Chapter 199 Consciousness

January 14, 1966, First Hospital Affiliated to Moscow State Medical University.

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev underwent surgery here because of intestinal polyps.

Although removing intestinal polyps is just a trivial operation, as the undisputed soul of the Union's space industry, Korolev's surgery was performed in the best hospital by the best surgeon.

In 1926, the 20-year-old Korolev entered the Moscow Bauman Higher Technical School and became Tupolev's student.

In 1929, he became a disciple of Tsiolkovsky and participated in the establishment of a rocket jet propulsion research group.

Three years later, he published his first book "Rocket Engines", and the following year he published the book "Rocket Flight".

Just from these qualifications, Korolev's growth is legendary, and he is destined to become an extremely important figure in the Union's space industry.

But in 1937, the Great Purge carried out by his father exiled him and his teacher Tupolev to Siberia for hard labor. Although he was soon called back to work in the aircraft factory, this exile experience had a serious impact on Korolev's health.

In 1957, with the launch of the first R7 intercontinental missile of the Union, the space race kicked off in full swing. Since his father's death in 1953, Korolev has been entrusted with important tasks and worked overtime for a long time to accelerate the development of the Union's aerospace industry.

Korolev sent the first intercontinental missile, the first artificial satellite, and the first astronaut Gagarin into space. Not long ago, he also built the "Voskhod 2" spacecraft in a competition with Aramco, allowing Alexei Leonov to become the first person to complete a space walk.

For such a legendary figure, even if it was a minor operation, there were many senior OKB design bureau officials and military generals waiting outside the operating room.

The operation lasted about 40 minutes. Korolev's assistant, Vasily Mishin, who later inherited the N1 project, saw the door of the operating room being pushed open, and the surgeon hurried out.

In less than a minute, two cardiac surgery experts rushed into the operating room.

Vasily was confused. It was just an operation for intestinal polyps. Why did he need a cardiac surgeon?

The changes in the operating room gave everyone an ominous premonition. After the operation lasted for four hours, the surgeon announced the result of the operation:

The foreign body in Korolev's intestine was not a polyp, but a tumor.

It would be easy to deal with just a tumor, and it would be a piece of cake for the doctors here, but no one expected that because of his exile experience in his youth and long-term heavy work, Korolev's heart had arteriosclerosis and an accident occurred during the operation.

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev died on the same day at the age of 59 because his heart could not bear the burden of the operation. He had just celebrated his birthday on the 12th.

While there was a lot of sadness outside the operating room, a group of consciousness was carried through the hospital and flew to an invisible height.

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Modu, Modu Microelectronics Company.

Many companies such as Huaxin International, Modu Huahong, and Ziguang Semiconductor are blocking here and putting pressure on Modu Microelectronics.

The world's four largest lithography machine manufacturers: ASML of the Netherlands, Canon and Nikon of the island country, and Modu Microelectronics.

At present, Modu Microelectronics can mass-produce 90nm lithography machines, but after multiple exposures, it can produce 28nm chips, and even theoretically the limit process can reach 22.5nm.

However, the yield rate of multiple exposures is somewhat low, so Modu Microelectronics is developing the next generation of 65nm lithography machines, which will produce 28nm or 22nm process chips with a much higher yield rate.

The higher the yield rate, the lower the cost, and the better the performance. This is the basic idea of ​​the famous Moore's Law. The more advanced the process, the better the performance improvement will be at the same cost.

The main reason why several domestic semiconductor companies urged Modu Microelectronics to use 65nm lithography machines is that the main driving force is Xinyuan's X321, X322 series and other supporting dynamic memory businesses.

Now the cost of using 90nm lithography machines to produce 28nm multiple exposures is too high. If 65nm lithography machines are used to produce 28nm processes multiple exposures, the cost is only one-third of 90nm lithography machines.

One chip can make an extra profit of nearly 2,000 yuan!

To be honest, even the current 28nm ternary chip price is far higher than the same process cost of TSMC or Samsung. If Xinan Automobile is not used in automobiles, it can accept high costs and is willing to support domestic manufacturers. These semiconductor manufacturers don't even want to do 90nm multiple exposures to 28nm with low yields.

In fact, even the 28nm process is watered down. Each X321/322 series chip is a mixed process of 45nm and 28nm, reducing the 28nm process area to make the yield barely acceptable.

Lin Ju is the boss behind Xin'an. Why is Lin Ju willing to be a big complainer and spend a high cost to buy chips? Isn't it to stimulate domestic semiconductor manufacturers to upgrade!

65nm is a hurdle. Going beyond the 65nm lithography machine and moving forward a little bit, you will enter the field of 28nm lithography machine.

What can a 28nm lithography machine do? This can produce 7nm and 5nm chips through multiple exposures, which was the mainstream until Lin Ju crossed over.

Even 14nm and 10nm can fully meet the needs of a considerable consumer market.

Now, semiconductor manufacturers who have indirectly made a lot of money through Xin'an Automobile have begun to invest in Shanghai Microelectronics to accelerate the development of 65nm lithography machines and subsequent mid-range DUV lithography machines.

But in fact, there are also factors promoted by the Science and Technology Commission.

Huaxin International, Tsinghua Unigroup, and Huahong are all state-owned enterprises. They are willing to join Shanghai Microelectronics because of internal information:

The country is preparing to build a ternary computer system!

This news is only known by a very few people, and the truth is unknown, but then the state-owned capital behind the three semiconductor companies began to push Shanghai Microelectronics to develop a higher process supporting system, striving to expand production and reduce costs.

The information that the ternary chip quietly developed by Xinyuan Company can actually match or even slightly exceed the mainstream x8 process with the backward 28nm process has been repeatedly verified by the superiors for semiconductor experts in a few months.

Although the latter were deeply shocked by the sudden emergence of the ternary system and urged to find out the truth and solve this unscientific mystery, the superiors could no longer care so much.

Check? What to check?

Since the beginning of the space race, although economic exchanges with Aramco are still increasing year by year, the blockade has become increasingly severe, which can be felt by the top leaders of both companies.

Now China's semiconductor industry, which has been lagging behind for more than 20 years, actually has a real opportunity to overtake on the curve, so we must seize it.

According to the report of the Science and Technology Commission, 14nm technology will soon be outdated, and it will enter the era of 10nm in the next few years. China cannot keep up with this speed. In the short term, only 28nm can gradually mature and improve the yield rate.

Therefore, we cannot lose this good opportunity to overtake on the curve, and we must promote the ternary system as soon as possible!