100: Outrageous, you want to sell this technology for one trillion US dollars

Chapter 100: Ridiculous, you want to sell this technology for one trillion usd?

Lu Ze was stunned. They’d just set the marriage?

The Mysterious Organization would send Da Xia new technology almost every week.

This wasn’t just treating the Eagle Nation like their backyard; it was treating the Eagle Nation like their pet dog.

“Who exactly are the people in this organization?” Zheng Lixing couldn’t help but repeat the question.

He had initially thought that the Mysterious Organization’s sudden email would be to inform Da Xia of their confirmed visit date.

After all, they had already mentioned bringing some 'small gifts' to Da Xia when they provided the C-5M technology last time.

Unexpectedly, this time it was still a brand new technology.

Even the Jewish financial consortiums in the Eagle Nation might not possess such heaven-defying means.

How many research teams had they bribed, and how many pawns had they hidden, to be able to act so 'recklessly'?

“Let’s not think about those things for now; replying to them is more urgent.” Zhang Yuli didn’t reply verbally but quickly typed a line of text.

“What kind of technology is it? Da Xia is very interested.”

Looking at the email that had been sent, Zheng Lixing’s face showed some eagerness: “Old Zhang, what kind of technology do you think the Mysterious Organization will give us this time?”

“Last time they gave us the C-5M, this time it couldn’t be the C-17 Globemaster III, could it?”

You can never have too many good things. He had always 'coveted' the Eagle Nation’s C-17, which was touted as the most versatile transport aircraft.

“Unlikely. Based on the Mysterious Organization’s consistent style, they probably won’t send the same type of technology repeatedly.” Zhang Yuli waved his hand.

Among all the weapon equipment technologies sent by the Mysterious Organization, the F22 and F35 were arguably the same type, but the F35-C could be used as a carrier-based aircraft.

And without exception, none of the previous technologies had been repeated, which was why he made this assertion.

“I hope it’s equipment for the Army or Navy,” Zheng Lixing frowned.

After all, too much technology had been sent for the Air Force, and Da Xia was currently having some trouble digesting it all.

Before the two could finish their thoughts, suddenly, a 'ding-ding' sound came.

Only to see that the screen displayed an email from the Mysterious Organization.

This time, they didn’t communicate any preliminary remarks but directly sent several compressed file packages, with capacities that were equally astonishing.

The title prominently displayed a line of exceptionally eye-catching text.

【Complete R&D Solution for a New Smart Phone.】

【High-performance 32nm chip base tape-out design, medium-performance 45nm chip】 (At that time, there was no 20nm process, and the protagonist possessed the complete chip technology solutions before 6P, so A5 and A6 chip technologies were chosen to be sent.)

【Fingerprint recognition technology. 2.5D curved edge screen technology. New body design solution】

【New closed mobile desktop system OS8.0 version.】

Looking at these compressed packages and the title displayed above, Zheng Lixing was somewhat taken aback: “What is this? Not weapon equipment? But smartphone technology?”

“Didn’t the Eagle Nation develop this thing a couple of years ago?”

With a questioning gaze, he glanced at Zhang Yuli beside him.

He didn’t usually deal with such high-tech gadgets; his phone was still a common 'specialized PHS' feature phone. He had only occasionally seen this new technology in reports from the Xia Academy of Sciences.

He vaguely remembered it was a technology developed by a phone manufacturer in the Eagle Nation.

A brand new touchscreen phone that didn’t require buttons to operate.

“Yes, Apple released the first generation of smartphones in 2007.” Zhang Yuli nodded and continued to explain: “Now, major phone manufacturers worldwide, including our Da Xia’s manufacturers, are all developing new generation smartphones. It can be said to be a market with great prospects.”

As the Dean of the Xia Academy of Sciences, every time a new technology with significant impact emerged, a detailed report and discussion topic would be presented to him. How could he not recognize it?

Even the Meizu M8 smartphone, which had just been released not long ago, had already entered his field of vision.

And looking at these compressed packages, they not only contained detailed design solutions and research and development processes like the weapon equipment before, but even the programs on the phone were all written out.

