"All components have been structurally formed into a whole, making electronic components develop towards miniaturization, low power consumption and high reliability. In the field of computer chips, there is a name called wafer.
Wafers are circular silicon wafers cut from cylindrical monocrystalline silicon. All integrated circuits are processed on wafers. After cutting, packaging and testing, they are the finished chips. Mr., if I guess
That's right. The size of the wafer used by your Wan'an company should be about eight inches. With the process technology required to record line widths of more than ten microns on such a large wafer, you can record several lines on such a large wafer.
Thousands of parts!”
Liu Lang looked at Wan An and asked.
"Well, Liu Lang, you are right. It is indeed an eight-inch wafer. We can burn more than 3,000 electronic components on this chip. Our computer is the smallest in the world today. Computer chips from other companies are longer.
Fourteen inches, but its capabilities can’t compare to ours!”
Wan An nodded.
"Everyone, have you seen it? There are more than 3,000 parts burned into such a large piece of semiconductor material. It is like a brain. Problems with every part will affect the operation of the brain. Just doing this is very important.
It’s difficult, and this brain has to think like a human and make various commands such as writing. This is the original creation of Mr. Wan Lao’s company!”
Liu Lang's explanation still confused those officials. If Liu Lang talked about factory construction, some of them would still know something about it, but semiconductor chips were undoubtedly like a sacred book to these people.
"Old sir, I personally feel that the development trend of the computer industry is essentially the continuous advancement of chips. First, the densification of integrated circuits in chips. Now an eight-inch wafer can have thousands of components written on it. With the advancement of technology,
Continuous progress, what will happen if tens of thousands of parts are burned on a four-inch wafer? It is exciting to think about it!"
Liu Lang ignored those officials and said to Wan An.
"Liu Lang, what you said is very reasonable, but the development of chips definitely does not happen overnight. In my opinion, even if tens of thousands of parts can be recorded on a four-inch wafer one day, it will be more than ten years later.
It’s a matter that cannot be resolved in a short period of time.”
Wan An still thinks so.
"That's right, but things that will happen ten years from now have to be done now. You can't say that there will be four-inch chips tomorrow. I'll prepare them today. After all, the chip industry doesn't happen overnight. You have to have eight inches before you can have four inches.
There will be two-inch or even smaller circuit boards in the future, because in my opinion, the computer industry is the mainstream industry in the future. It will have a market of hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars. For this huge market, the country has
Can’t be underestimated!”
In fact, in Liu Lang's previous life, by the late 1990s, computer chips had become incredibly small. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of electronic components could be recorded on a two- or three-inch chip. A scientist proposed
The theory that the number of electronic components will double in one year is the famous Moore's Law.
In the 21st century, the chip industry has officially entered the nanometer era, and the size of each electronic component has been reduced to the nanometer level. Compared with today's chips, it is completely different.
Wan An was silent after listening to Liu Lang's words. To be fair, even as a computer king, he never thought that computers would become a major trend in the future world. In his mind, computers were only used by large companies to process complex data.
It’s just a tool, such as calculation, writing, etc. As for a personal computer
That's just a fantasy. It's not that the price is unaffordable to many people, but what do individuals use computers for? There is a typewriter for writing. How cheap is that thing? It only costs a few hundred dollars, and it is very simple. Can it process complex data? Individuals
Wherever there is any data that requires a computer to help, a calculator is enough.
On the contrary, Liu Lang mentioned to Wan He that the software with complex text editing made him very excited, but in order to edit such complex software, the existing chip would have to be at least doubled, and it would take at least two or three years.
will be produced.
In short, Wan An admired Liu Lang very much and believed that many of his ideas were in line with the future development trend of computers, but it would take a long time, at least twenty or thirty years, to be possible.
Wan An remained silent, while Wan He and Wan Lie's eyes gleamed. Their views were completely different from their father's. They believed that Liu Lang's understanding was correct and that personal computers would be the future of this industry. This idea
It was all after the conversation between Wan He and Liu Lang.
What do individuals use computers for? Before Liu Lang came into contact with Wan He, they didn't understand it, but Liu Lang's words gave Wan He a sense of enlightenment. In the future, computers can be used for listening to music and for
It can process text, pictures, and even create various games. In short, according to Liu Lang, computers are omnipotent and have begun to replace the human brain.
If this was said to Wan An, Wan An would take it as a joke at best. He has been working in the computer industry for more than 30 years, and he thinks he knows this industry better than anyone else, but he doesn't know it.
It is precisely this kind of cognition that has imprisoned his thinking and made him stick to the same old ways. However, his two sons are both in their twenties and thirties.
Young people, perhaps their understanding of computers cannot be compared with their father's, but their thinking is far more active than his father's, and their minds are full of "unrealistic" fantasies. These fantasies have not been activated before, but after Liu Lang
After some more "unrealistic" descriptions, various "fantasies" in their minds began to "awaken".
"Old sir, the country's development in the semiconductor industry is far beyond your imagination. It is not as poor as outsiders know. It is even said that if we unite these companies, we may not be worse than Wanwan and others, and may even be stronger than them.
.”
Liu Lang no longer struggled with the other party about the future development of computers, and brought the topic back to investing in and building factories in the mainland.
"this……!"
Wan An was thinking.
"Father, we have signed a chip manufacturing agreement with Wanwan for the next five years. Of course we cannot go back on it. However, I personally think that we can build a test workshop in the mainland to develop some new chips. Of course, this premise is that the mainland
The semiconductor industry is really what Liu Lang said!"
Wan Lie suddenly spoke.
"this………!"
Wan An took a look at his son and felt that what he said made sense.
"Father, why don't I move my laboratory here!"
Wanhe also spoke.
"This is a good idea!"
Liu Lang slapped the table and startled everyone else.