After hearing the second half of the sentence, Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but smile and said, "I bet they won't be disappointed."
Lu Zhou nodded, and then asked: "If the situation is optimistic, when will it be put into production?"
Professor Wu Tianqun said with a hearty smile: "That's no problem. This thing is already half a product on the assembly line. The unit price is so low that you might not even believe it if I tell you. Even if you break it, I still have a bunch of them here, no. It’s in the way.”
In fact, he was a little surprised that this number would remain in his address book. He almost forgot when he added it.
Longteng One has been made.
Hearing this, Lu Zhou finally felt relieved, and his index finger and thumb became stronger.
"Our chips mainly use SG series materials, and their performance in bending resistance is quite good. I believe you know more about this than me. But... I still don't recommend breaking this thing like this. Generally speaking, bending Under such circumstances, it will still have an impact on its current transmission effect."
Lu Zhou: "There is indeed something going on."
"Wait for me, I'll be there soon... Xiao Li, turn around! Go back to the Institute for Advanced Study!"
But what was different from usual was that this time, standing here, he could clearly feel that the atmosphere here was different from before.
As the force exerted on both ends of the chip continued to increase, finally, when the bending angle reached more than 20 degrees, the pitch-black chip finally broke from the middle and broke into two pieces.
According to Professor Wu, there should not be many problems in putting it into production. Jiangcheng Semiconductor Industrial Base and the entire fifth-largest semiconductor industry group serve this carbon-based chip project.
I had to wait until I was in the car before making a call.
Although the density of 10 million transistors per square millimeter is nothing compared to Intel, which has been able to achieve an integration level of 100 million. However, carbon-based transistors and silicon-based transistors are two different things in themselves and cannot be completely generalized.
After carefully handing the thin chip to Lu Zhou's hand, Professor Wu Tianqun looked at it and introduced excitedly, "Longteng 1000, the first prototype chip of the Longteng series! It is also called Longteng One! The specific performance parameters are the ones you mentioned earlier. As you can see, the 28nm process technology we currently use has successfully increased the integration level from 3 million transistor units per square millimeter to 10 million!”
Like a piece of hard-shell paper.
Compared with the texture and weight of silicon-based chips, this thing is as thin as a piece of paper... No, rather, from the perspective of chemical elements, it is the same thing as paper.
The phone was connected after three rings, and Director Li's voice soon came from the other end of the phone.
Hearing the urgent voice on the other end of the phone, Lu Zhou smiled as expected and said softly.
Lu Zhou, who returned to the dean's office, thought for a while and finally decided to call the Bureau of Science and Industry - Director Li who had just left him.
All supporting facilities have been prepared even before the project begins. Huawei HiSilicon, which is moving from chip design to the upper reaches of the semiconductor industry chain, also has enough motivation to do its best in industrialization.
Sitting on the office chair with a slightly dumb expression, Lu Zhou came to his senses and then smiled, shook his head, and dropped his phone on the table.
Wait until they develop the integration level and process technology to the same level as the carbon-based chips currently on the market...
It can even be said that achieving such results with an integration level of only 10 million is exactly what makes him most proud. Because this just shows that their technology still has wider room for improvement!
Professor Wu Tianqun said with a smile: "This is also one of the material advantages of carbon-based chips. Our weight per unit volume is even less than half of that of silicon-based chips of the same volume!"
Looking carefully at the faintly engraved texture on the surface of the chip in his hand, Lu Zhou couldn't help but praise it as he felt the light-as-feather texture.
Taking the benchmark Xeon series chips as an example, depending on the model and product positioning, the integration level is around 50 million. However, in horizontal comparison, Longteng 1, which has just achieved an integration level of 10 million, can already In terms of performance, it completely beats the Xeon X series chips with higher integration level!
"We have already made the chip you ordered."
In fact, it's not just as light as paper.
Forget it, this problem gives people a headache, so it’s better to discuss it with professionals.
Although he didn’t know much about chips, and his contributions to this project were mainly focused on the theoretical level and the improvement of SG carbon materials, he could still intuitively feel it from Professor Wu Tianqun’s popular description and excited expression. How awesome is this technology
Damn it, couldn't you just say it in person if you have something
"Well, it's me."
