Chapter 170: The Choice of Pingguo

111 million pairs is the sales volume in the Tang Country’s domestic market.

In other words, one out of every 14 people in Tang Country now owns a Tianxing smart glasses.

Due to the United States’ sanctions against Dream Technology, the US market is naturally out of reach.

Even so, Tianxing smart glasses have still achieved a sales volume of 120 million pairs in other global markets.

A total of 230 million pairs were sold in a week!

The massive money-making capability of Dream Technology instantly shocked the world.

The turnover of a new product in one week is between 1.15 trillion and 1.84 trillion, an unprecedented feat. And for now, it is uncertain if there will be a follower.

Such a massive volume of sales, completed in just a short week, not only tested Dream Technology’s production and stockpiling capabilities but also examined Fengxing Express’s global distribution capabilities.

Yes, regardless of which website you purchased Tianxing smart glasses from, the default courier company is Fengxing Express.

Of course, you can change the courier company in your order, but you’ll find that the delivery time is delayed by at least two days.

After this battle, the global courier industry suddenly realized there was a hidden giant. This newcomer courier company, which developed by acquiring small and medium courier companies, has completed its global layout in just over a year.

Fengxing Express owns a courier network spread across five continents and hundreds of cargo planes, already comparable to the four major established global courier companies.

Since it is a continuous acquisition and integration, it is said that there are three headquarters: the Asia-Pacific headquarters in Magic City of Tang Country, the Americas headquarters in New Castle City of the United States, and the European headquarters in Berlin of Germany.

Clearly, this is a genuine multinational company, adopting the multi-headquarters transnational business model.

The President of United Express, Steven, the global courier industry’s leader, became restless and, after investigating, found that the shareholders of Fengxing Express are all various funds.

The composition of these funds is very complex, including private equity funds, trust funds, and some national funds.

To figure out the real owner of this company is quite a difficult task.

Starting from the origin of the company, it was found that it began as a warehouse company in the western United States, then merged with several truck rental companies in the West before transforming into a logistics company.

Afterward, it acquired small logistics companies in the East and South, even going to Maple Country and Mexico to acquire logistics companies before setting up headquarters in New Castle City.

The company seems to be wealthy; before its North American logistics business was profitable, it immediately expanded into both the Asia-Pacific and European markets and quickly purchased or leased aircraft to form a trans-oceanic fleet.

From the subsequent business analysis, it turns out that all are logistics of raw materials for manufacturing, components or end products, and some globally positioned OEM companies and mining companies are their clients.

In other words, this company rarely handled regular customer freight from the beginning, which is why several companies, including United Express, did not pay attention to it.

Although corporate clients are a cake that the giants in the courier industry fight over, items such as large objects or resource ores are the market of marine transport companies. No one would use cargo planes to transport ore.

So, even though the giants had once noticed Fengxing Express, they watched this junior company with a scoffing eye, speculating on how long it would last before shutting down.

Who would have thought that Fengxing Express would suddenly take on an order from Dream Technology and immediately demonstrate its powerful express delivery capabilities?

1.2 billion packages worldwide were delivered to customers within a week.

Oh, and there’s another 110 million in the Tang Country.

If it weren’t for this, why else would Steven be so restless?

At this time, in the United States, the boss of another company is also feeling restless and even in a somewhat bewildered state.

A week ago, during that joint press conference, the CEO of Pingguo, Kuko, not only obtained the on-site video materials but also bought the basic and collector’s edition of the smart glasses.

Standing before Kuko is the team leader in charge of researching Pingguo’s smart headphones and smart glasses, Xihar.

Of course, there is also his valued deputy, Anjila.

Pingguo originally planned to launch smart headphones in 2022 and then launch smart glasses in 2023, but now the plans have all been disrupted by Dream Technology.

“Can anyone tell me, isn’t Dream Technology a company that makes home robots? How come they suddenly venture into smart glasses?”

Xihar glanced at Anjila; he couldn’t pick up this question.

