The main material of the chip is silicon.

The chip is made of silicon material, which is only half the size of a fingernail; A chip is composed of hundreds of microcircuits connected together, with a very small volume and filled with microcircuits that generate pulse currents; It is the main product of microelectronics technology. An integrated circuit chip is an electronic component that includes a silicon substrate, at least one circuit, a fixed sealing ring, a grounding ring, and at least one protective ring.

Why would you choose silicon to produce chips? The main reasons for choosing silicon as the raw material for chips are as follows:

1. Silicon, as the second most abundant element on Earth, is easy to find raw materials for purification, and the processing technology related to silicon has been developed for decades, which is relatively mature compared to other elements.

2. Silicon is cheap and easy to promote.

3. The chemical properties of silicon are stable, so the chips produced have strong stability.

However, due to the recent global semiconductor shortage, some companies have started using nitridation as a substitute for silicon as the raw material for chips

Nitriding has a wider bandgap than silicon, so its produced devices include smaller transistors and shorter currents. Ultra low resistance and capacitance can significantly improve speed. Gallium nitride has more advantages than silicon in the manufacturing of RF devices and power electronic devices. It can be used to manufacture high-frequency radio wave pulse chipsets used in 5G technology, and its heat resistance is also higher than that of silicon. In addition, as a processing by-product, gallium nitride has lower production costs, fast delivery times, and high production capacity. Therefore, many countries have begun to pay attention to gallium as an element.

Chips are widely used, with many types and a wide variety of models. Whenever new application requirements arise, new chips will be generated.