There was no reaction from the audience, this time I came to the ISSCC conference, and I was still smashing the field in the Yankees' territory, directly showing that the car and horse wanted to scold Intel, the giant of the American semiconductor industry, and questioned the golden rules left by the top bosses in the industry, and it is the kind that has stood the test of time.

Well.....

If this American can still be stabilized, it is absolutely impossible, so Chief Engineer Ni Guangnan has also been prepared, directly ignoring the others, continuing to bury his head in speeches, and not giving others a chance to speak.

If you want to talk about this situation, it is very similar to the university teacher giving a lecture on the stage a few decades later, and then many students in the audience in various strange postures, but the teacher has no fluctuations in his heart, and can even recite pi backwards, and even plans to go back to those students to fail the course.

Continuing to speak unhurriedly, the whole process feels emotionally unwavering, definitely the kind of amateur lecturer who has not seen "Speech and Eloquence".

"When the price remains the same, the number of components that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit per unit area will double every 18-24 months, which is proposed by Dr. Gordon Moore of Intel Corporation, and according to the development of the semiconductor integrated circuit industry in the first two decades, it seems to be a perfect confirmation here, and even we can continue to maintain it in the next 30 years. ”

Let's tout it a little first, similar to the use of anti-routines that want to promote and suppress, but this effect can often play a good role, so what should not be missing is that nothing is missing.

"Now the mainstream semiconductor process has transitioned to 0.5 microns, and major companies are tackling 0.35 micron process technology. Then let me talk about a question, whether the semiconductor process technology can continue to be updated every two years, this question may be solved with the development of time, but in my opinion, as far as the current traditional lithography machine technology route is concerned, it is very difficult to break through 0.1 micron within ten years. ”

Within ten years, that is, around 2000, the lithography machine broke through 0.1 microns, and these researchers in Europe and the United States seemed to take the path of dry lithography machines, which was really not ordinary.

The era that really made the lithography machine break through the micron unit is actually a Chinese person: Lin Benjian.

Between 1970 and 1992, when he worked at IBM, he led the team to complete the development of 1 micron, 0.75 micron and 0.5 micron lithography processes.

The "deep ultraviolet light source" technology, which has been used by the industry for decades, was made by this big man in 1975, and at that time it was the shortest wavelength of light in lithography technology.

The people who can lead IBM's lithography process team to tackle tough problems, in the world, dare to say that there are no more than ten people who specialize in this technology, and Lin Benjian is a god-level person who is very high in this ranking.

On the upper plane, it was also in 1992 that he chose to join TSMC, using the world's most cutting-edge process technology he mastered at that time to lead Taipower all the way to development and growth, and relying on the unique "invasive lithography technology" to lead Taipower to achieve a triple jump, and after 2000, it finally became the world's top semiconductor integrated circuit foundry.

Then now this face is different, such as Taipower, it is simply a weak chicken compared to the more glittering Kaiyang Semiconductor.

Not to mention that IBM and Kaiyang Semiconductor are in a trench, about the general situation of Kaiyang Semiconductor, Lin Benjian really knows too little, when he heard that Kaiyang was stuck in the 0.5 micron process, he offered to provide technical advice.

expressed it so bluntly, if Kaiyang still can't feel it, Yu Youcheng, the CEO, can almost leave the class directly.

After a short period of understanding, I saw that Yu Youcheng, the former general manager of Intel's microprocessor product department, directly became the CEO of Kaiyang Semiconductor, and these two are actually old friends from the IBM-PC era.

According to the results of Wang Zhengguo, Yu Youcheng, Lin Benjian, and the two major lithography machine manufacturers that have just been supported in China, Lin Benjian will be fully responsible for the innovation of Kaiyang's semiconductor production process, and is second only to Chief Engineer Ni Guangnan in reputation.

But in reality, Lin Benjian, Bai Siwen, Meng Huaiying, and Ni Guangnan, the status of these four people is actually at the same level.

Further down, there is another Liang Mengsong who is responsible for the design of circuit structures in the semiconductor process, and his research work belongs to the more subdivided part of the semiconductor process, although it is very important and critical, but it is generally under the jurisdiction of Lin Benjian.

In terms of semiconductor chip design, Chief Engineer Ni Guangnan is responsible for the overall work, Professor Bai Siwen is responsible for CMOS optical sensor chips, Meng Huaiying is for RF chips, and the person responsible for microprocessor design is a Pakistani engineer: Rasha.

Rasha has not yet made creative techniques, and the same is true of Liang Mengsong next to him, so these two people are still half a level away from the top four bigwigs, and they can only wait slowly for the time to come, as long as they can make big news, they can naturally be successfully promoted to the first echelon.

As for the Soviet scientific research teams that had already brought their own teams from the CIS countries with their families, these people set up their own teams as planned.

Kaiyang Semiconductor has released a lot of scientific research projects, and these Soviet teams choose whether to take over, and if they really decide to do it, they will directly enter the scientific research building, and all aspects will be treated equally with the domestic scientific research team.

If you don't want to take over, you can only continue to wait and see, anyway, with the strength of Kaiyang Semiconductor, it is no problem to feed these people, even if they only eat dry food, it is fine, and raising these senior talents into pigs and scraps can also be regarded as an indirect blow to the possibility of other peers getting these talents.

With a relatively complete configuration of scientific research team, Kaiyang Semiconductor's demand for high-end talents is not too great, but if it can brush up its prestige at the ISSCC conference.

Well, that doesn't seem bad......

Ni Guangnan on the podium expressed limited pessimism about the semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing process, which is actually not completely unreasonable, and even a senior researcher at Intel Corporation pointed out:

At present, the way to increase the number of transistors and improve the performance of processors is not stable, mainly relying on semiconductor process technology upgrades.

However, this argument is based on the fact that in the future, the size of chips will continue to shrink and the number of transistors will continue to multiply, which will eventually bring about a huge heating problem for the processor, resulting in "thermal death" of the chip.

To be sure, this warning is very forward-looking, as the semiconductor production process enters the 90nm era, and the heating problem is sharply prominent, which directly leads to the birth of the practice of developers having to artificially set an upper limit on the operating speed of internal transistor electronics, and it is at this time that the industry gradually abandons the crude practice of blindly pursuing clock frequency.

Ni Guangnan is pessimistic about the upgrading and development of the semiconductor process equipment industry, thus questioning the authority of Moore's Law.

The process of chip manufacturing is becoming more and more complex, often including hundreds of steps, and the rapid upgrading of products means that material suppliers and equipment suppliers need to complete industrial upgrading at the same time in the corresponding time.

The top semiconductor integrated circuit processing technology is actually the continuous pursuit of extreme processing of physical materials by human beings, and this practice of seeking extreme processing capabilities has always been a huge risk.