Chapter 652: Profound Core Architecture! A 1.5 Billion US Dollar Purchase Order

Chapter 652: Chapter 466: Profound Core Architecture! A 1.5 Billion US Dollar Purchase Order

Musk saw the smile on Chen Yansen’s face and thought he had agreed. But just as the thought crossed his mind, he heard Chen Yansen say, “Building a factory is out of the question.”

President Chen refused decisively, offering no reason. None was needed!

Deep Blue Battery was the only company with such high-energy-density batteries. Tesla could take it or leave it.

While there weren’t many companies making pure electric vehicles in 2013, there were plenty making hybrids, several of which were domestic.

Great Wall, BAIC, SAIC, Yutong Bus, and others had all expressed their interest in cooperating with Chen Yansen.

Sales of the Tesla Model S LR version in North America had multiplied more than tenfold, which also allowed a host of domestic car manufacturers to see a new opportunity for industry development.

The expression on Musk’s face froze. He didn’t understand. Chen Yansen had clearly agreed to meet him, so why did he keep refusing his proposals?

For a moment, the atmosphere grew tense.

“However, from a technical standpoint, there is strategic value in cooperation between Deep Blue Technology and Tesla. I hope Tesla can provide its chassis dynamics model. This would allow Deep Blue Technology to input battery weight and center of gravity data to simulate vehicle handling, and in turn, design a more compatible battery product.”

Chen Yansen added.

The implication was clear: if Tesla wanted a better product, they had to open up their technical interfaces to Deep Blue Technology. They needed to provide multi-dimensional, high-precision data, including information on vehicle performance requirements, structural limitations, and usage scenarios.

‘Fuck!’

Musk cursed inwardly.

‘This young man is even more arrogant than Panasonic!’

He felt the urge to get up and leave several times, but he didn’t dare. He was afraid of angering Chen Yansen and having his supply cut off.

After a long moment of contemplation, Musk forced a smile and nodded heavily. “Mr. Chen, your proposal is excellent. I have no objections.”

“Was that difficult for you?”

Chen Yansen asked in return.

“Not at all,” Musk replied with a smile.

“Good,” Chen Yansen said, his tone flat.

He knew he had Tesla right where he wanted them. In 2013, the company was at a critical juncture in its development and couldn’t afford to refuse Deep Blue Technology.

The 4890 was just a trial product for Deep Blue Technology. Cooperating with Tesla and leveraging their industry experience and technical data was the only way to develop an even higher-performance power battery.

It was an honor for Tesla to be their guinea pig; others weren’t even given the chance.

Seeing that Musk knew when to be sensible, the rest of their conversation was much more pleasant.

He rejected Musk’s requests for joint R&D, a joint venture factory, and a localized supply chain. However, he did agree to proposals for collaboration on standard-setting, binding production capacity with advance payments, and a long-term supply agreement.

Simply put, based on the current pre-sale figures for the Model S LR, Musk proactively increased the purchase contract amount to 1.5 billion US dollars in exchange for priority supply rights for the Deep Blue Battery.

Once both parties confirmed the contract details, they signed a series of preliminary documents, including a letter of intent, a non-disclosure agreement, a framework agreement, a technical agreement, and a prepayment agreement.

The main purpose was to clarify rights and obligations, reduce uncertainty in their cooperation, and prevent future disputes during negotiations or contract fulfillment.

That evening, Chen Yansen hosted a banquet for Musk at a hotel in the city.

During the meal, Musk talked about his entrepreneurial journey and his family. When he mentioned his eldest son, his face was full of smiles.

Chen Yansen looked at him with a strange expression. Among top entrepreneurs, Musk was also the only one to have realized the two dreams of ‘siring a son’ and ‘raising a daughter.’

「Meanwhile.」

Ma Liyun, using the ID ‘Feng Qingyang,’ was still active on Laiwang, dealing with a horde of netizens asking for money or claiming to be his relatives.

Publicly, Lao Ma’s slogan was “Burn the South Pole, take down Penguin!”

But when the next day’s user retention numbers came out, Ma Liyun was dumbfounded. Day-two retention was only 15.3%.

Over three days, they had pulled in a total of 11.3 million new users, spending a cumulative 200 million in funds including hard ad placements.

