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In the laboratory, the air was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Liu Ming held the chip that the old academician regarded as a treasure. It was so small that, held in the grip of anti-static tweezers, it was only about half the size of a fingernail. Its surface gleamed with the cold light characteristic of metal.

But this small wafer contains 12 billion transistors, representing the culmination of nearly a hundred days and nights of hard work by hundreds of top scientists in China.

It carries the hopes of a great nation to stand tall in this cold, technological jungle.

"Connect the power."

Liu Ming's voice was soft, yet it carried an undeniable power.

He carefully inserted the chip into the slot of the oversized motherboard, which was custom-made specifically for testing the "two-dimensional diamond thin film" architecture.

"Click".

The crisp metallic clanging sound was exceptionally clear in the deathly silent laboratory.

"Power on."

The elderly Academician Li, who was standing next to him, took a deep breath and personally pressed the red start button.

"Buzz—"

The fans on the motherboard started spinning wildly. Then, a blinding white light flashed on the huge 80-inch monitor connected to the motherboard.

Then, an extremely simple black interface without any fancy animations appeared in the center of the screen.

In the top left corner, a line of green code is scrolling rapidly, indicating that the system is performing a power-on self-test.

[CPU Status: Normal.] [Memory Channel: Handshake Successful.] [Underlying Architecture Identification: Longyuan.]

"It's lit up..." "It's lit up!"

A suppressed gasp of surprise erupted from the crowd. This was only the first step, but also the most crucial one. It proved that they had completely abandoned the old Western approach of simply increasing the number of transistors. The perilous path they had forged with entirely new materials and a carbon-based architecture was, in a sense, entirely feasible!

Liu Ming didn't speak; his gaze was fixed on the reading meter on the right side of the screen that represented "power consumption."

"Start the extreme performance test and push the computational load to full capacity," Liu Ming ordered.

"yes!"

The technician typed on the keyboard, and the data stream on the screen poured down like a waterfall, dazzling the eye.

This is a truly inhuman stress test.

It simulates the most extreme usage scenarios, pushing every transistor on the chip to its limit. In the past, those Western chips that were known as the world's top chips would experience a sudden surge in power consumption and generate so much heat that they could fry an egg directly under such testing.

Everyone held their breath, staring intently at the screen. They weren't afraid of insufficient performance; they were afraid that the chip, made with brand-new materials, would burn up due to the immense energy impact.

One minute, two minutes.

The computing speed on the screen was skyrocketing, quickly surpassing the peak performance of the most advanced five-nanometer chips currently available in the West. But that wasn't the most astonishing part.

"My God... Look at the power consumption meter!" The young PhD student in charge of recording the data exclaimed, his voice cracking as he pointed at the screen as if he had seen a ghost.

All eyes turned to that direction.

[Current core temperature: 45 degrees Celsius.] [Energy efficiency ratio curve: Stable.]

Under such terrifyingly extreme computational conditions, the temperature of this 7-nanometer chip remained stable in an incredibly low temperature range! Its power consumption was a full 20% lower than that of top-tier Western chips with equivalent performance!

"This...how is this possible?" Several veteran experts who had worked in this field their entire lives had their eyes practically popping out of their sockets.

"The limits of physics have been broken!"

Academician Li was trembling with excitement. He grabbed Liu Ming's arm with astonishing strength, "Director Liu! The 'two-dimensional diamond thin film' heat dissipation architecture you proposed really works! The thermal conductivity of this material is ten times higher than that of traditional silicon-based materials!"

Performance remained on par, and even surpassed in certain specific algorithms. Meanwhile, power consumption and heat generation were reduced dramatically.

What does this mean?

This means that on mobile devices, phones equipped with this chip will have double the battery life! On the server side, the operating costs of data centers that often consume the electricity of an entire city will drop dramatically!

This is no longer a simple technological breakthrough. This is a devastating blow to Western hegemony in the chip industry!

"Director Liu...we succeeded...we really succeeded!" Academician Li looked at the final, almost perfect test data on the screen, tears streaming down his face.

He held Liu Ming's hand and cried like a child.

For the past thirty years, this group of researchers has endured far too much contempt from Westerners. To buy a piece of obsolete equipment, they had to sign countless unequal treaties that humiliated and alienated the nation; to obtain a license, they had to bow and scrape like grandsons in foreign conference rooms.

And today, these humiliating days are finally coming to an end.

"Yes, it worked."

As Liu Ming looked at the screen, a barely perceptible ripple flickered in her usually cold and hard eyes.

But he didn't share the elation of others. His keen political instincts told him that the real storm was just beginning.

He turned around and looked at the group of researchers who were laughing and crying with excitement.

"Comrades, don't rush to celebrate."

Liu Ming's voice wasn't loud, but it carried a kind of intimidating power that could instantly calm people down.

"What do we call this chip?" he asked.

"Longyuan!" Academician Li answered without hesitation. "A dragon lies hidden in the abyss, destined to soar to the heavens! This is the name you chose when you first came to the laboratory."

"Good name." Liu Ming nodded, a wild smile playing on her lips.

"Since it's called Dragon Abyss, we can't let it stay hidden underwater forever." He picked up the repackaged chip, held it high, and it shimmered brilliantly under the light.

"The data on this chip today is top secret." "No one is allowed to divulge a single word of it."

Liu Ming's eyes instantly turned icy cold.

"We want to turn this chip into a Damocles' sword hanging over the heads of those multinational giants. I want them to taste the bitterness of falling from the clouds to the bottom when they are at their most triumphant."

"Ghost Hand." Liu Ming pressed the earpiece.

"I'm here, boss."

"Get your internet connection ready. Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, I'm going to hold a press conference in the capital city for a global audience."

"Roger that! Boss, just hold on tight. I guarantee the world's media will see our dragon roar at the same time!"

……

the next day.

The press conference hall of the National Development and Reform Commission in Beijing.

It had been a long time since this place had been this lively. The hall was packed with cameras and microphones from hundreds of top domestic and international media outlets. Everyone had received an invitation that was vague yet hinted at "big news."

Western journalists whispered amongst themselves, their faces betraying undisguised arrogance and mockery. In their view, China was completely blocked in the semiconductor field, and today's press conference was likely just another war of words, a "protest" or a "condemnation."

Behind the scenes of the presidential platform.

Liu Ming was standing in front of the mirror, adjusting his suit and tie.

Are you nervous?

Nangong Yao, dressed in a stunning red business suit, walked behind Liu Ming and smoothed out a wrinkle on his shoulder. Today, she was invited to attend this press conference as a representative of the "Dragon Soaring Fund".

"What's there to be nervous about?"

Liu Ming looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes as calm as a stagnant pool.

"I'm just wondering how interesting those foreigners' expressions will be later."

He turned around, looked at Nangong Yao, and a confident smile appeared on his lips.

"Let's go, Your Majesty."

"Let's go and give this world a little... Dragon Kingdom shock."

The door was pushed open, and flashbulbs of camera light went off like a storm.

Liu Ming walked steadily toward the center of the podium, where his battlefield was, and also, the nation's... moment of glory.