Ye Zhou quickly received the general outline of the action from Chen Hao. He read it carefully several times and made sure that there was nothing inconsistent with his strategy in the general direction, so he did not pursue the details.

As he discussed with Chen Hao, professional matters need to be left to professional people. His main task now is to set up the research institute as soon as possible and conduct further simulations to obtain more scientific and technological achievements.

Ye Lan was very interested in this operation, so Ye Zhou handed her over to Chen Hao, who arranged for her to join the project team to see if she could be responsible for some work within his ability.

However, three days after joining the project team, Ye Lan had already truly felt the gap between himself and those real geniuses.

Her talent is indeed good, and she can even be considered a genius at some points, but in front of those who are smart and capable, and whose accumulation of theoretical knowledge is countless times better than hers, she is still just an unknown newcomer.

Fortunately, she had already been mentally prepared for this reality, so she was not disappointed.

So in the next few weeks, the two of them did their own things.

In addition to setting up a research institute for Xu Lei and Wan Zhou, Ye Zhou also learned a series of basic knowledge about nuclear reactors according to his own plan - just entry-level knowledge, which already made him a little miserable.

The purpose of this is to understand the basic principles and weaknesses of the nuclear fuel core in the shortest possible time, so as to avoid unnecessary detours in the simulation.

Ye Zhou had asked Chen Hao for permission and found a large number of documents and materials from specialized websites. Although it was impossible for him to fully understand the basic principles of these documents and materials, with the help of the nuclear physics researcher assigned to him by Chen Hao,

You can still remember the types, characteristics, weaknesses, and accident handling methods of these reactors very accurately.

This was a job that took a lot of effort.

In order to ensure the efficiency of learning and memory, Ye Zhou used his mental programming ability to artificially create several conditioned reflexes for himself, all of which were used to supervise his own learning process.

These conditional launches include but are not limited to reading more than 100 pages of documents in which these three words appear when seeing the word "nuclear", being unable to fall asleep if the reading and studying time in a day does not reach 12 hours, and being unable to fall asleep when encountering something that you do not understand.

The content was forced to be copied down and asked questions to the researcher on the spot, etc.

To be fair, this conditioned reflex system is extremely easy to use and is simply good news for procrastinators who have no self-control. However, the word "core" is too broad as a triggering condition. I accidentally read a hundred

After reading Lao Bai Jing'er's notes, Ye Zhou changed the keyword to "nuclear reactor" on the spot.

After that, his conditioned reflex system never encountered any accidents again, and he also began to enrich relevant knowledge with extremely high efficiency - of course, it was just basic knowledge at the application level, allowing him to learn it from scratch.

As far as nuclear physics is concerned, it is really a fantasy.

While he was preparing for the research institute and plot simulation, both Chen Hao's headquarters and the strategy office over there had already begun their first battle for monopoly power in the chip market.

This is the first time in decades that this industry has two equally matched competitors. No one knows what strategy is correct, and no one knows what the final result will be.

...

South of the border of China, in Yindu, Xindeli, inside a large-scale modern factory workshop.

"Is this the completed 3nm lithography machine you are talking about?"

A white man who looked like an engineer asked with a frown.

He had just seen the photolithography machines produced by this factory based on the technology provided by his country, and now he felt like a lion was roaring in his heart, wanting to tear the innocent-looking Yindu people in front of him into pieces.

He couldn't find any suitable words to summarize the so-called photolithography machine in front of him.

Shoddy workmanship, cutting corners, perfunctory work, nothing more than appearance...

At this level, not to mention using it to make 3nm chips, even if it is used to make laser engravings, it is not accurate enough!

Might as well let these damn Yindu people go to that small city in China called Yiwu to buy a laser engraving machine to top up their numbers!

At least the machine you bought can produce some handicrafts, carve some crystal sculptures, paintings, etc., and sell them for a few bucks. You won’t want to spend tens of billions of dollars to build something like this.

Taiwan’s 100% industrial waste!

"Mr. Lawrence, we have really tried our best. The construction period you requested is too short. It is difficult to achieve this level within a month."

"What's more, our machine is not as useless as you said, right? Aren't the results of the test we just made very good? The machine runs very smoothly!"

Lawrence forced down the anger in his heart and said expressionlessly:

"If you think a lithography machine is running well if it is running, then indeed, it is running quite well."

"Let me not talk about the problems with the machine itself. During our half-hour test, this factory had power outages three times. Are you kidding me? The funds we provide you include the cost of power transformation.

!”

The Yindu man smiled awkwardly and replied:

"Mr. Lawrence, it's like this. Although we have indeed carried out power transformation, you also know that this time, I mean, the time from 8 to 10 pm is the peak power consumption period of Xindeli, and occasional power outages are

It’s a normal thing…”

"...You mean, if this photolithography machine can really be used, is it normal for an entire wafer to be destroyed due to a power outage?"

"We will avoid peak power consumption periods in future production."

The man replied seriously.

Lawrence stared at him dumbfounded, opened his mouth several times, but finally said nothing. Instead, he turned around and left the factory regardless of the man's attempts to stay.

After he returned to his office, he immediately dialed the number to report to his superiors.

"...The situation is like this. The lithography machine they built cannot be used at all. The money we invested in it was completely wasted. 12 billion US dollars! All of it sank into the water!"

The person on the other end of the phone sighed and replied:

"Lawrence, you are still so eager. Why bother? Didn't I already say at the beginning that we can't count on these stupid Yindu people? Isn't the current result within our expectations?"

"...I know that's the case, but..."

"There's nothing to worry about. We never expected them to build a photolithography machine from the beginning, and the news released is just a foreshadowing."

"Think about it, who would actually go to the factory in Yindu to check the actual operation of the lithography machine? Those businessmen are very precious about their lives. As long as we say that people in Yindu have it, they will definitely believe it.

"

"As long as they believe it, we will directly provide finished chips to them, and our company can continue to maintain its high-end image."

"Whenever our opponents fail, we will find any reason to close the factory and continue to sell our own goods."

"Such an operation allows us to circumvent anti-dumping laws and retain our initiative at any time. What's wrong with that? The money they spend selling chips is ours anyway!"

"Lawrence, don't worry about the 12 billion dollars. Is it possible that you are really naive and think that all the money will be distributed to the engineers who build the factory?"

"Don't be naive! This is just a show! 10 billion of it is just the remuneration we give to Yindu officials! And the other 2 billion is just prop fees!"
Chapter completed!