Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

"President, the specific reason has been found out."

Three days after some game consoles were accidentally damaged and exploded, the engineering development department finally found out the specific cause of the problem, and immediately found Zhuyouxing to report the situation.

"What is the specific reason?"

"It's a problem of chip yield. The latest AI chip we use is relatively new, and some details are not mature enough, and our Cyberpunk 2077 game can make full use of all the performance of any processor chip. , Some AI chips have been burned due to poor quality."

A manager of the engineering development department took out some photos and showed them to Zhu Youxing.

It was a damaged game console obtained from a player in the United States.

The staff of the engineering development department in the United States immediately disassembled the game.

In the end, it was disassembled and found that the most damaged area was the area of ​​the AI ​​chip, and some components that provide auxiliary functions for the AI ​​chip were more or less damaged and short-circuited after testing.

"The people in the American branch repaired the data records of the damaged game consoles and finally confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 took up more than 130% of the performance of the AI ​​chip. It is difficult to withstand this pressure, and in the end it is inevitable that the chip will burn out."

The photo shows the appearance of the burned chip.

There is an area on the entire motherboard that has been burned black, and that is where the AI ​​​​chip is located.

"Is the quality given by the manufacturer of the AI ​​chip not good?"

"It's part of the reason, but not the whole reason, because a small number of AI chips that are barely qualified can't meet the performance consumption of Cyberpunk 2077."

"What do the chipmakers say?"

"They have already sent people to the US branch and our side. They promised to help us solve the problem as soon as possible. This is actually not a big problem. The biggest problem is that Cyberpunk 2077 squeezes performance too much. Many games I am afraid that it will be difficult for the machine to support this kind of performance squeeze."

This is really an unexpected thing.

The picture quality and performance requirements of Cyberpunk 2077 are indeed a bit abnormal.

In the previous life, Cyberpunk 2077 has also become the benchmark for graphics quality games for a long time.

But that's still not enough to make the game console die suddenly. It's just that Zhu Youxing has higher requirements for Cyberpunk 2077 in this world than in the previous life.

The effect of the game itself is naturally nothing to say, it can be called the top game in the world.

But the side effect of this picture quality is that the performance of the game console is a bit unsustainable.

Hayazawa Airi said at this time: "Takeyu, I think a patch update should be performed on Cyberpunk 2077 to reduce the current performance consumption, and at the same time compensate the players who have suffered losses. This should be possible. "

Hayazawa Airi also has many years of industry experience, and she already knows some of the usual methods in the industry.

It should be the most reliable solution to properly reduce the game performance consumption and clarify it publicly.

Zhu Youxing looked up at the others and asked, "Do you think so too?"

"President, this is indeed the most cost-effective solution, and it is also the solution with the lowest cost. Then when we launch newer game consoles in the future, we can increase the performance consumed by the game."

Zhu Youxing said: "Reducing performance consumption should be to reduce the AI ​​​​processor, right? This also means that the artificial intelligence effect of passerby NPC characters in the game will be reduced."

Hayazawa Airi nodded: "Well, it is enough to reduce the effect of artificial intelligence, because the AI ​​​​chip consumes the most performance, and the current AI processor chip is still a new technology, and the world's technology in this area is not mature enough. , There are still flaws, so it is normal for some unexpected things to happen.”

Zhu Youxing pondered for a moment, and then said: "Don't rush to make a decision, wait for the AI ​​chip manufacturer to come over and see if they have any good solutions, and we also need to listen to their explanations."

In the afternoon, the boss of the AI ​​chip manufacturer came to the Youxing Electronic Entertainment Building in a hurry.

He came here by plane yesterday night from Japan.

After more than ten hours of flying, he came to Youxing Electronic Entertainment non-stop, and he hardly took a break.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is the largest customer of their chip manufacturer.

Just the initial purchase order has exceeded 100 million AI chip processors.

Subsequent chip processor orders are also ready to be signed.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment's latest game console is now selling more than 40 million units. However, Youxing Electronic Entertainment plans to develop the latest handheld console, which naturally also has an AI chip processor built into it.

If nothing else, this will inevitably be a product with a sales volume of over 100 million in the future.

For him, a fledgling manufacturer of chips with AI processors, Youxing Electronic Entertainment is his father.

Now that Dad was in trouble, and the source of the trouble was them, the boss of the AI ​​chip couldn't sit still.

Originally, he planned to hold several order celebration ceremonies, but now he has rejected all of them, and rushed to Japan overnight to meet Zhu Youxing.

"Boss, how should we explain? There is actually no major problem with our chip, but no one would have thought that the game Cyberpunk 2077 would squeeze performance so hard. I think we can probably shirk responsibility..."

"Are you an idiot?! Shut up later and don't say anything more!"

The boss glared viciously at one of his entourage.

AI chips are an emerging industry with many uncertainties. Youxing Electronic Entertainment is willing to purchase chips worth more than 100 million yuan from the very beginning. This is something that other manufacturers dare not do lightly.

Other manufacturers are more conservative and unwilling to take risks easily. If you lose Youxing Electronic Entertainment, their company may go bankrupt on the spot.

So no matter what, no matter what the outcome of the matter is, they need to actively cooperate with Youxing Electronic Entertainment to solve the current troubles.

Soon, when they came to the reception desk in front of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, the receptionist guided several people to the prepared meeting room.

Zhu Youxing has been waiting here for a while, and he is still looking at the photos of the damaged game console seriously.

What he was thinking at this moment was not dealing with the current public opinion trouble.

Now what he is thinking about is the loss of a game console, and the player's mentality may be quite bad.

Zhuyouxing has arranged for the engineering and development department to do its best to save the data in all damaged game consoles, at least to ensure that the game progress that these players have worked so hard to play will not be burned, and then after the matter is resolved, these archives will also be provided in time. player.

Fortunately, it was the processor chip that was damaged, not the storage device, and it was not a big problem for the engineering development department to extract relevant data.

"Sorry, I'm very sorry that we are late! President Zhuyou, I want to personally apologize to you."

While Zhu Youxing was contemplating, a group of people from the chip manufacturer entered the conference room in fear. As soon as they entered, the boss of the chip manufacturer immediately apologized to Zhu Youxing.