Chapter 186 The big one is coming

“They have worked at TSMC for so long, you can threaten them with a lawsuit on the grounds that a lot of trade secrets are involved, so don’t act rashly.

I will also ask the relevant parties to cooperate with you. Their homes are still in 4v, and their family and friends are still here. It is impossible for them to stay in China forever.

The Legislative Yuan will cooperate with us to introduce a bill on cutting-edge industries, which will hinder their entry into China's semiconductor industry at the visa level."

In order to obtain all the best parts of TSMC as much as possible, while preventing TSMC's senior engineers from running to the mainland to speed up the progress of China's semiconductor industry.

The Federation began to take all possible measures.

Tricks like these that were not used before are now being used.

In the game between the two sides, there is such a contradiction. The huge system is both a help and a burden to the federation.

Some people have seen that it costs too much to maintain this huge system, including various organizations, bases around the world, various types of funding, etc. These are all huge burdens.

Some people want to cut these burdens one by one. The federation only needs to focus on its own interests. Why should it bear so many obligations that do not belong to them?
However, this is also a huge help, which means that the Federation's tool library has too many tools to use, and any one of them can make you uncomfortable.

No matter how the Federation deals with the EU overtly or covertly, the EU at least sits on the fence on key issues. This is all because of the huge help the Marshall Plan provided to the reconstruction of the entire Europe in the past.

Of course, for China, which is determined to catch up, they can stay within this set of rules and make as much profit as possible for themselves, and even intercept part of the boss's taxes.

This is somewhat similar to the situation in the late Ming Dynasty where the feudal lords relied on the Ming Dynasty's governance system to support their own private armies.

But if we want to achieve the final victory, we still have to enter the pass. Failure to enter the pass will ultimately be a border threat.

In the end, with the help of 4v, only a minority of the minority firmly chose to go to the mainland, accounting for less than %.

Then some of them choose to switch jobs to semiconductor companies on the island such as UMC, Yaohua, and Winbond.

Most people still choose to go to America, even though the future is uncertain and their fate is hard to predict.

"We are still able to maintain such a complete team, right?

It's all Ursula's fault, isn't it?" said Peter Bonfi, another TSMC director and former CEO of England Telecom.

TSMC’s board of directors list includes foreign faces from various European and American capitals, so it represents global interests rather than 4V interests.

Apart from 4v local capital, other capitals have long wanted to move TSMC away.

For them, moving to the federal government would eliminate the increase in operating costs and would have no other disadvantages, and stability would be greatly increased.

Compared with stability, operating costs are negligible.

Peter sensed the conflict between Qin Yongpei and Ursula during several executive meetings, so he came as a lobbyist to try to ease the relationship between the two.

Qin Yongpei was distressed because in his opinion, this kind of coercive practice that disrespects engineers is not in line with TSMC's tradition at all. "Ursula's behavior is very short-sighted.

What he brought was temporary stability, but what he destroyed was TSMC's traditional culture of preferential treatment for engineers.

Even when we were competing with Samsung and Intel, we would never treat engineers like this.”

Peter was confused and asked, "Really? Why is Liang's story different from what you said?"

He was referring to the incident in which Liang Mengsong was being pursued by TSMC.

“That was a struggle among high-level officials, not just targeting engineers. In a sense, he failed to take sides.

You know, at TSMC, this kind of failure is fatal.

Peter's actions were directed at all engineers. He deprived them of their freedom and used threats and intimidation.

This is not a good sign.”

Peter doesn't care. In his opinion, the key to TSMC is profit, dividends, and maintaining rising stock prices. The life and death of the engineers below? This is not important.

Wall Street expressed pessimism about TSMC's relocation of all of its advanced processes to America, but the stock price fell slightly, not exceeding 5%.

Compared with China's 1nm, this advanced process is not so advanced. This is what bothers Peter the most. In his opinion, the rapid development of China's semiconductor industry is TSMC's biggest crisis.

“TSMC has experienced so many upheavals in its history, and this one is probably the biggest one. However, the entire engineering team is the most complete, and this is a credit to Ursula.

Qin, you should put aside your prejudice and look at this matter from an objective perspective, and you will find that his approach has achieved very significant results. "Peter said.

