Since we are both reborn, of course I would choose the rich woman!

Chapter 376 Three Years
Rong Nianqing used a third-person narrative style to slightly increase Lü Yao's role, which deviated slightly from the script jointly created by Lü Yao and Boss Lei, but the deviation was minor and insignificant.

Meanwhile, many viewers at the scene and in front of their screens were speculating about what Rong Nianqing would do next.

Most viewers were simply drawn in by curiosity.

However, some of the more astute individuals realized that today's press conference was merely another pretext, a pretext for Lü Yao and Rong Nianqing to target the mid-range and low-end markets.

Amidst a mix of emotions, Rong Nianqing continued to speak eloquently on the stage at the press conference: "At first, I didn't know how to handle Mr. Lü's request, but after Mr. Lü's analysis and my own contemplation, we actually found a potentially feasible solution."

At this point, Rong Nianqing suddenly smiled and said, "But please allow me to keep this method a secret for now. I'll tell you about it later. Before I do, I'd like to show you some data."

As Rong Nianqing spoke, a huge table appeared on the extra-large screen behind her. This table had been carefully optimized, so it looked very simple and clear. Even someone who had only graduated from junior high school could understand what the table was about at a glance.

Rong Nianqing continued her explanation using the PPT on the large screen behind her: "Personally, I prefer looking at data and charts because these things are very simple and clear, and you can see a lot of things at a glance."

"Because my own business includes low-end mobile phones that are mainly sold overseas, I personally have a lot of knowledge about the mobile phone manufacturing industry."

"The main components of a mobile phone are the chip module, screen, motherboard, camera module, battery, etc. Because I used to export low-end mobile phones, I didn't know much about international mobile phone components. It wasn't until I looked into it myself that I discovered there was such a huge 'profit black hole' in it."

Rong Nianqing then presented a chart listing the costs associated with mobile phone chip modules: "Taking a mobile phone in the 2000 yuan price range as an example, the cost of integrating the SoC, baseband, and patent licensing fees on a single chip exceeds one-third of the total cost. Not to mention the high cost of the chip itself."

Rong Nianqing looked particularly puzzled and said, "But if you use chips from foreign companies, you have to pay an additional 3% to 5% patent fee. In other words, even if domestic mobile phone manufacturers do not use chips from overseas companies, as long as their phones support 3G, 4G, and 5G communication functions, they can hardly bypass the huge patent portfolio of overseas chip companies and must pay patent fees to overseas companies."

"And this 3% to 5% expense is very likely to be half or even more of the profits of domestic mobile phone manufacturers."

As the press conference continued, Rong Nianqing's tone gradually became heavy, changing from lighthearted at the beginning. The audience, both in person and online, felt as if a huge stone was pressing on their hearts, a strange and suffocating feeling that completely influenced their emotions.

In this atmosphere, Rong Nianqing continued to add to the psychological pressure on the audience: "This is just the cost of the chip, not to mention the screen, motherboard, camera lens, and other accessories. If you cut a little here and a little there, the cost of the main components of the phone will naturally go up."

Rong Nianqing's expression darkened, and her tone became regretful: "Unfortunately, in the current technology market, it seems that our domestic manufacturers have no choice. If we don't use components from overseas companies, whose can we use? Domestic ones? Their performance is poor, and they are not so cheap. There are even some components that we simply cannot produce and can only import."

By this point, Rong Nianqing had pushed the emotions of the audience, both inside and outside the venue, both online and offline, to their absolute limit.

Although many people at Tokyo University have become completely spineless due to the suppression over the past four hundred years, this vast land will always give birth to batches of people with backbone.

They have an innate, deepest, and most profound affection for this land.

At this very moment in the live stream, there were quite a few people like this. Their emotions continued to be suppressed to the extreme by Rong Nianqing, and even a trace of resentment arose in their hearts. Countless comments floated out:
"After all this talk, it seems that Miss Rong doesn't have any solutions."

