Great Power Technology

After getting off the plane, the first thing Ye Zhou did was to move to his rental house. He had lived in the command headquarters for half a month. Although the environment was already familiar to him, if he wanted to conduct research in the future, it would still be uncomfortable to live there all the time. It was convenient, so Chen Hao found him a new house near the Shencheng Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

When Ye Zhou finished packing up the bits and pieces that were left in the rental house and moved them over to take a look, he was stunned into silence.

What Chen Hao was looking for was actually a small villa.

A small villa in the deep city.

"This is a bit too luxurious."

Ye Zhou turned to look at Chen Hao who was leading him, and asked uneasily.

"It's okay, it's nothing luxurious. Your current status is worthy of this house."

"No, I mean, how expensive is the monthly rent for this thing? In a place like Shencheng, the rent of a villa can pay the salary of several researchers. Is this necessary?"

"It doesn't matter, you are responsible for it anyway."

".Okay, that's fine."

Chen Hao couldn't help but laugh when he saw Ye Zhou's expression of pain on his face but he wanted to pretend to be fat.

"I'm kidding you! The property of this house belongs to us. It used to be a guest house, specializing in reception. Later, you know, it was abandoned and has been vacant. Now I will let you live in it first, mainly because I will consider you. It is convenient to have a research institute nearby, and it will also be convenient for various reception activities in the future.”

"You are going to receive a lot of people in the future, so you can't let a bunch of big guys crowd into your small living room to drink tea, right? This is not a luxury, it is just a necessary arrangement."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou finally nodded.

What Chen Hao said actually makes sense. The most important resource of a country is talent, especially top talent. In the placement of these talents, we must not only give them sufficient economic returns, but also help them hold up the situation when necessary. .

Only when software and hardware are in place can talents be retained.

After putting their things away, the three of them sat down in the reception room on the first floor. Ye Lan finally realized her dream of living in a villa and walked around the room excitedly.

"Hey, Brother Hao, when are you going to find someone to help me move my minicomputer over? I have already chosen a place, and I will put it in the study on the second floor. There is enough space!"

Chen Hao shook his head and replied:

"The minicomputer will definitely be moved here for you, but you don't want to put it in the study. The rooms on the second floor are all made of solid wood floors. Minicomputers generate heat, have complicated cables, and are prone to fires. Then you can put it on the first floor. In the utility room over there, I'll find someone to install the cables for you, and just set up the console in the study on the second floor."

"Okay, okay, when will you come to pretend? Can you do it today?"

"Ye Lan, I found that you were really not polite at all when you summoned me. Please let me rest for a while. I finally took advantage of the opportunity to take you out to rest today. I'll get it for you tomorrow!"

Ye Lan chuckled and ran to the kitchen to boil water to make tea, leaving Ye Zhou and Chen Hao sitting opposite each other. The former asked:

"Have you started planning in the past two days?"

Chen Hao nodded and replied:

"Some action has been taken, but this is a major event after all. Many decisions are still in the research and judgment stage. We have only done some preliminary information collection and resource preparation work."

"Is there any new information? Why do you feel that there is not much response from international public opinion?"

Ye Zhou asked curiously.

After the Zhi microlithography machine was released, there was a frenzy of public opinion in the world. But just a few days later, the frenzy was as if a lid was put on it, and it became silent in an instant. No matter how he searched on the Internet, , there is no latest news about Zhiwei lithography machine.

This is very bizarre. According to his experience, in this era, when a promotional video for a high-quality game is released in China, there will be a lot of people making videos such as "Foreign anchors' reaction to watching Black Myth Wukong". Zhiwei Lithography Here, it seems that it has become a source of self-pleasure for the domestic people.

"It would be strange if there is a reaction. This is a breakthrough at a strategic level. They cannot allow such news to ferment in their own country. Otherwise, the support rate will drop, and if the public sentiment is really unstable, they will what to do?"

"But if you go to the website of the Bear Country, you can actually find that they are still very responsive. Many manufacturers have already started to contact us - directly through official channels. They are very eager."

"Apart from this? What was the reaction elsewhere?"

"Do you mean official? Or private?"

"Of course it's official. It's open to question whether people abroad know about this."

Ye Lan brought the tea cup. The way she made tea was exactly the style of a veteran cadre. Each person filled a large glass with hot water, then sprinkled a handful of tea leaves into it and it was done. Looking at the tea foam floating on the surface, Chen Hao had no choice but to drink it dumbfounded.

It seems that my daughter may also have this style in the future, so she should adapt to it in advance.

"Officially, to be honest, I can't tell you much. Most of the information is top secret in the intelligence department. Your current authority can only be classified."

"However, there is a very interesting thing that I can tell you."

"whats the matter?"

Ye Zhou asked curiously.

"Yindu Kingdom is preparing to release a 7nm lithography machine."

"Yindu Kingdom?? What's going on? Are they wearing hair? Why, the Ganges has appeared? Has the river god given them blueprints?"

Chen Hao laughed and replied:

"Don't tell me, this time is really like the appearance of the river god. Inexplicably, they have the blueprints, and they plan to build it within a month just like us."

Ye Zhou sighed, he had roughly guessed the story behind it.

But why choose Yindu?

The photolithography machine looks like just a machine, but the industrial chain involved is so complex and the industrial capacity requirements are so high that it is not something that everyone can play with.

If nothing else, they can't even play with the relatively simple photoresist in the photolithography machine configuration.

What, are you planning to apply Yindushen oil on the silicon wafer instead of photoresist?

Ye Zhou smiled mockingly and said:

"Let it be released, and I hope the lithography machine they build can last for two hours."

According to his understanding of Yindu, such high-precision and complex equipment would be considered a success if it could run stably for two hours after being built.

After all, the submarine they built didn't last more than an hour after it was launched into the water.

"It won't take more than two hours. According to our estimates, they can definitely build it, but it's not certain whether it will be competitive."

"But, by any means, it's not a bad thing for us."

"It's not a bad thing? What should I say?"

"High-end technologies like this have inertia. No matter how good our microlithography machines are, people will still buy ASML if they should buy it. It will be difficult to change in the short term. We need to break this inertia."

"However, there is a price to pay for impact inertia, both financially and in terms of goodwill."

"Now, since the other party wants to support Yindu to rise to power, they must take out these bargaining chips."

"When they have almost wiped out the market inertia, we can enter the market again. As long as it works well, we can reap the fruits for nothing."

Ye Zhou nodded, but then he had new doubts.

"When that time comes, can the fruit still be picked?"

Chen Hao smiled mysteriously and said:

"The company they chose to place their bet on is HSMC in Yindu. This company's technology partner is STMicroelectronics, whose predecessor was SGS Microelectronics."

"The actual controlling shareholder and strategic partner of SGS Microelectronics is Xingwang Group, and the actual controller of Xingwang Group is Ding Xiaowang."

"Now guess what company Ding Xiaowang came from?"

Ye Zhou frowned in confusion, but Ye Lan knew this person and spoke first:

"FAW Group!"