"How many nanometers can this technology reach?" Xiao Ma asked him.
After hearing this, Wu Hao now stretched out his hand and gestured: "At least five nanometers will start, and three nanometers can be expected. As for higher ones, this is not just a problem of the extreme ultraviolet light source, it needs to be considered based on the overall performance of other components."
After hearing what he said, everyone present couldn't help but start communicating.
Although the latest chips currently use three nanometers, this is a relatively cutting-edge chip technology. Ordinary chips or most new products are still at five nanometers and seven nanometers. As for our country's current independent technology, it has only reached 14 nanometers.
Therefore, this technology is still very advanced in China and has high feasibility. Even if it is placed alone in the world, it is a very advanced existence. It changes the complex lens assembly used to generate extreme ultraviolet light sources in the lithography machine into a composite convex mirror assembly.
Of course, this kind of composite convex mirror lens group is also very complicated, especially the processing technology, but it can solve a technical problem that we are currently unable to solve.
As the saying goes, stones from other mountains can attack jade.
For everyone present, this project is indeed very attractive. Is there anything in the world that is so profitable than chips made from sand?
Of course, there seems to have been a history of using sand to make glass. In the long history of our country, colored glaze, a kind of unrefined glass, has always been a part of jewelry.
Everyone knows about the huge profits in the chip industry, but as for the photolithography machines that make chips, everyone can't help but murmur in their hearts.
Let’s not talk about whether high-tech intensive equipment such as photolithography machines can be built based on the current domestic technical level. Even if it can be built, will it have customers and how many customers will it have?
In addition, the number of lithography machines these customers can buy is calculated based on 100 million per machine. A dozen machines are enough, but it is only a billion, which is far less fast than the Internet.
So thinking of this, many people suddenly lost interest.
Of course, there are also some people who have a strong interest in this project, such as Lao Ma, Xiao Ma, Tao Zhengyang, even the helpless Li Feihong, and Xue Bing who is very hesitant.
What they saw was not only this technology, but also the lithography machine itself and the value derived from the lithography machine.
This is not only economic value, but also social value and XX value, which cannot be measured by money. If nothing else, let’s just say that if we have this kind of advanced photolithography machine, we can break the Western monopoly, thereby getting rid of dependence on overseas countries and avoiding being stuck.
When it comes to stuck necks, no one feels it more deeply than H. It is also because of a series of Western sanctions and restrictions that H's originally rapidly developing mobile communications business and Internet business have been severely hampered.
Therefore, not only Tao Zhengyang but also H's senior executives are very concerned about this technology.
Secondly, there are Lao Ma and Xiao Ma. As deep players in the Internet, especially international giants in the field of cloud computing, they know the importance of chips.
What is cloud computing? It refers to the decomposition of huge data computing processing programs into countless small programs through the network "cloud", and then processing and analyzing these small programs through a system composed of multiple servers to obtain results and return them to the user.
To put it bluntly, the basis of cloud computing is servers distributed everywhere for computing data. To put it simply, it is simple distributed computing, solving task distribution and merging calculation results.
The strength of cloud computing computing power comes from the number of computing servers provided on the one hand, and the quality of the servers, that is, the computing power, on the other hand.
The better the quality of the server and the stronger the computing power, the smaller the size of the server required and the lower the cost. Similarly, on the same number of servers, the better the performance of the server, the stronger the computing power will naturally be.
The core technology that affects the quality of the server and the strength of its computing power is the chip on the server.
In this field, most of our domestic server chips are currently purchased from abroad. Although we have designed and manufactured several chips, we lack advanced manufacturing technology and processes, so the performance of our chips has always lagged behind Western advanced levels.
In recent years, more and more countries have begun to enter the field of chip research and development, but they only stay in the field of research and development, and manufacturing still relies heavily on OEMs.
But as restrictions in some countries become tighter, we are greatly hampered in this regard.
So how to get rid of being stuck is a thorny issue that not only the country, but also these Internet giants need to consider.
As the saying goes, it is better to seek for oneself than to seek others. Instead of asking for help from others, which may not necessarily lead to success, it is better to be self-reliant and have enough food and clothing.
Developing our domestic chips is also the current consensus of the entire society and the entire industry.
However, due to overseas technical blockades, our progress in this area has been very slow.
It can even be said that the West has gone to great lengths to prevent us from acquiring these advanced technologies. Even the lithography machines sold to us that are already outdated have sensors and GPS positioning systems installed on them.
Random disassembly and random movement will cause the device to directly lock up, and may even trigger the self-destruct program.
So in the long run, under such a severe situation, two factions naturally emerged. Of course, one faction is the self-reliance faction that insists on self-research and development, while the other faction is the resurgent capitulation faction. They used the old saying, the bullshit argument that it is better to buy than to build, and completely turned to the other side.
Under this kind of internal and external pressure, it also makes our self-reliance more and more difficult, even in danger.
Although everyone knows the importance of self-reliance, as an enterprise, you must still consider practical factors. If there is no compromise, the company will not be able to operate, so as a last resort, many companies have collapsed, and more companies have chosen to compromise.
At this time, Wu Hao suddenly stood up and came up with a key technology. How could this not make these people happy?
In fact, both Lao Ma, Xiao Ma, and Tao Zhengyang knew about this technology or the plan in advance.
And Wu Hao said it in front of so many people today, and everyone was involved in it. This project is more than just money. If it were just money, how could we have been stuck by others for so long.
Getting this project off the ground and ultimately succeeding requires the concerted efforts of the entire industry. So this is why Wu Hao brought this project up to talk about, because he wanted more people to join in and expand his power.
