Super Copy of Great Power Technology

A month later, Ruida Research Institute opened the source code of the Yishen program to the public and made it an open source program. The reason for this was that the initial version of the Yishen program had very simple functions and could do nothing but play chess. In addition, the Yishen program was specially developed for the artificial intelligence chip R1. It can run on other hardware platforms, but the operating efficiency will be greatly reduced, and it will not be able to bring out the Go ability of Yishen, which is comparable to that of a th-dan player.

At the same time, Ruida Technology Company also began to sell the artificial intelligence computing power card R1, which is priced about the same as a high-end graphics card, but can provide an ultra-high computing power of 195TFLOPS. If you use this computing power card to run some programs that require a lot of floating-point calculations, such as weather deduction, earthquake simulation, big data deduction, etc., the efficiency is extremely high, comparable to supercomputing. Of course, you can also use this computing power card as a graphics card. After all, it is also equipped with two display units, but its gaming performance is about the same as Nvidia's flagship graphics card, and it does not reflect its outstanding performance. Thanks to the characteristics of the graphene chip, this computing power card consumes only more than watts of power, which is a model of energy saving. The heat is very low and only requires a heat pipe and a small fan to suppress it.

Released together with this computing power card is a set of AI big models "Pangu", which integrates multiple AI big models such as NLP big models, CV big models, scientific computing big models, etc., so that it can be widely used in scientific research, education, transportation, industry and other industries. The "God of Chess", who defeated Ke Jie a month ago and made a sensation in the entire Go and computer fields, is just an inconspicuous small application in the "Pangu" big model. If you have a computer with an R1 computing power card installed, you can deploy the Pangu big model on your local computer and run some applications that interest you, such as AI painting, video restoration, image recognition, object detection and classification, etc. If you do not purchase an R1 computing power card, you can only install the network version and apply for network computing power. Of course, you have to pay extra money, which is suitable for customers who play occasionally.

After the R1 computing power card was launched on the market, it was not very popular in the first week, with sales of only more than 1 cards. This is because AI computing power cards and AI are new things, and people have no idea what they are used for. The more than 1 computing power cards that were sold were just bought by some fans of Ruida Technology to try out. Although the sales of R computing power cards were poor, company executives including Qiao Ruida and Zhao Hongcai did not care much. The R artificial intelligence chip was originally a product made by Qiao Ruida to complete his undergraduate thesis. It was already very good to be able to make it into a computing power card and sell it to make a profit, so we can't expect too much.

In the second week after the R1 computing power card was launched, sales suddenly exploded. 20 cards were sold in just three days, and all the stock was cleared out. This sudden situation caught Ruida Technology Company off guard. General Manager Zhao Hongcai organized employees to pack and ship the cards while urgently placing additional chip orders with Rockchip Fab and contacting Ruida Electronics Factory to work overtime to produce the next batch of computing power cards. After three days of rushing, a new batch of R1 computing power cards came off the production line. Fifty thousand computing power cards were just put on the shelves and sold out again in just half an hour. Fortunately, Rockchip Fab and Ruida Electronics Factory are still working overtime to produce. In the future, computing power cards will be offline every day. There will always be a day when market demand is met.

At the regular meeting on Monday, the marketing department submitted a survey report, and the reason why the R1 computing power card suddenly became popular was finally revealed. It turned out that in the past two years, the price of the main digital currency Bitcoin has risen from less than $100 to about $1200, attracting a large number of miners to join the mining ranks, setting off a wave of Bitcoin mining. And this cyber mining behavior requires a large number of graphics cards to provide computing power. Affected by this, all the mainstream graphics cards sold on the market were swept away. Many new graphics cards were bought in batches by miners as soon as they came off the production line, and have been working hard in the dark mines ever since. Due to information lag and the influence of the wall, there are not many miners engaged in cyber mining in China, but the source of graphics cards is limited, and there is a situation of difficulty in finding a card in the installation market. At this time, Ruida Technology's R1 computing power card was launched. Although it is called a computing power card, it can be used as a graphics card. The game performance is not worse than the flagship graphics cards of NVIDIA and AMD, and the price is similar, but the power consumption is only about one-third of the latter. When a group of game enthusiasts and new computer users saw this situation, what else could they say? Just grab it.