"Do you really need to explain these things to me? Every domestic mobile phone manufacturer knows this. Do you expect me to develop these things myself? Do you know how many generations behind we are?"

"Speaking of which, Mr. Liu the Philanthropist should come out and take his beating!"

"What's the point of making such sarcastic remarks in this kind of setting?"

"I believe that our domestically produced chips will definitely come, and that day will not be too far away."

Amidst the flood of comments in the live stream chat, there were both disheartened and encouraging remarks, but beyond these words, there were also many who made sarcastic or cynical comments:

"Domestic chips? Hahahaha, what a joke! Do you even know how chips are manufactured? Do you know how chips are designed? Do you know how to design a chip? You know nothing and yet you spout nonsense. It's utterly laughable."

"These amateur scientists always have an inexplicable sense of self-confidence."

"You have to understand that chips, whether in manufacturing or design, are the absolute crown jewel of human industry, okay? We didn't get internet access until the end of the last century, and it's only been a little over 20 years since then. And you think you can develop your own chips? What were you thinking?"

"Even in dreams, try to choose something simple, right? That's hilarious."

Various sarcastic and cold remarks filled Rong Nianqing's live stream.

In fact, many of the people who make these sarcastic remarks are highly educated. Precisely because they are highly educated and have seen the outside world, they are more willing to kneel than many uneducated people.

There is nothing we can do about this.

Once you've truly witnessed a world with near-alien technology, when you look back at your homeland, you'll naturally feel a sense of shame, an embarrassment at being a country bumpkin, followed by a sense of relief at having broadened your horizons, and then contempt and rejection of your own kind.

In order to appear more impressive, these people will go to great lengths to shed their original labels.

In fact, if someone has actually been to the outside world, and is indeed wealthy enough to enjoy the privileges of that world, then Lü Yao can understand such a mindset and the behavior driven by their psychology and consciousness.

But what Lü Yao particularly couldn't understand was why so many people who had little money, had never been abroad, and had never enjoyed the privileges of the outside world would be so envious of the outside world?

Is this the same as simply envying rich people, then imagining yourself as rich, and subsequently despising and loathing the poor?
Isn't this too abstract?
Watching the cold comments in the live stream from below the stage, Lü Yao couldn't help but think of a movie, an old movie from a long time ago, called "The Bao Family"!
This movie was not well-known in its early years, but it suddenly became a hit on Douyin (TikTok) as people became more aware of just how ridiculous some people's behavior can be. The phrase "I also use Sidankang hair oil" became a viral sensation for several months.

And Bao Guowei in the film...

Isn't this exactly what those netizens in the live streams are saying, spouting cold and aloof remarks?
Chip manufacturing, chip design, and software ecosystem development are all indeed formidable challenges, but these problems are not insurmountable. In the field of chip design, HiSilicon, a domestic company, has actually done quite well. It is precisely because HiSilicon chips have performed well that they have faced significant challenges and suppression next year.

Now, Rong Nianqing, Lü Yao, and Boss Lei are going to take advantage of this information gap and use their massive traffic to expand the reach of this information beyond its original circle.

The live stream comments during the press conference were displayed via a teleprompter.

What Lü Yao could see, Rong Nianqing could of course see as well.

Looking at the chilling comments online, even a strong woman like Rong Nianqing felt a little uneasy.

After organizing her thoughts, Rong Nianqing continued, "I've noticed that many netizens, and even our Guang'an fans, are pessimistic about the rise of China's high-tech industry. But I want to say that there's really no need for that."

Rong Nianqing stood tall and proud, her tone full of certainty and pride, and said, "Actually, in China, we have a company that does very well in chip design. Their self-developed Kirin chip is excellent in terms of power consumption and performance. As far as I know, this company is developing a very powerful chip this year, the world's first chip with built-in AI."

