36. Chapter 36 Pandora’s Box
Chapter 36 Pandora’s Box
Speaking of the electricity bill, we have to mention Kang Chi’s rental house.
As a standard city within a city, the electricity bill is naturally not cheap, but the biggest problem is that it is too small and unsafe.
Kang Chi has read a lot of books and papers during this period, but he has no practical experience. A few days ago, he was fantasizing about when he could have his own large laboratory.
Well, the requirements are not high, like Iron Man Tony’s villa, which is not only his home, but also his laboratory, it feels very convenient.
But Kang Chi wants to get it done in one step, so as not to move around so troublesome, so for now, these are still a bit unrealistic.
Retracting his fantasy, Kang Chi officially entered the closed-door practice.
After reading a few more days, his learning machine experience is almost full, and he urgently needs the assistance of the learning machine to master more relevant knowledge of chip manufacturing.
Although after the graphics card is upgraded, relevant knowledge can be directly obtained through analysis, but Kang Chi actually knows the infusion of such knowledge but not the reason.
Just like the production line of lenses, although he can make it by imitation, he still has not fully understood the technology and principles in it. If others ask him, he can’t explain it clearly.
At this time, the necessary theoretical knowledge is very important.
As long as he can master enough theoretical knowledge in advance, once he gets the infusion information, he can quickly understand the technical principles in it and truly achieve a thorough understanding.
[Item: Learning Machine]
[Manufacturer: Kang Chi]
[Item Level: 6]
[Experience: 400/400]
[Analysis Item: Analyzable]
[General Experience: 0]
[Mastery Points: 23.7]
After a week of retreat, the learning machine’s experience is finally full!
And in the process of learning, the mastery points also increased a lot, which is an extra gain.
Upgrade!
A flash of light passed by, and the shape of this learning machine changed again.
The main body is still an e-book, but the size is larger, and there is also a kind of earphone.
Kang Chi tried to wear this thing on his ears, and found that it not only fits the ears very well, but also has strong sound insulation. Once wearing this earphone, all the interference outside disappeared, and the whole world was dead silent. Kang Chi was so scared that he almost thought he was deaf.
After a period of adaptation, Kang Chi found that with this function, his mood was indeed very stable when studying, and his concentration was unprecedentedly strengthened.
And Kang Chi also remembered the content learned with this learning machine very clearly. As long as he didn’t read it in a hurry, he could basically remember it.
Just one word:
Awesome! At the same time, Kang Chi also realized that this thing is simply a Pandora’s box, and its power is definitely not inferior to that of a nuclear bomb.
If it is accidentally leaked out, the whole world will be turned upside down. Just imagine, if everyone can learn so efficiently, it will not only turn China’s education upside down, but other countries will also be unable to avoid it.
This is still the best case scenario.
The worst case scenario is that this technology will be monopolized by a few people, which will further widen the gap between ordinary people and the elite class, and ultimately lead to more extreme polarization.
As for the worse situation…
That is a world war. China will definitely want to keep this technology, and other countries will not sit idly by. You can imagine what the result will be.
So if Kang Chi is not fully prepared, he must not let anyone discover its secrets.
With the help of this learning machine, Kang Chi is like a sponge, madly absorbing all the semiconductor-related information he can find.
On the twentieth day of his retreat, the graphics card, which had been under high-intensity stress, finally had full experience!
Kang Chi immediately upgraded it. After the familiar light flashed, a brick-sized graphics card appeared. After the upgrade, it already had two cooling fans, which looked much more domineering. [Item: Silicon Crystal Image Processor]
[Manufacturer: Kang Chi]
[Item Level: 7]
[Experience: 4/3200]
[Item Status: Intact]
[Item Parameters: 14nm process technology, main frequency 1.5GHz, 8GB DDR5 video memory]
[Analysis Item[Item: Analyzable]
[General Experience: 0]
[Mastery Points: 33.6]
14 nanometers! ? This process technology is more advanced than Kang Chi expected.
At this point, it would be a bit exaggerated to upgrade it. Kang Chi thinks it is better to keep it at this level for the time being, analyze its technology first, and realize mass production.
Of course, Kang Chi, who has learned semiconductor knowledge for several months, is also very clear that manufacturing chips is not as simple as making lenses. The industrial chain involved is much larger than that of lenses.
From wafers, design, photolithography, etching, to the final packaging,
Each step has a lot of technical difficulties. It is impossible to make it as simple as making lenses by rolling out a production line.
Even if there are no technical restrictions, it will take more than a year to achieve real mass production of graphics cards.
Although he has made sufficient mental preparations, when Kang Chi clicked on the analysis item, he was still shocked by the system panel.
On the system panel, the densely packed options are connected in series, looking like a branch with all its leaves fallen off.
Analysis of industrial silicon smelting process requires 5 mastery points,
Analysis of polysilicon purification process requires 5 mastery points,
Analysis of photovoltaic-grade monocrystalline silicon purification process requires 5 mastery points,
Analysis of semiconductor-grade monocrystalline silicon purification process requires 10 mastery points,
…
Analysis of glue coating, baking, developing track-type integrated machine process requires 20 mastery points,
Analysis of 14-nanometer lithography machine process requires 30 mastery points,
…
Looking at the nearly 100 analysis items covering the entire semiconductor industrial process, Kang Chi felt his scalp tingling, as if he was being pressed down by the Five Fingers Mountain.
It can only be said that semiconductor chips are worthy of representing the highest wisdom of mankind in manipulating and observing matter! No wonder it is stuck.
Even Kang Chi, who has a system, feels suffocated in front of this mountain, not to mention the large number of Chinese scientific researchers who have to catch up with them in the dark.
For laymen, when it comes to chip bottlenecks, the first thing that comes to mind is usually the lithography machine. But in fact, the lithography machine is only one of the hundreds of steps. Others such as photoresist, thin film deposition, ion implantation machine, and even silicon wafer manufacturing, etc., have bottlenecks.
And Kang Chi’s idea is to start from the upstream of the industry and gradually solve all the bottlenecks.
Well, In fact, even if he wants to analyze the lithography process, he doesn’t have so many proficiency points for the time being.
According to his experience, only when these devices are successfully manufactured for the first time can the most proficiency points be obtained.
So Kang Chi started from the beginning again, gradually analyzing which are the bottlenecks and whether there is a need to analyze them.
First, there is industrial silicon smelting. Needless to say, China’s industrial silicon production accounts for more than 65% of the world’s total, so there is no need to worry about the lack of industrial silicon.
The same is true for polysilicon and photovoltaic-grade monocrystalline silicon. The production is huge. As the name suggests, the main material for solar panels and solar panels is this stuff, and it has been laid out in the northwest region.
The next is the first place where domestic chips are stuck. (End of this chapter)