"Hello? Boss Wang?"
Professor Wu Tianqun thought for a while and said: "According to the information fed back to us by HiSilicon, production can be completed as soon as the end of the month... In fact, they are more anxious than us. Foreign semiconductor manufacturers are becoming more and more unruly, and the United States The government's policy is suppressing it. I talked about this issue with their chief technology officer, and they are now counting on our carbon-based semiconductors to take them to do great things internationally."
Spending some time in a carbon-based lab-on-a-chip.
Professor Wu Tianqun laughed and said: "That is inevitable! I am quite confident about the power of our technology and the strength of our Jinling Institute for Advanced Study!"
Before Lu Zhou could finish his sentence, Director Li suddenly shook his head and immediately changed his words: "Where are you now?"
"I'm just holding this thing... Is it really okay?"
Professor Wu Tianqun said modestly: "The problem of industrialization is mainly solved by people from HiSilicon and the Institute of Semiconductor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. What we mainly deal with are carbon-based transistors and specific integration processes."
"Hello? What's going on?"
I'm afraid the entire industry has to call them daddy from the bottom of their hearts.
"Stupid! The meeting is more important than Professor Lu's affairs!"
"Based on the needs of our friends, our initial positioning of this Longteng 1 chip is to serve mid- to high-end servers, and the benchmark is the Intel Xeon X56 series of chips. Although we have limited paper data on integration and process We are slightly inferior to them, but with the superior physical properties of carbon-based transistors, I can say without exaggeration that we have already surpassed them by half a street in terms of performance data!”
Whether it is the maximum power consumption of 20w, the clock frequency of 3.7GHz, or the superior physical properties of carbon-based transistors compared to silicon-based transistors, they all gave Professor Wu Tianqun the confidence to say this in a positive tone.
Although when he came here before, it was more or less for similar purposes, such as making certain progress in research, but the difference this time was that he could clearly see in the eyes of the researchers that the Long March was finally complete. The joy and relief of not living up to expectations...
The only thing that needs to be considered now is how to play this card.
Seeing the slightly surprised expression on Lu Zhou's face, Professor Wu Tianqun continued.
Playing with the chip in his hand, Lu Zhou suddenly discovered that this thing could magically be bent at a small angle. And when he removed the force exerted on both ends of the chip, the entire chip returned to its original straight shape like a spring leaf...
"It's about Longteng One, the carbon-based chip—"
At the same time, he could clearly feel that the root of all this was because of the square-shaped, pitch-black piece in his hand that was no bigger than a thumbnail.
After listening to Professor Wu Tianqun's explanation, the expression of interest on Lu Zhou's face became stronger and stronger.
Carbon-Based Chip Institute.
Although it was indeed his own words to "call me if anything happens", Director Li was speechless for a while when he called Lu Zhou as soon as he left.
Amidst the chaotic tones, the phone was hung up.
"yes… "
"But the meeting at the high-tech park is still in one hour—"
"That's it."
"So light!"
"Why didn't you talk about something just now? Let's do it tomorrow. I'm on my way to the high-tech park for a meeting. I'll come back to you tomorrow—"
All in all, although the technology has just started, the performance of Longteng 1 chip has initially demonstrated the superiority of carbon-based chips.
He was curious about the limits of this chip.
Lu Zhou tapped his index finger lightly on the table. After thinking for a moment, Lu Zhou finally shook his head.
"…Still in my office."
Using as plain language as possible, Professor Wu Tianqun told Lu Zhou the performance characteristics of this chip.
This is the first time Lu Zhou has been here.
"I just gave it a try," Lu Zhou threw the remains of the chip into a special recycling bag, then looked at Professor Wu Tianqun and said with emotion, "I didn't expect that I haven't been here for so long, and you can't even industrialize it." All problems have been solved.”
how to say
Thinking of this, he picked up the phone again and called a number he didn't usually use.
At this moment, Lu Zhou suddenly realized something.