Reborn in 1985 to Make Chips, with an AI at My Side

[No heroine + slow burn + fairly hard-core] (Strictly speaking, this isn't a power fantasy, even though the protagonist does escape danger and turn misfortune into good fortune. But, as I said in the few comments I've left: 1. The golden finger is strictly limited, because AI in 2025 is still half an idiot, so this is the only way to keep it in check. 2. While other protagonists get promoted and rich, this book has gone on for dozens of chapters and several years, and the protagonist is still working overtime at the factory. I just want to see whether someone like this, following this path, could keep up with the world. I'll try to tie the story to major real-world events and see whether they can provide a starting point. This is a story about meetings: meeting with the people above to ask for policies and opportunities; meeting with foreign investors to discuss supply and prices; meeting with factory staff to steady morale and reassure management; meeting with domestic suppliers to test performance and supply; meeting with clients to pitch products and processes.) In 2025, a veteran chip R&D engineer unexpectedly returned to 1985 with his complete memories and a secret channel to the future AI “StarChat.” At the time, China's semiconductor industry was nearly nonexistent, but he had fragments of answers from forty years in the future: the global industry landscape, technology roadmaps, and policy trends. From repairing 2μm test wafers to mass-producing chips across the entire 5nm node, and from domestic PC expansion cards and pager SoCs to 3G phones, mobile payment standards, cloud GPUs, and computing-power networks, he must carefully weigh every chance to “ask the future” while navigating technological challenges, patent and capital battles, and international restrictions.