Back in 1955, I Became a Chipmaking Tycoon

A patriotic, hard-core science whiz in a bygone era is returning to China aboard the same ship as the nation's great scientific pioneers. On that day, the System gives me two choices: be exposed as a fake-degree spy and thrown into the sea, or... make the first transistor with my bare hands! It's 1955. Everyone else is a world-shaking national genius, while I'm... a slacker! Then I awaken the Everything Equipment Slot System. My research success rate is 0%? I equip solid-state physics, and my foundational proficiency instantly locks at infinity! As the other side of the ocean prepares to laugh at the Republic, they have no idea that my super-lithography machine blueprint has finished loading. All the great scientific minds are working through the night on their calculations, while I'm the only one slacking off in the workshop every day... They don't know that every sip of tea I take lets the System crush ten years of the Eagle Nation's technological barriers! Equip a fragment of a lithography machine blueprint, and I unlock cutting-edge nanometer processing! Equip an aero-engine blueprint, and I smash a century-long aviation blockade! And today, the Pentagon finally discovers in despair... their technological supremacy has just one hour left to live!?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.