That night, Lin Zuhui suddenly had a whim and came to the "Cyberport" in Pok Fu Lam.
When he got out of the car and held a building in Cyberport, he saw bright lights and couldn't help but smile.
The lights are brightly lit at night, which shows that the Cyberport is an extremely successful project and also symbolizes the development of Hong Kong's technology industry.
Xiaomi Technology is a Hong Kong technology giant and a world technology giant company. Although its R&D headquarters is located in Pengcheng, it also has nearly a thousand employees in the Hong Kong Cyberport.
There are about 3,000 employees in Hong Kong's gaming industry, almost all of whom work in Cyberport. The Ninth City alone has more than 1,600 employees.
IT companies in Cyberport employ nearly 5,000 people. Representative companies include Sina.com, ICQ branch, SUNeVision.com, TOM.com, priceline (Asia), YAHOO (Hong Kong)...etc.; just Sina.com,
It employs more than 2,000 people. After all, it also has web comics, online DVD rentals (and subsequent video websites) and other businesses.
There are also several companies in the telecommunications industry that choose to work in Cyberport, after all, the rent is cheap.
The entire Cyberport can accommodate 15,000 people for employment, and currently the number is around just over 10,000.
Because the rent in Cyberport is less than half that of Wan Chai, many companies want to move in. Unfortunately, Cyberport has strict requirements, that is, it must be a technology company.
At the same time, Matrix Partners and Xiangjiang Telecom have set up "venture investment funds" in Cyberport to specifically support technology companies settled here.
Hong Kong citizens describe the ‘Cyberport’ as the cradle of science and technology in Hong Kong. If someone works here, they will be very proud of the future of science and technology in Hong Kong.
In this life, Cyberport has been a great success.
Lin Zuhui walked into an office building and walked towards The9 City Company.
The office buildings in the entire Cyberport are not very high, but almost all of them are connected together to form a 'giant dragon'.
"boss"
When Lin Zuhui pushed into a writing room, the employees shouted unexpectedly.
Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Are you still working overtime?"
Zhang Zhiteng, the development director of MapleStory, quickly came to Lin Zuhui and said, "Well, the inner side of MapleStory is coming soon, so work is a bit tight."
Lin Zuhui nodded. In fact, he knew that when the projects of MapleStory, Bubble Hall, Martin Racing and Audition were established in 2000, these four R&D teams had been working overtime.
After all, it is normal for large-scale online games to take 3 to 5 years to develop. Of course, if other reasons are taken into consideration, it is naturally unnecessary.
For example, Lin Zuhui knew that there were about 100 technicians developing MapleStory, which naturally saved time compared to a team of 30 to 50 people.
At the same time, having Lin Zuhui, a player of the ‘original’ game, can also reduce research and development time.
"Well, can you let me test it?"
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"
Zhang Zhiteng happily arranged it. He knew that this boss was very creative and always gave some good suggestions every time he played MapleStory.
In fact, Lin Zuhui is not really playing, but experiencing it. Every map must be experienced, and the gameplay must be introduced by the developers.
In a testing room, Lin Zuhui was discussing with core R&D personnel.
Q's cute painting style and relaxed gameplay are the advantages of MapleStory; the side-scrolling mode allows you to play without having to run around the map too much.
‘MapleStory’ is a free model that relies on charging for props to make money. This will be a new innovation.
"This game will definitely achieve great success!" This was Lin Zuhui's evaluation two hours later.
He has tried it in the early stages, but today is the first time he has made a formal review.
Zhang Zhiteng said excitedly: "We will be officially admitted in May. We will definitely live up to the company's expectations and produce the most perfect work."
The research and development success is high. The entire team has nearly a hundred people. Based on the average salary of 250,000 per year, the research and development expenses are almost 25 million, not counting other research and development costs.
Of course, the pressure on Zhang Zhiteng's team is not particularly great, because the outline of this game is arranged by the company.
Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "Very good, let's show our strength! If Hong Kong is to become an important city for game development in the world, we will rely on excellent works to enter dozens of overseas countries, or even hundreds of countries.
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"Yes" everyone was excited.
They just want to make this work perfect, but the boss is thinking about the development of the entire Hong Kong game industry. No wonder the boss occasionally tests it himself.
When Lam Cho-fai left Cyberport, he was in a very good mood.
The9 has developed many world-class classic games, from console games to PC games to online games, making most of its contributions to the Hong Kong game industry.
He believes that Hong Kong’s gaming industry will reach a level that would make the world tremble in another ten years.
