. Regarding the pseudo-artificial intelligence Abertil, Shi Lei knew a secret. That secret was a secret that Shi Lei found out after studying and communicating with Abertil and after a year of invasion and confrontation.
Maybe in the future, Shi Lei can use that secret
At around nine o'clock in the evening, Shi Lei's mobile phone placed on the computer table rang. The caller ID turned out to be Li Jianguo's call, which surprised Shi Lei.
Because in this life, Shi Lei has no friends in Li Jianguo!
Although he didn't know who made the call, Shi Lei still pressed the connect button and asked in English: "This is Shi Lei, who are you?"
When the other party heard Shi Lei's pure English, he seemed a little dazed, and then said in English: "Hello, is this Mr. Shi Lei from Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd.?"
"Yes, who are you?" Shi Lei didn't understand how the other party knew his phone number. Although his phone number was not kept secret, people from Li Jian Country shouldn't also know his phone number, right?
"Hello, Mr. Shi, I am Tom Cruci, Senior Vice President of AMD. We at AMD hope to have mutually beneficial cooperation with Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. I wonder if Mr. Shi Lei has any intention to cooperate?" The name is Tom.
.The man from Crusi spoke bluntly in English.
Shi Lei hesitated slightly. AMD is one of the world's largest CPU manufacturers and sellers, and the other is Intel. More than 99% of the world's personal computers and server CPUs use one of these two.
It can be said that AMD and Intel are the overlords of the computer world!
Why would a very large company like AMD suddenly find Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. and offer to cooperate?
Shi Lei was thinking about AMD's purpose in his mind, and responded at the same time: "Hello, Mr. Tom Crusey, how does AMD plan to cooperate with our Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd.?"
AMD's capital is extremely huge. There is no detailed statistics on how many assets it has, but Shi Lei remembered one thing. AMD acquired the famous graphics card manufacturer ATI in 2006, with the acquisition capital reaching 5.4 billion US dollars.
Thinking of this matter, a thought flashed through Shi Lei's mind, could it be about ATI?
During the phone call, Tom Cruci replied to Shi Lei: "Mr. Shi, I'm afraid you also know that AMD acquired ATI last year and made ATI a wholly-owned subsidiary of AMD."
‘Sure enough, it’s about the ATI company!’ Shi Lei thought in his mind, but did not speak and continued to wait for Tom Cruise to speak.
"Mr. Shi, regarding ATI's market share in Xia Guo, it has been surpassed by nVIDIA. We at AMD attach great importance to Xia Guo's market, so we want to expand ATI's market share in Xia Guo. Therefore, we plan to work with you
Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. launches a series of cooperation plans!"
Shi Lei coughed and said, "Mr. Tom, how can we cooperate?"
"Mr. Shi, your Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. will launch an epoch-making online game called "World of Brave" on April 30 this year, right? And it will conduct a closed test on April 30, right?" Tom
Cruci asked.
"That's right! Mr. Tom is very well-informed, but for the first closed beta test, we have no plans to test it in Lijian Country!" Shi Lei said deliberately rudely, but he knew that Tom Cruise was not here.
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"Mr. Shi, you have misunderstood. Our AMD company does not want to obtain agency rights in the Lijian region. We hope that your company can give us some invitation codes for closed beta testing so that we can match them in the sales of high-end ATI graphics cards.
Sales." Tom Crusey explained.
Shi Lei understood what Tom Crusey meant and wanted to use "World of Brave" to drive the sales of ATI's high-end graphics cards. However, the sales volume of ATI's high-end graphics cards in Xia Kingdom was a terrifying figure every day. "World of Brave"
There simply aren’t that many test places available!
In the first chapter of "World of Brave", the Beginning of the Brave, Shi Lei plans to test it for two months and issue a total of 350,000 to 500,000 test accounts.
Most of the so-called 80 million investment is actually used to purchase game servers. After all, it is only to develop the first chapter. How much can it be spent?
If we cooperate with AMD and use ATI's high-end graphics cards to give away invitation codes for the closed beta test of "World of Brave", then a mere three to five million invitation codes will definitely not be enough!
Although selling it in conjunction with ATI's high-end graphics cards will help enhance the reputation of "World of Brave", "World of Brave" is already unprecedentedly famous in Xia Kingdom, and there is no need for other external forces to promote it.
"Mr. Tom, I wonder what kind of return AMD can give us, Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd.?" Shi Lei asked.
The most basic condition for so-called cooperation is mutual benefit and win-win results!
