Shockingly, a counterfeit factory has produced a 3-nanometer chip.

Chapter 369 Transmitting a Voice is Not to Look Down on Lenovo

After reading it, he closed the manual. The 710 reinforced board was indeed good, but seven was smaller than nine.

"Mr. Liu, we have continued your company's naming convention for the Motorola S series; this is our flagship product."

Our product managers might be able to tell the difference in performance, but consumers might not.

The high-end market cares more about the name; in their eyes, seven and nine represent a generational difference of more than 20%.

Users won't buy it.

Liu Fang looked at him and nodded. He was absolutely right... Consumers care about the brand name, not the product itself...

There's a fundamental requirement: the product can't be too bad.

"By the way, Mr. Liu, what are your monthly sales figures for the high-end Qualcomm S4 Pro phones you're currently using?"

Liu Jun felt humiliated again. After all, Liu Fang across from him knew perfectly well why the high-end market was so bad. His throat tightened, and after a long pause, he finally managed to utter a sentence.

"...A few thousand? That's already a pretty good result in the domestic market."

He found another excuse for himself.

Liu Fang ignored his reasons and didn't look at the micro-expressions on his face.

"If I'm not mistaken, there should be a little over 1000 units out of several thousand."

If you can achieve monthly sales of this number, then you're truly garbage; consumers have lost faith in you.

However, if you use the Taishan 710, you can take the opportunity to lower the price to the 3000-3500 yuan range. The performance will be much stronger than competitors in the same price range, and the experience will be comparable to flagship phones costing four or five thousand yuan.

"Just by using the Motorola name, sales can reach at least tens of thousands of units, and the Motorola brand can be kept alive..."

"What about the 9 series? When will we be able to use the 9 series?"

Liu Jun's attitude is that he wants the 9 series. Even though it's a seller's market now, you've swindled us out of billions of dollars... so there has to be corresponding after-sales service.

"Mr. Liu, as I just said, the 9 series is not available for delivery."

After being rejected again, Liu Jun frowned deeply. Was there really no chance at all?

Do we really need to use the reference design?

"Mr. Liu, we are not competitors."

He Chuanying and I are partners in many fields.

When you acquired the company, you withheld some of Motorola's patents, and we agreed to that.

So there's no direct conflict of interest between Lenovo and Transsion, why can't we have the 9 series?

Liu Fang didn't answer immediately, but just smiled, and Liu Jun's tough attitude softened.

"Mr. Liu, you are indeed not our competitors."

Liu Jun was not surprised by these words; in fact, he was a little angry, since he understood what Liu Fang meant.

That means Lenovo is not worthy of being compared with Transsion; the two are simply not in the same league... In their eyes, a comprador factory has no right to be compared with a technology R&D manufacturer.

"Mr. Liu, you've misunderstood! That's not what I meant."

What I mean is that your ZUK brand plans to release a flagship phone next year, which will directly overlap with our S series. Moreover, you are also in talks with Google to secure the manufacturing contract for Nexus.

If we give you the 97 chips, we're essentially creating our own strongest adversary. You should understand this better than I do.

Liu Jun's previously unpleasant expression instantly brightened...

After all, he had just thought that Chuan Yin looked down on him, but it turned out that Chuan Yin was afraid of him. He figured that it was just a joke and that Chuan Yin was actually very powerful.

As for the Google Nexus, it's Google's own product, running stock Android. The first product planned is a small tablet, which happens to be Lenovo's specialty, so they wanted to take over the project...

After all, we can't let our own production lines stop.

Seeing Liu Jing's confident demeanor, Huang Tianya forced himself to suppress his laughter and joined the persuasion effort.

"Mr. Liu, before the new 9 series comes out, the performance of the Taishan 710 is the strongest. It can be used in the 3000-4000 yuan range without any problems. You'll know once you go back and test it."

The price we offered Lenovo was already a discounted price. If other brands were to buy the enhanced version, they would have to pay at least another $10. If you can place your order within a week, that would be a global first release.

Is this enough sincerity?

Liu Jun looked up at Huang Tianya, then at Liu Fang. He felt that the price was just a polite way of putting it, but since the other party had said it that way, he couldn't be too forceful...

"Let's go back and discuss it first."

Liu Fang nodded: "Okay, keep in touch anytime."

Liu Jun stood up and left with his team. In the elevator, no one dared to mention the matter.

Wang Hui wanted to speak several times, but this was a place for telepathy, and walls have ears. In addition, Liu Jing's expression was not good, so he decided to wait until outside before speaking.

When they reached the lobby, the receptionist called out to them and handed them an envelope.

Liu Jun thought the other party had given in, so he quickly opened the package, but what he found inside made him unable to laugh:

"We are currently adjusting our production lines. The initial production capacity of the Taishan 710 is only 700,000 units. Our production capacity for October is already fully booked. If Lenovo needs it, please confirm within a week."

Otherwise, the next batch won't arrive until December...

—Liu Fang

Even at this point, they were still putting pressure on him. Liu Jun forcibly suppressed his anger, folded the paper, and stuffed it into his pocket.

After leaving the building, Wang Hui finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"Mr. Liu, we're just being led by the nose like this..."

The others nearby also looked over angrily: "This is utterly inhumane! Do they really think they're the only ones in the chip delivery market?"

"What? You have a problem with that? If you had a problem, why didn't you say so earlier? Now you're all getting bolder."

Liu Jun's words left them speechless, and everyone lowered their heads. But weren't they just afraid of interfering with the cooperation?

"You don't even treat your customers like human beings. If you're powerful enough, everyone will have to defer to you. Transmission is like that now..."

Qualcomm has been researching their mysterious enhancement technology for ages, and still hasn't achieved anything...

Not to mention the lithography machine they exhibited yesterday. Let me tell you, it's absolutely outdated; otherwise, they wouldn't have gone to such lengths to promote it.

Accept your fate!

With just one sentence, "Accept your fate," the crowd, who were initially somewhat resentful, completely shut up.

After all, in this market, Transsion is the uncrowned king, and they all have to live at the mercy of the other party.

After everyone quieted down, he took out his phone and dialed Yang Yuanqing's number.

"Yuanqing, we're done talking."

They won't give you the 9 series, but they will give you the 7 series. The enhanced version of the 7 series is also an option, but it's a bit pricey at $130 USD. The version here will cost an extra bit more.

Its performance and user experience are almost double that of the Fire Dragon.

There was no sound from the other end of the phone, only a sigh.