Great Power Technology

Chapter 72 The Beginning of the Hunt

September 9th, Overseas, Office of Advanced Strategic Analysis.

"The situation is basically clear. They are indeed engaged in a fab, and it is a completely new fab. Now I seriously doubt that the other party may have a technological breakthrough in the process, and this technological breakthrough is completely self-owned. .”

"This also explains why their protection of Ye Zhou has been raised to such a level, because this person definitely brought them not only EDA, but also hardware technology!"

"In early August, they built a temporary road in this small place called Miyagi Prefecture, and built a large number of factories near Zhengshan Mountain, and the surrounding alert level is extremely high."

"Every indication is that they must be building a new fab, and it's been a month since they started -- we're a full month behind."

The person who spoke was a white man named Shire, who was in charge of the overall strategic analysis and research of this office.

Since Yinglong's EDA was just launched three months ago, he has never stopped working on strategic analysis, but even in his boldest guesses, he never expected that the other party would directly build a brand new fab.

Judging from the current series of actions, it is obvious that the other party is not building an ordinary fab, but a fab that may pose a danger to its own industry.

This also explains why the other party has been procrastinating on the negotiation.

Because they didn't intend to talk at all, it was just to divert attention and cover up their true intentions.

"Charles, do you think they will succeed?"

The questioner was a black man named Nigg, who was the head of the department.

Charles shook his head and replied:

"I can't give you a definite answer. Whether it's technical or theoretical, they don't actually have any possibility of threatening us."

"However, technology and theory are just conventional judgments, and when facing an enemy like them, you can never use conventional judgments."

"They have brought us too many surprises from the 50s to now. So, we must not take it lightly."

Nigg turned the ring on his finger silently, and after a while, he asked:
"Should we activate an emergency plan?"

Charles' eyes fell.

Of course he knew what the emergency plan Nigger referred to, but if he used it now, would it still be successful?
Even if it succeeds, is there any point?
That factory had already appeared out of thin air in just one month, and no one knew how far the equipment inside had gone.

Even if the emergency plan was successfully implemented, without Ye Zhou, would they really not be able to build a lithography machine?
According to character, this should be impossible.

Thinking of this, he shook his head and said:

"It's meaningless. In their words, it's done. It's superfluous to do anything else. Now all we can do is continue to monitor the situation and minimize losses."

"In addition, this matter has exceeded our scope of authority. You need to report the situation immediately. The specific response strategy will be formulated by the chamber of commerce."

"Okay, I'll do it."

Nigg nodded.

Until now, he is still in a state of bewilderment.

In nearly 30 years of intelligence work, this is the first time he has faced such an unforeseen situation.

When the few satellite photos were thrown on his desk, he found sadly that all his previous investigations were in the wrong direction.

The opponent's real trump card is not in the game at all, but hidden far away outside the game.

It would be great if I could be more sensitive at that time.

In fact, he is not without a chance.

It's just that this happened so fast and so suddenly that the Office of the Strategic Advisor, who was always monitoring the opponent, didn't react, let alone him who was only doing intelligence work.

Half an hour later, a top-secret report was delivered to the office.

The slightly old-fashioned man sat quietly aside, but the man next to him who was supposed to be an aide slammed the table hard.

"Why! Can anyone tell me why?! Why didn't we get the news until now? Why didn't there be any response to this situation before? Why is my satellite like blind?!"

"Such a wide road! Such a large factory building! Our satellite resolution has reached the meter level. Isn't there any response to this?"

The man sitting opposite him spread his hands helplessly.

"Graham, that's not how satellites work. We have a limited number of satellites."

"On the other hand, even if it was detected in the first place, would we have responded in any way?"

"Do you know how many large infrastructure projects are being built in a single day? I can tell you that at this moment, at this second, in the wee hours of the other side, they still have hundreds of thousands of infrastructure projects going on! "

"Each of these projects is more conspicuous than that little 3km long road. Are we going to analyze each of these projects one by one?"

"The reason why we were able to determine the connection between this highway, this factory building and the industry this time was actually inferred after we synthesized all kinds of information. It is almost unimaginable to be able to draw conclusions now!"

"In the previous session, probably when their industry came out, we didn't even know what was going on!"

Graham waved his arms, indicating that he did not want to hear the man's explanation.

"Now I don't want to hear this, I just want to know what else we can do! Can we start another round of restrictions on them?"

"Unfortunately, no. We have done everything we can, and there is no indication that they use our technology. If you want to limit this situation for no reason, there is only one result."

After listening to the man's words, Graham fell silent.

He sat down on the chair, lit a cigarette and took two deep puffs before continuing to ask:
"So there's nothing we can do?"

"There are still some. We can try to minimize the loss-although the other party is working in a fab, judging from the information we have so far, the most they have is the manufacturing process, and the advantage is still on our side."

"We will have losses, but such losses will never be fatal."

"The first thing to do is to withdraw the hot money invested in short-selling from the market to avoid financial losses."

"Secondly, we need to start the negotiation as soon as possible, and negotiate the terms before their real possibility appears. It doesn't matter if we make more concessions! At least we can still make money!"

"Finally, the upstream and downstream industries also need to act as soon as possible. We must limit each other's production capacity as much as possible and maintain our dominant position as much as possible!"

His words were quickly recorded on paper, and then, after being signed by the old man sitting at the very edge, they began to be distributed to various departments.

The first to receive the instruction was the IDFC department in charge of overseas investment, and they launched the capital exit plan as soon as they saw the instruction.

But soon, they discovered that the stocks they sold through securities lending could not be redeemed.

Because on the same day, an official announcement was issued.

In view of the XX situation in China, it is planned to extend the holiday for 3 days, and all financial institutions will be closed.

(End of this chapter)