My black technology plug-in

Xiaomei received a call from Qin Jian and immediately ordered two tickets to Wuzhou.

When Qin Jian arrived at Leizhou Airport, she was already waiting at the airport.

They didn't wait long before they boarded the plane to Wuzhou.

Xiaomei sat next to Qin Jian and asked curiously: "Boss, why are we going to Wuzhou?"

Qin Jian said: "Filming!"

Xiao Mei asked with some questions: "Talent, what does it mean?"

Qin Jian explained: “After a chip is designed, it must be commercially taped out if it wants to be mass-produced, and the tape-out means trial production, ensuring that the chip design is free and then mass-produced.”

Xiao Mei nodded her head seemingly, and then said: "Boss, I still don't understand, can you make it simpler?"

Qin Jian thought for a while and asked, "Have you ever played rubber stamps when you were young?"

Xiao Mei nodded and said, "Of course I have played it. My favorite is the bear pattern."

Qin Jian smiled and said: "Taking out the film is equivalent to making a stamp. After the stamp is made, you can hold the large-scale print pattern of the stamp. This time we went to Wuzhou to make rubber stamps."

Xiao Mei smiled and said, "It turns out that this is the case. How long will it take to make it?"

Qin Jian said: "If you are lucky, it takes a long time, if you are bad, you can't say it for ten and a half months."

Xiao Mei was surprised: "The difference is so big!"

Qin Jian smiled and did not speak, lying down, closing his eyes and resting.

The plane soon arrived at Wuzhou. After getting off the plane, Qin Jian saw Zhu Chen who was coming to pick him up. The two exchanged a few words and then left for the factory.

On a business car.

Zhu Chen introduced a middle-aged man with a Mediterranean hairstyle sitting next to him and said: "This is Liu Jianguo from our factory, Mr. Liu, this time I learned that Mr. Qin is coming over, so I have to let me introduce him. No way."

The middle-aged man Liu Jianguo stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Qin, admiring your name for a long time, I really didn't expect you to be so young. You are really young and promising."

Qin Jian and Liu Jianguo shook hands and said, "General Manager Liu is too polite. You really dare not take such praise for me."

Liu Jianguo shook his head and said: "No, no, no, I'm sincere. I have already read the chip information you sent. It is really impressive. I have never seen such a delicate design, and it is completely different from the current one. Some mainstream architectures are really amazing. I have a few questions that I haven't understood. I want to ask President Qin for advice, and I can tell him about it. I am grateful.

Qin Jian smiled and said, "There is no problem with this. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions, Mr. Liu."

Liu Jianguo was overjoyed and said: "Then I'm welcome. He said that he took out a notebook from his pocket, turned a page, and asked: "I don't understand one thing in the chip design. How is the asynchronous signal synchronized? How is it completely different from the implementation of x86 and arm?"

Qin Jian pondered for a while, and then replied: "This method is adopted..."

Qin Jian’s answer to Liu Jianguo’s consultation was very detailed. There was no hidden selfishness. It was not that he was so helpful and good to be a teacher, but that the more the chief engineer understood the details of the chip design, the success rate of tape-out would also be. The higher you are, there is usually no need to worry about whether the chip design will be leaked. Although the foundry has mastered the production process of the chip, it will generally not leak the secrets. The larger the factory, the less will it, because if a leak does occur In the future, no one will dare to find this factory for foundry. This is a self-sufficient thing. Usually only some very small foundries do this. For large factories like Cologne Semiconductor, don't worry. The problem of leaking secrets, and even if it is leaked, it is enough to design a new version, and if there is no software corresponding to the chip to support the chip, it will not be able to play the function of the chip, even if it is really stolen, don’t be afraid.

Along the way, Mr. Liu kept asking questions one by one, and he wrote more and more in his notebook, which were records of answers to Qin Jian. Mr. Liu was always excited and frowned.

Soon the vehicle drove into the factory and everyone got off.

Mr. Liu was still unfinished, and he still had many questions unanswered.

Zhu Chen smiled at this moment and said: "Mr. Liu, let Qinzhou have a meal first, saying that Mr. Qin can't run away."

When Mr. Liu heard this, he was a little embarrassed and said: "Oh, look at me, I'm so impatient, Mr. Qin, let's eat first!"

Qin Jian said indifferently: "With such a dedicated person as Mr. Liu, I feel relieved about the filming this time."

Mr. Liu laughed and said, "President Qin can rest assured, I will definitely stare at the chip this time, and I will definitely not let Mr. Qin spend more money."

Everyone laughed and went to the restaurant to sit down.

The food was served quickly, very delicate, with Jiangnan characteristics. Qin Jian ate a few bites and was full of praise. This kind of dish is definitely not available in Leizhou.

Zhu Chen smiled and said: "President Qin, I have forgotten to ask how many orders are you going to place this time?"

Qin Jian replied: "Ten million."

Zhu Chen nodded and said: "No problem, I will put President Qin's order up, and strive to ship as soon as possible."

