The Red Era, the Opening University Speech

Chapter 102 Far Ahead of Emperor M!

Chapter 102 Far Ahead of Emperor M!
to the place.

Looking at the black market, Li Mu was a little disappointed.

Rather than calling it a black market, it is more like a rural collective market in later generations, and there are even fewer things than in a collective market.

Fortunately, there were still plenty of chickens, ducks, fish and meat. At a glance, he saw an old farmer with mud on his trouser legs and dark skin squatting in the corner, with a big rooster in front of him standing proudly.

"I can see at a glance that there is no technology or hard work involved, so I'll buy it!" Li Mu made a decisive decision to buy a big rooster.

He went up to ask the price: "Uncle, how much do you sell this chicken for? How much is one pound?"

The old farmer who was asked by Li Mu raised his slightly cloudy eyes and said in Kyoto dialect: "I don't want to sell it for money, but for food. I only want coarse grains."

"My chicken weighs 5 kilograms, just give me the market price."

As he spoke, the old farmer rubbed his dark, cracked hands nervously.

He quickly added: "If you really want it, I can give you a discount."

"This..." Li Mu was confused after hearing this. He knew how much one pound of chicken cost, but he didn't know how much it would be if converted into coarse grains.

Especially since the chickens in the old farmer's basket were fat and strong, with excellent appearance and quality, he would feel guilty if he gave them away at a low price.

Seeing Li Mu was stunned, Sun Fendou quickly realized that he didn't know the price, and said quickly:
"The current market price of chicken is 1 cents per pound. This chicken needs at least 6 pounds of coarse grains."

"198 kilograms!" Li Mu was shocked. He often bought meat but rarely rice. It was the first time he knew that a chicken could be exchanged for so much coarse grains.

"Young man, you don't need that much. 195 kilograms will be enough." The old farmer's lips, which had turned white from hunger, trembled slightly as he lowered the price again.

He had been selling chickens on the black market for several days, but had not sold any. His family was almost unable to make ends meet. If he did not bring some food back, his whole family would starve to death.

"Wait for me here." Li Mu was silent for a moment, said something to Sun Fendou, and then rode his bicycle towards the supply and marketing cooperative.

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Fifteen minutes later, Li Mu returned to the black market with a few more bags of food on the back seat of his bicycle.

The old farmer sitting on the ground saw his figure appear and his eyes immediately lit up.

After parking the bicycle, Li Mu said to the old farmer, "120 kilograms of sweet potatoes and 75 kilograms of cornmeal!"

"Would you like to find a scale to weigh it?"

"No, no." The old farmer waved his hand quickly and watched Li Mu unload the food from the bicycle. A hint of satisfaction appeared on his wrinkled cheeks.

"Okay, then I'll take this big rooster away." Li Mu smiled and carried the chicken, then turned around and left with Sun Fendou.

The old farmer looked at the grain on the ground, tied up several bags with a rope, then gritted his teeth and carried them on his back, ready to go home immediately.

However, the moment his shoulders felt the weight of the food, his eyes suddenly changed.

"No, that's not right. How come you're so much heavier? I'm afraid even 240 pounds won't be enough!"

The old farmer was startled and immediately wanted to chase after him.

As soon as he raised his head, he saw Li Mu waving his hand without looking back in the distance.

The old farmer stammered for a while, but when he thought of his mother who was too hungry to work in the fields, and his several children who were crying for food, he finally fell silent.

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After leaving the black market.

Sun Fendou followed Li Mu and finally couldn't help asking, "Brother Li Mu, those bags of coarse grains you just had must be more than 195 kilograms, right?"

"I accidentally bought a little too much, so I just gave it to him. We have enough food at home anyway." Li Mu nodded without hiding it.

His life is much better than when he first came to this era.

With knowledge that was ahead of his time, he was able to receive so many rewards that he almost forgot that many people in that era could not get enough to eat.

It would be fine if I hadn’t met him, but now that I have met him, I can’t just pretend not to see him.

"You are scholars!" Sun Fendou smiled, but didn't say anything more because it was not his money that was being spent.

Li Mu ignored Sun Fendou's teasing and thought seriously: "If hybrid rice can be developed earlier, can the food problem be solved?"

He knew that the cultivation of hybrid rice would not be a one-time task, but if it could be started one day earlier, the people of Xia could have enough food to eat one day earlier.