R1 computing power cards are so scarce that many scalpers have set their sights on them and hired many people to squat in the Ruida Mall every day to buy R1 computing power cards. After the scalpers grab the products, they sell them in the seafood market and earn 500 to yuan. This money is so easy to make that a large number of scalpers are investing in it and never get tired of it.

After reading the survey report, Zhao Hongcai increased the number of orders for R1 computing power cards by five times. At the same time, he contacted Ruida Research Institute to start a new graphics card research project. The R1 computing power card made of graphene chips, which is equipped with only two display units, can provide gaming performance that is not inferior to the two flagship graphics cards of NA. If a graphene graphics card chip is specially developed and assembled into an independent graphics card, the performance will be sky-high. In fact, the M1/M2 chips previously launched by Ruida Technology Company on notebooks have integrated graphics modules, but due to the size and power consumption limitations, the core display performance is only at the level of mid-range independent graphics cards. After being launched on the market, it did not cause much sensation. The display unit installed in the R1 computing power card by Qiao Ruida has been redesigned. The 3D frame generation borrows part of the computing power of the entire card, and the running score and game performance have been greatly improved. In addition, the ray tracing unit has been innovatively introduced to give the game screen more realistic light and shadow effects, which has created the powerful gaming performance of the R1 computing power card. Combined with the perfect driver compiled by Jarvis, it can run all online games and 3A masterpieces on the market. No wonder so many users use it as a graphics card.

By the third week, the production capacity was further released, and the daily output of R1 computing power cards reached 15. The R1 computing power cards on the shelves of Ruida Mall every day were finally not sold out in seconds, and R1 computing power cards also appeared on the counters of Ruida's offline stores. The R1 computing power cards sold at a premium in the seafood market became increasingly difficult to sell, and the scalpers' rush to buy them was effectively curbed.

At this time, some overseas graphics card dealers and agents came to the headquarters of Reda Group, and they were very arrogant, asking to purchase a large number of R1 computing power cards, or wanting to obtain the agency rights of R1 computing power cards in a certain continent. Zhao Hongcai came forward to receive these graphics card dealers and agents. After understanding their demands, he spread his hands helplessly and said, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, our R1 computing power cards have limited production capacity. It is not enough to meet the needs of domestic gamers. We can't spare the production capacity to sell to you."

When these business elites in suits and ties heard Zhao Hongcai say that the production capacity was insufficient and they could not sell R1 computing power cards to them, they suddenly became anxious, gesticulating and talking louder.

"Dear Mr. Zhao, please be sure to sell me some R1 computing power cards. I am willing to pay a 20% markup on your retail price for them." A white young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses said eagerly.

"Mr. Zhao, I am willing to increase the price by 30% to purchase R1 computing power cards, 10 at a time, and I can pay the money first."

"30% is nothing. I can raise the price by 50%. As long as your company gives me the agency rights in America, I can transfer the money to your company right now."

Before Zhao Hongcai could say anything, the people sent by these graphics card agents and distributors started to roll up their sleeves, and their quotes for the R1 graphics card were higher than the last.

