While he was staying in his studio and looking at the reports carefully, Lin Hexia had already returned from a banquet for the Hong Kong businessmen who came to Beijing. This time it was really a simple banquet. She came back before two o'clock.
After returning home and changing her clothes, Lin Hexia returned to the living room and saw Zhou Jinyu sitting in the living room, so she said, "When did you come back?"
"I came back in time for lunch this morning. Where have you been? Why didn't I see you?" Zhou Jinyu asked curiously.
"We went to host a banquet for the patriotic businessmen from Hong Kong who came to Beijing. Didn't they just come back? Zhao Yi didn't say anything?" Lin Hexia asked.
"I just came back, I forgot to ask." Hearing what Lin Hexia said, Zhou Jinyu said embarrassedly, making it seem like she was indifferent to Lin Hexia.
After hearing Zhou Jinyu's words, Lin Hexia didn't want to continue on the topic to avoid further embarrassment for her, so she asked, "Zhao Yi is in his studio?"
"Well, I heard that he is looking at the company's report, so I don't want to disturb him. I don't have anything to do now. Why don't you play two games with me?" Zhou Jinyu asked.
Lin Hexia's game addiction is quite strong, no less than Zhou Jinyu's. Since Zhou Jinyu proposed to play games, she agreed. Anyway, there was nothing to do in the afternoon, so it was just a good time to play games to kill time.
It's just that their gaming computers are all in Zhao Yi's studio, which is usually for the convenience of the three of them playing games, so even if they don't want to disturb Zhao Yi, they have to go to his studio.
In fact, their respective studios also have computers, but if they don't sit together and play together, it will be more troublesome to communicate, and there is no one to talk to, so it feels like something is missing.
This is just like many people who have computers at home to play games, but still like to invite friends to play in Internet cafes, because the atmosphere is completely different, and the experience is naturally different.
With the continuous rapid development of our country's economy, urban residents are no longer unfamiliar with computer and other technological products, and it can even be said that the penetration rate is very high.
It can be said that every household has purchased a computer, which has caused a big blow to the Internet cafe business of United Network Technology Company, a subsidiary of Shangtong Trading Company.
Fortunately, a large number of laborers from rural areas have moved into cities in recent years. Although these new laborers are well-paid, their living environment is temporarily rented or provided by companies.
Purchasing home appliances and other equipment is quite troublesome, and some are even prohibited from being used. Naturally, fewer people buy computers, but in modern society, computers are considered a basic tool.
Therefore, these labor forces from rural areas can be regarded as filling the loss of urban residents and consumers, filling a lot of customer sources for United Network Technology Company, so that their operations can still be maintained.
It's just that although there are many rural migrant workers in cities, the overall literacy rate is not particularly high, and some people are not interested in going to Internet cafes to play computer games. Therefore, although there are supplements, they still cannot return to their previous peak state.
However, after so many years of operation, they have basically made back all their investment, and they have made a lot of profits. At the same time, they have added many more properties, so their company's asset scale is not small, but the debt ratio is basically zero. .
To be honest, they have actually been able to significantly reduce the number of Internet cafes, reduce the company's labor expenses, and even rent out some properties to obtain more operating income.
But they didn't do this, mainly because it was difficult to arrange for these employees. If they did this rashly, it would cause some turmoil. After all, these employees basically followed the company all the way.
Moreover, in the companies under Zhao Yi, there are very few unreasonable layoffs. Although it is not like state-owned enterprises, where the establishment is almost an iron rice bowl, as long as employees complete their assigned tasks with quality and quantity, they will basically not be laid off. Layoffs.
Unless the company really cannot continue to operate, it will consider reducing the number of employees. Even so, follow-up arrangements will be made to arrange other jobs for these laid-off employees to avoid them being truly unemployed.
It is precisely because his companies have such humanistic considerations that the reputation of his companies in the country is very good. In addition, salaries are generally higher than those of state-owned enterprises, so their competitiveness is also higher than that of other companies, including state-owned enterprises, foreign capital and private enterprises. .
Of course, the main reason why he can do this is because the economic scale occupied by his companies is very large. Even if an individual company lays off employees, a large number of brother companies are expanding, achieving a dynamic balance of employment.
Even the operating difficulties of some companies are caused by their own brother companies, because they have many companies of the same type in the same industry, just to strengthen competition and avoid stagnant water.
