While Assassin's Creed Revelations is selling like hotcakes, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has once again started manufacturing the latest generation of game console processors.
Today, there are about five processor manufacturers in the world, which are considered to be the top ones.
Faced with an electronic product with an average lifespan of more than five years and sales exceeding 100 million, no processor manufacturer would refuse such a bidding opportunity.
Of course, this kind of thing is still confidential in public for the time being. Now all parties need to provide their own processors, and then the engineering development department of Youxing Electronic Entertainment will test them, and finally find a processor that can meet the needs of Youxing Electronic Entertainment's latest model.
Game console processor.
Oh, by the way, this time you may not be able to simply look for an integrated processor with a central processing unit and a graphics processor.
This time Zhuyouxing has a new request.
That is to require these companies to design a new AI computing processor chip.
AI computing has already taken a rough shape in this world, and these companies do have related experimental products, but they have not yet been officially announced to the outside world and are only circulated internally on a small scale.
Originally, they thought that the AI industry would only become popular in a small area in a short period of time and would not become a popular field immediately.
The field of artificial intelligence learning in this world is slightly behind Zhuyouxing's original world. The main reason is that the skill points in this world have been directed to other places, allowing other places to develop more rapidly.
However, after Zhuyouxing proposed this idea, they were very active in providing their own products to Youxing Electronic Entertainment for testing.
Being able to get orders for new AI computing chips from Youxing Electronic Entertainment will also be an important step towards mass production.
Because they have seen from Assassin's Creed Revelations the huge demand for AI computing in video games in the future.
In the vast world of video games, there is a clear gap between scenes and stories with AI computing and scenes and stories without AI computing.
Surui Electronics and Mickford have also begun 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 electronic game market. They cannot leave everything to Youxing Electronics
Entertainment dominates this market.
The contact persons for these processors came to Japan overnight from all over the world to discuss with the engineering development department of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment in person and select the best ones.
"Ms. Airi Hayasawa, the latest AI computing processor unit we launched is very powerful. It is now in service in our company's servers and receives a very large amount of intelligent computing every day. I can guarantee that our product is the most stable.
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Airi Hayasawa and several engineers were flipping through a book of product introductions. They were product lists from different processor manufacturers, detailing the performance of each product.
Several people did not express their opinions immediately, but listened to these people's introductions while reading these product introductions.
"Ms. Airi Hayasawa, you can also take a look at our products first. For this reason, we are willing to make a certain profit concession. If you are willing to purchase more than 30 million units at a time, we are willing to give you a 5% profit margin."
"We also..."
"us……"
This time it was just an inspection, a preliminary screening, and then two or three sufficiently qualified processor products were selected for testing.
According to the planning of Yuxing 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.
This is the rhythm of the entire console development cycle.
After roughly looking through all the product catalogs, Airi Hayasawa thanked everyone, and then asked everyone to leave temporarily, waiting for the internal meeting of Yusei Electronic Entertainment to make a decision.
Then in the afternoon of the same day, Airi Hayasawa pulled Takeyusei, who was supervising the production of the new game, into the conference room. He also brought several heads of the game development department who had nothing to do for the time being, and several executives to discuss the new game console.
the design of.
"Zhuyou, several of us from the engineering and development department have roughly selected three suitable processors. According to their initial quotation, the graphics processor, central processing unit, and AI computing processor can be sold as a package at two prices each.
Floating in the range of one hundred and thirty to two hundred and seventy dollars.”
Airi Hayasawa's engineering team conducted a simple preliminary screening and finally selected processors from three companies to show to Takeyusei.
"Which one of the three is the best?" Zhu Youxing asked.
"The product offered by Feixin Intelligent Manufacturing in the United States is considered to be the best, and the price is also the most expensive, reaching two hundred and seventy US dollars. There is no way to negotiate the price. This is the lowest price they can accept."
Zhu Youxing looked at the introduction on the projection.
The introduction of this set of processors describes it as the best connection among the three processors. They have their own exclusive high-speed data transmission technology, and the performance of the game will be 100% higher than the other two packaged processors.
About ten out of ten.
Of course, in addition to the relatively high price of this processor, another disadvantage is that the instantaneous power consumption will be relatively severe, which requires a relatively good power supply to provide a stable enough power supply, otherwise there will be a risk of circuit breakdown.
This engineering development department can continue to tune and design, but it is impossible to completely solve the problem.
The processor cost is two hundred and seventy US dollars. If a series of other costs are added, the final cost will probably be close to five hundred US dollars.
It seems that the next era has really arrived.
Gone is the price of 299,399.
Fortunately, I have been insisting on promoting the media of flash memory to store games. At this point, it has completely surpassed the traditional optical disk media in terms of cost and reading speed. Otherwise, the cost will continue to increase by another level.
"Then, use this processor."
Zhu Youxing didn't hesitate too much.
"Zhuyou, aren't you going to look at other processors?"
"No, this time, I want to be as good as possible in terms of performance and give players a good enough product. Anyway, this is just the initial price of the processor. Sooner or later, the price of this processor will also decrease.
It won’t be too late to earn back the money from the game console later.”
Upon hearing this, Airi Hayazawa asked tentatively: "So Takeyuzu plans to sell the game console below the cost?"
"You can plan like this in the first year, but it doesn't have to be too low, just sell it at a price of $449."
At a price of 449, each unit sold will result in a loss of about fifty US dollars.
This is almost equivalent to the price of a popular game from Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
If 30 million game consoles were sold in the first year, it would be equivalent to a game that lost 30 million sales.
The executives responsible for the company's capital flow sounded a little distressed.
But Zhu Youxing didn't care about this.
This loss can be easily made up for in video games. After all, hardware must serve the software.
In order to make games better, he will promote the AI industry. In order to make games 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.