Reboot 2003

Chapter 317 097: Technology Frontier ([-]-in-[-])

You can't see the economic crisis anywhere, but it turns out it's hiding here - who can be affected by the economic crisis? The ones who may be most severely affected are companies and individual investors. Fortunately, Ayue's company has overcome the difficulties. As for Teacher Tan's tragic death, at least he still has a high-paying job in an Internet company. The wind outside the window is blowing slowly, life in the small town is as usual, and the days are not counted after all. So sad.

A Yue asked: "Then what should we do?"

Chen Qin recalled the conversation before the National Day holiday and asked her, "What do you think?"

A Yue said quickly: "How did I know this? I only know how to play games, and you taught me."

Chen Qin reminded her: "Making games is also one of the ways to organize production. If the market is optimistic about the prospects, investors will naturally have more confidence. If the market has doubts, of course no story can avert the crisis at this time. .”

A Yue puffed up her little face in depression again, but she had indeed been thinking about this issue before - "But what can we do at this time... Although you helped me raise the company's stock price last year, now the whole The world’s economy is not good, so I feel like it’s useless to make a game..."

"Do you really think so?" Chen Qin laughed, "Of course it is possible if you do well enough, so you should study game engineering well in the future. If you like making games, there will definitely be room for you to develop in the future." Maybe it will be useful during the next economic crisis.”

A Yue asked: "What now?"

"Now..." Chen Qin said, "The problems in the investment market are actually caused by insufficient optimism about the future. We cannot blame us for this, and it is not because we do something to deceive them, and they can regain their confidence."

A Yue nodded, but then asked: "What should we do?"

"Why do you have to 'what to do'?" Chen Qin asked, "If you have to do something, why not think about where the new growth points will appear in the future. Last time I told you about 'organizing production', In fact, it is only half right. The field of social applications does require people to invest in trial and error, but it also needs people to apply new technologies into production. Although our company can only catch the trend, if you want to think of a way, why don't you come and take a look Let’s see what new technologies can bring higher return expectations to investors.”

A Yue immediately replied: "Mobile Internet!"

Chen Qin smiled: "That's true, but what about other than that? Don't be too nervous. After all, we are still young and can just think about what will happen in ten or twenty years. Since the company has no imminent problems now, it is better to think about it now. Think about it, what new technological applications are available to us middle school students in the Internet and gaming industries?"

Ah Yue finally became interested: "Maybe we can read the news or something."

"Here, open book exam."

As Chen Qin handed her the phone, A Yue was curious: "What?"

But I have been free recently, and I have excerpted some important news screenshots into a photo album.

Flicking through the photo album, there were news about terrorist attacks, the Seven Flying Gods, etc., but they were vaguely related to the ‘technological frontier’ mentioned earlier.

So Ah Yue flipped through it carefully, first turning to a paper: "Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system... Is this an online payment?"

Chen Qin nodded: "This is an online currency. It is a decentralized currency implemented using p2p transmission technology. In theory, it is the same technology as our online movie watching and software housekeeping, but we don't need to consider the technology now. You focus on this Let’s see what this news does on the app side.”

Ah Yue smiled: "You talk about the conspiracy of Meilijian's currency every day and kidnap people all over the world to use it. So if everyone uses this, won't there be no problem?"

“In a sense, yes. It’s a pity that although the U.S. dollar is corrupt, the law of market economy is that backward things will not be defeated by another identical thing, but will only be eliminated by more advanced things. At present, decentralization does not seem to be the way to go. It brings more substantial benefits to social production, so it’s still not very feasible.”

"Oh……"

A Yue seemed to know a lot about finance, and saw the next relevant news. This one was understandable: "This Deep Leaning, machine learning... what about this one?"

Chen Qin explained: "This is a solution to realize artificial intelligence through machine learning and manual fine-tuning. It is still in the theoretical stage. You can think about its uses."

Ah Yue immediately had the answer: "AI that can be used to make customized maps?"

"Uh...yes, this is indeed the most essential application field, but it is not the only one."

"Does that mean it will be a long time before it can be applied?"

"Yes, at least ten more years."

A-Yue nodded and continued to scroll down. She seemed a little confused. These technologies did not sound complicated, but they seemed a bit beyond imagination. If it were so easy to change the world...

Anyway, she continued to ask: "Okay... what about this? Nvidia's Ampere architecture, and Cuda..."

"This is a parallel computing architecture, and Nvidia is the one that makes game graphics cards..."

"Game graphics card..." Ah Yue said excitedly, "Then what does this have to do with us?"

"Actually, it doesn't matter. He just thinks that there is too little oil and water in our game industry and wants to use this to make money in scientific calculations..."

"Okay, here's the thing. The sixth space tourist is preparing to go to space. He seems to be a producer from a game company and spent 2000 million US dollars..."

"What, you want to have sex too?"

"I still don't understand...but who helped him get up there? Why is it so expensive..."

