Franchise God - Chapter 1586



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Franchise God Episode 1586

Chapter 341 Semiconductor Shock (2)

The ‘China + Europe VS Korea + America’ semiconductor competition was also an enjoyable spectacle for the public.

Even those who don’t know much about semiconductors can vaguely see how great Seojin Foundry’s ‘particle process’ is.

Ha Su-young’s saying, “Steam trains are most beautiful when they are in a museum,” also became a famous meme as it gained worldwide popularity.

Of course, this means that it was an enjoyable spectacle for people outside of Europe and China.

For Europeans, it was a crazy and outrageous thing.

“It’s outrageous to give up the particle process that has no environmental pollution and good yield and cost-effectiveness. Now, are you going to turn a blind eye to diamond semiconductors?”

“China has fully paid the promised investment of 1 trillion euros. The Heavy Oil Semiconductor Alliance is determined to become self-reliant with the legacy process ecosystem.”

“I really want to turn back.”

“The difference in fairness is that they can somehow maintain it with subsidies because they can tolerate a certain amount of bleeding, but that’s not the case with diamond semiconductors!”

“The paradigm itself has completely changed, so what is the point of a heavy oil semiconductor alliance now?”

European companies with revenue-generating activities in the IT, telecommunications, and electronics sectors suffered from overwhelming anxiety.

“I don’t know why we have to participate in this madness.”

“How on earth did things get this big?”

“What is Seojin Foundry so sorry about that it is trying to kill European semiconductor companies?”

European semiconductor companies knew how friendly Seojin Foundry was to its customers.

They never compete with their customers.

Despite having sufficient design capabilities to conduct comprehensive semiconductor business, the company focuses only on foundry production.

All semiconductors used in manned spacecraft exploring the moon and Mars were also obtained from NASA. NASA also outsourced the production of space semiconductors to several semiconductor companies, including Wintel. (Production was done by Seojin Foundry)

“Huh, you still didn’t know? Well, since it’s not a semiconductor field, I guess you might not know.”

“What happened?”

“It’s all because this year’s French grape harvest was ruined by pests and diseases.”

The explanation is that it all started with a small conflict over protecting the French wine market.

Semiconductor company CEOs, who had thought it was just an international economic dispute over semiconductor hegemony, were shocked to realize the truth that had been blatantly out of sight.

At the same time, I was angry.

“No, so you’re saying that the matter got to this point because of a single grape? Isn’t the President crazy?”

“I thought it was a scheme to completely castrate the European semiconductor market and monopolize it, but it turned out to be just a retaliatory measure against the forced purchase of grapes… … .”

“Are there only crazy, retarded children in the Elise Palace?”

* * *

Washington, United States.

President Drowen was not happy with the situation in which China was chasing the United States from behind. The term G2 was also not very pleasant for the United States.

It is unpleasant to even dare to treat China as a next-generation competitor that threatens America’s hegemony.

That is why the United States has been cautiously restraining China by making small jabs and occasionally straight attacks to weaken its national power while engaging in large-scale trade with China.

A prime example is that top-tier semiconductors are not exported to China.

The latest semiconductors used in supercomputers and large-scale data centers are blocked from export to China.

“We must take this opportunity to neutralize all of China’s industrial capabilities so that it can never again dream of becoming a semiconductor powerhouse.”

“Mr. President, now is the perfect time to force China out of the semiconductor market.”

How much money has China spent so far to steal America’s semiconductor core technology?

Fortunately, China cannot steal Seojin Foundry’s diamond semiconductor particle processing technology at all.

“We must completely ban the export of diamond semiconductors to China and Europe. We must also dump large quantities of old silicon semiconductors in China and Europe to weaken their financial capacity.”

What the United States ultimately wants from China is for it to remain only a market customer, not a market competitor.

A country that keeps the country wealthy and stable, but does not threaten the United States scientifically or economically, and consistently buys all American products at a high price.

That’s the ideal image of China that the United States has, but we know it’s impossible.

“At least when it comes to semiconductors, we can now allow China to remain a complete guest.”

Imagine a future where China completely abandons semiconductor production and buys and uses all of its semiconductors from the United States.

What a delightful future this is, with the stars and stripes waving.

“Mr. President, I heard that Marshal Ha Soo-young has departed Korea for a private meeting. He departed aboard an F-22.”

“Huh? Wasn’t the F-22 a single-seat aircraft?”

“Admiral Ha Su-yeong personally took control of the controls. The Korean Navy was quite flustered, but it seems that he failed to dissuade them.”

This is the first time I’ve heard that Ha Su-young knows how to fly the F-22.

“Perhaps they trained separately using a simulation device.”

“Even so, piloting a fighter jet isn’t that easy… … .”

“If you look at the real-time flight data, it is flying surprisingly stably. Our Air Force flight instructors are also amazed.”

President Drowen could sense that Ha Su-yeong was quite anxious.

