My Return to Life

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"This is the wafer manufacturing factory park of the newly established Baize Semiconductor Integrated Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd."

The battery car in the park slowed down before reaching a park, Su Zifeng introduced to Fang Nian.

"Has the acceptance of the first phase of the project been completed?" Fang Nian looked sideways and asked.

Su Zifeng replied: "The cross-acceptance has been passed, and the equipment can be deployed next month."

Fang Nian nodded lightly and didn't say any more.

The battery car drove into the factory and shuttled past the factory room.

The entire Wangjiang West Road is a few kilometers westward from the Frontier Institute of the University of Science and Technology of China, and there is no sign of barrenness.

However, because of the geographical location, it can still be called uninhabited, and there are not many people or vehicles.

Things that are on the move are basically the park battery car that Fang Nian rides on.

After that, Su Zifeng briefly introduced the functions of each building, Fang Nian didn't say anything.

Too much effort has been put into the forefront of this factory...

The full English name of IDM is: Integrated Device Manufacturing.

Some people call it the whole process of manufacturing, which is generally translated as integrated equipment manufacturing.

The new company chose literal Chinese.

A semiconductor is a material whose electrical conductivity is between that of a conductor and an insulator at room temperature.

Usually divided into: integrated circuits, optoelectronic devices, discrete devices, sensors;

Since integrated circuits account for more than 80% of devices, semiconductors and integrated circuits are usually equivalent.

Integrated circuits are usually divided into: microprocessors, memories, logic devices, and analog devices; generally referred to as chips.

This is where the new company name comes from.

It is also the reason why there are no chips, no integrated circuits, and semiconductors.

simply put……

This newly established Baize Semiconductor not only makes chips, but also makes integrated circuits, as well as other various devices, especially sensors!

Baize Semiconductor Fab covers an area of ​​more than one million square meters and is planned for four phases.

The goal of the first phase is to produce 40,000 pieces of 12-inch wafers per month, and will use 28-nanometer domestically produced silicon process technology.

The equipment, technology and even materials needed in the entire chip production process will be supplied by domestic manufacturers.

Including photolithography machine, glue developing machine, etching machine (including silicon etching, metal etching, dielectric etching), thin film deposition equipment (including PVD, CVD), diffusion, ion implantation machine, CMP, cleaning machine, detection Equipment used in other links;

Including semiconductor materials: silicon wafers, electronic special gases, photomasks, polishing materials, photoresists and photoresist auxiliary materials, process chemicals, targets, etc.

Even domestic eda software is included.

Inside Frontier, there are four laboratories, namely Baize, Taotie, Zhuwu, and Zhuyan, which are responsible for the efforts of different modules.

Externally, nearly a hundred universities and scientific research institutes have been coordinated, and dozens of companies have divided labor and cooperated.

Among them are companies that Frontier spent 10 billion shares in.

For example, it promoted the listed company Sevenstar Electronics and the non-listed company North Microelectronics to start a reorganization journey.

After the reorganization and merger of these two companies, they will be responsible for the localization of almost all equipment in the process from etching to cleaning.

If the overall coordination, technical level, etc. are smooth.

At the beginning of next year, the second phase of Baize Semiconductor's construction will be fully launched, not that the civil work is still in progress.

As for the third and fourth phases, they will not start at the same time until the right time, because the third and fourth phases are deployed for the EUV lithography process.

Just talking about the first and second phases, the planned annual production capacity target is one million pieces of 12-inch wafers.

A 12-inch wafer is a circle with a diameter of 305mm. Taking Shenlong 512 with a single chip size of 101mm2 as an example, it can produce about 400 wafers based on the industry's basic yield rate.

So ideally, the annual output is 400 million pieces of Shenlong 512.

In the short term, it can basically meet the capacity requirements of Shenlong, Bailong, large CPU, GPU, and other non-core chips.

However, based on the construction area of ​​the first and second phases, it is required that the domestic ArFiDUV lithography machine promoted by Wuwu should have a higher hourly production capacity.