Zhang Yuli’s eyes widened, his face filled with incredulity: “They’ve even managed to sort out the mobile operating system and chip design?”

“And it seems... this technology is even more 'far ahead'.”

“How strong is the Mysterious Organization’s R&D team?”

Leaving aside fingerprint technology and screen technology for a moment, just developing a 32nm chip design solution from scratch—how much cost and effort would that entail? How many researchers would need to work day and night to overcome it?

A mature operating system is something many tech companies spend years on and still can’t produce.

He even secretly felt that the Mysterious Organization’s R&D team was no less powerful than top international laboratories like Bell or MIT.

Technology that is one or two generations ahead of the entire world—how could that be so easily brought about?

At this moment, “Old Zhang, how much potential do you think this thing has?” Zheng Lixing stroked his somewhat gray beard, asking with some confusion, “To what extent will the market scale develop?”

For an old man like him, past his prime, he was somewhat clueless about civilian technology like 'smartphones' that had no relation to military equipment.

Hearing this, Zhang Yuli seemed to fall into deep thought, and after a long while, he mused: “The market potential is enormous. I even think that ‘smartphones’ will bring about a revolutionary change for the tech world.”

“In the future, the entire mobile phone market will be dominated by ‘smartphones’.”

“Hiss… that ridiculous?” Zheng Lixing couldn’t help but gasp.

“And that’s not all. You’ve forgotten the 3G technology that’s being popularized. This technology is difficult to fully utilize on conventional button-operated feature phones; smartphones are its most compatible carrier.”

“Furthermore, communication providers like China Mobile and China Telecom have recently submitted two proposals for the deployment of 3G+ and 4G technologies. In the future, mobile network speeds will become faster and faster. For mobile devices like phones, network speed will no longer be a limiting factor.”

“So, future phones will definitely have increasingly larger storage and faster operating speeds, and their functions will increasingly lean towards personal computers. On this basis, a brand new mobile internet communication service will develop.”

Zhang Yuli stated unequivocally: “In other words, it is a massive super market, involving billions of people globally.”

In the various reports recently submitted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the development trajectory for the coming years could already be roughly glimpsed.

After hearing this description, Zheng Lixing’s excited heart couldn’t stop pounding. The market prospects described were simply too good.

However, another problem followed.

“Old Zhang, we in Da Xia can’t handle the 32nm process chip right now.” His brows furrowed into a ' river' shape. “The precision requirements for this high-performance chip are too high; we currently don’t have a wafer fab that can meet such demands.”

Although Zheng Lixing didn't understand smartphones, he understood Da Xia’s chip manufacturing capabilities.

Undoubtedly, they currently did not possess the capability for 32nm process chips.

The current top domestic chip manufacturing process was still 90nm technology. Even if Xia Xin International’s 45nm process could go into production this year, it would still be far from meeting the requirements for high-performance chips.

“TSMC’s 32nm technology seems to have gone into production; high-performance chips will temporarily be handled by them for foundry work.”

“As for the medium-performance 45nm process chips, Xia Xin should have no problem.” Zhang Yuli pondered for a moment, then decisively made the decision.

Currently, the Eagle Nation had not yet fully blockaded Da Xia’s electronic components, so TSMC would not refuse such a large order.

Thinking of this, he quickly typed a line of text.

“Da Xia is very satisfied with this 'smartphone' technology. May I ask how much remuneration your party requires?”

However, the message they sent received no reply from the other side for ten minutes.

It was as if a ship across the ocean had simply disappeared.

‘Has the Mysterious Organization encountered some difficulties? So they urgently cut off the communication channel?’

‘Do they need Da Xia to send support?’

Both of them thought of this simultaneously, secretly anxious.

On the other side, in Lu Family Village, a remote mountainous area of Northwest Province.

Lu Ze had indeed encountered some unexpected events at this time, but it wasn't an attack by others.

Instead, Lu's mom Lin Xiaqin and Lu Ba Lu Jian Guo discussed for over twenty minutes, then came to the side room, grabbed Lu Ze by the ear, and pulled him out the door.

“We have something to ask you.”

