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"We believe that the technology on the other side has seriously threatened us, preventing us from gaining an advantage in this field."

After XPQ, DA&TD, and SQG went public, four other companies across the ocean competed with them in the same field, seriously impacting Wall Street's profits.

A member of parliament is explaining to Congress the harm that mainland China poses to their sector. This is normal practice; back in the 1980s, after the island nation developed its chip industry, it was subject to sanctions from North America.

In the 1970s, the island nation adopted a national system to begin large-scale research and development based on large-scale integrated circuits, chips, auxiliary tools and accessories.

At the time, they invested a total of 737 billion yen in research and development, of which 291 billion yen was government subsidies and the remainder was covered by five companies.

In the 1970s, based on the exchange rate at the time, 1 US dollar was equivalent to 260 Japanese yen. Therefore, this investment amounted to more than 200 million US dollars. If calculated according to inflation, it would be approximately 6 billion US dollars, which is close to 60 billion RMB.

At the time, the island nation was aiming to surpass North America, a fact that North America also learned of. Their suspicions terrified the island nation's representatives, who immediately went to North America to explain and introduce their project. Fortunately, they had deceived North America, preventing them from investigating further.

The person in charge returned to the island nation unharmed and was not arrested.

At that time, the island nation's technology surpassed that of the international mechanical general company a year ahead of schedule. The achievements were numerous, including breakthroughs in key technologies such as multiple electron beam mapping devices, electron beam mapping software, high-resolution masks and inspection devices, silicon wafer oxygen and carbon content analysis technology, large-diameter single crystal silicon cultivation technology, and CAD design technology. Logic and memory device manufacturing technologies applicable to these technologies also emerged as a result.

By 1986, island nation companies had risen from 26% to 45% of the global semiconductor market share, while North America's market share had fallen from 61% to 43%. That year, six of the world's top ten chip manufacturers were island nation companies.

As early as 1984, North America introduced the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act, which clearly stated that the government would provide greater support to the chip industry.

While strengthening itself, North America also wielded so-called legal weapons. Based on Section 301 of its Trade Act, the North American Semiconductor Industry Association filed a lawsuit against the island nation, forcing it to sign the Japan-U.S. Semiconductor Agreement in 1986. The agreement explicitly required that the market share of U.S. semiconductor products in Japan be increased to 20%.

A year later, in 1987, the Antitrust Act was amended to clarify that the government could also legally subsidize companies. Then, following the example of the island nation, 14 companies were united to establish the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Alliance (SEMATECH), which focused on chip manufacturing processes and equipment to technologically counter the advanced technology of the island nation.

Thus, the island nation's consumer semiconductor technology became dependent on North America.

Currently, mainland China's technology is surpassing that of North America. This can be seen in the market, where many electronic products or OEM products from mainland China are occupying a large share of the North American market. Even North America itself doesn't know which products are OEM-assembled and which are simply rebranded products.

Now, they realized something was wrong and felt that if things continued this way, their advantage would vanish completely.

"I feel that the key to this is the Da Sima Foundation in Hong Kong. They bought the technology and patents and then licensed them for free, which is very dangerous."

"Invite the chairman of the Grand Marshal Foundation to come to North America to hold an academic conference."

"That probably won't work; he's dying now."

"WHAT'S THE F**K!? How come he's about to die?"

"His cancer cells have spread very badly, and he may not be able to hold on much longer."

The people in the conference room fell silent. If their opponent died in North America, they would be condemned by the entire world…

"Are there any other options, anti-monopoly or anti-dumping?"

"Some of them are our own companies."

A week later, North America issued a regulation stipulating that for consumer electronics products exported from mainland China to North America, the proportion of components made in mainland China in the finished product cannot exceed 50%, or the cost cannot exceed 50% of the overall selling price. Otherwise, an additional 50% tariff would be imposed.

The news immediately sparked dissatisfaction among mainland Chinese contract manufacturers. Currently, mainland China's consumer electronics exports to North America have achieved a self-sufficiency rate of approximately 80% for components, which does not meet North American requirements.

Meanwhile, North American companies are also asking their Chinese contract manufacturers to reduce the number of products manufactured in China and to use Chinese components instead.

Zhang San's thought was that he would have to think of other ways.