Originally, Jiang Chen planned to buy these two studios directly, but something unexpected happened during the acquisition process.
Fortunately, EA, which is tireless in destroying games, is known as the studio killer second only to Microsoft. The huge series of studios have been cut down again and again. Futureman Technology is happy to acquire the studio they are ready to wield the knife. Naturally, they are very happy. They happily bought the SimCity development studio under the series studio for a premium of 20 million US dollars. The studio was packaged and sold to Jiang Chen.
But r star is a bit troublesome.
The parent company of R-Star is, and its business is in good condition. "GTA6: Return to Liberty City" launched in June 2017 continues the glory of "GTA5" and expands the map from the entire California to the entire New York plus a European city. The map The area is more than twice that of the front seat, easily creating a sales miracle of 40 million copies across all platforms.
Of course, such a cash cow would not be sold foolishly.
In this case, Futureman Technology has no choice but to take a step back and start poaching people directly.
The international headhunting company hired by Jiang Chen provided him with a list containing the names of 27 people including the planners, scripts, and chief designers of R-Star Studio, as well as their personal information, income, and debt status. After getting the list, Jiang Chen directly increased their monthly salary by 50% with a stroke of a pen, then typed the list back and asked the hired headhunting company to recruit people according to this standard.
Regarding the specific matters regarding the establishment of the project department, Jiang Chen left it to Ning Huajian. He is an expert in this regard. Although he is a leader in virtual reality, he definitely does not understand the market as well as a CEO who started from the grassroots level.
After finishing the matters at hand, Jiang Chen saw that it was still early before get off work, so he stopped by the materials science laboratory to inspect the research progress of the laboratory.
After overcoming the problem of graphene, the Materials Science Laboratory recently recruited a new group of researchers and established two new project departments to conduct research on graphene cables and graphene chips respectively.
The former is aimed at space elevators, and the latter serves the electronics industry of the future.
Some time ago, the new top 500 supercomputing list was announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (isc) in Frankfurt, Germany. "Tianhe-3", a key project of China's National 863 Program and developed by the National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Research Center, followed the "Tianhe-3" After "Sunway-Light of Taihu", it once again topped the top500 list.
Different from previous years, using the Dragoon x1 supercomputing chip, China not only won the top spot in supercomputing, but also directly took over the top five! This Coca-Cola spoiled the comprador of the Huaguo Computer Engineering Technology Research Center, and they quickly placed an additional order of 100,000 yuan per month with Future Heavy Industries, increasing the monthly import volume to 200,000 yuan.
If this trend continues, it will be just around the corner to surpass Britain and catch up with the United States!
China’s supercomputing “dominance” also scares the United States. Although Intel has also launched a new supercomputing chip based on graphene material, compared with Future Heavy Industries’ Dragoon x1, the gap is still more than a little bit.
In desperation, despite its intention to support local manufacturers such as Intel and Qualcomm, the U.S. Department of Defense selectively purchased 50,000 supercomputing chips to upgrade the performance of the Department of Defense's supercomputers. However, the deal was not finally negotiated because Futureman Group refused to fully disclose the technical details of the lix architecture, which was an intolerable security risk for the Pentagon.
Unless Future Heavy Industries is a US-based company, they still cannot rest assured about it.
However, those private supercomputing centers do not have so many concerns. In the market economy environment, the survival of the fittest is clearly reflected. For example, Google, after seeing the powerful functions of the Dragoon x1 chip, directly placed an order for 60,000 chips per month to Future Heavy Industries to upgrade its servers across the United States.
After seeing the strength of Futureren Heavy Industries in the field of chip manufacturing, Google simply gave up its plan to enter the chip manufacturing industry.
Businessmen are all driven by profit.
Google consumes more than 300,000 chips per quarter. If it adopts Dragoon x1, it will be able to reduce the number of servers by at least 10% while maintaining current business. Although the wholesale price offered to them by Futureren Heavy Industries is US$347 per chip, 60,000 chips per month is an expenditure of US$20.82 million. But from an overall cost perspective, choosing Dragoon x1 can save them at least US$200 million per year.
They have lost the incentive to develop their own chips.
Not only Google, but also Hewlett-Packard and Dell, the nation's top and second-largest server chip purchasing customers, have also shown strong interest in Future Heavy Industries' Dragoon x1.
Currently, the monthly shipment volume of the Dragon Cavalry The next 200,000 are from the United States.
It is foreseeable that for a long time to come, the battle on the top 500 list of the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany will be extremely fierce. Whoever's supercomputing center uses Dragoon will dominate the list. If the top ten computers on the list all use Dragoon, then we can only compare who has more Dragoon and who is more proficient in using it.