This is extremely necessary to overcome the "workpiece table" system in the lithography machine.

Currently being urged to complete this system with a 'whip' is: Tsinghua University.

And it is required to implement a double workpiece table-this is the unique skill of ASML at present.

In short, the core components of a lithography machine mainly involve light sources, lenses, and workpiece tables.

These core components are relatively backward in the domestic field.

However, they are all making breakthroughs. Last year, the focus was on light sources and lenses. Through the massive acquisition, transformation, and control of technologies from overseas related companies, great progress has been made in the DUV field.

In terms of light sources, there is a company named in the United States that is very powerful.

Known as the only EUV light source manufacturer in the world.

In the past two days, there has been a buzzing acquisition in the industry: ASML intends to acquire it at a price of about 2 billion euros.

Ok……

As early as the end of last year, several Wall Street investment firms under Chin acquired some of the core technologies through various channels.

Acquisition?

Sorry, Chin is so poor that he can't even afford such a valuable company.

It was Zhu Wu who came to 'prod' the Institute of Optics and Mechanics in Shencheng to learn technology, and it was reliable to transform and master it.

Of course, Wuwu didn't do nothing, just take the whip.

At present, Wuwu is researching the autonomy of EUV light source, and Shencheng Institute of Optics and Mechanics is mainly solving more problems of DUV light source system.

all in all……

For Baize Semiconductor to finally use all domestic equipment and materials, Frontier has been making unremitting efforts.

"..."

After a short time, the battery car slowly passed an area with a little voice.

It is a place Fang Nian is also familiar with: a wafer test line with a monthly production capacity of 3,000 wafers.

Fang Nian did not ask to stop.

Under the leadership of Su Zifeng, Fang Nian visited the entire area of ​​the 10,000-mu industrial park in front of Luzhou;

Including the zero-degree brand office building and the office buildings of several project groups of Baize Laboratory, including the industrial park part, including various core laboratories.

It also includes single apartments living alone, villas for senior engineers, and so on.

If it is placed in a slightly better-developed area of ​​Shanghai, some people will definitely scold it as a prodigal son, because the tallest building is only a 16-storey building.

Even the bachelor apartments are built in a low-rise livable form.

"..."

In the end, under Su Zifeng's leadership, Fang Nian walked into the tallest main building.

Go to the big conference room on the top floor.

The floor-to-ceiling windows in the conference room can overlook the entire industrial park, which will give you a sense of accomplishment, which is why there is this tall building.

Sitting in the center, Fang Nian looked at the many faces around the conference table and smiled slightly: "Excuse me, everyone, thank you for your hard work."

"..."

No one opened their mouths.

Of course, Fang Nian is familiar with such small scenes, and he said unhurriedly: "This time I came to add tasks to everyone, please forgive me."

"..."

Then Fang Nian briefly mentioned the requirements for mobile phone SoC, desktop CPU/GPU, etc., emphasizing the big CPU.

Looking over the heads of the two academicians, Fang Nian glanced at Su Zifeng, and said in an understatement tone.

"The big CPU project can be said to be the most important right now. If the various performance indicators cannot be achieved as soon as possible, the future of this project will be very bleak. All the investment in the early stage will be wasted and it will be put on hold indefinitely."

"Everyone should understand what I mean. This is also the reason why R\u0026D funding has been repeatedly tilted since April."

Su Zifeng quickly took up the conversation: "We will definitely do our best."

"..."

Fang Nian just stopped by and didn't say anything more.

Then he made a gesture: "Tell me about the progress of each project."

"..."

To Fang Nian's surprise, the GPU project in charge of Bai Ze② in Changsha was progressing rapidly.

Su Zifeng's explanation is: because the technical accumulation of powerVR in the field of desktop GPU is actually relatively backward.

The so-called relative backwardness refers to: almost second only to NVIDIA and ATI in desktop GPU... the level of three or four years ago.

And its level in the core unit of mobile graphics processing is commendable, and it is the mainstream choice of most SoCs, whether it is Apple, MediaTek, Samsung, Intel, Zhanrui, etc., have or have used it.

