Chapter 248

After speaking, Lin Yi went to Dr. Wen Xia's laboratory.

Having completed the carbon fiber material, he was now researching the nanotechnology Lin Yi had given him.

Simply put, it involved biomedical robots.

However, his research had likewise hit a bottleneck.

That bottleneck was fabrication and control; manufacturing and controlling nanobots was a complex process.

Due to their extremely small size (typically on the nanometer scale), fabricating nanobots required high-precision technology and equipment.

The technology granted by the System utilized advanced lithography.

At minimum, an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine was needed to continue the research.

Besides constructing nanoscale bodies, lithography was also required for nanoscale energy collection and storage systems.

In other words, the issue of the lithography machine could not be delayed.

However, restricted by the COCOM agreement, let alone an EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography machine, even a deep ultraviolet lithography machine...

ASML, the world's only manufacturer capable of producing high-end lithography machines, located in the Netherlands, would not sell one either.

"System... how much does it cost to upgrade the lithography equipment to a 2020 extreme ultraviolet lithography machine?"

"Ding... Calculating..."

Since he was not manufacturing chips, Lin Yi had no intention of acquiring a full chip production line;

he only needed the lithography equipment.

After all, at this time, Lin Yi could not possibly know that future chip manufacturing in Dragon Country would face sanctions.

Although Dragon Country currently could not import advanced lithography machines,

foundries like TSMC were still very willing to manufacture chips for Dragon Country.

For instance, the Kirin 955 recently released by Huawei had its SoC logic chips manufactured by TSMC.

Therefore, for the time being, Lin Yi saw no issues with chip foundry services.

"Host may spend 2 billion USD to unlock lithography equipment!"

"2 billion USD? Are lithography machines that expensive? What about 2010?"

"Ding... Detecting year 2010: No extreme ultraviolet lithography machines exist on Blue Star; Host cannot purchase!"

Upon hearing the System say this, Lin Yi checked online and confirmed that extreme ultraviolet lithography machines had only been released the previous year, in 2015,

used for manufacturing chips for Apple and artificial intelligence.

"2 billion USD it is then!"

Returning from the laboratory, Lin Yi sat in his executive chair in his office and sighed.

In an instant, he noticed his overseas account balance of 25.3 billion USD

had suddenly become 23.3 billion USD.

Although he earned quite a lot from arms sales, his spending was also terrifying.

For him, merely upgrading one lithography machine cost 2 billion USD.

In reality, due to the cross-disciplinary nature of the work, Lin Yi was unaware that ASML in the Netherlands had spent immense time and effort developing the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine,

consuming over ten billion USD in the process.

The System charging Lin Yi only 2 billion USD to unlock a 2020 product was already quite a discount.

After unlocking it, seeing the lithography machines priced at 30 million USD per unit,

Lin Yi spent another 300 million USD to purchase ten units.

He believed these lithography machines should be sufficient for the laboratory's use!

As it turned out, he later learned that using lithography machines also required constructing at least a Class 10,000 cleanroom.

Thus, without anyone in Dragon Country noticing, Fengyi Technology began constructing chip-level cleanrooms.

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However, due to differences in academic specialties, Lin Yi himself did not actually consider lithography machines to be that important, a sentiment probably shared by many people in Longguo at the time.

It was only after Huawei faced sanctions that people truly began to pay attention to lithography machines.

Only then did they suddenly realize that something called a lithography machine existed,

and that it was so crucial in chip production.

But after all, this was equipment unlocked for two billion US dollars,

and high-end lithography machines were products explicitly banned from export to mainland Longguo under the "COCOM Agreement."

Therefore, Lin Yi would absolutely not promote these lithography devices to the outside world.

In the future, employees would also be strictly forbidden from discussing them.

Furthermore, none of the system's products would bear nameplates or labels,

nor would they include the protective devices some manufacturers installed to prevent disassembly and reverse engineering.

They were the purest versions possible.

In due time, Lin Yi could simply change the casing before putting them to use.

All of this would have to wait until the cleanroom workshop was completed.

On June 1st,

at Fox News in Chouguo,

"Our station has just received news of a terrible and sorrowful incident at an elementary school in Minnesota,

where a nine-year-old student named John used a child-sized firearm purchased through the DWS Platform's special Children's Day event, causing a tragedy of three deaths and seven injuries at the school. Local police state this is the third elementary school shooting in the area recently. Here is our report from the scene!"

The scene shifted to the exterior of an elementary school in Chouguo.

Many people from Chouguo were holding banners and placards in protest.

One displayed an icon of a J-20 crossed out with a large red X, alongside the words:

"Go to hell, DWS! You deserve to burn!"

Above was drawn an icon of a J-20, crossed out with a large red X, and beside it was written:

"DWS, you are the most evil Satan!"

Countless people had gathered at the school entrance to protest.

When the blonde female reporter from Fox News approached the crowd, she randomly asked a protesting white woman:

"Ma'am, what is your view on this matter?"

"Oh God, I am shocked. The DWS Platform is just like the devil; it keeps selling weapons all over the world,

creating chaos everywhere. Now it has even reached out to children. I simply cannot imagine

what kind of person could be so cruel?

Why does the government insist on attacking Syria instead of finding a way to catch those demons and hang them!"

The white woman was extremely agitated.

If one looked closely, they would notice a Beretta NANO pistol for ladies holstered at her own waist.

It was just unknown where she had purchased that gun.

Next, the reporter interviewed another protesting white man:

"Sir, what is your opinion on this incident?"

"It's absolutely terrible. Actually, it's not just about children carrying guns; the entire state of Chouguo is a mess. A year ago, I could walk down the street without carrying a gun because gun control was decent and public security was very good.

But now? Do you see this SIG Sauer P228 pistol at my waist? I even have an Agram submachine gun in my car. You need to know that a year ago, I had absolutely no interest in firearms...

Yet within these past few months, I was robbed by niggers three times in a single day. They pressed guns against the back of my head and demanded I hand over everything... Do you know what that feels like?"

But now? Look at the SIG Sauer P228 pistol at my waist? And there's also an Agram submachine gun in my car; you must know that a year ago I had absolutely no interest in firearms...

Yet within these few months, I was once robbed by niggers three times in a single day; they pressed guns against the back of my head and demanded I hand over everything... Do you know what that feels like...."

because even walking on the streets during the day was unsafe if you weren't armed.

You never knew when two niggers might flank you from behind,

press a gun against your waist, and force you to go with them.

The most terrifying part was that these niggers no longer cared about the police; they brazenly started live streams.

Pressing a gun against your waist, they ordered you to go with them.

Most terrifying of all, these Negroes now cared nothing for the police officers; they brazenly started a live stream.

— Author's Notes —

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