As a group of researchers bustled around the white nanoscale Lithography Machine, loading lithography programs into its numerical control panel,
Chen Jue stood nearby, carefully reviewing the chip design drawings Lin Weiguo had sent him.
These cutting-edge chips, which integrated CPUs and GPUs, were all the fruits of the Optoelectronics Institute's painstaking efforts. Taking any one of them into fabrication would have been enough to turn any technology company on the market into an industry unicorn.
But limitations imposed by inadequate hardware had left these chip designs sitting in the Optoelectronics Institute's database, with no way to mass-produce them.
Only after they encountered Chen Jue, a being akin to a creator, had realizing them become possible.
However, after witnessing the information storage capacity of the Bird-Worm Seal Script recorded within the Imperial Heirloom Seal, Chen Jue found these circuit designs, with their tens of billions of transistors, somewhat bloated.
Unfortunately, I still can't figure out how this Bird-Worm Seal Script works. Otherwise, I could break through the semiconductor design standards established by the West, Chen Jue muttered inwardly.
After working for a while, Lin Weiguo and the others followed Chen Jue's instructions and activated the entire white Lithography Machine.
As a fully prepared wafer was inserted, yellow lights illuminated the entire underground facility. The lithography system inside the machine began operating, and everyone's heart leaped into their throat.
"Officially commencing lithography fabrication!"
"Program self-check normal!"
"20%... 40%..."
With several beeps, a countdown showing the progress appeared on the numerical control panel.
But the numbers changed far too quickly, jumping by 20% almost every second.
In the blink of an eye, the first wafer, covered in a matrix of chips and still warm, emerged from the output port on the side of the machine.
The terrifying speed of the lithography made