Programmer Lin Shen is reborn in 1999 and awakens the “Chip's Eye” System, which can analyze the structure of matter. He gives up the chance to enroll at Tsinghua University through a guaranteed admission program and starts by upgrading old lithography machines, then tackles one crucial challenge after another, from photoresist and packaging technology to quantum chips. When the United States imposes a technological blockade, he leads his team in building a fully integrated industrial base on an isolated island in Hainan and breaks Android's monopoly with an open-source ecosystem. Finally, in 2025, he achieves mass production of photonic chips. When human probes land on Mars, the world finally realizes that this man who changed everything had planted the seeds of interstellar technology for Chinese civilization twenty years earlier.
