125: Chapter 125 Self-developed entire industry chain: Xingchen Technology creates a technological legend!

The lobby on the first floor of the Star Technology headquarters building.

It had been transformed into a temporary press conference venue.

The seats at the venue were completely full, and the aisles were packed with people carrying cameras.

The air was filled with hushed conversations in various languages, and the sound of camera shutters rose and fell in succession.

Media reporters, tech bloggers, and industry analysts from all over the world packed the place so tightly that not even a drop of water could pass through.

The atmosphere in the venue was very strange.

Half of the people held the mentality of watching a spectacle, preparing to witness how a rising tech star would stage its final farce.

The other half, mainly long-time users of the "stellar" phone and some who sympathized with Star Technology, held onto a final, faint glimmer of hope, expecting an ethereal miracle.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world were watching this through broadcasts on major streaming platforms.

There were no superfluous decorations at the press conference venue.

No background music, no dazzling light shows.

Only a black screen in the center of the stage and simple Star Technology logos on both sides.

The time had come.

Chen Xu walked out from backstage.

He was wearing the simplest black T-shirt and a pair of dark casual trousers.

No opening remarks, no welcome speech.

He walked to the center of the stage, picked up the microphone, and faced the sea of people below, facing the live streaming lenses blinking with red dots.

"Over the past month, many people have said that Star Technology is finished."

His voice, through the amplification equipment, reached every corner of the venue and also reached the ears of hundreds of millions of viewers around the world.

"Because we have no chips left."

Everyone was looking at him, waiting.

Chen Xu paused, his gaze sweeping over the foreign reporters in the front row from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Then, he smiled.

It was a smile that carried a hint of mockery.

"They were right."

These two words caused an instant uproar in the entire venue.

At this moment, the comments on the live streaming platforms became so dense that the screen turned pure white.

"???"

"Holy crap, did I hear that right? He admitted it?"

"I skipped work to watch the stream, I even took off my pants, and this is what you show me? Announcing bankruptcy on the spot?"

"It's over, the last glimmer of hope is extinguished."

"I told you, this is just performance art, a final self-mockery."

At the venue, those reporters who came to watch the joke showed expressions of "as expected," and the sarcasm at the corners of their mouths could not be hidden.

They had already started bowing their heads to conceive the headlines for their news articles.

"The Fall of Xingchen: Chen Xu Admits Defeat."

Chen Xu ignored the commotion at the scene.

After the noise subsided slightly, he changed the subject, and his volume suddenly increased.

"...We indeed do not have anyone else's chips."

"So, we made our own!"

He waved his hand sharply.

The huge black screen behind him lit up.

On the deep blue background, four golden characters written in a vigorous, sweeping style appeared.

[kunlun no. 1]

Below the four characters was a high-precision rendering of a chip.

The complex circuit structure revealed a sense of industrial artistic beauty under dynamic lighting effects.

The entire venue fell into silence.

Everyone's brain experienced a brief stagnation.

Without waiting for the audience to react to this information shock, the screen switched images.

A test interface for a benchmarking software appeared.

GeekBench.

The screen was divided into three parts.

On the left was the bar chart for the Apple A11 chip benchmark data, in blue.

In the middle was the benchmark data for the Qualcomm flagship chip, in green.

On the right, the red bar chart belonging to "kunlun no. 1".

It easily surpassed the two opponents on the right, leaving them far behind.

Finally, the red bar chart stopped.

The image switched again.

AnTuTu comprehensive benchmark.

The same three-way comparison.

The numbers representing "kunlun no. 1" jumped frantically.

Finally, it stopped at a number that no one could comprehend.

The performance advantage was over fifty percent.

The silence at the scene was completely broken.

First, in the user area at the back, individual suppressed exclamations erupted.

Following that, a second one, a third one.

Finally, thunderous applause and cheers echoed throughout the hall.

The reporters in the front row, with their mouths wide open, forgot to press their shutters.

Chen Xu turned to the side, giving up the position in the center of the stage.

"With 'Kunlun' at its heart, we have created a brand-new flagship."

A beam of light shone down from above the stage.

A holographic 3D image of a mobile phone slowly rotated and emerged in the beam of light.

The design of that phone was extremely minimalist, pitch black all over, without any superfluous lines.

The screen occupied the entire front.

"It is called, 'Tianshu'!"

Chen Xu announced the name of the new product.

Just as the atmosphere at the scene reached its climax, a harsh voice rang out.

"Mr. Chen!"

Below the stage, a white reporter from The New York Times suddenly stood up from his seat.

He ignored the obstruction of the staff and asked loudly in a sharp volume.

"This is impossible!"

His voice was very loud, drowning out the applause at the scene.

"The manufacturing of 7nm chips requires the most advanced EUV photolithography machines and wafer fabs with decades of technical accumulation!"

"Star Technology has been established for less than a year, where did you get the technology and equipment?"

He raised his press card and questioned Chen Xu.

"Does this mean that you stole technology from other companies?"

"This is technology theft!"

This question voiced the inner thoughts of all the media at the scene, as well as all industry insiders around the world who were watching the live stream.

Yes, it was illogical.

It violated all the laws of development in the semiconductor industry.

The focus of the entire venue shifted from that cool phone to Chen Xu.

The live camera gave him a close-up.

Facing this sharp question, there was no anger on Chen Xu's face.

He even revealed a meaningful smile.

"My reporter friend, your question is excellent."

Chen Xu's voice came through the microphone, carrying a sense of calmness.

"I can clearly answer you, we indeed did not obtain any relevant technology from the outside world."

He paused, letting everyone hear this sentence clearly.

"Because, from the photolithography machine to the wafer fab, we developed everything ourselves."

This sentence had an impact ten times greater than the chip announcement just now.

The scene was first silent, then uncontrollable booing and laughter erupted.

The live stream comments were also filled with words like "bragging doesn't cost taxes," "crazy," and "losing even one's underwear for the sake of face."

Fully self-developed?

This was even more outrageous than humans announcing a landing on Mars.

The reporter from The New York Times showed a mocking expression on his face.

He pressed again.

"What about evidence? Mr. Chen, on what grounds do you expect us to believe your statement that completely defies commercial and scientific logic?"

"Evidence?"

He looked at the reporter, and also looked at the camera.

"Don't rush."

"I am just about to take everyone to 'visit' it."