MTL - Tokyo Video Game Tycoon-Chapter 942 that's all

  Chapter 942 is this

  942

   While Assassin's Creed Revelations was selling well, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment also started the manufacture of the latest generation of game console processors again.

  Up to now, there are about five processor manufacturers in the world that are regarded as the top.

   Faced with an electronic product with an average lifespan of more than five years and a sales volume of over 100 million, no processor manufacturer would refuse such a bidding opportunity.

Of course, this kind of matter is still in the confidential stage in front of the public. Now all parties need to provide their own processors, and then the engineering development department of Youxing Electronic Entertainment will conduct tests, and finally find one that can meet the requirements of the latest model of Youxing Electronic Entertainment. Game console processor.

  Oh, by the way, maybe this time we can’t simply find an integrated CPU with a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit.

   This time Zhuyouxing has a new request.

   That is to ask these companies to design a brand new AI computing processor chip.

  AI computing has already had a rough prototype in this world, and these companies do have related experimental products, but they have not been officially announced to the public yet, and they are only circulated in a small range internally.

  Originally they thought that the AI ​​industry should only be popular in a small area in a short period of time, and it would not become a popular field immediately.

  The field of artificial intelligence learning in this world is a little behind compared to Zhuyouxing's original world. The main reason is that the skill points in this world have been assigned to other places, making the development of other places faster.

  However, after Zhuyouxing proposed this idea, they were very active in providing their products to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment for testing.

   Being able to get an order for the new AI computing chip from Youxing Electronic Entertainment will also be an important step towards mass production.

  Because they have seen the huge demand for AI computing in the future of video games from Assassin's Creed Revelations.

  In a vast video game world, there is an obvious gap between scenes and stories with AI calculations and scenes without AI calculations.

Surui Electronics and Mickford also began to advance rapidly, hoping to launch their own new AI computing technology in a short period of time, and continue to get a share of the emerging video game market. You cannot let Yuxing Electronics Entertainment dominates this market.

  The contacts of these processors all came to Japan overnight from all over the world, and personally discussed with the engineering development department of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, and selected the best.

"Ms. Hayazawa Airi, the latest AI computing processor unit we launched is very powerful. It is now serving in our company's servers and receiving a very large amount of intelligent computing every day. I can guarantee that our products are the most stable. .”

  Airi Hayazawa and several engineers read through a book of product introductions, which are product lists of different processor manufacturers, introducing the performance of each product in detail.

   Several people did not express their opinions immediately, but listened to these people's introductions while watching these product introductions.

   "Ms. Hayazawa Airi, you can also take a look at our products first. For this, we are willing to make a certain profit. If you are willing to purchase more than 30 million sets at one time, we are willing to make a 5% profit."

   "We also..."

"us…"

  This time it is just an inspection, a preliminary screening, and then select two or three qualified processor products for testing.

  According to the planning of Youxing Electronic Entertainment Development Department, the new game console is expected to be officially released in three years.

  One year for screening, one year for design, development and tuning, and another year for announcement and mass production.

   This is the rhythm of the entire console development cycle.

  After looking through all the product catalogs, Hayazawa Airi expressed his gratitude to everyone, and then asked everyone to leave temporarily, waiting for the internal meeting of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment to make a decision.

Then in the afternoon of the same day, Hayazawa Airi pulled Takeyuhoshi, who was supervising the production of the new game, into the meeting room. At the same time, he also brought a few heads of the game development department who had nothing to do for the time being, and several executives to discuss the new game console. the design of.

"Zhuyou, the people from our engineering development department have probably selected three suitable processors. According to their initial quotations, the graphics processor, central processing unit, and AI computing processor can be packaged and sold at two yuan each. It fluctuates in the range of one hundred and thirty to two hundred and seventy dollars."

  Hayazawa Airi's engineering team conducted a simple preliminary screening and finally selected the processors of three companies to show to Takeyuxing.

   "Which of the three is the best?" Zhu Youxing asked.

   "The product offered by Feixin Zhizao in the United States is considered the best, and the price is also the most expensive, reaching 270 US dollars, and there is no way to negotiate the price. This is already the lowest price they can accept."

  Zhu Youxing looked at the introduction on the projection.

The introduction of this set of processors describes that this is the best connection between the three processors. They have their own exclusive high-speed data transmission technology, and the performance of the game will be higher than the other two packaged processors. Ten or so.

  Of course, in addition to the relatively high price of this processor, there is also a disadvantage that the instantaneous power consumption will be relatively severe, which requires a relatively good power supply to provide a sufficiently stable power supply, otherwise there will be a risk of circuit breakdown.

  The engineering development department can continue to adjust and design, but it is impossible to completely solve the problem.

  The processor cost of two hundred and seventy dollars, if a series of other costs are added, the final cost may be close to five hundred dollars.

   It seems that the next era has really arrived.

  The price of 299, 399 is gone forever.

   Fortunately, I have been insisting on promoting flash storage media for games. At this point, the cost and reading speed have completely surpassed traditional optical media. Otherwise, the cost will continue to increase.

   "Then, use this processor."

  Zhu Youxing didn't hesitate too much.

   "Zhuyou, don't you plan to look at other processors?"

"No, this time, I want to improve the performance as much as possible and give players a good enough product. Anyway, this is only the initial price of the processor. In the future, the price of this processor will be lowered sooner or later. It won’t be too late to earn back the money from the game console later on.”

  When Airi Hayazawa heard this, she tentatively asked: "Then Takeyou is planning to sell the game console at a price lower than the cost?"

   "You can plan like this in the first year, but it doesn't need to be too low, just sell it for $449."

  449, then every time you sell one, you will lose about fifty dollars.

   This is almost equivalent to the price of a popular game from Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

  If the game console sold 30 million units in the first year, it is equivalent to a game that lost 30 million sales.

  The executives in charge of the company's cash flow felt a little distressed.

  But Zhu Youxing didn't care about these.

  This loss can easily be made up in video games. Hardware, after all, must serve software.

  In order to make the game better, he will promote the AI ​​industry, and in order to make the game more realistic, he will strongly support the development of graphics processors.

   Without the development of video games as a driving force, Zhuyouxing would not care about hardware at all.

  (end of this chapter)