Because Qualcomm has cooperated with ATI, and later cooperated with AMD, which acquired ATI, it has always used its own Adreno series graphics processing core.

Arm also launched the Mali series graphics processing core IP through the acquisition of Mali.

But at present, their comparison target is the SGX series of powerVR.

After nearly half a year of hard work by Guan Qiuhe, Frontier finally obtained the relevant core technology authorization of powerVR...

Then there is a breakthrough in the mobile phone SoC project.

Academician Chen Jianye can finally report the progress with confidence.

"The processing core unit of the mobile phone SoC project has made a certain breakthrough, and finally completed the 64-bit extension of the instruction set architecture with balanced performance and power consumption, which has been incorporated into the large architecture of CB12;

We name it as a whole: Zx64, which means the instruction set and the microarchitecture. "

"..."

Fang Nian: "..."

Zx?

For some reason, Fang Nian immediately thought of Zou Xuan;

Very early... probably more than four years ago, Fang Nian, who had just returned to life, saw the whole page of 'zx' in some of his drafts.

Zou Xuan, who just came to Shanghai some time ago, seems to prefer to use acronyms to represent herself, such as Qingchao.

#送888直播红包# Follow the vx. public account [Book Friends Base Camp], watch popular masterpieces, and draw 888 cash red envelopes!

Oh, she's too rich.

I don't know if Chen Jianye saw Fang Nian's fleeting confusion, and quickly explained the name: "It is taken from the word 'a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'."

Before Fang Nian could ask, Chen Jianye said again: "However...the result of the simulation verification is only less than 80% ahead of Shenlong 512, and it still has the light of 64 bits."

"The original preset processing performance is three times ahead of Shenlong 512."

Hearing this, Fang Nian realized as soon as he changed his mind, and said, "Academician Chen is worried that he will not be able to significantly lead the A6 follow-up SoC that Apple will release next year before the specified time?"

Chen Jianye said frankly: "There is indeed this concern;

We have conducted in-depth dismantling and research on the A6 on the iPhone 5 released by Apple two months ago, and Apple's self-development capabilities are very strong;

According to related news, Apple acquired a chip design company called PASemi in 2008. This company's design capabilities are actually very strong, um... under the integration of Apple, it should be slightly stronger than us now. "

Thinking about his ambition, Chen Jianye immediately added loudly: "Of course, we are not weak! Now our team is also very strong. It can be said that it has assembled the strongest group of people in the semiconductor field in China!"

Seeing this, Fang Nian smiled: "Of course Bai Ze will be the strongest."

In my heart: I'm not strong, I'm sorry for the money I spent.

The Chinese have never had less brains than others, but lack opportunities and money;

Many domestic hackers in the engineering field became famous in their later years. Looking at their past experiences, it is almost a history of blood and tears.

For example, a certain team at the University of National Defense Science and Technology, which currently has a cooperative relationship with Bai Ze②, has a boss named Gao Bolong, a senior academician, who specializes in laser gyroscopes.

In their fifties and sixties, they suffer from lack of funds, self-taught programming, building their own equipment platforms, and so on.

Such a difficult environment can break through the technological blockade of European and American countries, which is a good example of the problem.

"..."

After a short pause, Fang Nian asked in a deep voice, "I heard that Apple is already looking for TSMC to manufacture new chips?"

"I've heard about it." Chen Jianye replied.

Fang Nian thought for a while, and said, "For the first generation of self-developed chips, we have to make two-handed preparations. I will ask Mr. Guan and Mr. Lu to coordinate this matter."

"Huh?" Chen Jianye was taken aback for a moment, and then his face became clear.

"..."

The progress of the large CPU is still not particularly smooth, but a new architecture has been replaced, and the performance indicators have improved.