“Currently, it’s the Russian rocket, but since there is a market, naturally some people will be willing to do this business. If we want to talk about its relationship with our Internet business, probably the person who was the first to do online payment has also recently started a business to build a rocket.”

"Internet? Rockets?"

"Yeah, but his progress is not going very smoothly at the moment. His rocket has exploded three times in a row this year."

……

After chatting in the corridor for a while, it seemed to turn into a science fiction novel. Ah Yue probably listened with great interest; although in the end she didn't feel that these things had anything to do with herself, and she didn't feel like it after returning to the studio. He looked very concerned.

But she finally listened and continued to work on her map after returning. Chen Qin saw that she seemed to be in a lighter mood and no longer had the same frown as before.

Chen Qin followed her back, sat in his usual seat, and started reading the news.

I've been watching some news these days. Of course, those things just now were not made up just to comfort A Yue. If it's important, people with some information retrieval skills can actually see it. It's just because it's too outrageous. Even if you know it in advance, The answer is also extremely difficult to fully understand its meaning.

However... when you reach this level, if you are looking for greater growth points, these are probably them.

During the financial crisis, you just have some spare money. If you want to invest, in addition to considering the currency trend and contribution to society, you must also consider the implementation of new technologies. For technology companies, the technological frontier is undoubtedly the most important thing. One of the best investment directions.

Even though in many industries it is more convenient to do it yourself after knowing the solution, there are always some application technologies that have extremely high barriers and take more than ten years to implement. It is of course impossible to say that you are not interested.

For example, the companies owned by Ma Yilong, the richest man in 2023... Ma Yilong himself is quite controversial in China. Putting aside the issues of whether Tesla is powerful or not, and whether it is possible to go to Mars, these issues have already arisen before his rebirth. Judging from the current situation, the most thought-provoking thing is probably his Starlink; the technical content of this thing is actually not very high. When it comes to value, it is indeed mainly in terms of 'power' - just like online shopping allows one province to directly purchase from other provinces. Just like plundering tax revenue from provinces, Starlink can also bypass the country and directly provide telecommunications services to the world. The political significance is much greater than the economic significance; from the perspective of power, of course, it is a level that even middle school students would be greedy for. Another example is Nvidia... This is the hottest technology company in 2023. Although it is a graphics card company, the whole world was in shortage of AI computing cards at that time. Using its graphics cards can even be directly mortgaged for loans like real estate. It was the most scarce hard currency in the world at that time.

However, it has been making CUDA and graphics cards based on parallel computing architecture since 2006. In 2008, the first version of its scientific computing series of graphics cards was launched. In the past few months, Nvidia CEO Lao Huang enthusiastically launched his new 2-series graphics cards that support Cuda. The market performance was not as expected, and there may be a driver problem. , excessive power consumption and other issues, the company's stock price is also sluggish, and the financial report data has repeatedly been lower than expected. It stands to reason that it is also a good time to buy at the bottom...

If you are a reborn person who wants to invest in this era, it is certainly not cost-effective to buy a Facebook or Android trademark, but you may also feel that shadow banking and advertising are not qualified. At this time, you can probably choose Nvidia or SpaceX, which is okay for personal power. Such a choice, of course, is no better choice for the future of our family and country. When I told Ah Yue just now, Ah Yue probably didn't have too complicated ideas, but for him, this was a real and credible option in front of him.

only……

Chen Qin looked at Tianchao Weitong's information for a while and couldn't help scratching his head.

This was almost the correct answer to the question he was considering now.

It's a pity that he is only a middle school student after all, and he is still young.

This kind of technology accumulated over more than ten years is still too long in terms of cycle - for example, SpaceX is a ToB technology company mainly for governments and businesses. If you want to buy this now and don't plan to profit, then just buy it. Can rely on the Chinese government.

But even in a few years, there will still be a large group of academics who think it is just a scam industry. In today's China where mobile base stations are placed in residential areas and disguised as air-conditioning fans, this thing is still too early in all senses. Although it is forced It is indeed possible to implement it, but he also has his own needs to gain social status - in short, the return cycle is probably too long.

As for Nvidia... you can buy it, and you don't have to worry about not receiving orders from NASA and making a living after buying it.

But the acquisition of the company itself has a problem of your own will - of course, this problem will not be as specific as the superficial tricks of "poison pill plan", "cow card plan" and "golden parachute".

After all, no matter the merger or acquisition, the essence is for everyone to do business together. Even if you use some means to circumvent the legal provisions and get the other party's assets and trademarks, there is the most serious problem, that is, the other party is unwilling to do business with you. What should we do if we work together, especially in Internet companies, when a group of people quit their jobs and turn to venture capital, and then open an office by themselves? What should we do at this time?

And the question comes back to NVIDIA...the company's stock price has fallen a lot recently, but Huang clearly saw that his competitor ATI was acquired by AMD, and took advantage of the window period to decide to make his own computing card.