Take the MapleStory just now for example. Within ten years, it will be able to operate in at least 50 countries. It can be said that a classic game IP is worth tens of billions.
In the previous life, the game developers of Korean Bangzi only had 2 to 3 high-quality products. The boss’s net worth could be ranked in the top ten of South Korea’s wealth list, with a net worth of billions of dollars; and among the top ten wealth in South Korea, there are three people.
It's from the game.
You know, South Korea has a population of less than 50 million and the game market is not big. The reason for this is because their games have servers all over the world.
Of course, to be so powerful, you must have a super strong operations team, which is what The9 has been doing.
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One week later.
Lin Zuhui came to The Ninth City again, called several core executives including President Gao Kelin, and presented two pieces of information to everyone.
"This is the development outline of the two games. You are ready to start the project. This time I will give you two years."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Everyone’s expressions of excitement are not a matter of time, but the creative outline given by the boss, which is an excellent game plan.
Gao Kelin said: "With this information, we can save at least a year, and the direction has been determined. In the first half of this year, we are expected to conduct internal testing of 'Maplestory' and 'Bubble Hall', and in the second half of the year, we will conduct internal testing of 'Martin Racing'
' and 'Audition', time is no problem. Now that we have two more projects, we just need to recruit more people, and we will be able to form a team soon."
Lin Zuhui said: "The9 has no problem recruiting 2,000 people (for the R&D department). The game industry is becoming more and more developed, and we are not afraid of raising idle people."
"OK"
If other studios can recruit 30 people, they can already develop a game, but in The9, speed and quality are important, so an online game requires 60 to 100 people. Anyway, Lin Zuhui is not worried about project failure.
After all, he contributed to games that were very popular in the market in his previous life.
In addition to the 7 online games that Lin Zuhui has contributed, The9 also has other online game projects, as well as PC games and other departments.
The game planning outline that Lin Zuhui handed over to The9 was based on "Crossfire" and "Dungeon Fighter" developed in Korea's previous life.
"Boss, this "CrossFire" is somewhat similar to "Counter-Strike"," said a technical executive.
Lin Zuhui responded with a smile: "I don't know. But "Counter-Strike" is also a company owned by me. It doesn't matter if it is a little similar, but you must have your own creativity."
The technical executive nodded and said: "It can't be the same. I can only say that the themes are similar. There is also a note on this. "Crossfire" is a free game and an online game that relies on items to charge for items. In this way, it is different from "Counter-Strike"
Yes, "Counter-Strike" is relatively balanced in terms of strength, but if "CrossFire" relies on props, it will definitely not be fair in terms of strength."
Gao Kelin looked at the information and said: "This is normal. After all, one is a PC game and the other is an online game. There is also a note here, "Cross Fire" should be easy to get started..."
Everyone briefly discussed it, and Lin Zuhui also took the information and looked at it as if it was submitted to him by someone else.
"'Dungeon and Fighter' is another side-scrolling 2D online game. Is it better for this company to continue developing 3D online games?" said a technical executive.
Gao Kelin knew Lin Zuhui, so he immediately said: "Not necessarily. I think this "Dungeon and Fighter" is very creative and has more gameplay. If it is developed seriously, it will definitely be a masterpiece."
Nonsense, this was one of the most profitable games in the previous life. Tencent made tens of billions by acting as its agent.
Lin Zuhui said: "I am very optimistic about "Dungeon and Fighter". You must pay enough attention to it and strive to have closed beta and open beta in 2003."
I'm so angry at NEXON. By then, Hong Kong would have started internal testing in 2003, and NEXON had probably already been developing the project for some time, which made them busy for a while.
After taking out two games this time, Lin Zuhui almost drained his memory. After all, he got older in his previous life and played enough games. Many of the subsequent games were no longer played.
In his previous life, as a child born in the 1980s, the nine online games he gave to The9 were his online game memories.
There are also some domestically developed games, but he feels there is no need to snatch them up. After all, they may not be popular abroad.
Just when Lin Zuhui felt that his online game memory was exhausted, he suddenly thought of a small game.
"Wait a minute, you guys are going to develop another game. I heard it from a friend and it seems pretty good."
Several people were stunned for a moment, and then quickly picked up paper and pens.
Gao Kelin nodded and said, "Boss, you tell me!"
Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "There is no specific plan. He just told me that he is developing an online version of the 'street basketball' game. The style of painting is of course the American street basketball style, with cartoon characters, 1v1, 3V3 modes, and defenders."
, forward, center...that's about it."
