Lin Yuan, the youngest chief engineer of Ruixin Semiconductor.
Three years ago, he refused to sell key patents on lithography machines to the Japanese giant Matsushima Seiko. Three years later, he was banned by the coalition and sent to the Zhongke Optoelectronics Research Institute, a subsidiary of Beiling Group.
This place owes water and electricity, the equipment is gathering dust, the account is zero, there are only three marginalized people, and a whiteboard with "0" written on it.
On the night of the exile, the technology tree system was bound.
[Within 365 days, complete a technical branch and fully unlock it. If it fails, the system will self-destruct and the host will be comatose for thirty days.
No one believes that this dilapidated building can build a photolithography machine.
Lin Yuan first repaired the optical platform from 20 years ago, then made his own photoresist, resurrected the scrapped laser, bypassed the blockade of imported chips, and just made the first independent DUV light in a shabby laboratory.
Engraving machine prototype.
Songdao lowered prices, persuaded people to surrender, suppressed public opinion, liquidated and closed buildings.
Lin Yuan only wrote one sentence on the whiteboard: From today on, the numbers will only be written upwards.
The lithography machine is only the first step.
Superconductivity, AI, quantum computing, aerospace engines, brain-computer interfaces, energy storage batteries, quantum communications, controllable nuclear fusion...
He wants money, status, and voice.
He also wants those who follow him to receive the highest wages in the industry.
When the global technology monopoly system finally became unable to sit still, the man who was exiled to the dilapidated building was no longer a loser according to the rules.
He became the one who made the rules.