Great Power Technology

Chapter 82 Picking Their Fruits
After getting off the plane, the first thing Ye Zhou did was to move to his rented house. He lived in the headquarters for half a month before. Although the environment is already familiar, if he wants to do research work in the future, it is still not good to live there all the time. 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 packing up the bits and pieces that had been left in the rental house and moved them over to take a look, he was stunned for a moment.

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

A small villa in the deep city.

"It's a bit too extravagant."

Ye Zhou turned to look at Chen Hao who was leading the way, and asked with some anxiety.

"It's okay, there's 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 cover the salaries of several researchers. Is it necessary?"

"It doesn't matter, anyway, you will do it yourself."

".OK, that's okay."

Seeing Ye Zhou's painful face but he was about to swell his face and pretend to be fat, Chen Hao couldn't help laughing.

"I'm just joking with you! The property right of this house is our own. It used to be a guest house, which was dedicated to reception. Later, you know, it was abandoned, and it has been vacant. Now I will live in it for you first, mainly after thinking about 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 will have more people to receive in the future, so you can't let a group of bigwigs squeeze into your small living room to drink tea? It's not a luxury, it's just a necessary arrangement."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou finally nodded.

What Chen Hao said is actually reasonable. The most important resource of a country is talents, especially top talents. In the placement of these talents, we must not only give them sufficient economic returns, but also help them support the scene when necessary. .

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

After putting away their 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 room excitedly.

"Hey, Brother Hao, when are you going to find someone to help me move my minicomputer here? I've already decided on a place, and I'll put it in the study on the second floor when the time comes, there's enough space!"

Chen Hao shook his head and replied:

"The minicomputer will definitely be moved here for you, but you should not put it in the study. The rooms on the second floor are all solid wood floors. The minicomputer generates a lot of heat, and the cables are complicated, and it is easy to catch fire. Then you should put it on the first floor. Let’s go to the utility room over there, I’ll find someone to install the cables for you alone, and just set up the console in the study on the second floor.”

"Okay, okay, when will you come to pretend? Can you do it today?"

".Ye Lan, I found that you are really not polite at all to tease me. Let me rest for a while. Today I finally took advantage of the time to pick up you and come out to rest. I will do it for you tomorrow!"

Ye Lan giggled and ran to the kitchen to boil water to make tea, leaving Ye Zhou and Chen Hao sitting opposite each other, the former asked:
"Has the layout started in the past two days?"

Chen Hao nodded and replied:
"Some actions have 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? How do you feel that the international public opinion has not responded much?"

Ye Zhou asked curiously.

After the Zhiwei lithography machine was released, there was a frenzy of public opinion in the world, but only a few days later, this frenzy seemed to be covered, 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 like "the reaction of foreign anchors watching the black myth Wukong". Here, it seems that it has become the self-indulgence 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?"

"However, if you go to Mao Xiongguo's website, you can actually find that they are still very responsive. Many manufacturers have already started to contact us—directly contacted through official channels, and they are very urgent."

"Except for this? What's the reaction elsewhere?"

"Do you mean official? Or private?"

"Of course it's official. It's hard to say whether people outside the country know about this."

Ye Lan brought teacups. The way she makes tea is completely the style of veteran cadres. Each person fills a large glass with hot water, and then sprinkles a handful of tea leaves in it to finish the job. Looking at the tea foam floating on the surface, Chen Hao had no choice but to drink it dumbfounded.

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

"Actually, the official. To be honest, there is not much I can tell you. Most of the information is top-secret in the intelligence department. Your current authority can only be classified as confidential."

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

"whats the matter?"

Ye Zhou asked curiously.

"Yindu Kingdom is ready to release 7nm lithography machine."

"Yindu Kingdom?? What's going on? They're using their heads to publish it? What, the Ganges has manifested? Did the River God send them blueprints?"

Chen Hao laughed and replied:
"Don't tell me, this time it's really a bit like the river god's apparition. Somehow, they have blueprints, and they plan to make them within a month like us."

Ye Zhou sighed, he had roughly guessed the story behind this.

But why choose Yindu?

The lithography machine seems to be just a machine, but the complexity of the industrial chain and the high requirements for industrial capabilities involved in it are not easy to play.

Among other things, they can't play with the relatively simple photoresist in the configuration of the lithography machine.

What, plan to apply Yindushen oil on the silicon wafer instead of photoresist?
Ye Zhou smiled mockingly, and said:
"Just 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 complex equipment is considered a success if the other party can run it stably for two hours after it is built.

After all, the submarine they built didn't last more than 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 it's not certain whether it will be competitive."

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

"Isn't it a bad thing? How do you say it?"

"High-end technology like this has inertia. No matter how good our Zhiwei lithography machine is, people who should buy ASML will still buy ASML. It is difficult to change in the short term. We need to impact this inertia."

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

"Now, since the other party wants to support Yindu's position, they must take out these bargaining chips."

"Wait until they have almost wiped out the inertia of the market, and then we go to enter the market. As long as it works well, we can eat 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 is HSMC in Yindu. The technology partner of this company is STMicroelectronics. The predecessor of STMicroelectronics is 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 on the side knew this person, so she spoke first:
"FAW Group!"

(End of this chapter)