Shockingly, a counterfeit factory has produced a 3-nanometer chip.

Chapter 110 Heading to Qualcomm for Negotiations!

The impact of Huaxin's 100 billion yuan investment in the automotive industry is far greater than expected.

Not only has the industry been greatly affected, but even mobile phone repair stalls in Huaqiangbei have heard about this.

A certain shop.

At that moment, the shop owner was applying a screen protector to a customer, while financial news was playing on the TV.

"...Huaxing Investment and Transsion Holdings announced today their cross-industry entry into the new energy vehicle sector, planning to invest 100 billion yuan to develop new energy vehicles..."

The customer suddenly looked up in confusion: "Isn't Transsion selling phones in Africa? My brother even works at their factory fixing screws, so what's going on...?"

The boss didn't look up, his hands moving steadily as he applied the screen protector: "Can't someone who makes phones make cars? The owner of Tesla in America, doesn't he also build rockets?"

He smoothed out the bubbles and peeled off the protective film.

"Besides, they have batteries."

He handed over the phone: "25 yuan."

"Boss, it's so expensive to put on a screen protector." The young man muttered as he opened his wallet and reluctantly pulled out three 10-yuan blue bills.

"Go out and find out; I've already given you a good deal."

Before paying the bill, the young man turned and left, muttering to himself, "I should give President Yu a suggestion: should we bring down the price of tempered glass screen protectors?"

This is too expensive!

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On the same day, Kyoto at the end of January was much colder than Guangzhou. There had been a heavy snowfall in the morning, which had just stopped, but a thick layer of snow remained on the ground, and the air was even colder.

Lei Jun stood in the temporary office rented by the rice company, busy with his work.

The office is located in Yingu Building, a whole floor of 1600 square meters, which proves Lei Jun's strength.

After all, in this place where every inch of land is precious, most of the time several companies share a floor. If you want to take over an entire floor, you can't do it without connections.

We planned for 200 workstations, which is just right and not too crowded, but right now only the MIUI project team is full of developers.

Although Lei Jun was busy with work, he still stared at his phone for a long time.

Lin Bin pushed open the door and came in, his expression somewhat complicated: "Old Lei, Huaxin has responded!"

Lei Jun didn't look up, but judging from his tone, he asked anxiously, "What happened to Huang Tianya again?"

"He stood me up again! The reason is the same as last time. He's been busy with a project lately, finalizing an investment with an internet company in Hangzhou, supposedly part of Transsion's ecosystem strategy."

They want to postpone the planned meeting until next month.

Lei Jun finally raised his head, a hint of inexplicable anger on his lips.

"Next month?" He put down his phone. "Then it'll be gone."

After all, it was originally scheduled for November 12th, then postponed to the 20th, and now...

This clearly demonstrates the intention behind the telepathic communication.

[Huang Tianya: I'm innocent!]

Lin Bin was taken aback: "Taishan OS, that's something they're discussing right now. If we give up..."

"Old Lin," Leibusi interrupted him, stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the snow scene outside. The distance was a vast expanse of white, but downstairs, a plum tree was blooming. "One flower blooming alone does not make a spring."

He looked at the plum blossoms again; they were indeed beautiful in this snow-covered winter.

With its spirit of not fearing the severe cold, it has won the praise of countless ancient people... But winter is winter after all, and plum blossom is just a small pink flower. In other seasons with fierce competition, it is nothing.

"Taishan OS is a good thing. It was developed by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. The underlying layer is based on the Android open source community, while the upper layer is completely independent. The underlying layer is also being replaced. I have experienced it, and its smoothness is no worse than iOS."

He stared blankly at the phone on the table and the Honor Play that he called the one that had stolen the rice's luck.

After a few seconds of pause, he casually said, "But it can only be used on Transsion and Huawei phones, and only in Africa and our domestic market..."

Lin Bin did not respond.

After all, the European market hasn't even opened yet, so no one can be sure, but as for the American market... Transsion really can't get in.

But isn't Africa an international market?

However, with Transsion's advanced beautification algorithm, they really can't beat them...

"When Chinese mobile phones go global," Lei Jun turned around, "they rely on the global ecosystem, which is the global supply chain."

This domestically developed TaiShan OS is destined to fail in the international market.

He walked back to his desk, picked up a document—a piece of information a big shot had revealed to him.

"Look at this, I understand that the higher-ups want to support TaiShan OS. But if our rice uses TaiShan OS, it will be impossible to go global."

Domestically, we simply cannot compete with Transsion's entire industry chain.

He handed the document to Lin Bin, showing no sign of anger, as if the fact that Huawei had "stole" his press conference plan had not affected him in any way.

"Book a flight to America."

Lin Bin took a look and saw that the destination on the report was Qualcomm headquarters.

"Shall we go now?"

"Go now."

Lei Jun's voice held that familiar certainty from the first time: "MSM 8255, sample footage will be available next month. I'm going to get it, at the very least, I'll secure the first release rights in China."

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November 22, San Diego, California.

Qualcomm's headquarters building isn't as tall as some of the new office buildings in Guangzhou, but it occupies a large area. The white buildings gleam in the sunlight, and the landscaping is excellent.

Lei Jun arrived at the meeting room 20 minutes early.

This is a habit he has developed over the years: when meeting important people, he would rather arrive early than late, so as not to give others a bad first impression.

But to his surprise, Wang Xiang, president of Qualcomm China, was already waiting at the conference room door.

With Huawei's two smartphones achieving cumulative sales of over ten million units in less than six months, Qualcomm has also taken notice of the Chinese market and specifically invited him to come and report on his work...

Let's see if we can move the plan forward.

When Lei Jun shook hands with the other party, he made a point of observing him. The other party was very enthusiastic, but also had a sense of propriety that is unique to people who have climbed up in multinational giants.

It gives you respect, and it lets you know who's the bigger player at the table.

The conference room wasn't large, but it had an excellent view, offering a glimpse of the distant scenery.

There were no pleasantries at this meeting; we went straight to the point.

"MSM8255," Wang Xiang turned on the projector. The first page showed the chip's architecture. "Mr. Lei should have already looked into it before he came. It's a 45nm process, 1.2GHz frequency, single-core architecture, and an Adreno 205 GPU."

Actual performance is more than 40% higher than MT6575.

To be honest, we also have a dual-core version, which will have even better performance.

The dual-core version hasn't been released yet due to power consumption issues, and it might even be canceled altogether...

Lei Jun looked at the number and felt very satisfied.

This chip will definitely blow the Honor Play out of the water, but I wonder what the price will be for a 40% performance boost...

"What's the price?"

Seeing Lei Jun's reaction, Wang Xiang nodded in satisfaction and held up four fingers...

$40, that's much cheaper than MediaTek, but... is there something fishy going on here?

"We can accept $40. We'll place an order for 1 million units first. We're also aiming for the best value for money, and we expect our annual orders to be no less than 10 million. But unfortunately, we have limited funds right now... so we can only..."

Just as Lei Jun was performing, Wang Xiang was completely stunned. "40 US dollars? Mr. Lei, you must be joking!"