The ninety-nanometer process is already the strongest production technology on the market now.

Although everyone knows the virtue of Intel, it must be the sales generation, the reserve generation, and the research and development generation. They must have more advanced technologies than the ninety-nanometer process, no matter how leaps and breakthroughs are, it is impossible to suddenly increase from the ninety-nanometer process to forty-five nanometers at once.

According to the chief engineer's understanding, Intel's next-generation Xeon chip should have a process of between 70 nanometers and 65 nanometers. The specific data is unclear, but the scope is roughly clear.

The new technology under development may fall at around 50 nanometers.

Guo Tailai suddenly asked to test the 45-nanometer process?

Although the design of the lithography machine this time was designed according to the technical limit, it must be an ideal result.

In essence, as a machine, the lithography machine must have manufacturing tolerances, and there is no way to go.

No matter how perfect the design is, it is impossible to achieve zero tolerance.

According to the calculations in the design, if this lithography machine can be flawless, the process should be around 40 nanometers.

However, if one nanometer error is added to the processing of parts and one nanometer assembly error is added to the assembly, the error caused by countless parts and components is probably greater than tens of nanometers.

Ninety nanometers are already very surprising. This is already the world's advanced level, and it means that the country has been able to catch up with the world's cutting-edge technology. What we need to do in the future is to attack the capacity of mass production and produce this lithography machine as quickly and stably as possible.

The chief sect knows better than anyone else that although most civilian chips have now been unsealed from China, a series of special chips such as military chips and some urgently needed communication encryption in China are still unable to get it.

With the ability to mass produce lithography machines, it means that the country will no longer be choked on chips. What a wonderful thing it would be?

The current test results have made the chief designer extremely satisfied, but Guo Tailai is still shaking his head?

It will impact forty-five nanometers?

Is this possible?

"Try it!"

Guo Tailai smiled calmly: "What if it succeeds?

Even if it fails, what impact will it have on us?

The design has been completed and the samples have been made. It is nothing more than a waste of a batch of silicon wafers and other materials, wasting some time and electricity. Anyway, I have to try it, right?"

The ninety-nanometer process has already satisfied many people, and almost everyone in the entire project team is cheering to illustrate this.

But this does not mean that this sample lithography machine has only this accuracy. Everyone will always reduce the size bit by bit and test it over and over again.

Guo Tailai’s request is actually just to greatly improve the testing standards at once. If 80 nanometers and 70 nanometers are tested one by one, it will always be the turn in the end.

Of course, it is also very likely that the test will not be passed at 60 nanometers or 50 nanometers, and that will definitely not be considered forty-five nanometers.

But the test in one step seems to be wasted only some materials and time, so there will be no big loss. As Guo Tailai said, try it! "Then... try it!"

The chief scepter also became expectant and said gritting his teeth, but there was an unconcealed light in his eyes.

When the chief tutor immediately asked to tell the controller who controlled the lithography machine, everyone saw the undepressed expression of surprise that the controller could not suppress.

As if he had not heard the chief tutor clearly, the controller repeatedly asked, until the chief tutor nodded with certainty, and then he began to operate the input data with shock.

"Next, we try the 45-nanometer process flow."

The chief tutor did not let everyone wait too long and quickly revealed the answer: "Everyone is ready, and start in ten minutes!"

A group of white coats were scared by the chief engineer's words. It was not until the chief engineer reminded him again that everyone woke up like a dream and began to get busy.

Prepare materials and start the machine, and it is busy.

Guo Tailai just said that he didn't do anything.

This is someone else's design and other people's work. Guo Tailai is at best just a manufacturer and assembler, and should not and cannot be the dominant one.

The suggestion just now has been considered as the maximum interference. He is not suitable to intervene in any of the work later. Just watch it honestly and wait for the test results.

Although everyone was shocked, everyone was very professional.

Just test how to feed materials, how to encapsulate them all in an orderly manner.

Even though this is the first prototype, the machine itself was designed by their project team, and I had been familiar with it for two days during the previous system tests and was very proficient in operating.

As the silicon wafer enters from the inlet, a series of operations inside the lithography machine is followed by a stable cutting and packaging, and the final one is the packaged finished product.

There was no alarm error during the whole process. All processes looked normal. The appearance of the packaged chip seemed to be very normal. I just don’t know if it could be used normally.

A part of the unpackaged chips were taken down and the process size was determined by directly using a microscope observation circuit.

The packaged chip starts testing according to the standard test process. To put it bluntly, it is actually very simple. Just plug it into a test circuit board, turn a few switches and then see which indicator lights are on.

If the indicator light is on normally, it means that the basic circuit is normal.

All eyes were focused on several test circuit boards, and several testers each handed a freshly baked chip, inserted the chip pins into the standard interface, and after everything was ready, they began to turn the switch.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Just like this, the continuous pulling of different switches, different indicator lights light up one by one, and then the tester checked one by one on a table.

All of the sixteen test chips in the same batch passed this simple test.

How is that possible?

Except for Guo Tailai and the chief engineer who were relatively a little mentally prepared, all the other people involved in the design and testing were stunned at the correct indicator lights.

Could it be that the operator made a mistake and when entering the number, the 45 error was entered as 85?

Everyone's eyes gathered on a group of testers responsible for operating the microscope.

They will rely on microscopes and measurement tools to measure the size of the chip circuit.

The test just showed that the chip's basic function was normal and could not indicate the circuit size, but this most direct measurement would not be faked.

"Forty-five nanometers!"

A tester first reported this number with a trembling voice.

Next, there were continuous sounds of digits, without exception, all of which were forty-five nanometers, and each sound was trembling with a hint of trembling.

When the ninety-nanometer process was successful, everyone was cheering.
Chapter completed!