As Rong Nianqing revealed this news, many ordinary netizens in the live stream exclaimed in disbelief:
"No, is this for real?"

"Is there really such an amazing player in China's chip industry?"

Meanwhile, some "successful people" with some real-world experience and influence began to reveal the truth:
"Miss Rong must be referring to HiSilicon chips, right?"

"HiSilicon chips should actually be considered a subsidiary of Huawei. Huawei is indeed a company with some capabilities."

Seeing the occasional comments floating in the live stream, Lü Yao's thoughts were drawn back to a long, long time ago. When he was studying abroad in the future, back in 2016, he overheard his boss casually talking about Huawei and HiSilicon.

Actually, outside of professional circles, Huawei was not well-known at this time. Most ordinary people had heard of Apple, Xiaomi, Vivo and OPPO, and even Gionee and 8848 were more famous than Huawei.

However, in professional communications engineering and some engineering communications fields, Huawei has a very high reputation and is almost exclusively used for dedicated equipment.

Because Huawei's phones have patents for self-developed basebands, they have better communication quality, especially for construction teams in remote areas of China, who only use Huawei's engineering phones.

However, Huawei's real rise to fame began with foreign sanctions.

It can be said that foreign sanctions have become the best advertisement for Huawei.

There's no way around it; the methods the enemy uses to kill you at all costs are actually the greatest respect and recognition they can show you. And the greatest respect and recognition from the enemy will naturally trigger the innate pride in the bones of the students of Dongda University.

Now, Lü Yao, Lei Zong, and Rong Nianqing are simply exposing the power of the Huawei factory ahead of time.

Rong Nianqing continued on stage, "Since there are already such powerful companies in China, we naturally can't fall behind. Therefore, the final result of our discussion with President Lü is that we will focus on building a fully domestically produced ecosystem for the high-performance mobile phone component supply chain!"

Upon hearing this, the ordinary viewers in the live stream didn't react in any particular way.

Because most ordinary people have no concept of the idea and goal of "full domestic production of high-performance mobile phone component supply chain," just as the poor can never imagine how luxurious and happy the lives of the super-rich are, most ordinary people also have no idea how ambitious Rong Nianqing's strategic goal really is...

The redesign of the communication baseband integrated into the chip alone has stumped countless companies.

Not to mention the chip architecture and the software ecosystem that is closely related to the architecture.

So when Rong Nianqing said that, the live stream, which was originally flooded with comments, suddenly calmed down, leaving only a few disapproving and delusional comments expressing their frustration.
"Oh no, I thought Guang'an had some brilliant idea, but it turns out he was just daydreaming."

"Complete localization of parts? This isn't just trying to pluck the jewel from the crown of industry; it's trying to take the crown of industry home with it!"

"Boring, I'm quitting."

Rong Nianqing was not affected by these cold words; she simply used the following set of data to tell the audience in the live broadcast room a fact.

"The market for high-performance mobile phone accessories is a market worth over a trillion yuan. You may not have a concrete concept of a trillion yuan. If the amount of money in this market were used to build aircraft carriers, it could build a full ten thousand of them."

"It's a market that even the top ten companies in China combined can't reach."

"Such a large market, in a situation where it is almost barren in China, is definitely not something we can achieve by relying on just one person. But fortunately, we have never been fighting alone. In corners unknown to many people, there are many companies that are still unknown to most people, working silently to lay the foundation for a brighter future for Dongda."

"Now, I, Rong Nianqing, representing Huasheng Holdings, Weiguang International, and Guang'an Games, will join this group."

At this point, Rong Nianqing changed the subject and said with a smile, "However, unlike those companies that quietly dedicate themselves, President Lü and I don't like to do things in a low-key manner, which is why we have this press conference today."

"I solemnly promise here that it will be at most three years!"

Rong Nianqing held up three fingers: "Three years from now, I, Rong Nianqing, will definitely bring down the price of high-performance mobile phones!"

(End of this chapter)