After the "Southern Weekly" news report, many media hope that Changtian Technology can respond to relevant reports.
The Southern Evening News even sent a reporter to Jiangzhou, hoping to interview relevant personnel of Changtian Technology and inquire in detail whether carbon crystal storage involves plagiarism and whether its technology is authentic.
The call also came to Wang Xiang.
"Hello, Mr. Wang, I am Yue Gao, a reporter from the Southern Evening News. Can I interview you about information related to carbon crystal storage?"
This is Wang Xiang's personal mobile phone. He doesn't know when his personal mobile phone number was also leaked.
However, Wang Xiang, under Chen Xiao's instruction, did not reply to any questions from previous reporters.
"Sorry, we do not respond to news comments."
Yue Gao: "Does this mean that Chengxin Technology does not deny the news of our report? Does your company's carbon crystal storage technology indeed come from the Stanford University Physics Laboratory?"
Wang Xiang didn't want to answer the reporter's harassing interview at all.
He just hung up the phone.
"Southern Evening News" and "Southern Weekly" are media organizations.
A report, a follow-up interview.
This very influential media in Xia Kingdom is indeed very slippery.
Wang Xiang really didn't want to answer these mentally retarded questions.
If the Stanford University Physics Laboratory really develops carbon crystal storage, what about it?
It has been more than 10 years, so there should be one sample in total, right?
For such a simple question, reporters should know the answer just by thinking about it.
But obviously, I don’t know whether it is because of the influence of capital or the needs of news and public opinion. These reporters have no brains.
Sure enough, on the second day after Wang Xiang refused to answer, the Southern Evening News published relevant news about Changtian Technology's carbon crystal storage.
Newspaper reports said that Changtian Technology tacitly acknowledged that the technology related to carbon crystal storage came from the Stanford University Physics Laboratory.
Seeing such reports, Wang Xiang was also speechless.
I feel like I have been tricked by reporters, and silence is actually considered acquiescence.
Wang Xiang immediately convened an all-staff meeting and demanded that at this critical moment, all employees of Changtian Technology must refuse interviews from reporters, let alone express their opinions arbitrarily.
Changtian Technology's refusal to answer made reporters speculate even more.
There are even more divergent opinions on the origin and main inventor of carbon crystal storage.
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The lawsuit between Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Netac has been concluded. Changtian Technology lost the lawsuit. In addition, Changtian Technology also needs to compensate Netac for the corresponding patent royalties.
This fee is not a lot, it is an increase in the cost of Lingyue MP3.
But after the Spring Festival, Changtian Technology really has no way to purchase flash memory chips from Toshiba.
The entire industry is waiting for Changtian Technology's trends, and the most anxious one is of course Netac.
Deng Yun looked at the three magazines and newspapers placed on the table. Logically speaking, the public opinion environment at home and abroad was unfavorable to Lingyue, but Deng Yun still felt a little anxious in his heart.
Both the New York Times and Southern Weekly mentioned that Changtian Technology’s carbon crystal storage was suspected of misappropriating academic achievements from Stanford University ten years ago.
However, there is no mention of whether Stanford University's academic results on the color center of crystals ten years ago were finally applied and what the results of the application were.
The most serious thing now is that Changtian Technology has indeed developed carbon crystal storage with extremely fast speed and large storage space, but the research results of Stanford University are ten years old. Where is the product?
Deng Yun is not a fool. Articles in the New York Times and other media can deceive Western readers, but they cannot deceive consumers in Xia.
Regardless of intellectual property rights or the publication date of the paper, these are not what Xiaguo consumers care about. What they care about is whether the product is easy to use.
Deng Yun had a vague hunch that his international business partners were not interested in the survival of Netac. What they were interested in was that Changtian Technology should not touch their interests.
These people even wish that Netac would die and the flash memory patents would be directly acquired by Western companies without paying royalties.
The sales data before and after the Spring Festival were placed in front of Deng Yun. Deng Yun looked at the data in confusion.
Deng Yun originally expected that Lingyue's sales would be hindered if Lingyue could not purchase Toshiba's flash memory, but Netac's MP3 sales would increase. However, in fact, during the period around the Spring Festival, Netac's MP3 sales did not increase at all.
Is it because everyone’s desire to consume has decreased around the Spring Festival?
This is not the case, other MP3 brands are still making great progress.
There was a knock on the office door, and the assistant walked in, holding the latest information about Changtian Technology in his hand.
"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Lingyue Company, a subsidiary of Changtian Technology, will launch a 512M carbon crystal storage version of MP3, which is expected to sell for around 899 yuan. The unsold MP3s using Toshiba flash memory will be sold at a reduced price, and the price will be at About 399 yuan.”
Deng Yun's heart skipped a beat. Public opinion condemned it. Changtian Technology still sells Lingyue MP3 using stock chips at this time, which is completely reasonable and legal.
If the price of MP3 using SLC chip is reduced to 399 yuan, then Netac will have absolutely no way out.
Deng Yun sat slumped on the sofa, and now he had an idea.
