When the joint Western blockade order was issued, Beiyan's top laboratories were shut down overnight, and photolithography machines worth hundreds of millions were reduced to scrap metal.
Lin Yi, a 26-year-old researcher who returned from overseas, set up a "new laboratory" in an abandoned factory. The first partner he found was the 25-year-old genius hacker Chen Mo - a dropout genius who lived in an urban village and vented his anger by posting technical posts. Subsequently, precision manufacturing expert Su Yunwei, diplomat Yao Mengqi, and young college student Qin Yu joined one after another. On the other end of the overseas phone call, Emily, a biochip doctor from Stanford, was packing her luggage: "Count me in."
This group of young people, whose average age is less than 26 years old, wants to break the century-old technological iron curtain on a road that no one has traveled before.
If there is no equipment, old machine tools will be renovated; if there is no data, we will deduce from public papers; external spies are watching, and cyber attacks are ongoing day and night. They used the crazy idea of self-assembled integrated circuits to bypass the EUV lithography machine and "let the circuit grow on its own" at the nanometer scale.
From abandoned factories to national laboratories, from being blocked to setting international standards - this is the story of two genius boys and four girls, leading a country to break through the shackles.
When dawn comes, they say: Make the stars and the sea by yourself.
