6: Chapter 6 Just kidding, have we overtaken Apple?

Su Qingxue gently pressed the power button.

The screen lit up instantly.

The crystal-clear standby screen was presented before Chen Shuyu's eyes without a single blind spot.

It was too beautiful.

The equal-width bezels were the ultimate display of industrial aesthetics; the rounded corners were in the golden ratio; the single water-drop front camera at the top of the screen was the finishing touch.

Chen Shuyu sat up straight abruptly, her voice trembling with excitement.

"The screen of this phone... is too beautiful!"

Su Qingxue was equally radiant; the shyness from moments ago was swept away, and she resumed the composure and decisiveness of a female CEO.

She tapped her finger heavily on the coffee table and issued an order.

"It will be the new generation flagship phone of Guanghui Technology! Shuyu, take it to the company immediately, have the R&D center take the lead, and gather all supply chain managers for a meeting! Before dawn tomorrow, I want to see the mass production feasibility analysis and the yield rate assessment report!"

Chen Shuyu knew there was no time to lose. She finished the remaining coffee in her cup in one gulp, grabbed her bag, and prepared to leave.

"You must take good care of the phone. The screen encapsulation technology is top secret, and you must remember to register the patent," Su Qingxue instructed carefully.

"Don't worry!" Chen Shuyu's gaze was firm. "I swear on my life to deliver it safely to the company and register the patent along the way!"

She paused, recalling something, and her mood dampened slightly.

"By the way, Qingxue, Wang Ping from the Hardware R&D Department... still resigned. I talked to him for a long time, but he was tight-lipped and refused to say which company was poaching him."

Wang Ping was an absolute backbone of the Hardware Department.

The acclaimed internal stacking and centered rear camera design of the Guanghui 5 Pro from the year before last were his masterpieces. It was thanks to that generation of products that Guanghui Mobile sold 7 million units, briefly squeezing into the top five in domestic shipments.

His departure was a huge blow to the company.

"It doesn't matter."

A confident arc curved at the corners of Su Qingxue's mouth.

"I have already found a hardware genius who is a hundred times better than him."

Chen Shuyu instinctively looked down at the phone in her hand, which was like a work of art, and asked tentatively:

"Is it... the developer of this phone?"

Su Qingxue hesitated slightly. Lu Li only had some creative ideas; she still didn't know who the developer behind this screen was.

But to give her best friend and the entire company a shot in the arm, she nodded firmly.

"Then I can rest easy!"

Chen Shuyu was instantly revitalized, her eyes shining.

"I'm going to the company right now! I want to let that group in the R&D department see what the hell a Full-screen display really is!"

She almost ran out of the villa, her steps light as if she were about to fly.

...

On the third-floor balcony, Lu Li watched the car driving away and breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, his wife hadn't discovered his other technologies.

Otherwise, he really wouldn't know how to explain it.

By the way, he shouldn't have left anything behind, right?

Probably not...

...

It was already one in the afternoon when Chen Shuyu arrived at the Guanghui Technology R&D Center.

The Audi A6L slid skillfully into the exclusive parking space for the CEO's secretary. She carried her bag and walked into the first-floor lobby in her high heels.

Only on the way did she remember that the paper titled "Feasibility Report on Qinghai Lake Silicon-Carbon Anode Lithium-Ion Battery Technology" was still lying quietly in her bag; she had forgotten to give it to Su Qingxue.

But it wasn't a big problem.

They would be meeting again tomorrow anyway.

Right now, there were more important things to do.

It was lunch break at the Guanghui Technology R&D Center.

Chen Shuyu could see technical staff walking out of the main entrance in twos and threes, each looking lethargic and unenthusiastic.

She was well aware of the recent storm in the company.

Several core backbone members of the Hardware Department and Software Department had been poached by competitors at high prices.

Following that, Product Manager Zhang Yuqing, hailed as the soul of Guanghui Technology, and Chief Software Engineer Wang Ping also submitted their resignations.

This series of combo punches almost broke the spine of Guanghui Technology's R&D.

The development progress of the new flagship phone, "guanghui 7 Pro," had stalled as a result.

As for the non-compete agreement?

The other side had long ago perfectly circumvented it by taking positions at overseas third-party non-competing companies.

Chen Shuyu's expression turned cold. She didn't linger and walked straight to the floor where the Project Management Department was located.

...

Project Management Department, medium-sized conference room.

In the stuffy air, the smell of gunpowder was constantly building up.

Hardware Department (HW), Software Department (SW), Structural Design Department (MD), Quality Assurance (QA)... The supervisors and deputy supervisors of several departments sat in a circle, each looking worse than the other.

"Old Zhang, what on earth is going on with your Software Department? The system optimization for the Guanghui UI 6.0 beta version is simply a disaster! You can't even get a simple scaling animation right, and users are cursing us for lag under the official blog every day!"

Hardware Department supervisor Li Huairong, a middle-aged man with thinning hair, slammed the table.

"Bullshit!" Chief System Architect Zhang Chen retorted immediately. "It's clearly your hardware's fault! The heat dissipation is a mess, the hardware stacking is like building blocks, and the CPU throttles at the drop of a hat. Even a god couldn't optimize that! When Zhang Yuqing was still here, would you dare to shirk responsibility like this?"

"Zhang Yuqing? You still have the face to mention Zhang Yuqing!"

