Chapter 148: Chapter 120: Chip (Extra for book friend 171021102948988)_2
Li Shiming thought to himself that if he could arrange his own Gathering Spirit Array soon, his cultivation efficiency would improve even further. Although there were upper limits, even a 0.1 increase per cultivation session accumulated significantly over ti.
The next day, through his Identity Jade Disc, Li Shiming exchanged for Storage Spirit Runes, Acceleration Runes, Solidifying Runes, Sharpness Runes, Fla Runes, and Frost Runes. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to exchange more, but his good deeds were running low.
With the remaining good deeds, he exchanged for a special formation nad the Cloud-shocking Thunder Formation.
The Cloud-shocking Thunder Formation was the only thunder and lightning type formation he found among the formations available for exchange.
Because thunder and lightning type formations possess high burst attack power and are naturally effective against Demon Cultivation Techniques, they are extrely popular.
However, the issue with thunder and lightning type formations was that they had a significant flaw: the thunder and lightning in the formation were not generated without cause; it required the condensation of thunderclouds in the sky before heavenly thunder would fall.
Any cultivator who saw thunderclouds suddenly appearing in the sky would stay alert, making it difficult to trap them in a thunder and lightning type formation.
Furthermore, the Cloud-shocking Thunder Formation required too long to gather clouds, making this knowledge of the thunder and lightning formation exceptionally cheap and sowhat impractical.
Learning these runes was unproblematic. On this matter, Li Shiming, having mories from a previous life and the support of IBMz15, found it easier to perceive true anings the first ti he encountered spells.
His learning of spell runes was not for the purpose of making magic artifacts, not least because he lacked the energy for it at the mont.
Even with the help of IBMz15, his ti and energy each day were limited.
It’s worth ntioning another advantage of Spiritual Thought: having cultivated Ice Heart Jade Thought Technique and nurtured his Spiritual Thought, his spirit would fully recover. Moreover, practicing Five Elents Qi Absorption Technique aided in his physical recovery, aning he no longer needed sleep to restore his spirit and body.
This ant he could almost, like a Foundation Establishnt Cultivator, go without rest for at least a month.
This allowed him more ti each day, and naturally, the things he learned also increased.
As ti passed, after several days’ efforts, what he referred to as his “industrial mother machine” was finally completed.
The entire machine was endowed with “Solidifying Runes”, giving it stability far surpassing that of previous designs.
The machine’s cutter head made use of a Low Grade Magical Artifact, personally enchanted by Li Shiming with Storage Spirit Runes, Solidifying Runes, and Sharpness Runes, and connected to a small Spiritual Power Pattern that continuously replenished the power inside the Storage Spirit Rune.
The cutting power of the machine, for worldly tals, was formidable.
The machine’s power was supplied by the Cloud-shocking Thunder Formation, with the power of thunder and lightning generated by the formation being converted into a stable electric current through a newly made power converter, then stored in a battery before connecting to the machine.
The Cloud-shocking Thunder Formation consud Spirit Stones, and as long as the Spirit Stones were sufficient, it could generate an unending supply of electricity, with the amount adjustable by expanding the size of the formation.
Of course, the Cloud-shocking Thunder Formation needed to be activated ten minutes in advance in order to continuously generate power, which was a moderate flaw.
The first devices produced were the single crystal furnace, Vapor Phase Epitaxy Furnace, oxidation furnace, Magnetic Control Sputtering Platform, chemical chanical polishing machine, Optical Lithography Machine, ion injection machine, Wire Bonding Machine, wafer dicing machine, and Wafer Thinning Machine.
These ten devices were materials production equipnt for semiconductor wafers, and since there were no technological barriers to consider, and as the wafer equipnt could be manufactured dostically in his previous life, complete production designs were available in IBMz15.
There was also one Optical Lithography Machine; he did not choose the top-notch nanoter lithography machine but instead prepared to manufacture a more manageable microter lithography machine.
Naturally, these devices all shared a common flaw: the lack of a control chip. Like the “industrial mother machine”, these devices were missing a critical core.
This represented a “chicken or the egg” dilemma, and Li Shiming’s solution was to make IBMz15 a versatile substitute, simulating the necessary control processes to manage these devices.
All these works were carried out by Li Shiming aside from his cultivation, using almost all of the ti freed up because he didn’t need to sleep.
Three months had passed, in which he had purchased from Yun Ze goods worth more than two thousand spirit stones, many of which were mundane items.
He had to consider an important matter, the usage of so many mundane items and the origin of his spirit stones.
Currently, he had spent about four thousand spirit stones at Yun’s Trading House, a number which isn’t considered high but definitely wasn’t low.
Most Qi Refining cultivators couldn’t co up with so many spirit stones all at once, and even as an Array Master, because Li Shiming had only recently joined the sect, continued extravagant purchases would make it even harder to explain the origin of the spirit stones.
Having already spent four thousand spirit stones, he had reached the limits of what his identity could justify in a short term, and he needed to start considering how to acquire a reasonable source of spirit stones quickly.
The first batch of wafers had been produced, and due to issues with technology and experience, he was not satisfied with them.
Following the analysis by IBMz15, the key improvents were identified, but he didn’t want to waste this batch of wafers.
Today was a significant day; the microter-level optical lithography machine was officially starting, set to produce the world’s first microter-level chip.
He had not placed it in the small machine room space; to manufacture more advanced chips in the future, he needed so manufacturing experience with microter-level chips first.
The information from IBMz15 was plentiful, but actual manufacturing still differed from the docuntation.
To speak of these three months, even if the manufacturing of the wafers and microter-level optical lithography machine was challenging, with the unmatched sharpness of the five-axis industrial mother machine and the aid of his spiritual thoughts, even so especially needed components could be sent into the machine room space to be completed by the control of third-grade sword bases, manufacturing these pieces of equipnt shouldn’t take long.
However, he encountered many difficulties during this process; ti slowly slipped away amidst repeated trial and error.
Fortunately, during these days, nothing disturbed him, allowing him to peacefully continue with his activities while cultivating.
Li Shiming activated a formation in an underground space, the air was expelled from within the formation, creating a temperature-stable environnt similar to a vacuum.
This formation was ant for trapping enemies. For cultivators, losing air wouldn’t affect their ability to mobilize spiritual power for a long ti; the effect of withdrawing the air was not significant.
However, it was the best choice for creating a sterile and dust-free environnt, achieving this without the need for complicated filtration equipnt.
Li Shiming did not need to enter the formation; he controlled the microter-level optical lithography machine with his spiritual thoughts, loading a cut wafer into the device.
A cable extended from the machine room space and connected to the microter-level optical lithography machine.
The world’s first chip was not an advanced design, but rather a product quite behind compared to his previous world.
As IBMz15 took control, the microter-level optical lithography machine started operating, its internal lights shining on the wafer’s surface.
Like printing a photograph, except it was transferring intricate designs onto the wafer’s surface, etching the required design circuits.
The microter-level optical lithography machine was just a tool; the actual precision work was carried out by the operations of IBMz15.
Waiting for the chips to erge from the microter-level optical lithography machine, the first batch of 450 chips was successfully etched.
Afterwards, following the packaging process, the finished chips were not pretty, and even sowhat ugly, even more, their surfaces were marked with bizarre runes, all intended to confound.
Upon inspection, out of the 450 chips, only about 164 t the design standards, the rest were flawed rejects.
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