Approaching the first WCG World Esports Tournament, a global gaming frenzy has been set off.

Whether it is the players who signed up for the competition, or the ordinary players who did not sign up, they also flocked to the game hall.

At this time, the various game competitions of WCG are extremely popular, often the people in front are still playing, and there are a bunch of people standing in the back waiting and watching. The game hall is almost overcrowded.

Boundless Arcade took advantage of the WCG wind, and its sales skyrocketed.

As of December 12, Borderless Group has sold a total of 1.25 million arcade machines, 7.5 million game cartridges, and a revenue of $8.625 billion, creating an unprecedented miracle in the global arcade market.

Wujiang Group, accumulated steadily, made a profit of more than 4.5 billion US dollars!

The Borderless Group was originally the overlord of game consoles, and it has a lot of games that are suitable for porting to arcades.

In addition, there are many third-party games on the two major platforms of "Poor Odd Game Machine" and Gameboy, which are also suitable for porting to arcade machines.

As a result, the Borderless Group has created a huge miracle, which is basically difficult to replicate.

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"Wow, God, the arcade is crowded, and business is just amazing!" Jensen Wolf exclaimed.

In the game hall, although there was some miasma, such as smoking, yelling, and the environment was extremely poor, Jensen Wolf didn't care at all, and his eyes scanned everything in front of him excitedly.

"yes, Jensen Wolfe, if we open a game hall too, we'll make a lot of money!" Companion George Stevenson laughed.

"Yes, you're right, we should do it now! We can partner to open arcades all over Michigan! Jensen Wolf nodded heavily, excited.

Due to the boom in the game hall business, it is only natural that more people are getting involved in this industry.

Borderless Arcade is the natural choice for these people.

In addition, many supermarkets, cinemas, and shopping malls have also purchased boundless arcades in order to attract popularity, and in places like these, their main business is not games, so there will not be too many places to place arcade machines. If you have fewer games, you won't be able to attract traffic, but the Boundless Card Slot Arcade can just solve this pain point.

Although the number of arcade machines is small, there are many games that can be played. As long as people come, they can play their favorite games.

In this way, not only does it attract foot traffic, but it also makes money through arcades.

Therefore, it is difficult to sell the Borderless Arcade without a big sale......

At this moment, it is unimaginable in the industry that the arcade industry has been turned into a big platform by Wujiang Group. Previously, the arcade industry was basically working on its own, and there was no unified industry standard.

Nowadays, if a company wants to release an arcade game, it is better not to develop the arcade machine themselves, but to choose the Borderless Arcade platform.

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WCG is quite popular in the player base, after all, there are a lot of bonuses, and the first place is rewarded with $500,000!

In order to attract popularity, WCG deliberately increased the rewards.

The $500,000 in this period was worth a lot of money, and many media and TV stations made a splash.

Recently, a number of TV stations around the world want to reach cooperation with Wujiang Group to broadcast this event.

Zhao Ye is in line with the promotion of WCG events, so the broadcast fee of the first WCG is free, and as long as the TV station is willing to broadcast it, it can be broadcast at will.

Shanghai.

In order to welcome players from all over the world, as well as gamers and media reporters.

Wujiang Group has long discussed cooperation with the Shanghai government, funded the purchase of Dongfeng Hotel, and after the renovation, it will hold the event here.

Dongfeng Hotel, the original Shanghai General Association, also known as the British General Association, the Royal General Association, is located in Shanghai Zhongshan East Road No. 2, built in 1912, designed by Tarrant and Maoris, and the interior design is the Japanese heretical architect Shimoda Kikutaro. It is a baroque neoclassical work, with a double-colonnade and a chandelier hall, which is the stage for the activities of Shanghai's communicators.

The original Dongfeng Hotel is a little old, and Wujiang Group has spent a lot of money to repair it, and then buy some high-end home furnishings for decoration, which is very high-end.

WCG is a major international event, and the Shanghai government also wants to show the style of Shanghai, and in recent months, it has been engaged in infrastructure construction to make Shanghai more clean and beautiful.

The financial basis for supporting the Shanghai government's large-scale infrastructure construction is the tax revenue from the Wujiang Group.

Although the government has reduced the tax of the Wujiang Group, the tax of the Wujiang Group is too high, even if the tax is halved, it is an astronomical amount.

Last year alone, Wujiang Group paid more than 5 billion yuan in taxes.

This year, the tax payment is even more, exceeding 8 billion yuan.

The Shanghai government sent the Wujiang Group as the god of wealth.

Zhao Ye and others are inspecting the effect of the renovation in the Dongfeng Hotel at the moment.

"This Dongfeng Hotel used to be worthy of the Royal Association, and the style is good!" Zhao Ye praised that in his previous life, when he came here, the Dongfeng Hotel had been transformed into the most luxurious "Waldorf Astoria Hotel" on the Bund in Shanghai.

The entourage also agreed one by one.

"Holding WCG in Dongfeng Hotel is luxurious and atmospheric, which can highlight the prosperity of my Shanghai city! The Bund is a stunning sight that will surely delight international visitors! An official said with a smile.

Zhao Ye also nodded in agreement.

However, the venue is too small, and it is not an invited guest to enter the venue. Fortunately, the scale of the first WCG will not be too large.

But in the future, you still have to find a large venue to host WCG, get some cosplay activities, and make WCG the biggest and most lively event in the global game industry, or a carnival!

Every time WCG is held, fans of the game from all over the world come to visit the event as if they were on a pilgrimage.

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Soon December 12th arrived.

The WCG preliminary round begins, and the five strongest players or teams from each country are selected for each game event.

Then go to Shanghai to participate in the WCG finals.

The preliminary round will last for one week.

