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As expected, Xu Ting and Di Yang hadn't toiled in vain these past few days. The initial sales figures for the Oxygen Mini were unexpectedly good. Just how good?

The six million units in stock sold out completely in three days. And that was while prioritizing offline sales. If all six million units had been sold online, they would have been gone before the pre-order period even ended.

No wonder the two of them were sitting in the meeting room, grinning like idiots.

Occasionally, they'd glance at each other, each looking at the 'idiot' sitting across from them!

"So, how much is our first payment?" Di Yang couldn't contain his curiosity any longer and asked Xu Ting.

"I estimate it's just under 2.5 billion. The main reason is that prioritizing offline sales led to over a million units not reaching the expected revenue!" Xu Ting feigned dissatisfaction, but the unconscious smile on her face betrayed her true feelings.

Apart from the core bacterial colony filter, the Oxygen Core, the other components combined cost less than 100 yuan. Adding in miscellaneous expenses, the profit margin for the Oxygen Mini was astonishingly high.

For every unit sold, Fang Yuan made roughly 150 yuan. With six million units sold this time, that meant Fang Yuan's net profit was 900 million. Of course, the payment wouldn't be immediate, but the cooperation agreement signed with Lantian Technology clearly stipulated that the maximum payment period was one month.

Most importantly, their partners were all state-owned enterprises. With someone to mediate, such a short payment cycle wasn't impossible.

This was one of the main reasons Fang Yuan chose to cooperate with the higher-ups. After all, nothing was more attractive to him than cash right now.

Whether it was subsequent orders for the Oxygen Mini or the soon-to-be-established graphene factory, both represented huge expenses.

He could ask his old man to handle the factory. He wouldn't skimp on the money he owed, but when he'd pay it was another matter.

However, the related equipment and personnel would be a significant expense, one that Fang Yuan couldn't avoid.

Thinking of this, he thought of automated production lines. The system store had such items, but they weren't very practical for Fang Yuan at the moment.

At least for the foreseeable future, he shouldn't even think about it.

After the excitement wore off, the two of them remembered to report the matter to Fang Yuan.

The video call connected, and Fang Yuan was in the resting area of his secret laboratory. He couldn't reveal the things inside, so he could only video chat with the two of them in the resting area.

When he heard that he could net at least 900 million, Fang Yuan couldn't remain calm either. Don't underestimate the 900 million profit; it exceeded Fang Yuan's expectations.

He originally thought he'd be satisfied with a profit of 500 million for the first batch. After all, it was the first time, and he wasn't very experienced. As time went on, the costs would only decrease.

In the future, selling another six million units would bring in over a billion in revenue.

This was normal. Once the funds arrived, he could start scouting for a graphene factory.

This was the most important thing for Fang Yuan. Nothing could stop Fang Yuan from manufacturing carbon-based chips.

He'd already solved the lithography machine issue. Now, the raw material problem had also been resolved. All the influencing factors were no longer a threat to carbon-based chips.

Therefore, this project had to start immediately! His blade was already itching for action!

Fang Yuan could recite the technical manual provided by the system backward and forward. While solving the problem of graphene mass production, he hadn't been idle. He knew all the chip parameters inside and out.

He had already bought back the etching machine, including all the instruments involved in the chip manufacturing process. He hadn't missed a single one.

Fang's father had fronted the money for all of this, but the repayment period was a bit long, making Fang's father lose hope that Fang Yuan could repay him.

After all, this was his own silly son. He still had to indulge him where he could.

Fang Yuan had no self-awareness whatsoever. Since his father hadn't asked him to repay the money, he assumed it was a gift from his father. Who knew why his big face was so valuable?

Putting aside everything else, Fang Yuan's investment in the research center, from construction to commissioning, wasn't as much as Fang's father's.

This was true both in terms of money and effort. He didn't know if this was Fang Yuan's research center or Fang's father's.

No matter whose it was, it would eventually be Fang Yuan's. At least that's what he thought in his heart.

Seriously, wasn't Dad working so hard for his silly son?

