Yang Yun and Zhu Shuguang haven't seen each other for half a year, whether it's personal feelings or official business, it is necessary to meet to catch up and strengthen contact, and Yang Yun really has a few things to do.

The first thing, "Thief", "The Expendables 2" is ready for listing, the former is a pure technical display, and the playability is still inferior to the latter, and the latter has to cooperate with the promotion of the movie "The Expendables 2", Yang Yun thought twice about it, or launch "The Thief" as scheduled, and then launch "The Expendables 2" in March, try to launch a classic game every month, and attract the attention of players every month.

The second thing, the production of "Diablo 1", Blizzard Studio has basically completed, and the publicity plan will be agreed after the Spring Festival, and Yang Yun can do testing and modification in the next few days, striving to make the game perfect.

This game,From the point of view of game concept and gameplay,It's not shocking for the time being.,And this may be the last few masterpieces on the 32-bit SS platform.,It's likely to encounter an embarrassing ending.,Players are waiting for the 64-bit SU version.,Diablo 1's sales can't rush.,The degree of recitation is not high.,The fame can't be beaten.,It can only become a mediocre work launched by Longteng.,Same as "Warcraft 1".

Yang Yun and Blizzard Marcos and others carefully analyzed and discussed, and planned a lot of plans, and finally decided to see if it would be put on sale in April, and in general, it was necessary to see the release of N64 and SU.

So the third thing is very important, Yang Yun found Zhu Shuguang who returned to Beijing, and on the Loongson and Dishui Lake film and television game bases, he wanted to report new ideas, especially the sudden appearance of Loongson and Nintendo N64. Yang Yun felt a little headache, and he urgently needed Zhu Shuguang's help.

The meeting was at Zhu Shuguang's home. Although his family moved to Shanghai as officials, he still has a house of his own in the capital. Located in the family compound of the agency, it is secluded and safe.

After meeting, making tea and lighting cigarettes, Zhu Shuguang's first sentence was: "General Motors has decided to build a joint venture with Shanghai Automobile." ”

Yang Yun's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly smiled and said, "Congratulations to Mayor Zhu!" This is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and the people of Shanghai will definitely thank you, how much GDP growth can be driven by this! ”

Zhu Shuguang smiled faintly: "There is also your Xiaoyang's credit here, and the people of Shanghai should also thank you!" ”

This is Zhu Shuguang's political achievement. is quite a political achievement, Yang Yun's matchmaking is also very important, both of them are smart people, and they know it very well in their hearts, so they don't talk about it all the time, just point it out at this time.

Yang Yun hurriedly said: "Mayor Zhu, even if there is no me, SAIC will marry GM, I haven't done anything at all." I can't afford to be so thankful! However, I still want to say more, I hope that Shanghai Auto Tong Guò and General Motors will be a joint venture to learn advanced automobile production technology, not like Hongqi. Become a joke for Chinese for a lifetime! ”

Yang Yun would only say this kind of thing in front of Zhu Shuguang, and if he faced other officials, he would say two words at most-hehe. Regardless of the red flag, he listened to netizens spraying red flags in later generations. My ears are calloused!

Zhu Shuguang laughed: "It seems that you have a deep grudge against the Hongqi car, don't mention it!" Let's talk about it. You don't seem to have seen me in the past six months, and you have less reporting work, what are you busy with? ”

After spending five minutes talking about his development, Yang Yun said with some heaviness: "Mayor Zhu, the experts we poached from AMD are trying their best every day to bypass Intel's patents and strive to innovate, but the research and development progress of Loongson is really not fast. And in terms of game business, our old rival Nintendo launched the N64, which caught us off guard and put us in a dilemma. ”

Zhu Shuguang raised his eyebrows and asked, "What dilemma?" ”

Yang Yun sighed: "To deal with N64, the host that Longteng intends to launch is a 64-bit SU, but this host is destined to be an intermediate transition product." At the beginning of 97, we will participate in the Loongson competition, and after getting the quota and obtaining national funding, we will be able to launch a 128-bit host at the end of 97 or early 98 at the earliest. In this way, the 64-bit SU has a very short lifetime of less than two years. ”

Zhu Shuguang nodded: "I understand what you mean, frequently asking consumers to update their hardware will be a huge waste, and it will affect the production of your entire platform." The launch of a new version of a game console is actually an overall upgrade of the game industry chain, involving a lot of aspects, and things will become uncontrollable, right? ”

Yang Yun's biggest headache is this, of course, it is okay to release the SU platform and N64 to fight, but it needs enough excellent games to support the SU platform, and use classic games with better effects to seize the market.

At the same time, the game development of 32-bit SS cannot be stopped, and he also can't avoid the embarrassment of releasing a game on two platforms in the future.

