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""Haha, I'm back! Tan, Liu, did you miss me? Let me tell you, today you're all in for a treat—I brought home-made Cantonese sausages from my mom. I'll steam a plate for everyone at noon, the flavor is absolutely amazing!"

On the last day of July, Chen Yiwen burst into the workroom of the research group early in the morning, greeting everyone with excitement.

One could tell from his spirited demeanor that his week at home had been exceedingly comfortable, with both body and mind immensely satisfied.

"Nice, Chen Yiwen, you're a different person after this trip home. Hey, before the semester starts, I hope I can manage to go home for a couple of days too," Liu Chenfeng said with obvious envy.

This was a very real gripe.

Mainly because the pressure of PhD studies was so intense that one's brain was always in a state of high alert.

Before meeting the basic requirements for graduation, it was difficult for Liu Chenfeng even to broach the subject of going home.

"Haha, Liu, we have a lot of freedom in our project team. If you need to, just talk to my brother Qiao. He won't make things difficult for you," Chen Yiwen said with nonchalance.

It was evident that the young man was somewhat carried away, bold enough to speak for Qiao Ze himself.

Unfortunately, his time to shine was rather limited.

In the time it took for a few words, Qiao Ze entered the workroom.

"Oh, Qiao, you're here? You need to borrow more books today? I'll go right now..." Before he could finish, Chen Yiwen's gaze shifted to Qiao Ze's desk and he was stunned to find a stack of historical research books instead of the familiar chip-related scientific literature.

This puzzled him.

After all, in the time Qiao Ze had been at the university, Chen Yiwen had never seen him perusing such humanities-oriented books.

"No need to borrow anything, just return these books later," Qiao Ze said, having already seated himself at his desk.

Alright, perhaps Qiao Ze's taste in books had changed during the time he was away.

"Sure, and oh, Qiao Ze, I brought back home-made sausages my mom prepared. I'll give you half later, to take home for Ms. Lu to try."

"Okay." Qiao Ze nodded and began his work.

What surprised Chen Yiwen was that Qiao Ze wasn't working on those incomprehensible mathematical equations today, but was starting to write a paper.

However, the paper was beyond his understanding, being entirely in English.
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This was also why he, along with Zhang Zhou and Gu Zhengliang, still couldn't assist Qiao Ze in the vast treasure trove of academic papers to find relevant literature—mainly because his English reading level wasn't up to par yet.

Although China has been developing a system for searching Chinese academic papers, it's because during the period when modern science advanced rapidly, the Western civilization got a head start; from mathematics to physics, the mainstream academic concepts were essentially introduced from abroad to China. This has led to English academic papers having an absolute dominance in discourse.

All scientists, including those from Huaxia, if they achieve significant results in their research and wish to publish, their first choice is to submit to foreign English-language journals. Only lesser or non-foreign-publishable research considers submission domestically, so most valuable papers are in the English-speaking realm.

This is why even though English might not be necessary in daily life, if one wants to be involved in academia at this stage, proficient English reading skills are essential. After all, professional papers containing a wealth of specialized terms, if interpreted directly through various translation software, often result in nonsensical translations.

Getting the translation wrong and not understanding is one thing, but if the translation is vague and causes the reader to misunderstand, that becomes a real embarrassment.

Unless artificial intelligence takes another step forward and can translate professional papers with accuracy meeting a very stringent standard, will it be able to truly free countless aspiring researchers from the nightmare of learning English.

Although Chen Yiwen didn't quite understand, he could still sense that what Qiao Ze was writing didn't seem to be a mathematics paper.

Because in the abstract he was drafting, there were none of those perplexing mathematical formulas.

However, Chen Yiwen only glanced briefly before he picked up the books from Qiao Ze's desk and trotted off to the library.

After all, having just returned from home, Chen was in an exceedingly good mood and no longer as curious. Going to the library gave him the perfect excuse to stroll outside and see if anything had changed at the university.

It's actually quite a pity because if Chen Yiwen had looked a little longer, he would at least have been able to understand the title.

Because the title of the paper was quite simple.

"A New Design and Manufacturing Method for Lithography Machines", translated into Chinese would be "A Novel Design and Manufacturing Approach for Lithography Machines".

This was an interesting topic for Chen Yiwen, who had long been curious about it.

Yes, this was the problem Qiao Ze had been pondering.

He planned to write two papers. Apart from the one he was actively writing, the other was to be "A Discussion on a New Artificial Intelligence Chip Architecture".

Qiao Ze had a simple idea.

He didn't know how to make chips, nor did he intend to spend too much time on such matters.

But he was adept at computation and very good at writing papers.

Now that he had gained some fame worldwide, if he could write a paper that seemed realistically credible—as if it were truly possible to bypass the traditional manufacturing model and produce the machinery currently most lacking in Huaxia's semiconductor industry simply through the guidance of this paper—it could also become an indirect form of deterrence.

In Qiao Ze's view, the difficulties of these two papers lay in the validity of the design and manufacturing principles stated in the papers and whether the internal analysis data he made up could pass supercomputing verification."