In the huge chip manufacturing plant, engineers and scientists are busy, and the entire chip manufacturing process is extremely complex, and the requirements are very precise, coupled with strict requirements such as dust-free, every link of the entire factory needs to be carefully and carefully designed.

The technology of chip manufacturing is not a secret, just like the aero engine, its principle is known to everyone, but you just can't build an aero engine as advanced as others.

The same is true for this chip, which is not without reason for the aero engine to be called the crown jewel of industry.

The manufacturing of chips, starting from the transformation of quartz sand into monocrystalline silicon and then into silicon wafers, has to go through extremely complex steps such as IC design, IC manufacturing, and IC packaging and testing.

The whole process of chip manufacturing, everyone understands, there are many books on chip manufacturing on the market, and so on, which is not a secret.

But there are very few countries in the world that can turn sand into gold.

Qin Yi carefully visited the factory, looking at the busy figures of the engineers, many of them had just walked out of the campus for a long time, and their faces were still very immature, but everyone was very serious.

Chip manufacturing technology also has very complete scientific and technological information in the science and technology tower, and the reason why Shen Xu can master the core technologies of chip manufacturing very quickly.

On the one hand, because the chip manufacturing technology itself is rotten, everyone understands that the key is to see how to do it, and on the other hand, Qin Yi took out a lot of key and core technical information from the science and technology tower.

With these core and key technologies, coupled with a large amount of money and a large amount of money, a variety of precious equipment and instruments, etc., it is reasonable to manufacture chips.

"It is expected that our factory will be almost ready for production by the end of June."

Shen Xu said as he walked with Qin Yi.

"But our factory only does photolithography, ion implantation, dry etching, wet etching, plasma rinsing, heat treatment, thermal oxidation, chemical meteorological deposition, physical meteorological deposition and other steps."

"Wafer silicon, circuit design, mask manufacturing and other steps are not in this factory, but it is impossible to complete chip equipment by relying on one factory."

"In the future, we plan to find a place specifically to establish a chip manufacturing industry group that will bring together all the steps of the entire chip manufacturing, factories and so on."

Qin Yi looked and listened carefully, for the chip thing, Qin Yi really planned to take everything into his own hands.

Unlike other industries and fields, Galaxy Technology Group only does the most profitable cores, such as anti-gravity vehicles and anti-gravity spacecraft, Galaxy Technology Group only makes core anti-gravity engines, control, positioning and navigation systems, etc., and others that can be outsourced are outsourced as much as possible.

But chips are different, Qin Yi plans to do it himself from beginning to end, one is that chip manufacturing is a really high-tech field.

Even in the initial process of purifying and refining quartz sand into wafer silicon, there are not many companies in the world that can do it, not to mention the subsequent IC design, IC manufacturing and other processes, which are done by so many companies around the world.

On the other hand, it is still in security considerations, and the core things can only be guaranteed if you have mastered them all, and it is very uncomfortable to be stuck in your neck.

"The global output value of the chip industry exceeds 1.5 trillion US dollars a year, which is a very large industry, and it is well done, but it is promising."

Qin Yi smiled and nodded.

This chip manufacturing is also a pillar industry of Uncle Sam, such as Intel, Qualcomm, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, etc. are all well-known giants in the chip field.

These chip-related companies can create an output value of more than 200 billion US dollars for Uncle Sam every year and contribute tens of billions of US dollars in profits.

More importantly, chips are the core of modern industry, whether it is mobile phones, computers and other electronic devices that we use daily, or our bank cards, CNC machine tools, etc., are inseparable from small chips.

If you can open a gap in this field, you can not only grab Uncle Sam's cake, but also strengthen your chip manufacturing technology to ensure the safety of your chips.

Time is slowly passing.

Qin Yi also attaches great importance to chips, and almost every once in a while he will come to the chip factory to take a walk.

Soon it was the end of June, and the chip factory was finally ready for production.

On this day, Qin Yi came to the chip factory early, ready to witness a miracle.

Originally, chip manufacturing was a major event, something worth celebrating and publicizing, but after thinking about it again and again, Qin Yi also chose to be low-key and low-key, just internally, the company's senior management and the heads of various research institutes of the research institute came to preside over the commissioning ceremony together, and did not make any public announcement.