Qin Yongpei shook his head: “No, this stability is short-lived, and the destruction is permanent.

They just can't leave temporarily. Ursula can prevent them from joining SMIC, but she can't prevent them from joining Texas Instruments or Intel.

We can all see this future.”

Seeing that the other party was so stubborn, Peter didn't say anything more. He was thinking that if TSMC's decline began with the departure of engineers, it would be a good thing. But if TSMC's decline was due to the rise of China's semiconductor industry, then it would be an absolute tragedy for them.

After TSMC's equipment and engineers left Taiwan for Texas, the federal government passed a resolution to restrict Taiwan from exporting more advanced "civilian" equipment.

It was impossible to sell the civilian equipment named Zeus to 4v in the past. 4v had requested to buy it many times but had never been approved before. However, it was successfully approved this time, with a unanimous vote.

You have to know that Zeus had only been deployed in Neon before. The nature of this thing is similar to the equipment that caused a violent reaction in Goryeo.

The federal export thing is already very strange, but what is even stranger is that the Chinese side just made a few verbal comments, and the intensity of the comments was very light, and there was no other action.

Even the 4v fruits and agricultural products are not targeted.

For a moment, the strange atmosphere surrounding this incident made everyone feel like a storm was about to come.

The Federation, 4V and China, these three parties are very strange.

If something is abnormal, there is something wrong. There is a lot of discussion on Chinese social media, and everyone feels that something big is coming.

After seeing the news, Chen Yuanguang thought that he should do his best to increase China's chances of winning.

Although he didn't believe that the big one would really come, he still wanted to come up with some solutions.

"Professor Hu, how is the plan I provided you before?" Chen Yuanguang called Hu Xinrui, thinking that as the head of the superconducting magnetohydrodynamic thruster team, he should be trustworthy.

Hu Xinrui's voice came from the other end of the phone: "It's still in the experimental stage, Yuanguang, your plan is still a bit too complicated. We have proved it theoretically and it is fine. Now we are trying to build a model to give it a try."

His voice sounded particularly tired, as if he hadn't slept for several days and nights.

Chen Yuanguang knew why the other party wanted to do this, which was nothing more than to make Huaguo more confident. "Professor Hu, I have recently thought of a better solution." Hu Xinrui's voice was obviously more powerful: "Yuanguang, tell me what you think."

"Superconducting magnetohydrodynamic thrusters are not that easy to make. If it is just to avoid sonar detection, then I think there is a material that can do it."

Hu Xinrui was very excited now, because the superconducting magnetohydrodynamic thruster is undoubtedly a very good solution. Once it is realized, it will improve the overall strength of the underwater thruster, and it will not be as simple as stealth.

But this is difficult. There are too many problems to overcome in this-dimensional room-temperature superconductivity. Secondly, the submarine needs to be completely redesigned. It is not enough to just solve the magnetohydrodynamic propulsion problem. The entire submarine needs to be redesigned.

It is unknown when submarines equipped with superconducting magnetohydrodynamic propulsion will be officially put into service.

"What materials?" Hu Xinrui asked.

"Come to Mianyang and let's talk on site. Then you can measure the material parameters yourself," said Chen Yuanguang.

"Okay, I'll be there tonight," said Hu Xinrui.

After Chen Yuanguang finished calling Hu Xinrui, he called Director Zhao and told him about the matter. After listening, he also said that he would arrive tonight.

After Chen Yuanguang finished the call, he felt calm and wondered if he would be too late.

He recently checked Weibo and saw a large number of bloggers discussing TSMC's relocation and the federal government's unprecedented sale of oversized civilian equipment to 4V.

The federal government's actions stimulated him. The transaction has been approved. Once Zeus' civilian equipment reaches 4v, the difficulty will increase significantly in the future.

Because the equipment is not just equipment, it will affect your fighting spirit to a great extent. In addition, the Federation seems to want to put 4v on the table and want China to start it, which makes Chen Yuanguang very dissatisfied.

In his opinion, peace is so precious that even if he really wants to eat, he has to choose the time himself instead of being forced to the table by others.

