The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 554 We Need Geniuses [Additional]

"One-thousandth of a nanometer? Now the most powerful lithography machine has not broken through the 70nm limit, and is stuck on this node. It will not be until 2005 that the first lithography machine that breaks through 70nm will appear!"

Now, the chip in front of me actually has a thickness of 120 picometers, which is equivalent to a lithography machine with a precision of 0.12 nanometers?
This can't be described as outrageous, it's off the charts.

"You are not kidding me!" Huang He couldn't help asking.

"Why are you kidding me?" Ni Guangnan rolled his eyes and said, "In fact, the essence of a chip is to manufacture hundreds of millions, even tens of billions, tens of thousands of chips on a single crystal silicon chip with an extremely small size. billion semiconductors."

"These semiconductors have two states of conduction and non-conduction, which can represent two numbers of 0 and 1, so binary calculations can be performed, and modern computers can calculate everything in this world through the logic of 0 and 1. Things, everything is based on mathematics!"

"According to our research, when this special gold is covered on the surface of single crystal silicon, it undergoes a very wonderful change, directly becoming semiconductors one by one, and each semiconductor depends on the characteristics between molecules. , there is a natural line connection, and the distance between different semiconductors is also equal.”

"The most amazing thing is that this is actually a multi-layer semiconductor. The surface of single crystal silicon is covered with twelve layers of semiconductors. In the end, the surface of this single crystal silicon is formed into a lithography machine equivalent to a 0.12nm process. The number of semiconductors that can only be achieved!"

After listening to Ni Guangnan's introduction, Huang He felt that he probably understood, and asked excitedly, "What you mean is that we don't need a lithography machine to carve any monocrystalline silicon in the future. Apply a layer of this special gold material, and you can get a chip that is 500 times more powerful than the current most powerful chip!" Huang He said, almost biting his tongue .

As far as Huang He knows, by 2021, the immersion lithography machine has actually reached a new limit, because the limit of the immersion lithography machine is almost 1.5 nanometers, and no matter how high it is, it will be impossible to continue to break through. It will be like now, troubled by the computing power of the chip for an unknown period of time, until the new generation of lithography machine technology is developed.

But now this brand-new material can produce chips of 0.12 nanometer level with just one swipe, directly breaking the limit that will appear in the next 20 years, which is really amazing.

"You can't use brushes, you have to use baking, because this is essentially using high temperature to make this special metal cover the surface of single crystal silicon!" Ni Guangnan corrected.

"Okay, I just want to know how long it will take for this thing to start mass production!" Huang He asked excitedly.

"Well..." Ni Guangnan's expression stiffened instantly.

"Didn't you say that this is already a chip?" Huang He asked back.

"It's not wrong to say so, but how to use this natural chip is still a problem!" Ni Guangnan said with some embarrassment, "The chip made by a lithography machine can be designed in advance. It needs to be connected and calculated, so that it can be used for calculation.”

"But although this gadget is born with a large number of semiconductors, each semiconductor is basically connected to five other semiconductors. If we want to turn it into a chip that can be calculated, we need to find a way to cut off most of them. The semiconductor connection, let the current flow between these semiconductors according to the architecture we designed, so that the calculation can be completed!"

"But now we don't know how to cut off the connection between these semiconductors at all, and even if we know how to cut off, we still need to know how to cut off the individual connection precisely, and cut off trillions of such connections in a short period of time, among which The probability of wrong cutting should not be higher than one in [-], otherwise the chip will be scrapped." Ni Guangnan said.

"Wait, why do I feel that the difficulty of this technology seems to be much more difficult than that of a lithography machine!" Huang He just rolled his eyes.

This technical requirement is terrifying just by listening to it. Let me give you an example.

If the earth is compared to a piece of monocrystalline silicon, each human being on the earth is compared to a semiconductor, and at the same time, each human being is tied with five ropes, which are respectively connected to five other human beings.

And Huang He is an alien, what he needs to do is to cut more than 100 billion ropes in a short enough time according to his own design, accurately and without any mistakes, some people may need to cut 4 Some people only need to cut off one root, some people don't even need to cut off one root.

