Simulation: Great Power Technology

After getting off the plane, Ye Zhou's first thing was to go to his rental house to move. He lived in the headquarters for half a month before. Although the environment is familiar, if he wants to do research work later, it is still not enough to live there. It was convenient, so Chen Hao found him a new house near the Shencheng Advanced Technology Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

When Ye Zhou finished tidying up the odds and ends that had been in the rental house and moved over to take a look, he was stunned.

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

Small villa in the deep city.

"It's a little too extravagant..."

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

"It's okay, nothing extravagant, your current status is worthy of this house."

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

"It doesn't matter, it's you who came out anyway."

"...Okay, that's fine."

Seeing Ye Zhou's sore face but trying to slap his face to pretend to be a fat man, Chen Hao couldn't help laughing.

"Just kidding with you! The property right of this house is our own. It used to be a guest house, specially for reception. Later, you know, it was abandoned, and it has been vacant. Now I will live with you first, mainly after considering you. It is convenient to set up a research institute nearby, and it is also convenient to have various reception activities in the future.”

"You have more people to receive in the future, so you can't let a bunch of bosses squeeze tea in your small living room, right? It's not a luxury, it's 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 talents, especially top talents. The placement of these talents should not only give them enough economic returns, but also help them support the scene when necessary. .

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

After putting away the things, 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 house excitedly.

"Hey, Brother Hao, when are you going to find someone to help me move my minicomputer here? I'm already optimistic about the place, and I'll put it in the study on the second floor. There's enough space!"

Chen Hao shook his head and replied:

"The minicomputer will definitely be brought here for you, but you shouldn't put it in the study. The rooms on the second floor are all solid wood floors. The minicomputer generates heat, the cables are complicated, and it is prone to fire, so you should put it on the first floor. There's the utility room over there, I'll find someone to install the cables for you alone, and just set the console in the study on the second floor."

"Okay, okay, then when are you going to pretend? Can you do it today?"

"...Ye Lan, I found that you are really not polite to call me up. You let me rest for a while, I finally took the opportunity to pick you up and rest today. I will give it to you tomorrow. You do it!"

Ye Lan smiled 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 the layout started in the past two days?"

Chen Hao nodded and replied:

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

"Is there any new information? Why do you feel that the international public opinion has not responded much?"

Ye Zhou asked curiously.

After the release of the Zhiwei lithography machine, there was a frenzy of public opinion in the world, but just a few days later, this frenzy was like being covered with a lid, and it was silent in an instant, no matter how he searched on the Internet. , I can't see the latest news about Zhiwei lithography machine.

This is very bizarre. According to his experience, in this era, when a promotional video of a high-quality game is released in China, there are a lot of people doing videos such as "foreign anchors watching the reaction of the black myth Wukong". Here, it seems that it has become the self-satisfaction of the domestic people.

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

"But if you go to Maoxiongguo's website, 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 urgent."

Ye Zhou nodded secretly, Mao Xiongguo has always been a strategic ally of Huaxia. Although he is not too confrontational in many small matters, he has always maintained a consistent pace in major decisions.

The two countries are like noisy brothers, and they are usually awkward, but it is not so much that they are enemies.

Therefore, Ye Zhou was not surprised that they were positive in this matter.

"Apart from this? What's the reaction elsewhere?"

"Do you mean official? Or private?"

"Of course it's the official one. Whether the people outside the country know about this is something to talk about."

Ye Lan brought the tea cups. The way she brewed tea was completely the style of an old cadre. Each person filled a large glass with hot water, and then poured a handful of tea leaves into it. Hao also had no choice but to drink it without laughing or crying.

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

"The official fact... To be honest, there's not much I can tell you. Most of the information is top-secret from the intelligence department. Your current authority can only be classified."

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

"whats the matter?"

Ye Zhou asked curiously.

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

"Yindu Kingdom?? What's going on? Are they publishing it? What, the Ganges has manifested itself? Did the river god send them a blueprint?"

Chen Hao laughed and replied:

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

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

It's nothing more than a set of checks and balances.

However, the other party is also ruthless enough, knowing that he and Huaxia just can't go on, he immediately started to support a younger brother.

But why choose Yindu?

The lithography machine seems to be just a machine, but the complexity of the industrial chain involved and the high requirements for industrial capabilities are simply not something that can be played by Yin.

If nothing else, it is said that the relatively simple photoresist in the configuration of the lithography machine cannot be played at all.

What, are you going to apply Yindushen Oil instead of photoresist to the silicon wafer?

Ye Zhou smiled mockingly and said:

"Let's release it, I hope the lithography machine they built can last for two hours."

According to his understanding of Yindu, this kind of high-precision and complex equipment is successful if the other party can run it stably for two hours after it is built.

After all, the submarine they built did not last an hour after it was launched.

"It won't take two hours. According to our estimates, they will definitely be able to make it, but whether it is competitive or not is uncertain."

"But anyway, it's not a bad thing for us."

"It's not a bad thing? How do you say it?"

"High-end technology like this has inertia. Even if our microlithography machine does a good job, people who should buy asml will still buy asml. It is difficult to change in the short term. We need to attack this inertia."

"However, hitting inertia comes at a price, both financially and in terms of goodwill."

"Now, since the other party wants to support Yindu, he must take out the chips for these costs."

"When they've almost wiped out the market inertia, we'll go to the market again. As long as it works well, we'll be able to pick up the fruit for nothing."

Ye Zhou nodded, but then he had new doubts.

"At that time, will the fruit still be picked?"

Chen Hao smiled mysteriously and said:

"The company they chose to bet on was hsmc in Yindu, and the technology partner of this company was 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, who was beside him, knew about this person, so she spoke first:

"FAW Group!"