With the rapid development of domestic chip manufacturing technology, the industrial chain of domestic chips has also been further improved. From the front-end EDA industrial design software to the supply of lithography machines, etching machines and other equipment, the proportion of localization technology in the chip industry chain has been rapidly improved.
It is understood that in the front-end link of chip design, the most important thing is the chip architecture and EDA industrial design software, which directly determines the use and performance of the chip. EDA industrial design software, on the other hand, is about chip design companies that can continue to design high-performance chips.
So far, most mainland chip design companies are still using imported EDA industrial software to design chips. This has led to domestic chip design, which is difficult to achieve localization in the true sense. Once the supply of EDA industrial software is cut off, it will not only affect the design capabilities of chip companies, but also directly affect the development of the dual-use market.
Under such a situation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched a layout in the field of EDA industrial software. On March 10, 2022, the project of "Integrated Circuit Electronic Design Automation Platform Based on High Performance Computing", led by Chen Lan, a researcher at the EDA Center of the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully achieved a breakthrough in EDA Industrial Software, and successfully passed the comprehensive performance evaluation of the project in Beijing.
This move has successfully broken the technical monopoly of foreign companies in the field of EDA software for many years, and also provided more secure and reliable industrial design software for domestic chip design companies.
Not only EDA software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences again transmitted the news
It is reported that the quantum chip industrial software is different from the conventional EDA software. Mainly used in the design of quantum chips, the "chip architecture" used internally is also different from conventional silicon crystal chips. Therefore, if you want to design a quantum chip, you must redevelop a chip design software.
The team led by Guo Guangcan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, not only mastered the core technology of the quantum chip design software, but also realized the development of domestic quantum chip industrial software through the technology it mastered.
This move not only means that the mainland is at the forefront of the world in the field of quantum industrial software, but also means that a potential trillion market has been explored, and in the future field of quantum computing, domestic related enterprises will have the opportunity to come out on top.
After the news of the breakthrough of domestic quantum chip industrial software came out, it caused quite a stir in foreign media, and a number of media posted sighing" Chinese scholars do not sleep? ”
It should be known that in 2017, the optical quantum computer designed by pan Jianwei's team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was able to reach a level beyond the early computers. In 2020, the quantum computing prototype "Nine Chapters" equipped with 76 photons was launched, and its performance directly surpassed the quantum computers announced in Europe and the United States.
Only two years apart, the development of domestic industrial software for quantum chips has been completed. At such a speed, it is no wonder that foreign media will have feelings, Chinese scholars do not sleep, but the time of sleeping, but also saved for scientific research.
Last year, Wang Yangyuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in an interview with the media: "If I don't solve the problem of chip card neck, I will not be blind!" This sentence speaks to the voice of Chinese scientists, and it is also an important reason why domestic chips can achieve such a rapid breakthrough.
It is precisely because of these scientists behind the scenes that the domestic technology industry is thriving. In this way, it is not difficult to understand why Bill Gates would issue a sense that "restricting the supply of chips will only make China gradually self-sufficient".
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In summary, it is precisely the night-to-day struggle of Chinese scientists and the spirit of holding on to Qingshan that the domestic chip manufacturing industry will have such a rapid development speed. Problems with the supply of external chips have also given the opportunity to develop their own chip manufacturing technology in China. In the current situation of increasingly fierce competition in science and technology between China and the United States, the development speed of China's technology industry will also become faster and faster.
I believe that in no long time, equipment such as EUV lithography machines with card necks will be solved one by one. What do you think about that? Welcome to leave a message to discuss!