At this time, although Wall Street investors didn't like CUDA very much, there was only one graphics card company on the market. If they wanted to invest in game graphics cards, they could only buy Nvidia stock, and they could only pinch their noses and help them develop computing cards...

People have done this, so naturally they won’t sell the company after being unable to continue. In fact, historically AMD seems to have thought about acquiring Nvidia, but it’s a pity that Huang insisted on saying, “After the merger, I will be the CEO of two companies.” ', I don't know who gave him the courage. Not everyone can bear this condition. Now the company under Chen Qin has no chip business. It probably has no M&A attraction for Nvidia, and Chen Qin As a middle school student, I probably don't think I can control such a large company, but financial investment is not interesting, so it is better not to daydream like this now.

Thinking of this, Chen Qin became a little worried and looked at the computer screen to think about it seriously. Suddenly a small hand stretched out and stuck a small hairpin in Chen Qin's hair on his forehead.

Chen Qin turned around and saw Ah Yue covering her mouth and laughing.

"Do you just want to be naughty?"

Chen Qin was a little speechless and almost gave her a slap. Of course, he would only hit Xu Lingling casually on weekdays. Although Ayue was a bit aggressive, she had to be more obedient. Such interactions were not common on weekdays, but She doesn't seem to interact with Chen Qin often like this, so today is still a bit strange...

With this thought, Chen Qin didn't do anything. He looked at the time and it was almost noon.

Chen Qin got up and prepared to go home. Ah Yue remembered this and wanted to call her aunt and bring Chen Qin food. Chen Qin said no, but said she would come tomorrow.

"That's what you said."

She was not polite. Chen Qin thought of Xu Lingling and hesitated for a moment, but then Ayue sent him to the door and suddenly said: "I still don't understand what you said before, but anyway, no matter the mobile Internet or other What, I just know what you said is right. If necessary, I can help you update your ported version of the game."

Probably this is an issue that a platform company should consider. Chen Qin nodded and said that of course I had already made arrangements, but she added: "Besides, your hair style is quite handsome today."

"Handsome?"

"Ah."

"At such a young age, you know what is handsome or not..."

Chen Qin finally couldn't hold back and gave her a slap in the face, and Ah Yue covered her head and went back.

But on the way home, Chen Qin was a little concerned. I looked at it on the mobile phone screen and dialed my bangs on the mobile phone on the way, not even thinking about the questions I hadn't thought about just now.

When they got home, Lao Chen had already gone back to Hanzhang. Grandma said that Lingling seemed to have no intention of playing anymore. In addition, another wave of food safety inspection leaders came to Hanzhang today, so he went back first.

Chen Qin breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he would be able to have some free time during this holiday. Thinking of several things that happened in the past few days, although most of them are being followed up through emails, there are also a few things that need to be asked on the front line.

When I turned on the computer, someone from the company said that the programmer had gone to get takeout. Do you want to call him for questioning?

Chen Qin said no need, after all, there was no schedule in the afternoon, so let’s talk about it in the afternoon.

But after asking, I turned around and saw my grandma cooking in the kitchen. Chen Qin went in and asked, "Grandma, do you think my hair is a little weird?"

Naturally, grandma said he was quite handsome. Chen Qin was about to ask more questions when suddenly the door rang. It was Lou Xuemei and Xu Lingling who came back——

It seems that my mother went to a relative's house with her neighbor Lingling. It felt quite strange. After all, they were relatives of Xu Lingling's family, but they probably didn't think there was a problem. Chen Qin didn't say anything, and one After the morning, they not only went there, but also visited the mall when they came back.

After returning home, he took large and small bags with him and went to China Resources Mall just like Chen Qin went out that day. Chen Qin saw them coming back and asked, "Did you go shopping for clothes?"

"Yes," Xu Lingling looked very happy. There were indeed large and small packages of new clothes in the handbag, but there were also other things. "There are also gifts, for you!"

"What clothes..."

Chen Qin took a cloth bag, and Lou Xuemei said at the door: "I originally said that I would just buy you a set of clothes, but she still insists on buying you this kind of thing..."

Chen Qin opened it and saw that it was of course not clothes, but a laptop.

Moreover, I bought a Dell notebook from Computer City. It is thin and light, and the price is a bit high.

Thinking about it, after all, junior high school girls choose brands, so there is probably nothing to be picky about when buying this... But Lou Xuemei reminded her and asked, "Didn't you also buy it for Lingling?"

"right……"

Chen Qin finally remembered this matter. He had been running around everywhere these days and really forgot about it.

But Xu Lingling pulled him for some reason, and she didn't know what she was hinting at. She said anxiously: "Don't want it yet! I'll send it to you later."

　Although this one is from yesterday (

　　So I set a flag and make an update tomorrow, which means it will be updated twice. Well, it should be updated (

　　

　

(End of this chapter)