In fact, Wang Zhengfei was not the only one entertaining such thoughts.
President Li beside him, President Zhang seated behind him, President Wang, and the other industry leaders all held their breath in unspoken agreement, staring fixedly at the screen onstage, afraid of missing even the slightest detail.
It could be said that if the head of the National Development and Reform Commission had not refused to tell them who had developed this technology, while repeatedly stressing that they were to follow the central government's arrangements and keep it strictly confidential until the appropriate time, they would have been tempted to excuse themselves to the restroom and leave the conference hall at once. They would have found out which company or research institute had developed it, then poached the entire research team at any cost...
As for the specific technical details, the PPT had merely mentioned them in passing. Aside from the image of a carbon-based transistor under a microscope, the company executives present would not have understood much anyway.
As for the quantum computing applications behind carbon-based chips, that was top secret. It was unsuitable to discuss at the meeting, and unnecessary to reveal now.
During the latter half of the meeting, the discussion mainly focused on what policies the central government had formulated, how various departments intended to coordinate the industry's orderly development, and, most importantly, the establishment of a fifth semiconductor industrial cluster. Companies interested in carbon-based chips would be brought together to tackle the key technologies needed to industrialize semiconductor chips.
To enable social resources to advance the entire industry more effectively, and to prevent their own people from "delaying the battle" through vicious competition and causing Hua Nation's semiconductor industry to miss its best chance to overtake on a curve, the central government would establish