His eyes were filled with strong doubts.

As director of the Warwick Institute for Strategic Studies, he knew exactly what this suggestion meant.

Today's mainstream high-end chip specifications in the industry are 7 nanometers.

Although Qualcomm and other companies have begun to move towards the layout of 5nm chips and plan to officially launch them next year to compete with Tamron chips, this is also based on the fact that Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is building a 5nm wafer fab.

And their chip design department is also using Yinglong EDA to upgrade Tamron chips.

However, due to various limitations, if the problem of high-end lithography machines cannot be solved next year, Tamron series chips will not be able to be produced even if they are designed.

By then, the share of the high-end chip market will be taken away by overseas companies.

But under this predicament, Xu Lei actually suggested that they design a 3-nanometer or even 1-nanometer chip. Anyone who heard it would probably think it was a joke.

After all, it is still completely unknown whether chips with these two specifications can be produced.

Especially 1-nanometer chips, since they are said to be the theoretical physical limit of silicon-based chips, there is basically no hope of them being produced.

At least don't think about it in the past few years.

If we really want to design chips with these two specifications, it is almost a waste of resources invested. In addition to being unable to tape out, we can only verify the functions through functional simulation of Yinglong chip design software.

But if you calm down and think about it carefully, Xu Lei's character will never make a mistake.

Since they dare to make such an unimaginable suggestion, there must be some truth in it, but they are unable to know it due to lack of information.

When Peng Xiangqian's thoughts stopped here, he suddenly realized the real reason why Ren Yuanwei called him over.
Chapter completed!