"A 50% increase in price? It's worth considering..." Zhao Hongcai was stalling for time while waving his hand to signal his assistant to check what happened immediately. Why did these foreign graphics card dealers and agents come to him and cry and shout to purchase R1 computing power cards, and even increase the price by more than 50% for this purpose? In this way, if they buy the R1 computing power cards back and sell them to the outside world, will there be any profit? The assistant walked out of the reception room and searched the Internet for hot events related to the R1 computing power card. After only five minutes, she hurried back and whispered to Zhao Hongcai in public. It turned out that last night, a foreign cyber miner bought an R1 computing power card through a purchasing agent channel and plugged it into his mining computer. The computing power soared instantly, and the mining speed increased by dozens of times. For some reason, this cyber miner filmed it all, made a video, and posted it on Twitter. In just one night, the video was played more than 100 million times, with countless likes and reposts, and more than 1 comments. All the cyberminers who have watched this video were stunned by the powerful computing power of the R1 computing power card, and imagined that if they had an R1 computing power card, they could make back their investment by mining for just a dozen days. So these cyberminers tried every possible way and through various channels to buy R1 computing power cards, no matter whether they were new or old, as long as the functions were normal, they would buy them at a higher price. The foreign graphics card agents and sellers who appeared at the Ruida headquarters were probably requested by these cyberminers to come to Ruida Technology Company to purchase R computing power cards.

After understanding the whole story, Zhao Hongcai immediately had a clue in his mind. He clapped his hands, attracted the attention of several people, and said loudly: "I understand your urgency to purchase R1 computing power cards, but our company's production capacity is limited. We can only take out about 50 cards per week and sell them overseas. I can make the decision to distribute these computing power cards equally to several people. As for the price, I will calculate it at twice the domestic retail price."

As soon as Zhao Hongcai said this, everyone was shocked. You know, the retail price of R1 computing power card in China is 4599, which is very expensive. Now their purchase price has to double on the basis of this retail price, plus some freight and tariffs, the purchase cost of a computing power card is at least more than one thousand US dollars. For the same product, the price difference between domestic and foreign prices has reached more than twice, even these well-informed business elites can't accept it.

"Mr. Zhao, you can't raise the price just because your product is selling well. That's unethical."

"Yes, Mr. Zhao, they are the same products. The price difference between China and abroad is too large, which will have an adverse impact on our subsequent sales."

"Mr. Zhao, as a formal company, discriminatory pricing is the most undesirable. Otherwise, it will affect the company's reputation and reputation."

"Mr. Zhao, how about this? The retail price of the R1 computing power card overseas can be set at $600. As for the price of the R1 computing power card sold to us agents, we only need to give a 10% discount on the retail price."

Several foreigners surrounded Zhao Hongcai, talking endlessly. Their core idea was to persuade Zhao Hongcai to lower the overseas price of R1 computing power cards so that they could make a profit.

Zhao Hongcai cleared his throat and said, "I know that the price of twice the retail price is indeed a bit too expensive, but there is nothing we can do about it. It is said that things are valuable because they are scarce. The number of R1 computing power cards we can sell overseas is very limited. It is reasonable to price them higher. If any gentleman is dissatisfied with the current product pricing, he can leave immediately. We are a formal company and will not force sales."

Zhao Hongcai's speech was powerful and had the flavor of a domineering CEO. Several foreigners at the scene looked at each other, not knowing what to say, but no one left early. Obviously, with the super mining performance of the R1 computing power card, even if you buy it back at twice the price, you will not lose money. At worst, when selling it to those cyber miners, you can also increase the price.

"Okay, Mr. Zhao, you win. I agree to a selling price that is twice the retail price, but I want a three-year warranty. Is that okay?" said a buyer sent by one of the graphics card dealers.

"Of course there is no problem with this. We at Ruida Technology provide a one-week refund, one-month replacement, and three-year warranty service for the R1 computing power cards sold in China. We also treat overseas users equally and adopt the same three-guarantee policy, so you don't have to worry about the after-sales problems of the R1 computing power card. We have opened Ruida Houses in major cities around the world, and while selling products, we also provide after-sales service."

Ruida Group has been going overseas for a long time. From the initial Ruida mobile phones, tablet computers, and laptops to the later Ruida cars, they have achieved good sales overseas. The products have been sold, customers have been found, and the corresponding supporting after-sales service department has been established quickly. (End of this chapter)