110: Chapter 110 Heading to Qualcomm for Negotiations!

The impact of Huaxin Investment's 10 billion investment layout in the automotive industry was far greater than expected.

Not only was the industry significantly affected, but even the mobile phone repair stalls in Huaqiangbei were abuzz with the news.

At a certain shop.

The owner was busy applying a screen protector for a customer, while financial news played on the TV.

"...China Star Investment and Transsion Holdings announced today that they are crossing over into the new energy vehicle sector, with plans to invest 10 billion yuan to build new energy vehicles..."

The customer suddenly looked up in confusion: "Isn't Transsion the company that sells phones in Africa? My brother is still there working on their assembly line, how come..."

The owner didn't look up, his hand moving steadily with the screen protector knife: "Why can't a phone manufacturer make cars? Doesn't the boss of Tesla in the United States also build rockets?"

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

"Besides, they have batteries."

He handed the phone over: "25 yuan."

"Boss, charging so much for a screen protector?" The young man muttered while opening his wallet, reluctantly pulling out three 10-yuan blue bills.

"Go look around; my price is already considered cheap."

Before checking out, the young man turned and left, muttering as he walked: "I need to make a suggestion to CEO Yu to bring down the price of tempered glass screen protectors too. This is too expensive!"

...

On the same day, at the end of January in Kyoto, it was much colder compared to Yangcheng. A heavy snow had fallen in the morning and had just stopped, but a thick layer of snow remained on the ground, adding a biting chill to the air.

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

The office was located in Yingu Building, taking up the entire 1,600-square-meter floor, which proved Lei Jun's capabilities.

After all, in such a prime location where every inch of land is worth gold, most floors were shared by several companies; securing an entire floor was impossible without some connections.

It was planned for 200 workstations, just enough so it wasn't crowded, but currently, only the MIUI project team had filled the seats with developers.

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

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

Lei Jun didn't look up, but hearing the tone, he asked anxiously: "What's wrong with Huang Tianya again?"

"He stood us up again! The reason is the same as last time. He's busy with a project recently, finalizing an investment with an internet company in Hangzhou, claiming it's for the ecological layout of the Chuan Yin Group. They want to postpone our scheduled meeting to next month."

Lei Jun finally looked up, a trace of indescribable anger at the corner of his mouth.

"Next month?" He put down his phone, "Then we won't meet."

After all, from the original November 12th, to the 20th, and now... This had clearly shown Transsion's attitude.

[Huang Tianya: I'm innocent!]

Lin Bin was stunned for a moment: "Taishan OS, that's something currently being discussed by the authorities; if we give up..."

"Old Lin," Lei Jun interrupted him, stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the snowy scenery outside. The distance was a vast expanse of white, but downstairs, a plum blossom was blooming amidst it, "A single flower does not make a spring."

He looked at the plum blossom again; in this snow-covered winter, it was indeed very beautiful.

With this spirit of not fearing the cold, it had received praise from countless ancients... But winter is winter after all, and the plum blossom is just a small pink flower; in other highly competitive seasons, it is nothing.

"Taishan OS is a good thing. Shen Fei created it, with the underlying layer based on the Android open-source community, while the upper layer is completely independent, and the underlying layer is also being replaced. I've experienced it, and the smoothness is no worse than iOS."

He looked at the phone on the table and the honor play, which he called the thing that stole Xiaomi's luck, and was lost in thought again.

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

Lin Bin didn't respond.

After all, the European market hadn't started yet, so no one could be sure, but the United States market... Transsion definitely couldn't get in.

But isn't Africa an international market? However, with Transsion having that deep Beauty Algorithm, they really couldn't beat them...

"For domestic mobile phones to go global," Lei Jun turned around, "it relies on a global ecosystem, which means a global supply chain. This domestic Taishan OS is destined to be unable to open up international markets."

He walked back to his desk and picked up a document; this was information a big shot had revealed to him.

"Look at this. I understand that the authorities want to support Taishan OS. But if we at Xiaomi use Taishan OS, we simply won't be able to go abroad. Domestically, we can't compete with the fully integrated supply chain of the Chuan Yin Group."

He handed the document to Lin Bin, with no sign of anger on his face, as if Huawei "stealing" his launch event plan hadn't had any impact on him at all.

"Book a flight to the United States."

Lin Bin took it and looked; the destination on the report was Qualcomm headquarters.

"Go now?"

"Go now."

In Lei Jun's voice was the familiar certainty for the first time, "MSM 8255, the sample will be out next month. I want to secure it, at the very least, I must secure the exclusive first launch rights in China."

...

November 22nd, San Diego, California.

The Qualcomm headquarters building wasn't as tall as those new office buildings in Yangcheng, but it covered a large area. The white complex of buildings shimmered in the sunlight, and the landscaping was also very well done.

Lei Jun arrived at the conference room 20 minutes early.

This was a habit he had developed over many years; when meeting important people, he would rather arrive early than late, so as not to give others a bad first impression.

But what he didn't expect was that Mr. Wang, the president of Qualcomm's China region, was already waiting at the door of the conference room.

With Huawei's two mobile phone models exceeding 10 million in cumulative sales in less than half a year, Qualcomm had also begun to attach importance to the Chinese market, specifically having him come to report on work... to see if the plan could be advanced.

When shaking hands, Lei Jun specifically observed him; the other party was very enthusiastic, but also carried that unique sense of propriety characteristic of people who have climbed up within multinational giants.

Giving you respect while letting you know who is the larger party at the poker table.

The conference room wasn't large, but the view was excellent, and one could see the scenery in the distance.

This meeting had no small talk and went straight to the point.

"MSM8255," Mr. Wang turned on the projector, the first page showing the chip's architecture, "Mr. Lei, you should have learned about it before coming, right? 45nm process, 1.2 GHz frequency, single-core architecture, Adreno 205 GPU. The actual performance is over 40% higher than the MT6575. To be honest, we also have a dual-core version, and the performance will be even stronger."

The dual-core version hadn't been implemented yet due to power consumption issues, and it might even be cut directly...

Lei Jun looked at that number and was very satisfied in his heart.

This chip would definitely be able to knock the honor play down to the ground, but he didn't know what price corresponded to the 40% performance boost...

"What's the quote?"

Seeing Lei Jun's reaction, Mr. Wang nodded with satisfaction and extended four fingers...

40 dollars, this price was much cheaper than MediaTek, but this... was there a trick in this?

"40 dollars is acceptable to us. We'll place an initial order of 1 million units. We are also pursuing a cost-effective strategy, and we expect the annual order volume to be no less than 10 million, but unfortunately, our funds are limited right now... we can only..."

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