Technological progress is important, but it is more important for people to have enough food to eat.

Thinking of this, Li Mu sent a message to Ask: "Aske, can you help me sort out the detailed information about hybrid rice on the Internet?"

Ask quickly replied: "OK."

Soon, Li Mu received the information.

He was not in a hurry to look. He first said something to Sun Fendou, then pushed his bicycle while looking towards home.

"Hybrid rice was successfully developed in 75, a period of 14 years. If I can do something, even if it only shortens the time by one year, that would be great."

"But the key to hybrid rice is natural male sterile plants, which are necessary to breed male sterile plants."

"But Mr. Yuan first found rice with special traits, and then cultivated it for a long time before he got the natural male sterile plants. This cannot be replicated at all!"

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His mind was in a mess, and Li Mu felt powerless for the first time.

"There is still a long way to go!" He sighed deeply and stopped his bicycle in front of the entrance of the slum.

As soon as I put down the pedals, I heard two sweet calls: "Brother~"

Turning his head, he saw two little girls, Li Lan and Li Yu, running towards him, jumping and dancing around him, acting coquettishly.

Looking at their smiling faces, Li Mu felt instantly relieved.

Walking into the yard, Aunt Zhang was collecting the bedding that had been drying all day. Seeing him coming back with a big rooster, she couldn't help but say enviously:
"Xiao Li, are you having chicken today?"

"I got some rewards at school, so I bought a chicken to celebrate. I'll ask you and Uncle Zhong to come and have some later." Li Mu said with a smile.

As soon as she finished speaking, Grandma Li came out of the house with a dustpan and couldn't help complaining, "Why not buy a smaller one to celebrate? It's such a waste to buy such a big one."

"Don't do this again next time."

Although she said that, wrinkles had already appeared at the corners of Grandma Li's eyes from smiling.

After she finished speaking, she looked at Aunt Zhang again and said:
"Xiao Mu is right. You can ask your wife to help later. Da Jun is clumsy and can't even kill a chicken properly."

Since Li Mu had already spoken, she certainly couldn't go against his opinion.

What’s a little chicken? Her eldest grandson is very capable, so how much chicken can he have?

"Okay, I'll ask Lao Zhong to come over later." Aunt Zhang was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.

Li Mu looked at Grandma Li's proud expression and sighed in his heart:
"Forget it, take care of your family first, then take care of everyone else."

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Semiconductor Research Institute.

When Li Mu arrived, he could already hear the heated discussion inside:
"The lens of your optical system is not good. With this level of precision, how can you achieve precise focusing and complete high-precision lithography?"

"The laser beam needs to be adjusted and shaped to meet the needs of lithography."

"The alignment system is used to ensure precise alignment between the light and the silicon wafer. Since the precision cannot be achieved, we will use manual operation first!"

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Li Mu pushed the door open carefully and was about to go in when the noisy meeting room suddenly became quiet.

Wang Shoujue on the stage said with a delighted look on his face: "You are finally here, please give us some advice."

"The lithography machine developed from the original clay lithography machine has been made, but the accuracy is still a problem. Is there any solution?"

As he said that, he pulled Li Mu up.

He was forced to do something, but he was not afraid. He thought for a moment and said, "There is actually very little room for breakthrough in our instrumentation right now."

As soon as these words were spoken, many people immediately showed disappointment, and many people even shook their heads and sighed.

If the accuracy is not achieved, it will be impossible to achieve large-scale integration, let alone the production of practical chips. But Li Mu immediately said: "But there is a way. By enhancing the resolution, the accuracy of the lithography machine can also be improved."

"Oh, how to improve?" Wang Shoujue asked impatiently.

Li Mu smiled and said, "It's very simple. Through the simplified approximation of the relevant illumination and the adjustment of the numerical aperture, we can determine the minimum resolvable grating half-width."

After hearing this, everyone in the conference room suddenly realized:

"Haha, I'm such a fool. I've hit a dead end. I didn't expect this. The higher the resolution of the lithography machine, the smaller the line width requirement can be, thus improving the device precision."

"It's about reducing the diffraction of light. Why didn't I think of that?"

"Student Li Mu's way of thinking is very impressive. This is like a word of enlightenment!"

Everyone present was at the forefront of their field. They understood everything immediately and looked at Li Mu with admiration in their eyes.

