novelbin Chapter 127 Lithography Factory
Chapter 127 Lithography Factory
The vehicle is getting closer and closer to the city.
Those towering, colossal buildings were clearly visible to everyone.
Looking at those circular buildings that are hundreds of meters high, everyone couldn't help but gasp in shock.
The level of human civilization and architecture here may not be much weaker than that of the Great Xia Dynasty.
But this is the kind of civilization we have.
But they were driven to their doom by those zombies.
The vehicles drove into the city like a long dragon.
Looking at the dilapidated buildings around him, Guo Yong's heart sank.
This city, like the city where they first settled, has long since become a ruin.
There may be survivors here, but their numbers won't be too many.
"Let's go see if we can find the city's core energy area. Pay special attention to the areas near those mega-buildings."
Su Yang's voice came through the walkie-talkie.
Upon hearing this, Guo Yong quickly determined the direction and then ordered the vehicle to head towards the area of those giant buildings.
After all, with such a massive building, they only need to look up slightly to determine its location.
The vehicle eventually stopped in front of an abandoned factory.
Get out of the car.
Looking at the dilapidated, rusted factory, a strange emotion arose in everyone's hearts.
"Use Alpha to go in and check if there are any zombies inside the factory."
Guo Yong couldn't help but give the order.
If we can explore without using human resources, we shouldn't.
Although it might be a bit troublesome, it's nothing compared to security.
Pushing open the rusty door, the AI model inside Alpha automatically guided it into the factory.
On the factory walls, the once white paint had turned a dark brown.
Obviously.
A fierce battle may have taken place here long ago.
As Alpha continues to advance...
Everything inside the factory gradually came into view.
One by one, the rusted and rotten machines lay haphazardly on the factory floor.
Broken pieces of sheet metal can be seen everywhere here.
Furthermore, Su Yang even saw a broken chip in the transmitted images.
Upon witnessing this scene.
Su Yang's breath hitched, his gaze fixed on the faintly glowing crystal.
"Wafer".
A wave of shock surged through Su Yang's heart.
If he wasn't mistaken, the thing on the ground should be a fragment of a wafer.
And here.
Perhaps it's a lithography factory!
Thinking of this.
Su Yang was so excited that his body trembled slightly, and he couldn't wait to rush in.
"Dr. Su, what's wrong?"
Han Bei noticed Su Yang's unusual behavior and couldn't help but ask in confusion.
"This place...is very likely a lithography factory!"
Su Yang's voice trembled slightly, making no attempt to hide his excitement.
"Does that mean there's a lithography machine inside?"
Han Bei finally understood why Su Yang was so excited.
To know.
The most advanced lithography machine in Daxia can only etch chips with a diameter of 7nm.
Western countries.
That means it can reach 3nm.
Of course, this three nanometers is not three nanometers in the literal sense, but rather three nanometers in equivalent terms.
In reality, a three-nanometer chip is roughly twenty-something nanometers in size.
Even so.
That would be an extremely terrifying existence.
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"I wonder how many nanometers the lithography machines here have broken through."
After calming down a bit, Su Yang stared at the scene with a deep, melancholic gaze.
Three nanometers is basically the limit for chip manufacturing.
If we go any further, the quantum tunneling effect will occur, affecting the calculation.
That's why he said that three nanometers is almost at its limit.
It's not that the manufacturing process has reached its limit, but rather that the chip technology based on this silicon-based architecture has almost reached its limit.
Unless, in future developments.
A true carbon-based wafer has emerged.
Currently, mainstream carbon-based chips are still under development and are far less important than silicon-based chips.
Carbon nanotubes are mainly composed of one-dimensional tubular structures.
Graphene: A two-dimensional planar structure with excellent conductivity, but lacking a band gap, requiring complex engineering to be used in logic circuits.
Regardless of the type of carbon-based technology...
They are still studying it.
On the market, whether it's mobile phones, computers, or other products, they are basically dominated by silicon-based chips.
However, carbon-based chips have enormous potential, so apart from Great Britain, other countries are also continuously developing them.
However, no research has been successful yet.
The electron and hole mobility in carbon nanotubes is much higher than that in silicon, meaning faster speeds and lower energy consumption. Theoretically, with the same manufacturing process, performance could be 5-10 times that of silicon, while energy consumption is significantly reduced.
The most important thing.
Carbon-based wafers may be able to bypass a certain technological bottleneck that silicon-based wafers face.
If Great Xia were to fully master carbon-based chip technology, then the West's chip blockade against them would become a colossal joke.
If not.
Su Yang wouldn't have been this excited before.
After confirming there was no danger, Su Yang was the first to enter the factory.
Following the familiar image in my mind, I found the wafers scattered on the ground, already broken into pieces.
I carefully held it in my hand.
After taking a closer look, Su Yang couldn't help but feel somewhat disappointed.
The chip in his hand is a silicon-based chip, not much different from mainstream chips on Earth.
The only question is how many nanometers this complete chip is.
"Did you find anything?"
Guo Yong walked over and paused slightly when he saw the crystal in Su Yang's palm.
"What is this thing?"
"Wafer, the substrate for silicon-based chips."
Su Yang explained softly, while putting it into an isolation bag.
Although he could only tell with his naked eye that it was a silicon-based chip, he couldn't tell exactly how many nanometers it was.
However, things are different in the main world of Great Xia.
There are enough machines and enough researchers there.
Maybe it can be developed.
After hearing what Su Yang said, Guo Yong stopped talking.
Little did he know what Su Yang was talking about.
All he knew was that silicon-based chips could be used in mobile phones, and that Daxia was currently being held back because it lacked advanced lithography machines.
This is their biggest problem.
"This is most likely a lithography factory. Let's see if we can find a lithography machine inside."
Su Yang pondered for a moment, then spoke softly.
Since this is a lithography factory, there should be lithography machines here.
At present, he does not know whether there is a lithography machine here or how to use it.
However, if they could find it and bring it back to Great Xia, it might be very good news for them.
Judging from the size of that fragment, Su Yang estimated that its technology was comparable to, or even superior to, that of the Great Xia Dynasty.