165: Chapter 165 This day, we've been chasing for forty-four years!

Experimental workshop.

Lin Wenwu had just finished his work with the Software Group and rushed here.

However, the atmosphere at the scene made him feel that something was not quite right.

Quiet, tense.

It was simply too oppressive!

"How is it? It couldn't be... a failure, right?"

Seeing that Zhou Fan was busy, Lin Wenwu went straight to Lei Jun's side and couldn't help but speak.

Lei Jun shook his head slightly, his expression indescribably complex, and his body was trembling slightly.

"It should be... a success!" He looked toward Zhou Fan as if to confirm.

At this moment, Zhou Fan was standing at the monitoring console with a smile on his face.

That smile instantly set Lei Jun's heart at ease, and his inner excitement grew even more fervent.

Soon, excited voices began to ring out within the experimental workshop.

"Yield rate 85.3%, circuit completion 100%, we did it???"

"There's no issue with the precision, and no missing wafers..."

"We seem to... have really made it!!!"

"45nm lithography chip! Huaxia's first completely domestic, independent, and controllable chip has really been made!!!"

"I'm not dreaming, am I... it really worked..."

"Great! President Zhou is awesome, everyone is awesome!!!"

"Hahaha~~ It's a success, we did it!!!"

"..."

Lei Jun watched the experimental workshop, which had instantly erupted, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.

Although the technical breakthrough had nothing to do with him, the chief designer of this project was someone from Fanmi! For this alone, his heart was filled with incomparable pride, and he felt like shouting a few lines himself.

The 45nm lithography technology was a success!

Huaxia's first smartphone chip, completely domestic from design to manufacturing, was their qiankun chip.

This moment was enough to be recorded in the annals of history.

It was a heavy stroke in the future history of the enterprise.

The excitement in his heart was simply impossible to suppress, and he suddenly pulled Lin Wenwu aside.

"Did you see that... 85.3% yield rate! TSMC's 45nm process chip yield rate is currently only 89%!"

He suppressed his excited voice; at this moment, he didn't look like a CEO at all, pacing back and forth and waving his fists.

"Do you know what this represents?"

"Of course!" Lin Wenwu's eyes were also glowing, his tone filled with excitement.

"As long as there are enough machines, we can quickly mass-produce the qiankun chip, and the chip's performance basically won't be worse than those from TSMC's foundry..."

"Not only that, Fanmi has come back to life!" Lei Jun's gaze suddenly turned solemn, and he then quickly pulled out his phone and called Li Guoqiang.

"Tell TSMC that we won't agree to any of their conditions; they must pay us compensation according to the contract!! Also, notify the Marketing Department to prepare the announcement; the shipping date for the next batch of phones can be set!"

"What's the situation? Your tone sounds a bit off?" Li Guoqiang clearly heard the abnormality in Lei Jun's tone and asked tentatively: "Is it that Zhou Fan's experiment has results... it succeeded?"

"Yes!!" Lei Jun didn't explain too much.

Even so, Li Guoqiang reacted instantly.

His tone also became excited: "I understand, I'll arrange it immediately! This time we must make TSMC bleed properly; I just wonder how they will react after getting this news... hahaha!"

The call ended, and a smile appeared on Lei Jun's face.

At this time, a voice reached his ears.

"Everyone must remember today! From 1966 when we developed the first contact lithography machine to today's 45nm chip mass production, we have chased for forty-four years!"

Old academician Yu held the wafer in an anti-static box, his eyes brimming with excitement.

His fingertips felt the slightly cool touch of the box as the workshop's overhead lights penetrated that thin layer of silicon; the 45nm circuit patterns shimmered under the light, looking just like the crisscrossing water ripples in the moat beneath the city walls of his hometown, the dense lines being the result of countless days and nights of calculation and refinement.

He took a deep breath, his voice trembling slightly with emotion, yet every word struck everyone's heart clearly.

"Everyone, look at these machines around us. Every screw on them, every substrate in the wafer box, was assembled by ourselves... The older generation used abacuses to calculate data in warehouses and adjusted robotic arms while wrapped in quilts in winter. Foreigners said that even if they gave us the blueprints and let us build according to them, we wouldn't be able to produce such precision instruments!!"

"But today..." He suddenly held up the wafer box in his hand.

"Every single circuit on this was carved by we Huaxia people ourselves!"

The workshop was so quiet that the hum of the ventilation ducts could be heard, and some people's eyes were already turning red.

Some of the more emotional female researchers even began to quietly wipe the tears from the corners of their eyes with the backs of their hands.

Everyone present felt a ball of fire burning fiercely in their chests, growing stronger with Academician Yu Fei's words.

"Forty-four years!"

Academician Yu Fei's gaze swept across the flushed faces. The eyes of some young engineers were shining, looking just like his master's eyes when he first entered the laboratory.

Finally, his gaze fixed on Zhou Fan, and his expression suddenly became complex.

His voice abruptly rose, carrying long-suppressed emotions and even a hint of a sob.

"To break through the blockade of foreign technology, we stayed up night after night; how many people made the laboratory their home and were still guarding the exposure machine when their children were born!"

"They said we couldn't produce high-end photoresist, so we spent ten years trying three hundred formulas; they throttled our precision guide rails, so we ground out nanometer-level flatness ourselves! Today, the mass production of 45nm chips is imminent; this is not the end... it is the beginning!!!"

The old man paused, the hot blood surging in his chest almost bursting through his throat.

"Next step, 28nm, 14nm; one day, we will make sure the most advanced chips are all engraved with 'Made in Huaxia'!"

"By then, our spacecraft will be able to use more reliable processors, our medical equipment will be equipped with more precise sensors, and our mobile phones will also become the pinnacle of high-tech sought after by the whole world... When our children take apart their toys, the drivers inside will be chips we made ourselves!"

"Remember today! Remember how we built China's own technological Great Wall from the cracks in the bricks of the moat!"

"From today on, what we owe our predecessors, we will repay with faster breakthroughs; what our descendants want, we will carry on our shoulders!"

"Does everyone have confidence!!!"

"YES!!!" The deafening response seemed as if it would blow the roof off the workshop, startling several birds outside the window into flight.

The researchers, one by one, now had glowing eyes and high spirits!

Their fervent gazes seemed capable of melting ice in a bottomless abyss!

Their flushed faces looked exceptionally endearing.

Their feelings at this moment could not be described in words.

The technical breakthrough their predecessors spent their lives pursuing was completed in their generation, and it was hand-crafted bit by bit before their very eyes.

At this moment, everyone's gaze involuntarily turned toward the console.

That young voice was as unperturbed as ever, with a faint smile on his face.

They believed that as long as Zhou Fan was there, Huaxia's lithography machine technology would absolutely not stop here.

Next time, perhaps it would be in one year, or perhaps two years...

At this moment, regarding Zhou Fan, due to their cooperation and time spent together during this period,

everyone had a clear understanding as well as absolute confidence.

Looking at this group of people with shining eyes, Zhou Fan's mood was also quite complex.

He suddenly remembered what an old partner of his had said on his deathbed in his previous life.

"My greatest wish in this life is to prostrate on the ground and wipe away the shame of the motherland!"

No matter how long it takes, there will always be someone who remembers.

And there will always be someone to inherit the will of the ancestors and silently clean up this broken home!

Then, once again, let Huaxia reach the world's peak.