Legend of the Planet Builder-Chapter 100 - s 100 101 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
Chapter 100 -s 100, 101 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Technology (Extra update for Nangdai and subscribers)
Chapter 100 -s 100, 101 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Technology (Extra update for Nangdai and subscribers)
He Xingzhou activated the Quantum Light Computer to review the related technologies.
First was the chip. In terms of chip classification, they were mainly divided into carbon-based chips and silicon-based chips. Of course, there was also a type of light quantum chip, where all information was stored within a “light”.
“I am manufactured using light quantum chip technology,” said the Quantum Light Computer.
Hearing this, He Xingzhou inexplicably thought of the Light Giant, “Are there advanced civilizations that can transform themselves into light?”
Quantum Light Computer: “Of course, there are some advanced civilization beings who have entirely abandoned bodies constituted of silicon or carbon elements and have become pure energy entities.”
“Such a level of civilization is rare in the universe.”
He Xingzhou refocused and continued to look at the carbon-based chips and silicon-based chips online. Within the carbon-based chips were biological chip technologies, protein chips, gene chips, cell chips, tissue chips…
Even the most basic biological chip design knowledge required unlocking with one hundred thousand energy units!
In the silicon-based chip category, there were the development paths of silicon-based chips for the Blue Star human race.
“Unlocking the 7 nanometer process silicon-based chip design knowledge requires fifty thousand energy units.”
“Unlocking the 5 nanometer process silicon-based chip design knowledge requires one hundred thousand energy units.”
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“Unlocking the 3 nanometer process silicon-based chip design knowledge requires one hundred fifty thousand energy units.”
Further down, there were also 2 nanometer, 1 nanometer, and even angstrom-level chips that had to be unlocked one by one, but He Xingzhou felt it was unnecessary.
Because when chip processes go below 3 nanometers, the manufacturing difficulty would skyrocket, plus they would face the quantum tunneling effect, causing some transistors to become ineffective.
At this time, one could switch from silicon-based materials to novel materials for production… However, upon checking, He Xingzhou saw that unlocking the more advanced quantum chip knowledge only required five hundred thousand energy units and its performance would completely crush these traditional computing chips.
With that amount of energy points and effort, why not unlock quantum chips as they were far more appealing?
He Xingzhou directly unlocked the three levels of silicon-based chips, spending three hundred thousand energy units.
He would wait to unlock the quantum chip because the entire country was waiting to use high-end silicon-based chips; there was no rush for the quantum chip.
Beyond that, there was knowledge related to the Lithography Machine.
The Lithography Machine was also part of ultra-precision machining technology. Last year, He Xingzhou unlocked the technology for ultra-precision machining cutting, developing the Longteng series of machine tools.
This time, he needed to unlock “Ultra-precision Special Machining Technology,” which required one hundred thousand Energy Points.
“To manufacture the Lithography Machine, it also requires photoresist.” Photoresist, also known as a photo-sensitive etchant, is an etching-resistant thin-film material necessary for semiconductor processing.
Photoresist was also on the list of items that Bai Ying wanted.
“Ultraviolet photoresist, suitable for 436 nanometer to 365 nanometer lithography technology, requires unlocking with ten thousand energy units.”
“Deep ultraviolet photoresist, suitable for 248 nanometer to 193 nanometer lithography, requires unlocking with thirty thousand energy units.”
“Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography photoresist, commonly used for 11 nanometer to 14 nanometer lithography, requires unlocking with fifty thousand energy units.”
“Radiation beam photoresist, used for higher resolution lithography, needs to unlock all the above photoresists before unlocking it.”
What He Xingzhou needed was the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography photoresist. The world’s most advanced Lithography Machine, the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machine, could manufacture silicon-based chips with a 3 nanometer process.
Another eighty thousand energy units were spent, and He Xingzhou unlocked the photoresist material technology as well.
Lastly, there was the most crucial Lithography Machine manufacturing technology.
The Lithography Machine, hailed as the pinnacle of human industrial technology! It uses light as the knife to carve on a nanometer scale!
The world’s most advanced EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) Lithography Machine, consisting of over one hundred thousand parts, required twenty trucks, three cargo planes, and forty containers to complete its transportation!
The various technologies involved covered almost all industrial fields, and experts have asserted that no single country could independently manufacture a Lithography Machine!
However, in the list from the Seven Parties of Bai Ying, all critical materials and parts for the Lithography Machine were marked with an X! The intention was to suppress Shen Zhou’s research and development and manufacturing of Lithography Machines fully!
The main factor determining the performance of the Lithography Machine was the “light knife.” The shorter the wavelength of the light knife, the more precise the carved chip.
Ultraviolet, deep ultraviolet, and extreme ultraviolet; currently, only the Asmic Company from Windmill Country can manufacture the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machine.
It’s worth mentioning that Shen Zhou already possesses certain deep ultraviolet lithography technologies, which He Xingzhou also included in his data. He only needed to unlock the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machine technology.
Quantum Light Computer: “Expending three hundred thousand energy units to unlock the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machine technology.”
Having unlocked these, He Xingzhou was only left with twenty-five thousand energy units. All these were accumulated over time from the continuously expanding photovoltaic power stations.
“Feels like the photovoltaic power stations can’t hold up to the energy consumption anymore.” He Xingzhou took a brief look and saw that subsequent technology unlocks on the tech tree all started at several hundred thousand energy units; the photovoltaic power stations saved up ten thousand a day, which amounted to only three hundred thousand a month.
“I need to find a way to build a nuclear power plant!” With a nuclear power plant supplying him with energy, he likely wouldn’t have to worry about energy issues for a year or two.
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Shanghai, Microelectronics Research Institute.
Here, the first 22 nanometer process Lithography Machine in the country was manufactured, which was the Deep Ultraviolet Lithography Machine.
He Xingzhou brought people, as well as Academician Yan Rui’s team from the Northwest Photoelectric Research Institute, to this place.