Qin Jian smiled and said: "I don't have to worry about time. Mr. Zhu doesn't need to take special care. If this disrupts the production plan in the field, I will be too sorry."

After hearing this, Zhu Chen sighed and said: "Hey, President Qin is overwhelmed. Our factory does not have so many plans!"

Qin Jian smiled and asked, "Why, business is not good?"

Zhu Chen nodded and said: "It is indeed not very good. The situation in the semiconductor industry must be understood by President Qin. At present, the most advanced process in the world is 7 nanometers, while the most advanced process in our factory is 14 nanometers. There are too many orders, and there are only a handful of orders that can be received. If it were not for the various discounts given by the state government, we would have fallen."

Qin Jian secretly laughed, Zhu Chen’s words were right and wrong, it must be true that business is not good, but it is not to be reduced to the point of bankruptcy. The 14-nanometer process is indeed a gap from the most advanced technology, but the market The biggest demand is not the highest-end 7nm chips but 14nm and 22nm. After all, the sales of high-end mobile phones are limited, and the number of low-end mobile phones is the largest.

Qin Jian took a sip of lotus porridge and said: "The domestic semiconductor industry is technically far behind foreign countries, but the main reason is that foreign technology blockades prevent us from buying the most advanced lithography machines, but this should be very fast. It can be solved. I heard that domestic experts and professors have formed a team to tackle the problem of EUV lithography machines. It will probably not take long to catch up."

Zhu Chen shook his head and said: "How can EUV technology be so easy to conquer. It is the most cutting-edge technology in the world. It can't be broken by a group of hot minds. There are so many research institutes that have come back in these years. If you can really conquer it, let’s not say, let’s not say, come and taste this Dongpo meat.

As for the technology of EUV lithography machine, Qin Jian has seen it in the plug-in. If he wants, he can buy it directly, but at present he is not ready to enter the semiconductor industry. Although this industry is a very profitable industry, However, the establishment of a semiconductor factory does not mean that it is built. It requires a lot of talents and capital. Although Vientiane Group is making money very quickly, if it is invested in the semiconductor industry, it will start with 100 billion yuan, and subsequent investment is even more important. A bottomless pit, even if Qin Jian has the technology, the process of realization is not so easy, so for this industry, we have to wait and say, step by step.

After a meal, everyone chatted for a while, and then Mr. Liu couldn't wait to propose to the workshop.

Qin Jian readily agreed and went to the workshop with Mr. Liu. Xiaomei let her move freely, and went there wherever she wanted. There are still many attractions in Wuzhou to kill time.

A chip needs to go through thousands of processes on the assembly line before it can be produced. Basically, the machine is busy. The whole process of tape-out is actually quite boring. One tape-out can produce 10-20 chips. The success of tape-out depends on a series of tests after the product comes out. Every function of the module needs to be verified, which is time-consuming.

Qin Jian’s chip is a brand-new design, and the current inspection work can only be performed by him. For this brand-new architecture chip, the factory is also taped out for the first time. It is inevitable that there will be some accidents, such as Errors in making masks, errors in etching, etc., as long as one step is wrong, the chip may be scrapped, or function abnormally, failing to meet the design requirements, and it needs to be renewed.

Even with Qin Jian personally, failure is still inevitable, but the biggest advantage of Qin Jian is that it can quickly locate the place of failure and increase the success rate of the next filming.

The tape-out time and time again made Qin Jian feel that his heart was hurting. Although Zhu Chen gave him a preferential price, each tape-out failure meant a loss of 200 million yuan. Although Qin Jian now I have hundreds of billions of funds in my hands, but I still feel distressed.

But there is no way to feel distressed. Whoever makes his design a brand-new architecture, the factory needs to constantly make trial and error, and the machine needs to be constantly adjusted. This is really impossible without spending the money.

Why is the x86 architecture and the ARM architecture so popular now? On the one hand, the performance is indeed strong, and on the other hand, the foundries are very familiar with these two architectures. The success rate of chip design companies is very high, unlike Qin Jian Now, one version after another, the cost of tape-out alone has cost more than 2 billion, and it has not yet succeeded. For the average chip design company, a tape-out failure is almost equivalent to bankruptcy of the company. Chip design companies are not so good, and it is difficult to gain a foothold in this industry without strong capital.

With more failures, Qin Jian became numb. Instead of worrying about the lost money, he and Mr. Liu continued to improve the process, making the success rate of tapeouts higher and higher.

Half a month later, Qin Jian had a scruffy face and was doing chip testing. This is already the M version. He mechanically carried out one test after another. He watched each test pass. There was no smile on Jane's face. When the last monitoring passed, he suddenly reflected that the chip test was successful.

This made Qin Jian overjoyed. This time the tape-out really gave him a new understanding of technology. Even if he has the most advanced technology, it is really difficult to achieve it without a strong industrial system. , Only technology is useless.

Qin Jian silently raised the priority of establishing a chip factory and fine-tuned the future development route.