CPU是如何生产出来的（国外英文资料）.doc

CPU是如何生产出来的（国外英文资料）How is the CPU produced?As the core of computer components, the CPU (Central Processor Unit, Central processing Unit) in the users heart has been very mysterious: in the minds of the majority of users, it is just a noun abbreviation, they even its struggle not to come out, all the writing; In the eyes of some hardware ace, the CPU is also up to a 10 m2 cm, there are a lot of foot piece of rocks, and the CPU core even only less than one square centimeter. They know less than one square centimeter of this stuff is made of how many micron technology, know it integrates hundreds of millions of tens of millions of transistors, but few understand the manufacturing process of CPU. Today, lets take a look at how the CPU is developed.Basic materialMost people know that modern cpus are made from silicon. Silicon is a non-metallic element, from the chemical point of view, due to its metal elements in the periodic table area and the border of nonmetallic element area, so has the nature of the semiconductor, suitable for manufacturing various tiny transistor, is currently the most suitable for making one of the materials of modern large scale integrated circuit. In a sense, the main components of the sand on the beach and silica (silicon dioxide), and production of the silicon material, CPU use is actually extracted oil from the sand. Manufacturing process of CPU, of course, also used in some of the other material, which is why we will not see Intel or AMD just pull a ton of sand to their factory. At the same time, make the CPU of very high purity silicon, although from cheap sand, but due to the complex material purification process, we still cant will be one hundred grams of high purity silicon and the price of a ton of sand.Another basic material for making cpus is metal. Metal is used to make circuits that connect components within the CPU. Aluminum is one of the most commonly used metal materials because it is cheap and performs well. Today, most mainstre