"That's a very reasonable point! But I believe that once our company's Geothermal Power Stations spread across the country, and eventually the world, electricity will no longer be a prerequisite for other industries. It'll be like opening a factory in a city—we'd never stop to consider whether there was air to breathe."
Everyone's heart trembled. Shen Bing's words packed quite a punch!
In the future, electricity would be as readily available as air! But that also implied something else: humanity's relationship with electricity would become just like its relationship with air...
Although Shen Bing hadn't directly rejected the answer, he had indirectly made it clear that it wasn't the one he wanted.
The slight awkwardness caused by that random interjection quietly dissipated as well.
"Chairman Shen, I think the most important thing would be semiconductors! Or, more specifically, chips," Secretary Li said with a smile from the front row.
Shen Bing said, "I didn't expect you to know so much about this industry, Secretary Li!"
"How could I not?" Secretary Li replied. "I went to great lengths to bring in a semiconductor company and get it to open an eight-inch wafer fab in Rongcheng."
Shen Bing knew that the wafer fab Secretary Li mentioned belonged to GF, a well-known company in Rongcheng that specialized in contract chip manufacturing. When Phantom Immortal Technology was first established, Shen Bing had even asked Wang Sheng to contact them about manufacturing chips for the Spirit Vision Telescope.
Unfortunately, that eight-inch wafer fab hadn't fared particularly well. It had already been sold to Texas Instruments.
Rongcheng was now planning to build a twelve-inch wafer fab, another project that would devour money like a monster. No one could say whether it would ultimately succeed. Even Secretary Li, who had been pushing hard for the project, wasn't