The reason why Yang Jie asked the technical team to develop GaN processors is mainly to make technical reserves and bring them to the market when the cost of GaN processors is reduced to about the same as that of silicon-based processors. (9) VIII] (9) VIII] (9) Read] (9) Book, .2 ≧ ↗

The advantages of GaN materials to support higher operating efficiency of electronic systems, greatly reducing size and weight, and providing higher operating temperatures are undoubted, and these GaN processors can still work effectively in some extreme environments, which is simply not possible for silicon-based processors, which is also very important to Yang Jie.

This kind of gallium nitride processor and devices are highly needed for various space applications, especially the interstellar missions that will be carried out in China in the future are inseparable from this, and the deep space probe equipped with this processor can effectively work in extreme environments such as the surface of Venus, Mercury, and the deep atmosphere of gas giants.

Yang Jie also hopes to make GaN processor technology mature within ten years, and then gradually replace silicon-based chips.

Huaxing Group has now become one of the enterprises with the largest demand for gallium metal in China, and gallium metal as a national strategic resource, the country has only 100,000 tons of reserves through exploration, and the world's industrial reserves of gallium metal are only 1 million tons.

The senior management saw that Huaxing Group Co., Ltd. has made such great progress in gallium nitride materials, and attaches great importance to the application of gallium nitride materials, and began to increase the exploration of gallium metal resources a few years ago.

This year, the Geological Survey found a super-large gallium deposit in the northern grassland area, and the main carrier of gallium in the deposit is also extremely rare, which is abnormally enriched, and the average gallium content reaches 0.09%, and it is also the first time that domestic scientific and technological personnel have found extraordinarily enriched diasporite monohydrate in coal. (5) ∨ eight (5) ∨ eight (5) ∨ read (5) ∨ books, .●.●o

Of course, the grade of this gallium deposit is very high, and the gallium deposit accounts for more than 80% of the entire coal seam, and it is also accompanied by rich rare earth resources, with proven reserves of more than 1 million tons, which suddenly increased the domestic gallium metal reserves to 1.4 million tons.

Gallium is a typical dispersed element, it is difficult to form an independent deposit in nature, and the main source of gallium resources is bauxite, so the discovery of this deposit is a major contribution to the theory of dispersed element mineralization, and also has important guiding significance for the development of new deposit resources.

The discovery of this super-large gallium deposit is also a great news for the development of the gallium nitride material industry in China.

At present, the silicon materials used in the semiconductor industry are mainly from various silicon-containing ores, such as vein quartz, quartz gravel, etc., in fact, the mining cost and refining cost are not much cheaper than gallium nitride materials.

Although silicon is very common in the earth's crust, it is one of the most abundant minerals and is a very abundant element on the earth, but the world's silicon resources are also very unbalanced, Brazil is relatively rich, followed by Madagascar and Guatemala, and more than 30 countries in the world have a small amount of resources.

Brazil has the world's largest silicon resources in terms of total resources, as well as in production and exports in recent decades.

Of course, because the deep-processed products of crystal and quartz are used in military equipment and semiconductors, they have become a strategic material, and many countries will not casually disclose their reserves and output, and domestic resources in this area are also very rich anyway.

At present, the annual production capacity of polysilicon in the world is about 640,000 tons, and only 30,000 tons are used to manufacture chips, and silicon materials for semiconductors account for only 5% of the total output of all silicon materials, and the amount of silicon used in the semiconductor industry is very small.

In other words, the domestic super-large gallium deposits are enough to support the domestic use for decades without relying on foreign resources, and this is still in the case of completely replacing silicon-based chips.

After all, silicon chips will continue to exist in the next decade or two, and gallium nitride still has a long way to go before it can completely replace this material.

After all, these Western countries have developed silicon chips for decades and have become vested interests, so they naturally want to squeeze the potential of silicon-based chips before they stop.

Another is that the price of silicon-containing quartz ore at this stage is indeed very cheap, basically two or three hundred yuan a ton, and after gallium metal purification, it has also risen from more than 2,000 yuan per kilogram to more than 4,000 yuan per kilogram.

In the past, Longyuan Rare Earth Technology Co., Ltd. basically purchased discarded waste materials from large domestic mining groups as raw materials, and put them into the production line for purification to obtain high-purity gallium metal powder and provided them to the gallium nitride R&D center for production, which also met the company's internal needs and would not be affected by market price fluctuations.

Just after the Geological Survey discovered this super-large gallium deposit, Longyuan Rare Earth Technology Company was also preparing to build another production line in the local area, and also signed a contract with a local coal company to purchase these gallium-rich coal mines at a price similar to that of coal.

Local coal companies do not have special protection for these gallium-rich mines, and gallium-rich coal resources are still mined and sold according to the policy of ordinary coal.

In order to avoid that this part of the gallium resources may be exhausted in obscurity, Yang Jie also reported to the high-level, hoping to protect this gallium-rich coal mining area, and then develop gallium resources and rare earth resources, and also contacted the local government.

When the local government learned that Huaxing Group was planning to establish a large-scale production base for rare earth resources and gallium metal in the local area, it welcomed this and agreed to protect the local coal mining area rich in gallium deposits for deep processing of resources.

After all, Longyuan Rare Earth Technology Co., Ltd. can bring more financial tax revenue to the local area by establishing a local production base, and it will naturally make more money than selling these resources as coal.

Yang Jie also hopes to obtain a stable supply of gallium metal and rare earth resources, and the company's supply of gallium nitride materials will not be subject to market fluctuations.

For some strategic resources, Yang Jie naturally has to make a certain reserve of these resources in case of emergency.

At present, domestic gallium is very popular, the price is running at a high level, which is mainly due to the demand for this metal of Huaxing Group is very large, the price of this metal has been pulled to a high level, the current annual output of gallium in China is 600 tons, and the output of Longyuan Rare Earth Technology Company has reached more than 300 tons!

Huaxing Group has consumed a large amount of gallium metal in China, and other enterprises can naturally get less resources, and there are many domestic enterprises that have a lot of demand for gallium metal, which naturally causes prices to soar.

In the past, China also exported gallium resources, but this year it has stopped exporting, because the country itself is not enough, and it has to import gallium ore resources from abroad. 11