From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

At this time, Lin Xiao also smiled and said, "Alright everyone, this is our X-ray machine."

"It uses an X-lithography machine and adopts a digital mask method, which is commonly referred to as a maskless technology, and then passes through the RDX lens to achieve precise chip engraving."

Lin Xiao said: "As for how good our X-lithography machine is in terms of performance, I won't talk nonsense with you, just upload the data directly."

"First, in terms of production efficiency, our X-lithography machine can process 285 pieces of 12-inch silicon wafers per hour on average. Compared with the latest EUV lithography machine from Asmer in the Netherlands, our production efficiency is higher than theirs. As much as 40.00% higher."

As soon as the data came out, everyone in the industry sat up one after another, with shocked expressions on their faces.

The production efficiency of X-lithography machine is so high?

Although according to the theory, the X-lithography machine should indeed be more productive than the EUV lithography machine, but now this is a bit too outrageous.

Especially 40.00% higher than the EUV lithography machine.

Of course, Lin Xiao's operation of comparing with the "friends" on the spot, especially when the "friends" were still present, so many people turned their attention to Asmail's people, wanting to see their reaction.

Apparently, the face of the person in charge of Asmail's coming here was darkened.

But Lin Xiao didn't even look at it. They invited Asmail to come over, didn't they just want to slap him in the face.

You didn't sell me in the past, but now I have built something better than you, why don't you let me show it off?

Lin Xiao continued: "Second, because the X-rays we use are not easily absorbed by other objects like EUV light sources, it can be said that as much power as we give it, it will be as much power when it reaches the silicon wafer. energy, which means that our X-lithography machine is more power-efficient than EUV lithography machine!"

"An EUV lithography machine consumes about 24 kilowatt-hours of electricity in 203 hours, and TSMC, the world's number one chip foundry, consumes [-] billion kilowatt-hours of electricity according to existing data. , which is equivalent to paying tens of billions of yuan in electricity bills a year."

"And our X-lithography machine only consumes 24 kilowatt-hours of electricity in [-] hours!"

Speaking of this, Lin Xiao smiled slightly, "Actually, it's not difficult to understand. The CT machine that also uses X-rays in the hospital consumes an average of 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour, and only 240 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day. The output power of the light source of the lithography machine is relatively high, coupled with the power consumption of other components, so the power consumption is [-] degrees per day."

"This is one tenth of the EUV lithography machine!"

As Lin Xiao said this, the people at the scene once again exclaimed.

One-tenth the power consumption!

What a huge improvement!

In the field, the eyes of representatives from TSMC suddenly flashed. Obviously, they were moved.

Although Lin Xiao’s words did not mention that their total power generation includes the combined power generation of EUV lithography machines and DUV lithography machines, but that’s the case. X-lithography machines consume 3000 degrees of electricity a day. It is still what they urgently need. As long as they have an X-ray machine, they are estimated to be able to save hundreds of millions of dollars in electricity bills every year, and if this is counted, it is equivalent to their net profit.

However, in addition to the above two advantages, there are obviously other advantages, "In addition to the above two points, I believe everyone should also be able to easily guess the third advantage of the X-lithography machine, that is, the X-ray machine it uses. The wavelength of light is only 3.56nm!"

"I believe that friends from chip foundries here should be very clear about the use of such a wavelength!"

The people from the foundry below all nodded.

Shorter wavelengths mean fewer steps can be used to make chips.

Like a 5nm chip, two EUV lithography machines are required to form a production line for production. Because the EUV light source is 13.5nm, it is impossible to produce a 5nm process chip with one exposure, so two exposures are required.

As for the 3.56nm X light source of the X-lithography machine, if you want to produce 5nm chips, you only need one lithography machine to form a production line. Similarly, this also means that the process required for the production of a single-chip chip is shorter, and the same , the power consumption is lower, and the cost reduction is even more.

Thinking of this, the chip foundries present couldn't help but want to quote and place orders.

However, they held back for the time being and asked after the press conference.

Of course, like the press conference, the live broadcast room was already boiling. Every time Lin Xiao mentioned the advantages of an X-lithography machine, the barrage would explode once.

"In my lifetime, I can only hear that we have surpassed foreigners in high-tech, and even in the field of lithography machines that we have been restricted for a long time. At this time, I can only feel excited and moved."

