Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 051: The Birth of the Graphene Chip

Many are present at the Graphene Chip Factory, they all wear clean white protective clothing, and have received various kinds of strict checks so as not to pollute the factory area.

The ones present this time were Fan Chen, Yun Mingyue, Fan Xiaoyu, Yi Xuyao, Jia Fefei; Liu Xuwen, He Peiyu, He Mingmei, Katerina (Doctor★), Xu Chen (Scientist★), etc, Wang Bin (Engineer★), Alex (Electrical Engineer), Ma Laoli (Material Engineer), Bing Shan (Chemical Scientist), Yu Sun (Astronomical Scientist), Xiao Ming and Xu Lumin (Mechanical).

Academics Song and Song Meiya were also present to see how Graphene Chip processing with 1nm technology, which is the world's leading edge today.

Although Yi Xuyao and Liu Xuwen were not members of the military or research, but in Fanyue Corp they were both confidants of Yun Mingyue. The two are currently managing logistics, and are consulting with Wang Bin in the development of a fixed currency application at Mingyue Defense.

Jia Fefei and He Peiyu wanted to join the military alongside Fan Xiaoyu, and were currently still training to increase his limited physical strength.

Academy Song, after joining Mingyue Defense, had communicated with Xu Chen and Bing Shan. But since Xu Chen was too busy, he could only form a team with Bing Shan to research about the Evolution Fluid and Evolution Fluid Version 2.0.

Academy Song was completely shocked by the young Bing Shan's knowledge. It was truly incredible, and he learned a lot, he even felt that all the knowledge he had gained all along, was still low compared to studying under Bing Shan.

But back again, why did all these people never hear his name. They should have had their own names before the First Disaster, and should have been able to take the Chinese name to a different level in the field of technology and no longer be left behind with the West.

There were still many questions that were on the minds of Academy Song, but he still could not find the answer.

While Academy Song was in conflict with his own thoughts, Fan Chen and Xu Chen were discussing about the development of the Graphene Chip.

"Xu Chen, do you think our Graphene Chip can be lowered from 1nm to 5A?" Fan Chen looked at Xu Chen while holding a piece of paper in his hand.

Note: 5A is 5 angstrom \= 0.5 nanometers.

"It's a little hard to say." Xu Chen sighed. "The atomic size of silicon is 2A, and the atomic size of graphene is 1A. The Graphene chip we made has a technology with a transistor measuring 1nm which means it takes ten atoms. The smaller the fabrication, the smaller the atoms needed. Transistors use the electrical signal of electrons to move from place to place to communicate with each other, if the size of the transistor is too small, then the electrons cannot move at all. So ..."

Xu Chen paused to take a breath, then added, "For fabrication below 1nm it is still difficult to realize, unless we can find a better material than graphene with a smaller atomic size, at least 0.5A."

"According to information in the world, countries across the ocean are conducting research using bismuth material as a substitute for silicon. But, we better keep using graphene. After all, our Graphene Chip technology is already very mature."

Fan Chen nodded when he heard Xu Chen's explanation. Then he said to Xiao Ming who was sitting at the control table, "Xiao Ming, start production."

Xiao Ming nodded, he pressed a few buttons on the table.

Everyone looked up, looking at the thick glass window in front of them, which separated the supervisory room from the production line.

Graphite powder with a purity of 99.9999% is sent to the reaction furnace through a conveyor belt.

Engineers Wang Bin and Alex sat beside Xiao Ming, watching the parameters on the table.

"The production line operates normally, and the electricity flow remains stable." Alex reported after observing the parameters.

The graphite powder entered the reaction furnace, and the reaction furnace began to run on electricity.

"Wafer Graphene Reactor operates normally."

In just ten minutes, the graphite powder is processed into Wafer Graphene, which is sent to the next process via a conveyor belt. The size of this Graphene Wafer is a very large 1 × 2 meters, where other manufacturers' Silicon Wafer usually has a circular shape with a diameter of only 30 centimeters.

The Graphene wafer goes through a special sensor, and as the conveyor continues to move it sends the Graphene Wafer to a large cube like a scanner, the sensor light turns green.

On the screen on the table, look how Wafer Graphene shape.

Wang Bin smiled faintly and said, "Wafer Graphene passed the inspection."

Hafnium etcher spit out the scratched chips quickly, and they are sent to the chip cutting machine and laser cut into standard chips.

"Chip scratched and processing success rate is 97%. Damaged wafers are being discarded."

Standard type wafer enters the last important process, chip packaging.

The chip is mounted with silver alloy pins by the packaging machine, injected into the intelligent instruction set, and the chip package is covered with carbon fiber shell.

"The chip test was successful, and the pass rate was 86%."

This process looks very simple, it does not take hundreds or thousands of times coating with photoresis material. But actually when the polished Wafer Graphene enters the iron cube through the conveyor, the machine specifically attaches the already formed photoresis, which is, so it is no longer necessary to use high pressure electrons to carve them on the surface of Wafer Graphene.

Everyone was silent while waiting for the processing process of the Graphene Chip, and after knowing the final result, half of them cheered.

After all, not everyone understood about the chip, so those who did not understand, just kept quiet and observed without making a sound.

Fan Chen clenched his hands, his eyes emitting a joy that could not be hidden. He smiled widely, but his smile was invisible because he was wearing protective clothing.

Xu Chen pressed a few buttons, and the robots in the production room started picking up the already packed Graphene Chip, bringing it into the supervisory room.

This robot still has low intelligence, so it must be controlled through buttons.

Fan Chen picked up the chip that had been packed, he looked at the chip. It was only the size of a little fingernail, but inside it were 6 billion transistors assembled in such a way.

If you use an electron microscope, you can see this transistor circuit like a building with 1,000 floors.

Fan Chen placed the Graphene Chip on a tray that the robot carried. He looked at Xu Chen and said, "This Graphene chip is used for small-sized electronic devices and has simple functions. If it's used for robots that can build rocket launch sites, we'll have to make a chip with a larger size so that it can hold more transistors inside."

Even though it is only used for simple tools, but when compared to the world's current technology, this chip already has the ability to count three to four times.

"We can make it the size of a palm, and it should be able to hold seventy billion transistors." Fan Chen looked up, looking at the production line that had already stopped. "For this measure, we can make it a thousand copies. We can use it to make supercomputers."

Xu Chen nodded, then laughed a little. "If it uses this chip and in such large quantities, this is no longer said to be a supercomputer, but a quantum computer. It's just, we have to make a more capable motherboard to be able to maximize the potential of the Graphene Chip."

Wang Bin nodded in agreement, then he added, "This chip we can use to replace the 4G Silicone Chip on the robot hand. Then we no longer need to always supervise the production line, let the robots do it, and we can enter the next project."

Wang Bin took out a notebook and opened it on the table. "I've made a blueprint. Quantum computers are quite large, like a closet with an adult height. This computer should be placed in a cold room with a temperature of five degrees Celsius."

"How fast is the speed?" Fan Chen asked. This is an important thing to note, if the speed meets the requirements, then it can be used as a brain to control all robots that will be made in the future.

Wang Bin smiled and was silent for a moment, passing a short calculation. "If you count the 7,000 Terabytes of data taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array to photograph black holes and the SN 1987A Supernova explosion. To compute all the data and get the perfect photo, with computer computing now, it would take at least five hundred years. But ..."

"With a quantum computer, it only takes ten minutes."

Hearing that, Fan Chen clenched his hands. He is absolutely convinced that the Graphene chip now meets the requirements, and it is expected that calculations from artificial intelligence can control millions of robots simultaneously despite having complex functions.

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