Graphene chips will enable China’s core to achieve cornering overtaking

For a long time, semiconductor chips are the core of my country’s scientific and technological development. High-tech products used in our lives need to be driven by chips. At present, among semiconductor chips, TSMC’s 5mm technology is the most advanced, but the pace of technology will never stop. TSMC has been committed to the development of 2nm and even 1nm level processes, but has not made significant progress.

Previously, the 3nm process has always been considered the limit of FinFET technology. TSMC’s 3nm process has also been using FinFET technology, and it is expected to mass-produce the A15 processor for Apple’s foundry in the second half of the year, but with Apple’s A15 processor choosing the N5P process Look, TSMC’s 3nm process mass production may be delayed again and fail to catch up with the mass production time of the A15 processor.

The industry has always believed that the limit of silicon-based chips is 1nm, and the 3nm process is already approaching the limit of silicon-based chips. The mass production of chips has always been a technical problem in the industry. The second-generation EUV lithography machine affects the manufacturing upgrade of chips. ASML previously stated that the second-generation EUV lithography machine would be mass-produced in 2025 at the earliest, but there was a delayed delivery problem when the first second-generation EUV lithography machine was delivered to Inter, indicating that the second-generation EUV lithography machine was delivered to Inter. The EUV lithography machine may not be able to achieve mass production in 2025, and the chip upgrade will be restricted by ASMLZ and cannot achieve mass production.

While TSMC and Intel are vying to announce the progress of 2nm and even 1nm level processes, Chinese chips are developing graphene chips in a different way. In fact, China has already begun to develop graphene chips as early as 2015. It is understood that graphene chips are in performance. In terms of aspects, it is expected to be 10 times higher than that of silicon-based chips, and the power consumption is far lower than that of silicon-based chips. The research results achieved by graphene chips make graphene chips expected to become the key to overcoming 2nm technology, cracking the limit problem of silicon-based chips and bypassing the The current obstruction of lithography machines to Chinese chips has enabled the chip industry to achieve cross-generational development and overtake foreign chip technologies.

Although graphene chips have not yet become a reality, China has begun to apply graphene technology to heat sinks and graphene batteries. It is believed that in the near future, China can realize the mass production of graphene chips, break the lithography constraints of ASML, form its own chip industry chain, and gain a leading edge in the chip industry.