Zhao Ye smiled without saying a word, and had his men quietly sell ASML's stock to cash out at a high price.
In addition, he secretly arranged for someone to short-sell his competitors' stocks.
April 1st is April Fools' Day in the Western world.
Wujiang Group has launched a wide range of products.
Unsurprisingly, the whole world was shocked!
The most distinctive feature of these products was the use of more advanced chips, such as the "Kirin Pentium 4" CPU, which had a clock speed of up to 3.06 GHz and a core composed of 34 million transistors. At the same time, Intel's most advanced chip used 0.35 micrometer process technology and its core consisted of only 3.3 million transistors.
With a tenfold difference in the number of transistors, how can they compete?
In its previous life, in 2004, TSMC and ASML jointly developed the world's first immersion lithography machine, the "Kirin Pentium 4," which was eight or nine years ahead of Intel.
Moreover, the "Kirin Pentium 4" has developed many new technologies to make its functions more powerful. In particular, Zhao Ye invented Hyper-Threading (HT) technology, which can run multiple computing applications at the same time and provide more performance for individual software programs that use multi-threading!
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!"
"How could Wujiang Group's chips be so powerful?!"
"It's fake, it must be fake, it's too illogical. With current lithography technology, it's impossible to produce such advanced chips!!!"
On April 1st, Wujiang Group's competitors were all stunned and incredulous.
This doesn't conform to Moore's Law.
The atmosphere at Intel was extremely oppressive, and the faces of the management were filled with anxiety.
If the information released by Wujiang Group is true, then Intel will fall into an abyss!
A 10-fold data dominance!
Intel's most advanced chip may face a crisis of sluggish sales.
Before long, senior management went to the conference room to hold a meeting and discuss countermeasures.
On that day, US tech stocks fluctuated and plummeted, triggering a global tech stock crash.
Wujiang Group profited immensely from short selling, at least two to three billion US dollars.
Among tech stocks, only Wujiang Portal bucked the trend, with its stock price soaring and its market capitalization exceeding $150 billion, greatly exciting all internet professionals!
Many people believe that with Wujiang Group being so powerful, its subsidiary, Wujiang Portal, is bound to take off!
Given this, it would be strange if the stock price didn't rise.
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In the morning, as soon as the news spread, people flocked to Wujiang's flagship store and Wujiang Supermarket. When they saw the physical products with their own eyes, they exclaimed in amazement.
It turns out that Wujiang Group wasn't lying; everything was true.
"Oh my God, it's true! Wujiang Group's chips are incredibly powerful. Compared to other brands, their chips are simply on a completely different level!"
"I'm absolutely blown away by Wujiang Group's chips! Their performance is phenomenal, more than ten times that of other chips! Playing demanding games on the latest Hasee computer is incredibly smooth, without any lag! Plus, I can run multiple applications simultaneously without any issues—it's truly amazing!"
"My goodness, so many of Wujiang Group's products use advanced chips. They're probably going to dominate the entire market, aren't they?"
"My goodness! The Pangu supercomputer is the most amazing one! The most advanced supercomputer in the US, the Cray supercomputer, doesn't even have one-hundredth the computing power of the Pangu supercomputer!!!"
"Holy crap, Wujiang Group is awesome!!! It's a great boost to my country's prestige! The foreigners are all dumbfounded now. They never expected Wujiang Group's chips to be so powerful, which has even made other products far ahead of those from Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea!"
"As expected, many of Wujiang Group's products will sweep the globe!!!"
"..."
At this moment, Wujiang Group's competitors had no hope left. Their companies were filled with despair and grief, and they felt a deep sense of powerlessness and despair.
Beginning in April 1996, countless media outlets declared that "the world has entered an era of boundless freedom!"
Most of Wujiang Group's products are popular all over the world and are snapped up by consumers.
Fortunately, each product was in ample stock; otherwise, it would have been very likely to sell out in a short period of time.
In April alone, Wujiang Group set an unprecedented revenue record of $91.2 billion!
Some popular consumer products, such as Hasee computers, iBooks, iPods, PHS phones, iPhones, Tomahawk game consoles, Game Boys, electronic pets, Zeiss cameras, and Super VCDs, not only sold very well, but also boosted sales at Wujiang flagship stores, Wujiang supermarkets, Alibaba, Amazon, and Taobao.
Whether it's a physical store or an online e-commerce website, once consumers come to the store, they generally won't just buy one product.
Wujiang Group's revenue is so high that department store retail accounts for a large proportion of it.
The massive crowds queuing at physical stores have led to a surge in online shopping, especially in China. Thanks to the Wujiang Group's logistics network, delivery speeds are incredibly fast; packages typically arrive within a week. Coupled with public trust in the Wujiang Group, online shopping has become extremely popular, contributing to the rapid development of China's e-commerce industry. The increasing acceptance of e-commerce and the Wujiang Group are two crucial factors.
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Zhao Ye still sighs with emotion when he thinks of "the crazy April".
Wujiang Group made a fortune, stunning the world and making its reputation even more renowned.
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