Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 155 Hunting Zeiss 1
As the first WCG world e-sports competition approaches, a game frenzy has set off around the world.

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

At this time, various WCG games and competitions are extremely popular, and often the people in front are still playing, while a bunch of people are standing behind waiting and watching.Inside the game hall, it was almost overcrowded.

Boundless Arcade took advantage of WCG, and its sales surged.

As of December 12th, Wujiang Group has sold a total of 12 million arcade machines and 125 million game cartridges, with a revenue of 750 billion US dollars, creating an unprecedented miracle in the global arcade market.

Wujiang Group has accumulated a lot of money and made a profit of more than 45 billion US dollars!
Wujiang Group was originally the overlord of game consoles, and has a lot of games suitable for porting to arcade machines.

Moreover, there are many third-party games on the two platforms of "Qongqi Game Console" and Gameboy, which are also suitable for porting to arcade machines.

Therefore, Wujiang Group created a huge miracle, which is basically difficult to replicate.

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"Wow, God, there are so many people in the game hall, the business is so good!" Jason Wolf exclaimed.

In the game hall, although there was some smoky atmosphere, such as smoking, shouting, and extremely poor environment, Jason Wolfe didn't care at all, and his eyes scanned everything in front of him excitedly.

"That's right, Jason Wolfe, if we also open a game hall, we must make a lot of money!" Companion George Stevenson laughed.

"Yes, you're right, we should have a big fight now! We can work together to open game halls in Michigan!" Jason Wolf nodded excitedly.

As the game hall business is booming, naturally more people get involved in this industry.

Borderless Arcade has naturally become the first choice for these people.

In addition, many supermarkets, movie theaters, and shopping malls have also purchased Borderless arcade machines in order to attract popularity. In places like these, their main business is not games, so there will not be too many places for arcade machines.If there are few games, it will not be able to attract traffic, but the Wujiang arcade with multiple card slots can just solve this pain point.

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

In this way, it not only attracts traffic, but also makes money through the arcade.

Therefore, it is difficult for Borderless Arcade not to sell well...

At this moment, it is unimaginable in the industry that the arcade machine industry has been turned into a big platform by Wujiang Group.Previously, the arcade industry was basically fighting on its own, without a unified industry standard.

Nowadays, any company that wants to release arcade games does not need to develop arcade games themselves, but choose the Wujiang arcade platform.

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Among the players of WCG, the popularity is quite high. After all, there are a lot of bonuses, and the No.1 award is 50 US dollars!
In order to attract popularity, WCG has specially increased the rewards.

The value of 50 US dollars in this period is very high, and many media and TV stations have caused a sensation.

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

Zhao Ye's aim is to promote the WCG event, so the broadcast fee for the first WCG is free, as long as the TV stations are willing to broadcast, they can broadcast it freely.

Shanghai.

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

Wujiang Group discussed cooperation with the Shanghai government a long time ago, and invested in the purchase of Dongfeng Hotel. After the renovation, it will hold this event here.

Dongfeng Hotel, the former Shanghai Association, also known as the British Association and the Royal Association, is located at No. 2, Zhongshan East Road, Shanghai. It was built in 1912. The designers were Tarrant and Maurice, and the interior design was Japanese heretical architect Kikutaro Shimoda. .It is a baroque neoclassical work, with double colonnade and high chandelier hall, which is the stage for Shanghai communicators.

The original Dongfeng Hotel was a bit old. Wujiang Group spent a lot of money on repairs and bought some high-end furniture for decoration, making it look very high-end.

WCG can be regarded as a major international event. The Shanghai government also wants to show the style of Shanghai city. In recent months, it has carried out extensive infrastructure construction to make Shanghai city cleaner and more beautiful.

The financial basis to support the Shanghai government's large-scale infrastructure comes from the taxation of Wujiang Group.

Although the government has reduced taxes for the Wujiang Group, the taxes of the Wujiang Group are too high. Even if the tax is halved, it is an astronomical sum.

Last year alone, Wujiang Group paid more than 50 billion yuan in taxes.

This year, more taxes were paid, exceeding 80 billion yuan.

The Shanghai government almost confessed to Wujiang Group as the God of Wealth.

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

"This Dongfeng Hotel used to be worthy of being the royal club. It has a good style!" Zhao Ye praised. When he came here in his previous life, Dongfeng Hotel has been transformed into the most luxurious "Waldorf Astoria Hotel" on the Bund of Shanghai.

The entourage also agreed one by one.

"Holding WCG at the Dongfeng Hotel is luxurious and magnificent, and it can show the prosperity of Shanghai! The Bund is charming and will surely attract international tourists!" said an official with a smile.

Zhao Ye also nodded in agreement.

However, the venue is too small, and those who are not invited guests cannot enter the venue.Fortunately, the scale of the first WCG will not be too large.

But in the future, we still have to find a large venue to hold WCG, organize some cosplay activities, and make WCG the largest and most lively event in the global game industry, or a carnival!
Whenever WCG is held, game fans from all over the world will come to visit the event like a pilgrimage.

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December 12th is coming soon.

