529: Chapter 527 Transmitting Voice and Connecting Ideas are Birds of a Feather

"Kindred spirits."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone became interested again. After all, they had heard that the phones Transsion provided to the authorities cost 10,000 yuan per unit... and that was for the standard transsion s5.

"Tsk tsk."

Even with some kind of system installed, it couldn't possibly be worth that much.

Observing the crowd's reaction, the head of the Government and Enterprise Division said with a grin: "As things stand, their solution is not cheap at all.

An ordinary office computer is quoted at 4,000 yuan.

The ones with graphics cards go straight to 6,000 yuan, which is almost the same price as ours.

And it seems they also charge some kind of service fee... with all the miscellaneous costs, they are only 10% to 20% cheaper than us."

The head of the Department of Commerce immediately became interested: "In that case, we don't need to be particularly panicked. We can initiate crisis public relations if necessary.

We just need to drag them down with us."

The Director of the Product Department frowned and said nervously: "The biggest problem right now is still the system and the chips.

Are we really going to use Transsion's system? Or should we make one ourselves?"

"Making a system is not that easy."

CEO looked at them, suddenly feeling a bit puzzled as to why they would ask such a moronic question.

"First, go and communicate with Transsion to see their pricing.

To protect our corporate orders and reputation, let's talk first.

If it really is very cheap, there's no harm in using their system in the domestic market.

After all, there are no major issues between us; win-win cooperation is what matters most."

Everyone nodded. Although they understood this was merely a stopgap measure, from a cost perspective, it was indeed the case.

Most importantly, they had no better options.

Yang Yuanqing watched their reaction, feeling a sense of powerlessness rise within him.

Lenovo was once the pride of the Chinese PC industry and had even achieved the world's number one spot.

But now, they were actually unable to do without a company that made mobile phones.

Using their graphics cards, using their system—would the next step be to use their CPUs?

By then, as an OEM, they would be working entirely for their partner, Transsion.

The most critical point was that this partner might enter the market themselves and easily drive prices down; that was certainly not a good thing.

"Everyone, get moving." Yang Yuanqing tried his best to suppress the irritation in his heart, while also suppressing those proposals that weren't worth pursuing.

"In three days, I want to see the visit feedback for all key clients. Meeting adjourned."

...Meanwhile, at Transsion headquarters, the entire business division was a different scene.

Liu Zhihong and the head of the Computer Business Division, Bai Yongxiang, walked into Shen Fei's office with the latest procurement order report.

Bai Yongxiang was a vice president poached from Meizu; his professional capabilities were very strong, but unfortunately, Meizu was a family-run enterprise...

Many of his proposals were rejected internally, so he had the idea of changing jobs. It just so happened that the Transsion Computer Business Division was hiring, so by a stroke of luck, he ended up here.

After entering, the two saw that Shen Fei wasn't too busy, so they immediately started reporting on their work:

"Boss, the first batch of government and enterprise orders has already exceeded 300,000 units.

Furthermore, the tenders from local governments and the education system are still being released, and it is expected that related orders will exceed 1 million units by the end of the third quarter."

Shen Fei was still taken aback after seeing these figures. After all, they had only released a system externally so far... to have secured so many orders even before the parameters were finalized.

Bai Yongxiang's ability still exceeded his expectations.

"You two have done well. This really gave me a huge surprise.

I originally thought having a hundred thousand or so would be decent..."

But Bai Yongxiang just shook his head and said with a solemn expression:

"This is mainly due to the system and the self-developed CPU. The current trend is independent and controllable technology."

"That means our strategic layout is correct." Shen Fei nodded once again.

"Lenovo is making moves again." Liu Zhihong suddenly interjected, "They sent an official letter asking about the procurement price of the Taishan System, saying they are interested in supporting domestic systems."

"They aren't supporting domestic systems; they are clearly just afraid of losing their government orders, right?" Bai Yongxiang spat. After all, in his heart, Lenovo was just a traitorous enterprise.

Shen Fei nodded: "That adds up."

Earlier, Li Qing said Lenovo was preparing a few domestic solutions. I thought they were going to create a new system, but it turns out they want to cooperate with us.

It's worth a try.

At the end of the day, Lenovo is a big brand. During the system promotion phase, they are still somewhat useful, and we cannot ignore that."

Everyone nodded.

After all, their bad reputation is only known to those in the know; most people think of Lenovo as a big brand first.

"Forget it, let them be busy."

Chen Fei glanced at the report sent by Li Xing again. It stated that Lenovo had already raised the rebate to 35%. In the face of true strength, all their conspiracies...

"By the way, we must ensure our quality is top-notch. After all, this is our first time entering government procurement. If something goes wrong, Lenovo will definitely find a way to squeeze us out of this market."

"Don't worry, Boss, we are very clear on that.

Although the authorities know we have contributed to building domestic systems and domestic CPUs, they certainly won't hand all the orders to us.

After all, since we are doing the supply chain, we have to leave something for other friendly vendors to eat."

Hearing this from Bai Yongxiang, Shen Fei adjusted his standing in his mind once again.

He really was an uncut gem; it seems Meizu truly buried his talent.

"General Manager Shen, there are still some issues with the public version of Qingyun. I'll go handle them first."

"Go ahead, work comes first.

Also, have Li Qing and Huang Tianya come up."

Five minutes later, the two walked into the office one after the other. In addition to serving as the Minister of the Investment Department and the Minister of the Publicity Department respectively, they also carried another responsibility.

That was being the head of the Transsion Future Industry Foundation.

"General Manager Shen."

The two didn't know why Shen Fei had called them at this moment, so they were still a bit puzzled...

"There's nothing else I called you here for." Shen Fei looked up, "I just wanted to know how the progress is with the foundation."

The two had somewhat anticipated this and quickly opened the computer nearby:

"Currently, the foundation has received a cumulative total of 1,247 project applications globally. After three rounds of screening, 273 have been officially invested in, with a total estimated investment of 13.5 billion.

Currently, it mainly covers 18 core tracks including semiconductor materials, industrial software, new energy, and biomedicine.

Domestic projects account for 60%, mainly to fill the shortcomings of the industrial chain.

Overseas projects also account for 40%, but they are mainly focused on startup teams from university laboratories."

Just as Shen Fei was nodding there, a mischievous smile appeared on Huang Tianya's face.

"It seems the task I entrusted to you was done well."

Huang Tianya still didn't speak, just continued to show off.

At this moment, Li Qing, who was beside him, couldn't help but say: "It's more than just done well.

This guy sent a full 6 projects to the United States, and some have already received follow-up investments.

The funds trapped inside currently amount to at least over 4 billion."

"US dollars."