"The biggest difficulty that Longteng has encountered now is that it is still going around the CPU, which we really have nothing to do. I still haven't made up my mind whether to release the SU version, because once it is released, it is equivalent to digging your own corner. "Nintendo is 16 and jumps 64 directly, but Long Teng can't jump lightly, Yang Yun is very hesitant.

The two drank tea and smoked, and they didn't find a good way to cope for a while.

"If you don't care about the N64, it's equivalent to giving up all the high-end markets to Nintendo, which is a very dangerous move, and I'm afraid that the lost market in the future won't be able to get it back, and no one knows what will happen in the next two years."

"But if you care about N64, SU's game production kit is hundreds and thousands, from 92 years to 96 years, all game suppliers in the past 4 years are handy with the game design of the SS platform, once they change rashly, their cost will be greatly increased, everyone is definitely not willing to change lightly, we are tired of providing service upgrades, and it is troublesome."

"Also, the design of the 64-bit SU is very smooth, and we have thoroughly studied the application of the 64-bit CPU on the TV game console, but this is only a hint for the Loongson project. We don't have the strength to develop a 64-bit CPU in one step, so we still have to start from 32-bit so honestly, and when we developed a game console with a 128-bit CPU in 97 or 98, Loongson was still 32-bit. ”

Yang Yun like Xianglin's sister-in-law, spit out a lot of bitter water, now the situation is very difficult, he was originally to improve the efficiency of his game console and invest in Loongson, by the way, he intends to independently master the source of CPU, reduce hardware costs, by the way to enhance Longteng's competitiveness in the world, but also by the way to contribute to the development of China's IT industry.

As a result, I went in and found that it was not such a simple thing at all, and it completely became that the development speed of the video game console far exceeded the research of Loongson, and Longteng himself tied a big burden behind him, dragging it down.

Zhu Shuguang extinguished the cigarette butt and asked with a smile: "How much have you invested in the Loongson project?" ”

As soon as he talked about Qian Yangyun, he was depressed: "It's already been $2 billion, how long has it been?" It's not been a year yet! This year, we are under great pressure, and we need to spend at least $2.5 billion on scientific research, otherwise we won't be able to produce results in the first half of next year! ”

After reporting the general ledger statistics of Longteng in the past two years, Zhu Shuguang understood it, and he also frowned.

Longteng's investment in the film and television game base, the investment in various game adaptations, if the release of SU and Nintendo's competition, it is inevitable to increase publicity and mass production and distribution, coupled with the bottomless pit of Loongson, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in Longteng's game research and development funds every year, as well as hundreds of millions of employees' huge expenses, Longteng's capital chain is very tight.

"There are also some charitable funds, we sponsor science, education and cultural competitions, as well as science education that sticks money into it, although in 1995 our company's net profit was 1.96 billion US dollars, but it is still not enough, our investment in Loongson this year is still eating the old capital! If it weren't for the fact that our company has saved some money in recent years, I'm afraid it would be difficult to even get the national chip quota next year! ”

The ship is big, and money is needed everywhere, and if you don't pay attention to it, if you break it, it may leak and fill the warehouse.

The situation of China Resources Microelectronics Company is also not comfortable, the cost of land for the research institute, the cost of building renovation, and the cost of fixed assets, China Resources Group has also invested about 500 million US dollars, which will not be effective in a few years, and the pressure on the group is also very great.

Neither party wants to go public to raise funds, because the future benefits can be expected, once successful, the benefits are absolutely huge enough to create a second China Resources Group.

And loans, to put it mildly, such long-term investment projects, unless there are huge interest-free loans provided by the state, are less than 100 million, or those loans with interest, are meaningless at all.

As for whether Loongson will be controlled by Longteng as a private enterprise in the future, the country is not a fool on this issue, Yang Yun is even more clear in his heart, and now the country does not invest, mainly because he is worried that Longteng and China Resources Microelectronics will not be able to do it, but once Loongson is successfully developed, the state will definitely intervene, which is related to the lifeblood of the country's economy, and it is impossible to lose it to a private enterprise to lead.

The best solution is to introduce a state-owned bank and let the bank consortium join, which is also Yang Yun's bottom line, of course, that's all an afterthought, anyway, now it's just no money.

Of course, Zhu Shuguang also knew this, and said: "I will negotiate with China Resources Group on the issue of money, after all, it is better for central enterprises to come forward, and with their guarantees, the bank's lending will be smoother." ”

Yang Yun hurriedly refused: "For the time being, you don't need to borrow from the bank, you will always owe favors if you take out a loan now and repay it in the future." The relationship between China Resources Group and the five major banks is good, but I don't want the Loongson project to have a relationship with the five major banks! (To be continued......)