At The Beginning, Sell Off Your Property And Short-Sell The Parallel World.

On international forums, news of Li Xun's housing placement for employees spread.

"Oh, after being sanctioned, there was no official response from the Dragon Kingdom, but it was Li Xun who became anxious first."

"It is estimated that the various technology companies under my control can no longer work. Can I not be anxious?"

"Patriotic? Fake's patriotism?! Anyway, I don't believe it!"

"As for buying houses for employees? A ten-year contract is a restriction of freedom!"

"Treat employees like prisoners! Oh, I'd rather be in jail."

"Longguo's real estate, worthless things, a house that I can buy in one month, do I have to work for him for ten years?"

Under the malicious reports of the US imperialist media, Li Xun became the target of ridicule on the media platform.

The original welfare has also been distorted or restricted the freedom of others.

It is truly a country of freedom.

Some voices defending Li Xun were drowned in the tide of rumors.

At this time, Li Xun had no time to pay attention to this.

He stood in Huai Semiconductor's top-secret R&D room, with two huge square iron boxes standing in front of him.

That is the second-hand lithography machine from ASML in the Netherlands!

The entire body of the lithography machine is made of metal. Although the color is a little dull, the entire lithography machine is well maintained.

There is a row of monitors on the left, with various parameters and knobs on them, responsible for operating the lithography machine.

In the middle is a scanning photolithography needle, which removes the protective film on the surface of the wafer through a template, and then puts the polished wafer body into a corrosive agent. The part that has lost the protective film is etched away to form a circuit.

Then, pure water washes away the impurities remaining on the wafer surface.

The preliminary manufacturing of the chip can be completed.

It sounds like it's not difficult.

In fact, the first step alone, removing the protective film on the round crystal is a nanoscale operation.

This is also the commonly discussed difference between 20 nanometers, 17 nanometers, 10 nanometers and even 5 nanometers.

The more delicate the operation, the more sophisticated the circuit that can be integrated.

Looking at the two lithography machines that he had managed to get from Wandao, Ji Xun took a deep breath.

"The rest of the work will be left to you.

Li Xun warned several researchers behind him in a deep voice.

"yes!"

Zhou Qi was among them, and he responded loudly to Li Xun.

Soon, the refurbishment of the lithography machine began.

Although it is said to be a refurbishment, it is actually due to a long-term lack of maintenance and some of the parts need to be replaced.

Fortunately, Huai Semiconductor has retained most of its old Wandao employees.

Otherwise, just renovating will cause trouble.

Just a beam shape setting device has thousands of small parts.

Thanks to the efforts of the R&D personnel, it took two full weeks to renovate the two ASML lithography machines.

This is just the first step.

Some parts that need to be replaced with more sophisticated parts are not available.

Among them, the most troublesome is the beam corrector.

Li Xun originally wanted to directly find the R&D personnel of the Dutch ASML company, but these R&D personnel remained unmoved in the face of the high price.

Without him, these technologies can no longer be solved by money.

"Annie, please think of a way."

Li Xun felt that since it could not be solved by legitimate means, then it should be left to more professional agents to solve the problem.

After going back and forth, Annie actually managed to find a few R&D developers who had resigned.

The other party's asking price is the lion's opening.

But Yin Zhengxue, who is responsible for R&D finance, is satisfied with all these.

On the road to independent research and development, costs are inevitable.

At night, the Li family's old house.

"Abba, Abba......"

Hearing Ruzhen's voice, Li Xun, who was watching the stock market, softened his expression.

Fuzhen, who was holding his daughter, came over and reminded him gently:

"Husband, don't work so hard and rest."

Li Xun nodded. He has been studying the manufacturing of photolithography machines these days.

The sanctions imposed by the US emperor are not only based on technology, but also on raw materials.

Development is not just about creating a laboratory version. Even for the 17-nanometer chip that has been conquered now, the raw materials are not easy to obtain.

"Well, don't worry."

Li Xun, who was a little tired, pressed his temples and stood up to take his daughter.

At this time, Ruzhen felt the familiar embrace and chuckled.

"Do you need me to mobilize Samsung's R&D personnel?" Fuzhen asked.

She couldn't bear to see Li Xun working so hard, so she suggested bringing Samsung's chip R&D personnel.

Li Xun shook his head.

At present, breaking through the blockade and obtaining replacement raw materials is the biggest problem!

The research and development has not yet reached the most critical moment. Now that Samsung's R&D personnel are involved, it is estimated that it will soon be targeted by the US emperor.

Wholly-owned Samsung can indeed do this.

But who can guarantee that the US imperialists will not react after they learn about it.

Whether it is the internal pressure from South Korea's chaebols or the external pressure from the US emperor, Samsung cannot withstand it.

We can't just move to the interior of Dragon Kingdom like Wan Semiconductor.

"..."Let's not do this for now. I have a vague feeling that something is wrong."

Li Xun frowned and replied that since the start of research and development, apart from public propaganda, there has been no follow-up action from the US officialdom.

This is very unreasonable.

Although it can be explained that the other party is trying to survive the subprime mortgage crisis.

But it still makes Li Xun have some doubts.

While Li Xun was thinking, Riganmei suddenly became excited.

Li Xun has never seen Mitsui Izumi looking so out of sorts, something must have happened.

"Oops, there's a fire in the R&D room!"

When Li Xun heard this, he rushed out immediately.

When he arrived at Huaihe Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., thick smoke poured out of the windows of the R&D room and the fire had been completely extinguished.

Li Xun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Zhou Qi with a dark face.

"How's the loss?"

Yin Zhengxue on the side looked sad and said that one of the ASML model lithography machines was completely damaged.

The other one also suffered some damage due to high temperature.

This fire destroyed almost all Huaijie Semiconductor's recent efforts and almost ruined the future of the entire Dragon Kingdom.

Yin Zhengxue looked at Li Xun, who was calm and powerful, and his heart went crazy.

He had never seen Li Xun with such an expression, like a demon from hell, staring at everyone present.

"How did the fire start?"

Li Xun asked word for word, and the R&D personnel around him all looked at each other and did not dare to say a word.

Seeing no one answered, Li Xun finally knew what he was talking about.

The worries I have been having recently have come true. It turns out that there is a hidden danger in the R&D room!

"All the staff, gather together, we have a spy!"