Chapter 688: We Can't Let the Boss Lose! 30 Minutes, 200,000 Units, 1 Billion in Sales

He didn’t even wait for the reporters to ask, directly announcing the percentage of the Celestial Craft A100 chip that had been self-developed.

The message was clear: the Celestial Craft A100 wasn’t just building on the technological framework of European and American semiconductor companies. It was starting completely from scratch.

The moment Wang Teng finished speaking, the venue erupted in thunderous applause.

The guests in attendance all turned to look at Chen Yansen.

Although everyone knew deep down that the Celestial Craft A100’s adoption rate would be a challenge, its strategic value outweighed everything else.

On one hand, it could accelerate domestic phone makers’ move away from Qualcomm. On the other, it could also spur the upgrade and transformation of the domestic semiconductor industry chain, ultimately reshaping the competitive landscape.

“That’s all the information I have to share about the Celestial Craft A100 for now.”

“Next up is our new product showcase. The first new device at this Orange Technology launch event is the second-generation product in our Yaocheng series, and also Orange Technology’s first official flagship model—the Yaocheng X2.”

Wang Teng pressed the remote, and the image on the giant LED screen behind him changed.

An ultra-thin phone with a curved-edge design flashed into view!

The screen displayed the iconic UI of the Aurora Future System!

Huge!

That was the first impression of both the live audience and the viewers watching the stream!

Wang Teng continued, “The Yaocheng X2 is powered by the Celestial Craft A100 chip. Its octa-core design ensures it can handle multiple tasks in parallel—like push notifications, GPS navigation, and background downloads—with no lag whatsoever.”

“It boasts outstanding lighting and shadow effects and the ability to render complex scenes, allowing it to smoothly run massive mobile games like *Asphalt*, *Near Earth Alliance Recon Team*, and *Infinity Blade*.”

“The Yaocheng X2 runs on Aurora Future 2.0, which brings a 15% to 20% improvement in fluidity, response speed, resource scheduling efficiency, and power consumption control.”

“Furthermore, the Celestial Craft A100’s integrated AI acceleration module is capable of 1.2 trillion integer operations per second. It supports rapid processing for voice commands and image recognition, like opening Gaode Map or Kuai Pao, and automatically sorting your photo albums.”

Wang Teng said, his pace unhurried.

“The front features a 6.0-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen. It has 4GB of RAM, with 32GB of storage for the standard edition and 64GB for the premium edition. The front-facing camera is 8 megapixels, the rear camera is 16 megapixels, and it supports 4K video recording.”

“It’s 6.6 millimeters thick and weighs only 119 grams.”

“It’s equipped with a 6,100 mAh Deep Blue Battery, providing up to 10 days of standby time. Even under heavy usage, it can last 16 to 18 hours. It can also play 1080p video continuously for 20 hours.”

“Its hardware performance benchmark score is 58,637!”

“The price for the standard edition is 4,688 yuan, and the premium edition is 5,288 yuan!”

Wang Teng rattled it all off in one breath.

And that wasn’t all. There was also 4G connectivity, an in-screen fingerprint sensor, floating touch control, 25W fast charging, AI imaging algorithms, NFC, the Moss Intelligent Voice Assistant, and a whole host of other key features.

In fact, when it came to the user experience of its three core components—the OS, processor, and battery—the Yaocheng X2 already surpassed the iPhone 5s, the Mountain Star Galaxy Note 3, and the Sony Xperia Z1.

To put it simply: anything the competition had, the Yaocheng X2 had too!

And anything the competition didn’t have, the Yaocheng X2 still had!

Upon hearing the Yaocheng X2’s price, representatives from many domestic phone manufacturers breathed a sigh of relief.

This price meant there was virtually no overlap between the Yaocheng X2’s target audience and their own!

The Huawei Ascend D2, launched in January for 3,999 yuan, had now dropped to just over 3,000 yuan.

The ZTE Grand Memo, released in March for 3,499 yuan, was currently selling for less than 2,600 yuan on e-commerce platforms.

By optimizing its OS, boosting its battery life, and enhancing its processor performance, the Yaocheng X2 was taking direct aim at the iPhone 5s and the Mountain Star Galaxy Note 3.

But would customers accept a price of 4,688 yuan?

The fans in the audience stared at the huge numbers—”4,688 yuan” and “5,288 yuan”—on the screen and couldn’t help but gasp.

Compared to the Yaocheng X1, the X2 was a full seven hundred yuan more expensive.

But to be fair, if the Celestial Craft A100 chip’s performance and power consumption were really as good as Wang Teng claimed, then 4,688 yuan wasn’t that expensive.

“Orange Technology has gotten a big head! Wang Teng’s gotten arrogant! We’re the ones who made Orange Mobile Phones a success, and you fucking turn around and backstab us? For this price, I’d be better off buying an iPhone 5s!”

“Oh yeah? Let me ask you: which is better, Siri on the iPhone 5s or the Moss Voice Assistant? Which has better battery life? Which charges faster? Which OS is smoother?”

“Dude, if you’ve got the cash, you go for the Yaocheng series. The build quality and experience are on another level! If money’s tight, buy from the Qingcheng series. Orange Technology has a budget line too, you know!”

