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Chapter 127 Meritorious Service

Two weeks later, he had already covered most of the aircraft's outer skin with carbon fiber.

The aircraft-mounted mill placed in the workshop has already begun to take shape, just like the one he made in the virtual laboratory.

Meanwhile, the factory construction team wasn't idle either; building a steel-structured factory building can be done quite quickly.

They took out a newly built factory building and installed a smelting furnace and supporting equipment inside.

After the furnace was installed, just as he was about to begin preparing the materials, a series of items ordered for chip production arrived one after another.

He was now in a dilemma, unsure how to allocate his time.

Airplanes are not something that one person or one company can operate independently. Even if it's a model airplane, the situation is still the same.

After much deliberation, I made a decision: I will spend my daytime hours preparing the materials needed for the model airplane.

At night, he mainly focuses on chip manufacturing in the virtual laboratory.

Once he was able to completely extract a chip in the virtual laboratory, he stopped the smelting and manufacturing of materials in reality and turned his attention to chip production.

I don't have much understanding of chips yet, but I might come up with some new ideas and make some innovations while working on chip development!

Having decided on his plan, he then focused on preparing the materials.

During the day, he would stand guard in front of various furnaces, repeating the material preparation operations in the virtual laboratory.

In the evening, after returning to the temporary hotel and settling everything in,

Lying in bed with his eyes closed, he found himself in a virtual laboratory with a precision of 0.01 micrometers.

In the lab, this time there was no pretentious waving of hands to materialize things; instead, everything was materialized directly.

He initially thought waving was a cool gesture, but over time, he realized it was actually quite silly.

Fortunately, there was no one else in the lab, otherwise he would have been mortified.

After all the equipment and raw materials were brought to life, he walked directly toward that pile of things.

Some of these things in front of him hadn't even been opened in their boxes in real life, although they were always kept in boxes in the lab.

The boxes were disassembled one by one, revealing their contents.

A large box of pre-cut wafers.

Next to the wafer display stand was a square machine, whose nameplate read "Bazhong Micron-level Maskless Lithography Machine".

They then opened a small box containing many artificial diamonds, which were very pure and quite large.

One by one, the boxes were opened, revealing everything related to chip manufacturing.

It has everything, but there's one problem: the machines aren't very technologically advanced; they're all mainstream equipment from ten or twenty years ago.

After inspecting the equipment, the first thing we worked on was the lithography machine, which can be considered the pinnacle of modern industry.

Even though this micron-level lithography machine is outdated, it is still an unattainable device in the eyes of some medium-sized countries.

Liu Xiaodong bought this lithography machine after he couldn't find the lithography blade he was looking for on the market.

Having only a superficial understanding of chip manufacturing, he finally realized that there was no such thing as a photolithography blade on the market.

In his previous understanding, chips were simply wafers; the designed circuit diagrams were etched onto the wafers, and then a method was devised to pack a large number of transistors into them.

Therefore, he believed that there was such a knife, specifically used for engraving circuit patterns on wafers.

But after learning more, he realized how absurd his understanding was.

There is no such thing as a lithography cutter. If we consider the high-energy laser in a lithography machine as a lithography cutter, then it is a lithography cutter.

After that, he also seriously studied everything about chip manufacturing, and incidentally also learned about chip design and other things.

What he needed first was a light source capable of etching circuit patterns onto a wafer, but he didn't have such a high-energy laser.

Of course, he had a method: he disassembled the micron-sized light source and then modified it himself.

That's when the batch of high-purity synthetic diamonds we bought came in handy.

This is a key material for upgrading the light source. After a series of cutting and assembly processes, the diamond...

He finally transformed the micron-sized lithography light source into a 0.05-micron-sized object through the refraction and aggregation of diamonds.

At this moment, the lithography tool he had mentioned earlier was born in his hands.

With this lithography tool, he was able to get the rest done.

The screen showed him examining the wafer intently for a while, and then, taking advantage of the wafer's lack of response, he began to etch patterns on it with a photolithography tool.

Soon, on one corner of a wafer, he traced the circuitry of a chip on the Fossil 14.

Then, through a series of operations on the wafer, including coating and doping, circuit wires and numerous transistors were formed inside the wafer.

Through his work, a semi-finished bare chip was produced. At this point, all that is needed is to package it, and the chip will be considered to be finished.