Spin off the company's MP3 business, or even give up the MP3 business.
Deng Yun was quite speechless after investing tens of millions of RMB, but ended up with chicken feathers all over the place.
There is not much time left for Deng Yun. In June, Netac will seek a third round of financing and even seek a listing on Nasdaq.
If a negative growth project like MP3 appears, the company's image will suffer a major blow and will also affect the results of the third round of financing.
Deng Yun asked the company's financial director to get the company's financial data after Netac entered the MP3 game.
Sure enough, it’s just a piece of chicken feathers all over the place.
Serious losses.
After the Spring Festival, the first thing Deng Yun led the high-level meeting to pass was to suspend investment in Netac MP3.
Stopping losses in time is also the wisdom that entrepreneurs need.
Seeing that the boss stopped the Netac MP3 project, everyone in the company breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, this project has never made a dime from its inception until now, with losses reaching tens of millions.
Taking into account the dirty deals that Netac has reached with Sony and Toshiba, Netac's actual losses are more than this amount of money.
After Deng Yun signed, he returned to the office very depressed.
Chen Wei, the vice president in charge of MP3 production and sales, sat weakly in his chair.
The secretary came over and handed Chen Wei a bottle of mineral water.
Chen Wei nodded, took the mineral water and complained: "We tried our best to litigate before the Spring Festival, and it took us a long time to get rid of it."
"We won the lawsuit, but where is the product?" Chen Wei couldn't help but smile bitterly. Today he finally saw what it means that your victory does not mean your final victory.
The matter was not over yet. The next day, the company gave Chen Wei a serious warning at the board meeting and deducted his bonus for 2001.
The reason is that Chen Wei made the wrong decision on the company's MP3 project, causing the company to suffer huge losses.
This result was unacceptable to Chen Wei, but there was nothing he could do about it.
If an investment fails, people must bear the responsibility, and it is impossible to let the boss bear the responsibility.
Chen Wei transformed into a scapegoat.
Netac's suspension of the MP3 project was reported by major media across the country.
Especially in the computer and electronic products industry, relevant people were even more shocked.
He won the lawsuit vigorously and then stopped the project in which he had invested heavily.
Everyone doesn’t know that Netac has tried so hard to play, but why did he lose himself?
Following the news that Netac had stopped the research and development of MP3 products, Lingyue launched the first-generation carbon crystal storage MP3.
The MP3 will be lighter and smaller than its predecessor.
After all, using carbon crystal storage and lithium batteries, Lingyue Company can make MP3s extremely small in size.
This is the first company in the world to make MP3 into a street fashion product.
During the first cooperation with Lingyue Company. Guomei Mall has already tasted the benefits, so after the release of the 512-megabyte MP3, Guomei Malls in various places quickly contacted Lingyue Company and purchased Lingyue MP3 in large quantities.
Also subject to production capacity, the total number of Lingyue MP3 units in this batch is less than 10,000 units.
Around the Lantern Festival, promotional posters for Lingyue MP3 appeared in Guomei stores across the country.
Larger capacity, lighter weight, thinner volume and longer battery life have become the slogan of the new generation of Lingyue MP3.
No delays, no excuses.
Changtian Technology simply ignored the pressure of public opinion and doubts from academic circles about its company's use of Stanford University research results. Directly launched a new generation of application products for carbon crystal storage.
512 MB MP3, just this promotional slogan is enough to attract the attention of consumers and public opinion.
The current MP3 player with the largest capacity in the world is only 256 MB, and Lingyue Company has doubled its capacity this time.
How many songs can be played on 512MB?
It can play about 150 songs, which is equivalent to 15 CDs or 15 tapes.
This is absolutely a revolutionary product.
BBS of Xinlang Technology and related electronic consumer products have paid great attention to it.
Xinlang Technology even directly reported: "The release of Lingyue 512 MB MP3 indicates that Xia Guo's MP3 industry and technology have surpassed technology giants such as Sony and Samsung."
In first- and second-tier cities such as Yanjing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, before the latest Lingyue MP3 was officially sold. Many consumers have already gone to Gome's chain stores to inquire about the release time and price.
There are even some eager young consumers who are willing to pay a certain amount of deposit in the hope of getting the goods on time.
Society and economy are developing, and electronic consumer products such as MP3 will surely be welcomed by more and more consumers.
Chen Xiao is not worried at all about the sales of Lingyue MP3. What Chen Xiao is most worried about is the production capacity issue.
At present, carbon crystal storage definitely cannot meet the requirements for mass production.
Without mass production, it is impossible to earn enough influence, let alone carry out industrial upgrading.
Chen Xiao made a detailed list of equipment and raw materials required for the carbon crystal storage production line upgrade project.
It’s not like I don’t know, it’s just a shock.
If the monthly output of carbon crystal storage is to reach 10,000 pieces and the annual output is to reach more than 120,000 pieces, then the upgrade cost of the entire equipment will be about 20 million RMB.
Chen Xiao suddenly felt very poor.
(End of chapter)