"Start~"

Under the gaze of everyone, Wang Xu gently gave an order.

Soon, the whole huge factory began to operate, different from the general factory, this chip production factory, it is very quiet, the sound of the machine is very small, plus it is dust-free, fully automated factory, it is even quieter.

Qin Yi and others came to the front area of the factory, only to see silicon wafers being fed into the production line and cut into very thin pieces under the sharp blades of the high-precision automatic slicing machine.

"This is a silicon wafer, its purity reaches 99.9999999999%, and the value of quartz sand has increased tens of thousands of times when it is converted into silicon wafers."

Shen Xu acted as a commentator, taking everyone to visit, and at the same time explaining every step of chip manufacturing in detail.

"Look, this is the circuit diagram we designed, did you find anything special?"

Soon, under the leadership of Shen Xu, everyone came to the place where the IC was marked.

The marking of the chip is different from the general engraving, it uses light and shadow marking, which is simply to coat the wafer with a photosensitive material, and then use ultraviolet light to irradiate the silicon wafer through the mask, and the irradiated place will be easy to wash off, and the unilluminated place will remain the same, so you can engrave the desired pattern on the silicon wafer.

The complex circuits on the chip are engraved on the wafer in this way, and the key core is the circuit of the chip.

Qin Yi looked at the circuit displayed on the huge monitor in front of him, it was very complicated, and he couldn't help but make people's heads big when he looked at it.

However, Qin Yi soon discovered that it was different from the circuit diagram he thought he saw.

The circuit diagram in front of me looks a bit like an abacus, it is as if an incomparably small abacus is mixed together in an extremely complex way to form an extremely large and complex circuit diagram.

"It looks like it's a bit like an abacus~"

Lin Ye is a complete layman and doesn't know anything about technical things.

But after he took a closer look, he quickly discovered something special about it.

"Haha~ Lao Lin can see it."

"That's right, our chips are different from traditional chips, the traditional chips are complex circuits designed based on binary, and our chips are decimal circuits based on abacus operation rules."

Shen Xu smiled and explained to everyone.

In a fully automated and intelligent factory, the machines are constantly running, and very few workers are needed, of course, the workers here are not ordinary workers, they are actually engineers.

After half an hour, Qin Yi and the others finally came to the end of the factory, only to see that as time passed, pieces of chips that had been produced were transmitted here.

Qin Yi took a chip and observed it carefully.

The chip is only the size of a fingernail, very thin, and is imprinted with the logo of Galaxy Technology Group.

"Such a chip, it is worth more than 1,000 Chinese dollars, but only when its quantity reaches a certain level, we can make a profit."

"The more quantity produced, the lower the cost of it."

Shen Xu was also holding a chip and said with a smile.

"It's only 1,000 Chinese dollars, and it's not expensive~"

When Lu Qingwei heard this, he said with some surprise.

"It's not expensive, do you know that this thing is made of sand, how much is a little sand worth?"

When Liu Peiqiang next to him heard this, he couldn't help but pout, this Lu Qingwei is getting more and more inflated now, this chip is worth thousands of Chinese dollars, and he actually said that it is not expensive.

"Of course I knew it was made of sand, and I thought it was very expensive, but I didn't expect it to be as expensive as I imagined."

Lu Qingwei said with a smile.

"A single chip is already worth thousands, you have to know that the number of the chip market is very huge, not to mention, just mobile phones, the number of mobile phones worldwide is billions, you can imagine, if our virtual machine comes out to replace mobile phones, computers."

"In the field of chips alone, even if a chip is 1,000 Chinese dollars, you calculate how big its output value is."

Liu Peiqiang smiled and shook his head.

When Lu Qingwei heard this, he immediately counted with his fingers.

"This chip is worth 1,000 Chinese dollars, these 100 million pieces are worth hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars, and if it reaches 1 billion yuan of production in a year, it will be worth trillions of Chinese dollars~"

"I'm obedient, it's not that I don't know, I'm shocked, this market demand is too big."

After carefully calculating, Lu Qingwei couldn't help but exclaim, the market demand for this inconspicuous chip is too big, and if you calculate it casually, its annual market value is also trillions of Chinese dollars.

"Hehe~ Now the global chip market is more than 1.5 trillion US dollars!"