game trailblazer

Chapter 46 Industry Inspection
After settling Qiu Bojun's studio in the Friendship Hotel, Zhang Lexing asked Wan Lin to arrange a special person to be in charge of Qiu Bojun's daily life. Qiu Bojun is a workaholic. Once he enters the development state, he will completely ignore his own health. Zhang Lexing I don't want to receive some unfortunate news one day.Just as the matter of Qiu Bojun came to an end, Zhang Lexing received feedback from the market investigators sent out earlier.

The current mainstream in the domestic game market is the Atari 2600 and its compatible machines. They are sold over the counter in large shopping malls in many cities, but they usually sell Atari 2600 compatible machines. The price is usually around 2000 yuan. It belongs to the ranks of high consumption, and only a few families who got rich first bought it.However, a family-style game room (commonly known as charter room) has appeared in some cities, and the scale is very small. Generally, one or two Atari compatible machines are purchased, and then some teenagers are attracted to play at home.Atari game cards are popular both for single cards and combined cards. Of course, the combined cards are "Video Game Show Comprehensive Card" produced by Yanshan Software.As for the FC game consoles that Zhang Lexing asked to focus on, they are very rare in the market. Only a small amount of parallel imported FCs appeared in some coastal areas. Because the game effect far exceeds that of Atari game consoles, the price is very high, almost 4000 yuan. One, and the game cassette is as high as five or six hundred yuan a disc.

For game consoles like Atari that will soon be completely withdrawn from the market, Zhang Lexing naturally doesn't care, but he didn't expect FC parallel machines to enter China so early, and he wanted to intervene. Unfortunately, the patent has not yet been approved. There's no reason to sue.After inquiring from Wang Bin's classmates, I only know that it seems that the expert review is still going on, and it is still early before the final approval.Depressed but unable to do anything, Zhang Lexing endured it for a few days and simply left temporarily, so as not to see the Patent Office but not be able to wait for the results.

Zhang Lexing, the first stop after leaving BJ, came to Shenzhen, where there is an FC game cassette assembly factory under construction. The on-site management is a few Chinese managers from the American cassette factory. The cassette assembly equipment promised by Nintendo has basically been shipped. Yes, it is being installed and debugged.According to the estimates of the on-site management personnel, the installation and commissioning of the equipment should be completed around July, and trial production can be carried out. If everything is normal, as long as enough skilled workers can be recruited, the factory can officially start production. Part of the production capacity has been transferred to Shenzhen, which is believed to be able to effectively reduce the production cost of its own game cassettes in the future.Considering the actual situation in China, Zhang Lexing told the on-site management personnel and other equipment to be installed and debugged, and immediately recruited people for training, and adopted methods such as training a batch to start a batch, and replacing the old with the new, so that the factory can exert its maximum production capacity as soon as possible.

After seeing the situation of the Shenzhen factory, Zhang Lexing passed through Luohu Port and came to Hong Kong.This is the focus of Zhang Lexing's coming out this time. The industrial layout in Hong Kong is related to the future development and cannot be sloppy.An IC chip production factory under construction is located in Tai Po Industrial Estate, Hong Kong. It is currently only used as a production base for FC game enhancement chip MMC3, but Zhang Lexing’s real plan is to gradually invest and upgrade to own CPU hardware design and production based on this. ability, Dr. Yu will be busy for quite a long time in the future.

Tai Po Industrial Estate, chip factory construction site...

Seeing the thin Dr. Yu, Zhang Lexing couldn't help feeling apologetic in his heart: "Doctor, are you used to it in Hong Kong? I will be lucky that you stay here often in the future. If you need anything, just say it."

"It's okay, Hong Kong is pretty good. I'm used to it here, and there are many old friends here. I plan to take my family over after a while, no problem."

"When do you think our factory will be built?"

"Some equipment is still floating in the sea. If they can arrive on time, it is estimated that it will be put into production by the end of this year. It will take about half a year to reach the maximum production capacity. The factory has three production lines with a line width of 3 microns, and the designed annual output is 1680 million. IC. After the factory is fully put into production, the MMC3 chip (FC game enhancement chip) that our company needs will not need to worry about being out of stock.”

"It's too optimistic. When our games using MMC3 chips are launched, you will know that the current output will soon be insufficient. However, if we only need to expand production capacity in the future, we can transfer the eliminated production lines to Shenzhen opposite. Can be used for quite some time. Well, doctor, is the equipment of our microcircuit laboratory all arrived?"

"Basically everything has arrived. Now it is being installed and debugged. Researchers have also begun to recruit. It is estimated that research will start in about 3 months."

"Okay, hurry up, this part is our focus, start IC technology research as soon as possible, strive to increase the line width of the existing production line as soon as possible, improve product yield, and reduce production costs. I hope that the chip factory in Hong Kong will be able to produce MIPS in the future. The research CPU, there will be a lot of demand for this kind of CPU in the future. Doctor, in the future, our hardware industry will depend entirely on you to take the helm."

"Don't worry, I will definitely do my best."

