Hong Kong Island's New Rich Era

Chapter 22 Research and Development Progress of Xiangjiang Cube

Often, many things will have results that you never expected.

The next morning, as soon as Liu Zhicheng went out, he saw a beautiful woman walking towards his door, followed by a Rolls-Royce, as if she was waiting for an opportunity to come in.

Isn’t this the beautiful lady?

"Hello, beautiful!" Liu Zhicheng greeted with a happy smile.

"Hello, I'm your neighbor Yang Minli. I had something urgent to do last night and didn't have time to attend the dinner, so I came here today to say hello."

Yang Minli? Could she be Yang Yuanlong's daughter? What a fate that led to their meeting.

"Ms. Yang, you are too polite. We hold this dinner just to get to know everyone." Liu Zhicheng opened the door and invited them in.

"I won't bother you today." Yang Minli said, motioning to her assistant or bodyguard to hand over a gift. Then she said, "It's just a small token of respect."

"You're welcome." Liu Zhicheng took the gift with both hands. It felt heavy, probably an ornament. He handed it to the driver.

"Let's exchange contact information so we can discuss business matters in the future." Yang Minli handed over a business card.

Liu Zhicheng took the business card and handed over one of his own. Then the two said goodbye. It was very different from what he had imagined.

Liu Zhicheng couldn't help but smile, feeling a little emotional. At least, he had the contact information.

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Building A, Orange Technology Industrial Park, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, is the headquarters of the company's R&D center.

Accompanied by Huo Haiqing, Liu Zhicheng walked into the R&D center. After recent recruitment, the R&D center has grown to a certain size, with the number of relevant R&D personnel reaching 100.

A game development, console design, and game testing team was set up, and He Guoyuan was promoted to deputy director of the R&D center. Liu Zhicheng had no choice but to force He Guoyuan to take on a new role due to the lack of talent.

The industrial computer purchased from the United States was installed in the test room on the fifth floor of the R&D center, and a testing team was assigned to manage it.

The entire mainframe was installed in a separate air-conditioned room. Older computers of this era did not have very good heat dissipation and required additional cooling equipment for heat dissipation.

Through a long signal line, connected to the monitor outside, Liu Zhicheng saw a very familiar picture running on the screen. This was the computer testing the operation mode of the Xiangjiang Cube.

He Guoyuan and a group of software engineers were standing in the testing room waiting for Liu Zhicheng's instructions.

Liu Zhicheng asked one of the engineers: "It seems that the computing speed is quite fast now. How many times faster is it than the speed we usually play games at?"

The engineer replied: "Mr. Liu, it's about ten times faster than normal game speed."

"Then what is the purpose of doing this?" Liu Zhicheng asked again.

No one is omnipotent. If you don't understand something, just ask. There is nothing to be ashamed of in front of science and technology. At least that's what Liu Zhicheng thinks.

"Right now, the main focus is on testing how long it will take to fail." The engineer answered seriously.

He Guoyuan, who was standing by, smiled and explained, "In fact, under normal circumstances, gamers will not play at this speed, let alone reach this level of progress. The purpose of our test is to see if there are any problems with the entire running calculation program."

"More importantly, with this lab data and this set of original programs, we can increase the difficulty of the game by simply changing a few graphics in the programs of the products we sell. And we can make it more challenging for every 100,000 units."

Liu Zhicheng nodded and said, "Okay, I really don't understand these things. How long will it take to complete the test?" He Guoyuan said, "I'm not sure. After the game system was developed, we have been testing it at high speed for two days. The game has failed the test. We can only optimize it while continuing the test."

Liu Zhicheng felt that He Guoyuan was too perfectionist and too scientific. In Liu Zhicheng's mind, scientific research must be combined with production and research, and scientific research must be transformed into results in stages and tested in the market economy.

"Then continue the test. I have only one question. How long do you think the Xiangjiang Cube can run continuously without any problems before it can be put on the market?"

"5 days. If it passes customs continuously within 5 days, it can be listed." He Guoyuan replied.

Liu Zhicheng was still a little impatient inside, but in the R&D room, he couldn't be too eager for quick success, so as not to affect the mentality of the R&D staff.

"Okay. How is the development of Snake going now?"

"A special R&D team has been set up. We have experience in R&D of Hong Kong Cubes, so the R&D time should be shorter than that of Hong Kong Cubes." He Guoyuan reported everything to Liu Zhicheng.

Liu Zhicheng nodded and said, "Okay, I'm relieved."

Liu Zhicheng plans to develop a game arcade, giving it about half a year of life, and a new arcade game will be launched after half a year.

"Is anyone working now tonight?" Liu Zhicheng asked, looking at the laboratory.

He Guoyuan shook his head and said, "No, usually a few employees will work overtime until 10 o'clock."

"How about the test at night?"

"We usually pause at night."

Liu Zhicheng thought for a moment and said slowly, "Mr. He, please negotiate with the programmers and test engineers and arrange for a few people to work the night shift. You can give them more night shift pay."

He Guoyuan nodded and said, "I understand."

Liu Zhicheng had no choice. Scientific research nowadays is very much about the "spirit". He had to communicate with He Guoyuan about some of his own views, including the phased transformation of scientific research results. After all, in the future, Orange Company will enter the research and development of new electronic equipment fields one after another.

After coming out of the laboratory, Liu Zhicheng had another in-depth communication with Huo Haiqing and told him some of his market-oriented ideas from his previous life.

In Liu Zhicheng's mind, scientific research must also be linked to the market. Of course, in the later stage, some areas that require long-term research investment will also be invested as a technical reserve.

Liu Zhicheng asked Huo Haiqing: "Are you ready for arcade production?"

"We still plan to adopt the production model of claw machines and purchase accessories from outside. Our factory will only be responsible for burning games and assembling the entire machine."

"We will master the key technologies ourselves and outsource the production of other assembly parts to others. We will follow the path of technical, industrial and trade." Liu Zhicheng nodded.

In fact, if we were not afraid of others pirating or counterfeiting, we could outsource all of our products to outside factories, just like the Apple phones in the past.

Now we have to do the burning and assembly of the whole machine by ourselves, and there will also be inevitable "copycat" and pirated products. We will definitely have to take strong measures to protect the interests of Orange Technology.

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