Chapter 457 Grasping 7nm technology, the boss has foresight! (Ch 457)

“Is this the photolithography factory?”

“It feels amazing… is that light?”

“Chips are amazing. They are so small, the size of a fingernail, but they have tens or even hundreds of billions of transistors. It is so difficult to process them… We can only use light to process them!”

“This is a light source introduced from the fourth-generation synchrotron radiation facility for processing… Currently, only we can do this technology!”

“After Xinghai Technology released ‘Hetu’, Xinghai Technology’s own designs and chips were banned from processing, and they couldn’t find a foundry… and couldn’t even buy similar chips. It was really desperate! At that time, the whole network was singing the praises of Li Yi. Who would have thought that Li Yi had already prepared. If he couldn’t get the top lithography machine, he would build a lithography factory!”

“It is said on the Internet that hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in researching these technologies!”

“That big thing over there covers nearly a thousand acres: it’s a fourth-generation synchrotron radiation facility, and its cost is about 10 billion!”

“What a shame I can’t see it up close!”

“Forget about it. The environment in a wafer factory like this is extremely demanding. It’s already great to be able to visit it from a distance through the glass!”

“…”

There is a window in the ‘photolithography factory’ of Xinghai Semiconductor Wafer Factory and the Fourth Generation High Energy Synchrotron Radiation Light Source Research Institute. Visitors to Yuanjiang City can visit through the high sightseeing window.

It is said that the fourth-generation synchrotron radiation device introduced light source into the lithography factory to process wafers.

In fact, it is quite far away and separated by glass, so you can’t see anything.

However, just watching the big disc-like wafer moving and flipping under the automated program… is very boring!

But it makes people never get tired of watching it!

What this represents: the world’s most advanced technology.

So far, only Xia Country has mastered it!

Only Xinghai Semiconductor can do it!

The chips manufactured here are also the world’s top chips… all designed by Xinghai Technology, Dami, Youwei, and Loongson! !

These companies are currently being manufactured and targeted!

From design to chips, these are currently the world’s top products, but now we can’t find a foundry.

Fortunately, there is Xinghai Semiconductor!

Fortunately, Li Yi is well-known for his wealth. He has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the upstream and downstream semiconductor industry chains over the years, truly opening up the chip production and manufacturing link!

Let Xiaguo truly master the upstream and downstream industrial chains of chip production!

Achieve autonomous control!

Before the lithography plant project was made public, Li Yi had invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the semiconductor industry chain, but this was only known to people in the industry.

Ordinary people don’t know!

Today, lithography plant projects are completely open to the public.

Li Yi has invested huge amounts of money in the chip semiconductor industry chain over the years… It’s no longer a secret and has long been exposed.

Everyone was impressed by this: It is indeed Li Yi!!

What a foresight!

The vision is really forward-looking and far-sighted!

Before Xinghai Technology released the “River Map”, before Xinghai Technology and Xinghai Semiconductor were sanctioned, chips were banned from being manufactured, and all chip cooperation was banned by Washington… Who could have thought that chips would be banned from sale? Banned from being manufactured?!

Even if a group of tourists just stayed briefly and looked at the window high up in the lithography factory for a while, they were very satisfied.

Come down when the time comes!

After all, there are other tourists coming to visit!

“Li Yi?!”

However, when I came down from the viewing window of the lithography factory, I saw several cars driving into the Xinghai Semiconductor wafer factory.

If it were just a few ordinary cars, no one would care.

But the cars that came this time were obviously protecting the car in the middle from the front and back.

The car door opened quickly!

The person who got off the car was: Li Yi!

Li Yi came to Xinghai Semiconductor’s wafer factory?

“It’s really Li Yi!”

“What a pity!”

“This is the tourist access channel, and over there is the interior of Xinghai Semiconductor’s wafer factory. Outsiders can’t get in at all~”

“A few days ago, Li Yi and the leaders from Hui Province visited Shanhe University. Li Yi himself is in Yuanjiang City!”

“Boss Li Yi, look over here!!”

Everyone was very happy and excited to see Li Yi!

Most of the people who come to the wafer factory here to watch the “photolithography factory” are young people.

Everyone wants to see the legendary: photolithography factory!

