Technological power starts with upgrading lenses.

Chapter 186 Special thanks to someone

[iPhone 15 128G $750, 4999]

[iPhone 15 Plus 128G $899, 5999]

[iPhone 15 Pro 256G $1299, 7999]

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When Pingguo's starting price reached Xiaomi's live broadcast room, the entire live broadcast room immediately became lively.

"Damn it, I remember that the starting price of Fruit 14 is US$799 in Country M and 5999 in China, right? The price of 15 is even cheaper?"

"The key is that Bank Negara is actually cheaper this time?"

"Did the 4999 fruit suddenly smell good?"

"This wave of pressure has put Mr. Lei on."

"Xiaomi 14 isn't more expensive than fruit, right?"

"..."

During the discussion among netizens in the live broadcast room, Mr. Lei finally announced the starting price of Xiaomi 14 at 4699.

As soon as this price was announced, it immediately caused an uproar in the audience.

Of course, most of the people who came to the scene were media and fans, and Mr. Lei had laid the groundwork before. In addition, they didn’t know the starting price of Pingguo, so although the price clearly exceeded their expectations, , but they were just surprised for a while.

But the audience in the live broadcast room is not so easy to fool.

"4699? Are you crazy about money?"

"Although it's three hundred cheaper than fruit, you're Xiaomi! Where are the former kings of cost-effectiveness and people-friendly skills?"

"I was hesitant at first whether to change the fruit to play with it, but now it seems that there is no need to hesitate at all."

"Hua Zi looked at the price and called it an expert. Mr. Lei is a bit too arrogant this time!"

"Didn't Mr. Lei say that there's nothing we can do about rising chip prices?"

"Haha, if the price of chips goes up, so will the price of domestic mobile phones, right? What do you mean if prices don't go up but go down?"

"Let's go, let's go. There's nothing good to see anymore. I really can't afford to replace my current mobile phone."

"Suddenly I feel that my Nont9 can last another two years..."

"..."

Mr. Lei, who was giving a speech on the stage, soon learned from the headset the starting price of Apple, as well as the one-sided pessimism in the live broadcast room, and a brief blank appeared in his mind.

But soon, he started his final speech as planned.

The focus of this wave is the domestic production rate of Xiaomi 14, which has reached an astonishing 75%.

Strictly speaking, this data is actually correct.

The domestic production rate is calculated based on the proportion of the number of devices.

It's just that the combined value of these 75% of domestic parts may not even be one-third of the cost of the entire machine, while the remaining 25% of non-domestic parts eat up most of the profits.

This is why many people say that Xiaomi is actually a 'country M company', and its role is to help companies in country M sell parts as a local distributor.

At the same time, it also has the purpose of dumping goods at low prices and suppressing independent research and development enthusiasm and brands.

From the perspective of ordinary consumers, these assembly plants did bring high-quality and low-priced products to everyone during the early dumping process, meeting the needs of China's huge mobile phone consumer group for mobile phones.

This is somewhat positive.

It is also inevitable in the market for consumers to choose high-quality and low-price products.

Whether users choose Xiaomi or Warwick has nothing to do with whether they are patriotic or not. Xiaomi is an inevitable product of history. Without Xiaomi, there would have been DaMi and WeMi.

However, they will make it even more difficult for companies like Warwick and Zhongxing, which are unwilling to keep working for M-country companies and want to find a path of self-research, to make it even more difficult.

If you don’t sell it at a high price, where will the funds come from for research and development?

But what if the price is high and consumers don’t buy it?

When technology accumulation is insufficient, this is almost a dead end.

Fortunately, Warwick already had a certain amount of technology accumulation when it launched its own research, so although it sells products at a high price, it also provides better technical services.

It’s just that the price/performance ratio is very low…

Therefore, so much of Warwick's R&D funds are actually donated by pollen people.

Therefore, Warwick represents not only a company, but also a group.

A group that hopes to see the real rise of domestic chips and domestic mobile phones.

So after the Xiaomi and Pingguo press conference, everyone’s eyes began to focus on Warwick again.

At eight o'clock in the evening the next day, the Pengcheng Gymnasium was crowded, with countless media reporters and fans gathered here. In addition to them, many fans of Daqin Optics and ordinary digital enthusiasts also came here, further increasing the popularity of this conference.

Everyone is looking forward to seeing if Warwick can hold back his big move this time.

As for this ultimate move, everyone can actually vaguely guess it.

After all, the problems of chip manufacturing have been basically solved, and it should be reflected in consumer products.

Therefore, you don’t need to guess to know that the chip must be independently developed by Warwick.

In addition, the cooperation with Daqin Optics has been revealed in advance.

The camera module is most likely also developed by Daqin Optics.

Although I have already guessed what the move will be, the specific power of this move is still unknown.

Therefore, instead of weakening, everyone's expectations have become stronger.

In the eyes of everyone looking forward to it, Mr. Yu from Warwick finally stepped onto the stage.

He picked up the microphone and began to deliver his opening speech:

"Three years ago in May, Warwick faced sanctions. So far, more than a thousand days and nights have passed."

"But everyone has seen the result. Not only did we survive with difficulty, but we finally waited for China's semiconductor industry to complete a breakthrough in chip manufacturing technology, so that Warwick finally ushered in a huge turnaround."

"Here, I want to thank one person in particular."

"In fact, I don't need to say this name. Everyone should know it...his name is-"

Mr. Yu pointed the microphone towards the audience.

"Kangchi!"

"Mr. Kang!"

"Dr. Kang!"

"Master Kang!"

"..."

Although everyone had a variety of names, the excited and exciting sound waves immediately pushed the atmosphere of the scene to a climax.

"That's right, it's Dr. Kang Chi who developed the domestic EUV lithography machine!"

"Please allow me, on behalf of Warwick Group, to express my highest respect and gratitude to Dr. Kang Chi!"

"It was Dr. Kang who led our semiconductor industry step by step starting from semiconductor silicon wafers and broke the blockade of chip manufacturing technology. We finally have the equipment to manufacture the chips designed by Huawei Haisi!"

After saying that, Mr. Yu faced the camera, bowed his waist deeply, and stayed there for five or six seconds before slowly getting up.

The audience also burst into thunderous applause.

"It is a pity that Dr. Kang was not able to come to our site because he was too busy with scientific research work, but I think he must also be in front of the screen, watching the live broadcast of our press conference. After all, this press conference is a joint venture between Warwick and Daqin Optics. joint press conference!"

As soon as Mr. Yu finished speaking, a few big words suddenly appeared on the big screen behind him:

[Warwick P60—Warwick | Daqin Optics | Joint Research and Development]

The audience in the audience screamed again.

"Pass it on, Mr. Kang is peeking at the screen!"

"Dr. Kang, look at my barrage, I'm dunking 6 like crazy for you!"

"Mr. Kang, the highway service area in the next county has automatic noodle machines. Our county also needs noodles!"

"Excuse me, when will Daqin Optics' video mirrorless camera be released? What that guy Li said was unreliable at all, and he said it would be fast, but in the blink of an eye, you guys went to make mobile phone cameras?"

"..."

The barrage in the live broadcast room also reached its peak again, and Kang Chi, who was indeed 'peeping at the screen', couldn't help but smile.

Netizens are always so enthusiastic, which is embarrassing.

In fact, Kang Chi also wanted to go there and feel the atmosphere.

But that kind of situation was too complicated and too unsafe. Kang Chi hesitated again and again, feeling that it was still important to survive.

(End of this chapter)