If you cheat, money will follow

the next day.

Chang Le and Zeng Xi left Changning and continued southward, arriving at Songshan Lake in Wanzhou.

Mr. Ren was sitting on the slow train, visiting the artificially constructed exotic scenery of Songshan Lake and communicating with each other.

After Chang Le introduced the situation and progress, Mr. Ren was delighted and clenched his fist unconsciously.

"It seems that the hardware field is progressing very smoothly and has the foundation for complete autonomy." He said.

"Yes, are you here?" Chang Le asked.

"I'm doing fine here, and I'm not holding back." Mr. Ren said:

"EDA, operating systems, compilers, databases, etc. have all been replaced independently..."

"And we have also completed the replacement development of tens of thousands of devices and the repeated board replacement development of tens of thousands of circuit boards."

"In other words, even if the other side imposes a new ban tomorrow, our whole company can quickly switch and the core business will not be greatly affected."

"That's good. When my superiors told me the news a few days ago, I was a little worried, so I went to the Magic City to have a look, worried that some links might fall off." Chang Le said:

"There's another thing I want to tell you. I went to Changning yesterday, and Changning Storage's flash memory chip broke through."

"Oh? A breakthrough? How is the performance?"

"The 64-layer 256GB TLC-3D NAND flash memory developed based on the new Xtacking architecture is superior to contemporaneous products from major companies such as Samsung, SK and Micron in terms of transmission speed and storage density. Do you support it?"

"No problem. I will ask the company to connect with Changning Storage later and include it in our supply company directory."

"Okay, let's just wait for this strong west wind."

…………

On May 5, people across the country have a holiday.

Major tourist attractions across the country are overcrowded, and the roads are packed with traffic and people.

At this busy time, shocking news came from across the ocean.

The spokesperson of the North American SEC solemnly announced in front of the camera:

"...filed a lawsuit against Leda Investment Company on 12 counts including suspected market manipulation, illegal trading, and violation of national security..."

"Starting from May 5, Leda Investment will be banned from entering the North American securities market indefinitely, and the shares of Fruit Company, Facebook, and Tesla held by Leda Investment will be frozen."

"Starting from May 5, North American companies are indefinitely prohibited from conducting any form of capital transactions with Leda Investment in the capital market."

Followed by.

The North American Department of Commerce held a press conference.

Its spokesperson announced:

"Effective May 5, Juchang and its 1 affiliated companies will be included in the entity list."

"North American companies are prohibited from selling or transferring technology, software and hardware products to companies on the Entity List."

It seems that North America is not strong enough and has not included Leda Investment in the entity list.

Two departments, two bans, quickly spread around the world.

People all over the world were completely confused at this moment.

Has Leda Investment been sanctioned again?

Juchang was also sanctioned?

How many times is this?

What did Juchang do?

Let the North American superpower take such an extreme approach and impose sanctions with the power of one country?

Domestic regulators and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded immediately:

"...We have always opposed the politicization of economic and technological issues, and also opposed the abuse of the concept of "national security."

"No suppression or sanctions can stop our progress, and will only further strengthen our country's will to be self-reliant and self-improvement."

in North America.

Musk was stunned for a moment when he saw the news.

He immediately took out his mobile phone to express his emotions and opinions on Twitter:

"I'm really shocked. How stupid is this to come up with? Fuck..."

He said bad words.

Although, it's not the first time he's said bad words.

Obviously, he is worried that Leda Investment will take too much action in this regard.

Cook, on the other hand, said nothing.

On the one hand, he is motivated by interests and is a staunch supporter of sanctioning Juchang;

On the other hand, he still considers his own interests and firmly opposes sanctions on Leda Investment.

Gates, the former richest man, expressed his views in front of the media cameras for the first time:

"This is tantamount to playing with fire and burning ourselves. Sanctions will only destroy ourselves."

North American media.

"New York Times":

"Our all-knowing president finally adopted the Cold War mentality, set up the banner of putting North America first, and waved the knife at Leda Investment and Ju Factory. Isn't he worried about the supply of solid-state batteries being cut off?"

