"A lithography machine?"
Chen Jue paused slightly at her suggestion, recalling how he used to spend his time online when he was working a few years ago, arguing with other netizens over topics like this.
Because China had entered the semiconductor field relatively late, foreign countries had blocked its access to many key technologies.
In particular, lithography machines for manufacturing high-precision chips had always been one of the sore points the Chinese people could not get around.
Lithography machines were hailed as the crown jewel of the semiconductor industry. Although funding and talent had been concentrated on making a breakthrough in recent years, technological research and development was not a road where throwing money at a problem alone could let you leapfrog the competition.
The intricacies involved were just like Chen Jue's cultivation: foundations had to be laid step by step, and improvements made one step at a time.
Even the base had no particularly good solution for a technological bottleneck like this.
Although the Ten Body-Tempering Forms had already been introduced to several affiliated institutes researching semiconductor technology, substantially accelerating their research, there was still a long way to go before they could truly catch up with and surpass other countries.
But advances in lithography technology affected chip storage capacity and processing speed, bearing on the technological development of the entire nation.
Everything from logistics and manufacturing to the aerospace industry depended on chips. In particular, as the scheduled announcement of Second Home drew ever closer, China's domestic demand for chips continued to increase.
Thus, after witnessing Chen Jue's miraculous ability to manipulate matter, the first thing Zou Ying, who also worked in technology, thought of was the hope that he could "conjure up" a high-precision lithography machine.
Even Zhong Deyuan and Liu Chengdong, both laymen in this field,