Reborn to Build Chips and Take Down Foreign Rivals

Reborn in 2003 with thirty years of semiconductor expertise in his memory, he gains enhanced recall and research and development abilities thanks to his second chance at life, and sets out to build chips from scratch.

In his previous life, Lin Chen spent thirty years immersed in the semiconductor industry. He witnessed the industry repeatedly being strangled by foreign restrictions, and eventually died of overwork in a lab while tackling the 7-nanometer process.

He wakes up in a South China electronics factory in 2003, now a production-line technician earning 1,800 yuan a month.

That year, the chip industry is still in its infancy. The West has a stranglehold on lithography machines, foreign giants dominate the global market, and domestic manufacturers can only scrape by doing contract work.

Starting with a secondhand packaging production line the factory has discarded, he overcomes challenges in electronic materials, develops his own chip architecture, and tackles the formidable problem of lithography machines.

The European and American alliance imposes technology restrictions and erects patent barriers?

Then he’ll use sheer technological superiority to tear down every restriction and build a fully domestic semiconductor industry chain.