Therefore, Yi Anguo hoped that in the future, Hua Xin would not only produce chips with more advanced process nodes but also manufacture the advanced equipment required, such as photolithography machines, etching machines, and packaging equipment.

If we can make our own chips, then making phones should be possible too, right? Developing smartphones, as well as operating systems and computers—we can do all of that! Just building wafer fabs for contract manufacturing while being at the mercy of others for equipment would be rather pointless.

Since I've already figured out the secret to wealth, I can harvest an immense fortune from the international crude oil futures market during the 2008 global financial crisis. Not only that, but in March 2009, U.S. stocks will plummet to their lowest point, followed by a frantic rally. By buying the four major U.S. bank stocks at the bottom, I can make more than five times my investment in just two or three months. If I buy into certain internet technology stocks at their low point, in ten years, I could reap returns of dozens or even hundreds of times over. When money accumulates to a certain point, it just becomes a number. If I can do something meaningful with it, this second chance at life won't be in vain! Even after I die, many people will still remember me.

After the New Year, Liang Song led his team back to Shenzhen. The construction crew began entering the site to build the factory, but Liang Song and his colleagues were not idle. They sourced equipment from all over the world and conducted research and development in a temporarily rented workshop.

Yi Anguo thought for a moment and decided to remind Liang Song that he would likely face trouble from Taiwan, with potential accusations of stealing company secrets. He advised Liang Song to find ways to mitigate such risks if possible.

Central International Company was a cautionary tale. Isn't Zhang Jing facing this exact problem right now, and wasn't he taken down for it?

After hearing this, Liang Song's heart began to pound with anxiety. However, unless he left the industry entirely and avoided competing with his former company in Taiwan, these issues were unavoidable. All he could do now was prepare in advance and try his best to mitigate the risks. He would have to alter some designs and technical aspects where possible to avoid giving them any leverage.

At the same time, Yi Anguo shared his own ideas with Liang Song. He hoped to recruit more technical personnel specializing in the research and development of chip production and packaging equipment. He also wanted to invest in building 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 hadn't realized your appetite and ambition were this grand," Liang Song said. "Hiring a technical team to develop smartphones isn't a big problem; you could even say it's quite simple. But developing our own smartphone operating system is going to be much more difficult.

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

"As for developing and producing lithography and etching machines, that investment is even larger, and achieving a technological breakthrough to surpass ASML of the Netherlands would be even more challenging.

"It's possible you'll invest a lot of money and time, only to find you still can't surpass them in the end.

"ASML only succeeded because of their cooperation with the United States. The amount of R&D funding they invested, the number of years they spent... it's difficult for an ordinary person to even imagine.

"Furthermore, ASML has many upstream companies cooperating with them, and they've invested in many of those enterprises themselves. That's how they've achieved their current success.

"If we invest in this field now, success is highly unlikely. Wanting to surpass ASML is even harder to achieve."

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