"Wall Street Times":

"Sanctions may trigger fierce counterattacks, may have unpredictable responses to the global mobile phone and automobile industries, and may also have a negative impact on global 5G networks."

"Financial Times":

"Sanctions will only exacerbate the fragmentation of the global technology industry. Whether it is solid-state batteries or 5G technology, both are relied on by the world."

"Economist":

"The sanctions reflect North America's concerns about the rise of China's technology. However, this... will also have a serious negative impact on North America's own economic interests. Solid-state batteries and 5G technology are widely used around the world."

The attitude of domestic netizens is very complicated. On the one hand, there are calm supporters:

"It's already numb anyway. Plus this time, Leda Investment has been sanctioned three times. Which one lasted for a year?"

"Leda Investment was sanctioned again, and King Wang slapped himself in the face, but this time Juchang was also involved."

"Juchang's mobile phone sales are too high, which is not good for the fruit."

"Leda was sanctioned, why were tens of thousands of domestic financial investment companies not sanctioned? Chrysanthemum Factory was sanctioned, why were the Rice Factory, Blue Factory, and Green Factory not sanctioned?"

On one side are those watching the fire from the other side:

"It's just a company owned by two capitalists. What does their sanction have to do with me? Will it affect my monthly salary of 3000 yuan?"

"You deserve it. One of them sells domestic cars more expensive than imported cars; the other sells mobile phones more expensive than fruits. Why?"

"Haha, the chrysanthemum factory is going to collapse now, leaving you to cry."

"The two companies make so much money every year and don't give me a penny. How can I like them? It would be better if they failed as soon as possible."

On the day of the sanctions, domestic public opinion was tumbling.

As the company involved, Leda Investment is very calm.

Just posted a message on the official scarf.

It’s a violent cartoon picture:

"Stop talking, I want to cry for a while."

The text is crying, but the expression is comical, full of ridicule and irony.

Juchang, on the other hand, remained silent to the outside world.

Internally, a "Letter to All Employees" was published.

The letter was signed not by He, but by Ren.

"Dear HiSi employees: By now I believe you have learned that we have been included in the entity list of the North American Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security..."

"Please don't be sad, because probably many years ago, during the calm season, the company made the assumption of extreme survival..."

“Suppose one day all of North America’s advanced chips and technologies become unavailable…what do we do?”

"Eight years ago, our major shareholder and partner Leda Investment came to the company to have an in-depth discussion with us..."

"Remind us to abandon our illusions and prepare to fight. The assumptions we thought would never happen must not be assumptions, but must be reality..."

"To this end, we have cooperated with Leda to divide the labor. They are responsible for the hardware of the semiconductor industry, and we are responsible for software research and development, and jointly implement Plan B."

"More than 3000 days and nights have passed, and our partner Leda Investment has used massive funds to build an entire domestically produced and self-supplied semiconductor hardware industry chain."

“It has cultivated hundreds of backbone and key enterprises and thousands of supporting enterprises, achieving full coverage of silicon wafer processing, wafer manufacturing, and wafer packaging equipment.”

"The silicon wafer purification in the magic silicon industry has reached 10."

"Smee has completed the mass production and supply of DUV-ArFi lithography machines."

"Huahong Semiconductor has achieved a technological breakthrough in the 14nm process using domestic lithography machines..."

"In addition, materials such as photoresist and special gases, and equipment such as glue development, glue removal, film deposition, and wafer cleaning are all synchronized with DUV lithography..."

"And we, who have worked thousands of days and nights, under the stars and the moon, have built a complete set of software backup tires for extreme survival, including EDA, operating systems, compilers, databases, etc."

…………

"The wheels of history are rolling forward, and the tide of the times is mighty."

"Today, we face the darkest moment that the superpowers have painstakingly created, but it has become our "spare tire" for a sunny day."

"Starting today, we say goodbye to the past and our former partners."

"From today on, we will join hands with our new partners to embrace the future."

"The road ahead will be more difficult, but we have nothing to fear..."