Originally, Jiang Chen planned to buy the two studios directly, but an accident occurred during the acquisition process.
Maxis was fine, but Deception's EA was known as the studio killer second only to Microsoft. The huge Maxis series of studios were cut down again and again. Future Technology was willing to acquire their studios, and they were naturally happy to do so. At a premium of 20 million US Dollar, they sold Maxis' studio responsible for the development of SimCity to Jiang Chen.
But R Star was a bit more troublesome.
R Star's parent company was Take-Two, and its business was doing well. "GTA6: Return to Liberty City" launched in June 2017 continued the glory of "GTA5" and expanded the map from all of California to all of New York and a European city. The map area reached more than twice the size of its predecessor and easily created a miracle of 40 million copies sold on the platform.
With such a cash cow, Take-Two certainly wouldn't foolishly sell it.
In this case, Future Technology had to take a step back and directly poach people.
The international headhunting company hired by Jiang Chen provided him with a list of 27 names, including the planner, script, and chief designer of R Star Studio, as well as their personal information, income, and debt. After Jiang Chen received the list, he directly waved his pen and increased their monthly salary by 50%. Then he sent the list back to the hired headhunting company to poach people according to this standard.
As for the specific matters of the VRcity project team, Jiang Chen left it to Ning Huajian. He was the expert in this area. Although he was the leader of virtual reality, he definitely didn't understand the market better than a CEO who started from the bottom.
After Jiang Chen finished the work at hand, he saw that it was still early to get off work, so he went to the materials science laboratory to inspect the research progress in the laboratory.
After solving the graphene problem, the materials science laboratory recently recruited a new group of researchers and established two new projects to research graphene cables and graphene chips.
The former was aimed at the space elevator, and the latter served the electronics industry of Future Heavy Industries.
Some time ago, the Frankfurt International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) released the new issue of the supercomputer TOP500 list. "Tianhe-3" developed by the National Parallel Computer Engineering Research Center, a key project of Hua's National 863 Plan, once again topped the TOP500 list after "Shenwei – Taihu Light".
Unlike the previous years, with the help of the Dragon Calvary X1 chip, not only did China take the top spot, but it also took the top five spots! The cola scared the comprador of the Hua Computer Engineering Research Center. He immediately added an order of 100,000 yuan to Future Heavy Industrial, increasing the monthly import to 200,000 yuan.
If this trend continues, surpassing the UK and catching up with the US is just around the corner!
The "domination" of Hua's supercomputer also frightened the UA. Although Intel also launched a new supercomputer chip based on graphene material, compared to Future Heavy Industries' Dragon Calvary X1, the gap was not small.
In desperation, although they had the intention to support local manufacturers such as Intel and Qualcomm, the US Department of Defense still selectively purchased 50,000 supercomputer chips to upgrade the performance of the Department of Defense's supercomputers. However, the deal didn't go through in the end because Future Group refused to fully disclose the technical details of the lix architecture, which was an intolerable security risk for the military.
Unless Future Heavy Industries was a UA company, they still couldn't be assured.
However, those private supercomputer centers didn't have so many concerns. In the market economy, survival of the fittest was vividly reflected. For example, after Google witnessed the power of the Dragon Calvary X1 chip, they directly threw an order of 60,000 chips to Future Heavy Industries to upgrade its servers across the UA.
After witnessing the strength of Future Heavy Industries in the chip manufacturing field, Google simply gave up on the plan to enter the chip manufacturing industry.
Businessmen were all profit-driven.
Google consumed more than 300,000 chips per quarter. If they used the Dragon Calvary X1, they could reduce the number of servers by at least 10% while maintaining the current business. Although Future Heavy Industries offered them a wholesale price of 347 US Dollar per chip, 60,000 chips per month would be a cost of 20.82 million US Dollar. But from an overall cost perspective, choosing the Dragon Calvary X1 could save them at least 200 million US Dollar per year.
They had lost the motivation to independently develop chips.
Not only Google, but also HP and Dell, the top two server chip purchasers in the UA, all had strong interest in Future Heavy Industries' Dragon Calvary X1.
Currently, the monthly shipment of the Dragon Calvary X1 supercomputer chips produced by Future Heavy Industries had reached a terrifying number of 500,000, 200,000 of which went to Hua, 100,000 to supercomputer centers in Europe, Switzerland and other small countries, and the remaining 200,000 to the UA.