"Tears, really tears, seeing this scene, I feel so happy, and I really want to cry"

"What are you crying for? Laugh!Lin Shen has a good hand in comparing friends and merchants, compared with those who sell mobile phones next door, right?This wave directly exploded! 』

"Why did the director switch the screen?Who is this gringo?look like a dead man'

"Looks like it belongs to Asmer, I'm afraid it's going to be a pain in the ass because of Lin Shen's words."

"Hahaha, you used to ignore us, but today you can't afford it!" 』

"I'm so happy, where's Ni Meng? 』

"What the hell are you Asmail?Didn't we say before that we couldn't make a lithography machine?Are you angry now? 』

"..."

The netizens in the live broadcast room were extremely excited. How can we not make them excited seeing Asmail's people like this?

Back at the press conference, Lin Xiao on the stage still did not stop at this time, and continued to talk: "The above are the advantages of our X-lithography machine."

"So, now that our lithography machine has been introduced, it's time to introduce the next project."

"And the next project is our 5nm process technology."

"This process, we named it the X5 process."

Speaking of this, Lin Xiao smiled slightly, and continued: "Also without talking nonsense, let's directly introduce the degree of improvement in chip performance under our technology."

"Currently, we only have the Kirin 9000 chip in cooperation with Huawei, but in the past, Huawei's Kirin 9000 chip was manufactured by TSMC."

"Then, let's compare the gap between the Kirin 5 chip under the X5 process and TSMC's N9000 process."

"Beforehand, these chips are brand new."

As Lin Xiao said, the expressions of the TSMC people off the stage suddenly changed. Why did they run on Asmail just now, and now it's their turn again?

Could it be that their X5 technology can still be compared with them?

And everyone in the audience, at this time, also had such doubts in their hearts.

Can the 5nm process of the X-ray plan be better than that of TSMC?

This……

And just when everyone was wondering, performance comparison data appeared on the big screen behind Lin Xiao.

Afterwards, everyone in the audience was breathless, showing a look of shock.

The smile on Lin Xiao's face was as usual, and his tone was very flat: "Compared from the three aspects of CPU, GPU, and NPU, the Kirin 5 chip based on the X9000 process has an average performance improvement of more than 5% compared with TSMC's N18 process!"

"At the same time, we also used GEEKBENCH5 for running points. According to the actual measurement, under our process, its single-core running score reached 1200, which is 5% higher than the old version of TSMC's N20 process! The multi-core running score has also increased by 20% !"

"In addition, everyone here should know that when designing chips, you need to take into account the process parameters of the chip foundry. That is to say, the design of Kirin 9000 should be more suitable for TSMC's N5 process, but not our X5 process."

"So, I believe that if the Kirin 9000 is designed based on our process, the degree of improvement is far more than this. I believe that it will be 60%, or even 70%, and more!"

"So, let me say something here, in the future, we will welcome any other chip design company in the world to hand over your chips to us for production."

"Because only the chips born here are the best chips!"

Lin Xiao opened his hands and announced with great confidence.

And almost all the audience from Huaguo showed excited expressions, and then stood up one after another, applauding warmly.

This is the first day for their Huaguo semiconductor industry to really roar to the world!

Chapter 3 The real 5nm!

"Clap clap clap~"

In the whole venue, there was thunderous applause. Huaguo's double breakthrough from lithography machine to technology deserves the excitement of every Huaguo present!

Especially Lin Xiao's last sentence, only the chips born here are the best chips, which made them feel a sense of pride.

In the past, when did they dare to claim such a claim?

If they dare to claim that, let alone the ridicule from abroad, some domestic netizens will have to make use of it to make a good use of it.

But now, the comparison of the data that Lin Xiao presented is completely based on facts. Even if someone doubts it, they will at most question it from other aspects, and it is impossible to question it from the comparison of the performance of the two.

As for why I don’t doubt that the data given by Lin Xiao is a false comparison method, such as only mentioning my own advantages and not shortcomings, this is because what Lin Xiao directly gave is the running score of GEEKBENCH5.

GEEKBENCH5 is a professional running score software for mobile phone chips. It is often used to compare the performance gap of different mobile phone processors. The running scores above basically represent professional running scores. is impossible.

It is also because of this that in the past, when mobile phone manufacturers talked about mobile phone chips at the press conference, they basically did not dare to directly put the running score of GEEKBENCH5 on the press conference.

And now that Lin Xiao directly put it up, it undoubtedly showed his confidence.

And his self-confidence also infected the other Chinese people present, causing the applause to last for a long time.

