I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

In the past two years, the tech war had erupted globally, and those developed countries had tightly sealed off the core semiconductor technologies, placing Huaxia, which had always relied on foreign imports, in a very difficult situation.

There was an enterprise called Huawei that had always focused on independently developing its own chips, which indeed raised Huaxia's self-research capabilities by a notch. However, in this domain, the most fundamental aspect was still semiconductor manufacturing technology, and this was also the hardest to breakthrough.

But now, in Zhang Menglong's mind, his Grade E knowledge in material sciences had enabled him to understand semiconductor material technologies to an extent that was unreachable for the average person.

Today, Huaxia's domestically produced mass chips had reached 7nm, but the top semiconductor technology companies could already mass-produce 5nm chips. Although it was just a 2nm difference, the technical gap was at least two years.

Producing semiconductor chips required 19 essential materials, none of which could be omitted, and most of these materials had extremely high technical barriers. Therefore, semiconductor materials held a crucial position in the semiconductor industry.

And with materials such as silicon wafers, synthetic semiconductor wafers, photomasks, photoresists, pharmaceuticals, target materials, protective coatings, lead frames, ceramic plates, plastic boards, COF, solder wires, and packaging materials, Zhang Menglong could easily solve these challenges!

Theoretically, the limit for semiconductor chip technology is 2nm, but within Zhang Menglong's knowledge system, he could advance semiconductor chip technology to 0.3nm, which was almost a tenth of the theoretical limit!

One could imagine the impact on the global semiconductor industry once he industrialized this technology.

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"Junior brother, what did you mean by your words just now? Did you say you want to make their chips obsolete?"

"Yes, if we could develop a better chip, wouldn't their products become obsolete? And they would all be begging us to buy our chips!" Zhang Menglong said.

"If only it were that simple," Zhu Mengchao, who had always worked with Professor Han on semiconductor-related topics, knew how difficult this field was, "Although our country can develop very advanced chips, the concept of laboratory and industrial mass production are completely different. We are a full five years behind in mass production technology!"

Take Silicon Moonlight, Huaxia's largest semiconductor enterprise, for example, they only handle the simplest part of the chip production process, and all their processing equipment is imported.

In other words, if their upstream did not provide the "Crystal Chip" processing material, their entire company would essentially collapse, as no domestic company could produce this thing called "Crystal Chip."

"Senior brother, which is the largest semiconductor chip enterprise in our country currently?" Zhang Menglong asked.

"That would be Silicon Moonlight, the one I just mentioned to you," Zhu Mengchao said, "But their situation is quite dire now. Their 'Crystal Chip' suppliers are all Western countries. Previously, this was a complete supply chain; Western countries provided the raw materials, they processed them, made chips, and then sold them to Huaxia enterprises for use." Experience more on My Virtual Library Empire

"But now," Zhu Mengchao sighed, "those material supply companies say that they will not allow their chips to be sold to any Huaxia enterprise in the future. If they cannot comply with this, then they will be banned from supplying them with Crystal Chips, leading them inevitably towards closure!"

"Wow, that's quite ruthless!" Zhang Menglong was visibly angry, "Senior brother, I understand now. I remember that Silicon Moonlight is based in Treasure Island, right?"

"Yes," Zhu Mengchao responded before his expression turned puzzled, "Junior Brother, are you planning to go to Silicon Moonlight?"

"Yes, I plan to acquire them!" Zhang Menglong said.

"Acquire them?" Zhu Mengchao widened his eyes, "Junior Brother, Silicon Moonlight's market value is over 80 billion US Dollars!"

"80 billion US Dollars? That's not much at all!" Zhang Menglong laughed.

Zhu Mengchao was instantly stunned; he knew his junior brother was now the world's richest man. Currently, on the Forbes ranking, his estimated net worth had reached 800 billion US Dollars—ten times that 80 billion. Moreover, he knew that a portion of this money, over 600 billion US Dollars, seemed to be liquid assets.@@novelbin@@

But according to the current situation, Silicon Moonlight was clearly on the brink of bankruptcy. If they rejected the demands of those Westerners, they would face complete bankruptcy!

However, if they accepted the conditions of the Westerners and stopped providing chips to Huaxia, then the company would no longer belong to Huaxia but would completely become a tool for the West to amass wealth. If Zhang Menglong acquired it, there would likely be a torrent of criticism in the future.

Zhu Mengchao hurriedly shared his concerns with Zhang Menglong.

"Elder Brother, rest assured, I will never agree to those Westerners' demands," Zhang Menglong smiled. The last company was founded by entrepreneurs from our homeland; it is a Huaxia company. Zhang Menglong would never let his own company become a tool for the West to amass wealth.

"Then why are you acquiring them?" Zhu Mengchao was even more perplexed, "Without the finished Crystal Chips, their production lines are useless, unable to perform any industry work!"

"What, are only Western countries capable of producing Crystal Chips?" Zhang Menglong's words actually meant he could do it too, and the chips he produced would be ten times more efficient than theirs!

But Zhu Mengchao clearly misunderstood him. Zhang Menglong was just an undergraduate graduate, and even his graduation project was assisted by several of his elder brothers, and that too was in polymers. In the semiconductor Domain, Zhang Menglong was likely clueless.

"Although some other countries can also produce Crystal Chips," Zhu Mengchao explained, "the technology and patents they use all belong to Western countries. This blockage from Western countries is worldwide; anyone using their technology is prohibited from providing Crystal Chips to Huaxia, or they will be held accountable!

"Our country can manufacture Crystal Chips too, but they are too crude and perform too poorly. The chips produced can only be used in low-end phones and computers. Thinking of deploying them in cutting-edge communication technology is laughable!"

Zhang Menglong smiled; he knew Zhu Mengchao had misunderstood his statement, but he couldn't just say it explicitly. If he told Zhu Mengchao he had a way to produce high-performance Crystal Chips, Zhu Mengchao would hardly believe him.

"If it's not feasible now, then we'll wait until our country can produce high-end Crystal Chips, then resume production!" Zhang Menglong said.

"That's a five-year technological gap!" Zhu Mengchao said, "Even if our self-research capabilities improve tremendously under this pressure, it would still take at least two to three years. If you acquire them now, you're just taking on a huge burden! Their annual operating costs already exceed 30 billion Huaxia currency!"

"What does that matter?" Zhang Menglong smiled slightly, "What belongs to our homeland is ours; if they cannot sustain themselves, then I will support them!"