95: Rice 3 launch event

Chen Chen continued to tease Lin Bing, saying, "President Lin, I knew it a long time ago."

"I bet Old Huang will even get on stage to support you guys."

After saying that, he pointed specifically to where Old Huang was sitting.

Lin Bing's expression remained unchanged, but Yu Chengbei looked at Huang Renxun with curiosity.

"The founder of Nvidia?"

Yu Chengbei didn't have a very deep impression of Old Huang, but he still knew about Nvidia.

"Impressive, President Lin, you even invited the founder of Nvidia to support Xiaomi. Then it seems what President Chen said is true; are you really using two different processors?"

Seeing that Lin Bing had stopped talking, Yu Chengbei and Chen Chen lost interest and stopped teasing him.

As soon as the launch event began, Lei Jun first gave a detailed description of the mi 3 generation's appearance. He also personally admitted that his previous statement, "no design is the best design," was because Xiaomi lacked true design capabilities at the time and could only prioritize making the product work before considering its appearance.

In the end, Xiaomi was indeed a manufacturer that didn't put much heart into external phone design in its early days. Before the Mi 9, the only models in the digital series that could truly be said to have a design worth mentioning were the mi 4 and mi 6.

As for the Mi 8 and Mi 5, well, everyone knows.

By the Mi 9, it had design and was thin and light, but it was too thin and light. Combined with the power consumption of the 855, the phone went straight from a 'Battle Angel' to a 'Fallen Angel.' The product manager, Wang Teng, was even joked by netizens as having been banished to Africa by Lei Jun.

The front panel of the mi 3 still didn't differ much from the previous two generations. The only changes were that the corners became more squared, it was thinner than the da mi 2nd generation, and the screen size had increased to 5.1 inches.

As for the phone's casing, well, it was still the industry-leading polymer nanomaterial.

"Today we are launching the Mi Phone 3 generation. There were rumors that Xiaomi used the famous Nvidia Tegra 4, and other rumors that we couldn't handle the Tegra 4 and switched to Qualcomm's snapdragon 800. Today, I will reveal the answer to everyone."

"The mi 3 will simultaneously use the two strongest platforms in history: the Tegra 4 and the snapdragon 800."

After Lei Jun finished speaking, the applause at the venue was peppered with shouts of "Awesome!"

"We are using the Tegra 4 in the China Mobile version, and the snapdragon 800 in the Unicom and Telecom versions."

"Let me give you a brief introduction to the Tegra 4. I was shocked the first time I saw the structural diagram of this processor. There are 5 yellow blocks in the middle, surrounded by 72 green blocks."

"These 5 yellow blocks are the Tegra 4's 4+1 CPU. It uses a quad-core 1.8GHz A15 processor, plus a power-saving A15 core. When encountering heavy workloads, it uses the quad-core A15."

"When on standby or playing music, it uses the power-saving A15. Also, as everyone knows, Nvidia is the strongest company in the world for making graphics processing chip. This time, they used a 72-core GeForce."

"This generation of Tegra 4 reduces power consumption by a full 45% compared to the previous Tegra 3. Moreover, the computing power of the A15 is a 240% improvement over the A9, and the 72-core GeForce is 500% faster than the Tegra 3!"

"So, using the GeForce GPU can render the best mobile games."

Chen Chen watched Lei Jun's energetic presentation on stage, an imperceptible smile appearing on his face.

Keep bragging.

You, Old Lei, just keep on bragging.

Others embed the GPU into the CPU, but this Tegra 4 embeds the CPU into the GPU. The more you brag now, the harder you'll cry when it fails spectacularly.

In fact, the specs of this CPU looked very impressive, even slightly stronger than the snapdragon 800.

The benchmark scores were also exceptionally high. Chen Chen didn't doubt at all that the mi 3 with this processor could score 38,000 in a lab.

But processors aren't just about benchmarks. If benchmarks were all that mattered, MediaTek's ten-core processor would have crushed everything instantly.

These so-called benchmarks are nothing more than a way to fool consumers.

Red Star still had a benchmark segment for its first two generations of phones, but on the Kunpeng mobile phone, Chen Chen had already intentionally downplayed the influence of benchmarks.

Benchmarks aren't everything; the overall experience is the important factor in evaluating whether a phone is good or bad.

As someone determined to suppress Xiaomi, Chen Chen wasn't about to kindly tell Lei Jun about the issues with this processor.

Given the current competitive relationship between the two companies, even if Chen Chen said something, Lei Jun would probably think Chen Chen was trying to trick him.

Not only would he not warn Dami Company, but Chen Chen had also prepared some explosive news for Lei Jun, just waiting for the mi 3 generation to go on sale.

"Furthermore, Nvidia's CEO, Jason Huang, has also come to the launch event to cheer for the mi 3 phone release."

"Please welcome Jason Huang!"

Old Huang took the microphone and jogged onto the stage, greeting the audience in his broken Chinese as he walked.

"Hello everyone!"

"I am also a mi fans. Lei Jun asked me to come here and say a few words to everyone. He said I cannot speak English, I must speak Chinese."

"But as you know, I grew up in the USA. I went there when I was five, so my Chinese is not very good."

"Nvidia is a twenty-year-old company. We are particularly good at this graphics processing technology. We invented the GPU, and our GPU is the best in the world."

"This Tegra 4 is the world's fastest mobile processor!"

"Thank you everyone! Xiaomi, V5!"

The reason for inviting Old Huang as a guest for this launch event was to ensure that this Xiaomi phone, equipped with the Nvidia platform, would gain consumer recognition.

The founder of the company himself came to support his own chip, so what could possibly go wrong, right?

Another reason was that, at Old Huang's request, Lei Jun had invited the heads of almost all the well-known domestic manufacturers in China to this mi 3 launch event.

By interacting and introducing on stage, he also hoped to take this opportunity to enter the mobile processor market in China.

Clearly, looking at it now, the performance of the Tegra 4 processor did indeed seem quite good, making some of the company heads in the audience—who didn't know the inside story of this processor—a bit tempted.

Although MediaTek was cheap, the performance was truly hard to describe. Nvidia's entry provided Chinese phone manufacturers with another high-performance processor company to choose from besides Qualcomm.

Chen Chen chuckled as he looked at the expressions of the heads of other phone manufacturers, except for Yu Chengbei.

Go ahead and use it; I guarantee you'll be left speechless once you do.

On stage, seeing that his goal had been achieved, Old Huang shouted "Xiaomi V5, Xiaomi V5" a few more times before walking off the stage.