Gao Kelin said: "No problem, we have mature experience in developing casual games!"
Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "Then try to take one year to develop the inside. Anyway, the development is not very difficult."
"no problem!"
Lin Zuhui was also very happy to have collected 10 games.
To put it bluntly, maybe the game he planned has incomplete memory, but as long as he plays it for a while, more memories will come out.
Then again, I just remembered about street basketball today. He was the kind of person that no one else wanted when forming a team (often being T-rated). He had no talent for competitive games.
As for The9's development capabilities, Lin Zuhui has no worries. The9 was established as early as 1993. The entire company has developed strong R&D capabilities and has even driven the entire Hong Kong game industry.
The development of a game not only tests planners, programmers, but also artists; and Xiangjiang's comic industry is undoubtedly very developed and has the world's top development capabilities.
The9's 10 online games will establish its status as a world gaming giant in one fell swoop, and even drive the entire Hong Kong gaming industry.
Assuming that he has no new ideas in the future, I believe that the Hong Kong game industry will also flourish and produce new best-selling games, and there will be many of them. After all, the foundation is so strong.
Having said that, in the previous life, Singapore had gaming tycoons, but Hong Kong did not. Others only had two-thirds of Hong Kong’s territory and about two-thirds of the population, but they had technology tycoons.
Xiangjiang is really an Adou!
Fortunately, Lin Zuhui was supported by Sima Yi and Zhuge Kongming.
Help, we must continue to help!
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Pengcheng, Xiaomi Technology Park.
Lin Zuhui came to Zou Kaixuan's office in a low-key manner. She has been the chairman of Xiaomi Technology for a long time and does not hold the position of president. In this way, she actually acts as Lin Zuhui's position in the company under her company. She only needs to grasp the general direction. The president is
The person directly responsible for the company.
Because of this, Zou Kaixuan still has time to give birth to two sons, and he may be able to take over Xiaomi Technology in the future.
"The number of PHS users in China has exceeded 5 million, and the number of PHS users in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, South Korea, and Japan has also exceeded 5 million. It is expected that PAS wireless local calls will grow more rapidly this year." Zou Kaixuan reported the good news.
Lin Zuhui nodded and said directly: "Within five years, the number of PHS users worldwide will be at least 100 million!"
Mainland China accounts for half and overseas accounts for half. What was an inconspicuous technology back then has now become the core business of Xiaomi Technology.
Although Lin Zuhui has little control over Xiaomi Technology, Xiaomi Technology has still become a technology giant with a market value of HK$150 billion. This is despite the sluggish Hong Kong stock market.
Xiaomi Technology can be said to have strongly supported the development of Hong Kong's technology industry, although its R&D headquarters is in Pengcheng.
Zou Kaixuan had no doubt about Lin Zuhui's words, and said with admiration on his face: "Well. Our mobile phone business has also grown very rapidly. Last year, sales exceeded 10 million units, and overseas sales accounted for half..."
This data is definitely far behind Nokia and Samsung, but compared to domestic waveguide and ZTE, the sales volume is probably several times higher.
The important thing is that Xiaomi Technology’s mobile phones have their own core patents and technologies, they are not copycat phones, and their profitability is much higher than that of domestic mobile phones.
This is of course also due to the fact that Xiaomi Technology entered this field early and was willing to invest in technology research and development.
"How is the progress of 3G telephony?" asked Lin Zuhui.
Before smartphones appeared, 3G video phones were the highest technology scale.
Lin Zuhui is in the telecommunications industry. How could he not know this, so he asked Xiaomi Technology to conduct research and development early on.
“We hope to launch it in the first half of next year!”
"It's a little slow, but considering the immaturity of 3G technology, it's acceptable."
Hutchison Telecom will launch 3G phones in Europe by the middle of this year, while Vodafone has delayed plans to provide 3G services in Europe due to a lack of mature enough 3G phones.
Everyone is striving for the launch of 3G mobile phones. This is because obtaining a 3G license costs a lot of money and needs to be earned back from business, so telecommunications companies have been advocating 3G.
In fact, the technology is not mature yet!
Hong Kong Telecom and Australia's Oputs Telecom, owned by Lin Zuhui, have also won the 3G license in Hong Kong and Australia, so naturally they hope to promote Xiaomi's 3G mobile phones.
To be honest, when he acquired two telecommunications companies, he already had plans for Xiaomi Technology’s mobile phones to go overseas.
You must know that in overseas regions and countries, including Hong Kong, mobile phone users can almost only purchase mobile phones from telecommunications companies. Therefore, telecommunications companies and mobile phone companies in this era are in a monopoly and cooperation situation.
