Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

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At the same time that 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.

In the face of 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, this time it may not be possible to simply find an integrated processor 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 new AI computing processor chip.

AI computing already has a rough prototype in this world, and these companies do have related experimental products, but they haven't 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 hot field immediately.

The field of artificial intelligence learning in this world is a little behind compared to Zhuyouxing's original world, mainly because the skill points in this world have been transferred to other places, making the development of other places more rapid.

However, after Zhuyouxing proposed this idea, they all actively provided their products to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment for testing.

It will also be an important step towards mass production if you can get an order for the new AI computing chip from Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

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

In a vast video game world, there is already a clear 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. .”

Hayazawa Airi and several engineers were reading through a book of product introductions, which were product lists of different processor manufacturers, and introduced the performance of each product in detail.

Several people did not express their opinions immediately, but watched the product introductions while listening to the introductions of these people.

"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 processor products that are qualified enough for testing.

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

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

That's 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 to the conference room, and at the same time brought a few heads of the game development department who were not busy 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 the three companies to show Takeyusei.

"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 selling price of 299 and 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 disc 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.”

Upon hearing this, Hayazawa Airi asked tentatively: "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 one is sold, 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 would be 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 for 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.