Chapter 493: 300 million users, 100 million daily active users, money-making version! Tiangong A100 debuts!
October 18th, an ordinary Friday.
Sina Weibo has submitted an application for an IPO in the United States, planning to raise US$500 million.
Zhifubao cooperates with Intime Department Store to promote offline payment services.
Toutiao CEO Liang Bo posted a message on his Toutiao account: "We have weathered all the storms and our two years of hard work have paid off.
Toutiao now has over 300 million users and over 100 million daily active users.
To thank our users, we will launch the express version of Toutiao on October 25th."
Toutiao Express Edition is a money-making information app specially incubated within the project to differentiate between advertisements, content and target audiences. It allows users to read news, earn coins and redeem them for cash, and is mainly aimed at the lower-tier markets.
Speedy version?
Faster speed?
Users were confused after seeing it, but the information Liang Bo revealed was extremely limited, and no one could figure out the purpose of launching the fast version of Toutiao.
How can there be a reason to launch two versions of a product in the same market?
Not only are users confused, but even peers are bewildered.
However, Toutiao has accumulated 300 million registered users in just one and a half years, or 18 months, since its launch, which really surprised the industry. For the first time, people clearly realized the tremendous magic of algorithm recommendation engines.
at the same time.
Far away in Luzhou’s International Conference Center, the huge conference hall was bustling with activity and people were everywhere.
More than 3,000 people, including friendly competitors, suppliers, experts and scholars in the chip field, domestic and foreign news media, and fans of Orange phones, gathered together.
Because there were so many important guests present, the reporters kept clicking their shutter buttons and were busy taking photos and recording videos throughout the event.
Looking at China in 2013, this can be regarded as the most grand new product launch conference.
As a leader in domestic mobile phones, Orange Technology's shipments rank first in China and third globally, with a significant lead over Huawei, which ranks fourth.
It is not surprising to have such a grand occasion.
Lei Yijun, who was sitting in the second row, looked at Huang Zhang not far away, and then looked at Zhou Hongyi in red, and felt a chill down his spine.
With the hot sales of Redmi 1 and Xiaomi 3, Huang Zhang's dislike for Lei Yijun reached its peak, and he often criticized Lei Yijun by real name on the Meizu forum.
"If I hadn't taught Lei Yijun how to make a mobile phone, he wouldn't even know how to make one!"
This made Lei Yijun very annoyed!
What is the relationship between Xiaomi’s success and Meizu?
I use Orange Technology's operating system, and share the same supply chain and production line with Orange phones.
I copied you?
How much sales does Meizu have per month? Do I need to copy you?
Lei Yijun is not the type to just take the blame without fighting back, he sued Meizu at lightning speed.
Huang Zhang had no choice but to delete the post and apologize.
From a quarrel between good friends to a lawsuit, everyone was unhappy.
Now Huang Zhang doesn’t curse online, he can only curse in his heart.
Apple Asia President Ge Yue was dealing with the Qualcomm representative while observing Chen Yansen.
At this time, the other party was chatting and laughing with Meng Yuanzhi, Hu Ruihui and Ren Zhongfei. His calm and indifferent demeanor made it impossible to tell that he was a 21-year-old young man.
"The North American media isn't exaggerating. Zuckerberg is indeed far behind him, both in terms of business management and public relations."
Ge Yue thought secretly.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but curse inwardly, "Damn it."
Even if he had started learning how to behave and do business since he was in his mother's womb, there is no reason for him to achieve such success in his early twenties.
Ge Yue pondered for a long time, smiled and shook his head. It seemed that the only explanation was "genius".
"Mr. Chen, will Qingcheng release a new model?" Ren Zhongfei didn't say anything, and Yu Chendong asked from the side.
"Mr. Yu, do you hope there is, or do you hope there isn't?"
Chen Yansen raised his eyebrows and joked jokingly.
He knew that OPPO, Meizu, Lenovo and Coolpad were behind him, and many of them called him a "troublemaker". The 799 yuan Qingcheng D2 and 599 yuan Qingcheng D2 SE turned the smartphone industry upside down in 2013.
Huang Zhang used the exact words to curse Lei Yijun: "You are a bastard, you are a bastard to me, you are a bastard to the industry"!
Orange Technology has taken practical actions to bring smartphones into third- and fourth-tier cities and rural markets.
With more than 3,000 Yunsu express service stations and more than 4,000 Orange mobile phone micro-direct stores, Orange Technology has defeated a number of low-priced mobile phone brands such as Nicai, Newman, and Blue Magic.
These brands either switched to selling digital peripherals, or followed Orange Technology's lead and developed lower-priced feature phones or extremely cost-effective smartphones.
Since you can't make a lot of money, just make small profits but quick turnover!
If they were not afraid of being looked down upon by Chen Yansen, manufacturers such as Nicai, Newman, and Blue Magic would actually want to follow the example of Xiaomi, 360, and NetEase, join Orange Technology's software and hardware system, and become its younger brothers.
After all, working with Chen Yansen, although the profit margin is slightly reduced, the production capacity, product performance and sales channels are guaranteed, and you only need to be responsible for sales and after-sales.
Companies like 360 and NetEase even handed over their after-sales services directly to Orange Technology.
Both Blue Demon and Chairman Newman came to this press conference, hoping to take this opportunity to board the Orange Technology ship.
Hearing this, Yu Chendong chuckled dryly and pretended to be indifferent, saying, "Of course I'm looking forward to Qingcheng System's new products."
"Thank you, Mr. Yu, for waiting a moment."
Chen Yansen raised his hand, glanced at the Patek Philippe on his wrist, and added with a smile: "There are still fifteen minutes."