Fang Nian calmly expressed his dissatisfaction: "I don't understand the technical aspects, and from now on, we will support large CPU projects with up to 5 billion more funds;

The cost of SMIC’s 40nm tape-out is less than tens of millions of RMB per time. Apart from other R\u0026D investments, it is enough for you to tape-out twice a day to verify before the specified time..."

"I won't say too much."

Su Zifeng stood up almost immediately.

Before she could speak, the two middle-aged and elderly academicians also stood up and said seriously: "The task must be completed!"

They were not only under the pressure brought by Fang Nian, but also the pressure from various ministries, scientific research units, and the military.

They also know that Bai Ze's support is so strong that it is rare in the world!

They are even more aware that the higher-ups only supported 2.5 billion yuan, which has already been used up in the past few months, and Bai Ze has already invested more than one billion yuan.

Counting the 5 billion mentioned in the next year, this technology is only 40nm high-performance CPU R\u0026D investment is close to 1.5 billion US dollars, which is about the limit R\u0026D expenditure of 3nm chips in the future, which is three times that of 5nm chips.

Although the research and development expenses of chips such as Apple's A4 were more than 1 billion US dollars earlier, there are reasons for that.

Now Bai Ze's large CPU has a solid technical accumulation and a large number of actual test environments.

Some servers in the Luzhou Frontier Data Center alone have had their CPU replaced twice.

"..."

This time when he came to Luzhou again, Fang Nian seriously issued various task indicators in person.

Including the internal chip project, as well as the arrangement of the Zero brand, and the strategic cooperation with Pangu Labs, etc.

Of course, Fang Nian stayed in Luzhou for another day.

Went to visit Sun Ganlong and others.

Hearing that the Luzhou local government and the local bank both intended to support the frontier of Luzhou with a certain amount of money, Fang Nian also politely declined.

Luzhou's confidence in the frontier is extraordinary.

Because the existence of the frontier in Luzhou has brought about earth-shaking changes in Luzhou.

Thousands of trillions of market changes have been leveraged in one or two years, which is exaggerated enough for an ordinary city.

…………

In a flash, nearly a month has passed.

At the beginning of November, Shanghai can already feel the taste of late autumn and early winter.

It is very difficult to see the snow-white long legs of the little girl and the big daughter-in-law in the streets and alleys.

Starting from the 5th, Fang Nian stayed at Frontier Company all day long, working as an intern secretary for Mr. Lu at ease.

As always, he was only responsible for bringing tea and water to Boss Lu.

On the surface, there is no change in the frontier. Even if there are a large number of new employees joining in each subsidiary, the total number is as high as thousands, and it seems relatively calm.

However, most of the affairs of the frontier offices at the highest level have been suspended, and people also show up at the frontier companies to work every day.

Everyone knows in their hearts that Frontier may face some kind of thunderous pressure again.

On the 7th, Fang Nian received a call and learned that everything was ready.

On the morning of the 8th, a lot of attention was drawn to the capital. The 18th National Congress opened. Fang Nian received a call again, and the closure project of the North Island and Zhongdao Bridge was fully launched.

Sitting in the office, Fang Nian muttered to himself: "I specially chose a plan that took the longest time. What can be done in 5 months, I just changed it to 9 months, and the capital investment has more than doubled. You must be worthy of my hard work behind the scenes."

Next to him, Lu Weiyu smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, Fang Xuedi has a plan, and he can win thousands of miles."

The day as a whole was quiet.

Satellite signal jammers were deployed in the Qilianyu area, and the relevant parties did not pay attention for a while.

Next is the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th...

Fang Nian receives several calls every day, and I can feel the other party's confidence is getting stronger and stronger.

finally……

In the early morning of the 14th, the first phase of the North Central South Sea-Crossing Bridge was completed.

Everything was settled in the silence of the public.

In fact, on the afternoon of the 9th, the news of the project was exposed again, but by then it was too late.

Even Beep C, who is not afraid of anything, dare not use the underworld filter at this time.

Knowing the final result, Fang Nian heaved a sigh of relief. In the early morning of the night, he hit a carp jerk and helped Lu Weiyu's butt in a short while...

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