Therefore, many employees were directly arranged to join rival companies that seemed to be enemies before, leaving their employees feeling baffled and feeling that their company was crazy.
However, this arrangement is mainly because these employees have been working in this industry for a long time, know the industry very well, and can use it when they come, so this situation is very common.
Competing with sibling companies in the same industry is competition, but we must not quarrel with each other. Companies that fail in competition will only be punished by their senior management, and have little to do with the employees and middle managers below.
As for the senior management, although the company failed in the competition, life will definitely not be as easy as before, but they will not be fired easily. It is just that the remuneration and opportunities are less than before, but they will still be included in the entire system.
Therefore, even if the competition fails, there will rarely be a break-up, because if the guarantee is not met, the former competitor may become your new boss. Even if it is not now, it is possible in the future.
Maintaining a situation of fighting without breaking up is the normal state of competition among his companies. Competition based on business rules is allowed in the entire system. On the contrary, it is good for you, me, and everyone, which is worthy of vigilance.
The winner of the competition will naturally have more opportunities to climb up the ladder, or obtain better positions and benefits. Without rewards for the winner, the intensity of competition will be very limited.
Although the Internet cafe, the traditional business of United Network Technology Company, is slightly inferior to its previous peak period, it can still operate without any losses, but the profit is worse than before.
Of course, they have also carried out self-rescue. Although it seems that this industry is old and decline is inevitable, they have still made many attempts in the hope of finding a new development direction.
In the past, the environment of their Internet cafes was relatively good, the location was very good, and the area was large. Now that people generally have their own computers, they have begun to think about upgrading their consumption.
The Internet cafe business, which was originally focused on playing games and playing computers, has begun to shift towards comprehensive services, towards the direction of the Internet cafes in the previous life, and there are also many innovative services.
Not only have many theme Internet cafes been born, but many Internet cafe activities have also been held. Some activities have even become regular activities, attracting the love of many game enthusiasts or two-dimensional enthusiasts.
For example, when League of Legends came out, the first company to organize competitions for this game was United Network Technology Company, which launched the National Internet Cafe and Internet Cafe League and discovered a large number of players with gaming talents.
Many of these players are already members of game competition clubs. Otherwise, with so many people across the country, it would be impossible to find high-level players so easily.
Of course, in addition to showing their prominence in these Internet cafes and Internet cafe leagues, they also have good rankings in the game ladder. Only with excellent data from all parties can they be selected by the club, or have the opportunity to form a club. Appeal.
In addition to transforming the existing Internet cafe business and developing it towards comprehensive services to provide consumers with better service quality, they have also developed other businesses.
No matter how the Internet cafe business transforms, its gradual decline is inevitable. The transformation is just to reduce the rate of decline of this business and delay the development of their other businesses.
As mentioned before, United Network Technology Company is not like a traditional Internet cafe with no technical foundation. Zhao Yi provides it with a complete set of Internet cafe systems, and the technology is very top-notch.
The core technology is the dynamic allocation of hardware resources. This is also the core technology that allows United Technologies' Internet cafes to recover costs so quickly and achieve profitability.
This technology is very similar to supercomputer technology, and it can even be said that the two are closely related, but it is different from traditional supercomputer technology and has its own unique features.
It is not impossible for them to enter the ranks of supercomputer research and development. At present, the most famous supercomputer service provider in the country is Polaris Company, which is also the company with the largest market share.
In addition, other domestic state-owned enterprises or scientific research institutions also have many supercomputer products with good performance. After all, the domestic basic conditions are so good, and the research and development environment in this area is naturally much better than in previous generations.
Under such difficult conditions in the previous life, our country was also at the forefront in the field of supercomputers. Not to mention now, although their level cannot be compared with Polaris Technology Company, they are still much more advanced than foreign ones.
Polaris' supercomputers are generally not exported and are basically used domestically. This gives other companies a lot of market space. Their technology is not first-class, so there is no problem with exporting.
Therefore, United Technologies also has its own supercomputer business. Although it is much worse than Polaris, it is still slightly ahead compared with other domestic supercomputing companies.
As far as traditional supercomputer technology is concerned, United Technologies' technology is actually very powerful. The reason why it is not fully ahead of other supercomputers is mainly because they have only been working in this area for a short time and have a small number of scientific researchers.