“Are you sure nothing really happened between you and that girl Lucy?” Lu Jian Guo, a farmer, asked with a serious expression etched with wrinkles.

“Dad, Mom, I really didn’t.” Lu Ze’s face was full of helplessness, almost swearing on three fingers.

Only after his repeated assurances that he had absolutely not defiled Lucy in the slightest did the two of them let him go.

However, before leaving, Lu Jian Guo left a remark: “Not only does your mother like this girl, I like her too. You know what to do.”

Lin Xiaqin seemed to be disappointed, saying, “Cultivate your relationship with her properly. What kind of thing is it to be constantly sticking together but not being 'boyfriend and girlfriend'? If word gets out, what will people think of our family?”

“If you come back with another woman after your studies abroad, don’t even think about entering our house.”

With that, the two left gracefully, leaving Lu Ze standing there dumbfounded and somewhat at a loss.

What was all this about?

He returned to the side room somewhat blankly. Looking at Lucy, who was still sleeping like a pig on the bed, he wished he could spank her bottom a few times.

He estimated that by tomorrow, after everyone in the village woke up, the legend of 'him bringing a foreign wife' back to the village would be circulating in every corner of Lu Family Village.

‘Why the hell did I have to let her follow me back to my hometown when I was perfectly fine?’ Lu Ze sighed.

It was all Lucy’s fault for being so playful, making everyone in the village, including his parents, misunderstand.

After a sigh, he then looked at the message sent by Da Xia on the light screen.

‘How much remuneration do you want?’ Lu Ze shook his head.

He quickly typed a line of text and clicked send.

“How much do you Da Xia think this technology is worth?”

On the other side, after waiting for nearly twenty minutes, just as both of them thought that contact with the Mysterious Organization was over for the day, suddenly, a 'ding-ding' sound rang out, and the screen once again displayed a new email.

Looking at the brief content inside, which was less than twenty words, “Old Zhang, how much do you think this technology is worth?” Zheng Lixing asked with deep confusion in his voice.

Facing this question, Zhang Yuli rubbed his temples, looking troubled: “It’s hard to say… there’s no standard for evaluation.”

“Based on its technological advancement, it can completely occupy a large market share in the smartphone field.”

“Whether it’s worth ten billion or one hundred billion depends on how much you can afford.”

In his opinion, it was even harder to give a specific price for this than for technologies like the F22 and B-2 Bomber.

After all, the former were military equipment, which were unlikely to generate significant economic value.

But this 'smartphone technology' had a terrifying market prospect behind it, based on billions of people as the base unit.

Seeing that Zheng Lixing was still somewhat unclear, Zhang Yuli cited one point: “For example, how much would this detailed design architecture technology for a 32nm chip cost?”

“Currently, in 32nm chip process design, each tape-out costs tens of millions of usd. You might need several or even dozens of attempts to design a complete chip.”

The chip tape-out process alone required hundreds of millions of usd.

What about the entire design process for a world-leading smartphone, starting from scratch?

God knows how much that would be worth?

Having clarified this, Zhang Yuli did not hesitate too much and directly typed: “Any price within Da Xia’s acceptable range, we can accept.”

Since it was priceless, the Mysterious Organization had to name their own price.

This time, the Mysterious Organization’s reply came very quickly.

“This time, our organization hopes to use another form of 'remuneration' payment.”

“Another form of remuneration payment?”

“Will it be paid in various rare metals or other material equivalents?” Zhang Yuli deduced.

However, this proposal was clearly more beneficial to Da Xia, so he directly replied with a line.

‘What method of payment for 'remuneration' do you require?’

However, they received an unexpected message.

“I believe this technology is enough to earn over one trillion usd. Considering the vast amount of capital, our organization only requires a 10% net profit share.”

“We do not bear any costs for factory construction, recruitment, or any other expenses. All matters will be handled by Da Xia.”

“Hiss… one trillion??” Zheng Lixing stared at the string of numbers, utterly dumbfounded.

The Mysterious Organization’s valuation for this 'smartphone' technology was actually one trillion? And the unit wasn’t RMB, but usd!?

This was too terrifying, wasn’t it? How many aircraft carrier battle groups could be built with that?

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