On the third day, there were 3.29 million daily active users, but only 690,000 users from the first two days remained.

‘These sons of bitches! They just take the data and cash bonuses and run!’

Meanwhile, Cloud Ship’s registered users had already surpassed 6 million. Leveraging the hundreds of thousands of merchant resources from Pinbei, its new customer growth was extremely fast.

Its well-designed OA system, excellent product interaction, and stable servers—plus the integration of corporate versions of Fast Taxi and Kuai Pao Delivery—genuinely improved business management efficiency. This caused Cloud Ship’s adoption rate in the e-commerce industry to far exceed expectations.

Some internet companies in the East China Region, after comparing several enterprise office software options, all chose Cloud Ship.

After Ma Wenteng copied Chen Yansen a few times, Chen Yansen didn’t let him get away with it, snatching a considerable market share from Penguin QQ.

At 10 AM, Ah Li set ‘WeChat’ and ‘WeChat Pay QR Code’ as forbidden terms across its entire product line and severed the data connection between Taobao and WeChat.

With that, the two Mas had completely fallen out.

Even homepage links for Taobao and Tmall Mall could no longer be opened in WeChat; they would only redirect to a download and installation page.

The two sides started a war of words online.

Immediately after, Penguin took countermeasures. Citing the prevention of malicious marketing, it blocked all Taobao links within WeChat, including redirects to download links.

Ah Li, in turn, publicly accused Penguin of engaging in monopolistic practices, claiming that maliciously blocking Taobao links was an act that disregarded the user experience.

Relying on WeChat’s massive mobile user base and control over traffic, forcefully fragmenting the ecosystem was, in essence, using unfair competition to squeeze the survival space of other products.

The confrontation between the two sides quickly escalated from technical blocking to a public opinion battle.

Ah Li published a long article through official channels, listing multiple instances of WeChat restricting third-party platforms and emphasizing that “an open ecosystem is what serves user interests.”

Penguin responded that “the block is to maintain platform order and prevent users from being harassed by excessive marketing,” and insinuated that Taobao had repeatedly bypassed WeChat’s rules to push marketing messages.

The ‘T-A War’ had fully erupted!

Chen Yansen, however, maintained an attitude of being completely uninvolved, busy signing a stock transfer agreement with NVIDIA and a large purchase agreement with Tesla.

Together, the two contracts could bring Senlian Capital a potential gain of 20 billion US dollars.

Furthermore, Chen Yansen presented Tiangong Technology’s latest achievement in the field of GPU design—the Profound Core architecture.

According to simulation tests, this architecture showed significant improvements in performance, energy efficiency, and programmability.

Its performance far surpassed NVIDIA’s Kepler architecture!

Seeing this, Huang Renxun proactively proposed buying the patent, but Chen Yansen refused.

The core technologies of a GPU are concentrated in architectural design, general-purpose computing, and multi-threaded optimization. Developing all of these from scratch would require at least 16 to 24 months of technological accumulation.

Therefore, Chen Yansen’s purpose in revealing the Profound Core architecture was to pursue a patent cross-licensing agreement, aiming to accelerate the development of the Celestial Craft A100 Chip and get it to the tape-out stage as soon as possible.

Huang Renxun didn’t agree immediately. Instead, he prepared to conduct in-depth tests on the practicality of the Profound Core architecture. If it could create enough value for NVIDIA, offering up some of their CUDA general-purpose computing technology or PureVideo rendering technology wasn’t out of the question.

Chen Yansen cast his bait and waited for the big fish to bite.

As for whether Huang Renxun would ultimately agree, frankly, he wasn’t particularly concerned.

NVIDIA was the best choice, but not the only choice.

If NVIDIA was unwilling to cooperate, there was always Advanced Micro Devices as a backup.

In any case, he only needed a two-year period of patent accumulation to completely leave NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel in the dust and establish his own unique technological barrier in the GPU field.

By then, he would have a generational advantage in both the iteration speed of his architectural designs and the performance-to-power ratio of his chips.

At that point, it wouldn’t be him begging others to cooperate; these industry giants would instead have to rely on his patent licenses.

After finishing his chat with Huang Renxun, Chen Yansen glanced at the time. Just as he was about to leave work for the day, Ge Yue, the head of Apple Asia, called again.