Google's top management reacted quite quickly, organizing a small meeting to discuss their next strategy.

In fact, they knew something was going to happen in the next few days and had been waiting for the meeting.

The terms offered to Samsung will definitely be leaked to Chen Yiran. They anticipate that Chen Yiran will be furious and come to negotiate with them. Google can make some concessions in exchange for a portion of DeepFlow's rights.

Chen Yiran's behavior greatly shocked Google's top management. The meeting's focus shifted from how to negotiate with Chen Yiran to how to end this farce gracefully.

But CEO Larry Page ignored the follow-up situation and looked helplessly at David Lowe, Google's VP of Corporate Development, sighing and asking, "David, what's going on? We agreed that Chen Yiran's bad personality was just a facade! Didn't we say we could talk?"

David Lowe slammed his hand on the documents on the table: "Don't wrong me just because I'm in charge of competitive intelligence! My report clearly states that the psychologists said he was most likely faking it."

However, as his business empire expands and he encounters more and more information, his personality can change. For example, his investment in Bahrain, although seemingly for the McLaren team.

However, this is very inconsistent with his previous personality of avoiding trouble. So, didn't I tell you there was a 1% chance that he would be too lazy to talk to us and would directly turn against us and confront us head-on?

"It's your own fault for only looking at 90%! This whole thing started as a technical issue; if we weren't so technically disadvantaged, we wouldn't be being targeted like this."

Everyone looked at Jeff Dean, who was sitting to one side.

Jeff Dean bluntly stated, "Don't look at me like that. I told you before that Chen Yiran's technology is more powerful than I realize. Although I'm very dissatisfied that he didn't publish a paper but instead made this partially open source and then commercialized it."

However, it must be acknowledged that his technology is unavoidable. Our current DistBelief neural network algorithm library, if completely bypassing DeepFlow, would be 7 to 10 times slower, essentially rendering it unnecessary.

At this point, Senior Vice President Urs Holtzler, who was responsible for the design, chip procurement, and server customization of all Google's data centers worldwide, couldn't help but speak up. He was furious; it was clearly another department that had caused the trouble, but in the end, his business was threatened.

"Let me be very clear to you, Intel's Xeon series has already developed a generational technological gap with AMD. I am absolutely certain that Intel will abandon its closed, self-owned EDA next year and fully embrace FlowEDA."

"At that point, we'll face the predicament of not being able to buy chips! Global data is growing explosively; if we stop, it will directly impact our search service and YouTube business within a year!"

Larry Page looked at his legal counsel, Kent Walker, hoping for some good news.

Kent Walker completely ignored him and silently lowered his head.

Larry Page was furious: "Can't the legal department do something?! This is blatant discrimination against us! Isn't this a monopoly? Our agreement only requires that our search and voice assistant be the first option."

Users can still change it, even if they are asked three times. It's different from his purely exclusive approach.

Kent Walker rolled his eyes at Larry: "As the legal counsel, I said from the beginning that our terms are 100% illegal and will inevitably be penalized. I can only try to delay it as long as possible."

The same goes for Chen Yiran. Although he went even further than us, his investigation still takes a very long time. Moreover, he can relentlessly attack us, which puts us in a very unfavorable position in terms of public opinion.

The EU and the US Federal Trade Commission aren't stupid; they'll likely only target us. Once we're fined and the terms are amended, Chen Yiran will probably change them himself, which will save us a lot of trouble.

Larry Page is a bit frustrated. He just took over as CEO in April and is considered a hardliner. His current proposed future direction is to reshape Google and forcefully implement a Google-first policy.

He glanced at Andy Rubin, the father of Android, who was standing next to him.

He was probably the only person in the meeting who, like him, was unwilling to compromise. In fact, the initial exclusivity agreement was proposed by Andy Rubin.

Andy Rubin didn't speak immediately, but instead asked David Lowe a question: "We have a misconception about Chen Yiran's character, but now that the battle has begun, can you give us a conclusion? What are the chances that Chen Yiran will completely side with Apple? It's unacceptable for us that Chen Yiran accepts Jobs's terms and joins Apple."

David Lowe stated very definitively, "I can say with certainty that he will not accept Apple's offer. Chen Yiran actually dislikes direct contact with consumers; he prefers to use technology to do licensing business."

This is absolutely certain. Strictly speaking, Chen Yiran has many ways to solve this, such as directly acquiring a search company. I believe that with his skills, we would still be in big trouble, perhaps even more awkwardly than we are now. But clearly, he's still too lazy to engage with the consumer side.

Andy Rubin nodded and said, "The future of DeepFlow, the future of AI, is not my concern. I only focus on Android. Phone manufacturers are just contract manufacturers to us; we can't let them arbitrarily choose Android's initial settings!"

Urs Holtzler slammed his hand on the table: "You say you only care about Android, then I can say I only care about our servers! As long as you can conjure up a chip for me, I'll support you and Chen Yiran in a showdown."

Although it wasn't a formal meeting and there wasn't a voting process, everyone expressed their opinion afterwards.

Only Larry Page and Andy Rubin firmly believed in continuing to fight against Chen Yiran. However, the two still could not provide a solution regarding the chip.

Larry Page rubbed his forehead and said, "He might not actually dare to try! And the major chip manufacturers might not necessarily go along with his nonsense. We'll contact Intel first and place an order. We guarantee that we'll purchase their chips regardless of their quality, so they won't use FlowEDA's technology."

Although most people disagreed, Larry Page was the CEO after all, and the incident had only just occurred, so they thought it would be okay to delay and see how things went.

Ultimately, Google chose the simplest solution: to resolutely play dead.

However, things did not go as they hoped. Two weeks later, Intel announced that it would abandon its internal EDA and switch entirely to FlowEDA.

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