"Because the materials that can go to this step have corresponding advantages, maybe which material can directly become the next generation of chip materials after further breakthroughs, so these materials that have passed multiple rounds of screening are all The key research objects in our laboratory, the materials companies are also stepping up further research on these materials.

However, the focus of our research is currently focused on the company's superior materials, such as graphene materials, carbon nanotube materials, and some composite materials doped with metal materials or other materials.

It is hoped that substantial progress can be made in the research of these materials, the 2nm chip manufacturing technology can be solved, and the related technical difficulties of 1nm can be further solved. "

Liu Lishuang is familiar with these data, so he introduced the relevant data to his boss without any trouble. From the data he said, it is not difficult to see why the company invests more than 5 billion in the lab-on-a-chip every year. R&D funding in US dollars.

This is the reason why many related resources are circulated within the company. Without the help of many laboratories at the material company for the research of such a variety of new materials, doubling the investment amount will not be enough, let alone still Parts needed for the research and development of related chip manufacturing equipment such as lithography machines.

In the field of optics, there is an optical laboratory to help share the research and development, and other various component technologies are also provided by the laboratory of the smart device company to help with the research. Otherwise, how can these three-layer laboratories complete the research in the entire chip field.

"Well, try more and there will always be surprises. Anyway, the company has this advantage. Isn't it a waste not to use it!" Lei Tiantang said with a smile.

Liu Lishuang also smiled and nodded. This is true. The linkage effect between the company's various laboratories is also an important reason why the company's related technologies can make breakthroughs from time to time.

After randomly selecting some projects under research and development and taking a look, Lei Tiantang smiled with satisfaction: “In general, the progress is pretty good. Although the 2nm technology has not completely broken through, I believe that these problems will be solved later. Not a big problem.

And you have done a very solid pre-research work on 1 nanometer technology, which is very good, unlike those laboratories that dare to announce that we have broken through the 1 nanometer chip manufacturing technology as they do.

From the discovery in the laboratory to the large-scale production, I don’t know how many difficulties there are to overcome. I may fall into the pit halfway through. I don’t know whether the person in charge of the laboratory is really stupid or pretending to be stupid, but I guess Want to use this method to increase the possibility of investment is the greatest! "

Speaking of Lei Tiantang, he couldn’t help but shook his head and laughed. You must know that up to now, not only foreign countries, but also two domestic laboratories have announced that they have broken through the related technology of 1 nanometer chip, and they have more than 10 in total. Home has been so publicized.

The earliest one was announced before Infinite Gravity Group even entered the field of chip research and development. It has been more than 5 years, and it has been so long.

It is estimated that after a lot of speculation, I found the next company to sell the laboratory flasher, or the investor could not bear the huge investment for a long time but did not make substantial progress and interrupted the investment, so it went bankrupt? Anyway, in the past year or so, there has not been the latest development of these laboratories.

When I heard my boss say this, not only Liu Lishuang laughed, but even the researcher who was working next to him laughed heartily.

"There is no way, after all, not any laboratory can have no upper limit on R&D investment like our company's laboratory.

Besides, we are also very clear when we do our own research in this area. The current chip technology is already moving towards the technological limit. Not every company has a technology reserve and R&D system like ours.

Moreover, every step forward here needs to invest huge amounts of R&D funds. Not everyone can maintain the annual R&D investment of tens of billions of dollars without seeing the benefits. For many investors who pursue interests, such investment is Very uneconomical, so it's not a strange thing to run halfway! "Liu Lishuang said with a smile.

Before the manufacturing process reaches 28 nanometers, every advancement in the manufacturing process can make chip manufacturers obtain huge profits, and many chip companies made a lot of money in that era.

However, after the manufacturing process reaches 14/16 nanometers, technological progress will increase the cost of the chip. When Intel first developed the 14-nanometer manufacturing process, there was news that its mask cost was 300 million US dollars. , The cost of each advancement of the following technology will have a substantial increase.

The new manufacturing process is expensive, on the one hand, is due to the high R&D cost and low yield of the new process, on the other hand, it is also because the price of lithography machine, etching machine and other equipment is extremely expensive.

Therefore, even if the advanced manufacturing process is technically mature, the excessively high mask cost will cause customers to think twice when choosing the most advanced manufacturing process.

The relatively small number of customers will make it difficult to share costs with huge output, and ultimately slow down the development and commercial application of advanced manufacturing processes. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

It is precisely because of this that the world’s low-end 7-nanometer technology and mid-to-high-end 5 nanometer manufacturing process are considered by some insiders to be very dynamic, and will continue to be used for several years. Infinite Gravity Group’s 4 nanometer technology is At present, the world's best chip technology put on the market.

But is it not important to study the more extreme chip size? No, this research result is still important-it proves that we can use new materials to produce smaller transistors to further improve the functionality and efficiency of computers.

But the key is that the huge investment in R&D and the uncertain future earnings make many investors unable to withstand the pressure and give up unless they are national-level laboratories or those companies controlled by consortia. Long-term investment, otherwise it is difficult for many investors to bear the feeling of throwing a lot of money into the water.

This is why outside researchers envy the researchers working in the Infinite Gravity Group. There is no upper limit on R&D investment and various advanced research equipment and conditions, and the treatment is even more eye-catching. Such a research environment is just like heaven for all researchers who are interested in developing in the field of scientific research!

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