Great Power Technology

September 4, overseas, Office of Advanced Strategic Analysis.

"The situation is basically clear. They are indeed building a wafer fab, and it is a completely new wafer fab. I now seriously doubt that the other party may have a technological breakthrough in the process, and this technological breakthrough is completely proprietary .”

"This also explains why their protection of Ye Zhou has been raised to such a level, because what this person brings to them is definitely not just EDA, but may also include hardware technology!"

"In early August, they built temporary roads in this small place called Miyagi County, and built a large number of factories near Zhengshan, and the surrounding alert level was extremely high."

"Every indication is that they must be building a new fab, and it's been a month since construction started - we're a full month behind."

The speaker was a white man named Charles, who was responsible for the overall strategic analysis and research of this office.

Since the launch of Yinglong EDA three months ago, he has never stopped doing strategic analysis, but even in his boldest guess, he never expected that the other party would directly build a new wafer fab.

Judging from the current series of actions, it is obvious that what the other party built is not an ordinary wafer factory, but a wafer factory that may pose a danger to its own industry.

This also explains why the other party keeps procrastinating on negotiations.

Because they had no intention of talking about it at all, they were just trying to divert attention and cover up their true intentions.

"Ciel, do you think they can succeed?"

The questioner was a black man named Nigg, who was the head of the department.

Charles shook his head and replied:

"I can't give you a definite answer. Whether technically or theoretically, they actually have no possibility of threatening us."

"However, technology and theory are just conventional judgments, and when facing enemies like them, you can never use conventional judgments."

"They have brought us too many accidents since the 1950s and up to now. So, we cannot take it lightly no matter what."

Nige turned the ring on his finger silently, and after a moment, he asked:

"Do we need to activate emergency plans?"

Ciel's eyes darkened.

Of course he knew what the emergency plan Nige was referring to, but if he tried to use it now, would it still be successful?

Even if it succeeds, is there any point?

That factory had appeared out of thin air in just one month, and no one knew how advanced the equipment inside it was.

Even if the emergency plan was successfully implemented, without Ye Zhou, would they really be unable to build a lithography machine?

Based on his character, this should be impossible.

Thinking of this, he shook his head and said:

"There is no point anymore. In their words, the deal is done and it is redundant to do anything else. All we can do now is to continue to monitor the situation and minimize losses."

"In addition, this matter has exceeded our scope of authority. You need to report the situation immediately. The specific response strategy will be formulated by the Chamber of Commerce."

"Okay, I'll do it."

Nig nodded.

Until now, he was still in a dazed state.

In nearly thirty years of intelligence work, this is the first time he has faced such an unforeseen situation.

When those satellite photos were thrown on his desk, he sadly discovered that his previous investigation directions were all wrong.

The opponent's real trump card is not inside the game at all, but is hidden far outside the game.

It would have been nice if I could have been more discerning at that time.

In fact, it is not that he has no chance.

However, this happened so fast and suddenly that even the Office of Strategic Advisors, who was always monitoring the other party, did not react, let alone him who was only doing intelligence work.

Half an hour later, a top-secret report was delivered to the office.

The slightly old man sat quietly aside, but the man next to him who was supposed to be an aide slapped the table hard.

"Why! Can anyone tell me why?! Why didn't we get the message until now? Why was there no response to this situation before? Why is it like my satellite is blind?!"

"Such a wide road! Such a big factory! Our satellite resolution has reached meter level, isn't there any reaction to this?"

The man sitting opposite him spread his hands helplessly.

"Graham, that's not how satellites work. We have a limited number of satellites."

"On the other hand, even if it was detected from the beginning, would we have any reaction?"

“Do you know how many major infrastructure projects are under construction in a day? I can tell you that right at this moment, right at this second, in the early hours of the morning on the other side, they still have hundreds and thousands of infrastructure projects going on! "

"Each of these projects is more conspicuous than that small 3-kilometer road. Do we have to analyze these projects one by one?"

"The reason why we were able to determine the connection between this road, this factory and the industry this time was actually inferred by us after integrating all kinds of intelligence. It is unimaginable that we can draw conclusions now!"

"In the last time, when their industry was launched, we didn't even know what was going on!"

Graham waved his arms to show that he didn't want to hear the man's explanation.

"I don't want to hear this now, I just want to know what else we can do! Can we start a new round of restrictions on them?"

"Unfortunately, no. All we can do has been done, and there is currently no indication that they have used our technology. If you want to impose unreasonable restrictions on this situation, there is only one outcome."

After listening to the man's words, Graham fell silent.

He sat down on the chair, lit the cigarette and took two long puffs before continuing to ask:

"So, there's nothing we can do?"

"There are still some. We can try to reduce the losses as much as possible - although the other party is building a wafer factory, from the information we currently have, the most they have is the manufacturing process, and the advantage is still on our side."

"We will have losses, but such losses will never be fatal."

"The first thing to do is to withdraw the hot money invested in short selling from the market to avoid financial losses."

"Secondly, we need to start negotiations as soon as possible and negotiate the terms before their part actually appears. Even if we make more concessions, it doesn't matter! At least we can still make money!"

"Finally, the upstream and downstream industries also need to take action as soon as possible. We must limit each other's production capacity as much as possible and maintain our advantageous position as much as possible!"

His words were quickly recorded on paper, and then, with the signature of the old man sitting on the edge, they began to be sent to various departments.

The first person to receive the order was the IDFC department responsible for overseas investment. As soon as they saw the order, they launched a capital exit plan.

But soon, they discovered that the stocks they sold through securities lending could not be redeemed.

Because on that day, the official issued an announcement.

In view of the domestic XX situation, it is planned to extend the holiday for 3 days and all financial institutions will be closed.