The player has a day or two to rest before rushing to Shanghai.

On Christmas Eve on December 24, the finals officially began.

Competitions are held during the Christmas season to add to the excitement and enhance the festive atmosphere and increase the income of Shanghai's tourism industry.

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It's a pity that today's e-sports is not very popular, and it is a bit of a wave in the gaming circle.

The mighty WCG competition has begun.

However, WCG news is rarely seen in the media, and even if it does, it is difficult to make headlines.

For the WCG preliminary round, the major TV stations are not interested at all. If you want to participate in the WCG Grand Finals, you might want to participate in it.

In fact, Zhao Ye did not pay much attention to the WCG preliminary round at this time.

Probably in the finals, he will go to the scene to see it and make a strong stand for the WCG.

In Zhao Ye's view, the real e-sports has to wait until the era of computer games comes, when competitions such as "StarCraft", "Warcraft", "CS Counter-Strike", "League of Legends", and "Dota 2" can be regarded as competitive.

Of course, the current fighting games such as "Street Fighter", "The King of Fighters", and "Samurai Shodown" are also considered e-sports, but they are far less influential than those mentioned above.

Zhao Ye's best games were StarCraft and CS Counter-Strike, which were popular in China when he was young, and like most people, he was addicted to them, and then he got older, busy with work, and had less time to play games.

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"Boss, there is news from Baodao that TSMC has been established!" Liu Yinyin hurriedly walked to Zhao Ye's side and said, "The scale of this company is not small, and it is even ready to do wafer foundry business. With the support of the local government, and the investment of many companies such as Philips! ”

Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. is ready to do wafer foundry, but at present, due to the surge in the group's own business, it can only produce and sell itself for the time being.

New fabs are still under construction.

I didn't expect competitors to come.

The core industry of Wujiang Group is semiconductors.

The company's game industry actually revolves around the semiconductor industry.

Without the support of consumer electronics, it would not be possible for Wujiang Microelectronics to develop.

However, Wujiang Microelectronics Company will eventually do wafer foundry business externally.

Nowadays, the business is extremely overlapping, and Taiwan Electric Co., Ltd. is very likely to become the biggest competitor of Wujiang Microelectronics Company!

After Liu Yinyin received the news, she immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, and immediately rushed to Zhao Ye's office to report to him.

When Zhao Ye heard this, he smiled faintly, he already knew that TSMC would be established at the end of this year, so it was not surprising.

At the beginning of the establishment of TSMC in this life, it was also like the previous life, with an extraordinary background.

However, Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. has long poached Chinese semiconductor talents around the world, which has led to the fact that after the establishment of TSMC, there is no way to poach people with reasons such as "feelings", "patriotism", and "the rise of Chinese semiconductors".

Can TSMC still compare to Wujiang Microelectronics?

The root red seedlings are none other than Boundless Microelectronics.

Moreover, the scale and scientific research environment of Wujiang Microelectronics Company far exceed that of TSMC, which is the place to realize the dream of becoming a powerful country in the semiconductor industry.

Of course, TSMC itself doesn't know,

Talking to white people? Let them go to work at Takajimadai Motor? I'm afraid I'm thinking too much? Unless you add money!!

However, TSMC is still rich, and the threshold for wafer foundry is very high, not everyone can do it, and the policy, financial resources, technology, talent, management and other aspects are strict.

Baodao is currently undergoing economic transformation and vigorously developing the semiconductor industry, and TSMC came into being at the right time.

"Okay, I know about this, you go and do your business." Zhao Ye waved at Liu Yinyin at this time and asked her to go about her own business.

Liu Yinyin nodded and turned to leave.

Looking at the moment when the office door closed, Zhao Ye muttered to himself: "Philips is the major shareholder of TSMC, and next, at the request of Philips, TSMC will purchase a large number of ASML lithography machines!" ”

"The time is fast approaching for ASML to regain his life......"

"Until then, we have to speed up the acquisition of ZEISS! Rex Eden has been operating in Germany for a long time, and has dug up a lot of talents who are proficient in precision technology and optical lenses for the Wujiang Group. ”

"At present, the economy of East D is sluggish, and East Zeiss Company has been losing money year after year, which has become a huge burden for the East D government!"

"Rex Aiden has been preparing for the acquisition of East Zeiss, bribing local government officials on the one hand, and bribing East Zeiss executives on the other hand, just to make the acquisition of East Zeiss go through."

At this time, Zhao Ye picked up the phone and dialed Rex Aiden's number.

After the phone was connected, Zhao Ye asked directly, "Rex, can the hunting division plan close the net now?" ”

Rex Aiden had just returned from an important member of the East D government, and when he heard this, he thought for a moment and replied affirmatively, "Yes!! ”

In the past year, Rex Aiden has become very aware of the corruption of East D, and the trading of power and money has become commonplace in East D.

"In that case, let's close the net and buy East Zeiss as soon as possible!" Zhao Ye said in a deep voice.

In another two years, the merger of the two Ds, even in the early stage of the merger, it is impossible for Wujiang Group to acquire East Zeiss.

Now, East D is corrupt, East Zeiss has been losing money year after year, and it has to rely on government subsidies, which is a good time for Wujiang Group to start!

Once Wujiang Group can acquire East Zeiss, absorb its technology, and then invest heavily in research and development, then China's optical lens technology will enter the world's leading level, and it can develop digital cameras, SLR cameras, mobile phone cameras, lithography machine lenses, medical lenses and so on...... So as to replicate the success of Zeiss in the previous life and create a more awesome optical giant enterprise!

Rex Aiden waited for this sentence for a long time, and he said excitedly: "Okay, boss, I'll start acting right away!! ”

(End of chapter)