From university academician to chief academician

Xia Kingdom, Kyoto, Science and Technology Department, Director's Office!

Geng Ye frowned and looked at the report and thought to himself: "Hey... these people just go after the benefits when they see it, without considering the national level at all."

The domestic chip market has gone crazy in the past half year.

Several chip manufacturing companies invested by ASML have greatly reduced the prices of low-end chips, leaving high-end chips in short supply and increasing prices.

"These companies are all chip manufacturing companies in Xia State, and they do this."

"Although it can gain great benefits, it is not good for the entire chip market in Xia State."

Geng Ye said helplessly: "But it's not easy for me to interfere in their affairs, hey..."

"It would be great if we had our own high-end chips, and we wouldn't be troubled by these foreigners."

At this time, the red landline phone on Geng Ye's desk rang.

"Huh?" Geng Ye frowned slightly when he saw the red phone ringing.

You know, the red phone won't ring unless there's an emergency.

He didn't dare to neglect, quickly picked up the phone and said: "Hello, I'm Geng Ye!"

"Director Geng!" Qu Guangfu's voice came over the phone: "I am Qu Guangfu, the chairman of Xia Xin International."

Geng Ye asked: "Is something wrong?"

"Director Geng, our chip research is successful. Academician Ye has developed a photolithography machine that can produce 12nm carbon-based chips."

"What?" Geng Ye leaned forward slightly, his eyes widened in shock, and said in disbelief: "Are you talking about a photolithography machine that can produce 12nm carbon-based chips?"

"Not a 22nm chip, not a 28nm chip? But a 12nm chip?"

Qu Guangfu said loudly: "Director Geng, it is 12nm. You heard it right, it is 12nm."

"And it is a carbon-based chip. The performance of 12nm carbon-based chips is ten times better than that of 12nm silicon-based chips."

When Geng Ye heard this, he was shocked and exclaimed loudly: "How is this possible? You didn't lie to me?"

"Director Geng, how dare I lie to you? If you don't believe it, you can come to my place to check."

"Okay, you wait for me." Geng Ye said, "I'll go tomorrow."

"Director Geng, I look forward to your arrival!"

After hanging up the phone, Geng Ye thought for a moment, then picked up the phone and dialed some people.

Geng Ye made more than thirty calls in a row.

He spent the entire day on the phone in his office.

It seemed like he was informing someone about this.

He also asked someone to go to Xia Xin International with him tomorrow.

"No matter what you have to do tomorrow, just refuse it to me. Even if your wife gives birth to a baby, you still have to come to me."

"This is very important, you must come."

"I have an early flight tomorrow morning. Let's meet at the Shanghai Airport."

"..."

The next day, afternoon!

At the door of Xia Xin International Research Base!

Ye Fei, Qu Guangfu and some directors of Xia Xin International stood at the door waiting.

After a long time, a white bus drove over and stopped at the entrance of the research base.

Then, a group of people came down from above, led by Geng Ye.

This group of people are all academicians from Xia Guo in the fields of chips, lithography machines, computers and materials.

In academia, people who stomp their feet can make their field tremble.

But now they are all concentrated here.

Qu Guangfu came up to him with a smile and said: "Director Geng, welcome!"

"Everyone, welcome, welcome to Xia Xin International Research Base."

Geng Ye and Qu Guangfu shook hands and walked towards Ye Fei.

"Hello, Academician Ye, long time no see!"

Geng Ye said and stretched out his hand.

Ye Fei smiled and shook hands with Geng Ye: "Hello, Director Geng!"

Geng Ye said: "Have you really developed a photolithography machine that can manufacture 12nm carbon-based chips?"

When the people who followed Geng Ye heard Geng Ye's words, they all stared at Ye Fei in silence and anxiety.

Ye Feidao: "Yes!"

When Geng Ye heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then said excitedly: "Can the photolithography machine produce 12nm chips?"

Ye Fei took out a chip the size of a fingernail from his pocket and said, "This is the 12nm chip produced by the photolithography machine."

Geng Ye carefully took the chip from Ye Fei's hand and held it in both hands as if it were the most precious treasure in the world.

The others also wanted to get close to Geng Ye and watch the chip in Geng Ye's hand.

"Get out of the way, everyone, get out of the way." Geng Ye saw everyone approaching and said quickly: "Don't get too close."

When everyone heard this, they immediately stopped.

Geng Ye looked at Ye Fei and asked, "Is this a carbon-based chip?"

Ye Feidao: "Yes."

“I heard that its performance is ten times better than silicon-based chips at the same nanometer level.”

"Yes!"

"Hiss..." Hearing Ye Fei's words, Geng Ye took a deep breath.

He didn't believe what Qu Guangfu said, but he believed what Ye Fei said.

Geng Ye handed the chip to Ye Fei, waved his hand and said excitedly: "Let's go and see the lithography machine developed by Academician Ye."

Everyone walked inside in a mighty manner.

After a while, they entered the lithography machine research institute.

Ye Fei took them into the laboratory where the photolithography machine was located.

Ye Fei pointed at the photolithography machine in the laboratory through the glass and said, "Director Geng, this is the newly developed photolithography machine."

"This lithography machine can produce 12nm carbon-based chips, with a daily output of 480,000 chips. Excluding losses, 400,000 chips can be obtained every day."

Geng Ye nodded, this speed was very ordinary.

The speed of almost all lithography machines is the same. It can produce 480,000 chips per day, and 400,000 chips are obtained after removing losses.

