132: Chapter 132 The Vanmi 2 must be very expensive!!

"How is it possible? In just half a year, Fanmi actually self-developed a chip!!"

Piao Qianshu strode out of the Fanmi launch event, his low voice suppressed with shock.

"In such a short time—chip design, verification, sample testing, and so on... with so many processes, even copying wouldn't be that fast!!!"

"Something must have gone wrong. Could it be they had this chip ready long ago and only brought it out now... just to prevent us from sabotaging them in advance???"

"But that doesn't make sense either! If they had this chip long ago, why didn't they use it in Fanmi 1? Why did they compromise by making it compatible with android apps?"

"..."

He muttered to himself, unable to figure out exactly where the problem lay.

This result had completely exceeded the scope of his understanding. In his view, it was something that absolutely could not happen, yet it had happened anyway!

"President Piao, are you alright? Where are we going now? Back to the company?" Seeing Piao Qianshu's soul-shaken appearance, Li Jinmin couldn't help but ask in a small voice.

"Back to the company? What's the use?" Piao Qianshu turned his head sharply, a hint of madness flashing in his eyes.

If he went back like this, Samsung would have no room to resist once the fanmi 2 phone hit the market. The new phone they were set to launch at the end of the year would surely be crushed into dust, and the market share would be entirely seized by Fanmi and Apple. His current position would inevitably have to be surrendered.

He had to find a way.

Now the only possibility... was Apple!

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and he gradually calmed down.

He knew very well that to counter Fanmi, the only way was to continue cooperating with Apple and find a way to completely cut off Fanmi's chip supply chain.

Thinking of this, a trace of madness flashed in the depths of his eyes as he muttered through gritted teeth:

"That's right, as long as no one manufactures the chips for them, there's still a chance!!"

"Let's go, find Lu Qun!!"

...

The Apple launch event site.

"Pangu... self-developed chip... Qiankun..."

Chu Kun watched the live broadcast of the Fanmi launch on his phone. Although the picture was stuttering, he still heard several keywords.

At this moment, he could no longer sit still.

"Fanmi self-developed a chip? This crappy signal, why is it so bad!"

He irritably tapped his phone and glanced at Lu Qun, who was still talking eloquently on the stage.

He was introducing Apple's Fast Charging Technology and waterproof features, and Chu Kun couldn't help but mock him in his heart.

"Technologies that Fanmi is about to phase out, and he can still talk about them for so long. I'm impressed!"

He no longer hesitated and stood up to walk out of the venue. His heart held a sliver of anticipation; if Fanmi truly had a self-developed chip and a pureblood version of the Pangu System, they naturally wouldn't consider Apple anymore. Any fool would know how to choose.

As he stood up, many people in the venue also hurriedly walked out.

Clearly, they had all seen the news of Fanmi's pureblood Pangu and the announcement of their self-developed qiankun chip.

The atmosphere of the entire venue was somewhat theatrical. Lu Qun was still talking eloquently on stage, but the audience below was dwindling as people kept leaving.

Seeing this, Lu Qun felt a bit puzzled. He quickly finished the content he wanted to say, let someone else take the stage, and headed backstage himself.

"What's the situation? Why are the people in the hall all walking out?" He couldn't help but shout as soon as he stepped backstage.

The Secretary in Black Stockings, who had been waiting for a long time, hurried to meet him and spoke with a heavy tone: "President Lu, the Fanmi launch event just announced the news of the Pangu System and their self-developed chip going fully online..."

"Self-developed chip?" Lu Qun froze for a moment.

"How is that possible!!!"

His eyes flashed as he strode to a nearby computer. On the screen, Lei Jun was still introducing the details of the Pureblood Pangu System and the qiankun chip.

"Our qiankun chip is specifically tailored for the Pangu System, possessing a powerful 1GHz processing capability. We have also designed a hardware acceleration array, coupled with optimized multi-tasking processing for shared memory, which will fully empower the system and improve smoothness by at least 50%..."

"Not only that, based on the characteristics of the Pangu System, we will subsequently launch cross-device interconnection and collaboration..."

Listening to Lei Jun's voice from the computer, almost every sentence was met with a clear burst of cheering from the scene. Lu Qun's expression changed completely, and he involuntarily clenched his fists.

"Self-developed chip... in just half a year, how could it be so fast..."

He muttered to himself.

He looked at the situation of his own launch event again; with fewer and fewer people, his heart sank bit by bit.

Camera... memory upgrade...

He couldn't understand. Just these two technologies alone should have kept Fanmi's R&D team's feet off the ground. How could they possibly have time to develop a chip and perfect a system?

Unless they had a mature team, or even complete data, where they just had to copy the homework...

But how was that possible? Any fool knew that chip design data was top secret; neither High Copper nor Apple would ever leak it.

And those domestic workshop-style tech companies that claimed independent chip R&D but could only design low-end chips, or even just constantly made them compatible with the android system, were even less likely to have mature technology!

More importantly, even if they really found a chip design company to collaborate with, it would be impossible to produce a domestic chip fully adapted to the Pangu System so quickly.

At this moment, Lu Qun was completely stunned.

He thought that by relying on the Apple system and Apple's self-developed A4 chip—these two trump cards—he was already in an invincible position.

He never expected that Fanmi would also develop a chip in such a short period of time.

Moreover, the system's smoothness didn't seem to be any worse than Apple's. In this way, his advantage no longer existed.

And with its camera functions and 2GB of massive RAM, the fanmi 2 could absolutely crush the apple 4 and occupy most of the market!

Lu Qun was completely dumbfounded!

His original full confidence seemed so laughable at this moment. All marketing plans were completely disrupted by Fanmi's launch event.

The entire backstage was silent.

All eyes were on Lu Qun. They wanted to speak but had no idea what to say.

They knew very well that it wasn't that the apple 4 was bad, but that Fanmi's new phone was too strong—it simply wasn't a product that should exist in this era.

If not for the fanmi 2, the apple 4 would definitely have been an existence that could dominate the market.

"They launched so many high-end technologies at once; they must have invested a huge amount of R&D funds. Then the price of the phone..."

A voice rang out at this time.

Hearing this, Lu Qun's heart immediately stirred, and he quickly calmed down as well.

That's right!

Investing in the R&D of so many projects in such a short time, Fanmi must have exhausted all its liquid capital and might even have taken out loans.

Perhaps they were already struggling to hold on!

"The price of this phone will definitely not be cheap. If they can't recover the funds in a short time, there will inevitably be a risk of a broken capital chain."

"If they significantly increase the price, it will surely draw resentment from the fans. After all, from the beginning, they have been playing with the concept of cost-effectiveness!"

"That's right, the price of fanmi 2 must be very expensive!!"

"Looking at it this way, we still have a chance!!"

"..."

Voices rang out one after another, and the atmosphere backstage eased slightly. Everyone's eyes involuntarily turned back to the computer screen.

The price of fanmi 2!

This was their last hope!