Of course, the chip we obtained at this moment is still a blank chip. The instruction set has not yet been programmed into it, so it cannot be used yet.

We then went to another pair of devices and found the one for programming the instruction set. We placed the chip card on it.

Following the guidance of his analytical eye, he then began programming the instruction set onto the chip.

Holding the pre-programmed chip in his hand, he then manifested a Buddha 14, who removed the original chip from the aircraft.

He replaced the chip with the one he had made, and then climbed into the cockpit of the F-14 to begin testing it.

The test results were good. The chip he tried to create was functionally identical to the original chip, except that it generated more heat.

It seems that the high heat output of this chip is due to his lack of familiarity with it. He believes that its performance will be much better once he becomes more proficient.

With this attempt, which was neither a success nor a failure, he began his journey of etching circuits on wafers with a photolithography knife.

In his hands, the chip was maturing little by little, making progress step by step.

His analytical eye cheat was also giving him hints, pointing out what was wrong and suggesting improvements.

At this precision of 50 nanometers, the resulting wafer represents a significant improvement over the original wafer.

He also eliminated some invalid switch closures inside the chips.

With the successful fabrication of one type of chip, the manufacturing process for subsequent chips becomes much clearer.

He then devoted himself to the entire process of chip manufacturing, research and development, innovation, thinking, improvement, finalization, and production.

The flow of time in the laboratory is now very fast; two hours is equivalent to one year, and if he sleeps for one night, which is counted as six hours, it is also six years in the laboratory.

That night, he was able to do many things in the lab, especially since he could conjure things by waving his hand.

The next day, after waking up, he went to the factory to smelt new materials. All the materials needed for the model airplane were smelted by himself, which was undoubtedly the most time-consuming part.

Li Zhenhua devoted himself to the research and development of model airplanes, and the rest of the company finally relaxed and were no longer so anxious.

After spending a month in this peaceful life, the Antarctic team, which had been on its way for more than a month, finally approached the Kyushu Kunlun Research Station aboard an icebreaker.

It was at this time that the snowmobiles sponsored by Li Zhenhua and his team finally came in handy.

For many scientists, snowmobiles are the preferred mode of transportation for field expeditions.

In the eyes of scientists, the most user-friendly and popular snowmobile is the Kyushu Mythical Beast.

For example, today, a six-person team that was going to conduct scientific research activities in another location chose the Teng Liu snowmobile, a mythical beast from the Nine Provinces.

Next are the two-wheeled snowmobiles modified from the White Tiger 7-700, and only then will they be phased out.

This team was very lucky; when they arrived, no one had applied for motorcycles to go out.

The six people applied for a total of four Teng Liu vehicles. After that, they loaded all the things they needed into the vehicles and set off.

They completed their mission smoothly that day, but on their way back, a large crack appeared in front of them.

The crack was very wide, more than four meters wide. This crack, which did not exist when they arrived, became an insurmountable barrier and a stumbling block for their return to the research station.

The crack was too wide, so they had to search along it for a smaller section, but unfortunately, they couldn't find the crack to shrink even after running a long distance.

Meanwhile, while everyone else got out of the car and gathered together to discuss the matter, one of the team members rode away from the crevice on his motorcycle.

After reaching a certain distance, the pair drove towards the crack.

The snowmobile's engine produced maximum power after he floored the throttle.

Like a wild horse galloping across the snow, the team member didn't let up even after approaching the crevice.

The speed had reached 289 kilometers per hour at this moment, and the motorcycle took off from this side of the crevice.

It was also because he chose a good place to take off; the price was relatively high here, while the other end of the crack was lower.

The motorcycle barely descended through the air, slicing through a gap more than four meters wide, before crashing heavily onto the other edge.

Then, riding on that momentum, the snowmobile reached the other side of the crevice.

After running for twenty or thirty meters, the car finally came to a stop under the control of the team members.

The five people who had just started discussing countermeasures were now completely dumbfounded.

All five of them thought to themselves simultaneously, "This is fucking possible? These heavy snowmobiles can actually leap over a crevice more than four meters wide?"

As everyone thought this, they also felt angry about the team member's unauthorized actions.

After reprimanding the team member, the group realized that it was indeed a solution.

These researchers, whose average age is over forty, went all out at this age.

Another update is expected around 11 PM!

(End of this chapter)