Chapter 661: Impacting the North American Market! One Less Shortcoming for the Celestial Craft A100

“President Chen bought a house? Congratulations!”

“Is President Chen’s name on the property deed?”

“President Chen, I’m a loyal fan of Orange Mobile Phone. My first ever smartphone was the Orange C1, and now I’m using the Orange C3S. Once Senlian Capital moves in, can I come visit?”

“President Chen, I’ve been a fan for ten years. I just graduated this year. Can you give me a chance for an interview?”

“A fan for ten years, my ass! Ten years ago, President Chen was still in elementary school!”

The netizens in the comment section buzzed with discussion.

And Chen Yansen’s posts on Mimo and Facebook quickly garnered hundreds of thousands of likes, comments, and shares.

Regarding the news of Senlian Capital’s impending move, no one was happier than Meng Yuanzhi, and no one was more upset than Xu Zhenhui.

The golden goose they had raised for three or four years had just been snatched away by Luzhou.

‘Those goddamn animals!’

While Xu Zhenhui was cursing up a storm in Xucheng, Meng Yuanzhi was in Luzhou, beaming with joy.

The incoming freshmen who were just about to register at Xucheng Academy felt like their world was collapsing after seeing Chen Yansen’s Weibo post.

They had read guides from upperclassmen on Lingxi Tieba. First thing after enrolling: register and pay tuition. Second thing: find a part-time customer service job at Pinbei, Orange Technology, or Today Technology.

12 yuan an hour, 20 hours a week—that’s 1,000 yuan a month!

40 hours a week, and that’s 2,000 yuan a month!

The cost of living in Xucheng was low, and expenses at Xuyuan were even lower. With 2,000 yuan a month plus a living allowance, they could live like kings in college.

“Senior, no! We can’t bear for you to leave!”

“Senior, I applied to Xucheng Academy because of you! If you leave, what are we going to do?”

“I’m registering at Luzhou University of Technology next week. I hope Senlian Capital moves to Luzhou soon so I can find a part-time job.”

“Luzhou Academy is officially jealous. Luzhou University of Technology and Senlian Science Park are way too close.”

For a moment, Chen Yansen’s comment section was flooded with prospective college students.

At the same time, someone joked, “Luzhou really lives up to its name as the ‘Huian Vacuum Cleaner.’ Xucheng must be crying right now.”

“Jinling: Hey, Xucheng, call me Brother Nan, and I’ll look after you from now on.”

“Xucheng: Sorry, I only hang out with Peng City!”

A few witty netizens started goofing around in the comments.

Meanwhile.

After dealing with Meng Yuanzhi and the others, Chen Yansen said goodbye to Meng Jie and took a car back to Xucheng.

On the way back, he pulled out his phone. As soon as he opened Toutiao, he saw “99+” unread messages. It was the same when he opened Weibo.

There were so many messages that he didn’t even feel like opening them. He just expanded the comment section and randomly scrolled through the most-liked comments.

When he spotted the comment from someone wanting to visit Senlian Science Park, he thought for a moment and replied, “If everyone has time, I’d also like to welcome all fans of Orange Mobile Phone to visit our headquarters.

We’ll hold a lottery and draw a thousand fans. We’ll cover round-trip airfare and accommodations and give you a firsthand look at our R&D labs.

After all, many technical details are hard to grasp just from descriptions. Seeing them in person will give you a better understanding of the Orange Mobile Phone’s design. I’ll have our brand department announce the specific dates later, so please keep an eye out for official news.”

‘Covering round-trip airfare and accommodations?’

Although there weren’t many spots, the sincerity was undeniable.

At an average cost of 5,000 yuan per person, 1,000 people would cost 5 million yuan.

And so, a new wave of sycophants popped up in the comment section.

Chen Yansen smiled faintly, exited Toutiao, and then left a message for Wang Shixiang on Cloud Ship, telling him to make a note: after the official move-in next year, arrange for fans to visit the headquarters in batches.

