"To whom?" Someone asked.

"Hehe," Academician Liu smiled, "you should all know his name, Chen Shen." ”

Chen Shen?

Everyone put the name in their minds and searched for it, but except for the world-known genius, there is really no other person with the same name in the semiconductor field, unless that person is a nobody, a sweeper-style hidden master.

But in this case, it is not in line with the dean's words.

And how can someone who can invent this craft need that kind of basic learning material?

Even if the answer is in front of everyone, no one dares to think in that direction.

Only Xie Yu asked weakly, "Is it the great god on the Internet?" ”

"It can't be him, how many fields has he crossed now? Mecha and artificial intelligence may still have a little bit of a relationship, but it has little to do with chips, right? ”

"Not necessarily, how do you know what chip the mecha uses?"

"I think the study material may have been given to him, but he probably didn't come up with the process."

Everyone whispered and looked at Academician Liu at the same time, expecting his answer.

Academician Liu still had an unhurried calm smile on his face, and asked rhetorically: "When you talk about this name in China now, can you still refer to others?" ”

That's what it means to admit it!

Xie Yu and the glasses senior brother next to him both felt incredible, and someone immediately asked for them: "That genius even understands chips?" ”

"Tsk, that kid wouldn't have been, but he couldn't stand the strong learning ability of others, so he was stunned to give him a quick success!" Academician Liu pursed his lips and couldn't help but say: "I think he should be allowed to study nuclear fusion, so that mankind will not have to wait for another fifty years, just wait a few more weeks......

When Chen Shen first started researching carbon-based chips, he often called him for advice.

He watched Chen Shen grow up with his own eyes, and on the first day at that time, Chen Shen was equivalent to the level of a novice, but the speed of progress was extremely terrifying, in the morning and afternoon, it was completely two people.

Then the next day, when he spoke again, after only five minutes of talking, he was sure that Chen Shen was at least at the level of a doctor at that time.

Then, after the fourth day, he felt like he was already discussing with another professor in the field of semiconductors.

After a week, Chen Shen stopped contacting him, because he could no longer answer Chen Shen's questions and provide him with any useful ideas.

He felt that a strong storm seemed to be happening in Chen Shen's brain all the time, and countless ideas were born in the brainstorming all the time, and when he had a conversation for the last time, he couldn't keep up with Chen Shen's changes in thinking at all.

Sometimes a topic and idea, he has just started, Chen Shen has already calculated the approximate result in his mind, he seems to be talking to a question and answer machine, he can just ask any questions, and he can get the correct answer immediately......

In Chen Shen's brain, there seems to be an invisible laboratory, and it is like a supercomputer, whether a research direction works or not, and the idea will be verified in the next second.

And he had just had a short call with Chen Shen on the way to the research institute.

Although the content is not much, it is quite essence, and in the face of his incomprehension, Chen Shen answered easily, perfectly solving his doubts.

He also pointed out some of the shortcomings of his current research, which were not reflected in the program just now.

This shows that the plan just now is far from emptying the contents of this genius's belly!

Even if such an experience is too magical for Academician Liu, the people below still feel that this matter is too unrealistic.

What is the saying?

"Before, I thought that this person knew everything and could express his opinions, until this person said what I was good at."

They now see the same thing.

Before Chen Shen crossed from a mecha to artificial intelligence, they just watched the excitement and sighed how there could be such a genius in the world.

But now it's carbon-based chips, and that's their domain.

No one really thinks that carbon-based chips can be quickly built in two weeks, right?

No way? No way?

In the face of these people's questions, Academician Liu only smiled slightly, and did not mean to defend Chen Shen.

This kind of thing is more and more inexplicable, and if you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you can't imagine that there is still such a scientific research monster in the world.

He changed the subject: "Let's talk about this process." ”

"According to the latest task, we are going to conduct feasibility experiments on the process in this information, and we may actually build a 14-nanometer chip later, what do you think?"

Everyone's attention is immediately diverted to their own area of expertise.

"A lot of biochemical technology is used in this process, and our research institute doesn't seem to have this accumulation, right?"

The questioner looked around the conference table, and the researchers present were all from the fields of physics, materials, electronics, microelectronics, and chemistry, and the closest thing to biology was chemistry.

In short, the technologies related to DNA tools, they can't do here.

Academician Liu has already considered this problem: "This experiment is not only carried out by our group, but another research group will also join in, and they will communicate with us in the afternoon." ”

Everyone knows that another research group in the mouth of Academician Liu must be the team that has explored the method of manufacturing high-performance carbon nanotube transistors with DNA tools.

Although I am a little surprised that the speed is so fast, I am relieved to think about the chip problems faced by the country recently.

Xie Yu raised his hand, "This process doesn't seem to be complete, right?" There are a number of process steps that are not involved. ”

Academician Liu said: "The chip manufacturing process is complete, but other processes are not within our research scope, so we have no information, and everything will be prepared before our formal experiment." ”

Chen Shenyi's entire process is completely written, from the production of carbon nanotubes and new wafers, to the purification of carbon nanotubes, to the permutation and combination of DNA tools, etching... All the way to the final step of encapsulation.

It's just that some processes will not be displayed to the research institute due to the need for confidentiality.

Moreover, these confidential processes will not hinder the process validation work of the institute.

Hearing Academician Liu's words, Xie Yu nodded and sat down.

The glasses brother next to her also asked, "Dean, just now you said that you want to build a real chip, how to solve the problem of chip design?" ”

This sentence reminded everyone at once.

Chip design is not a process, it is a part of chip production.

Crucially, it needs to be designed using specialized EDA software.

As for the nascent technology of carbon-based chips, the EDA software of silicon-based chips is likely to be incompatible at present.

They are not following the same R&D path as the other side that is fully compatible with the production process of silicon-based chips!

So the question is, how to make chips without the design software of carbon-based chips?

In the past, when the number of transistors in the chip was still small, you could still design the chip by hand, but now the chip to be prepared is a 14nm process, and the number of transistors is calculated in billions, which is not something that can be drawn by hand!