"I was wondering how they could be so bold! Turns out they had a backup plan. Not only were they explaining hardware knowledge to them, but they could also resolve their own doubts along the way," Xing Baohua said with a smile.

"Why is this company trying to shirk responsibility? They can't fix it, they won't replace it, and they can't find the problem. We initially suspected it was a hardware issue, but they said all the parts were imported and they assembled it themselves. They said the CPU is tested several times before leaving the factory, and they test it again after it's finished. How come it breaks down when it reaches the user?"

"So that's why you disassembled the hardware this time, found the evidence inside, and told them that the hardware was broken?" Xing Baohua asked.

“Yes, but after seeing it, I didn’t want to pursue it further. Because this is something we produced ourselves, imperfections are allowed in the production process. Perhaps there were problems in other processes, and it takes time to accumulate,” Chen Shuoyue said.

"Haha! Thank you for your understanding. Actually, I originally intended to destroy this batch of chips, but I thought it wouldn't be fair, so I just wanted to trick them a little. If the user experience is bad, they won't buy from them again," Xing Baohua said.

"It's impressive that we can replicate the 286. If we improve the process and learn from our failures, I believe we can create even better chips."

After Chen Shuoyue finished speaking, Xing Baohua smiled and nodded. After ordering the dishes, he ordered a few more bottles of beer and said, "Can you drink? How about we have some?"

"Then let's get some," Chen Shuoyue nodded in agreement.

Xing Baohua poured the other person a full glass of beer and said, "The equipment used to produce the replica 286 was not purchased from Windmill Country; it is a lithography equipment that we developed independently."

During the chip fabrication process, a technical defect occurred: gaps and breakage after laser cutting affected the transistors.

We made adjustments based on the damage ratio and found that redundancy could be used to replace damaged transistors. This shows that the designers had already considered many backup plans.

After Xing Baohua finished speaking, he raised his glass, clinked it with Chen Shuoyue's, and downed it in one gulp.

“I read a foreign paper about transistor self-repair. If we can understand it thoroughly, we won’t encounter defective chips,” Chen Shuoyue said, picking up a piece of food and chewing as she spoke.

"For civilian use, don't even think about it. As long as we dare to release this achievement, I can guarantee you with my own hands that those few pieces of equipment at the rice mill will either be destroyed by a fire or some accidental explosion, leaving absolutely no trace. This thing has to be kept secret, we can't even talk about it." Xing Baohua made a shushing gesture with his finger.