Even when President Lin came up, no one looked up at him.
Seeing this, President Lin was quite pleased.
He walked into his private office on the second floor, and sure enough, there were two large boxes by the sofa.
Without hesitation, President Lin went over and opened them.
Inside were neatly packaged small boxes that were now placed on the coffee table in front of President Lin.
He picked one up and left the office to find Li Zirui and have him conduct tests.
Half an hour later, the test results were out, all within the standard range.
Upon hearing this news, President Lin couldn’t help but feel great—this meant that the phone could now be assembled in prototype form, apart from the operating system.
He packed all the parts into a small box and proceeded to Building No. 3.
For introduction, the first floors of Buildings No. 2 and No. 3 do not have reception halls; they directly turn into offices.
This is entirely because of Nuclear Technology’s wealth, owning three office buildings.
As for reception work, it’s directly handled in Building No. 1; the other two buildings are not open to the public.
At this time, a research team was also tirelessly working on research on the first floor of Building No. 3.
Unlike Building No. 2, the research staff here were not constantly typing on keyboards but were hands-on working.
Correct, they were working.
Metal cutting and shaping, high-temperature desktop mini-furnace, a huge shelf with various raw materials, most notably heaps of diverse glass balls.
Yes, the experiment being conducted here was on the most challenging component of the entire phone, the purely tempered glass casing.
In the whole phone, the only challenging point was not the system, nor the chipset motherboard, but this tempered, purely transparent glass casing.
Not only must it account for issues from not using any other materials, causing potential glass collisions but also must consider the refractive angles within.
These two points are incredibly challenging.
Currently, the studio’s seventeen members were all materials science Ph.D. students President Lin found through various connections.
Their research project was special glass.
When they saw the small piece of glass President Lin took out (the casing from the future phone), they were astonished.
Without hesitation, they packed up and came over here.
Some even said they wouldn’t take a cent as long as President Lin allowed them to study that completely transparent glass phone casing.
However, President Lin ultimately refused and presented a secrecy agreement.
The gist of the agreement was this:
He could let them study this tempered glass phone casing, but they must keep it confidential. Even if they succeeded with the research in the future, they couldn’t disclose the technology.
Of course, President Lin wasn’t being stingy. He wanted to prevent others from copying this fully transparent phone.
To say the least, whether this phone could achieve a totally transparent state depended 30% on the unique shapes of the components inside and 70% on this special casing.
The reason President Lin wasn’t considered stingy was that he agreed that after successful research, the technology for strengthening the glass could be patented.
In this way, it could be made public to some extent.
Walking into the office area, he approached a middle-aged man computing formulas on his computer and asked.
Upon hearing President Lin’s voice, the middle-aged man quickly turned around and respectfully replied:
"President Lin, we’ve reached the final stage. What we produced earlier has already satisfied refraction conditions. Currently, we’re testing the strength based on the samples you provided."
Upon hearing this, President Lin couldn’t help but rejoice. He reached out to take the transparent phone casing offered by the other person from a small organizing box and examined it closely.
After some consideration, President Lin nodded with satisfaction. Just from its appearance, this casing hardly differed from the one he provided them.
It was similarly entirely in a semi-transparent state.
Yes, because the internal components hadn’t been installed, the refraction wasn’t working optimally, giving it a frosted glass-like feel instead.
"Very good, what’s the current status?"
Seeing the boss’s satisfaction, Hu Cheng was also pleased, adjusted his thick glasses, and explained:
"Because the internal process is very complex, we’ve been studying how to create machines capable of completing glass refraction. Our 71st machine underwent modification the day before yesterday, and after testing, the results were very close to what we expected.
However, we used ordinary tempered glass; while normal use isn’t a problem, the drop test performance was not ideal.
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