Since the chip was "out of grain", major domestic companies and research institutions have taken a keen interest in the chip. With the support of the government, domestic research institutions have indicated that they will focus on R&D in mask aligner.
According to official media reports, the first domestic photonic chip production line will be completed and put into production in 2023. Photonic chips are much faster than traditional chips. Coupled with the advantage of resistivity, the fabricated photonic chip can be 1000 times faster than the traditional chip, and the power is only one-ninetieth of that of the traditional electronic chip. However, the current technology has been able to produce electronic chips of 5 nm and above 4 nm, and the materials used in photonic chips are the second generation InP, GaAS and so on. , with better performance and lower production cost, is an ideal choice for a new generation of semiconductor technology.
Huawei has made a breakthrough in quantum technology.
Last year 1 1 month, Huawei announced a patent called "Superconducting Quantum Chip". In short, the biggest function of this patent is to reduce the interference between qubits and improve the accuracy and speed of operation. As we all know, quantum chips are very different from conventional electronic chips. Its manufacturing process is to integrate quantum circuits on the substrate, and through physical entanglement and superposition, the operation speed of the chip is greatly improved. It is said that in some key computing processes, computing devices integrated with quantum chips can be thousands of times faster than traditional computing devices. As for superconducting quantum chips, we can directly bypass mask aligner, ASML, and use the existing technology for mass production.
Microns bypass the EUV mask aligner.
What can't be ignored is that some big foreign companies are also trying to conquer the core technology of semiconductors! Micron, an American memory chip giant, recently announced that a Dram memory chip based on 1beta production process has been tested in some mobile phone manufacturers and chip platforms and has been put into production.
The so-called 1beta process is to convert EUV mask aligner into DUV mask aligner through Meguiar's patented technology, advanced materials and advanced technology, and the performance is improved by 15%, the storage density is improved by 35%, and the maximum transmission speed is improved by 8.5G