After seeing the construction of the chip factory, Zhang Lexing came to Kunpeng Animation Communication Company in Central, which was developed from the temporary comic studio established in Hong Kong.Relying on Cao Zhilin's long-sleeved skills and the efforts of a group of employees, plus some comic ideas occasionally provided by Zhang Lexing, in a few years it has developed from a small comic studio to a large-scale animation creation, animation distribution and animation peripheral product development. The company's business covers RB, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Sitting on the comfortable sofa in the general manager's office of Kunpeng Animation, Zhang Lexing listened carefully to Cao Zhilin's report on the business situation some time ago.

"Boss, including comics sales revenue, animation adaptation authorization, game adaptation authorization, animation peripheral authorization, etc., our company's total revenue last year increased by 50% compared with the previous year, reaching 21.26 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the profit exceeded 8 million Hong Kong dollars. Our company's main business income comes from RB and Taiwan. The main competitors in RB are Xiaoguan and Shueisha, two comprehensive publishing houses. The main competitor in Taiwan is Dongli Publishing House. The main competitor in Hong Kong is Huang Yulang's Yu Lang Group. Shogakukan and Shueisha are comprehensive publishing houses. In addition to comics, they also set foot in books, periodicals, novels, reference books, etc. There is still a certain gap between our company's scale and these two, but we are working hard Catch up. Taiwan is still in the period of martial law, and it is not easy to develop with more restrictions. However, according to some senior local people, the martial law is about to be lifted. If the news is true, it will be very beneficial to the company's development. Yulang Group has been listed last year Huang Yulang's assets were only 1 million Hong Kong dollars before the listing, and this year it has skyrocketed to nearly 20 billion Hong Kong dollars. This year Huang Yulang also purchased a large number of properties, including [-]% of the equity of Tiantian Publishing Co., Ltd. and all of Tiantian Color Printing Co., Ltd. Equity, and took over the publication of "Daily Daily". It seems that Huang Yulang will make a big move."

"Yulang Group doesn't have to worry too much. It can adopt the method of supporting local original authors, use better conditions to attract local authors to join as much as possible, strengthen the occupation of the local market, and slowly grind with him. The business in the RB area should be further strengthened. , the branch over there can dig more potential RB comic creators. Well, have you recruited all the people on the list I gave you last time?"

"I dug them all up, and many of them are just starting to create comics, so it doesn't cost much."

"Try to create good conditions for them and let them concentrate on creating comics. The sustainable development of the company will be indispensable in the future."

"Boss, I will arrange it."

"Now the company's animation production is authorized to other companies. In the future, we must master animation production technology ourselves. You need to gradually recruit some talents in this field and establish your own animation production department. Don't worry about funding. I I'll figure it out."

"Good boss, I will take charge of this matter myself."

After explaining the relevant work, Zhang Lexing, under the leadership of Cao Zhilin, checked the work situation of each studio in the Hong Kong headquarters.Seeing that everyone is working well, Zhang Lexing is relieved.

Leaving Kunpeng Animation, Zhang Lexing came to a nearby cafe, ordered a cup of latte and sat down to read the information in his hands slowly. The accompanying bodyguards quickly occupied several nearby tables and carefully examined the people passing by.

While drinking coffee, there was a sudden noise. Zhang Lexing looked up and saw that he was an acquaintance. Maybe the bodyguard didn't know him, so he blocked him.

"Jonathan, it's Uncle Wu, I know him, don't stop me."

"Le Xing, long time no see." Uncle Wu waved to Zhang Le Xing.

"Uncle Wu, come and sit down, what do you want to drink?"

"Just a glass of water."

Uncle Wu is the person in charge of Blue Information Market Research Company. This company is mainly engaged in business intelligence investigation and analysis. It can be regarded as one of Zhang Lexing's eyes and ears. After all, many things in his memory are not complete, and many of them are just It's just the appearance of the incident. With this company, Zhang Lexing also has an additional channel to control information.Usually, Uncle Wu usually reported the investigation situation through regular emails. This time Zhang Lexing came to Hong Kong just in time, so he simply asked Uncle Wu to come out and chat.

"Uncle Wu, Dr. Yu has come to Hong Kong, and you haven't seen each other for a long time, did you come out for tea together?"

"I've seen it. We had morning tea together last week. Mr. Yang also came."

"Is Mr. Yang still in good health?"

"The body is quite strong, and I mentioned you when we had morning tea together that day."

"Another day, let's make an appointment for everyone to get together. At that time, I will invite Mr. Yang over. I feel sorry for having troubled Mr. Yang with many things over the years."

"Okay, I'm here to find a place and set a time to let you know."

"Let's talk about business, what's going on during this time?"

"Well, the Starbucks you have been paying attention to has completed the investment through Tiantian Coffee. The current CEO is Howard Schultz, the former marketing manager of Starbucks and the current CEO of Tiantian Coffee. We accounted for 45% of the shares in the restructured Starbucks."

"Hua Shao has done a good job, and the person introduced by Mr. Yang is really capable." This deal has been on the radar for a while. Zhang Lexing originally expected to get 40% of the shares, which would be good. He did not expect that Hua Shao, who was in charge of the project, would be able to negotiate. Very strong, and won another 5% equity for himself.

"Uncle Wu, there is one more thing I need to trouble you with. You can help me set up a security company in Hong Kong. In the future, the company will grow in size. In some key areas, I still need to use my own people to be at ease."

"Okay, let's do it tomorrow."

The matter in Hong Kong was settled. After meeting Mr. Yang, Zhang Lexing boarded the plane to California.

(End of this chapter)