The WCG preliminary competition begins, and each game event first selects the five strongest players or five teams from each country.

Then go to Shanghai to participate in the WCG finals.

The preliminary round lasts for a week.

Players have a day or two to rest before rushing to Shanghai.

On Christmas Eve, December 12th, the finals officially began.

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

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It's a pity that today's e-sports doesn't get much attention, so it's a bit of a mess in the game circle.

The mighty WCG competition has already begun.

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

For the WCG preliminaries, the major TV stations are not interested at all. In the WCG finals, maybe I will participate.

In fact, Zhao Ye didn't pay much attention to the WCG preliminary round at this time.

Probably in the finals, he will go to the scene to watch and build momentum for WCG.

In Zhao Ye's view, the real e-sports has to wait until the era of computer games comes. At that time, competitions such as "StarCraft", "Warcraft", "CS Counter-Strike", "League of Legends", "dota2" and other competitions will be considered. to compete.

Of course, the current fighting games such as "Street Fighter", "King of Fighters", and "Samurai Soul" are also counted as e-sports, but their influence is far less than those games mentioned above.

The best games Zhao Ye played were "StarCraft" and "CS Counter-Strike". When these two games became popular in China, he was still young and like most people, he was addicted to them. I am busy with work and have less time to play games.

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"Boss, there is news from Baodao that TSMC has been established!" Liu Yinyin hurried to Zhao Ye and said, "This company is not small, and it is planning to do wafer foundry business. The local government support, and there are investments from Philips and other companies!"

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

New fabs are still under construction.

Unexpectedly, competitors came.

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 products, Wujiang Microelectronics would not have been able to develop.

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

Nowadays, with Cheng Yaojin coming out halfway, and the business overlaps extremely, Taiwan Electric Company 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 rushed to Zhao Ye's office without stopping to report to him.

Zhao Ye smiled lightly when he heard this. He already knew that TSMC would be established by the end of this year, so it was not surprising.

At the beginning of its establishment, TSMC in this life has an extraordinary background just like its previous life.

However, Wujiang Microelectronics has long been poaching semiconductor talents of Chinese descent around the world. This has led to the fact that after the establishment of TSMC, there is no way to use reasons such as "feelings", "patriotism", and "the rise of Chinese semiconductors" to poach people.

Can TSMC compare to Wujiang Microelectronics?
There is nothing better than Wujiang Microelectronics.

Moreover, the scale and scientific research environment of Wujiang Microelectronics are far beyond TSMC, and this is where the dream of becoming a powerful country in the semiconductor industry can be realized.

Of course, TSMC itself does not know,

Talking about feelings with white people?Let them go to Baodaotai Electric to work?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. There are strict requirements in terms of policies, financial resources, technology, talents, and management.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is currently undergoing economic transformation and vigorously developing the semiconductor industry. TSMC came into being just at the right time.

"Okay, I know about this matter, go and do your own work." Zhao Ye waved to Liu Yinyin at this moment, telling her to go about her own business.

Liu Yinyin nodded, turned and left.

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

"The time for Asmer's rebirth is coming soon..."

"Before that, we have to speed up the acquisition of Zeiss! Rex Eden has been operating in Germany for a long time, and he has hired many talents who are proficient in precision technology and optical lenses for Wujiang Group. Wujiang Microelectronics can develop so quickly The German talents have contributed a lot to the development of a new generation of lithography machines."

"Right now, Dongdang's economy is sluggish, and East Zeiss has been losing money year after year, which has become a huge burden for the Dongdang government!"

"Rex Eden has been preparing for the acquisition of East Zeiss. On the one hand, he bribed local government officials, and on the other hand, he bought East Zeiss executives. The purpose is just to make the acquisition of East Zeiss go smoothly."

At this moment, Zhao Ye picked up the phone and called Rex Aiden.

After the call was connected, Zhao Ye asked directly: "Rex, is Liesi planning to close the network now?"

Rex Aiden just came back from an important official of the East D government. Hearing this, he thought for a while, and replied with a firm tone: "Yes!!!"

In this year's time, Rex Eden has been very aware of Dongdang's corruption, power-for-money transactions and so on, which have become commonplace in Dongdang.

"In that case, close the Internet cafe and buy Dong Caisi as soon as possible!" Zhao Ye said in a deep voice.

In two years, the two companies will merge, even in the early stage of the merger, it will be impossible for Wujiang Group to acquire East Zeiss.

Now, Dongdang is corrupt, and Dongcaisi has been losing money year after year, relying on government subsidies. This happens to be a good time for Wujiang Group to make a move!
Once Wujiang Group can acquire Dong Zeiss, absorb its technology, and then invest huge sums of money in research and development, then China's optical lens technology will enter the world's leading level, and it will be able to develop digital cameras, SLR cameras, mobile phone cameras, and photolithography machines. Lens, Medical Liao lens, etc... so as to copy the success of Zeiss in the previous life, and create an even more powerful optical giant enterprise!

Rex Eden waited for this sentence for a long time, and he said excitedly: "Okay, boss, I will start to act immediately!!!"

(End of this chapter)