North America, Silicon Valley.

"Luo Jia is a mercenary businessman." The Jewish dwarf Larry Page, when facing many bigwigs in the field of science and technology, said with a playful face: "You have to believe me, the current Luo Jia and Xingchen Technology seem to be aggressive and have launched a crazy offensive against us, but all of this is just a weight on the negotiating table." ”

Larry Page turned his head and looked at his old partner Sergei Brin, the Russian militant still didn't like to talk, he had a cold face, like a cold snap in Siberia.

"About Luo Jia, Sergei and I are very familiar with each other." Larry Page raised his chin and said: "Back then, the star search engine was born, and the filtering mechanism of that engine, even today, is still unprecedented, it seems to have penetrated the human mind, what kind of results you want, the engine will show you what kind of results, and its algorithm is so clever that we have to bow down." ”

"In just a few months, Xingchen Search is like a Mongolian iron horse sweeping the world, completely overturning Baidu and Bing, and extending its tentacles to North America, for a while, Sergei and I thought that Google was really going to die, and we couldn't resist that group of Chinese barbarians, but what was the result? Aren't we still alive and well? ”

After listening to the shameless boasting of the Jews, finally someone couldn't hold it back, and snorted coldly and said, "Hmph! The reason why you are still alive is because you have made compromises! Although Google's search engine has been saved, your Android has been swept away by the star system! ”

"It was a complete slaughter! Starting from the Great Wall built by their ancestors, the Chinese people have killed all the way through the Middle East and Africa, Europe and the Atlantic, the Andes and the Mariana Trench! Just because you are powerless to stop it, you have lost the vital mobile phone operating system! Are you embarrassed to mention it today? ”

Larry Page's face was cloudy, and there was uncontrollable laughter around him.

Don't look at Google's reputation among the people, many ignorant people like Google, but in the technology circle, everyone knows what Google's virtues are.

For example, Google has always claimed that it does not do evil, but what about the facts?

According to Snowden's leaked Prism plan, North America monitors the world, and the only one who the major technology groups oppose and refuse to cooperate is Apple, which everyone considers the most domineering and least liked.

And Google, which is usually full of benevolence and morality, has gone to cooperate with the North American authorities to monitor all netizens, and Google is the happiest to do, and they even help the North American authorities develop cyber weapons.

The world is very complicated, we who live in this complex world, not only have to listen to their words, but also observe their actions, the real benevolence, righteousness and morality, do not need to publicize it with great fanfare, and those who shout slogans, lest others do not know, are often male thieves and prostitutes.

"Actually, my partner just wants to express one core meaning, which is that for businessmen, everything is negotiable." Sergei finally couldn't help but speak: "Based on our experience with Luo Jia, he is a typical businessman, and we should negotiate with him as soon as possible." ”

"So far, Xingchen Technology has only three hole cards in its hands, lithography machine, photoresist, industrial software, semiconductors, only lithography machine is not enough, so Xingchen Technology can't afford to set off any big waves, but if we continue to wait, wait until they get the mask, get the wafer, get the packaging, and get more semiconductor upstream technology, and then go to the negotiation, it will be difficult."

This is Google's attitude, everyone is a businessman seeking money, don't fight anymore, take advantage of the fact that Xingchen Technology has not yet obtained more key technologies, seize the time to negotiate.

Some of the bigwigs on the scene nodded in agreement, they are hardware manufacturing groups led by Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, don't look at the Xingchen brand photoresist is just a very basic chemical material, and the price is also very low, but for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, this thing is too bad.

Xingchen brand photoresist is modified and fully synthetic, which can greatly improve the yield rate, with Xingchen brand photoresist, a single chip costs 100 US dollars, and it takes 150 to 170 US dollars to replace it with a neon Shin-Etsu brand, the cost is too high, and there is no money to make chips.

Who will do the business that is not profitable in these years?

So Intel and they can't wait to negotiate quickly, the world is big, and the money is the biggest.

As for Google, this unlucky kid and Xingchen Technology are still on the cusp every time, which is quite a bit of a bit who hits Xingchen Technology, Xingchen Technology will hit Google.

Opposed to the negotiations are software conglomerates led by Synopsys and Oracle, as well as the North American scientific community and military.

"We're finished!"

Just when everyone was arguing, there was a sudden exclamation, and when I looked at the voice, I saw a young man sitting in the corner, I couldn't figure out that it was the big guy's follower, he was not qualified to go to the conference table, so he hid in the corner and played with his mobile phone.

Facing the questioning and angry eyes of many bigwigs, the young man was stunned suddenly, and said in a difficult voice: "I'm watching the live interview of Xingchen Satellite TV, Luo Jia said that they want to replace the existing silicon wafers with graphene and directly enter the picometer-level process!" ”

Graphene?

Picomi-class!?

Perhaps because the news came too suddenly, in the conference room of the Semiconductor Alliance, Ya Que was silent, with more and more ugly faces, staring at each other.

The bigwigs are a little confused at the moment, is the fourth-generation lithography machine of Xingchen Technology powerful?

Of course, it is powerful, super invincible, and a high-power machine that can be used to manufacture the next generation of chips, but I am afraid that no one will be able to surpass it in the next few decades.

