Chapter 180 FinFET Process
Wang Anran has no intention of the company's daily affairs, every decision is a multiple-choice question, although he has the insight of his previous life, most of them can easily choose the best answer.
However, in terms of personnel, sales, team training, finance and other aspects, he is still a novice.
In fact, Wang Anran has no experience in business management in his previous life, although he has been mixed with the senior management of AMD, he is only a technical master.
Rather than sitting in his office and signing, he prefers to stay in the lab and solve one technical problem after another.
At the moment, what interests him the most is chip manufacturing.
Huaxin Technology's chip processing plant has been debugged for production, and the performance of the three production lines is different.
The yield rate of the chip production line from Toshiba has reached more than 60% in trial production, and the yield rate of IBM's production line has also reached more than 40%.
Technicians have been operating in strict accordance with the operating procedures, but you must know that hundreds of processes in chip production, even if each process reaches a 99% success rate, the cumulative 300 index levels, the yield rate will be less than 0.1%.
Therefore, each process must ensure the accuracy of 99.999999......%.
It is conceivable how much effort it takes to ensure the yield rate.
With the help of Toshiba technicians, the physical vapor deposition technology of metal aluminum transferred by Intel was improved, and the effect was surprisingly good.
To this end, Wang Anran also signed a supplementary agreement with Toshiba, inviting Toshiba's technicians to help digest Intel's technology at a cost of five million US dollars.
In fact, Wang Anran likes to deal with companies like Toshiba very much, as long as you have money, you can always meet your needs to the greatest extent possible, and without compromise.
Now Toshiba is not having a good time, because of the sale to the Soviet Union of five-axis linkage machine tools, until now the United States is unwilling to let him go, Toshiba's products are not allowed to be sold in the United States, you must know that the United States at this time, is the world's largest semiconductor market, directly cut off, the influence on Toshiba can be described as unprecedented.
In addition, England, the younger brother of the United States, in order to show his sincerity to the boss, took the lead in blocking Toshiba, and also instigated members of the British Commonwealth to sanction Toshiba.
For a time, Toshiba lost most of the world's market, so much so that every year it reported a long list of deficits.
The cooperation with Huaxin Technology has involved hundreds of millions of dollars in total, which is a big business, and it is particularly important for Toshiba now.
Moreover, the metal aluminum connection technology is transferred by your Intel, and it has nothing to do with Toshiba, what Toshiba wants to do is to be a teacher and teach the technicians of Huaxin Technology how to use it.
The two companies hit it off and successfully reached an agreement.
Of course, if it is so simple, Huaxin Technology's five million dollars will be a bit wronged, and a complete set of aluminum metal connection technology, as long as it takes time, it can always be solved.
In Wang Anran's office, Toshiba's technical representative, Kamataro Hashimoto, was dizzy when he bowed.
"Mr. Anranjun, as requested by you, we have set up a cooperative research institute with Toshiba to devote ourselves to the research of physical vapor deposition PDV of metal copper in semiconductor chip processing, which has been approved by the company, and Toshiba is very willing to carry out more in-depth cooperation with Huaxin. ”
Wang Anran stood up and shook hands warmly with Kametaro Hashimoto.
This cooperation took 34 patent authorizations of Huaxin Technology and a technical service fee of 10 million US dollars to reach it.
It is worth hundreds of millions of yuan, which may be a little expensive, but Wang Anran thinks that it is valuable, and this is enough.
At the same time, the research on immersion lithography and duplex tables also began to enter the agenda, and to Wang Anran's distress, he could not find a suitable technical leader, so he has not been able to advance.
However, another FinFET production process that is as famous as immersion lithography is promising.
The Fin Field_Effect Transistor is a new transistor mode compared to MOS transistors.
It was proposed by Professor Hu Zhengming, a Chinese scientist, and a systematic mathematical model was established.
It is characterized by the fact that more transistors can be crammed into the same area without the same process, and the leakage and power consumption are greatly reduced simultaneously.
FinFET technology is quite mature in 9102, it was first introduced by Intel in 2011 for the third generation of Core processors on the 22nm manufacturing process, and then most semiconductor manufacturers began to join the FinFET process camp.
The technical difficulty has been improved compared with ordinary MOS, and dozens of light, etching, cleaning, tamponade, and vapor deposition processes have been added to the process.
For Huaxin Technology, the technical difficulties are the physical vapor deposition PDV technology of materials, as well as the stacked thin film coating protection and etching technology.
Compared with the difficulty of immersive lithography and duplex technology, FinFET technology is like a homework problem for elementary school students, which can be completed under the existing technical conditions.
Coupled with the self-aligning dual imaging technology SADP, once overcome, Wang Anran is confident that on the basis of not adjusting the hardware, he will achieve a breakthrough in the 800nm manufacturing process, and the integration of the chip will reach the level of the 320nm manufacturing process.
The confirmation of research topics requires theoretical support, and the BSIM mathematical model based on FinFET process has practical guiding significance.
In 9102, if a logic circuit engineer at the bottom of the chip does not understand BSIM, then he must be a fool.
The role of BSIM logic circuit design model in FinFET-based process is irreplaceable, and Wang Anran is naturally no stranger, and he can even clearly remember the settings of every parameter in the mathematical model.
But it's inconvenient to take it out like this.
To this end, Wang Anran has set up a dedicated research laboratory for FinFET, and has convened a large group of key forces of Huaxin Technology, including Ji Xiaoqing, Hu Zhengmin, and Liu He.
"We all know very well that our manufacturing process is two to three generations behind the mainstream manufacturing process in the world, and I don't know how many generations behind the latest cutting-edge research abroad.
I'm here today to start the development of a FinFET process, and I'm proud to say that we're at the forefront of the world in this area. ”
Wang Anran's words succeeded in stirring up everyone's enthusiasm, and for most people, Fin is no stranger, and the paper on the field fin effect is not new internationally.
It is also exciting to be able to carry out practical research under this new theoretical model.
Just when Wang Anran was immersed in the creation of the FinFET process model architecture, a piece of news broke his peace.
"Mr. Wang, Anderson, CEO of Texas Instruments, has arrived in Yanjing, and he hopes to meet with you as soon as possible about cooperation. ”
Cooperation! Take technology to cooperate, Huaxin Technology must be more sincere than you imagined.
Wang Anran nodded and said to Zhang Lei: "Contact the technical department, Mr. Lei, the meeting will be held at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, this time we will discuss it well, what should we order?"
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