Chapter 572 - Spell Chip!
A few days later.
Inside the Garden of Eden, the main laboratory.
On the table in the main laboratory were the blueprints of the "Gloves of the Destruction" and the scroll of the "Right Hand of God" that had been copied not long ago, and Richard sat at the table and squinted.
In a short period of time, no further clues about "Artis" could be found, so Richard temporarily set his sights on the production of the "Gauntlet of the World", ready to try to study it carefully. If ideally, it would be nice to be able to make a prototype in the blueprint.
Of course, this is very difficult.
The "Gauntlet of the World" is a magic spell item, but compared to the rest of the magic spell items, it is not an order of magnitude more complicated. According to the previous statement, the magic pattern on the ordinary magic pattern props is like a circuit diagram with anti-counterfeiting means, and it takes certain means to crack and use. And the magic pattern involved in the "glove of destroying the world" is more like a chip.
That's right, chips!
Of course, this is just a metaphor, not that the "gauntlet of the world" really needs a chip, but the difficulty is similar.
Speaking of chips, this is almost one of the most representative high-end technology products on the planet.
A chip that can be grasped by the hand, one square centimeter or even smaller, can integrate billions of transistors, complete trillions of operations in a second, simulate an imaginary world between square inches, or calculate all the possible development results of one thing, which was almost unimaginable before.
And if you look at the chip in the current medieval-like wizarding world, it is equivalent to an illusion without flaws, or an omniscient prophecy spell.
Of course, the chip can be so powerful, it is not made overnight, it has gone through a long road of development to become like this.
Before the most primitive chips, i.e., transistors, electron tubes were widely used on Earth.
The first computer, the Atana Sov Berry computer, was born in the United States in 1942, covering an area of 150 square meters, weighing 30 tons, using 17,468 tubes, 7,200 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and 500,000 wires.
Because of its obvious drawbacks, scientists have since invested a lot of effort in trying to develop new, lighter computers.
Thereupon......
In 1947, the first semiconductor transistor was manufactured.
In 1950, the junction transistor was born
In 1958, integrated circuits were invented.
In 1960, the lithography process was invented.
In 1963, CMOS technology was proposed, and most of the integrated circuit chips since then are based on this technology.
In 1964, Moore's Law proposed that the integration of transistors was predicted to increase by 1 time every 18 months, and integrated circuits began to enter a stage of rapid development.
In 1971, large-scale integrated circuits appeared.
In 1978, the very large-scale integrated circuit (VLSI) appeared, with 140,000 transistors integrated into a silicon wafer of less than 0.5 square centimeters.
In 1988, very large scale integrated circuits (VLSIs) were further enhanced, with 35 million transistors integrated on a 1 square centimeter piece of silicon.
In 1989, the transistor integration process in the chip reached the 1μm level, that is, 0.0001cm.
In 2001, the transistor integration process in the chip reached the 0.13μm level.
In 2003, the transistor integration process in the chip reached the 90nm process, that is, 0.000009cm.
In 2018, the transistor integration process in the chip reached the 7nm process, and the integrated transistors reached tens of trillions.
In this way, the chip has gradually become the product of the forefront of technology.
Chips on the earth are an incomparably typical knowledge-intensive and capital-intensive industry, which can only be supported by a super attack or a state.
Not to mention anything else, the general price of the lithography machine, which is a necessary instrument for making chips, is around 1 billion yuan, and the whole set of equipment requires more than ten Boeing 747 flights to be transported.
And this is just a lithography machine, if you want to make chips, only the lithography machine is not enough, but also countless instruments and equipment are needed to form a complete production line.
Outside of the assembly line, more research work is invested.
Without investing an astronomical amount of money, the chip industry will not produce results.
And the results do not mean success, because if the quality of the chips produced is worse than the top chips, it will not be able to have enough market. Even if this inferior chip is sold cheaply, regardless of whether consumers buy it, it is a huge problem to sell how much to recover the cost and how much to sell to obtain funds to research the next generation of chips.
Therefore, once the chip technology is backward, it is not just a few people shouting slogans and working hard to catch up. It requires countless capital investment, spare no effort to support, and more than ten years or even decades of waiting before it can see a little light of success.
This is the most important weapon of the country!
And now, Richard, naturally, is not preparing to make chips. Although he knows a lot of knowledge, it is not arrogant, it is completely delusional to try to rub out a high-precision chip production line by himself out of the productivity of the current world!
But everything can be worked, he can't make chips on Earth, he doesn't need to make chips on Earth, and it's useless to make them - at least for now.
What he was going to do was to borrow some of the processes of chip making on the earth to complete the depiction of the complex magic patterns on the design of the "Gauntlet of the Destruction of the World".
In the design drawing, the number and complexity of the magic pattern can be said to be beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and the magic pattern is superimposed on several layers through a special structure to complete the production of the entire "glove of the world".
And if it is made with chip technology, it is not necessary to do this.
After all, no matter how complex the magic pattern is, it is also visible to the naked eye, with an accuracy above 0.0001cm, which is the level of chip transistor integration technology on the earth in 1989.
As long as his method is reasonable and can play the role of imagination, he can greatly reduce the area of the magic pattern, and depict part or all of the magic pattern of the "glove of destruction" in a chip the size of a fingernail.
Then, you can avoid the many problems in the process of making the "Gauntlet of the World", and finally make the finished product - a chip-based magic spell prop that has never existed in this medieval-like wizarding world.
The chip in it can be called ...... Spell chips.
Well, spell chips.
So what exactly is to be done?
Richard pondered, his fingers tapping on the table, and after a while, he already had a general idea.
If you use some of the processes of the earth chip to make spell chips, the core technology should be...... Lithography.
And if you explain this technology in simple words, it can be simply seen as ...... Photograph.
Yes, photography.
In this photograph, four things are needed, the negative, the paint, the mask, and the light source.
The paint is evenly smeared on the negative, so that the light source passes through the gap in the mask, and the special light shines on the negative paint, and then the light of the light source reacts with the paint and the desired shape appears.
The so-called shape, on the earth chip, will become a transistor after various subsequent processing, and on the spell chip, it is the magic pattern.
So now we need to solve the first thing, the negatives.