It was foreseeable that, for a long time to come, the battle on the TOP500 list of the Frankfurt International Supercomputer Conference would be extremely intense. Whoever used the Dragon Cavalry in their supercomputing center would be able to dominate the rankings. If the top ten computers on the list all used Dragon Calvary, then it would be a competition of who had more Dragon Calvary and who was more proficient in using it.
Unless Celestial Trade's quantum computer was made public, it would be difficult to end this situation.
Due to the intense battle between the supercomputer centers, the graphene laboratory was developing the Dragon Calvary X2 chip to make money.
Do you want to become stronger? Do you want to show national pride on the news? Then come and buy the Dragon Calvary X2 …
Jiang Chen even thought of the advertising slogan.
…
Future Heavy Industries finally completed the registration of the lix architecture in various countries and registered patents for each instruction set. After receiving the news, Loongson immediately came to Jiang Chen and obtained the license of the lix architecture from Jiang Chen. They were ready to begin their own development of a supercomputer chip based on the lix architecture.
It was agreed upon when they first sold the chip, so Jiang Chen signed without hesitation. The patent fee was the same globally. 10% of the price of the chip using the lix architecture would be the patent fee. Although this number was twice as high as Qualcomm's 5%, Qualcomm was charging for the entire chip while Future Heavy Industries was only charging for the single chip.
(Qualcomm's model: Only produces chips. If the chip is only sold for 10 USD and the chip is used in the phone, then the phone is sold for 600 USD, then 5% of the entire phone must be paid as patent fee.)
But Jiang Chen noticed that the president of Loongson, Mr. Wu Weiwen, who came to sign the patent agreement, didn't look particularly happy.
"Is there any other problem, Mr. Wu?" Jiang Chen asked cheerfully.
Wu Weiwen shook his head.
"No problem, I just think Mr. Jiang is very resourceful."
"I don't quite understand what you mean. Can you explain it to me in detail?" Jiang Chen smiled.
Wu Weiwen smiled and didn't say anything as he left with the lix architecture license agreement.
Jiang Chen noticed that his back seemed to have aged a lot compared to when he arrived.
Loongson was a state-owned enterprise and enjoyed financial subsidies in its operations. In theory, Wu Wenwei as the president didn't have to worry about performance. Even if he couldn't sell a chip in a year or two, the company wouldn't have to worry about going bankrupt.
To be honest, when Jiang Chen agreed to license the lix architecture to Loongson, he could clearly feel the concern from above for Loongson.
But when the first batch of Dragon Calvary X1 was distributed to the four supercomputer centers and the researchers cheered, Wu Wenwei could clearly feel the change in the eyes of the leader standing next to him.
Especially after taking over the top five of the supercomputer chart.
The leaders in charge of key projects in the 863 plan were almost all promoted, and the project leaders even received praise from the president.
It was a great honor!
Whether it was for the individual, the country, or the nation.
Precisely because of this, the honor couldn't be let go.
Sure enough, as Wu Weiwen expected, the leader in charge of the supercomputer project immediately contacted Future Heavy Industries after receiving the award and increased the number of purchase orders. High technology was like a poison. Once it was opened, it couldn't be stopped.
If you took top five this year, do you have the nerve to lose this position next year? Do you still want the credit?
What if you don't want to lose it?
You can only buy the Dragon Calvary X1. How long would it take for the old scholars to produce their research results?
At a dinner table, one sentence from the leader made Wu Weiwen feel deeply uneasy.
"You can't always protect your protectionism. Without a market, how can you be competitive? This Future Group is also a child of our country. Instead of filling this bottomless pit, why don't we bring in their technology? We are family after all. … "
The idea was dangerous.
Very, very dangerous.
But Wu Wenwei also knew that as the president of a state-owned enterprise, he couldn't change this.
Things that could be solved with money weren't problems, but some things couldn't be solved with money.
Unless he could defeat the Dragon Calvary X1 and take out the supercomputer chip that was the best in the world …
But was it possible?
Future Heavy Industries already occupied the commanding heights of the market and became the standard-setters. With their technological advantage, they could take the majority of the orders in the entire market. With the profits from these orders and the continuous investment of these profits into research and development projects, their technology would only become stronger and more unattainable.
By that time, even Intel and ARM would have to use the instruction set of the lix architecture to enrich their own X86 and ARM architectures and pay patent fees to Future Technology who owned the intellectual property of the lix architecture.
The strong would always be strong. This was the market.
Before disruptive products appeared, the giants that already occupied the commanding heights had no possibility of being tripped. It was foreseeable that even if he obtained the license for the lix architecture, at least in the next decade, they would absolutely be unable to leave Future Group's chips.
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