In the field of chips, Huawei continues to make efforts, conducts in-depth research, and finally accumulates rich experience. Whether it is mobile phones, basebands, servers, and many other fields, Huawei has achieved outstanding results. In the field of chip expansion research and development, Huawei has also achieved rapid progress around the quantum chip .
Some time ago, Huawei officially announced that they already have a patented technology for quantum chips. The technology they have acquired can play a vital role in solving yield problems.
Now the industry’s research on the field of quantum has become more and more in-depth. Many people are also very concerned about this and look forward to the day when their country can achieve outstanding results.
Over the years, you must have seen many exciting reports! For example, University of Science and Technology of China , The team led by Professor Pan Jianwei has achieved breakthroughs in the quantum computing prototype of No. 1 and No. 2 .
In addition, Alibaba has also made huge breakthroughs in the new superconducting quantum field. The two-bit door control accuracy has reached an astonishing 99.72%, directly breaking the world record. It can be said that it is nothing but a blockbuster!
In our country, there are actually many examples of huge breakthroughs in the above two categories. Whenever we see news reports like this, we feel a boost of confidence.
In the past, our quantum technology may still remain theoretical. However, now, as we have achieved one achievement after another, it means that it has gradually moved from theory to reality.
What we can foresee is that in the near future, with further development, quantum technology can completely enter our daily lives. By that time, it can also greatly promote the development of science and technology in our country.
In terms of quantum technology, Huawei officially announced that they have obtained a quantum chip patent. On June 10, they disclosed an invention patent titled, "A quantum chip and quantum computer ."
The results soon caused an uproar in the industry. From their official abstract, we can see that the technology they patented involves the field of quantum computing. Its main purpose is to solve the difficulty of manufacturing quantum chips. Problems such as low yield rate and so on.
Before Huawei officially announced this patent, many people had always thought that Huawei was still working hard in the mobile phone field. As everyone knows, they have already extended their tentacles to the field of quantum chips.
Huawei, a technology giant, has actually begun its layout in many fields early. It’s just that I have always been there, working in obscurity, in order to one day make a huge breakthrough and amaze the world.
In the past, Huawei focused most of their chip research and development on the mobile phone field, baseband and other fields. This has allowed them to achieve good results, such as Qilin, Kunpeng, Balong and so on. This series of chip products all demonstrate the brilliant results achieved by Huawei.
In the quantum field, Huawei has already begun its layout, but many people don’t know much about it. In January 2021, Huawei had already published a patent called "A quantum key distribution system, method and equipment."
This patent of theirs is mainly used in the field of quantum key communication. If Huawei's research and development progress continues smoothly and nothing unexpected happens, it is very likely that it will continue to develop the next quantum communication technology based on this patented technology.
In fact, whether it is quantum chips, or quantum communications, these layouts and explorations carried out by Huawei prove to everyone that their next research and development goals will still continue to explore and advance in the quantum field. And judging from Huawei's current development momentum, it is likely to accelerate its progress. Many people have their own opinions on why
shows such a trend. Perhaps Huawei is trying to closely follow the major trend of the scientific research era so that it can maintain a place in this field in the future and enjoy more dividends of the times; or perhaps Huawei has already explored it during the chip research and development process. new development direction.
Huawei has never given up on independently developed chips. Because they know that only by mastering the core chip technology themselves will they not be controlled by others. Therefore, in the past few years, Huawei has been frequently exploring the specific development direction of the chip field.
In fact, as early as this time, before announcing the quantum chip patent, Huawei had already announced two patents related to chip stacking. Therefore, many people speculate that Huawei is preparing to find another way! In fact, this statement is entirely possible.
However, it is worth mentioning that today’s quantum chips have not yet been widely used. For quantum chip technology to mature, it will take a long time to improve. For quantum chips to enter human life, there is still a long way to go to make them practical and normal. There are still many technical problems waiting for breakthroughs.
Now Huawei has achieved certain results in quantum chips. Therefore, many people can't help but excitedly speculate: If quantum chips can be successfully implemented in the future and industrial manufacturing is developed, Huawei is likely to break the barriers of lithography machine !
The chips currently on the market are all manufactured through photolithography machines. With the photolithography machine, photolithography exposure on the silicon wafer can be successfully achieved. If the chips produced are relatively high-end, then an EUV lithography machine must be used, using a 13.5nm wavelength EUV light source to process high-end nanometer-made chips. In the process of making chips, the photolithography machine is still an indispensable tool.