Another supervisor sneered, his voice full of sarcasm.

"He had already found a new employer long ago! I heard that in April, he and his core team were already in contact with 'Huayao'! He took our unfinished guanghui 7 plan to use as a pledge of allegiance!"

This speculation was like a bomb, instantly detonating the room.

"What?!"

"No wonder! No wonder many problems with the 6 Pro system couldn't be solved in the end. It turns out they were already distracted and preparing to jump ship back then!"

"Those sons of bitches! Taking Guanghui Technology's money while working for the competition! CEO Su treated them well!"

"The most critical thing is that they bypassed the non-compete agreement through their status as overseas consultants, and the Legal Department can't do anything about them! We worked hard for a whole year, only to make wedding clothes for others!"

The arguing turned into desperate cursing, and the entire conference room was chaotic, like a wet market.

Confusion and frustration loomed over everyone's heads.

The core team had been uprooted, the new project was at a standstill, where was the company's future?

Just at this moment.

"Creeeeeak—"

The conference room door was pushed open by a clerk.

Chen Shuyu walked in.

There was no expression on her face. The crisp sound of her high heels hitting the floor was not loud, but it instantly drowned out the noise in the room.

Everyone's voices came to an abrupt halt.

Her gaze swept across the room indifferently, finally resting for a moment on two empty seats.

Those were the seats belonging to the departed Product Manager Zhang Yuqing and Chief Software Engineer Wang Ping.

Chen Shuyu's eyes grew even colder.

She walked to the projector screen and stood still.

"This meeting is commissioned by CEO Su."

Her voice was clear and cool; though not loud, it reached everyone's ears clearly.

"There is only one agenda: the feasibility assessment of the Full-screen display technology, and the assessment of mass production yield rates!"

As her voice fell.

Everyone present was shocked.

A dozen gazes "whooshed" and focused simultaneously on Hardware Department supervisor Li Huairong.

Those eyes were clearly saying: Old Li, you've hidden it well! Is there a breakthrough in screen technology? Holding back a big move to stun everyone?

They heard clearly that Secretary Chen was talking about a breakthrough in Full-screen display technology.

Could it be a curved Infinity Display like the Samsung S8?

Li Huairong was dumbfounded by the stares and could only squeeze out a smile uglier than crying.

He didn't know jack!

He was still leading his team to research how to shrink the components at the top of the screen by a few more millimeters. What new screen technology? He had never heard of it!

Seeing his expression, everyone understood instantly.

This had nothing to do with him.

Then...

Everyone's gazes converged back onto Chen Shuyu, full of confusion and inquiry.

Chen Shuyu ignored their confusion.

She connected the phone to the projector and projected an image directly onto the screen.

It was a photo she had taken in advance on the way.

When that photo was clearly presented before everyone's eyes, the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence.

On the screen was a mobile phone.

Or rather, a screen.

A screen that seemed to exist only in science fiction movies.

The extremely equal-width four sides made the bezel almost non-existent.

The screen's image seemed about to overflow, carrying an unparalleled visual impact.

The only flaw was the camera hole in the center of the top of the screen, like a morning dewdrop.

But that was not a defect; instead, it became the finishing touch, endowing this industrial product with a sense of lively beauty.

"Secretary Chen..."

Finally, someone broke the silence, their tone filled with disbelief.

"What do you mean by showing us a concept render?"

"Yeah." Another deputy supervisor with a technical background kindly explained, "This kind of design is impossible to achieve at the current stage. Its top doesn't have space to integrate the earpiece, light sensor, and proximity sensor."

"Secretary Chen, you might not be very familiar with technology. The proximity sensor ensures that when we answer the phone, our cheeks don't accidentally touch the screen, and the light sensor automatically adjusts brightness based on ambient light. These are essential components of a mobile phone and cannot be removed."

Listening to their "popular science," a barely perceptible arc curved at the corners of Chen Shuyu's mouth.

"I didn't believe it either at first."

She paused, her gaze sweeping across the room, and asked word by word.

"But what if what I'm showing you is the actual device?"

A stone stirred up a thousand waves!

The entire conference room exploded instantly.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Is this a joke? Even the laboratories of Samsung and Apple wouldn't dare claim they could produce this technology right now!"

"That's right! Even the Xiaomi MIX, which proposed the 'Full-screen display' concept, could only put the camera on the chin, and that chin is big enough to park an aircraft carrier, and you have to turn the phone around to take a selfie!"

"I've heard the next generation iPhone is supposed to have a Full-screen display, but that's just a rumor. Who has seen the actual device? Although it's discouraging, I don't believe we can be ahead of Apple!"

Apple phones are the benchmark above the heads of all mobile phone manufacturers. Every Android manufacturer wants to surpass them, but have they done it after all these years?

Shipment volume is the cruel reality of the data...

Sounds of questioning, refutation, and ridicule rose one after another.

In the eyes of these experts who had been immersed in the industry for many years, Chen Shuyu's words were nothing short of a fantasy.

Chen Shuyu did not argue further.

Amidst the deafening clamor of questioning, she slowly and carefully took a mobile phone out of her Hermès Birkin bag.

The phone that she had wrapped in velvet cloth and kept close to her throughout the journey.

When she uncovered a corner of the velvet cloth, the body of the phone, like a work of art, was exposed to the light.

All the noise came to an abrupt halt.

A dozen gazes were nailed tightly to her hands.