In the driver’s seat, Huang Boxiang gripped the steering wheel, his eyes on the road, focused on driving.

Trailing far behind the Gusteau’s right rear was a black Mercedes MPV.

“Lao Huang, you’ve worked hard these past few days. I’m giving you two days off. Go home and see your family,” Chen Yansen said, putting down his phone.

“Boss, could I possibly take August 31st and September 1st off?” Huang Boxiang asked, a bit sheepishly.

“To take your niece to college?” Chen Yansen asked in return.

“Yes. My older brother is gone, so as her uncle, I have to be more involved,” Huang Boxiang replied.

“Of course. Just let Xiaoli know,” Chen Yansen agreed readily.

“Thank you, Boss,” Huang Boxiang said, his face full of gratitude.

“It’s just swapping your days off, no need to thank me.” Chen Yansen waved his hand, then habitually dangled a carrot. “Keep up the good work, and I’ll give you a raise at the end of the year.”

“Thank you, Boss. My lips are always sealed.”

Huang Boxiang accepted the “big pie,” understanding it was his boss’s way of buying his silence, and quickly stated his position.

Chen Yansen just smiled and didn’t respond.

‘Compared to Xiaoli, Huang Boxiang is still too earnest.’

‘If it were Xiaoli, he would have just nodded his thanks and never said that extra sentence.’

But that was just a matter of personality, and Chen Yansen didn’t dwell on it.

‘As long as he’s reliable, that’s all that matters!’

As evening fell, the car exited the highway and headed toward the Delta.

Meanwhile.

Foxconn received a notification from Apple. In short, the contents were: a planned reduction in production capacity, with third-quarter orders to be cut by thirty percent.

Guo Mingtai couldn’t figure out why Cook would do this.

‘Is he not confident in the market forecast for the iPhone 5s?’

‘Or does he want to give more manufacturing orders to Heshuo to reduce Apple’s reliance on Foxconn?’

After a moment of thought, he considered several possibilities.

But this question didn’t trouble him for long, because the very next day, the Orange Phone Factory publicly announced it would be taking on a portion of the iPhone 5s’s manufacturing business.

‘So the Orange Phone Factory snatched my business?’

Guo Mingtai suddenly understood.

As the realization sank in, his brow furrowed involuntarily.

Over the past two years, the Orange Phone Factory had snatched quite a bit of his business, and had even privately poached many mid-level managers from Foxconn.

He had assumed that since the Orange Phone Factory was a late starter, even with a powerful parent company, its production processes would be absolutely no match for Foxconn’s.

But now, he was being proven completely wrong!

From what Guo Mingtai knew of Apple, if the Orange Phone Factory’s production capacity, performance, and yield rate didn’t meet their standards, Apple would never have given them the order.

Faced with the Orange Phone Factory’s move to snatch orders, Guo Mingtai immediately felt immense pressure.

He knew that Senlian Capital’s power was not to be underestimated, and he also understood what kind of person Chen Yansen was.

Ever since entering the business world, he had never made a single losing deal.

“Is this guy insane? Manufacturing is tough and tiring, and you can barely make a dime. Does he really need to fight me for business?”

Guo Mingtai muttered under his breath, a frustrated look on his face.

Immediately after, he proactively lowered his manufacturing quote by 5%, but Cook remained unmoved.

It was only when he learned that besides differences in memory size, the iPhone 5s would also feature a new high-endurance battery version that he finally understood the whole story.

But there was nothing he could do. He could only accept the reality of the lost orders.

‘At least Apple only cut thirty percent of the orders!’

But how could he have known that when President Chen made a move, he always went for everything!

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「August 28th. Xucheng, Sky Garden.」

Chen Yansen and Huang Renxun signed a share transfer agreement, exchanging 160 million US Dollars for a 2% stake in NVIDIA.

At the same time, they signed a patent cross-licensing agreement!