Orange Technology’s new product launch conference will start at 9 o’clock, and the host will still be Wang Teng.
Although the vast majority of Orange phone users wanted to kick Wang Teng out and replace him with Chen Yansen, Mr. Chen had long lost interest in hosting new product launches.
Wang Teng is familiar with the technical details and market positioning of the product. With his rich experience, he can not only control the rhythm but also deal with professional issues with ease.
Besides, netizens are just saying that.
Wang Teng has hosted new product launches for more than two years. In the eyes of hundreds of millions of Orange Technology fans, he is the most sensible "son". How can he be replaced at will?
In fact, at this moment, the Douyin live broadcast room was full of comments about Wang Teng.
"Could it be that Wang Teng is hosting again?"
"This guy, holding an Orange B1 smart bracelet, can talk for three days and three nights, wanting to explain everything from rubber planting and collection to production and manufacturing."
"Who did he learn this style from?"
"Hey! As a ten-year Orange Technology fan, let me be honest here. Wang Teng learned this from Chen Yansen."
"It's a shame that Chen Yansen only hosted Orange Technology's first new product launch. Back then, the conference hall couldn't even hold 100 fans. Now, there are over 1,000 fans on site alone!"
"It's 8:55, only 5 minutes left!"
"Who's going to the Orange Mall to check out the new product links? Don't just focus on watching the live stream and miss out on grabbing the first release."
Time passed by minute by minute, and soon it was 8:59.
Many office workers placed their mobile phones in front of their computers to watch the live broadcast.
They didn’t dare to be so extravagant before, but after the popularity of Star Cards, netizens’ concept of mobile Internet has changed from blurry pictures to high-definition pictures, and then to short videos and long videos.
For Star Card users, using mobile data to watch live broadcasts does not incur any extra costs, because the Douyin app itself is free.
Some office workers hid in the toilet, taking a shit while watching the live broadcast.
The chip research and development plan of Tiangong A100 was announced to the public half a year ago.
The preview of this new product launch also states that the Yaocheng X2 will be equipped with the country's first self-developed chip.
For the first time, Chinese smartphones abandoned MediaTek, Nvidia, Samsung and Qualcomm and used a pure domestic chip.
This move not only focused the attention of the entire industry on the press conference, but also made countless consumers clench their fists.
If it really succeeds, it means that domestic mobile phones have finally made a breakthrough in core technology and no longer have to rely on foreign chip manufacturers.
Backstage data showed that the number of users watching the live broadcast simultaneously exceeded 10 million, and the most frequently used words in the barrage were "must do well", "wait for a surprise", and "do your own research, don't act it out".
In the picture, a spotlight suddenly lit up.
Wang Teng smiled slightly and waved at the camera.
Compared with usual, Wang Teng was a little nervous this time because he knew that the brand department also opened a live broadcast room on Mimo.
Although this press conference was held in Luzhou, it was aimed at global users.
So far, Orange phones have a large number of fans in Asia, Africa and Europe.
Zhou Shouzhi is busy negotiating with operators in North America. Once there is progress, Orange Technology will be able to sell its products to the United States and the United States through operator channels, as well as the online and offline networks of Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon.
Wang Teng took a deep breath and walked towards the stage with steady steps. He was wearing a striking orange short T-shirt with Orange Technology’s brand slogan printed on his chest - Let technology change life.
He wore casual pants, sneakers, and an Orange B1 smart bracelet on his wrist.
Clean and refreshing, like a fan attending a press conference, not a host.
"Hello everyone, I'm Wang Teng from Orange Technology! First of all, I want to thank the more than 3,000 attendees here. It is with your support that Orange Technology can continue to grow. Thank you!"
After Wang Teng briefly finished his opening speech, he pressed the controller to switch the image on the giant LED screen behind him to the large CG image of the Tiangong A100 chip.
"As you can see, the first product of this press conference is not a mobile phone, nor a computer, tablet or smart speaker, but the real protagonist of today - the Tiangong A100 chip."
"From the processor to the graphics processor, to the digital signal processor and baseband module, all were developed by more than 800 R&D engineers at Tiangong Technology after 365 days and nights, overcoming countless difficulties to complete the first purely self-developed domestic SoC chip."
Wang Teng said slowly.
Then, he thanked Huawei, ZTE and Nvidia for their support in technology patents.
Frankly speaking, the Tiangong A100 chip more or less uses some foreign patented technologies, but Wang Teng also made it clear that Orange Technology uses patent cross-licensing to replace them, which is reasonable and compliant.
Representatives from Qualcomm and MediaTek looked at each other with expressionless faces, making it impossible to guess what they were thinking.
In their view, Tiangong A100 was also within the expectations of both parties. After the launch of Tiangong T100, it can be seen that Chen Yansen has great ambition in the field of self-developed chips.
However, Orange Technology seems to prefer diversification in its choice of processors.
As suppliers, no one knows better than them how many new products are at the press conference and whether they are equipped with their own chip products.
At the same time, the heads of potential competing companies such as Qualcomm, Apple, and ARM were also watching the live broadcast.
They want to know how much water is mixed in China's first self-developed processor?
The Tiangong A100 processor module adopts the Tianhe 64-bit heterogeneous multi-core architecture, with a core configuration of four 2.7GHz Tianhe-100 super cores and four 1.8GHz Tianhe-100 performance cores.
After rigorous performance testing, compared to the Snapdragon 800, single-thread performance is improved by 60%, the branch predictor accuracy is 40% higher than that of the Cortex-A15, and power consumption is reduced by 25% to 30%.
Wang Teng in the picture was talking freely.
After hearing this, Qualcomm CEO Paul narrowed his eyes and frowned tightly.
(End of this chapter)
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