51: Section 51

"When we go back, we must impeach the international status of China at the United Nations. They don't deserve to be in this position at all!"

"The more I think about it, the more terrifying it becomes. Could it be that he wants to keep all of us here forever so that global technology will stagnate, giving him a chance to develop?"

"Given it's China, it might really be like that!"

"…"

Listening to the increasingly unpleasant Chinese, the cameraman's lips were almost bleeding from biting them.

Not to mention the netizens watching the live broadcast, he himself wanted to drop the camera and leave. Staying here was too tormenting!

If it weren't for his professional ethics and a sliver of trust in the Chinese government, believing that things wouldn't be so simple, he wouldn't have been able to continue filming these people who were still insulting China!

This exhibition almost became Professor Colton's personal stage. He once again showed everyone the step-by-step development of the photolithography machine from its first generation to the present.

This 90-nanometer machine was merely the second-generation machine of Lighthouse Country.

They had now developed to the sixth generation at the 3-nanometer level and were moving towards the seventh generation at the 1-nanometer level.

However, at this moment, a media reporter pointed to a three-meter-tall square box nearby, inside which many transparent tubular glass pipes could be vaguely seen, with blue liquid continuously flowing through them.

"Professor Colton, what is this machine next to it? According to your introduction, a 90-nanometer photolithography machine shouldn't have this configuration, right?"

"Yes, and there seem to be many additional accessories that a 90-nanometer photolithography machine doesn't have."

"Huh? Wait, I think I saw the 'four' on the four-magnification reduction projection objective lens that Professor Colton mentioned, but it seems like two zeros were added? Four... four hundred magnification?"

"Wait, it seems the scale here is also different. There are some manually modified interfaces that are more precise than the values Professor Colton mentioned."

"Here too..."

"What???"

As many professors inspected it up close, they found many inconsistencies with what Professor Colton had said, and many values showed signs of modification.

Although it was generally similar, it also had many components they had never seen before.

Hearing this, Professor Colton frowned, snorted coldly, and said disdainfully, "These are just tricks by the Chinese government to make things mysterious."

"They think they can confuse people by casually changing the values on the machine."

"They also installed some useless, purely decorative, misleading add-on configurations, which only fool laymen. I can tell at a glance that these are redundant and useless extra modifications for a 90-nanometer photolithography machine!"

"Heh, don't think these can fool me. Nobody understands 90-nanometer photolithography machines better than I do!"

Just when things seemed to be taking a turn, Colton stomped it down again.

This made the public even more desperate.

Clap, clap, clap... A round of applause suddenly came.

It turned out to be Academician Wang, who had initially led them in and then allowed them to visit freely. He had finally finished his matters and returned to the crowd.

He faced everyone's questioning, disdainful, or angry expressions without any response, just maintaining his smile.

He even smiled in Colton's direction and said:

"Isn't this the famous Professor Colton? It's been twenty years since we last met, hasn't it?"

"I remember once consulting you about 90-nanometer photolithography machines, but you were unwilling to disclose then."

"Later, we made breakthroughs ourselves. When we wanted to consult you about 48-nanometer photolithography machines, it seemed you were no longer seen in Lighthouse Country's photolithography machine project team."

"But I'm different. If you have any questions about this 0.35-nanometer lin's lithography machine, as long as it doesn't involve secrets, I'd be happy to answer them for you."

As soon as these words came out, Colton's face darkened a bit. Wasn't this mocking him for only knowing 90-nanometer photolithography machines, failing to keep up with the times, and no longer being qualified to participate in subsequent project teams?

Although that was indeed the case, the 90-nanometer photolithography machine was his pride!

No one could challenge him in this field!

He snorted coldly and replied with an unpleasant expression, "Stop talking nonsense. I'm telling you, this photolithography machine is not a lin's lithography machine at all; it's just an ordinary 90-nanometer photolithography machine."

"Your Chinese government has so blatantly mocked our scholars from multiple countries. We will definitely jointly condemn you internationally!"

Academician Wang smiled faintly, raising his hand to signal everyone not to get overly agitated.

"I have to say, Professor Colton's insight is quite unique. The original body of this machine was indeed a 90-nanometer photolithography machine."

Whoosh—!!

Seeing Academician Wang personally admit this, everyone was a bit stunned.

And the public, who had been watching the live broadcast and following this matter, showed expressions of despair.

"Before, it was just speculation from others, and I still held a glimmer of hope, but the result..."

"Holy crap, the official big shot came out to explain it himself. There's really no room for a reversal!"

