Fudan University announced the successful development of the world's first two-dimensional semiconductor chip, "Wuji".
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April 2nd, news reported that a joint team from Fudan University's National Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Systems, led by Zhou Peng and Bao Wen Zhong, successfully developed the world's first 32-bit RISC-V architecture microprocessor based on two-dimensional semiconductor materials, named "Wuji" (meaning "Limitless").
According to reports, this achievement breaks through the engineering bottleneck of two-dimensional semiconductor electronics, achieving an integration level of 5900 transistors for the first time. It also sets a new international record for the largest scale verification of a two-dimensional logic chip. This domestically developed technology, with independent intellectual property rights completed by the Fudan team, gives China a leading advantage in the research and development of next-generation chip materials.
"An inverter is a very basic and important logic circuit, and its yield directly reflects the quality of the entire chip." Zhou Peng, a professor at Fudan University's School of Microelectronics, introduced that unlike silicon wafers, which can grow high-quality large-size single crystals through the Czochralski method, two-dimensional materials need to be grown through chemical vapor deposition (CVD), which leads to defects and non-uniformity in the materials themselves. The inverter yield in this research is as high as 99.77%, with excellent performance such as single-stage high gain and ultra-low leakage current in the off state, which is an engineering breakthrough. 
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The team used low-energy processes such as flexible plasma processing technology to process the surface of the two-dimensional semiconductor, thus avoiding damage to the material caused by high-energy particles, giving full play to the advantages of two-dimensional semiconductors and ensuring chip quality.
In addition, the product has excellent performance such as single-stage high gain and ultra-low leakage current in the off state. The team verified, through rigorous automated testing equipment, that at a 1 kHz clock frequency, a thousand-gate chip can serially implement 37 types of 32-bit RISC-V instructions, meeting the requirements of the 32-bit RISC-V integer instruction set (RV32I). The optimization level of its integration process and the verification results of large-scale circuits have reached the best level internationally.
The relevant results were published in the journal Nature on the evening of April 2nd, Beijing time, under the title "A RISC-V 32-Bit Microprocessor Based on Two-dimensional Semiconductors".
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