Chapter 280: Transaction (Part 1)

Wang Zilong's words set the tone; as a world-class internet giant, once Panda Communications determined it was interested in a certain industry or enterprise, its vast commercial intelligence system, which spanned the entire country, immediately began to operate at high speed.

More technical resources were invested into the research of the two products already released by Cybertron Technology Company.

At the same time, a professional asset valuation and venture capital team also began to conduct a preliminary valuation of Cybertron Technology Company, serving as the basis for future offers.

The 100 million USD limit mentioned by Chen Li was merely the authorization amount he hoped to obtain, while the professionals under Panda Communications began to learn about information related to Cybertron Technology through various channels.

This included the members of Cybertron Studio, as well as the company's founders, shareholders, managers, and so on.

In a very short time, they funneled the intelligence they were continuously collecting through various channels into the hands of the top brass.

Soon, a detailed acquisition contact plan was placed on the desks of the various executives of Panda Communications Group.

……

Sun Cheng clearly did not yet know that, due to the Pure Version XP System, the Cybertron Technology Company he had just established had already been targeted by a behemoth.

However, even if he had known, he would not have taken it too much to heart, because although Sun Cheng had only returned to the real world for a little over half a month this time, relying on resources and technology from another world, he already held many good cards in his hand.

Inside the office of President Shen Peiyuan at Nandu University of Technology, Sun Cheng had returned here once again after a half-month interval.

"……President, this is a product I rushed to finish. Please take a look at it with the professors and experts first to see if there is anything that does not meet the regulations……"

Sun Cheng stepped forward and placed a flat, long, rectangular paper box he had brought onto Shen Peiyuan's desk.

Although his face was still smiling as he looked at Shen Peiyuan, if one looked closely, it was actually not difficult to notice a flash of playfulness in his eyes.

"This is also a person who won't scatter the eagle until he sees the rabbit!"

This was probably Sun Cheng's only opinion of Shen Peiyuan right now!

His new president had recently given him a real lesson in what is called politician-style thinking.

Last week, Nandu University of Technology had made a phone call to Cybertron Technology, and afterwards, Xu Chun had personally admitted to Sun Cheng that Shen Peiyuan had stepped in to help him contact the Nandu Supercomputing Center; at the time, even the time for both sides to meet and talk in detail had been arranged.

And then? There was no then!

Having prepared early, when the agreed-upon day arrived, what Sun Cheng received was not a call inviting him to meet with the Supercomputing Center, but a notice that the meeting was postponed and would be arranged again later.

Sun Cheng could be considered someone who had experienced great storms and waves; at first, he was indeed a bit confused, truly thinking that the people at the Nandu Supercomputing Center had something come up and could not meet with him.

But after turning back to think carefully, he quickly tasted the flavor of it.

Someone was making trouble, and this person could only be Shen Peiyuan!

It was actually not difficult for him to guess this point!

His Cybertron Technology Company had indeed only been established recently, but the momentum had already been stirred up.

Sun Cheng had already attracted some attention to Cybertron Technology by using the "Pure Version XP System" he had created earlier.

Then, after Wang Lu received several million in promotional funds from him, large sums of money had been poured in recently; from hiring internet trolls to contacting major platforms to purchase advertisements and recommendations, for a time, reports about Cybertron Technology and Cybertron Cloud Drive on the internet were endless.

With such a big commotion, Sun Cheng did not believe that he hadn't heard a whisper of it.

He even suspected that Shen Peiyuan might have heard other rumors through some channels.

For example, Cybertron Technology had reported five storage products of varying specifications to the Ministry of Industry; currently, two had already passed approval and obtained production licenses, while the other three were under review.

This meant that Cybertron Technology was on the verge of taking off.

Since Shen Peiyuan and Nandu University of Technology had not yet received the hard drive production technology he had promised to transfer, seeing Cybertron Technology's momentum build up so quickly, it was very possible that he would throw a few stumbling blocks to remind Sun Cheng of his own existence.

Therefore, after ruminating on it, Sun Cheng took the initiative to pay a visit.

He still had use for Shen Peiyuan right now; at the very least, the skin of Nandu University of Technology could bring him quite a few benefits.

Shen Peiyuan's gaze swept over the box he brought and then turned to look at Sun Cheng; he, who was usually stern, was now all smiles.

"It's student Sun Cheng, long time no see. Haha, I was just asking Xu about your situation yesterday, and he told me with great joy that your company has been doing quite well recently……"

Damn it!

Once these words were out, Sun Cheng, who had only been somewhat suspicious before, was now absolutely certain that the cancellation of the originally scheduled meeting with the Nandu Supercomputing Center definitely had to do with Shen Peiyuan.

However, his eyes only flickered slightly, and he did not show it.

As if he were completely unaware of the matter, he smiled and replied: "Thank you, President, and Director Xu for your concern. The company has been established for a while now. After getting through the busiest and most chaotic period, we have only just begun market promotion and product publicity!"

Shen Peiyuan chatted with him for a few sentences, saying some nice-sounding polite words, and there was also quite a bit of gentle encouragement, but Sun Cheng was not blind; seeing his gaze fall on the box he brought from time to time, he stopped after chatting for a moment and took the initiative to turn the topic to it.

"President, the main reason I came to disturb you this time is still for the matter regarding the Nandu Supercomputing Center."

As his voice fell, he looked at Shen Peiyuan, but could not see any change in expression on his face, so he couldn't help but curse the old fox in his heart.

However, dealing with such a person is simple if you know how.

Picking up the box he brought from the desk, Sun Cheng opened it and pushed it in front of Shen Peiyuan.

Inside the box, resting on silk padding, were two identical box-shaped hard drives; they were new hard drives he had designed specifically for the Nandu Supercomputing Center according to the solid-state drive standards purchased for supercomputers, with a capacity of 50T.

Do not think its memory is small!

In the year 2013, the United States Department of Energy, Cray, and Intel jointly manufactured a supercomputer named Catalyst; it possessed a maximum performance of 150 trillion floating-point operations per second, a total memory of 281TB, each node had 128GB of DRAM memory, and 304 nodes had 800GB of solid-state drive storage capacity; in addition, the solid-state drive storage capacity equipped in its 12 main nodes was only 3.2TB.

It is no exaggeration to say that this new hard drive, tailor-made by him for the Nandu Supercomputing Center, once adopted by the Supercomputing Center, could slim down a supercomputer by at least 11%-14%, if not more.