1991 Starting from the core

After the wonderful Spring Festival, Ye Rudai returned to Silicon Valley ahead of schedule.

She has always been extremely motivated, and once she has determined her direction, she will never look back. Therefore, almost a week after she returned to Silicon Valley, a breaking news came out.

——Eso officially announced its entry into the automotive field. Taking new energy, new technologies, and AI autonomous driving as the main directions, we will comprehensively build smart cars for the new era.

As soon as the news came out, eso's stock price suddenly rose.

…

Giant Building.

As the members of the Caotang Society grew increasingly prosperous, everyone no longer had the same interest in sightseeing as they did in the first few years, so the annual gathering was held at the rooftop garden of the Giant Building.

Of course, no matter how busy you are, you still have time for a gathering once a year—even if it’s crowded, you still have to squeeze it out.

"ESO is really awesome. If you just make an announcement, the market value will rise to the level of Midstream International."

Sitting next to Su Yuanshan, Liu Xiang had a look of emotion and envy on his face, with no sign of flattery.

"You don't even look at the size of eso." Shi Dazhu next to him happily took over: "It has a market value of 500 billion U.S. dollars, and this wave of stock price rises should also involve the trend of new energy vehicles. Not Mr. Shan?”

"Well, there is this factor. The Kyoto Protocol came into force last year, and on the one hand, Europe has new energy considerations, and on the other hand, environmentalism is in a period of strength... In addition, our Mosana has gone It's better. Tesla also launched a coupe last year, and the hybrid SUV we jointly launched with General Motors has also begun to go on the market... and two hybrid vehicles have also entered the North American market in a big way... Due to these various factors , the future of new energy vehicles is indeed gradually brightening."

Su Yuanshan always knew everything at the Caotanghui gatherings and patiently explained: "In addition, last year's United Nations Climate Change Conference also proposed further continuation and supplementation of the Kyoto Agreement..."

Shi Dazhu asked: "It seems that the United States has withdrawn from the Kyoto Agreement, right?"

"Well, I quit... The Americans think it's unfair. Haha... Damn, they have the most carbon emissions." Su Yuanshan smiled and cursed: "But now it is a consensus to deal with climate change, even if the Americans don't If you are willing, you must come out to uphold this justice..."

Everyone laughed when they heard "Justice".

"But under the current framework, Laos and the United States are definitely not happy. It depends on how the new agreement is negotiated - but no matter what, it is a consensus to transition to new energy vehicles as quickly as possible."

"Coupled with the fact that EOS itself is a representative of Silicon Valley technology companies, it is natural for them to announce that building cars can gain the favor of capital."

Everyone nodded, but Liu Xiang coughed and said with a strange expression: "Ahem... isn't that the two of you fighting in the ring?"

Before Su Yuanshan could speak, Shi Dazhu touched him and answered for Su Yuanshan with a smile: "Old Liu, you are a layman now. The opponent of electric vehicles is not electric vehicles, but fuel vehicles... Now every company entering It can be said that all new energy vehicle companies in the market are natural allies - otherwise, why would Yuanxin open source so many technologies?"

Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile: "Brother Zhu still has the vision. Indeed, just like when our Caotang Club was first established and everyone was actively involved in the field of gaming, the enemy is external."

As Su Yuan spoke, he looked at Liu Xiang, and then at the others, feeling a little sad in his heart.

Today...he is indeed here to "resolve conflicts."

——You may not have seen it, but Liu Xiang began to "dwarf" himself as soon as he sat down, saying that a single announcement from eso increased the market value of Midstream International.

Why do you say that? Of course it's because... in the past ten years, through the early layout of the 3D era and online games, today's domestic game circle is no longer the group of young guys who worked for the Niguo console platform more than ten years ago, but has become a important industries in the cultural field.

Without a strong common enemy, competition is inevitable when the growth of the user base cannot meet the scale expansion of game companies.

And when there is competition, there will naturally be conflicts.

Even though all of you here have known each other since the unknown period, we have a deep friendship. But...seeing the business being cannibalized and the user base being snatched away...it's a bit hard to calm down no matter what.

It's just...Su Yuanshan can't control this kind of competition!

…

"It seems that it has been fifteen years since the Thatched Cottage was held this year, right?" Su Yuanshan looked at everyone with a smile.

