"Goodbye then, and I wish you a happy home!"

Hanging up the call with the landing site of the Kazakhstan Soyuz, Atletico looked up at the camera opposite and said with a smile: "Ms. Sarah Brightman's space journey has ended successfully, but our space dream continues." Interested friends can pay more attention to the related activities of 'pretending to be in space', and you may be the next to fly into space! Okay, that's all for today's live broadcast, see you later!"

At the end of the live broadcast, Atletico relaxed, leaned on the back of the chair and turned his head around at will, and then saw Zhu Lingling looking at him thoughtfully.

"Lingling?" he asked.

"Ahh

Raising the lukewarm celadon teacup, taking a sip of the fragrant green tea, Atletico nodded slightly, and then looked at the other party, "What were you thinking just now, so distracted?"

"It's nothing," Zhu Lingling said with a smile: "I just suddenly thought that if a user wins the lottery and finds that the goods are not right, and sees that the prize is only a high-altitude balloon ride qualification, there is no accurate number when it can be cashed, I don't know if it will send us a wave of bad reviews?"

"Then I can't help it," Atletico shrugged, "I've already paid for the tickets for them, and the suppliers don't give up, and they have to understand if they don't understand." ”

Zhu Lingling, "What if people ask for a discount? It's worth hundreds of thousands of soft sister coins." ”

Atletico Madrid spread his hands, "I also want to discount, my investment, prepaid tickets have been spent by them, and now I don't have money, I have a few tickets, so I have to make do with it." ”

The world's first ******** first flew in 1783, and after more than two hundred years of development, the technology has matured.

However, if the flight altitude is increased to tens of thousands of meters, the difficulty will be greatly increased.

The atmospheric pressure varies with the altitude, the ground is high, the air is low, and the extremely high altitude is even lower to almost zero, once the ordinary hydrogen balloon is released freely, it will continue to expand due to the drop in external air pressure, and finally be burst into a mass of garbage and fall to the ground.

If you do not pursue the altitude, you can use the towing rope to fix the balloon, and stop it after rising two or three hundred meters by buoyancy, and relying on the ground winch to descend. This eliminates the need for decompression and counterweights, which significantly reduces operating losses. During World War I, warring countries generally used ******** to assist in artillery sighting, but they were later abused by aircraft, and the "balloon soldiers" were abolished. In modern times, these balloons have been used as tourist sights, making them ideal for historical sites where it is not possible to build an observation tower.

If only the height is required, the balloon can be equipped with a radio to transmit the measurement data back in real time, and the burst and fall are not required. The low temperature environment at high altitude will destroy the physical properties of the spherical membrane and affect the measurement accuracy of the instrument, even if it is successfully recovered, it cannot be reused, and it is simply made into a one-time one, which is the type of most meteorological sounding balloons.

However, if the equipment is more bulky and expensive, it can't be so simple and crude, at least there must be an automatic deflation valve and a parachute to delay the burst and slow down the fall, otherwise it will create a "man-made meteorite".

Deflation can prevent the balloon from bursting, but it will cause a loss of buoyancy, making it impossible for the balloon to maintain altitude for a long time. There are two solutions: one is to use ultra-thin materials to create a huge "deflated balloon", only a small amount of inflation on the ground to let it inflate with the height, relying on the generous volume to offset the impact of air pressure, the disadvantage is that the buoyancy is small, and the other is to use high-strength materials to create an overpressure balloon (similar to a conventional balloon), relying on elasticity and strength to resist the impact of low pressure, buoyancy is greater but the technical difficulty is also greater.

Even so, both balloons are also disposable products and can only be recovered by deflating and opening the parachute. When used for commercial tourism, in order to create maximum safety, additional life-sustaining boosts, safety backup measures, and economic considerations are required, which makes the design difficult to implement.

The players in this field were all scientific research institutions from various countries before, and the new balloon tourism companies were all start-ups that were new to the road, and they were all playing venture capital methods of borrowing money to develop and sell tickets to repay debts. As a well-known tech billionaire, Atletico Madrid has received a number of invitations from such companies, some looking for investment, some pre-selling tickets, and both.