Of course, they do not pursue the speed of lithography machines, but only the quality of the chips they produce.

At this moment, there are five researchers wearing protective suits in the laboratory.

Ye Fei said into the microphone: "Start the lithography machine and start working."

The researcher quickly started the lithography machine.

In the blink of an eye, a chip was produced.

The researcher took the chip for testing, then came over with the chip and parameter sheet and handed them to Geng Ye.

After reading the parameter list, Geng Ye said in surprise: "The performance is really ten times that of silicon-based chips!"

The person who followed Geng Ye said: "Director Geng, in terms of performance, this chip is better than the 5nm silicon-based chip and can be used in all currently needed fields."

"Yes!" Geng Ye nodded and said excitedly: "Now our country is no longer trapped because of chips."

"That's right!" Geng Ye looked at Ye Fei and asked, "Academician Ye, from which countries were the parts of the photolithography machine you developed imported?"

Without waiting for Ye Fei to speak, Qu Guangfu said with a smile: "Director Geng, when it comes to this, Academician Ye is really awesome. The lithography machine he developed is completely domestically produced."

“Not only is the technology completely domestically produced, but all parts are also completely domestically produced.”

"Our Xia Kingdom can produce these parts through machines."

"Are the technologies and parts completely domestically produced?" Geng Ye looked at Ye Fei in shock.

Ye Feidao: "Yes!"

When everyone heard this, the surprise in their hearts could not be expressed in words.

Originally, they were very surprised that Ye Fei developed a photolithography machine that can produce 12nm chips.

Later, the photolithography machine developed by Ye Fei produced chips that were ten times more powerful than the same nanoscale chips.

This surprised them even more.

And now it is even heard that the technology and parts of this photolithography machine are completely domestically produced.

All parts of Xia Guo can be produced by machines.

This means that their lithography machines will not be blocked by foreign countries at any level.

Qu Guangfu smiled and said: "This is nothing. Do you know what materials are used to make carbon-based chips?"

Among the people who followed Geng Ye, one of them was a academician of the School of Materials Science, Xia Guoan Academy of Sciences.

They have been developing lithography machines and chips.

The academician said: "It's graphene."

"Yes." Qu Guangfu said with a smile: "It is graphene, a raw material synthesized from high-purity graphene and C72 carbon nanotubes, made into graphene sheets."

"The photolithography machine lithographs the graphene sheet to create a 12nm carbon-based chip."

Someone exclaimed: "This means that we have the upstream materials and midstream manufacturing of the chip, and the only thing left is the downstream application."

"Yes." Qu Guangfu nodded with a smile: "And the upstream and midstream were developed by Academician Ye alone!"

Everyone looked at Ye Fei in amazement.

He is only 28 years old, but at 28 years old, he has single-handedly allowed Xia Guo to have the upper and middle reaches of chips.

Downstream, Xia Guo's technology has always been quite strong.

This means that Xia Guo has a very complete chip chain.

Moreover, the quality of the chips developed by Ye Fei is the highest in the world.

The quality is much better than the 5nm chip with the best chip quality in the world.

Geng Ye clenched his fists tightly and said excitedly: "Okay, very good. Our country finally has a complete chip chain, and it is also the best quality chip chain in the world."

"With our country's chips, Western countries will not be able to catch up for more than ten years."

Ye Feidao: "Yes, unless they can discover high-purity graphene and develop a batch manufacturing method of carbon nanotubes."

"In addition to these, carbon-based chips must be developed."

"It will take at least ten years for them to reach our current technology."

Geng Ye smiled and said: "This is really a turn of events. Our chip technology used to be inferior to theirs, and the gap between us and them was ten years, but now there is a ten-year gap between their chip technology and ours, haha..."

Everyone smiled and nodded.

Ye Feidao: "In the past ten years, our chips will not stand still and will grow rapidly."

"Theoretically, the performance of carbon-based chips is a thousand times that of silicon-based chips."

"The performance of the chips we have developed now is only ten times that of silicon-based chips. We still have 990 times room for growth."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

Someone exclaimed: "Is there still such a big room for growth?"

"Yes!" Ye Feidao: "And I am talking about the comparison with nanometer-level carbon-based chips and silicon-based chips."

"On nanoscale chips, there are also 7nm, 5nm, 4nm, 3nm, 2nm and 1nm chips."

“But the real realm of carbon-based chips is not in nanoscale chips.”

“But on picometer-level chips.”

Everyone took a deep breath, and then they realized why the carbon-based chip was called the brain of a quantum computer.

The growth space for carbon-based chips is terrible.

The chips currently developed by Ye Fei have not yet crossed the threshold of carbon-based chips.

After crossing the threshold, it is a picometer-level chip.

Such a chip can only be used by quantum computers.

Geng Ye said: "We don't need to think so far, the current chips are enough for us."

"As for the longer term, that's all for the future. Let's solve the immediate issues first."

"Yeah!" Everyone nodded slightly.

Geng Ye looked at Qu Guangfu and said, "Director Qu, when will mass production be achieved?"

Qu Guangfu said: "Our company is planning mass production and strives to ensure that Xia Guo will no longer be short of cores within ten years."

"Okay!" Geng Ye said, "If you have any needs, just ask the country."

"I will!" Qu Guangfu said with a smile.

Geng Ye looked at Ye Feidao: "Academician Ye, your contribution is indispensable. Your research has solved the biggest problem that has always troubled our country. The country will not forget you."

Ye Fei smiled and said, "This is what I should do."