Recently, Chinese Academy of Sciences original Guo Guangcan Benyuan Electronics announced that it has developed the first quantum chip EDA software. It has previously made progress in quantum chip production. With the emergence of quantum chip EDA software, it represents a major breakthrough in my country in chip technology. ASML's lithography machine will no longer become a major obstacle to the development of China's chip industry.
For the past 10 years, China has been ahead of the world in quantum computing . As early as 2011, China established quantum satellite technology research. In 2016, China launched its first quantum satellite, Mozi. Since then, quantum technology has begun to enter a stage of rapid development, promoting China's quantum computing industry to accelerate its practical application.
Now China has released the "Nine Chapter One" and "Nine Chapter Two" quantum computer prototypes, and more technology companies have joined in it. Alibaba has developed superconducting quantum technology, and Huawei has announced the quantum chip patent. After the addition of many private enterprises, it will be a matter of time before quantum computing technology can enter civilian use.
With the advancement of quantum computing technology, the research and development of quantum chips has reached a stage that needs to be implemented. Benyuan Electronics is precisely one of the leading companies in quantum chip research and development. It has established two domestic engineering quantum chip laboratories, representing the implementation of my country's independent research and development of quantum chips.
In the past two years, the United States has frequently attacked Chinese chip companies for the EDA software it has mastered, which has made China realize the importance of developing independent EDA software. EDA software is called the mother of chips because it connects chip design companies and chip manufacturing companies. Chip companies use EDA software to develop complex chips and then transmit data to chip manufacturing companies, so that chips can be produced.
Benyuan Electronics, as one of the leading domestic quantum chip companies, developed its own quantum chip EDA software shortly after it first developed quantum chips. It is undoubtedly a rainy day to fundamentally establish a domestic quantum chip system to avoid being restricted from being restricted from overseas in the future in the design and production of quantum chips.
China has actually reached the global advanced level in chip design. The Kirin chip developed by Huawei is at the same level as the chips developed by Apple and Qualcomm in the United States; in terms of server chips, the chips developed by domestic chip company Shenwei are used in the supercomputer Taihu Light. The computing performance of Taihu Light occupies a leading position in the world and is widely used in the application scenarios of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data fusion.
Currently, the main obstacles to domestic chips are the production and manufacturing processes. Although the domestic chip manufacturing process has reached 14nm, lithography machines still rely more on lithography giant ASML, which has not been able to deliver EUV lithography machines to China so far, resulting in China facing difficulties in developing advanced processes.
For this reason, China has begun to vigorously develop mature processes such as 28nm to meet nearly 70% of the domestic chip demand. In addition to continuing to rely on existing equipment to develop more advanced chips, it is to open up new paths, and quantum chips, chip materials, etc. are new paths for China's development.
Nowadays, Benyuan Electronics has made major breakthroughs in quantum chip technology. It can be said that China has made progress in opening up a new path of chips, and the other path is chip materials. China is also continuing to advance in this regard.
has made breakthroughs in the third-generation semiconductor material such as gallium nitride and silicon carbide , which will effectively improve the existing chip performance; China has also been following up quickly in the more critical fourth-generation chip material graphene. At present, China has applied for graphene technology in large quantities, and the United States is also actively developing graphene technology. Among them, the American startup SkyWater has planned to introduce carbon nanotube into the chip manufacturing industry, so that the 90nm process can produce chips 50 times stronger than 7nm process chips.
All these things show that China is actively getting rid of its dependence on overseas chip technology systems. Once quantum chips and carbon-based chip technologies are mass-produced, lithography machines will no longer hinder the development of China's chip industry, and China's chip industry is expected to reach the top of the world. This should be a result that many overseas chip industry chain companies, including ASML, do not want to see.
