"How much is this machine?" Boss Jia asked with a frown.
"The unit price for one is 150 million US dollars!" Ni Guangnan said, "But this is just our estimated price. In fact, we don't know how much the ASML is going to sell for, but it definitely won't be less than 150 million US dollars."
"You might as well kill me. I can't afford 150 million US dollars right now!" Boss Jia cursed.
Boss Jia's business was booming. At his peak, he brought 500 million US dollars to the United States. Even Qualcomm was bought by Boss Jia.
But now Boss Jia really couldn't afford 150 million US dollars. After all, after investing in the Titanic and Pokemon movies, Boss Jia basically spent all of his foreign currency.
Although two months had passed at this time, and it was reasonable to say that he had made a lot of money, the rapid sales of Pokemon had begun to decline at this time.
At the end of December, the global sales exceeded 20 million and ranked fourth in the world. After that, the sales of Pokemon fell into a trough. This was actually quite a normal curve. After all, a game couldn't always be in a state of explosive sales. After the players basically paid for it, the sales slowed down.
On average, about twenty to thirty thousand copies were sold every day. In a month, it was only about six hundred thousand … Although this number of six hundred thousand was equivalent to a lifetime of sales for 99% of the game players.
When Nintendo distributed this share, it was about 50 million US dollars. In addition, although Yu-Gi-Oh, Crispy Noodles, and Dengeki Bunko were still making money, they were basically in a maintenance phase. In two months, the income they brought to Boss Jia was only about 50 million US dollars.
So, although it was already January, the total amount of Daqian dollars outside was about 90 million US dollars. A lot of it was used to pay for staff expenses in Fusang and the United States. Jia Yapeng also had to reserve at least 50 million US dollars as a reserve fund. This was a fund that could never be used unless it was a critical time. So, asking Boss Jia to spend 150 million US dollars to buy a photolithography machine was really difficult for Boss Jia.
It would be fine if this photolithography machine could produce profits, but the problem was that after this photolithography machine was bought, it was basically disassembled by Ni Guangnan and his people. It was impossible to produce any direct economic benefits.
Taking a step back, even if this photolithography machine could be reassembled in the future and could be used normally after it was reassembled, it was useless to produce chips. The computer's GPU still needed other complicated designs and structures. These capabilities were not available in the Daqian at the moment. It was still in a state where it could only be seen but not used.
All in all, this 150 million US dollars would not yield any returns for the next four years. Do you think Boss Jia would be willing to spend this money?
Boss Jia suddenly realized that he seemed to be quite poor now.
All in all, the current Daqian could continue to operate and its finances were very healthy. However, if he wanted to spend 150 million US dollars to buy a photolithography machine, it would be impossible.
Therefore, after hesitating for a long time, Boss Jia still rejected Ni Guangnan. This made Ni Guangnan very unhappy with Boss Jia. Ni Guangnan muttered for a long time. Of course, Ni Guangnan also understood that Boss Jia was probably really out of money. After all, Boss Jia had already spent 500 million US dollars on the laboratory. Boss Jia had already done his best.
However, Ni Guangnan felt that it was a pity. Hua Xia finally had a chance to overtake him, but it might be over.
Of course, neither Boss Jia nor Ni Guangnan would have thought that at this moment, a very interesting thing happened in the United States.
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Well, since you asked so sincerely.
I will be merciful and tell you.
To prevent the world from being destroyed
To protect the world's peace
To carry out love and true evil
A cute and charming villain
I am Tom
I am John
We are the Rocket Team shuttling through the Milky Way
A white hole, a white tomorrow is waiting for us
Huang Yiming helplessly looked at his two younger brothers playing Pokemon in the living room. He sighed helplessly in his heart. His two younger brothers were really too childish.
"Go! Pikachu! Electrocute this damn fatty! "Tom shouted loudly and then released a yellow hamster.
The little hamster looked at the world blankly and licked its little paws. Obviously, it didn't understand when it had the name Pikachu and the ability to electrocute.
"Please, the Rocket Team should play Meow Meow!" Huang Yiming looked at his two stupid younger brothers and said helplessly.
"But we don't have a cat at home!" John, who was only five years old, said seriously.
"Okay, I've had enough of you guys!" Huang Yiming sighed and then took his GB and left the house. He planned to go to the nearby public garden to play his game quietly.
What made Huang Yiming even more depressed was that the garden was full of children. All of them were fair-skinned or dark-skinned children. They brought their own cats and dogs and shouted the names of Meow Meow and Katie Hound to let their two Pokemon fight against each other.
Well, although the dogs wanted to chase the cats, the problem was that once the cats jumped onto the trees, the dogs wouldn't be able to do anything. Huang Yiming could only watch as their owners continued to fight with the Chuunibyou trainers.
Occasionally, some children would suddenly shout, "I found it! It's a wild Pet Sprite, Herakros!"
"Herakros!" Huang Yiming was stunned. Did someone really find a wild Pokemon?
Huang Yiming ran over excitedly and found that a child had found a Rhinoceros Beetle. However, it looked very similar to Herakros.
"D * mn it, these childish children. Can't they let me catch a Transcendent?" Huang Yiming muttered. Back then, Boss Jia had bought him a lot of game cartridges to thank him. Therefore, Huang Yiming became one of the first players in the United States to own both red and green game cartridges.
Originally, Huang Yiming had the chance to become one of the first players in the United States to complete the Illustrated Handbook. However, Huang Yiming couldn't catch the last Transcendent.
In Jia Yapeng's version of Pokemon, the acquisition of Transcendent was modified. The original difficulty was not high, but it was changed to Epic difficulty.
In the game, there was only one way to catch Transcendent. That was to complete a hidden mission and find Transcendent hidden in a cave. Then, defeat Transcendent. That way, Transcendent would be automatically obtained. It even saved the step of subduing Transcendent. It seemed very kind.
However, in reality, Boss Jia had adjusted Transcendent's ability to the limit.
If the strongest combat power a player could reach in the game was 100, then subduing Transcendent would require a combat power of 98. Most of the Pokemon nurtured by players could only reach around 90 combat power.
Therefore, if one didn't nurture all the Pokemon to the maximum level and have enough luck, it was basically impossible to defeat Transcendent.
Huang Yiming had just reached the minimum requirement in the guide yesterday. He had six max level Pokemon. However, the problem was that when he fought Transcendent, he always lacked a little bit of luck. Many of his skills were dodged or failed to trigger. In the end, Huang Yiming fought Transcendent over a hundred times, but he couldn't defeat Transcendent once. This made Huang Yiming very depressed. He then muttered, "It would be great if there was a Super Pokemon with max overall stats. Transcendent isn't something humans can defeat!"
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