If they continue to work tirelessly in this field, there is the possibility of becoming a hegemon in the field of traditional supercomputers. After all, the basic technical strength is there. As long as they have sufficient scientific research capabilities, the potential is still huge.
However, it is still very difficult to catch up with Polaris' level in the supercomputing field, because they do not have the intelligent supercomputing technology of Polaris. This is the gap between the two.
Currently, Polaris is the only company with intelligent supercomputing technology. This is also the fundamental reason why their supercomputing cannot be exported, because intelligent supercomputing still has great advantages over traditional supercomputing.
The advantages between the two are not compared in terms of floating-point computing capabilities. They belong to two completely different levels of supercomputing technology and are dimensionality reduction attacks.
Especially as the application of artificial intelligence technology in our country becomes more and more widespread, the advantages of intelligent supercomputing become more and more apparent, and they are destined to become the dominant player in the domestic supercomputing field.
However, the development of artificial intelligence technology abroad is lackluster. For a long time to come, there will also be a relatively large demand for traditional supercomputers, and the market for traditional supercomputers is still very broad.
This is also a market that many traditional domestic supercomputing companies strive to compete in. However, in order to avoid disorderly competition that would make all parties unprofitable, a domestic supercomputing association has also been established.
The main purpose of the association is to formulate supercomputing standards, and then coordinate the orderly competition among member companies to prevent everyone from falling into a price war, which is ultimately very detrimental to the development of supercomputing in our country.
The setting of the price is also very simple. According to the supercomputing standard system they have formulated, whoever has good supercomputing performance can naturally set a higher price. Similarly, those with lower technical levels can set the first price. point.
In order to make the world recognize their supercomputing standard system, they have also carried out a lot of publicity internationally, so that major companies around the world can recognize their system, and make supercomputing a quantifiable product.
With quantitative standards, customers can choose products that suit them based on their needs and financial situation, and supercomputing companies can accurately identify their positioning and avoid disorderly competition.
Therefore, the traditional supercomputing business of United Network Technology Company is still developing well. At least it is relatively good in the field of supercomputing. It has greatly supplemented their business and revenue, and it is also worthy of their name as a technology company. head.
But it’s not necessarily profitable. Although the unit price of supercomputer is indeed very high, the global demand is not particularly large, and the cost is also very high, so the profit margin is not as high as imagined.
For the country, the role of supercomputing is naturally self-evident, but for enterprises, the level of technology is important, and the responsibilities of the company are important, but compared with revenue and profits, it is not so important. .
Therefore, they have also launched a more civilian business, which is to provide centralized office service systems for corporate users. This business is basically no difficulty for them.
Basically, they only need to modify the existing technology in their Internet cafes to meet the needs of enterprises for centralized office systems. This business is developing very fast.
What enterprises pursue is profits, and the sources of profits are not only obtained from business, but also from management. Reducing the operating costs of enterprises is always an aspect of expanding profits for enterprises.
Computers have become an essential tool in business operations, and purchasing computers will also consume a large amount of funds for the company. Especially for large companies, the purchase of office computers is a very large expense.
The centralized office service system of United Technology Company can save enterprises a lot of office computer procurement costs, and it is also very conducive to preserving enterprise data assets.
Enterprises only need to purchase back-end servers, and employees only need monitors, keyboards and mice to work directly, which saves enterprises the cost of chassis, hard drives, memory, processors, etc.
In fact, this is similar to the cloud computing service provided by Xinghan Technology Company, but the positioning between the two is still very different. This is the fundamental reason why their system can survive and develop.
This system is very scalable. It can be used from a company or office with a few people to a company or office with tens of thousands of people. It can be used freely and without obstacles.
This means that the enterprise's investment in this area can be completely based on the needs of the enterprise, and it will not occupy a large amount of the enterprise's funds in advance, which is very friendly to the enterprise.
Compared with the cloud computing platform, this system runs in a local area network, and the network speed of the local area network and the network speed of the Internet are not comparable. The gap between the two is too big.
The speed of the Internet is still at the level of tens of meters or tens of meters, while the speed of the local area network is generally above g units, the difference is hundreds or thousands of times.
Only this kind of exchange speed can allow the company's employees to use it without any obstacles, as if it is the same as using a local computer. There is no difference, but there is no need to worry about all the problems of the local computer, and the use and maintenance are more worry-free.
