According to the " Beijing Daily " report, China is preparing to build the photonic chip production line, which is expected to be completed in 2023. This means that China has taken the lead in the world in terms of photonic chips and has completely changed its current chip technology route, which has made foreign media amazed the leapfrog development of China's chip technology.
According to industry insiders, photonic chips will have many technical advantages. First of all, their computing speed is super fast and their information capacity is larger. They will increase by more than 1,000 times compared to current silicon-based chips. This will promote the leapfrog development of chip technology. With the growth of data eruption, the technology industry now needs chips with stronger performance, and photonic chips will be able to effectively meet the needs.
Secondly, the power consumption of photonic chips is lower, and the power consumption of photonic chips is nearly a thousand times lower than that of silicon-based chips. At present, all Internet companies around the world are shaking their heads for energy consumption in data centers. Only about 30% of the power consumption in data centers is used for calculations, and 70% of them are heating and air conditioning systems built for it, causing great energy waste.
is again the photonic chip will completely break the process limit of silicon-based chips. The industry believes that the limit of silicon-based chips is 1nm, and TSMC's advanced process has faced great difficulties in developing to 3nm. TSMC's 3nm mass production time was delayed by nearly one year than expected, but its performance did not meet expectations, and the cost was so high that many chip companies could not bear it.
ASML means that the price of the second-generation EUV lithography machine used in the 2nm process will reach US$400 million, which is more than three times more expensive than the EUV lithography machine used in the current 5nm process, and its power consumption is several times higher. This shows that the closer to the limit of silicon-based chips, the more difficult it is to improve performance and double the cost. Photonic chips can effectively reduce costs, and at the same time will also change the current chip manufacturing process.
photonic chips will be commercially available, which is of great significance to the Chinese chip industry. This means that China will completely get rid of its dependence on foreign chips, and it is even expected to lead the development of global chip technology.
Due to well-known reasons, China's current development of 7nm and more advanced processes has been affected by the supply of lithography machine by ASML. The EUV lithography machines ordered by Chinese chip companies have not arrived yet. Recently, ASML has been required to supply DUV lithography machines below 14nm to China. The mass production of
photonic chips will make China no longer need ASML lithography machines. The development of the chip industry will have a broad sky and the bottleneck of the chip industry will be broken through. It is reported that photonic chips can be used in many industries such as communications, server chips, lidar , and medical care, which will promote China to enter a leapfrog development in many technology industries.
China's 5G technology has ranked first in the world, and emerging technologies such as autonomous driving and artificial intelligence are also among the forefront in the world. Industry insiders believe that the relevant countries continue to exert resistance in chip technology because they are worried that China's technology may achieve leadership, and that they will continue to exert resistance in chip technology. Now the breakthrough of photonic chips not only breaks this restriction, but will also become a booster for China in the emerging technology field.
Reviewing the global chip industry has always been led by overseas chip companies in the past decade. Now, China's chips have made great progress in just a few years. Now, it has become a global chip technology leader in breakthroughs in photonic chips. Many technical restrictions have been solved. It is no wonder that overseas media are surprised.
