#32 - Festival: Huaxing No.1

This was still a major move by Huaxing Technology. This was a supercomputer with a computing speed of up to 2,000 trillion operations per second.

According to the current global computer speed rankings, the Huaxing-1 supercomputer could rank among the top five in the world.

Using a supercomputer as the server for Huaxing Technology's headquarters was a move that no company, not to mention in the entire Great Xia Kingdom, or even globally, had ever made.

Supercomputers were strategic assets, something many countries dreamed of. Now, Huaxing, this spendthrift, was actually using it as a cloud server. Those who knew would probably be furious.

Looking at the Huaxing-1, Lu Haifeng nodded in satisfaction. With this supercomputer, Huaxing Technology would be even more powerful in the future, especially in research. Currently, Huaxing Technology, under the leadership of artificial intelligence expert Yan Xiping, was conducting research in artificial intelligence, which required large-scale data calculations. At the same time, Lu Haifeng was also preparing to get involved in the internet, which also required powerful servers.

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At the end of November, Lu Haifeng was in his office, holding data from a competitor's phone, and couldn't help but sigh.

It turned out to be Xiaomi Corporation. They had just released the Mi Hong mobile phone, and now they had a new move. Xiaomi Corporation released the third mobile phone in the Xiaomi Digital series. This time, they were full of sincerity, and the price was still the familiar 1999.

Lu Haifeng still paid attention to his competitors. When Xiaomi Corporation first released it, he asked Zhang Yu to bring back a few.

"I didn't expect Xiaomi Corporation to not cooperate with Qualcomm this time. It's really a strange thing," Zhang Yu said with emotion.

The processor chip used in this Xiaomi mobile phone was not a Qualcomm processor, but a mobile phone processor from Nvidia.

Nvidia's specialty was not mobile phone processors, but graphics cards. The latest processor used in Xiaomi's mobile phone was a chip recently developed by Nvidia.

Currently, the most famous in the mobile phone market was naturally Qualcomm. Now that Xiaomi Corporation had abandoned its old flame, Qualcomm, and chose Nvidia, which had just entered the mobile phone industry, Zhang Yu really couldn't figure out what they were thinking.

Lu Haifeng shook his head and said with a smile, "Xiaomi Corporation is doing something this time that no one else dares to try."

"Qualcomm has a very high reputation for top-tier chip processors, even leaving several major mobile phone processor manufacturers far behind. This also makes their prices consistently high. In addition, with Qualcomm's unwritten rules, Xiaomi Corporation's decision is also a last resort."

Zhang Yu felt that Nvidia's processor chip was somewhat reliable, so he asked Lu Haifeng, "Can Nvidia's processor chip help Xiaomi?"

"Nvidia's processor scored very high at the press conference, not much worse than Qualcomm's processor!"

Zhang Yu turned the product report in front of him to the processor performance section. This report was personally scored by Lei Jun of Xiaomi Corporation, and to be honest, the score was not low.

Seeing that Zhang Yu was somewhat optimistic about this Nvidia processor, Lu Haifeng couldn't help but shake his head.

It could be said that Xiaomi Corporation's first mobile version of Mi 3 was a relatively failed product among Xiaomi mobile phones, and the main reason for this failure was the mobile phone's processor.

Although Nvidia's mobile phone processor was very high in performance, it was only high in performance and had very little optimization in terms of heat dissipation and system.

Leading to this mobile phone, after the press conference, there were many problems such as serious heat generation and lag. Xiaomi Corporation could only release the Unicom version of Mi 3 with a Qualcomm processor chip.

Lu Haifeng smiled and said, "A mobile phone processor's score can only be said to be a part of the processor's performance, but other aspects such as processor heat dissipation are equally important. Just watch, Xiaomi Corporation will suffer a loss with this processor."

Seeing that Lu Haifeng didn't regard Xiaomi Corporation as an opponent, Zhang Yu didn't say anything more.

Time passed quickly, and everything sped up. In the blink of an eye, it was early December. As Lu Haifeng expected, the Xiaomi 3 mobile phone released by Xiaomi Corporation was now caught in a vortex of public opinion.

Xiaomi mobile phones' extreme cost performance still couldn't compare to the extremely unsmooth experience of heat generation and lag during use. Even Lei Jun of Xiaomi Corporation held several meetings to consider whether to stop production of the mobile version of Mi 3.

"Nvidia's processing chip actually has such big drawbacks. The Mi fans are now full of complaints, which may be detrimental to the company's development," Lin Wen said.

As the company's vice president and the manager in charge of Xiaomi Corporation's mobile phone production and sales, Lin Wen was very troubled by the current situation.

Xiaomi Corporation's current production situation was the same as Huaxing's last year, and it was called hunger marketing and monkey business, which was also for a reason, after all, Xiaomi Corporation's production capacity was very small.

It could be said that Xiaomi Corporation released mobile phones and sold them once a month, which minimized inventory accumulation and was also a way for Xiaomi Corporation to save costs.

Now that Xiaomi Corporation had just produced mobile phones equipped with Nvidia processors, a bad situation had appeared in the market.

On normal days, every product of Xiaomi Corporation would be sold out in one day after it arrived, but now it had been on the shelves for four or five days, and only 50,000 units had been sold.

It could be said that this time, the Xiaomi 3 had reached a cliff-like drop in both sales and reputation. Lei Jun sat in the conference room looking at the data brought by the vice president, and felt a little regretful.

It could be said that temporarily abandoning Qualcomm's processor and using Nvidia's processor chip was the failure of this Xiaomi 3.

Originally, Lei Jun also wanted to use this processor chip to get rid of his dependence on Qualcomm's mobile phone processor chip, but now it seemed that all his plans had completely failed, and he even needed to ask Qualcomm again to sell him mobile phone processor chips.

Lin Wen said, "What do you think about using MediaTek's processor chip? Use MediaTek's processor chip instead of Nvidia's processor chip."

MediaTek was still a relatively powerful global processor chip manufacturer. The original Mi Hong mobile phone used his processor, and the final sales were good. MediaTek's processor chip was not as good as Qualcomm's, but its price was cheap, which was why the price of the Mi Hong mobile phone was so cheap.