Just as the Mathematics world was being thrown into turmoil by a presentation, the seemingly unrelated electronics industry was also being stirred by a two-thousand-word letter.
For those executives worth tens of billions, many had keenly sensed signs that the winds were shifting. Yet no matter how they mobilized their connections, they could not uncover the slightest bit of information about the matter.
Some said the state was about to introduce new policies supporting the semiconductor industry. Others said lithography technology for the 7nm process had achieved a breakthrough. Still others exaggerated that a recent internal document showed the state intended to establish a fifth major semiconductor industrial cluster to develop advanced semiconductor technologies.
It had to be said that the last rumor was actually quite close to the truth.
After news of the breakthrough in Graphene transistor technology emerged, the first matter discussed at the emergency meeting of Shangjing's top leadership was the establishment of a fifth major semiconductor industrial cluster, using a centralized management model to manufacture and develop this new semiconductor technology.
This would make confidentiality easier on one hand, and the integration of social resources easier on the other.
Of course, the specific details discussed at the meeting circulated only within a small circle of senior officials. Everyone who attended had signed confidentiality agreements and would be subject to supervision by oversight departments for a year, strictly guarding against leaks.
And so, all kinds of rumors spread throughout the industry. Many sharp-nosed industry giants vaguely sensed that something was amiss. These rumors were far too deliberate, as though they had been released specifically to conceal something...
Huawei's president, Wang Zhengfei, was one of them.
As early as when the first whispers had surfaced, his keen political instincts had told him that a storm was brewing in