And once any rope is cut wrong, the earth will be useless, and it can only be destroyed and recreated.

It's scary to think about it!
"It's okay, if we manufacture a lithography machine, we need to solve tens of thousands of problems. Now we only need to solve this one problem!" Ni Guangnan said with a smile.

"Hehe, in fact, the lithography machine is just to solve the problem of how to carve lines on the surface of monocrystalline silicon, isn't it?" Huang He rolled his eyes and said, Ni Guangnan stopped talking for a moment.

"Boss, I think I can solve this problem!" Tong He, who was silent for a while, said, "I already have an idea!"

"What idea?" Huang He immediately asked, if Tong He can really solve this problem, then this special material can really change the whole world,

"That is not to change the connection method between these semiconductors, but to change our chip design structure!" Tong He said, "Look, boss, with our current human technology, we want to cut off the connection between these semiconductors precisely according to the needs." Contact is impossible."

"So I think, why do we have to cut off the circuit connection between these semiconductors? In fact, there is a natural structure between these semiconductors. Why do we have to turn these structures into the structures designed and needed by human beings? "

"Since all semiconductors are connected according to fixed rules, why can't we follow this connection rule and design a new architecture specifically, so that our computing architecture can adapt to these natural circuits!"

"That's right!" Huang He nodded. It is very difficult for an alien to change the connection of 60 billion human beings, but if you change the alien itself, it is very simple.

"It's just that such an architecture is unprecedented!" Ni Guangnan said, "Humans design a brand-new computer architecture according to certain natural laws. This is something that has never happened before, and the difficulty will not be much less!"

"And because each semiconductor is connected to five other semiconductors, which violates the current human semiconductor computing logic, we not only need to re-architecture, but even design from the underlying logic."

"Say it straight, what do you need?" Huang He asked back, "How much do you need? I'll give you everything I can!".

"It doesn't need any money!" Ni Guangnan shook his head and said, "The role of money is mainly used for hardware research and development. But what we need to change now is the structure. This is a human design. The role of money is only for hiring It's just people!"

"So what we need is a lot of design talents and time! And this is not an ordinary talent, it must be a top genius, this is not something that can be conquered by numbers, we have to find a way first... we need the flash of a genius, Help us find our way!"

"It's easy to do if you want money, and time is also easy to talk about, but where can I go to trouble you for a genius?" Huang He rolled his eyes, and he didn't know where there was such a genius.

Huang He recalled it for a while, and he didn't remember any super computer geniuses in the later generations. After all, in that world, famous people were either celebrities, rich people, or Internet celebrities. How could there be any genius computer geniuses!

"Otherwise, I'll go to universities and colleges across the country to recruit!" Ni Guangnan said, "I'll go around all the universities in China, maybe I can meet the genius we need!"

"It's useless!" Huang He shook his head after hearing this, "Old Ni, you should be clear that a genius cannot be proven until he proves that he is a genius!"

"What you need is a problem-solving idea or inspiration, not a genius, because you never know which genius can solve the problem. And our Jiangnan Group has already recruited, and we are already recruiting top talents from various colleges , You don't need to screen any geniuses at all!!" Huang He said.

"Then what else can we do? Can this solution come out by itself?" Ni Guangnan complained.

"Don't say it, this is really a solution!" Huang He turned his head, and then said, "Actually, we don't need to search for that genius who can solve the problem at all, but we can let that genius find us on his own initiative!"

"How to say?" Ni Guangnan and Tong He asked in unison.

"The answer is very simple. Since it is difficult for us to find the answer to this question, we might as well just throw this question on the Internet and send it to all the research centers of colleges and universities all over the world, and all technical forums, so that everyone can help us find it. The answer to this question!"

"And all we need is a big bonus!"

"In this way, I can offer a reward of 1 million U.S. dollars. As long as anyone can come up with this brand-new chip architecture we need, then we will reward him with 1 million U.S. dollars. I think this number is enough for geniuses all over the world to be excited, and then we don't need any Costs have worked for us...except for the only lucky one who can find the answer!" Huang He laughed.

(End of this chapter)