Chapter 168: Preparing to Develop a Fully Domestic Computer Chip (Part 1/4)

“What is President Song doing? Why is he leaving in such a hurry?” Su Xiaoli walked out of the living room and came up to Tang Feng.

“I asked him to continue selecting good singing talents. When he has selected enough, I will go and assess them, hoping to choose some better talents for training,” Tang Feng answered.

“Did he come over just to tell you this?” Su Xiaoli was somewhat puzzled.

“Of course not,” Tang Feng shook his head, saying, “He came to report to me about the earnings from the recently released album.”

“How is it? Is the income very good?” Su Xiaoli asked eagerly.

“It’s okay,” Tang Feng nodded, saying, “We’ve already earned over sixty million.”

“It seems your pricing strategy was right. To earn so much from six songs is really very good,” Su Xiaoli smiled happily.

“Income is not the most important thing to me. I mainly want everyone to hear a few good songs. The money earned will also be used to cultivate more newcomers. I hope that in a few years, these newcomers can become the backbone of the music industry,” Tang Feng said with a slight smile.

“Does that mean you’re going to become the new music godfather?” Su Xiaoli’s eyes lit up immediately.

“I just want to be the gatekeeper of the music industry,” Tang Feng replied.

“I’m planning to go to the supermarket in a bit. Do you want to come along?” Su Xiaoli consulted with him.

“What? Are we out of ingredients?” Tang Feng asked.

“I want to buy some more ingredients and invite Su Ming and Ning Xiao over for dinner tonight, to celebrate for you,” Su Xiaoli answered.

“Okay! I’ll come with you!” Tang Feng agreed very readily.

Although he wasn’t particularly keen on celebrating, as he felt the achievements so far weren’t much,

The rare intention from Su Xiaoli meant he naturally complied.

Soon, the two arrived at a nearby supermarket.

Su Xiaoli bought a lot of ingredients.

Tang Feng followed behind her,

Carrying several large bags in his hands.

A few paparazzi followed him, constantly taking photos.

Su Xiaoli noticed the presence of these paparazzi.

“Brother Feng, are they taking photos of us?” Su Xiaoli asked.

“This is their job, their livelihood, let them take photos,” Tang Feng laughed.

“I see many celebrities are really afraid of these paparazzi. Why aren’t you afraid at all?” Su Xiaoli was somewhat puzzled.

“What’s there to be afraid of. As long as they don’t interfere with my normal life, it’s fine. They probably want to make more money while I’ve just released a new album,” Tang Feng responded.

“Brother Feng, I have to say, you have a really good attitude. Anyway, seeing them makes me somewhat nervous,” Su Xiaoli said, subconsciously clutching Tang Feng’s arm.

“Don’t be nervous! Aren’t I here?” Tang Feng looked at her, saying affectionately.

Su Xiaoli smiled shyly.

The paparazzi, seeing them like this, solidly fed themselves a mouthful of dog food.

After finishing their shopping, Tang Feng paid the bill, and then they returned home, chatting and laughing.

After a while, Su Ming and others arrived.

“Boss! Sister-in-law!” Su Ming and others greeted Tang Feng and his wife, hurrying forward.

Su Xiaoli felt somewhat embarrassed being called this.

“I’m going to prepare the meal,” Su Xiaoli went to the kitchen.

Ning Xiao and others followed her.

They took this opportunity to learn cooking skills from Su Xiaoli.

“Boss, your move was really brilliant! The views of Jianbao’s website has surged in the past week! Almost two million users visit every day! The album also sold about three million copies,” Zhu Zihan was very excited.

“Is the bank situation handled?” Tang Feng asked indifferently.

“We’ve settled with one. Bank of Beijing is willing to cooperate with Jianbao Network. However, Bank of Beijing’s branches are not very many, mainly concentrated in big cities. That means, only a minority of users can enjoy the convenience,” Zhu Zihan answered.

“One step at a time. Bank of Beijing won’t always have these branches; they will definitely open new ones continuously. The development of Jianbao Network also takes time. The current online users are less than three hundred million, and even fewer participate in online shopping. To get more users involved, we need to make computer prices even cheaper. Clearly, the current price of computers is unaffordable for many families,” Tang Feng said lightly.

“Besides computer prices, the age of users is also a problem. The elderly basically don’t go online. Only the somewhat younger ones are willing to accept new things. However, China adds more than twenty million graduates of various types each year, these people entering society will go online. That means, in the next five years, even if only these graduating students go online, it will add at least one hundred million users. Also, the internet penetration rate in small cities is still very low, requiring further exploration,” Zhu Zihan said.

“The main thing is to lower the costs. If a computer’s price was only two thousand or even one thousand yuan, and the cost of going online for a year was only one or two hundred yuan, I believe the rate of internet usage would quickly increase,” Tang Feng smiled.

“Lowering costs, easier said than done. The current domestic computers, most components are imported from abroad, the price can’t be reduced at all,” Zhu Zihan couldn’t help shaking his head.

“Imports are definitely expensive. Only domestic production is the only way out. It seems, I need to figure out how to make a truly completely domestically produced computer,” Tang Feng’s expression became very serious.

“Boss, am I hearing things? You want to make computers?” Su Ming was incredibly shocked.

“What? Is making computers difficult? It’s just a case with various components inside. If I want to, it’s just a matter of minutes,” Tang Feng answered quite easily.

“Boss, this is about computers, high technology! Are you sure you can handle it?” Zhang Hao asked.

“There’s nothing I can’t handle. The software and websites I’ve developed are also doing well. Let me study it carefully and see where to start,” Tang Feng appeared very confident.

“Boss, I advise you to give up on this idea. Computers involve so many components, it’s not so easy to domesticate them. Not to mention, just the computer chips alone, we can’t produce them domestically,” Zhu Zihan said, sighing.

They were all Chinese people, naturally hoping Chinese companies could domesticate computers and reduce production costs. However, to achieve such a goal, Chinese’s computer companies still have a long way to go.

“Don’t worry! There will be bread, and there will be chips! Let me study it carefully and see how to make better lithography machines! And better chip design software! Once I overcome these difficulties, China’s chip industry will definitely develop rapidly!” Tang Feng’s eyes were filled with determination.

He was a person with a system!

Once the mission of system release was completed, getting 50000 points, along with the points previously in his account, he could fully exchange for knowledge and skills related to the chip industry.

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