Tiangong Technology traded its patented Profound Core architecture and Orange Z1 Instruction Set technologies with NVIDIA in exchange for free use of the CUDA General Computing Core, Tesla acceleration model, PhysX physics engine, and Adaptive V-Sync technology.

“Thank you so much for your support of NVIDIA, President Chen,” Huang Renxun said with a smile, gripping Chen Yansen’s right hand tightly.

In his view, reaching a patent cross-licensing partnership with Tiangong Technology was also a good thing for NVIDIA.

As could be seen from Apple’s A7 chip, the power efficiency and encoding efficiency of the Orange Z1 Instruction Set were clearly superior to ARM’s technology.

Otherwise, with Cook’s shrewdness, why would he ignore ARM’s instruction set and choose the Orange Z1 instead?

An instruction set is the interface specification between computer hardware and software. It acts as a bridge, ensuring that instructions written in software can be correctly interpreted and executed by the hardware—equivalent to the steel frame of a skyscraper.

CPU and GPU architectures, on the other hand, are the “renovation plans” built upon that instruction set—in other words, the hardware design that determines a chip’s computing power, parallel efficiency, power consumption, and other characteristics.

Once NVIDIA obtained the license for the Orange Z1 Instruction Set, it could use it as a foundation to further optimize its Tegra series of CPU products.

Logically speaking, the successive failures of the Tegra 3 and Tegra 4 had already made Huang Renxun consider abandoning the mobile phone business.

But the Orange Z1 Instruction Set had rekindled his hope!

Furthermore, the Profound Core architecture was ready to use right out of the box, and its performance far surpassed NVIDIA’s own Kepler architecture.

“Shipments of the Meitu 1S and the 360 F1 Mini have been pretty good, and the Xiaomi 3, which launches next month, will also feature the Tegra 4 processor. Mr. Huang, a simple thank you won’t be enough. Shouldn’t the procurement price for next quarter also come down a bit?”

Chen Yansen said with a smile, getting straight to his demand.

“Since President Chen brought it up, how about another three points off the original supply price?” Huang Renxun said, holding up three fingers.

“Five points,” Chen Yansen said.

Huang Renxun tilted his head back, stared at Chen Yansen for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement.

The Orange MagicBook laptops had always used NVIDIA graphics cards. Their sales weren’t that high to begin with, so there wasn’t much of a difference between giving a five-point discount or a three-point one.

It wasn’t worth haggling with Chen Yansen over a two-point difference.

After signing the contract, Chen Yansen treated Huang Renxun to a meal. Afterward, slightly tipsy from the drinks, Huang Renxun took an overnight flight to Yanjing, planning to make an appearance at Lei Yijun’s new product launch.

Although Xiaomi had only agreed to use the Tegra 4 processor in the Xiaomi 3 because of the price and as a favor to Chen Yansen, attending their launch event was still the best opportunity to promote Tegra products.

After obtaining the technology for the Orange Z1 Instruction Set, he had begun to entertain the idea of developing a Tegra 5.

If the Xiaomi 3 received good market feedback in Hua Country, the Tegra 5 might then be able to win the favor of other phone manufacturers.

As for the poor performance of the Tegra 3 and Tegra 4, he would just have to write them off as the price of admission and tuition for entering the Hua Country market.

The collaboration between Tiangong Technology and NVIDIA was kept very low-key. The outside world had assumed Huang Renxun was there to sell chips; no one ever expected he was actually there to trade patent technologies.

For Chen Yansen, acquiring NVIDIA’s various graphics processing patents meant the Celestial Craft A100 Chip had one less weakness.

The next day.

The 4890 power batteries produced by Deep Blue Technology were installed in the Tesla Model S LR and finally reached their first batch of customers in the North American Region.

Although the price was high, the ultra-long range of 1,200 kilometers still had many people flocking to buy it.

Following the Alexa Smart Speaker, Mimo Short Video, and the Orange B1 smart band, Senlian Capital’s fourth product—the lithium-sulfur battery—was also about to hit the North American market.