Then, Zou Kaixuan reported one by one: communication solutions business (wireless, PPTV), LCD business, semiconductor business, lithium battery business, storage, electronic equipment... some products and business situations.
Unknowingly, Xiaomi Technology has become a technology giant with tens of thousands of R&D personnel, and a comprehensive electronics company similar to South Korea's Samsung.
Lin Zuhui takes the absolute credit for achieving such success. He set the business direction for Xiaomi Technology and prepared sufficient funds for Xiaomi Technology. This made Xiaomi Technology what it is today.
"Is there a shortage of R&D funds?" Lin Zuhui always asks this question.
Semiconductors and LCD screens are all made by spending money, and Xiaomi Technology uses product profits for research and development and expansion. To achieve this, Xiaomi has many best-selling electronic products, including the original VCD and DVD, and currently there are
A series of products such as mobile phones, storage devices, telephones, MP3 players, and repeaters are selling well, with annual profits of about 3.5 billion.
"The research costs for the liquid crystal business and the semiconductor business are relatively high, especially if you want to make a breakthrough in the liquid crystal business, you can only spend money on it." Zou Kaixuan said seriously.
She knew that Lin Zuhui focused on long-term goals, so Xiaomi Technology has been the champion of global technology companies in terms of proportion of R&D expenses in recent years.
Some people ridiculed Xiaomi Technology for overestimating its capabilities and stretching the front too far, but she never wavered.
Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "In a year or two, it will be easy for Xiaomi Technology's market value to exceed 200 billion. After all, we have the support of PHS business and network solution business, and we will definitely be extremely optimistic by investors."
PHS is about to explode. Just imagine how much market value an Asian market with hundreds of millions of users can support. Moreover, when Xiaomi Technology decided to start PHS, it also took advantage of the trend to enter wireless network solutions and PPTV solutions (a combination of telecommunications and television).
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Zou Kaixuan understood instantly and said: "You mean to raise funds from the stock market to support increased research and development efforts in the LCD and semiconductor business."
Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "Not only will we increase our efforts in research and development, but we will also increase our efforts in acquiring some domestic and overseas semiconductor companies. Now that China has entered the WTO, it is a good opportunity. We can first issue bonds of 5 billion Hong Kong dollars, and some people will subscribe to it anyway.
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Zou Kaixuan understood that Lin Zuhui's companies could take care of everything.
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"
It is Lin Zuhui's idea to use money to develop technology in Hong Kong or the Mainland.
Of course, it can only be said to be the icing on the cake, but it cannot be said to have changed Huaxia Technology. Xiaomi Technology does not have that strength.
Lin Zuhui thought for a while and said: "You should pay attention to the microelectronics industry in the mainland. If there are enterprises supported and established by the state, please tell me."
Zou Kaixuan thought for a moment and said: "I really want to see the report. The Ministry of Science and Technology is determined to use photolithography machines as the primary research project for microelectronics equipment during the "10th Five-Year Plan" period."
Lin Zuhui immediately said: "Then pay attention. If a team forms a company, you tell me. I plan to ask you to donate to them and let Xiaomi Technology form an alliance with them."
What he was thinking about was Modu Microelectronics, the only photolithography machine company in the mainland. Currently, microelectronics is an industry that is highly blocked from China abroad, and it can only rely on its own research and development.
It is said that Modu Microelectronics only had a few hundred million R&D funds at the beginning. It was short of funds, talents, and cooperation with related companies.
Undoubtedly, if it becomes Modu Microelectronics this year, Lin Zuhui will personally donate R&D funds through Zou Kaixuan; and let Xiaomi Technology and Modu Microelectronics reach an alliance agreement. Of course, it is best to form a secret alliance.
To be honest, Xiaomi Technology will definitely be blocked by Europe and the United States in the future, because it is a high-tech company, not an assembly company in its previous life.
Therefore, it is inevitable for Xiaomi Technology to firmly cooperate with the country.
When Lin Zuhui was listed on Xiaomi Technology, his connections had been removed. He was neither the boss nor a director, and his shareholdings were transferred to overseas offshore companies.
To be sure, Lin Zuhui also plans to 'clear out' his stocks in the future.
"Yes, I understand." Zou Kaixuan would not ask so many questions. She knew that her man was planning something, but she did not want to affect the Lin family, so she acted in secret.
She now completely regards herself as a Chinese, and Xiaomi Technology will rely on China to grow into a technology giant.