Ye Zhou soon received the general action plan sent by Chen Hao. He read it carefully several times and determined that there was no contradiction 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 professionals. His main task now is to form the institute as soon as possible, and conduct further simulations to obtain more scientific and technological achievements.

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

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

Her talent is indeed good, and she is even considered a genius at some point, but in front of those who are smart and capable, and whose theoretical knowledge is still many times better than her, she is still just an unknown newcomer role.

Fortunately, she had already been prepared for such a reality, so she was not disappointed.

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

In addition to establishing a research institute for Xu Lei and Wan Zhou's mission, Ye Zhou also learned a series of basic knowledge of nuclear reactors according to his own plan - just the entry-level knowledge has already made him feel a little in pain.

This is done to understand the principles and weaknesses of the basic nuclear fuel core in the shortest time so as to avoid unnecessary detours in the simulation.

Ye Zhou had already asked Chen Hao for permission and found a large number of documents and materials from a special website. Although he could not fully understand the basic principles of these documents and materials, with the help of the nuclear physics researcher provided by Chen Hao, he could still remember the types, characteristics, weaknesses, and accident handling methods of these reactors.

This is a job that takes a lot of effort.

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

These conditions include but are not limited to reading more than 100 pages of the document with these three words when you see the word "core", you cannot fall asleep if you do not have 12 hours of reading and learning time within a day, and you must copy the content you don't understand and ask questions to the researcher on the spot, etc.

To be fair, this conditioned reflex system is extremely useful and is a blessing for procrastination patients without self-control. However, the word "nuclear" is too broad as a trigger. After accidentally reading a full hundred pages of the notes of Lao Bai Jinger and Rener, Ye Zhou changed the keyword to "nuclear reactor" on the spot.

After that, his conditioned reflex system never encountered any surprises, and he began to enrich the relevant knowledge with extremely high efficiency - of course, it would be a fantasy to let him learn nuclear physics from scratch.

While he was preparing for the research institute and plot simulation, both Chen Hao's command center and the strategic office there had already begun their first competition for monopoly on the chip market.

This is the first time in decades that there have been two equally competitive competitors in this industry. No one knows what strategy is right and no one knows what the final result will be.

......

In the south of China, Yindu, Xindeli, an interior of a large-scale modern factory workshop.

"This is what you said, the 3nm lithography machine has been completed?"

A white man with an engineer-like face asked with a frown.

He had just seen the lithography machine produced by the factory based on the technology provided by his country. Now he seemed to be roaring in his heart, wishing to tear the innocent Yindu people into pieces.

He could not find any suitable words to summarize the so-called lithography machine in front of him.

Shrunk, cut corners, perfunctory things, and just show off...

At this level, let alone using it to make 3nm chips, even for laser engraving, it is considered insufficient accuracy!

It would be better to ask these damn Yindu people to go to a small city in China called Yiwu to buy a laser engraving machine to charge the numbers!

At least the machine I bought can produce some handicrafts, carve some crystal sculptures, and sell them for a few dollars. I won’t think that if I spend tens of billions of dollars in, I will create such a 100% industrial garbage!

"Mr. Lawrence, we have really done our best. The construction period you are asking for is too short, and it is already difficult to do this within a month."

"What's more, our machine is not as useless as you said, right? The results we just tested are not very good? The machine runs very smoothly!"

Lawrence forced his anger down and said expressionlessly:

"If you think a lithography machine can operate well if it works, then it is indeed working very well."

"I won't talk about the problem with the machine itself. During the test in the past half hour, this factory had a total of three power outages. Are you kidding me? The funds we provide to you include the cost of power transformation!"

The Yindu man smiled awkwardly and replied:

"Mr. Lawrence, this is true. Although we did carry out power transformation, you also know that this time, I mean, from 8 to 10 pm, it is the peak period of Xindeli's electricity use, and it is normal to occasionally lose power..."

"...You mean, if this lithography machine is really useful, is it normal to destroy a whole wafer due to a power outage?"

"We will avoid peak electricity consumption in later production."

The man replied seriously.

Lawrence looked at him in amazement, opened his mouth several times, but finally did not say anything. Instead, he turned around and left the factory directly regardless of the man's retention.

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

"...this is the case. The lithography machine they built is simply unusable. The funds we invested were completely drained. 12 billion yuan! They all sank into the water!"

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

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

“…I know that’s the case, but…”

"There is nothing, we never expected them to build lithography machines from the beginning, and the news released is just a prelude."

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

"As long as they believe it, we will directly provide finished chips to each other to impact the Chinese chip industry, and our company can continue to maintain its high-end image."

"When will our opponent fail in the price war, we will find a reason to close the factory and continue to sell our own goods."

"This kind of operation can not only allow us to bypass the anti-dumping laws, but also retain our initiative at any time. What's wrong with it? Anyway, the money they sell chips is also ours!"

"Lawrence, don't care about the 12 billion dollar. Could it be that you really naively think that all the money will be distributed to the engineers who build the factory?"

"Don't be naive! This is a play! The 10 billion of them are just the official salary we give to Yindu! And the other 2 billion is just the prop fee!"
Chapter completed!