China's chip company Zhongke Xintong has overcome a number of technical problems through years of research and development, successfully developed photonic chips, and is building the world's first photonic chip production line, which is expected to be officially put into operation in 2023.
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Photonic chips belong to the next generation of chips, its production is due to the limit of silicon-based chips is 1.4nm, and with the improvement of silicon-based chip manufacturing process, lithography machine to be replaced, the cost has been greatly increased, even Apple can not afford TSMC's 3nm chip, in the case of the global economic recession, high-end chips have to limit production and price reduction.
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As China, the more important thing is that it is fed up with the pain of being stuck, and it has to develop the next generation of chips with the greatest courage to achieve lane overtaking.
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Of course, photonic chips have significant advantages. The speed of its operation is 1000 times that of silicon-based chips, but the power consumption is only one thousandth of that of silicon-based chips, and it does not require expensive lithography machines, that is, ordinary lithography machines can produce photonic chips, which also eliminates the cost of updating equipment, and greatly reduces the manufacturing cost of photonic chips.
At present, many companies around the world are developing and producing photonic chips. The company of the first photonic chip production line is not the only one identified, and companies in different regions are conducting related research and development.
Taking China as an example, Fiberhome Communications is one of the first companies to launch photonic chips in China, and its photonic chips have a wide range of applications in the field of communication. In addition, domestic companies such as Huawei and ZTE are also conducting research and development of photonic chips.
In foreign countries, Intel, IBM, Mellanox and other companies are also conducting research and development of photonic chips, and are expected to be put into production.