Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

"A complete supply cutoff? They really mean it."

Zhang Huaimin looked at the threatening fax.

Instead of panic, a cold, mocking glint flashed in his eyes.

He casually crumpled the fax—enough to cause a global tech tsunami—into a ball and tossed it precisely into the nearby trash can.

"Huaimin, what should we do?"

Lou Xiao'e's face turned pale. Her business instincts told her that this was a catastrophic disaster that could destroy the fledgling Chinese electronics industry.

"Without high-purity silicon wafers and photoresist, our TV control motherboards and the microcomputers we're developing will all come to a standstill!"

Recently.

International public opinion has been completely in an uproar.

Western media outlets, like vultures smelling blood, have been loudly proclaiming this "silicon-based sanction" against China.

The Wall Street Journal even featured a satirical cartoon on its front page.

In the painting, a giant dragon is depicted with its throat stuck.

The headline boldly proclaimed: "The Chinese dragon, lacking silicon, will suffocate in its technological cradle!"

Western tech leaders were overjoyed.

In their view, without their charity, the Chinese people wouldn't even be able to manufacture the most basic radio chip!

"A shutdown? Sister Xiao'e, you overestimate them."

Zhang Huaimin patted off imaginary dust from his clothes, a smug smile playing on his lips.

"Do they think they can strangle us by cutting off the silicon wafers?"

"That's ridiculous."

"They have no idea that, in the face of true materials science, silicon should have been swept into the dustbin of history long ago."

Zhang Huaimin turned around and strode towards the entrance of the banquet hall.

"Brother Chen, prepare the car."

"Return to the capital, go to the No. 1 underground cleanroom."

"Since they want to see us make a fool of ourselves, let's give them a super-sized firework display that will shatter their worldview!"

Two days later.

In Beijing, thirty meters underground at the headquarters of Future Technology Group.

This is the No. 1 top-secret cleanroom, the highest level of security in all of China.

The air purification level reached a terrifying one in a million.

Apart from Zhang Huaimin and Chen Bing, no one else had the authority to enter.

Clean room.

There were no bulky Soviet-made machine tools, nor the complex optical lens assemblies that the West was so proud of.

There were only a few seemingly ordinary metal processing cabinets that Zhang Huaimin had modified with his system.

Chen Bing, dressed in a heavy anti-static cleanroom suit, stood to the side, his eyes filled with anticipation.

Zhang Huaimin walked to the control panel and closed his eyes.

The massive amount of shock points I've accumulated over the past few days is finally ready to be put to good use.

"System, open the Ultimate Technology Exchange Shop!"

Zhang Huaimin issued the highest order in his mind.

[Ding! The Ultimate Shop is now open!]

"I want to redeem: 'Carbon-based Nanoparticle Electron Beam Fully Automated Lithography Production Line Features'!"

[Warning: This trait belongs to the ultimate civilian technology spanning three centuries. Exchange requires 100,000 Shock Points!]

[Confirm redemption?]

"confirm!"

Zhang Huaimin did not hesitate at all.

These 100,000 shock points represent all the wealth he has accumulated over the years, bit by bit, in the military industry and on the international stage.

But he knew this deal was absolutely worth it!

[Ding! Redemption successful!]

[Target for integration: All equipment in the current underground cleanroom!]

boom--!

Accompanied by the system's cold, mechanical voice.

An unprecedented, extremely vast and mysterious purple energy wave.

It erupted from Zhang Huaimin's body with a roar!

This energy, almost tangible, instantly engulfed the entire underground cleanroom.

Those ordinary metal processing cabinets began to undergo frenzied molecular recombination under the baptism of ultraviolet light!

This is a physical miracle that Chen Bing simply cannot comprehend.

The originally bulky mechanical structure was quickly simplified and integrated.

Instead, there is a streamlined metal cabin made of an unknown alloy, forming a single, seamless structure.

It lacks the outrageously expensive deep ultraviolet light source system required by Western lithography machines.

There are also complex lenses that require extremely high precision grinding.

There isn't even a traditional photoresist coating equipment!

"This...this is a lithography machine?"

Chen Bing's eyes widened, and his voice trembled slightly through the cleanroom suit mask.

"Why does it look...like a giant freezer?"

"Brother Chen, this is no ordinary lithography machine."

Zhang Huaimin opened his eyes, his gaze gleaming with unparalleled confidence in technology.

"Western lithography machines use light to 'etch' circuits onto silicon wafers, so they require extremely expensive lenses and light sources."

"My device uses a high-energy electron beam to achieve 'atomic-level arrangement' directly at the microscopic level!"

Zhang Huaimin walked to the metal compartment.

He picked up a glass utensil from the side.

It contains silicon wafers that the West is using to restrict our access to.

Instead, it's a layer of powder that looks like black coal ash!

"This is a carbon nanotube material extracted from ordinary graphite ore."

"The cost is less than one ten-thousandth of their silicon wafers."

Zhang Huaimin poured the bottle of black powder into the feed inlet of the metal compartment.

then.

He stretched out his finger and pressed the green button that symbolized starting on the control panel.

"Buzz—"

The metal cabin emitted an extremely faint buzzing sound, yet it seemed to resonate with the soul.

There were no blinding flashes of light, nor any complicated mechanical noises.

Everything was happening silently inside that thick metal shell, with atomic-level precision.

Utilizing the electron mobility of carbon-based materials, which is hundreds of times greater than that of silicon-based materials.

And the incredible electron beam direct writing technology of this fully automated lithography production line.

The wafer lithography process, which originally required dozens of complex steps and several weeks to complete in the West, is now a process that is quite different from the traditional process.

Here, it's compressed into an incredible few minutes!

Three minutes later.

The buzzing stopped.

A tray slowly popped out from the discharge port of the metal compartment.

"bite."

A soft sound.

Chen Bing held his breath, staring intently at the tray.

Zhang Huaimin stepped forward and picked up a pair of specially made anti-static tweezers.

From the tray, he gently picked up an extremely tiny slice, less than half the size of his little fingernail.

Under the illumination of the shadowless lamp.

This small, thin film did not exhibit the traditional silver-gray color of silicon-based chips.

Instead, it shimmers with a deep, captivating, and star-like purplish-gold light!

This is what has happened in human history.

The first super chip that completely breaks free from the physical limitations of silicon and is built with an all-carbon-based architecture!

It does not require even a single hair of technology license from the West.

It was born in an underground laboratory in China.

But it is enough to crush the pride of the entire Western semiconductor alliance underfoot the moment it is born!

Zhang Huaimin used tweezers to hold the purplish-gold crystal and examined it carefully.

Feel the terrifying computing power contained within the nanoscale carbon nanotube circuit.

The smile on his lips deepened, eventually transforming into a cold and arrogant arc.

"International Semiconductor Alliance?"

Zhang Huaimin murmured softly, as if he were pronouncing a death sentence on a vast empire.

"Get ready for a wave of bankruptcies."