"Damn it, this really was a complete farce, completely fooling all the scientists and all the people. It can be said to have made a mockery of the whole world!"

"How is this not a way to gain fame, even if it's infamy..."

"Unbelievable, the government is playing tricks even elementary school students wouldn't play. Even if they fooled others for a day or two, this scandal will surely make us infamous for ten thousand years!"

"Wait, wait... Can a Chinese language class representative come out and explain? Academician Wang just said 'predecessor,' not 'now.' Is it...???"

"Ah???"

Suddenly, someone pointed out the anomaly in the words, instantly drawing the public's attention back, and they continued to listen intently.

The people on site were naturally the same. After the commotion, Academician Wang continued:

"Our lin's lithography machine is an upgrade based on a 90-nanometer photolithography machine."

"Therefore, it's not hard to understand why Professor Colton would be so certain that this is a 90-nanometer photolithography machine."

"After all, six-tenths of the main body's parts were manufactured by disassembling a 90-nanometer photolithography machine."

"Only the parts that Professor Colton couldn't understand are the main parts of this upgrade."

"It's just that this upgrade, by accident, took too big a step, going from the 90-nanometer level to the 0.35-nanometer level."

"This is also our third-generation photolithography machine in China, but it is still in its initial stage. Within the next three months, we will continuously debug it, and the part configurations will also be constantly upgraded."

"The final perfected lin's lithography machine will not only avoid an increase in volume and weight but will also be reduced to about ninety tons."

"Working efficiency will also be higher, and the chip manufacturing process will be continuously simplified and optimized."

"To put it simply, the working efficiency of our third-generation photolithography machine in China is only about five hundred times higher than that of Lighthouse Country's sixth-generation photolithography machine. A small improvement, not worth mentioning."

"Everyone, do you have any other questions?"

...Chapter 61: On that day, China stood at the pinnacle of this field, coldly watching the clowns perform! [Fifth update for first subscription!!]

Chapter 61: On that day, China stood at the pinnacle of this field, coldly watching the clowns perform!

"Small improvement"

"Third generation"

"Mere five hundred times"

"By accident"

"Took too big a step"

"…"

As Academician Wang finished speaking, everyone present was dumbfounded.

Of course, they weren't shocked by Academician Wang, but rather felt that they had been played for fools!

"Academician Wang, are you joking?"

"Is this a unique Chinese joke? It's not funny at all!"

"Academician Wang, you are insulting our great Lighthouse Country, insulting all of our researchers!"

"Our Lighthouse Country's world-leading sixth-generation 3-nanometer photolithography machine does not tolerate your malicious slandering!"

"Five hundred times higher, heh, is that five hundred times higher when manufacturing 90-nanometer chips? Then I do admit it, after all, the 3-nanometer photolithography process is extremely complex, something your China simply cannot understand."

"Has the Chinese government gone mad? To let such an old man come out and speak nonsense?"

"Could he be a Chinese spy? Deliberately creating animosity for China, making China reviled by everyone internationally?"

"Academician Wang, it seems you've been disappointed with China's technology for a long time. Why not give up your identity as a Chinese research academician? Our Princeton Research Institute would be very happy to welcome you."

Many people present even genuinely thought that Academician Wang wanted to defect, deliberately slandering China and putting it in an awkward position.

Some professors from research institutes in Lighthouse Country even unreservedly extended invitations to Academician Wang.

If Academician Wang really agreed, then this complete farce could be brought to an end.

After all, the person in charge would have led the way out.

How could this so-called new photolithography machine possibly exist?

However.

This lin's lithography machine really did exist!

Academician Wang looked at the Lighthouse Country expert who had invited him with an expression like he was looking at an idiot, then countered with a very puzzled expression:

"Have you developed a photolithography machine more precise than 0.35 nanometers?"

"No?"

"Then why would I go there?"

He directly threw three rhetorical questions, showing an attitude that he simply looked down on the opponent's mere 3-nanometer photolithography machine.

Slapped in the face by Academician Wang's merciless words, the expert's face turned as purple as a pig's liver from anger.

He angrily flicked his sleeve and said furiously, "Hmph, ignorant yellow-skinned pig! Still immersed in your own illusions! Your Chinese technology is nothing!"

"Cough, cough!"

At this moment, a middle-aged man standing beside Academician Wang raised an eyebrow and stared coldly at the Lighthouse Country expert who had spoken so wildly.

He was Director Chen of the National Security Bureau, responsible for security within this No. 3 Research Institute.

If it was merely criticizing Chinese technology out of ignorance before, he wouldn't have cared, as it only showed the other party's ignorance.