Atletico Madrid didn't know which company was more likely to succeed, so they all invested some money and bought a few tickets as support. This was an insurance measure that the eggs were not put in one basket, but the pigeons were released, and various companies successively said that they needed to break through the bottleneck, and the first flight ceremonies were postponed, and then those first flight tickets were taken by Atletico Madrid as a reward for the "pretend to be in space" application.

"Let's not talk about that," Atletico waved his hand, "let's continue to fill the box, how much is it missing?"

Zhu Lingling twitched the corner of her mouth, "There are more than four hundred copies." ”

"Then come on, girl, try to get it done today," Atletico stood up and walked outside.

Supporting the software and hardware ecology alone, the bee said that Yali Mountain is big. In order to expand the alliance and attract users, they introduced a similar form of Bee Best User (BBU) award through the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, which recognizes and encourages active users who are proficient in Bee products and are willing to help others in the community. Over the years, the results have been quite noticeable.

Similar to MVPs, BBU doesn't get a penny of cash from the bees, but can receive exclusive badges, trophies, gift packs, gold cards, technical resources, and free tickets to official events, which is also very attractive. What Atletico will do now is issue certificates to this year's BBU and fill the boxes with gifts.

Microsoft has a big business, with more than 4,000 MVPs from more than 90 countries. The certificate is issued only by the Global Vice President (CVP) in charge of evangelism, and only needs to provide signed handwriting, not manual handwriting.

Only a guy like Atletico Madrid, who is so idle and still loves to show up, will choose to sign in person in order to show calligraphy, and specially leave a video record as evidence. Of course, his reasoning is to highlight the importance of autographs, which are of course more formal than printed signatures.

Atletico Madrid is not too tired, but the assistants who help him hand cards, get gifts, push boxes, and label them are often tired, and the corners of their mouths twitch when they hear BBU, and their hands and feet tremble. Zhu Lingling is actually okay, after all, she is only responsible for the easy work of handing cards and letters, and it is her subordinates who are really tired.

Seeing Ma Dong come out of the office and walk towards the small conference room next to the BBU gift box, everyone had a bad premonition in their hearts, and when Miss Zhu came out to call someone, the big stone in their hearts finally fell to the ground, and they all let out a cry full of bitterness and grievances.

"What's it called?" Zhu Lingling snorted lightly, her eyes swept over everyone, "E-commerce employees have to pack five or six hundred express deliveries a day, and you can't stand dozens of them alone?"

"Report to the boss, that's the data of the Double 11 peak, which is not usually like this," Sun Ke raised his hand to retort.

"These boxes are not available every day," Zhu Lingling glared at him, "Besides, I'll hand over the work of sending couriers to you!"

Sun Ke didn't speak again, but expressed his attitude with his actions, and ran to the conference room with a smoke.

Zhu Lingling is not talking nonsense, compared with the e-commerce and express delivery industries, their work intensity is really nothing, because the full gift box does not exceed 6 kilograms, and there is not much portion.

Software and games can be reproduced indefinitely, and distribution over the web can reduce marginal costs to near none. That's why the more developed the internet, the more free software and games there are. For bees, filling gift boxes with a large number of disc boxes and ID cards is undoubtedly the most cost-effective thing, and the actual cost is much less than loading hardware products.

In addition to the crystal trophy in the shape of an arch ticket, the BBU's exclusive elite PTbox set and M5 bracelet are all lightweight items such as disc cases, plastic cards, identity tags, and confidentiality agreements. Although it is troublesome to load, it does not consume too much physical strength, with yesterday's experience and foreshadowing, everyone already has experience, that is, to send Boss Ma away first.

For Atletico, each signature is just a matter of a few strokes, and he doesn't have much effort to write, and even has plenty of time to make fun of his men. The assistants were told that they were in a hurry, so they had to hurry up and catch up, but they were tired instead. This time to learn a lesson, everyone decided to serve Uncle Ma first, first concentrate on letting him sign the award certificate, and then pack the box safely.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many items that needed to be boxed, such repetitive work could be handed over to the packing robot to do, and the headquarters factory zero had such equipment.

