September 4, Overseas, Office of Advanced Strategic Analysis.

"The situation is basically clear. They are indeed building a wafer fab, and it is a completely new wafer fab. I now seriously doubt that the other party may have a technological breakthrough in the 7nm process, and this technological breakthrough is completely proprietary

of."

"This also explains why their protection of Ye Zhou has been raised to such a level, because what this person brings to them is definitely not just EDA, but may also include hardware technology!"

"In early August, they built temporary roads in this small place called Miyagi County, and built a large number of factories near Zhengshan, and the surrounding alert level was extremely high."

"There are various signs that they must be building a new fab, and it has been a month since the construction started - we are a full month behind."

The speaker was a white man named Charles, who was responsible for the overall strategic analysis and research of this office.

Ever since Yinglong Eda was launched three months ago, he has never stopped analyzing China's strategy. However, even in his boldest guess, he never expected that the other party would directly build a new wafer fab.

Judging from the current series of actions, it is obvious that the other party is not building an ordinary wafer factory, but a wafer factory that may pose a danger to its own chip industry.

This also explains why the other party keeps procrastinating on negotiations.

Because they had no intention of talking about it at all, they were just trying to divert attention and cover up their true intentions.

"Ciel, do you think they can succeed?"

The questioner was a black man named Nigg, who was the head of the intelligence department.

Charles shook his head and replied:

"I can't give you a definite answer. Whether technically or theoretically, they actually have no possibility of threatening us."

"However, technology and theory are just conventional judgments, and when facing enemies like them, you can never use conventional judgments."

"They have brought us too many surprises...from the 1950s to now. So, we cannot take it lightly no matter what."

Nige silently turned the ring on his finger. After a moment, he asked:

"Do we need to activate emergency plans?"

Ciel's eyes darkened.

Of course he knew what the emergency plan Nige was referring to, but if he tried to use it now, would it still be successful?

Even if it succeeds, is there any point?

That factory had appeared out of thin air in just one month, and no one knew how advanced the equipment inside it was.

Even if the emergency plan is successfully implemented, without Ye Zhou, they really won't be able to build a lithography machine?

According to the Chinese character, this should be impossible.

Thinking of this, he shook his head and said:

"There is no point anymore. In their words, the done deal is done. It is redundant to do anything else. All we can do now is to continue to monitor the situation and minimize losses."

"In addition, this matter has exceeded our scope of authority. You need to report the situation to Congress immediately. Congress will formulate specific response strategies."

"Okay, I'll do it."

Nig nodded.

Until now, he is still in a state of confusion.

In nearly thirty years of intelligence work, this is the first time he has faced such an unpredictable situation.

When those satellite photos were thrown on his desk, he sadly discovered that his previous investigation directions were all wrong.

The opponent's real trump card is not inside the game at all, but is hidden far outside the game.

It would have been nice if I could have been more sensitive at that time.

In fact, it is not that he has no chance.

However, this happened so fast and suddenly that even the Office of Strategic Advisor, who was always monitoring the other party, did not react, let alone him who was only doing intelligence work.

Half an hour later, a top-secret report was delivered to the country's highest decision-making office.

The slightly old man sat quietly aside, but the man next to him who was supposed to be an aide slapped the table hard.

"Why! Can anyone tell me why?! Why didn't we receive the message until now? Why was there no response to this situation before? Why is it like my satellite is blind?!"

"Such a wide road! Such a big factory! Our satellite resolution has reached meter level, isn't there any reaction to this?"

The man sitting opposite him spread his hands helplessly.

"Graham, that's not how satellites work. Our satellites are inherently limited in number and it is impossible to monitor every corner of the other party's territory."

"On the other hand, even if it was detected from the beginning, would we have any reaction?"

"Do you know how many large-scale infrastructure projects are under construction in China in a day? I can tell you that at this moment, at this second, in the early morning of the other side, there are still hundreds of thousands of them within their borders.

Infrastructure projects are underway!”

"Each of these projects is more conspicuous than that small 3-kilometer road. Do we have to analyze these projects one by one?"

"The reason why we were able to determine the connection between this road and this factory and the chip industry this time was actually inferred by us after synthesizing all kinds of intelligence. It is unimaginable that we can draw conclusions now!"

"In the last intelligence department, when their chips came out, we didn't even know what was going on!"

Graham waved his arms, indicating that he didn't want to hear the man's explanation.

"I don't want to hear this now, I just want to know what else we can do! Can we start a new round of restrictions on them?"

"Unfortunately, we can't. We have done everything we can, and there is no sign that they have used our technology. If you want to impose unreasonable restrictions on this situation, there is only one result, and that is war.

"

After listening to the man's words, Graham fell silent.

He sat down on the chair, lit the cigarette and took two long puffs before continuing to ask:

"So, there's nothing we can do?"

"There is still some. We can try to reduce losses as much as possible - although the other party is a wafer factory, but from the information we currently have, the most they have is the 7nm level chip manufacturing process, and the advantage still lies with us.

side."

"We will have losses, but such losses will never be fatal."

"The first thing to do is to withdraw the hot money that Congress has invested in short selling from the market to avoid financial losses."

"Secondly, we need to start negotiations as soon as possible and negotiate the terms before their possible chip actually appears. It doesn't matter even if we make more concessions! At least we can still make money!"

"Finally, the upstream and downstream industries also need to take action as soon as possible. We must limit each other's production capacity as much as possible and maintain our advantageous position as much as possible!"

His words were quickly recorded on paper, and then, with the signature of the old man sitting at the edge, they began to be sent to various departments.

The first person to receive the order was the idfc department responsible for overseas investment. As soon as they saw the order, they launched a capital exit plan.

But soon, they discovered that the stocks they sold through securities lending could not be redeemed.

Because on that day, China officially issued an announcement.
Chapter completed!