Over the years, chips have frequently appeared in everyone's field of vision. When it comes to chips, everyone pays close attention to them. In fact, the importance of the chip goes without saying. Without it, many devices would not be able to operate. For example, our watches, mobile phones, even cars, ships, etc., all cannot lack chips.
China has always been a major manufacturing country, and its demand for chips is also very huge. However, due to some reasons in the past, we have not kept up with the times in the semiconductor industry. Although my country's high-end manufacturing industry is rising smoothly, so far, our huge demand for chips is still mainly dependent on imports.
In 2021, we imported 635.48 billion chips, an increase of 16.9% over the same period, and the total import volume reached an astonishing US$432.6 billion.
What makes people feel helpless is that our demand for chips is so great that we spend huge amounts of money on imports every year, while domestic chip companies are still in a disadvantageous situation. Especially in terms of high-end chips, our current situation is even more embarrassing. It can be said that we are stuck by the United States.
The ASML lithography machine giants of the United States and the Netherlands have formed a bundled relationship. Therefore, under the competition in the United States, we have no way to successfully obtain the EUV lithography machine of ASML. makes it even more difficult for us to mass-produce chips made with 7nm, 5nm, 4nm and other processes.
The first and most affected person is Huawei. Because Huawei's development in recent years has been too dazzling, the United States has felt an unprecedented threat, so it has set up obstacles for Huawei at every turn.
Although we are dismissive of these tricks by the United States, we have to admit that Huawei has indeed been affected to a certain extent. Huawei’s mobile phone sales originally ranked first in the world, but after being suppressed by the United States, Huawei has now fallen out of the top five.
In fact, it is not just EUV lithography machines, but also some raw materials, parts, etc. Huawei is in a relatively passive situation. It is almost impossible to catch up with the world's most advanced level in a short period of time. So in this case, finding another way to achieve overtaking in corners may be the best way!
Nowadays, Huawei has made great achievements in the field of quantum chips, so many people are also looking forward to the day when Huawei can break the dependence of chips on lithography machines.
In fact, whether Huawei can break the dependence of chips on photolithography machines must start from the principles of quantum chips. Quantum chips are very different from our more common silicon-based chips, so they can be distinguished in terms of materials.
Silicon-based chips generally use silicon materials, while quantum chips achieve information interaction through quantum collisions.
From the manufacturing point of view, Huawei's quantum chips, , have no dependence on photolithography machines. Therefore, Huawei will be able to freely develop quantum chips in the future.
Because it will not have any connection with the lithography machine, no matter how terrible the subsequent lithography machine technology develops and how complex the process becomes, it will not affect Huawei's continued development in quantum chips.
Speaking of this, many people may start to feel excited. But it is worth mentioning that it is not easy to industrialize quantum chips. On the other hand, silicon-based chips now have a globalized industrial chain, and their development time is relatively early. From design to manufacturing, hundreds of manufacturers are involved in every aspect.
Quantum chips are basically still in the laboratory stage, and there is no way to compare them with the development and application of silicon-based chips. So the biggest problem facing Huawei now is how to quickly implement quantum chips for commercial use.
If you want to achieve this goal, you must have a complete supporting production link. But now the good news has come. Some of our domestic manufacturers, , have begun to make close arrangements in terms of industrial design software for quantum chips. Hefei Origin Quantum participated in the development and has launched Origin Kunyuan Q-EDA software.
This is our country’s first industrial-level quantum chip design tool. There is no doubt that the launch of this design tool can provide design-level support for our domestic manufacturers, , in the process of developing electronic chips, which is very important.
With the blessing of this technology, Huawei will be able to use this tool whenever necessary in the process of researching quantum chip technology.
The emergence of Yuanyuan Kunyuan has made my country take an important step in the industrial development of quantum chips. In the future, there will definitely be more domestic manufacturers conducting research and breakthroughs one after another, laying a solid foundation for my country's development in the field of quantum chips.
The most important thing is that in the process of developing quantum chips, there is no need to consider the problem of photolithography machines. We no longer need to be afraid of being controlled by others. We can spend our limited time on the most important things.
We are very much looking forward to this. We believe that Huawei will be able to achieve more achievements in quantum chips in the future.
Over the years, Huawei has rarely achieved outstanding research results in the field of quantum chips. But this time, they announced the quantum chip patent, proving to everyone that their previous obscurity was paving the way for results. This further proves that Huawei has the strength and is very wise to diversify its chip layout.
Huawei has always been a company with a very breakthrough spirit. Even if there is only a glimmer of hope, they will hold on tightly and move forward. We look forward to having more brilliant achievements with our domestic chips in the near future!