Coming out of the conference room, Atletico Madrid was also not idle, and soon devoted himself to new work.

The person in charge of Beeheart Semiconductor stationed in TSMC sent back the latest work report, which needs to be reviewed and processed by him, the concurrent CEO.

"The yield rate of 10 nanometers is still not much improved!" After reading the full text, Atletico Madrid couldn't help but be a little entangled.

Thanks to the tireless pursuit of faster and more power-saving in the smartphone industry, the manufacturing process of mobile phone chips has progressed rapidly, with the 16nm process becoming the flagship standard, the 28nm process becoming the backbone, and the 20 and 40nm processes being rapidly phased out. Now, Samsung Semiconductor and TSMC have successively announced mass production of 10nm process technology, and Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 has also become the first 10nm processor.

Although the "toothpaste factory" Intel said that there is a lot of moisture in it, and the actual effect is not as good as its own 14 nanometers, and threatens to bring real 10 nanometer products next year, but for the media and the public, Qualcomm and Samsung have a first-mover advantage is also a sure thing.

Because Qualcomm has formed an alliance with Samsung, Apple, Bee and HiSilicon are waiting and seeing, TSMC has no choice but to join forces with MediaTek to create a 10nm X30 processor. However, the latter dropped the chain this time and temporarily cut orders to vacate a large piece of production capacity.

Atletico hesitated whether to swallow this half of the pie in one bite.

So far, there are only two wafer factories in the world with 10nm production capacity, Samsung Semiconductor has to produce Snapdragon and take care of its own Exynos chips, even if there is spare capacity, it is Apple A11, TSMC's production capacity also has to leave a large piece for Apple, and the rest of the talent is very critical.

But now jumping into the pit also makes him unable to cope with all kinds of feelings.

Newer processes can lead to greater integration, better performance, and lower power consumption, but also higher costs. Both partners have an urgent need to dilute R&D costs, coupled with the low yield rate in the early stage of mass production of the new process, the initial manufacturing cost will be very high, and then gradually decline as the process matures.

The reason why bees and other manufacturers keep a wait-and-see view of the 10nm process and choose the previous generation of 16nm technology that has entered the mature period is that the high cost is only one aspect, and what really makes everyone hesitate is mainly because of the technical status of the 10nm process. Samsung Semiconductor and TSMC are also working on a more advanced 7nm process, and when the new process is available, 10nm as a transition technology is likely to be quickly phased out.

Just like the unfortunate 20nm process, it has come to the verge of disappearing because the specific performance is not as good as 16nm and the specific cost is not as good as 28nm. If it weren't for Nintendo's newly released new console, NX, it would have been almost forgotten, and the NvidaTegraX1 processor on this 2-in-1 console is built on a 20nm process, which is quite powerful.

Thinking of NX, Atletico suddenly had an idea.

After the "Black Friday" campaign a few days ago, Microsoft XboxOne sold two million units by virtue of price reduction and tie-in sales, surpassing Bee PTbox on the list and regaining the second console throne with a slight disadvantage. As for the first, there is no hope, Sony's PS4 sales are more than the sum of the second, three, four and five, and it is easy to lose the motivation to catch up.

Microsoft XBO and Bee PT can only compete for second place for the time being, while trying to build sales and fend off the threat of the upcoming NX.

The so-called peers are enemies, NX and PT are in the same ARM camp, with many similarities, and they are even more enemies.

Atletico Madrid's fear of the new console has been completely undisguised, and in order to counter the threat that is yet to come, he has forcefully reversed the buyout policy of Beegame, and vigorously encouraged third parties to take the boutique route in an attempt to maximize their first-mover advantage. Even so, I still don't think it's enough insurance, and now I'm going to hit the hardware again, "Anyway, I'm already planning to update the processor, from 16 nanometers to 10 nanometers, which is barely a one-step development across the month." ”

In the 16nm stage, there are actually only two processors, 536 and 537, and the tablet and host have been stuck at 28nm due to capacity and cost. All he has to do now is convince the board to agree to skip 16nm and build a 626 processor directly using the 10nm process for use on tablets and next-generation hosts.

(End of chapter)