Chapter 194: Supercomputers
"Hehe, Mr. Ni, this is the chief scientist of our company, Professor Kruger, as for his true identity. You'll find out later. ”
Chen Jie smiled and introduced him to this important member of the company.
In fact, even he doesn't know much about this tech geek, but he still respects his scientific research literacy.
The company is in short supply of talents, and in the research area, it is all supported by him alone, and it is too difficult to find employees like this.
I don't know how Chen Weidong found it.
It's good for everything, but the personality is a little weird, and he spends all day in the laboratory and rarely appears in the public eye.
And I don't have any friends.
Perhaps, this is one of the important reasons why he can master so much subject knowledge.
When Ni Guangnan heard that he was the chief scientist of Infinity, he couldn't help but look at him a few more times, but it was not too strange to think that this was a private company with foreigners participating in the research.
"Now that most of the instruments here have been debugged by me, you have to find the appropriate personnel to take over this project as soon as possible, and I want to free up my hands for biological research." Professor Kruger spoke fluent Chinese and was still whining.
Li Yun and they were all a little surprised, when they saw this foreigner in the island country before, his Chinese was still a little awkward, and now it is so standard.
If you don't see those eyes, you think it's a native of China.
"This is the computer expert we brought, Academician Ni Guangnan, who came this time just to see our company's chip technology."
Chen Jie smiled and briefly explained his intentions.
"Yes, follow me!" Professor Krueger shook his hand and was thrilled to hear that someone was finally going to take over the project.
Director Zhang followed quietly behind, and also wanted to see what level of scientific research the infinity company was.
At the same time, I also want to know more about whether this foreigner really has a level.
Last time, Chen Jie found him and asked them to get a legal identity for this foreigner, but he didn't agree, saying that he would have to think about it again.
The group came to a lithography machine without waiting for Professor Kruger to speak.
Ni Guangnan rubbed his eyes, saw a workbench next to him, pounced on it, and exclaimed at an electronic component: "This is the product that our computer is trying to produce, and it is extremely difficult to manufacture, how can there be a finished product directly here!" ”
He is an elite in the computer industry, but also an authority, he has almost all the domestic computer-related projects, many electronic components on the table, he is very familiar with, even the specific interface parameters, can also be reported in one breath.
Moreover, looking at the packaging process of these components, it is so sophisticated that it is hard to imagine that this would appear in the laboratory of a private company.
Several of them, which are still exclusively for the use of giant machines, that is, supercomputers, which are often referred to as supercomputers, have not been manufactured on a large scale at all, and some of them are also preserved by the state as strategic reserves.
But here, he saw an unimaginable number, which shocked him!
In his vision, these parts, as long as some commonly used electronic components are supplemented, can almost assemble two advanced giant machines!
And these giant machines, even in some key scientific research units, are not necessarily qualified to use, only when participating in some major projects, can they see the truth.
"Where did you get this? Don't say you made it yourself."
Ni Guangnan looked shocked, turned his head to look at Chen Jie and the others, and his tone was a little trembling.
"Well, it took me some time to make these finished products, and it was a bit of a hassle." Professor Kruger nodded slightly, as if to say something extremely ordinary.
Hearing his answer, Ni Guangnan pointed at him, speechless for a long time, it was really unbelievable that he had made these components by himself!
"Mr. Ni, Professor Kruger is a general scientist, and he can operate almost all the equipment in our company's six laboratories."
Chen Jie looked at him stunned, opened his mouth and explained.
Isn't that unusual? As for being surprised like this?
He was out of high school and couldn't understand the significance of mass production of these parts, and Li Yun was at a similar level to a few big-headed soldiers.
Only Director Zhang, a full-time staff member with a science background, can truly understand the importance of the giant machine and the strategic value it brings.
It is the fastest, largest, and most expensive host with massively parallel processing, and is primarily used in cutting-edge scientific research.
It took Ni Guangnan a while to digest this fact, and when he heard that this foreigner was a general scientist, he was immediately in awe, and he didn't dare to have any support at all.
If it had been told to him that someone could have mastered the expertise of the six disciplines in depth, and that it was not limited to theory, but could also be applied in practice, he would never believe it.
How could there be such a genius? Wizard?
But now, he believed.
And, for the chip matter, he has already believed seven or eight points in his heart.
Sure enough, Professor Kruger led everyone to the lithography machine and carefully took out a semi-finished chip inside.
Later, he placed the chip on a chuck, a machine called a probe station, which was specially used for wafer inspection.
It is also connected to a test machine, which can be used together to perform electrical parameter or RF tests on the bare chips on the wafer.
It can also screen the good and defective products of the chip.
After fixing the chip, Ni Guangnan personally got started, measuring and calculating the transistors engraved on it through professional optical components.
I tested it several times in a row, and the results were all one hundred and five nanometers!
It turned out to be true!
After leaving the workbench, he was so excited that he almost couldn't breathe, but Director Zhang was quick and hurriedly helped him.
"It's too strong! Where did you get the lithography machine?! Is it domestic? Before Ni Guangnan could stand firm, he threw out several questions in a row.
Now he desperately wanted to know the answer.
According to his understanding, Intel, TSMC, Qualcomm and other international semiconductor giants, the current chip manufacturing process is only about 160 nanometers.
Infinity, a privately owned company that has only been around for a few years, is already far ahead of them!
It's just fantastic!
He walked up to the lithography machine, stroked the shell like a baby, and found that it was a little old, and even saw one or two scratches, it was obvious that the machine was some years old.
This made him even more puzzled.
"Are you sure that this chip of yours was carved with this machine?" Ni Guangnan's eyes widened, pointed to the lithography machine, and asked in disbelief.
He even had some suspicions that it was Chen Jie and them, who didn't know where they got the chips, deliberately put them in it, and temporarily took them out to fool him.
(End of chapter)