If one party benefits unilaterally, it is called an unequal treaty, not cooperation. If AMD wants to obtain the invitation code for the closed beta test of "World of Brave", then they should pay benefits of at least equal value to impress Shi Lei.
"Mr. Shi, according to our understanding at AMD, your company doesn't have a server for "World of Brave" yet, right? Our AMD company can sell you a server with outstanding performance at the cost price." Tom Cruci put forward a condition
.
You don’t just have to buy a high-performance server if you want to. Although you can buy basic hardware if you want to, including supercomputers, which are just many CPUs gathered together to form a cluster server, they are not simply a matter of buying them.
CPUs are gathered together to form a supercomputer.
Whether it is a high-performance server or a supercomputer, in addition to expensive hardware, it also requires a corresponding operating system. The system of high-performance servers and supercomputers is something that is kept secret!
Except for external commercial server operating systems, other supercomputer systems are basically closed systems to increase the safety factor.
AMD thought that Shi Lei did not have a high-performance server to use as the server for "World of Brave", but they underestimated Shi Lei!
If they half-sold and half-gifted a supercomputer to Shi Lei, Shi Lei might agree to their conditions, but they were only willing to sell a high-performance server to Shi Lei at the cost price. This was a bit belittling!
Shi Lei responded calmly: "What kind of high-performance servers are you going to sell to me?"
"Supercomputer!" Tom Cruise said passionately, "A supercomputer with a computing performance of at least 10 TFLop/s!"
Shi Lei's heart moved. Although according to the design of "World of Brave", more graphics computing processing pressure is placed on the client's computer hardware, Shi Lei has a grand plan, which is to gather all players in one server.
To achieve such an idea, it is indispensable to use a supercomputer as a server! Otherwise, it is completely impossible to gather hundreds of thousands of players in one server.
But it is not easy to buy a supercomputer. Especially a supercomputer with a computing speed of 10TFLop/s, which has a computing performance that reaches the top 100, or even ranks in the fifties, is not something you can just buy if you want!
"Mr. Tom, does your AMD company provide supporting supercomputer systems?" Shi Lei asked additionally. If they don't provide supercomputer systems, although Shi Lei can also program it, Shi Lei doesn't have time!
Shi Lei has been busy with a lot lately!
The speech system, pupil tracking system, lip recognition system, virtual map construction, metal exoskeleton system, and even the NPC intelligent system based on the GMM model ultimately had to be solved by Shi Lei.
In addition, there is one more thing that Shi Lei needs to deal with
With so many things to do, where does Shi Lei have time to write an operating system for a supercomputer?
The operating system of a supercomputer is not as simple as Server 1 and can be completed in a short time. If Shi Lei is required to independently complete the operating system of a supercomputer in less than two or three months, then he is just dreaming!
"We, AMD, can provide supercomputer operating systems, but you need to pay the operating system usage fees separately." Tom Crusey responded.
The way foreigners talk is more direct. If they need something and can give it to them, just say it directly. No Xia people like to play riddles like this.
"Mr. Tom, how much does AMD plan to sell us the supercomputer plus the operating system?" Shi Lei wanted to hear the price first. If the price is not expensive, Shi Lei really wants to buy a supercomputer, even if the supercomputer's calculation speed is
It only has 10 TFLop/s, but with its own supercomputer, it will be able to realize Shi Lei's fantasy, allowing all players of "World of Brave" to gather on one server to play the game.
Tom Crusey hesitated for a moment and then said: "Mr. Shi, the total price is a bit expensive! The price of a supercomputer costs 200 million Xia Guoyuan, and the operating system requires a licensing fee of 10 million Xia Guoyuan."
Shi Lei retorted directly: "Mr. Tom, your AMD company has no sincerity in cooperation at all!"
"Mr. Shi, our AMD company has a very sincere attitude of cooperation." Tom Cruci said quickly: "The price of supercomputers is indeed so expensive. You can consult the industry-related situation. Although in our country,
, the price will be reduced a lot, but your Xia country will charge high tariffs, which is beyond our control."
Shi Lei was a little helpless!
Xia's tariffs on electronic products were frighteningly high in 2007!
"Mr. Tom, even because of the tariff issue, AMD has no sincerity in cooperation. You not only want the invitation code for the closed beta test of our Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd., but also want to sell your products to us. Such a cooperation plan belongs to Did you, AMD, benefit unilaterally? What benefits did we, Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd., gain?" Shi Lei asked with a tough tone.
(To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