The livestream chat lit up with discussion.

「By now, it was exactly 11:00 AM.」

The moment Wang Teng finished his presentation, Yan Peng, the head of Orange Mall, immediately made the sales link for the Yaocheng X2 live.

The phone was also launched simultaneously on major e-commerce channels like Pinbei, Tmall, and Jingdong.

The whole process was a lot like the e-commerce livestreams that would become popular a decade later. The host, Wang Teng, finished listing the product’s selling points, shouted, “Three, two, one… drop the link!” and the operations manager, Yan Peng, made the page go live.

“Guys! It’s in stock on Orange Mall!”

“Quick, go to Pinbei’s Ten Billion Subsidy event! Grab a 10-yuan coupon and you can get it for only 4,678 yuan!”

“Okay, I got the coupon. Now what about the other 4,678 yuan?”

“Can’t afford it! It’s too expensive!”

“You’re not buying it? You expect me to?”

Judging from the online comments, most users thought it was too expensive, loudly proclaiming they weren’t going to buy it.

Yet, less than half an hour later, a comment shot across the livestream feed: “I thought you all said you weren’t buying?! All 200,000 units are gone! Not a single one left! You’re all a bunch of fucking liars!”

“Heh, I believe in President Chen and I believe in Orange Technology! It’s Hua Country’s first phone with a self-developed system-on-a-chip. It’s worth buying just to have as a collector’s item!”

“Even the Meitu 1S dares to sell for 2,699 yuan. The Yaocheng X2’s camera features alone are worth 2,000 of that!”

People immediately jumped into the comments section to show off.

The reason these people trusted Orange Technology unconditionally, choosing to buy the Yaocheng X2 the moment it dropped, was primarily because the company had spent the last two years building a comprehensive ecosystem of user trust through its products, after-sales service, and app store.

It was 4,688 yuan, sure, but that was still 600 yuan cheaper than the iPhone 5s!

For those who had used the Yaocheng X1, Apple didn’t really stand out in terms of its OS, hardware, or app ecosystem anyway.

Besides, users were well aware that the iPhone 5s’s A7 chip used the Orange Z1 Instruction Set, and its battery was a Deep Blue Battery.

In their eyes, if the iPhone 5s were stripped of Orange Technology’s patents, its performance and battery life would be severely compromised. It might not have even achieved its current reputation and sales figures.

After all, these two core technologies had a profound impact on a phone’s fluidity and battery life. Without them, the iPhone 5s’s competitive edge would have plummeted.

Cook had used the Orange Z1 Instruction Set and the Deep Blue Battery to boost the iPhone 5s’s performance, but this didn’t come without a cost.

The moment domestic Apple users discovered that Apple and Orange phones used the same underlying CPU architecture, the same batteries, and even the same production lines, the magic of the Apple brand would be shattered.

‘Since you’re using our domestic patents and hardware, how dare you still sell it for so much?’

「Meanwhile.」

Yan Peng, watching from his computer, saw the inventory on all major platforms sell out. He quickly took down the direct-purchase link and replaced it with a pre-order link.

The Yaocheng X2’s sales had far exceeded the company’s expectations!

The original Yaocheng X1 had only sold 116,000 units on its launch day. Considering the X2 was six to seven hundred yuan more expensive for every model, the company had only prepared an initial stock of twenty to thirty thousand units.

But who could have predicted that in just half an hour, all 200,000 units of initial stock would be gone!

Nearly a billion yuan in sales!

‘Who in the world is buying all these?’

It wasn’t just the users asking; Yan Peng himself looked completely baffled.

‘This doesn’t make any sense!’

In reality, the moment the Yaocheng X2 went live, the Cloud Speed Couriers, Kuai Pao Deliverymen, and the assembly line workers at the Orange Factory, all spread across the country, made their move.

It was all because an hour and a half earlier, a critic named Fangzhouzi had gone on Weibo to trash the Yaocheng X2, ranting that Chen Yansen was insane and that the Yaocheng X2 had no right to be sold for 4,688 yuan.

This time, he predicted, Orange Technology and Chen Yansen were headed for a miserable failure!

This post was shared by a Kuai Pao marketing manager to the company’s internal network.

“Son of a bitch! How dare he curse my boss? He’s asking for it! I’m gonna go online and flame him right now!”

“What’s wrong with 4,688 yuan? The iPhone 5s can sell for that much, the Galaxy Note 3 can sell for that much, but an Orange phone can’t? Are they just picking on us because we’re the good guys?”

“Brothers and sisters! Family! The Yaocheng X2 goes on sale at 11:00. Link is below.”

The couriers and deliverymen, who had just received their Q3 bonuses, along with employees from subsidiaries like Gaode, Pinbei, Orange Pay, Today Technology, Byte Technology, and Xiaohongshu, had been looking for a chance to thank their boss.

After seeing their boss get trashed online, only one thought remained in their minds: ‘We can’t let the boss lose!’

Of the 200,000 units sold, employees of Senlian Capital had accounted for over 60,000 of them.

The employees who were a step behind flooded the pre-order link!