Especially since Fang Yuan was spending even more money now. If things continued like this, the family fortune he had earned wouldn't be enough for his son to squander.

He had no choice but to work harder. Otherwise, how heartbroken would he be if his son ended up homeless?

Okay, looking at it this way, the possibility of him ending up homeless was greater than the possibility of his son ending up homeless.

Look at what that kid had done. The newly established Lantian Technology surpassed his long-established Xingyu Technology right from the start. This was simply unbelievable!

Why could this kid always come up with shocking technologies?

This wasn't scientific! They both had the same surname, Fang, and he had lived over twenty years longer than him. Why hadn't he come up with a decent technology in such a long time?

The only 3D printing technology he could show off had nothing to do with him. If it weren't for the technical manual that brat gave him, he wouldn't even have thought about this thing.

After all, his forte wasn't this, but how to make money.

Anyway, in his eyes, that brat's management skills were like those of a baby just learning to walk. If he hadn't been secretly protecting him, he would have been devoured, leaving not even bone scraps behind.

Yet that brat still thought it was his personal charm that was working. He should think about what kind of personal charm could make these seasoned veterans so obedient?

In the face of such great benefits, unless they were saints, no one could resist the temptation.

If it weren't for Fang's father's secret arrangements, even if Fang Yuan held all the rights to all the technologies, he wouldn't have been able to achieve this level.

Speaking of this, Fang's father couldn't help but have a headache. He used to only need to pay attention to Kyushu, but now there was another Lantian Technology.

But this kid was really powerful. The level of support from above made even him jealous, let alone others.

At this time, Fang's father couldn't help but wonder if Fang Yuan was really his biological son, or if he had been switched at the hospital with the child of some big shot?

This thought only flashed through his mind. Looking at the features between that kid's eyebrows, he knew that this brat was his biological son.

Then why did it feel like the higher-ups were treating this brat like their own son? Such treatment could be said to be unprecedented.

In every aspect, the higher-ups were giving him the green light.

Not to mention anything else, look at the sales channels for the initial launch of the Oxygen Mini. They were said to have been built in a month, which was simply unbelievable.

Fang's father wouldn't believe it if no big shot had helped.

He wasn't that naive kid who thought he was the chosen one.

But this little thing was really useful. Fang's father took the sample he had snatched from Fang Yuan and held it in his hand. Since carrying this little thing with him, his rhinitis had improved a lot.

That's right, Fang's father, who grew up in the north, had the rhinitis typical of northerners. This was almost unavoidable.

Especially in Beihai Province, not everyone had rhinitis, but five out of ten people had it, only with varying degrees of severity.

But the appearance was a bit ugly, at least it was uglier than the Oxygen Mini by more than one level.

Did that need to be said? What Fang's father was holding was made by Fang Yuan himself. The appearance was ugly, but at least it was his own token of affection.

Lantian Technology, along with the Oxygen Mini, could be said to have recently become popular on the internet. Even Fang's father could hear people around him discussing it.

Especially after the initial sales sold out, there was even more discussion about them.

Moreover, there was a strange phenomenon now, which was that the Oxygen Mini couldn't be bought through any channel.

Even scalpers didn't have any extra stock. It was precisely because of this reason that the Oxygen Mini was shrouded in a layer of mystery.

Six million units was just a drop in the bucket for China. Calculated according to the 1.3 billion population, it didn't even reach one two-hundredth.

Such a ratio seemed okay, but in reality, it wasn't enough at all.

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However, the second batch of stock was already on the way, but the quantity was still a bit small, with only four million units.

But the sales time was still relatively satisfactory. The next time the Oxygen Mini went on sale was in twenty days.

After the next time, Lantian Technology should be able to adopt a spot supply method. After all, the demand was there. According to their estimates, the final shipment volume of the Oxygen Mini would be around 50 million.

This number should be the limit they can achieve for the time being.

At that time, Lantian should launch the second generation of Oxygen series products, and even launch more peripheral products.