Of course I’m happy to see Li Yi!

This is the richest man in the world!

And his net worth is far ahead!

In the eyes of young people, Li Yi should already be a god-like existence.

It is impossible for anyone to surpass Li Yi.

No matter how famous or recognized a celebrity is, he is nothing but a younger brother in front of Li Yi.

After arriving at the wafer factory, Li Yi got off the car and heard shouts coming from the nearby viewing passage. He looked at the tourists in the nearby viewing passage holding up their mobile phones to take photos, record videos and shout!

“Everyone is welcome to visit Yuanjiang City and Xinghai Semiconductor Wafer Factory. I hope everyone will like this city…”

Li Yi responded with a smile and greeted everyone.

However, he did not stop and soon went inside the Xinghai Semiconductor Wafer Factory.

In the wafer factory office area, Li Yi saw Lu Ziqiang, Shang Binghua, Liang Song from Xinghai Semiconductor, and Professor Zhao from Tsinghua University and others!

This team is the chip design team and chip process technology team of Xinghai Semiconductor!

Everyone had a smile on their face and was chatting with the wafer factory team, looking relaxed.

When they saw Li Yi, everyone stopped and immediately came forward to greet him: “Boss!”

“Mr. Li!”

“The boss is here!”

Li Yi also responded with a smile: “Thank you for your hard work! Has the 7nm process been verified?”

At present, a large amount of production capacity of the “photolithography factory” at the wafer factory has been given to the chips of Loongson, Dami, and Youwei, and the supporting process is 10 nanometers!

However, Xinghai Semiconductor and the previous “lithography factory” team have not stopped and have been working on 7nm, 5nm, and even 3nm processes!

Li Yi left Xinghai Aerospace and returned directly to Yuanjiang City without paying attention to the lawsuits between Xinghai Technology, Dami Company, Youwei Company and Apple.

That’s because the 7nm process has been verified!

“Boss, this is the world’s first artificial intelligence chip produced using 7nm EUV light source.”

Lu Ziqiang took out a chip that was less than 10 square centimeters. The size of this chip was much larger than that of ordinary mobile phone chips.

This is Xinghai Semiconductor’s latest generation of artificial intelligence chip: XPU-Ultimate200 (Ult200).

“Ult200, using 7nm process and a new generation of architecture, has been optimized in terms of performance, energy efficiency and scalability, making it improved in many aspects.”

“It integrates more than 6,000 cores, has more than 50 billion transistors, and has a computing power of more than 160 trillion times… It can have higher performance and larger memory capacity, and is more suitable for processing large-scale deep learning model training, high-performance computing and other complex tasks.”

“For the same large model with tens of billions of parameters, the latest generation of XPU-Ultimate200 (Ult200) has increased the processing speed by 1.7 times and 1.2 times for tens of billions and hundreds of billions of parameters, respectively, compared with the previous generation; the high-performance simulation calculation speed is about 2 times faster!”

“Of course, while the performance has been improved, it has also brought higher energy consumption and heat dissipation challenges, which has brought greater challenges and requirements to the subsequent construction of the computing center of Note Cloud!”

“Fortunately, the boss has foresight. For now, the data center and computing center built by Note Cloud have no problems with heat dissipation!”

When Yinfu Cloud just started to build its data center, the requirements in all aspects were very high!

Especially in terms of cooling, heat dissipation and power supply.

At that time, no one expected that the performance improvement of chips would be so horrific!!

Now looking at the horrific performance and power consumption of Ult200… I can only say: You are worthy of being the boss, you are really far-sighted!

And this is still just Ult200!

Inside Xinghai Semiconductor, the next generation of high-performance artificial intelligence chips has already been designed…even the next few generations of high-performance artificial intelligence chips have been pre-researched!

In the future, the performance and computing power of this kind of high-performance new product will become more and more terrifying!

Correspondingly, power consumption will become higher and higher!

In the end…the biggest investment for Yinfu Cloud is not in building data centers or computing centers!

Instead, it is the loan fee paid to the operator, and: electricity bill!!

Lu Ziqiang thought: It is said that… the boss seems to have invested in controlled nuclear fusion?

So… this is the boss’s vision and layout?!