Zhou Buqi returned to Beijing.

Zhang Yiming, Xu Liangjie, Fu Hongliang and others were called to hold a small meeting to convey the results of the work going south.

At first, they were a little surprised.

Didn’t Boss Zhou go south this time to resolve the matter regarding the Ziweixing International Building of the Magic City Branch? If you want to convey this kind of thing, you can just give the document directly. As for calling everyone here specifically?

Isn't this a waste of everyone's time?

Even if it doesn't work, we should discuss it with He Yang, he is the one in charge of this stall.

When Zhou Buqi said Rainbow Hello, everyone's expressions changed slightly and they became shocked.

"Rainbow helo has joined?" Fu Hongliang was so excited that he couldn't sit still. "How did it go so smoothly?"

Zhang Yiming was also in disbelief and said suspiciously: "You took the initiative to talk to them?"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and explained with a smile: "Shi Yuzhu helped pull the strings. The 51 side has been in a lot of trouble recently. Rainbow Helo is a life-saving product. I have already said that they are more anxious than us."

Zhang Yiming said: "Even if this is the case, it is not easy to negotiate. Especially now that the plan to transform Helo is still in the internal demonstration stage, it is really surprising to let Rainbow Helo join in the background of confidentiality and no equity relationship."

Zhou Buqi said seriously: "Yes, it is not easy. I have sacrificed a lot in order to facilitate this deal."

"How many?"

"A few hundred million."

"What?"

Everyone was shocked.

It took hundreds of millions to push Rainbow Helo to join the plan to transform Helo? What a big loss! Boss Zhou, what do you think?

Zhou Buqi felt that he had to change his bad habit of speaking without restraint, so he coughed lightly and said, "The hundreds of millions I'm talking about are not money."

Xu Liangjie reacted quickly and said with a smile: "You are talking about the hard work and burned brain cells, right?"

Zhou Buqi laughed, "Yes! Lao Xu, you still understand me!"

Xu Liangjie did not compliment him, but said calmly: "You are the big boss, so you should work harder. If you don't work hard and set an example, who among your subordinates will be willing to work for you?"

Obviously, his business management ideas are completely different from He Yang's.

Zhou Buqi has summarized his historical experience——

Xu Liangjie's thinking is that of a military commander, who pursues the idea of ​​taking the lead, sharing the joys and sorrows, mounting his horse and raising his sword to kill the enemy chieftain, which can calm the morale of the army; He Yang's thinking of a civil servant, advocating the feather fan and silk scarf, strategizing, winning a decisive victory thousands of miles away, can control the court.

In the early days of starting a business, Zhou Buqi was a military general. He personally deployed and commanded several key battles in which fewer people defeated more, and achieved great success. Now he is transforming in the direction of a civilian commander.

Zhou Buqi was too lazy to discuss business management ideas with these technical sects, and continued talking about Rainbow Helo, "They have promised to pay a fee to obtain the permission to modify Helo. How much will it cost? You can discuss it when you go back.

discuss."

Zhang Yiming asked: "How is their cash flow?"

Zhou Buqi thought for a moment and said slowly: "I remember that in April, Giant wanted to invest in 51. The price at that time was that Giant invested US$55 million, accounting for 25% of the shares. Giant was a strategic investment, and the price was relatively high.

.Looking at it this way, 51’s market valuation is around US$300 million. I estimate it will be similar with this financing.”

Zhang Yiming nodded, "Now is the first step in the magic reform helo plan. I think the charge should not be too high. But when designing the product, long-term benefits must be taken into consideration. It is easy to reduce prices but difficult to increase prices. Now the price is low, and this plan will be implemented in the future

Once it’s done, trying to push for price increases will lead to complaints from developers.”

"What do you think?"

"Yesterday, Daliang just discussed with me. We believe that helo should have a relatively unified set of standards in terms of charging models, which can be used as a reference with the standards of helo quick login service."

After Zhang Yiming said this, Fu Hongliang followed, and continued: "The charging standard setting of Helo may attract a lot of criticism. This is a new thing. If a new charging standard is adopted, it will not be easy.

Convince 51. It’s better to connect it with helo quick login service.”

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi was very interested, "Could you be more detailed?"

Fu Hongliang said: "helo's quick login service mainly has two standards. If it is a website or general software login, it will cost 1-2 cents each time. If it is a game or web game's quick login, the fee will be higher.

Some are between 5 cents and 1 cent. Magic Helo can be characterized as a general software login."

"Pay-per-use?"

"Yes, I have calculated that the current daily activity of Rainbow Helo is about 1.05 million, and the number of logins is about 1.4 million-1.5 million. If the fee is 1 cent per time, it will cost about 15,000 per day."

Zhou Buqi frowned, "A little less."

Zhang Yiming smiled and said: "It's quite a lot. Now the daily active users are only 1 million. But 51's daily active users can reach 13 million. If Rainbow Helo's daily active users are 10 million, we will have an income of at least 100,000 per day."