Moreover, this was only the sales volume in the Chinese market. Compared with the global sales volume, 50 million was not Lantian's limit at all. Double or even triple the sales volume was very easy.

To be honest, in the eyes of Chinese people, environmental issues are not really issues at all. Only the higher-ups take this matter seriously, but most people still haven't realized the importance of this issue.

The price of the Oxygen Mini is acceptable to them. Such a price is not a problem for people nowadays; it's even quite cheap.

It's just the cost of one less hotpot meal, and using that money to improve their environment is worth it to them.

Plus, various internet celebrities are recommending this product, to the point of brainwashing.

Whether it's Xingyu short videos, Douyin, or even some live streaming platforms, the evaluation of the Oxygen Mini is always the same: buy it, buy it!

Indeed, people who have used the Oxygen Mini love this little thing. You can make it into a brooch, or into necklaces, bracelets, and other accessories.

That's right, Lantian Technology has already started promoting Oxygen Mini peripheral products, and these usages were all launched by Lantian.

The popularity of the Oxygen Mini simply can't cool down, and Fang Yuan's inspiration can't stop either.

After breaking through the difficulties of graphene materials, Fang Yuan's progress has been advancing by leaps and bounds. Now, the first version of the carbon-based chip design is almost complete. Fang Yuan is positioning this initial chip as a calculator chip.

It's low, a bit low, but the difficulty is also very small. For him, using this for practice is just right.

It's just a pity that his 5nm lithography machine is being used to make this kind of thing.

But this is just a temporary measure. For Fang Yuan, this is just a transition. In the end, he still has to create a real carbon-based chip that can be used in PCs and mobile devices, and even all electronic products.

This wish is not impossible to achieve. Look at how Xiaomi has already released VR/AR chips. Looking at the sales of the latest AR/VR devices, Fang Yuan knows that Lei Bu Si is still very capable. At least, compared to the parameters he had expected, the chips they developed seem to be a bit better.

Judging from this, the new Surge series chips are already on the way, and may even have reached the final stages.

Fang Yuan guessed correctly. Xiaomi plans to use the Surge series chips in their Redmi series phones.

This time, Lei Bu Si still didn't choose an aggressive design for the new Surge chip. He adopted a slightly outdated 10nm process and improved the architecture based on the AR/VR chip provided by Fang Yuan, achieving the ultimate in power efficiency.

What he is most satisfied with is the GPU part, which is the best part of the entire Surge series, and may even be no worse than what Kirin has done.

The only thing that still holds them back is the communication module. This is a hurdle they can never get around. Unless there is a breakthrough, the Surge series can only muddle along in the low-end market.

Don't even mention Lei Bu Si, even Apple can't do anything about this. Who told those patent trolls to be incompetent and use layers of patents to completely block your way forward?

It's really too difficult to make a breakthrough in this area.

He's not Fang Yuan, who has a cheat code and has fundamentally solved this problem.

But this is also good. In terms of basebands, they can first use the best basebands from their partner, Qualcomm.

First show the technology you have mastered, and other things can be improved slowly. After all, if you don't try to find a sense of existence, the Surge series chips will soon be forgotten.

What Fang Yuan doesn't have to worry about most is the design of the communication module. The system is quite powerful, and it has even taken this aspect into consideration for him.

However, he needs to modify this aspect himself. At the very least, he needs to understand the most popular 5G-related content. The two guys outside can't possibly not know about this.

Fang Yuan acted like a good student and asked these two guys for advice on this aspect whenever he had time.

However, Zhao Gao and Wu Ji are almost finished with their work, so it seems that he doesn't have to work so hard.

He only needs to control the overall situation, and the rest of the dirty work can be handed over to these two guys.

At this time, Fang Yuan gave a thumbs up to his own wit. Why is he such a witty person?

He feels that he must have been kissed by God, whether it's obtaining the system or achieving today's achievements so smoothly.

All of this came without much trouble. The most difficult time may have been when solving the graphene problem.

But did he forget something?

Fang Yuan couldn't remember for a moment.