In the past two years, the tech war had erupted globally, and those developed countries had tightly sealed off the core semiconductor technologies, placing Huaxia, which had always relied on foreign imports, in a very difficult situation.
There was an enterprise called Huawei that had always focused on independently developing its own chips, which indeed raised Huaxia's self-research capabilities by a notch. However, in this domain, the most fundamental aspect was still semiconductor manufacturing technology, and this was also the hardest to breakthrough.
But now, in Zhang Menglong's mind, his Grade E knowledge in material sciences had enabled him to understand semiconductor material technologies to an extent that was unreachable for the average person.
Today, Huaxia's domestically produced mass chips had reached 7nm, but the top semiconductor technology companies could already mass-produce 5nm chips. Although it was just a 2nm difference, the technical gap was at least two years.
