In China, it is called the “queen of chips.” Huawei engineer Zhang Xiaoyu has suddenly become a national symbol — not a pop star, not a politician, but a person who works in a laboratory and rarely appears in public, writes xrust. But it was her developments that helped Huawei survive sanctions and change the country’s technological landscape.
An engineer that only colleagues knew about before
According to Reuters, Zhang Xiaoyu has for years remained a figure in Huawei's inner circle, a specialist in lithography and chip architecture whose work rarely made headlines.
But after the company introduced new processors created without access to American equipment , the engineer's name became part of popular culture.
In Chinese social networks it is called:
- «the woman who broke the blockade»,
- «the face of technological independence»,
- «the quiet heroine of the new industrial age.»