Then, without any nonsense, they immediately followed this idea and started the experiment.

……

Half a month passed slowly.

After the problem with the lithography machine was solved, Li Mu's work became easier.

Wang Shoujue would only ask him to discuss things when there were major problems.

But this situation rarely happens. As long as the general direction is correct, a group of the country's top talents will hardly encounter any obstacles.

If so, then find Li Mu.

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One afternoon half a month later.

Li Mu walked out of the classroom following the sound of the bell.

Coming to the bottom of the teaching building, he had to go to the Semiconductor Research Institute every day during this period, so in order to save time, he parked his car here.

However, he did not plan to go directly to the Semiconductor Research Institute today, but instead planned to go home.

I haven't been back for so many days. Even if I brought a message, Grandma Li would probably be worried.

But just as he was pushing his bicycle out, suddenly, a familiar figure hurriedly came from a distance.

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Li Mu's plan to go home was interrupted with the arrival of Wang Shoujue.

Wang Shoujue, whose eyes were red from staying up all night, said the first thing he said: "The experiment has entered the final stage!"

Upon hearing the news, he followed Wang Shoujue to the Semiconductor Research Institute without saying a word.

Enter the laboratory building.

The corridor was filled with researchers standing one after another, craning their necks to look into the laboratory inside.

Noticing the two people's arrival, they turned around with burning eyes and looked at Li Mu beside Wang Shoujue.

Facing these gazes, Li Mu's back unconsciously straightened slightly.

"Come in, the experiment will start soon!" Wang Shoujue said, and led him through the crowd into the laboratory.

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In the laboratory, professors including Wu Youxiang, Huang Xinhua, and Lu Qian gathered together and watched the ongoing experiment in silence.

Seeing this scene, Li Mu reacted instantly and asked, "Director Wang, have the problems with the mask and lithography machine been solved?"

"Yes, this is the first experiment, and the goal is to achieve large-scale integration of 1001 transistors!" Wang Shoujue's face was tense, and even though he tried his best to hide it, one could still see the nervousness in his heart.

If the integration of 300 transistors is a breakthrough from scratch and a world leader.

Then the integration of 1001 transistors will leave the global semiconductor industry far behind, leaving those countries with only their backs!

"Will it succeed?" After listening to this, Li Mu looked at the experimenter and was also very nervous.

Although he provided a lot of help in this large-scale integration, he did not participate in the subsequent experiments, which made Nianmian worried.

At this time, all the researchers involved in large-scale integration were as focused on the ongoing experiments as Li Mu.

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Wafer preparation, wafer cleaning, deposition, photolithography, and cleaning again... the experimenters below are meticulously carrying out the planned process.

Although the experimental materials and conditions were limited, they had rehearsed it thousands of times in their minds.

There was no mistake in the entire preliminary process.

Finally – on to package testing!
Packaging refers to encapsulating the chip in plastic, ceramic or metal materials to protect the chip and achieve external connection of the pins.

Testing is the final step to verify chip functionality and reliability.

When Wang Shoujue saw the researcher's gesture, he exhaled lightly, and a steady and powerful voice rang out in the laboratory: "Packaging is complete, and the final test is underway!"

As his voice fell, the experimenters quickly started the test experiment.

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"Device electrical characteristics test, success."

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"Thermal cycle test, success."

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"Temperature shock test, success."

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"High temperature and high humidity test, success."

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Tests were completed one after another. The laboratory was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. The only sound was the sound of reporting results.

After the final report of "Success!" was sounded, all the experimenters stood still and looked at Director Wu Youxiang.

The latter excitedly took the microphone and announced in a trembling voice:
"All tests have been completed, the integration level has reached 1086, and all functional performance data are far ahead of M Emperor!"

"Xia Country's first practical chip has been a success!"

As his voice fell, Li Mu's ears erupted with cheers like a tsunami:
"Success!"

"We are number one in the world!"

"M Emperor, that's all, hahahaha!"

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In just three years, we went from lagging behind to catching up and then surpassing.

No one knows how much hardship they have endured.

They had finally waited for this moment.

Listening to the cheers, Li Mu was also infected by the emotions and his eyes became red.

The sense of pride and honor that arises in my heart is far stronger than any achievements I have ever made in playing.

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The cheering lasted for a long, long time.