To ensure that this system can be used smoothly, in addition to the very fast LAN speed, they also have their own special protocols, which can not only ensure the security of information, but also maintain the stability of the network and optimize the LAN information path.
Therefore, the development of this business is very fast, which can be described as a rapid development. In just over a year, it has rapidly spread across the country and has become the main office system of domestic enterprises.
Moreover, using this system can also make use of the company's old computer hardware. Replacing this system will not cause much loss to the company, but the benefits will be greatly improved.
Moreover, their centralized office system provides many automated tools, which greatly reduces the difficulty of backend maintenance for enterprises. If they purchase the artificial intelligence maintenance services of United Network Technology Company, they do not even have to worry about it at all.
If their hardware hadn't been purchased from Polaris and other companies, their system would probably have become a public enemy. After all, it still has a great impact on the development of the domestic computer industry.
At present, there are as many as 3 million domestic companies using this system in China, and each company contributes an average operating income of up to 100,000 yuan, creating an income of 300 billion yuan for them.
Their system is mainly used by medium-sized and above enterprises, because the larger the enterprise, the more beneficial it is to reduce the cost of the enterprise. If there are only a dozen people in the enterprise, there is no need to use this system.
Although their net profit is only 10%, due to their very large scale, their total profits are still very high. Their annual revenue is as high as 30 billion yuan, which is quite a lot, and even exceeds their Internet cafe business.
In addition to continuing to work domestically, their next step is to expand their business overseas. If they develop as rapidly as domestically, they will gain a market similar to the domestic market.
By then, with this system alone, their annual net profit will reach 60 billion yuan, although it is not very high among other companies.
However, among the second-tier companies, they are developing very well. Together with their Internet cafe business and traditional supercomputing business, the annual net profit is conservatively estimated to be around 80 billion yuan, and they are definitely qualified to be among the Fortune 500.
A piece of technology that Zhao Yi brought out at the beginning could easily create a Fortune 500 company. From here, we can see how valuable the technology in his hands is.
In Zhao Yi's opinion, this is not particularly advanced. If he were to do it, he would directly build a cloud computing platform so that users all over the world can use the same system, so the cost will be huge. room for decline.
This only needs to solve the problem of external network complexity, which not only involves the use of special protocols at both ends, but also involves the additional protocol issues of network operators.
United Network Technology Company does not have the ability to solve such a complex problem. Only he has this ability. However, he has no interest in continuing to work in this area. It is better to let nature take its course.
And even if it were to be done, it would be given directly to Xinghan Technology Company. After all, they already have a very strong foundation in the cloud computing platform, which allows them to create greater profits for themselves.
Zhao Yi, who was immersed in reading the report, saw Lin Hexia and Zhou Jinyu coming to his studio, and asked: "How was the banquet?"
Lin Hexia asked herself and said: "The atmosphere is quite harmonious, and we have also reached several verbal cooperations with them, and are preparing to launch some cooperation projects in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia."
Hearing this, Zhao Dun was immediately interested and asked: "What project?"
Hearing Zhao Yi's question, Lin Hexia was a little embarrassed, but still said: "Actually, it is also some traditional cooperation projects, such as the construction of supermarkets and commercial office buildings, etc."
When you hear them say this, you will understand why they are embarrassed. The supermarket business has obviously touched the cheese of Shangtong Trading Company. Originally, these areas were the main business areas of Shangtong Trading Company.
However, he doesn't think it has much to do with it. Their joining can make the industry more diversified and may give birth to new business innovations. If we still use the traditional method, we may not be able to compete with Shangtong Trading Company. .
Because the two are not on the same level in terms of size or resources, there is not much hope of winning in a head-to-head encounter, and Shangtong Trading Company will not show mercy just because it has shares in the umbrella holding company.
He has long said that he supports competition in the same business. No matter who the opponent is, as long as he can win the competition, he will not be blamed, but will be rewarded.
Naturally, this rule will not be abolished just because Lin Hexia is his girlfriend. Now his companies understand that as long as they abide by the rules of business behavior, they will not be punished by him.
This is because he is not very involved in management. His companies are not only full of vitality, but also achieve rapid development, because everyone does not have too many worries and can play freely. (End of chapter)