So, I guess they chose the fastest way to get to the US.

“Accordingly, I have given instructions to have an aerial refueling tanker on standby along the flight path.”

“What was he trying to say when he notified me that he wanted to meet me and took off alone in the F-22… ?”

In this way, Ha Soo-young flew an F-22 and received aerial refueling, traveling a distance of 11,000 km to arrive at the White House.

Because she traveled on a fighter jet, Ha Su-yeong’s visit to the U.S. was kept top secret.

No matter how thoroughly China, Russia and Europe monitored it, they would not have noticed.

“Congratulations on the success of the diamond semiconductor particle process.”

“Thank you. Actually, it’s not something to celebrate. It was possible, but it was kept hidden. It was to prevent the silicon semiconductor market from suddenly turning upside down.”

“I see.”

“There is nothing that is impossible with particle assembly command technology, except that the control range is limited to a sphere with a diameter of 20 cm. Any particle within the effective range can be freely manipulated.”

“If we can increase the effective range by hundreds of meters, we can easily print things like spaceships and ships using particle processing, just like a 3D printer.”

“Theoretically, it is possible, but if the effective range becomes that large, the amount of energy consumed increases exponentially. 20cm is a cost-effective range that is somewhat optimized and can be handled by current human civilization.”

“Is energy consumption increasing that much?”

“Even if the effective range is only 30cm, it takes as much energy to print a single product as the entire country of South Korea consumes in a month.”

“It’s only increased by 10cm, but the energy consumption rate has increased so much? There’s a reason why the immersion device only works within 20cm. It’s very difficult to make a device with a larger output, and the energy consumption is also enormous.”

“I heard a great story.”

“There are now three people who know this: Rohan, me, and the President.”

“Huh huh??????.”

The president wiped his forehead and burst into laughter.

It’s so funny that you started off with such a big thing right from the start of a private 1:1 interview.

“I think we’re going to have to put the European science field under the microscope. It’s going to be a pretty big operation, and we need to negotiate. That’s why I came flying in.”

“Thanks to you, I learned that I can pilot the F-22 skillfully.”

“I can handle any vehicle on Earth. Not just airplanes, but ships, spaceships, Goliath cranes, and anything that can be controlled by a person.”

“… … How is that possible?”

“Because I trained.”

The president thought of Rohan.

‘Could you artificially instill all the knowledge and experience about piloting in a short period of time? Is that even possible?’

No matter how much I think about it, there is no other way to explain its validity.

“But you just said you had major surgery.”

‘A major surgery for European science’.

What a horrible thing this is.

If European leaders and businessmen listen to this, it will keep them up at night for years to come.

“Europe has started to dig in the semiconductor industry. It is a national suicide that will be recorded in history forever. We cannot miss this opportunity. Let’s erase computer science itself from Europe.”

“….!”

“China has thrown in a trillion euros. Now the heavy oil semiconductor alliance cannot stop, even though it knows that the end is bankruptcy. No matter what we do, they cannot stop on their own.”

“I agree with that.”

“First, let’s completely neuter the semiconductor production capacity itself. We can make it so that no one can get semiconductors except by buying them from us. After that, we can use that as a weapon to limit the development of supercomputers.”

Drowen felt a pang in his heart.

What Ha Su-young means is that Europe has created an ecosystem where all computer parts, regardless of type, have to be procured from outside sources.

“It allows you to focus solely on non-computational fields such as theoretical physics, astronomy, environmental science, geology, oceanography, biology, and mathematics.”

Modern science, regardless of the field, requires enormous computing power.

The advent of ultra-high-performance computers has accelerated the pace of scientific progress to an absurd degree, and each country has been busy increasing its “national computing power,” from supercomputers to semiconductor production.

“Wouldn’t that be a good thing for Europe? It would no longer have to focus on developing semiconductors or supercomputers, and the components and finished computers we sell would allow them to focus on other scientific fields.”

“What an attractive future.”

What if all electronic products and computers used in all fields, including homes, industry, universities, and research institutes, were replaced with parts or finished products from the Korea-US semiconductor alliance?

American semiconductor and computer manufacturers and Seojin Foundry will stand to make huge profits.

At the same time, Europe will become dependent on Korea and the United States for all computer parts and finished products, putting it in absolute shackles on the diplomatic stage.

“But will that be easy? The oil industry alliance will grit their teeth and lock the door.”

“You know the story of the traveler’s coat.”

“Ah, that’s the lesson that warm sunlight, rather than a strong wind, can take off a traveler’s coat.”

“Yes. The north wind was not strong enough to blow away the traveler’s clothes.”

“If the north wind had been strong enough to blow the traveler far away, he would have been tossed around and his clothes would have been ripped off, wouldn’t it?”

“Soon, a strong wind will blow away Europe’s semiconductor market, forcing it to throw up its hands and feet.”