As for the representatives from Asmail, Nikon, Canon, and TSMC, Samsung and other companies, everyone's face is very dark.

Especially TSMC and Samsung, at this moment, the pressure has come to them from lithography machine manufacturers such as Asmer.

At this moment, they all felt unprecedented pressure. Before coming, they had already overestimated this opponent, but unexpectedly, they still underestimated too much.

Their X5 technology can actually achieve this level.

Is it really a 5nm process, not a 2, 3nm process?

In particular, Lin Xiao mentioned that the Kirin 9000 is more compatible with TSMC's N5 process, but not with the new X5 process. They all know this.

Before chip design, it is necessary to select a cooperative foundry, and then the foundry will synthesize the relevant parameters of the process in the model file and send it to the chip design company, and then the chip design company can import these model files into the EDA software, so Kirin The 9000 chip is designed according to TSMC's N5 process.

But now, Lin Xiao and the others have created a stronger Kirin 5 with an unsuitable X9000 process. How good is their process to achieve this kind of performance improvement?

A chief technology officer from TSMC and a chip process engineer both looked very heavy at this time.

"Is this impossible?" The process engineer couldn't help but say, "Is he making up that data? It's a fake, right?"

The chief technology officer shook his head and said, "The probability of falsification is very low. How could he have falsified at this kind of press conference?"

The process engineer frowned. The probability of fraud is indeed very low. With Lin Xiao's reputation, why should he fake it?Like the Hanxin incident in Huaguo 20 years ago, it is impossible for them to reproduce it again.

If you say that, doesn't that mean it's true?

But at this time, the chief technology officer said: "However, there are two key points that they did not mention."

"Which two?"

When the chief technology officer was about to speak, Lin Xiao on the stage showed an appearance of just remembering something, and said with a smile: "Oh, there are two important points that I forgot to mention just now."

The applause that was still going on stopped, and people were waiting for the two important points that Lin Xiao would say.

Lin Xiao smiled slightly: "The first point is the energy efficiency ratio."

The people present were taken aback.

right!And the energy efficiency ratio!

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8gen1 chip is so powerful, with a single-core running score of 1200, nearly 9000 higher than Kirin 1020's 9000 running score, and a multi-core running score higher than Kirin [-], but why is it being ridiculed by the mobile phone industry?

It is because the energy efficiency ratio of this chip is too poor, and the power consumption of the same performance has been greatly increased, which has led to it and its brother chip Snapdragon 888 being called the Fire Dragon. Why is this so?

This requires mentioning Samsung's process issues.

It can be said that Samsung's technology is the main reason for its energy efficiency ratio.

So when it comes to technology, we must mention the energy efficiency ratio.

So when Lin Xiao mentions this now, could it be that... he is also very confident?

At this time, Lin Xiao also showed a smile on his face: "In addition, according to our tests, the Kirin 5 chip based on the X9000 process has an energy efficiency ratio that is 5% higher than that of the Kirin 9000 chip under the N15 process!"

Before the people below were surprised, he continued to say: "The second point is the yield rate. As of the start of this press conference, we have produced 20 Kirin 9000 chips, and our yield rate , maintained at around 95%! This is an absolutely excellent yield rate!"

"These two points are the two important points I want to say!"

"So, I can declare that the best chips can only be born from our hands."

"The chips made by our 5nm process are also the real 5nm process!"

In the auditorium, the Huaguo audience was once again excited, and they all stood up and applauded again.

Such a ratio of energy consumption and such a yield rate made them excited again.

This is the technology that is truly worthy of being able to produce the best chips!

And TSMC's chief technology officer and process engineer, the face at this time is even more sluggish.

"CTO, the two important points you mentioned, are these two important points?" The process engineer looked at the chief technology officer and couldn't help asking.

The chief technology officer's gaze was still a little dull, and finally, he nodded.

What he wanted to say just now were these two points.

Performance, energy efficiency ratio, and yield rate are the key to determine whether a chip process is excellent or not. The first two determine whether the chip will be sought after by people, which can be regarded as word of mouth, and the yield rate determines the direct profit of the foundry.

Today, all the data about the X5 process given by Lin Xiao has already surpassed their N5 process, and even from a comparison point of view, it may be stronger than their N5p and N4 processes.

N5p is their 5nm enhanced version process, and N4 is the so-called 4nm process.

Even, they now feel a little unconfident about the N3 process they are still developing.