100: Chapter 101 Maskless Lithography Machines Without Extreme Ultraviolet Light Sources and Silicon-Based Architectures Operating at Freezing Points

"Twice the area..."

Shen Du stroked his chin, his eyes deep and thoughtful: "This means it simply cannot fit into smartphones, where internal space is compressed and thinness is prioritized."

This was indeed a fatal flaw, equivalent to voluntarily abandoning the future's largest mobile phone market.

But immediately after, Shen Du saw the absolute advantage this technology held in other fields, an advantage that could be described as a "slaughter"!

For top-tier chips of the same performance.

Intel's 3D transistors, due to their dense structure, generated terrifying amounts of heat.

In the future, they would even require expensive water-cooling equipment to help suppress the temperature.

Yet the spacious [QW-SOI] architecture possessed excellent heat dissipation channels!

It didn't need any water cooling at all.

It only needed the most conventional and cheapest cooling fans to keep the chip running stably at freezing point temperatures!

Not suitable for mobile phones?

So what!

A scorching ambition ignited in Shen Du's eyes.

A chip with such extremely low heat generation, extremely long lifespan, and manufacturing costs compressed to the extreme.

It was simply tailor-made for future industrial control centers, large-scale server matrices.

And the billions of PCs worldwide, the ultimate weapon!

As long as this architecture was released.

Shen Du could, in the race for PCs and medium-to-large industrial equipment.

Directly tear a bottomless, bloody gash into Intel's pride-and-joy cost and lifespan defense line!

Forcing down the monstrous waves that had risen in his heart due to the first chip architecture.

Shen Du took a deep breath and shifted his gaze.

He cast it toward the second holographic layer, which emitted a faint blue glow: [CVD-P (Room Temperature Acoustic Catalytic Deposition Technology)].

It was 2012, a subtle turning point for the global 3D printing industry.

As the core patents for the most basic FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) held by old foreign giants had just expired.

The domestic market was preparing to kick off a frenzy of low-end, copycat 3D printing.

In Shen Du's understanding, traditional FDM technology was crude:

Put simply, it was just taking a plastic filament, melting it with high heat, and then stacking it layer by layer like squeezing toothpaste.

This backward technology not only had slow printing speeds.

But the surface of the finished product was also covered in layers of rough, stair-like textures.

If it encountered even the slightest temperature difference, it was extremely prone to warping and deformation.

In the end.

Aside from printing rough plastic toys for geeks, such machines could never step through the doors of true industrial manufacturing.

But the [CVD-P] technology provided by the system completely flipped this low-end table that reeked of burnt plastic!

It completely abandoned the old path of high-temperature melting.

The system reward included a special room-temperature liquid polymer resin formula.

And it was paired with a miraculous acoustic-triggered nozzle.

In the extremely short instant when the machine sprayed this liquid resin at room temperature.

The specific frequency ultrasound emitted by the nozzle would act on the liquid simultaneously.

It was just like magic.

The catalytic effect produced by the sound waves could cause the liquid resin to instantly complete irreversible solidification and deposition within milliseconds!

And the most amazing part was its hair-raising manufacturing cost.

To achieve industrial-grade smoothness, foreign giants were all obsessing over expensive ultraviolet lasers.

A single machine could easily cost hundreds of thousands or even millions.

But [CVD-P]?

It completely didn't need any epoch-making precision laser components!

According to the parameters on the blueprints.

One only needed to go to Huaqiangbei and purchase the most common, cheapest industrial stepper motors and conventional robotic arms on the market in 2012.

To assemble the entire core device!

"Using the cost of consumer-grade scrap metal to achieve dimensional reduction precision that surpasses industrial-grade..."

Looking at the finished product parameters simulated in the holographic projection, Shen Du could no longer hide the shock in his eyes.

Things printed by FDM were as rough as stairs.

But because CVD-P used instant acoustic catalytic solidification of liquid, the surface of the finished product was as smooth as a mirror.

Even the naked eye couldn't detect any layering.

And the physical strength after solidification was comparable to top-tier engineering plastics!

Shen Du's brain was spinning rapidly, and countless business blueprints that could be called profiteering exploded in his mind.

With this technology.

He could not only completely bypass the heavy laser patent walls laid down by old foreign 3D printing giants.

But he could also use a machine cost of a few thousand yuan to directly conduct a dimensional reduction strike against those industrial-grade devices priced in the millions!

Customized medical-grade high-precision dental molds, electronic casing prototyping for 3C digital products like mobile phones.

Or even the precision figurine market, which was monopolized by overseas companies and had terrifying profit margins...

Once [CVD-P] was released.

This ultimate monster that perfectly fused the price of low-end consumer models with industrial-grade precision.

Could absolutely destroy all existing competitors in an instant and establish an unshakable, absolute monopoly in these high-profit industries!

Just these first two epoch-making technologies.

With a little deduction in Shen Du's brain, it had already outlined a trillion-level business blueprint capable of shocking the global industrial system.

Whether it was the QW-SOI architecture capable of tearing through Intel's defense line in the PC and heavy industry tracks.

Or the CVD-P deposition technology capable of monopolizing high-precision manufacturing at dirt-cheap prices via dimensional reduction.

Once they appeared in the world, each one represented a bottomless river of wealth.

For any top-tier capital tycoon in this world.

Obtaining even one of these blueprints would be enough to ensure the prosperity of an entire family for three generations.

The temptation of huge profits attracted Shen Du's gaze.

Even causing his heart, which had always been cold and calm, to start beating wildly out of control.

"The system provided a 'choose two out of three' admission gift package..."

Shen Du took a sip of ice water, trying to suppress the palpitations in his heart with the chill.

The first two were already so heaven-defying.

Then what kind of terrifying monster would the third reward be, which could rank alongside them and was even placed in the finale position by the system?

With a trace of anticipation.

Shen Du slowly cast his gaze toward the last holographic layer.

His fingertips trembling slightly, he clicked on the detailed introduction of the device named [MR-Litho (Magnetic Resonance Interference Maskless Lithography Machine)].

Lithography Machine!

Just these three words.

Represented the brightest pearl on the crown of modern human industry!

At this 2012 time node.

ASML, on the other side of the ocean, was using its terrifying optical barriers to tightly choke the throat of the global semiconductor supply chain.

Shen Du knew better than anyone.

Whoever mastered the Lithography Machine possessed the absolute hegemony to define the technological landscape on this blue planet.

However, when the core principles and engineering parameters of this MR-Litho.

Rushed into Shen Du's mind like a tsunami.

This uncrowned king, who had just been crowned while stepping on the ashes of a billion dollars in the north-south capital meat grinder...

Was directly stunned into speechlessness!

"Abandoning the optical route that humanity has been obsessively pursuing for decades...

No need for lenses from Germany Zeiss, and even less need for American extreme ultraviolet light sources..."

Shen Du stared fixedly at the crazily operating cold plasma and superconducting magnetic field model on the panel.

His lips couldn't stop trembling.

This technology actually used magnetic resonance waves.

Like water wave interference, to directly "carve" nanometer-level circuits onto silicon wafers!

What made his scalp tingle and his soul tremble even more were the three words in the name:

Maskless!

Traditional chip manufacturing required expensive physical negatives (mask plates).

But this machine was digital direct writing!

As long as code was input,

The magnetic field would automatically change shape to complete the lithography, directly slashing the tens of millions in tape-out costs down to the dirt-cheap price of tens of thousands!

This was not just a machine,

It was a wall of sighs capable of completely severing the blockade of hundreds of thousands of patents from the entire Western optical alliance at the physical level!