If others force you to eat, you will feel unhappy even if the meal suits your taste. But if you decide the meal time by yourself, even if it is just an ordinary meal, you will feel like you are enjoying delicacies from land and sea.

Timing is critical.

After receiving the news, the Chinese side acted quickly. At the moment, if they could gain an advantage underwater, they might be able to avoid this crisis.

Hua Guo’s idea is the same as Chen Yuanguang’s, that he should choose the time by himself instead of being forced.

China has long been prepared in terms of strength, but is still not prepared enough in other aspects.

Or in other words, no matter how much you prepare, it is never too much.

"Yuanguang, I hope you can bring us some more surprises this time." Director Zhao knew that his superiors attached great importance to Chen Yuanguang, so he treated Chen Yuanguang very well. If his subordinates saw that he still had this face, they would definitely be very surprised.

Chen Yuanguang nodded: "I think you should be satisfied."

Director Zhao said: "I believe you. If you are second in materials science, no one dares to claim to be first.

I had already guessed it on the plane coming here, do you think I was right?"

Chen Yuanguang said, "Oh? Tell me about it? It's rare to see you have such a refined taste.

I thought you guys were very busy during this period."

Chen Yuanguang's words opened up the conversation, and Director Zhao quickly said, "Yuanguang, you are right, we must have a lot of things to do recently.

Neon, Kangaroo and India are all starting to get restless and want to cause trouble for us. All the NGOs of Neon, Korea and the Federation in the country are starting to operate at high speed.

During this period, every morning when I arrived at the office, I could see the news sent from below about who had been arrested. Among these people, there were many professors from well-known universities.

It's really busy, it feels like they have all started moving.

Full of sense of crisis.

I hope you can give us some surprises, and I also hope to ease the current situation. We really don’t want to be forced to play a game with no winner at this point in time.”

After Director Zhao finished speaking, he continued, “I guess it’s a brand new acoustic material.

The high-end car you designed for Xiaomi uses something called Wujie, right? That acoustic material is really powerful, and the sound insulation effect is so strong that we are now starting to use that material to build some of our special rooms.

I guessed on the way here that you should have developed new acoustic materials along this route that can be used in submarines."

Chen Yuanguang thought that the other party's guess was too accurate. That's right, what he wanted to come up with was acoustic materials that could be used on submarines, which could almost completely eliminate the acoustic characteristics of existing submarines.

"Old Zhao, your guess is too accurate.

Yes, it is a brand new material, and it is a coating. If used directly on the submarine hull, it can reduce the acoustic characteristics of existing submarines by at least 90%.

The Federation's underwater sonar system would be completely blind.

Hugo once said: "To gaze into the depths of the sea in imagination is like to see the vast unknown from the most terrible angle. Submarines are similar to night and dreams. In the terrible silence and darkness, like ghosts and demons, they pursue their terrible instincts."

Once it is fully painted, I think it will become a permanent ghost for competitors," said Chen Yuanguang.

Director Zhao's body relaxed: "Yuan Guang, you have done a great job again. It should be able to help us solve 90% of the external difficulties now."

"Is Professor Hu okay?" Chen Yuanguang asked.

Director Zhao’s mind was racing: “Hu Xinrui?

It should be fine, no, I still need to investigate again.

At this point in time, there is no need to rush. It is always better to be rigorous.

If this material were to be leaked, it would be no joke. Not only would everyone have it, it would also mean that no one has it that simple.

For small countries, they are often barefoot and not afraid of those wearing shoes. They can secretly drive to your nearby waters and launch a missile at you. We really can't stand it.

Yuanguang, you may need to wait a few days while we conduct further investigations, and then we can arrange a meeting between you and Professor Hu."

Lao Zhao spent half a month on the investigation. During this period, the opinions surrounding 4v became more and more intense.

Only China, which should have been the most enthusiastic, fell into a rare silence.

Places like Washington and Tokyo all knew that China was loose on the outside but tight on the inside at the moment, and their sources of information in China had suffered unprecedented damage.

When Professor Hu appeared in front of Chen Yuanguang again, Chen Yuanguang was surprised to find that he looked very good, much better than the last time they met. It seemed that he had had a good rest for some time.

(End of this chapter)