Starting Sign-In from a Billionaire God-Chapter 778

About three months ago, a major incident that attracted the attention of the entire nation occurred. It was the chip battle, where the aggressive United States put Zhongwei Phone in a position facing a chip supply cut-off.

It was at that time that Lin Fan received a series of rewards from the system.

First, Lin Fan was rewarded with shares in Huaxin International, becoming the largest shareholder of Huaxin.

Huaxin is currently the largest chip company on the mainland. Initially, considering its own development, then-chairman Zhang Jing refused to supply chips to Zhongwei Phone, which drew criticism from the citizens.

After Lin Fan became the largest shareholder of Huaxin, he secured the support of the second-largest shareholder with the help of Feng Ruolan, achieving an absolute equity advantage to control Huaxin. He immediately changed the company's strategy and publicly announced support for Zhongwei Phone.

At that moment, the whole nation was shaken, reversing the public's perception of Huaxin from criticism to praise.

However, problems also arose. Although Huaxin is the most advanced chip factory on the mainland, its technology is lagging behind on the world stage.

The world's most advanced chip technology is currently at 5nm, while Huaxin can only mass-produce at 14nm. In other words, Huaxin does not have the capability to provide high-end chips, and its technology is still dependent on foreign supply.

Chip production requires equipment known as lithography machines, which are advanced devices that can only be imported.

This was also the reason why Huaxin initially did not support Zhongwei, because if they supported Zhongwei, it could lead to a cut-off in their own supply of advanced equipment, placing themselves in jeopardy—essentially causing trouble for themselves.

This was a quite frustrating situation.

So, when Huaxin changed its stance and announced support for Zhongwei, amidst the widespread praise, people were also curious about how Huaxin would resolve its potential plight.

The public did not know that Huaxin had already acquired the world's most advanced and top-tier chip technology.

This involved another reward from the system to Lin Fan: top-tier chip manufacturing technology!

The top-tier chip manufacturing technology Lin Fan received had already solved the issue of Huaxin having to rely on foreign supply.

As an engineer, Zhang Jing was completely convinced by the top-tier technology shown by Lin Fan and willingly became Lin Fan's subordinate, working for him.

Under Lin Fan's directive, after three months of effort, a top-tier chip manufacturing plant that was poised to shock the world was finally completed!

Lin Fan, accompanied by Zhang Jing and a group of engineers, walked into this new factory.

After touring around, Lin Fan expressed his satisfaction with the factory. After all, Zhang Jing was a veteran in the chip industry, making it reassuring to entrust him with the task. This new factory fully met Lin Fan's expectations.

"Mr. Lin, what do you think?" Zhang Jing cautiously asked.

Lin Fan nodded: "Not bad, it meets my expectations. You've worked hard, Old Zhang."

Zhang Jing, flattered, quickly responded modestly: "This is all thanks to Mr. Lin. Without your advanced chip technology, we wouldn't have been able to construct it at all. Mr. Lin, if I'm not mistaken, in the future, we may become the world's number one chip company."

Lin Fan gave a slight smile: "Be more confident, remove the 'may'."

Zhang Jing laughed, "Yes, we will definitely become it!"

Everyone present started laughing; this smile was full of pride, filled with excitement, truly inspiring, because they were all participants in this great company.

Zhang Jing said: "Mr. Lin, recently Chairman Xu of Zhongwei Phone has been inquiring about our production progress. It seems that Zhongwei is facing a serious shortage. What is our next plan? Please advise us, Mr. Lin."

Lin Fan said: "I also recently met Mr. Xu. You can now clearly inform him of our supply date, and there are also some other things to do..."

Zhongwei Phone Company.

In the conference room, Xu Guojun, Chairman of Zhongwei Phone, was holding a meeting with a group of high-ranking officials, discussing the topic of chip shortages.

"Chairman, our chip stock is almost empty," said one executive. "If we don't receive more chip supplies, some of our upcoming models won't be able to be produced normally."

"Especially for high-end chips, at this rate, our high-end model plans will have to be shelved."

Xu Guojun frowned and asked, "What about reaching out to our industry peers for help, did that result in anything?"

In Huaxia, there are many phone brands, and other phone brands weren't affected, so Zhongwei Phone once considered seeking help from peers.

"We've already tried our best to negotiate, but the chip supply issue is a universal problem now. Although our peers haven't faced supply cut-offs, their chip inventories are very tight too, or perhaps they are unwilling to help us, fearing they'll get themselves into trouble, so that path is blocked too," said one executive.

Xu Guojun remained silent.

An executive said, "Chairman, previously Huaxin Company publicly announced their support for us, which was very encouraging at the time, but it has been three months, and we haven't seen any chips from Huaxin. Is there a problem?"

Xu Guojun replied, "I've been in contact with Mr. Zhang Jing, and recently was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Lin in person at an auto show. They've both said there's no need to worry."

One executive frowned, "Could this be Huaxin's evasive reply?"

"I think it's possible!"

"Initially, Huaxin refused us right away. Later, with public sentiment surging, they changed their mind. It's hard not to suspect that they did it to appease the public and save the plummeting stock market and deliberately misled us."

"Yes, as far as I know, even if Huaxin genuinely wants to help us, they don't have the capability because they cannot produce high-end chips!"

"Although Huaxin claims they've acquired the technology to produce 5nm chips, it's likely just a bluff!"

"Anyway, I don't believe it."

The executives all began speaking at once.

Xu Guojun listened without speaking, thinking to himself that if Huaxin were still the old Huaxin, he would share the same views as these executives. However, he knew that the current Huaxin was no longer the Huaxin of the past.

Huaxin Company's largest shareholder has changed to Lin Fan, and who is Lin Fan, if not Yun City's richest man?

Xu Guojun might not trust others, but when it comes to Lin Fan, he still held hope.

"Chairman, I think we shouldn't pin our hopes on Huaxin. It's too unreliable. I suggest we find other ways," offered one executive.

Xu Guojun continued to remain silent, organizing his words, trying to calm the anxiety among the executives.

Suddenly, Xu Guojun received a phone call: "Okay, I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Guojun appeared very excited, immediately instructing, "Turn on the TV, project it onto the big screen."

Soon, the big screen began broadcasting the news.

"Mortal Group has just held a press conference announcing the establishment of Extraordinary Semiconductor Company, in partnership with Huaxin Company, to launch high-end chips. Let's connect to our reporter on site at the press conference..."

The entire conference room was plunged into dead silence.