Los Angeles, North America.

There was a long sigh from the office, from Tommy Brown, the head of Bell Labs. Dr. Jerryne, after uniting the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention to form a Western life sciences front, rushed to California non-stop to join the bigwigs of the Semiconductor Federation.

The journey was hard, but what Dr. Jarien couldn't bear the most was that he had just stepped off the plane when he heard bad news from the East.

Xingchen Technology actually succeeded, and they really made the fourth generation lithography machine.

"From now on, the semiconductor industry will enter the era of sub-nanometer and high-precision laser operations, but neither ASML, Nikon, nor Canon are prepared for this, what will happen in the future? We continue to use the third-generation lithography technology and watch that group of Chinese people create chips with dozens of times the performance of us? ”

The voice of the complaint came from the global president of Intel Group, Dr. Swan.

Of course, he has reason to complain that for the vast majority of chip manufacturers, the semiconductor process is their lifeblood, and AMD finally realized that after being pitted by his own son Globalfoundries for more than ten years, he turned to TSMC's seven-nanometer process, and then with the lead in the process, AMD almost turned over and beat Intel.

Now, the last two players in the field of general-purpose CPUs, AMD and Intel, have become brothers and sisters, and there is no need to complain anymore, because the fourth-generation lithography of Xingchen Technology can manufacture chips with a process of less than one nanometer, leaving all semiconductor companies in the world behind.

President Swann continued: "This time, Xingchen Technology revealed a lot of information, just now Luo Jia said personally, the Chinese business community has formed a semiconductor alliance to jointly make up for the lack of technology in this field. ”

"Among them, Xingchen Technology will be responsible for the underlying construction of hardware, they want to develop Chinese-based machine language, assembly language, instruction set, flow set, recognition mechanism, you should know how much weight his words have, if they succeed, there will be no place for us in this world."

Looking around, President Swan's eyes swept over the faces of several bigwigs, this is a very small office, only two couches, and four nineteenth-century chairs covered with lambskin chairs, and the people sitting in this office, from Intel, from Bell Labs, from Texas Instruments, from IBM, are all the most important beings in the technology world.

President Swan's words are really serious, once Xingchen Technology succeeds, will supergiants like Intel and IBM cease to exist?

No one stood up to refute it, and their faces all looked grim.

"After all, it is the fourth generation of lithography technology, if Xingchen Technology really advances the process to 0.01 nanometer, then the chips they manufacture will be the size of ants, and our seven-nanometer, five-nanometer, and three-nanometer technology will be completely unable to compete."

"It can't be said that the lithography machine is like a hammer in the hands of a blacksmith, even if they have a powerful Thor's hammer, the Huaxia people may not be able to use Thor's hammer to create Achilles' shield."

"The point is, we can't afford to gamble, in the face of a whole generation of lithography technology, do we really want to put all our lives on the line?"

"Let's negotiate, take advantage of the opportunity to talk to the Chinese people, the semiconductor industry is too important, no one should have the idea of monopoly, it is fair for the East and the West to have half of it."

The debate continued, and no one could make up their minds for a moment.

Unconsciously, the West is losing its greatest advantage, self-confidence.

Xingchen Technology and that group of desperate straight men of steel turned out, reversing the pattern of the whole world, they made the impossible possible again and again, so that the Western scientific community had to seriously think about a question that had never been thought of before, the West and the East, who is the one who belongs to the future?

Time passed minute by minute, and when it came to the time predicted by Luo Jia, everyone stopped talking and turned their eyes to another giant, the Chinese national team.

Luo Jia said that there will be an important statement, but no one knows where the statement will come from, maybe CCTV, maybe Weibo, maybe some other channel, anyway, with Luo Jia's current social status, he should have no reason to lie.

"It's out!"

"What's the important move?"

"Sent it, they sent it!"

"Tell me clearly, what's wrong!?"

"The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of Huaxia officially announced the issuance of 5G licenses!"

Rumble~

This voice made everyone present stunned on the spot as if they had been struck by lightning.

It turns out that this is the action of the national team, you know, now in the world, the only companies with mature 5G technology are Huawei, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, MediaTek, and the rest of the players in the telecommunications field, at least two years behind Huawei.

The national team directly issued the 5G license, and now only Huawei can receive 5G orders, which is equivalent to giving Huawei a super order of hundreds of billions or even trillions!

"Do you know what's even more terrifying?"

"What?"

"The 5G system has not yet been unified, and Huaxia will issue a license now, which shows that they have made up their minds to break with us!"

"You mean, Huaxia is going to throw away the 3GPP alliance and go on the road alone?"

"Well, the situation is already obvious, you pay attention to the wording of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, this time it is a 5G commercial license, not a 5G trial operation license, what does this mean?"

"It means that Huaxia will skip the trial operation and go directly to large-scale commercial use!"

"Yes, it's an all-or-nothing rhythm! Crazy, Huaxia's enterprises are crazy, and now even their national team is crazy! They want to be officially commercialized, and there is no formal standard for 5G technology, which means that Huaxia will no longer care about any international standards and build 5G according to its own standards! ”

"Ignoring international standards? How can they do this!? ”

"I already smell the smoke of war, if Huaxia cooks raw rice to maturity, we will face two choices, either follow Huaxia's technical standards, or we will start from scratch, in that case, there will be two 5G standards in the world, two 5G networks with different formats!"

"Two networks, two standards," Dr. Jayne frowned and whispered, a fragmented landscape that reminded him of the unique global landscape of the last century.

Historians refer to that period of history as the Cold War period.

……

Hudu.

Coming out of the studio center of Xingchen Media, Luo Jia was in a good mood, and he took a Great Wall business car driven by Xu Chunbiao, Minister of Security, and prepared to return to the Baoshan headquarters.

Shen Lang sat opposite Luo Jia, but his brows were tightly knit at a young age, like a little fox who was only in contemplation and trouble, it seemed that he was troubled by the crazy decision of the national team.

No longer following in the footsteps of the 3GPP alliance and enabling Huaxia's own 5G standard, which seems to indicate a signal of some kind of reversal in the context of global integration.

Luo Jia looked at the neon city in the dark night, and said calmly to the little apprentice: "We have paid enough sincerity for this trade war, but occasionally, we must also retain some dignity. ”

"Remember this moment, unstoppable history is rolling in, and the East and the West are probably about to officially break up."