As we all know, in the current world's chip production field, CSMC from Taiwan is the leader in the global chip foundry industry. For leading companies like TSMC , they have always been accustomed to danger in times of peace. In order to increase their core competitiveness, TSMC has been preparing for its own breakthroughs for many years and has continuously achieved its own breakthroughs. In recent years, it has achieved huge breakthroughs in 1 nanometer production.
But what is interesting is that the major breakthrough of TSMC's technology is related to my country's chip industry, because TSMC's "roots" are to a certain extent controlled by our mainland.
In the past few years, in order to prevent China's rise, the United States imposed sanctions on China in various aspects, including bans in the chip field. TSMC is subject to the United States, so when the United States announced the news, TSMC followed suit and did not provide production services to China's Huawei .
But there is an old Chinese saying that keeps the green mountains and is not afraid of burning firewood. As a businessman, although there is no mistake in pursuing profits, he should still stick to the bottom line. If he gives up the bottom line in his heart, he will inevitably be punished.
Above mentioned that TSMC's technological breakthroughs are related to China. What is going on?
This starts with an iron rule in the world in the semiconductor industry - Moore's Law .
But about a year and a half ago, someone even proposed that Moore's law would slow down and predicted that it would fail. As Moore's Law speed gradually slows down, some people believe that the future silicon wafer specifications will not meet the chip process requirements of 1 nanometer and below 1 nanometer.
The so-called Moore's Law is " integrated circuit transistor density will double every 18 to 24 months.
In the past many years, chips have been developing at an astonishing rate, but since Moore's Law was proposed, its development has only lasted for half a century.
At the beginning of this century, the initial density of chip manufacturing processes was 130 nm. Later in 2004, the 90nm production process emerged. The famous Pentium 4 adopted this process, which greatly improved its performance and sales were once very good.
With the continuous progress of the production process, the development of the semiconductor industry continued to move forward. At that time, Intel , Infillin, Texas Instruments , IBM and other companies quickly mastered how to make 90 nm, which led the semiconductor industry at that time.
But with the continuous development of time, the chip industry has also changed, and the development of various manufacturers is different. Many companies have been affected by bottlenecks, such as Intel, are trapped in 10 nm, GPU is trapped at 7 nm, and the 5 nm process is even more difficult now, leaving only Samsung and TSMC. Although Samsung has worked hard, it still lags behind TSMC a little.
, but TSMC is not a smooth journey, from 5 nm to 3 TSMC has also shown a little bit of powerlessness in this key place of nm, but because TSMC has been cooperating with research institutions to jointly study process technology.
On this basis, TSMC's process has been progressing step by step, and this time it has made a very high breakthrough, but 1nm raw materials are related to the mainland.
From the picture, we can It can be seen that the reserve ratio of semi-metal bismuth (Bi) proposed by TSMC today in countries around the world.
The reserves of semi-metal bismuth (Bi) in our country are 240,000, while the global reserves are 320,000, and our country's reserves account for 75% of the world. What does it mean, needless to say more.
Our country not only has a large land and abundant minerals, but also has a lot of ore exports.At present, breakthroughs have been made for TSMC's 1-nanometer chips, and the use of semi-metal bismuth (Bi) will increase significantly. The current semi-metal bismuth production in
is mainly divided into two processes, one is TSMC's own deposition process, and the other is the helium ion beam micro-shading system developed by their team.
Although TSMC has improved its technology, raw materials are still a problem for them. And this is indeed a rare opportunity for the mainland.
As a country with a vast land and abundant raw materials, China naturally has all kinds of rare ores. In this way, the status of China's semiconductors will surely improve accordingly. Because our company naturally has the greatest advantage in the bismuth mine market.