100,000 per day, less than 40 million per year.

Not too much.

Moreover, Rainbow Helo may not have a chance to reach 10 million daily active users. 51 Space is already a product that lags behind the times. Even if you have money and traffic, it will be in vain if the product does not work well. With the 51 group of people, they are reckless and reckless.

Judging from the company's style, it lacks delicate product design and solutions to users' pain points, and I'm afraid it will be dead in less than two years.

Rainbow helo can only be an experimental product, and the hope for a successful sample of the magically modified helo still lies with yy.

Zhang Yiming continued: "Don't forget, the main purpose of Rainbow helo is to establish a flow reservoir for 51 space, and to link 51 space and Rainbow helo. In other words, through Rainbow helo, you can directly log in to 51 space, which is equivalent to

It’s a quick login service. You can also charge another 1 cent.”

Zhou Buqi's reaction was relatively dull, but he didn't object. "Well, if you think it works, then give it a try."

This idea of ​​charging unified fees for magic modified helo and quick login services seems good, but it is subject to the times and is only suitable for the PC Internet era.

In the mobile Internet era, Mogai Helo only charges 1 cent per login, which is a bit low, and the price needs to be raised. The quick login fee of 1 cent per session is a bit high, and the fee needs to be reduced.

More importantly, the statistical model of the number of logins has also changed... When logging in on the PC, every time the computer is shut down, it can be counted as completed login. The situation is different with mobile phones. Mobile phones often do not shut down, and many commonly used apps

It always hangs in the background. Once you log in, it takes seven days? This is a huge loss.

However, Zhou Buqi is far away from the product now, and he is not sure that his idea is correct. He can just let Zhang Yiming lead the team to do it.

…

In the afternoon, Zhou Buqi, accompanied by Shen Xiangyang, Xu Liangjie, Wang Xiaochuan, Zhou Feng, Zhou Shaoning, Li Yinan and others, went to Tsinghua University and met with several principals.

The main topic is the direction of microelectronics research.

Several academicians in this field were present at the meeting, and they talked about the current situation of the domestic semiconductor field.

Very sad.

It is said that a few years ago, the military science and technology team of the national team teamed up with Fudan University to develop our country's own 486 chip. A scientific research team of hundreds of people was organized, but it has not been done for several years. The final result was not satisfactory and could only be

Continue to purchase from abroad.

You know, the 486 chip was the chip technology of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was the chip that Intel used to dominate PCs around the world. At that time, technology giants such as Founder, Lenovo, and Ziguang all thought about tackling the problem, but the result was that it ended before it even started.

, or gave up halfway and failed. Then the military team came on stage and also failed.

Then, there were Ark Chip and Hanxin 1, which were very popular in the past few years, and they both caused big scandals and squandered all the national funds.

Academician Li from the Institute of Microelectronics made a suggestion, saying that when making chips at the moment, don’t be too ambitious, and don’t think about avoiding the technological achievements and patents of Europe and the United States and start from scratch from the instruction set, architecture and other directions.

We should still improve and develop on the scientific and technological achievements of foreign chip companies. Don't shout some unrealistic slogans, start from the industry in a down-to-earth manner, and study arm thoroughly first.

First understand the arm based on it, and then look for opportunities to get rid of the arm.

Zhou Buqi immediately resonated with him. This was the right path.

Huawei's Kirin chip uses the ARM architecture.

In fact, not only Huawei, but also high-end general-purpose chips for future mobile phones will be built on the foundation of ARM.

The four major high-end chip giants, Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei, all use the ARM architecture.

The arm architecture is the core components of a set of chips designed by the arm company based on the arm instruction set developed by the arm company - cpu and gpu.

This is the most difficult part of chip design. Arm company packages it directly, and other companies can just use it.

Other companies spend money to buy a license, and then they can directly use the developed CPU and GPU to carry out other peripheral designs and develop their own products.

There is a drawback here.

The arm instruction set is open source and free. But if you want to use the arm architecture, you have to pay, which is very expensive.

Qualcomm prides itself on its strength and believes that it has the strength to get rid of the ARM architecture and study its own architecture based on the instruction set. It organized a technical team and worked hard for more than two years, and actually developed it. However, the results were not satisfactory.

.The performance of chips equipped with our own architecture is far inferior to the performance of chips with arm architecture, so we gave up.

But Apple succeeded.

Apple's A-series bionic chips use their own architecture, and their performance far exceeds the original ARM architecture. The general meaning is that arm developed a language, and then Apple used arm's language to argue with arm and defeated arm.

This is one of the reasons why iPhone’s profit margin is so high.

Other people's chips are more expensive. Apple's self-developed chips don't have to pay licensing fees and cost less. And chips are often the most expensive components in a mobile phone.

Even if Apple's technical level is so high, it cannot develop its own instruction language and must use ARM's instruction set...
Chapter completed!