Anjila pondered and said, “I think Dream Technology may have been working on this research for a long time. To my knowledge, Dream Technology also has a parent company, a research organization.

The records show they’ve recruited a large number of elite researchers from various industries and are involved in research in nearly all cutting-edge scientific fields.

But they never publish any papers; no one knows what they are researching or how it is progressing.”

Kuko pressed his temples and frowned, “You mean their researchers are stronger than ours? Xihar, what do you think?”

Xihar was startled; it was an even harder question to answer.

“President, I think maybe they started their research earlier than we did or made a breakthrough in some technology first, like chip technology.”

Kuko’s eyes lit up, encouragingly, “Go on!”

Xihar hurriedly said, “The chip technology we were using, at best, was 7 nanometers, and 5-nanometer technology is currently immature – the defect rate is too high, the cost can’t be reduced.

Even so, we are still using products with 5-nanometer technology, but it still can’t solve the optimal combination of size and computing power.

However, Dream Technology’s smart glasses use Wisdom Technology’s latest silicon carbide chips; they achieved the degree of 1 nanometer. That means their chips, of the same size, have at least five times the computing power of ours!”

“So you’re saying we need Wisdom Technology’s chips to support us? Abandon our own chips?” Kuko asked, quite displeased.

Xihar nodded, “The leap from 5 nanometers to 1 nanometer, this isn’t something that can be achieved in a year or two; we have no choice.”

Anjila suddenly added, “Actually, there’s another major issue of superiority. Silicon carbide chips have stability under harsh environments; this is something existing silicon chips can’t match.

That is to say, even if we continue using silicon chips, even reaching 1 nanometer technology, our smart glasses will still be utterly defeated by Dream Technology in certain conditions.”

Kuko tapped his forehead with his fingers, then asked, “Xihar, tell me, if we use Wisdom Technology chips, how long will it take for you to finish the development of the smart glasses?”

Xihar was taken aback; his team had never tested the compatibility of Wisdom Technology’s chips and software. Who knows how much modification work is needed for the software?

After all, one is a silicon carbide chip, the other is a silicon chip. Not only are the materials different, but the technical architectures are also completely different.

Seeing Xihar didn’t respond, Kuko, somewhat dissatisfied, said, “Here’s what, I’ll give you three days. No, one day to test Wisdom Technology’s universal chip.

And then, give me an exact answer!”

Previously when Wisdom Technology released the universal chip, Pingguo had obtained a sample but only conducted some comparative tests.

Because the technical architecture is different, it wasn’t planned to be integrated into their products yet.

Moreover, there was the joint suppression by Intel and Qualcomm, so Pingguo didn’t want to offend the two giants.

Xihar smiled bitterly and said, “One day might be too short…”

“Xihar, don’t bargain with me. We don’t have much time left. With such terrifying weekly sales volumes of Tianxing smart glasses, if we delay further, there won’t be much market left for us to capture.”

“President, the US market is currently a vacuum; products cannot enter the United States,” Anjila reminded.

Kuko sighed and said, “Such a trend-setting product, yet our people cannot purchase it.

Therefore, we must seize this time discrepancy and strive to complete our smart glasses product, which at least has to match their performance.”

Xihar said helplessly, “Alright, I will try my best to complete the main tests within a day and submit the evaluation plan to you as soon as possible.”

“Anjila, we can’t wait; fly to Magic City in Tang Country and start negotiating with Wisdom Technology to see if we can get technical authorization or co-design a chip for us.”

“Alright, I will arrange to book the earliest flight.”

Kuko waved his hand to indicate they should get busy.

Watching the two rush out of his office, Kuko grimaced. He couldn’t understand how the world changes so fast.

Suddenly, Americans are asking Tang Country to buy chips.

The two chip giants’ blockade against Wisdom Technology was no doubt influenced by this atmosphere; otherwise, they could have tried to collaborate.

Now that he decided to cooperate with Wisdom Technology, he really didn’t know if some commentators would label him as a certain faction.