Shi Dazhu nodded: "We were established in 1994, and it is indeed fifteen years this year."

"Fifteen years are not easy..." Su Yuanshan glanced at Liu Xiang and a few others intentionally or unintentionally, and chuckled: "We were all very poor back then..."

"Haha, Yuanxin is not poor."

"Uh... Yuanxin was just a surface polisher at that time. Not only did it maintain a huge communication technology team, it also engaged in industry, academia and research, supported lithography machines, and built a R\u0026D center." Su Yuanshan shook his head with a smile: "This Along the way, no one has been left behind, which is indeed commendable.”

"But sometimes... when the business grows, it really cannot be controlled by our own will. For example, at the beginning, I thought that Yuanxin would become a software company and it would be enough to engage in EDA. But then you also know... We actually weighed it up and sold EDA...and then set up a foundry, a fab, a processor...and a car."

"Now, we even have milk powder!"

"You said it's fine for us to engage in biopharmaceuticals, but what does it mean to engage in milk powder?" Su Yuan spit out fragrance, laughing and scolding while shaking his head: "Before, people said that capital has its own will, and I scoffed at it, but now it seems ...Capital...is really not up to us."

Following Su Yuanshan's words, Shi Dazhu also looked at Liu Xiang, Zhou Yunfeng and others - they are engaged in online games. They compete fiercely to grab the market, especially in Internet cafes, and even have a fight. Such dirty things as the other party's promotional advertisements...

You may say that it's okay to do this once or twice, but if you do it again and again... In addition, the scale and income gap between the respective companies are getting bigger and bigger, no matter who you are, you will feel uncomfortable.

"But we are not ordinary people after all, right?" Su Yuanshan joked with a smile: "How could we be blinded by capital? Money is the bastard, brothers... No matter how fervent the capital's desire to increase capital is, it must pay attention to personal ethics. The Basic Law is about rules, right? We can't imitate the virtues of a local boss, right?"

Everyone laughed, but some expressions on their faces were a little unnatural.

As we all know, Hijikata bosses are generally just streetwalkers.

"So... I can't say much else. I can only say that competition and fair competition are actually a good thing. If it comes to the game field, come up with a good operating model and make good games. ...is the kingly way." Su Yuanshan said with a humorous smile: "In my opinion, the game industry and the film industry are exactly the same. As long as inspiration comes and luck comes, it only takes one game to become an instant hit. ,Soar."

"Similarly, if you always think that you can sit back and relax if you get a certain popular game or master a certain platform..."

Su Yuanshan shrugged: "Then there won't be so many bad sequels."

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At noon.

After having lunch at the Giant Hotel, everyone found a place in twos and threes to drink tea to sober up and take care of official business.

Shi Dazhu and Wang Xingang invited Su Yuanshan into a tea room.

After personally pouring tea for Su Yuanshan and Wang Xingang, Shi Dazhu sighed: "I don't know if they really listened."

"There's nothing you can do if you don't listen." Su Yuanshan smiled and spread his hands: "You can't play a planned economy operation game, right?"

"That's right. But as long as the people below don't mess around or accumulate resentment, it should be fine."

"Well... take your time, the gaming industry still has great prospects, and it will only become more and more promising." Su Yuanshan said briefly that Yuanxin has started to engage in virtual vision.

"Huo, Mr. Shan, we haven't even figured out mobile games yet... Are you going to develop into holographic games?" Wang Xingang said with an exaggerated smile.

——Because he is concentrating on mobile games, he is not in conflict with other people, so he is very relaxed and happy.

"It's just a first step. No one knows whether it will work out." Su Yuanshan shook his head with a smile, and then looked at Shi Dazhu: "Brother Zhu, I heard that you have a lot of insights into electric vehicles today. What? Are you interested?"

Shi Dazhu coughed and nodded with a smile.

In the entire Caotanghui, Giant is the most powerful technology company except Yuanxin, and it is also the technology company with the widest range of fields.

In addition to Giant software and Giant games, Giant has successively set foot in mobile phones, Giant film and television, and even Giant chips...

Among them, Giant Mobile has directly opened up the market to Africa because of its insistence on taking the mid-to-low-end cost-effective route, becoming a domestic mobile phone brand second only to Yuanxin in terms of revenue.

