to recover the cost, and how much to sell to obtain funds to research the next generation of chips is a huge problem.
Therefore, once chip technology falls behind, it cannot be caught up by just a few people shouting slogans and working hard. It requires countless capital investment, spare no effort in support, and more than ten years or even decades of waiting before we can see any glimmer of success.
This is the most important weapon of the country!
Now, of course, Richard is not preparing to make chips. Although he knows a lot of knowledge, trying to create a high-precision chip production line by himself without being separated from the productivity of the current world is not arrogant, it is completely delusional!
But everything can be changed. He can't make the chip on the earth, and he doesn't need to make the chip on the earth. If he does, it will be useless - at least for now.
What he plans to do is to draw on some of the chip manufacturing techniques on Earth to complete the depiction of complex magic patterns on the design of the "Glove of Destruction".
On the design drawing, the number and complexity of the magic patterns can be said to be beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The magic patterns were superimposed several layers through a special structure to complete the production of the entire "world-destroying glove".
But if it is made using chip technology, this will not be necessary.
After all, no matter how complicated the magic pattern is, it is still visible to the naked eye, and the accuracy is above 0.0001cm, which is the level of chip transistor integration technology on Earth in 1989.
As long as his method is reasonable and can play the role of imagination, he can greatly reduce the area of the magic pattern and engrave part or all of the magic pattern of the "World-Destroying Glove" in a chip the size of a fingernail.
Then, you can avoid many problems in the process of making the "World-Destroying Gloves" and finally produce the finished product - a magic pattern spell prop that has never existed in this medieval wizarding world with a chip as the core.
The chip in it can be called... a spell chip.
Well, spell chips.
So what exactly should be done
Richard thought about it and tapped his fingers on the table. After a while, he had a general idea.
If we use some of the earth's chip processes to make spell chips, the core technology should be... photolithography technology.
To explain this technology in simple words, it can be simply regarded as... photography.
Yes, take pictures.
In this photography, four things are needed, film, paint, mask and light source.
Apply paint evenly on the negative film, let the light source pass through the gap in the mask, and shine special light on the negative film paint. When the light source's light reacts with the paint, the desired shape will appear.
The so-called shape, on the earth chip, will become a transistor after various subsequent processes, while on the magic chip, it will be a magic pattern.
So now we need to solve the first thing, the negative.