Even if the chips your foundry can produce are excellent and the technology is advanced, if you don't have even more advanced equipment, it's still useless. You'll still be constrained by foreign countries.

Therefore, Yi Anguo hoped that the future Huaxin could not only produce chips with more advanced manufacturing processes but also manufacture the required cutting-edge equipment, such as photolithography machines, etching machines, and packaging equipment.

I can already make chips, so making smartphones should be possible, right? Developing smartphones, operating systems, and even computers should also be feasible! Just building wafer fabs and contract manufacturing chips, while having our supply of equipment controlled by others, is rather pointless.

Since I've already grasped the key to wealth, I can harvest immense fortune from international crude oil futures trading amid the 2008 global financial crisis. Moreover, the U.S. stock market will hit rock bottom in March 2009 before undergoing a frenzied rally. By buying the stocks of the four major U.S. banks at the bottom, I can earn a return of more than five times the investment in just two or three months. If I buy into some internet tech stocks at their low point now, I could reap dozens or even hundreds of times the wealth in ten years.

When you have enough money, it just becomes a number. If I can do something meaningful, this second life won't be in vain! Even after I die, I'll be remembered by many people.

After the New Year, Liang Song led his team back to Shenzhen. The construction crew began to build the factory, but Liang Song and his colleagues were not idle. They started purchasing equipment from around the world and conducting research and development in a temporarily leased workshop.

Yi Anguo thought for a moment and reminded Liang Song that Taiwan would likely move against him, accusing him of stealing corporate trade secrets. He advised him to find ways to mitigate the risks if possible.

Central International Company is a cautionary tale. Isn't Zhang Jing facing this very issue now, and didn't he get taken down?

After hearing this, Liang Song grew apprehensive. However, unless he changed careers and stopped competing with his former company in Taiwan, the situation was unavoidable. All he could do now was prepare in advance and try his best to mitigate the risks. Any designs or technical aspects that could be altered should be modified to avoid giving them any pretext.

Yi Anguo also shared his thoughts with Liang Song. He wanted to recruit more technical personnel specializing in the R&D and manufacturing of chip production and packaging equipment. He also planned to invest in factories to produce machines like photolithography and etching machines, as well as develop smartphones, smartphone operating systems, computers, and other tech products.

"Mr. Yi, I didn't expect your appetite and ambition to be so great," Liang Song said. "Hiring a technical team to develop smartphones isn't a big problem; it's actually quite straightforward. But developing our own smartphone operating system is much more challenging.

"It not only requires a huge investment in R&D funds but also time. It's hard to say how long the development will ultimately take.

"As for developing and manufacturing photolithography and etching machines, the investment is even greater. Achieving a technological breakthrough to surpass ASML of the Netherlands is even more difficult.

"It's possible that you could invest vast sums of money and a great deal of time, only to find that you still can't surpass them in the end.

"ASML only succeeded because of its collaboration with the U.S. military. The amount of R&D funding and the years they poured into it are hard for the average person to even imagine.

"Furthermore, many companies in ASML's supply chain cooperate with them, and ASML has also invested in many of those companies, which led to their current success.

"It will be very difficult for us to succeed by investing in this field now, let alone surpass ASML."

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