397: Chapter 396 China is a vast and resource-rich land; so what if our lithography machines are a little bigger?

"In the second half of last year, because of you and Professor Ai."

"The Eagle Nation carried out a series of sanctions, blockades, and suppression against a batch of our Huaxia entity enterprises."

"In the high-precision field of nano-chips, the Eagle Nation went even further by issuing the strictest chip ban against Huaxia, explicitly placing Huachen Technology on the 'Entity List,' and other Western Alliance countries followed suit."

"Suddenly suffering from joint sanctions by the world's hegemonic nation and a host of developed Western Alliance countries, Huachen Technology was pushed directly to the edge of a cliff, at any moment likely to fall into the abyss and face a situation of no return."

"Moreover, such state-level struggles affecting high-precision technology industries mean that the support the authorities can provide is very limited; it is up to the enterprises themselves to strive and save themselves."

"But it must be said that the founder of Huachen Technology, Chairman Ren Zheng, is indeed very courageous."

Speaking of this, Chief Designer Bai Yannian sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"At the beginning of this year, in order to break through the Eagle Nation's sanctions."

"After receiving a package of policy endorsements from our Huaxia authorities."

"Huachen Technology resolutely and decisively invested a staggering 62% of the entire group's liquid capital into the research and development of nano-chips!"

"At the same time, they also hired a large number of high-level talents in the field of microelectronics with high salaries from major universities and research institutes such as Huaxia University of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Microelectronics, and the Computer Engineering Technology Research Center, specifically forming the largest microelectronics research team in Huaxia. It can be called a heroic act of burning their bridges and fighting to the death."

"But you also know."

"In the field of high-precision technology, simply throwing money, manpower, and projects at it doesn't guarantee results."

"Facing the comprehensive technical blockade by Western Alliance countries in their dominant fields, achieving results is even more difficult."

"So at that time."

"More than 90% of industry insiders believed that Huachen Technology's rash investment of such a huge amount of R&D funds would only end up being a waste."

"This wrong decision would only accelerate the demise of Huachen Technology."

"But who would have known."

"In just a few short months, that research team assembled by Huachen Technology actually made rapid, substantial breakthroughs, developing 7nm-level nano-chips, directly catching up to the level of first-tier nano-chips in Western countries."

Chief Designer Bai Yannian looked at Lin Mo with deep meaning and said with a smile.

"Isn't that a coincidence?"

"Professor Ai's closing disciple, the junior sister who is currently accompanying your parents on a tour of Huaxia, is the only daughter of Huachen founder Chairman Ren Zheng."

"For their research team to achieve project progress so quickly, you must have played a part, right?"

Lin Mo shook his head in denial.

"It doesn't count as a contribution."

"It was just that at the invitation of Uncle Ren, I held a Q&A session with those technical experts."

"The key is that they had to rely on themselves."

Upon hearing this, Chief Designer Bai Yannian laughed heartily.

"We're all smart people; one Q&A session is enough!"

"That line of yours, 'My Huaxia has vast territory and abundant resources, so what if the lithography machine is a bit bigger?', has been revered as a golden rule by all technical experts in the field of microelectronics!"

"Hahahaha!..."

Secretary Liu, who was on the side, smiled and took over the conversation.

"Chief Designer Lin, some barriers still need an expert to poke through."

"After that Q&A session, Huachen Technology rushed to build three super-large-scale lithography factories with a total area exceeding ten hectares."

"This directly laid the most solid foundation for the Huachen R&D team to break through nano-chip technology."