Since the fourth-generation lithography machine of Xingchen Technology is so powerful, why are North America and the West not afraid?

The reason is simple, the material is not good.

One nanometer is equal to 1,000 picometers, and the semiconductor manufacturing industry will enter the picometer process, and the existing silicon wafers will not be completed, tunneling and electronic migration will occur, so if you want to create the next generation of semiconductors, you need the next generation of new wafer materials.

At present, there are not many choices for the next generation of semiconductor materials, either silicene or graphene, the common feature of these two materials is that the performance is explosive, and at the same time, the difficulty of research and development is against the sky, and the West has been engaged in it for decades, and has not been able to find a clue.

Therefore, if Xingchen Technology wants to become a real opponent in the West, it is not enough to have a fourth-generation lithography machine, but also to solve the big problem of wafers.

In short, scientific and technological research and development is a very difficult thing, by no means like in the movie, the lithography machine is done in one second, and the chip can be mass-produced in the next second.

"Quick! Cast the live screen onto the big screen! ”

"Translation, we need a Chinese translator!"

After a short silence, the scene completely exploded.

"There can't be a fraud, right? If Xingchen Technology really gets the graphene material, it will be a milestone event equivalent to the Armstrong moon landing! They didn't even hold a press conference, they just announced it casually? ”

"Who says it's not, let's take a look first, so suddenly, we don't even have any preparation!"

"Translation! Where's the translation!? ”

After some confusion, the projector was finally successfully connected, the translator was found, and there was more than one, because the Star Journal has been rampant in the academic community in recent years, people engaged in scientific research more or less have to learn some Chinese, otherwise they can't understand the academic report.

I saw that in the picture, Luo Jia looked light and light, and said to Professor Yuan Lanfeng: "It is necessary for me to explain to the audience and friends that the large-area graphene is not actually a semiconductor, but an armchair-type graphene nanoribbon that can be used to create chip semiconductor materials." ”

Rumble~

Far away in North America, the conference room of the semiconductor alliance is bleak, all the scientists who have been engaged in graphene know that Luo Jia is right, graphene is directly used to make chips, that is nonsense, if you want to achieve the next generation of semiconductor materials, you must first mass-produce graphene, and then continue to refine the technology to make armchair-type graphene nanoribbons.

Professor Yuan Lanfeng's eyes lit up, and he asked excitedly, "Then have we successfully developed graphene nanoribbons?" ”

Luo Jia nodded lightly and said: "Of course, in order to solve the problem of band distribution, we first choose to calculate the crystal structure and inverted lattice of graphene, the so-called inverted lattice, which is the Fourier corresponding to the lattice space, and the transformed wave vector space, which sounds very complicated, but in short, it is the meaning of momentum space, and this space is very important, because all the narratives about the electron motion of graphene must be developed in momentum space." ”

"In the tight binding model, if the electrons want to jump to other places, they need to be separated from the potential field of the atom, and we regard the electrons near the atom as the main role of the atomic potential field, and the effect of the potential field of other atoms as perturbations, so as to establish a mathematical model, so as to obtain the band distribution..."

Although it is only a live broadcast of popular science interviews, Luo Jia still tries to maintain a high level of professionalism, and his North American counterparts watch it with relish, but the time they started watching the live broadcast is actually too late, and the point has passed, before that, Luo Jia explained Cao Yuan's important invention, ultrasonic deconstructor.

Ultrasonic deconstructors are a bit like the expensive instruments used in the medical field, Ultherapy, except that Ultherapy is used for surgical procedures, while acoustic deconstructors are used for large-scale graphene decomposition and stripping.

In general, simple, crude, and effective, is the biggest feature of this ultrasonic deconstructor, he opened his brain, the lithium niobate nano piezoelectric film developed for the ultrasonic motor, got the graphene stripping experiment, formed an ultrasonic stripping helix array, and obtained amazing results.

As we all know, graphene is a two-dimensional material composed of carbon atoms sp2 mixed into orbital domains, composed of hexagonal honeycomb lattice, with only one atom thickness, as the thinnest and hardest material known in the world, the thickness of graphene is only 0.335 nanometers, and 200,000 pieces of graphene are superimposed together, which is only as thick as a human hair.

If you want to strip graphene with a thickness of only 0.335 nanometers, a scalpel will not work, but ultrasound can! Cao Yuan's ultrasonic deconstruction array created a miracle and solved the big problem of human beings obtaining graphene raw materials.

With enough and cheap enough raw materials, there will be armchair-type graphene nanoribbons to make chips, and there will be more applications of graphene materials in the field of science and technology.

"That's probably what it looks like." Luo Jia said with a smile in the studio: "Now we can make graphene on a large scale, after the lithography machine, we have solved the second major problem of the next generation of chips, but it is not the time to celebrate or be proud yet, because we still have to solve mask and packaging testing, and there are still many problems to solve." ”

Luo Jia talked eloquently, the problem of the lithography machine, the problem of the next-generation wafer, and the problems against the sky have been overcome.

Far across the Pacific Ocean, the bigwigs in the North American semiconductor field turned pale, shuddered, and swallowed with difficulty.

They remembered what Luo Jia had said a few months ago, also in this studio.

"Children make choices, adults, all of them!"