Of course, the highest ranking here only refers to ranking. As for profit, it is far inferior to Yuanxin.

There is a saying that Yuanxin accounts for 8% of global mobile phone shipments and has captured more than 40% of global mobile phone profits...

How can this compare to giant mobile phones that focus on cost-effectiveness and reduce stand-alone hardware profits to the extreme?

But when the sales scale increases, hardware profits are no longer necessary, especially under the sharing system of the YOS App Store. Giant mobile phones rely solely on pre-installed software and application sharing to maintain decent income and bring annual revenue. Revenue of over RMB 100 billion.

And all of this... is the result of Shi Dazhu's decision at that time to follow Yuan Xin's pace.

This time, Shi Dazhu decided to follow suit again.

"No problem, as you said, before we sweep fuel vehicles into the garbage heap of history, all electric vehicles are natural allies."

Su Yuanshan nodded firmly, strengthening Shi Dazhu's belief.

Then, he looked at Wang Xingang.

——This Lao Wang has been determined to engage in mobile games since the era of feature phones. He has also experienced several years of being "looked down upon" and "cold shouldered" by others. He even almost couldn't afford to eat when he was at his poorest. Okay... In the end, after Shi Dazhu understood his situation, he invested 1 million with the mentality of not letting people starve to death to solve the urgent need. Later, Shi Dazhu casually mentioned this matter to Su Yuanshan, and Su Yuanshan decided to give him another 5 million. …

Of course, in everyone's opinion, Mr. Shan and Brother Zhu are purely "doing charity" and don't want to see their brothers in trouble.

But unexpectedly, Wang Xingang survived until the launch of Vidoo4 - a simple fruit-cutting game directly made Wang Xingang's finger games soar.

Therefore, after Wang Xingang became "rich" now, the people he was most willing to get along with were Su Yuanshan and Shi Dazhu.

Su Yuanshan was also a little sad. Wang Xingang's current achievements and status were achieved purely through love.

"Old Wang, you don't want to buy a car too, do you?" Su Yuanshan joked with a smile.

"Um, no...I've been obsessed with mobile games my whole life.".

Shi Dazhu shook his head and smiled: "Jobs said that only the paranoid can succeed. You are a typical paranoid... To be honest, I am not as good as you in this regard."

Su Yuanshan happily continued: "I'm not as good as that."

"Ahem...Boss, don't wash my head." Wang Xingang waved his hands quickly, and then said seriously: "That's it, Mr. Shan, I can't decide on a direction now, and I want you and Brother Zhu to help me feel my pulse. "

Su Yuanshan and Shi Dazhu looked at each other: "Say."

"I want to do cloud gaming."

"Huh?" Su Yuanshan was slightly startled and surprised: "Cloud game?"

"Well...it's similar to cloud computing, except that the game calculations are placed on the cloud host and real-time images are sent back to the client."

Shi Dazhu also started out in games, and he immediately understood what he was talking about - in fact, as far as he knew, Newbook was already developing a cloud gaming platform.

But... when it comes to cloud gaming, technology aside, there is a natural problem—delay.

Unexpectedly, Su Yuanshan immediately asked after thinking for a while: "Are you doing the full platform or the mobile phone?"

"Of course mobile phones!" Wang Xingang took a breath gently: "I said, I will only play mobile games in this life."

"We have counted all the games currently being played on mobile phones, and based on estimates... we believe that the biggest problem that will restrict mobile game screens in the future is not the performance of mobile phones, but the power consumption and heat dissipation of mobile phones."

"Compared with PC-side cloud games, the mobile client's bandwidth requirements and latency requirements...are far lower than those of client games. And more importantly, it can ensure performance while ensuring performance." On the premise of reducing power consumption and heat dissipation, it can provide mobile game users with exquisite game picture quality... and at the same time, it can also greatly reduce the demand for mobile phone performance."

Wang Xingang's eyes shone as he spoke: "4G will be popularized soon - even if 4G cannot be popularized, wifi routers will definitely be a popular device in homes and offices in the future. By then..."

"Okay!" Su Yuanshan cheered before Wang Xingang finished speaking.

Mobile cloud gaming is indeed a solution to solve the pain points of mobile games such as high heat generation and high power consumption.

——Of course, the premise is not to play competitive games.