Frustration

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A plethora of Hive Mind manufacturing drones and various specialized equipment could be seen around Vince and Morgan while discussing a recent problem in his FT Micro Devices laboratory.

"As you can see, the new microchips Apple and the other silicon fabricators are producing share a strikingly similar design and manufacturing process to our first-gen offerings. Moreover, they even derived a few basic AI features like face recognition based on Patel's investigation in his department. So our competitors are clearly reverse-engineering Future Tech products and are undercutting us to boot." Morgan explained with disdain.

[I knew this would happen sooner or later, but it's only been a year.] Vince thought before replying.