manynovel Chapter 267
Chapter 267
I wonder if readers have noticed that there is a sense of déjà vu about the overall commercial layout, mode and architecture of the "Dragon Totem" game?
That's right, this is the result of the fusion of the common wisdom of the two masters of Zhonghai and Wang Huanlong!
Due to Kong Bai's general idea of "not making money through the game itself, but making profits in the industrial chain", the "Dragon Totem" game itself is all free, of course, players still need to buy virtual reality wearable devices to enter the game. However, in order to popularize and expand the game audience as quickly as possible, the price of these wearable devices is basically sold below the cost line, which can be described as a real "loss of money"!
Of course, according to the hardware general contractor of Magic Electric, Zhonghai Guangke Technology, with the future technological progress and scale expansion, the production cost of wearable devices still has about 20%-35% compression space. In particular, the production cost of highly integrated 1nm diamond chips in wearable devices is still in the process of rapidly declining.
At present, mobile phones, computers and other electronic products based on silicon chips are close to the "ceiling" of their performance, so the software and content ecology built on these hardware has not made a major breakthrough for several years.
In other words, software ecology and hardware performance complement each other, there is no major breakthrough in hardware, there will be no qualitative change in software content, and people's demand for hardware replacement will not be too urgent. Therefore, the overall electronics industry will enter a period of stable development with slow growth and weak innovation due to insufficient demand, and everyone will focus on innovating business models and creating new Internet games, and lack of interest in hardware research and development.
Let's put it this way, more than ten years ago, when hardware research and development was advancing by leaps and bounds, a mobile phone was basically stuck for three or four years, and now, young people who have not changed their mobile phones for 5 years are a lot of existence, and these old mobile phones are not delayed, running up the common games and software on the market, are not difficult!
But now that the Dragon Totem game is out, that's all going to change fast!
With the rapid climb of 12-inch diamond wafer production capacity and the continuous maturity of 1nm process, the overall yield of Guangke semiconductor diamond chips has climbed from about 35% to nearly 70% now, and the cost of a single diamond wafer has dropped to less than 250 yuan, initially having the ability to enter highly price-sensitive civilian products.
Of course, the manufacturing cost of diamond wafers is still ridiculously expensive compared to the currently well-cooked 7nm silicon chips, but at the very least, from the performance / price ratio, it has the power to fight with silicon chips. The rest depends on the overall industrial demand rise and cost suppression two legs to walk together, in order to truly stimulate the demand for diamond chips and thoroughly promote 1nm chips!
At present, Zhonghai Guangke Technology has prepared a large diamond sheet with a maximum area of 400 square inches in the laboratory, truly surpassing the silicon wafer from the area, and this huge diamond sheet is still 20 inches× 20 inches × 0.9 mm square, which can greatly improve the utilization rate of diamond wafers and further reduce the production cost of diamond chips, opening up a new space!
As we all know, the most technologically advanced silicon wafer is an 18-inch diameter and 0.6-0.9 mm thick sheet, according to the circular area formula, its surface area is 254.34 square inches, but because of the cutting technology, the chip is designed as square or rectangular, therefore, the actual area available for 18-inch silicon wafers is about 90%, that is, about 230 inches.
The reason why the silicon wafer is round is because of the silicon crystal growth technology, so I will not repeat it here. And diamond wafers because of its technology is the use of vapor deposition reaction furnace, that is, CVD furnace deposited carbon atom reaction to manufacture, no need to be like silicon wafers, have to cause round, the current 12-inch round diamond wafer, is the CVD furnace body into a positive 16-sided look, and then the 16-sided diamond wafer polished into a round shape, a bit redundant. The reason for this is because habit becomes natural!
However, the engineers of Zhonghai Guangke Technology, when developing large-size CVD furnaces, felt that it was completely unnecessary to have to use the CVD furnace reaction chamber to create a complex shape of 16-sided type, resulting in squares, wouldn't it be simpler and more convenient, and the utilization rate of this diamond wafer is higher, why add to it?
One word awakens the dreamer!
Yes, why does it have to be round, isn't it more fragrant in a square?
So a new large-area CVD diamond wafer reactor with a simpler structure and a more reasonable electrode layout came into being! Moreover, starting with a very large area with a side length of 20 inches, which is 73% larger than the available area of the largest 18-inch wafer today!
Of course, the change of the shape of the diamond wafer is not so simple, and the fixtures, vehicles, robotic arms and other components in the entire chip process must be modified, and even some parts of the lithography machine itself must be adjusted accordingly.
But, it's all worth it!
It is precisely because of the simple shape of the reaction chamber in the furnace that the engineers of Zhonghai Guangke Technology have worked out a new furnace design scheme, that is, stacking up a lot of reaction chambers, and its appearance is like a large microwave oven stacked up to maximize production capacity and efficiency.
Of course, such a CVD reactor, its cavity environmental parameters real-time adjustment and plasma gas control, to completely rely on the computer to complete automatically, requires huge computing power support, for the traditional computer, this is simply an impossible task, but now with a supercomputer and artificial intelligence composed of a working condition control system, it is very easy to control such a "monster"!
It is based on this series of new technological breakthroughs that Zhonghai Guangke Technology is full of confidence in the future, even if the current price of gaming wearables is below the cost line, they are confident that in the next few months, through the use of new technologies to break even.
Therefore, if the "Dragon Totem" game wants to make money, it is not necessary to think about relying on hardware, not only can not make money by selling hardware, but also find ways to provide subsidies and rewards to hardware manufacturers to promote the rapid replacement and landing of advanced technology!
In this context, under the precise planning of the two masters of Zhonghai and Wang Huanlong, a money-making drama around "Dragon Totem" quietly opened!