Unless the quantum computer of Star Ring Trade is made public, it will be difficult to end this situation.
In view of the current inextricable situation among major supercomputing centers, Graphene Laboratory is developing the Dragoon x2 chip, intending to use this to make money.
Want to become stronger? Want to blast national pride on the news? Then come and buy Dragoon x2...
Jiang Chen even thought of the advertising slogan.
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Futureman Heavy Industries has finally completed the registration of the lix architecture in various countries and registered patents for each instruction set. After receiving the news, Loongson Zhongke immediately came to the door and obtained the authorization of the lix architecture from Jiang Chen, preparing to independently develop supercomputing chips based on the lix architecture.
This was agreed when the chip was originally sold, so Jiang Chen signed it readily. The patent fee is globally unified. For chips using the lix architecture, 10% of the selling price is used as the patent fee. Although this figure is twice as high as Qualcomm's 5%, Qualcomm charges the whole piece, while Future Heavy Industries conscientiously only charges per piece.
(Qualcomm model: only produces chips. If the chips only sell for 10 US dollars, and the chips are used in mobile phones, and the mobile phone eventually sells for 600 US dollars, then 5% of the entire mobile phone needs to be paid as a patent fee)
However, Jiang Chen noticed that Mr. Wu Weiwen, the president of Loongson Zhongke, who came to sign the patent agreement, did not look particularly happy.
"Mr. Wu, do you have any questions?" Jiang Chen asked happily.
Wu Weiwen shook his head.
"No problem, I just think Mr. Jiang is good at it."
"I don't quite understand what you mean, can you explain it to me in detail?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.
Wu Weiwen smiled, said nothing, and walked away with the Lix Architecture licensing agreement.
Jiang Chen noticed that his back seemed much older than when he arrived.
Loongson Zhongke is a state-owned enterprise and enjoys financial subsidies in its business operations. In theory, Wu Wenwei, the president, does not need to worry about performance. Even if he couldn't sell a single chip in a year or two, the company would never have to worry about going bankrupt.
To be honest, when Jiang Chen agreed to him and authorized the lix architecture to Loongson Zhongke, he could clearly feel the concern from his superiors for Loongson Zhongke.
However, when the first batch of Dragoon x1 was distributed to the four major supercomputing centers, and the researchers at the supercomputing centers cheered loudly, Wu Wenwei could clearly feel that the eyes of the leader standing next to him suddenly changed.
Especially after taking over the top five in the supercomputing list.
The leaders responsible for the key projects of the 863 Plan were almost promoted collectively, and the project leader even received praise from the chairman.
This is a great honor!
Whether it is for an individual, a country, or a nation.
It is precisely for this reason that this honor cannot be let go.
Sure enough, as Wu Weiwen expected, the leader in charge of the supercomputing project contacted Futureren Heavy Industries immediately after receiving the award and increased the purchase order quantity. High technology is like poison. Once it opens its mouth, it cannot be stopped.
This year you won the top five, are you embarrassed to lose this ranking next year? Do you still want political achievements
What should I do if I don’t want to throw it away
You can only buy Dragoon x1. How long will it take for those old academics to come up with their research results
At a banquet, Wu Weiwen felt deeply uneasy about the words of his superior.
"You can't always stick to the protectionism. Without a market, how can you be competitive? This Future Group is also a child who came out of our country. Instead of filling this bottomless pit with a thankless effort, it is better to use their technology. After being brought in, how can we say that we are also a family, aren’t we?… "
This idea is dangerous.
Very very dangerous.
However, Wu Wenwei also knows that as a state-owned enterprise president, he has no power to change this.
Nothing that can be solved with money is a big deal, but some things are definitely not something that can be solved with money.
Unless he can defeat Dragoon x1 and come up with a supercomputing chip that ranks among the top in the world...
But is this possible
Futureren Heavy Industry has occupied the commanding heights of the market and has become the standard setter, relying on its technical advantages to capture the vast majority of orders in the entire market. With the income gained from these orders and continuously invested in research and development projects, their technology can only become stronger and more powerful and unattainable.
By then, even Intel and ARM companies will have to learn from the instruction set of the lix architecture to enrich their own x86 architecture and arm architecture, and pay patent fees for Futureren Technology, which owns the intellectual property rights of the lix architecture.
The strong will always be strong, this is the market.
Before the emergence of disruptive products, giants that have already occupied a high point have no chance of being tripped down. It is foreseeable that even if he now obtains the authorization for the lix architecture, at least in the next ten years, they will absolutely be unable to do without the chips of Futureman Group. (.)