Chapter 117 Computing Power Cost and Profit

"As you can see, the price of the Asus GTX 980Ti graphics card alone is 5399 summer yuan, which is more than yuan more expensive than our second-generation deep sleep aid!

Even if we get discounts for large-scale purchases, 980 yuan can only buy two ASUS GTX Ti graphics cards at most.

And this is just the price of the graphics card. A complete computer also requires a motherboard, CPU, memory, power supply, hard disk...

Do you know how much computing power is needed for the artificial intelligence Jarvis to analyze brain data and then guide people to fall asleep quickly and prolong deep sleep?

Moreover, this computing power is not a short-term computing power expenditure, but a computing power expenditure of up to 10 hours.

Not to mention the purchase cost and depreciation cost of the computer hardware, the electricity bill for 10 hours alone is not a small amount!

Therefore, the service fee of our artificial intelligence Jarvis is not high, but rather quite cheap.”

After hearing Lin Feng's words and looking at the high costs, netizens nodded instinctively, because what Lin Feng said does make sense.

8 to 10 hours a day, the artificial intelligence Jarvis needs to constantly analyze the state of your brain, and then guide you to fall asleep quickly and prolong your deep sleep time, which naturally requires huge computing power.

After doing the math, they found that two yuan a day didn't seem expensive. After all, if you go to an Internet cafe and surf the Internet, two yuan won't even last you an hour.

Thinking of this, their resistance was greatly reduced. They no longer complained that the fees were too expensive, but instead felt that Star Chart Technology's fees were cheap.

Of course, in fact, on average, if we don't count the cost of purchasing hardware such as graphics cards and motherboards, the cost of building factories and the cost of hardware depreciation.

The average daily computing cost per person does not exceed 0.5 yuan.

Although it seems that a huge amount of computing power is required for 10 hours a day, in fact, the second-generation deep sleep aid device itself has a HiSilicon Kirin 920 mobile phone processor with decent computing power.

This mobile phone processor can share most of the computing power burden, and ultimately the computing power consumed by the headquarters is actually not that large.

Moreover, the main computing power is expended during sleep and light sleep, and when falling into deep sleep.

Next, we just need to let the artificial intelligence come over intermittently to check the brain state, and then decide whether to continue guiding the human brain to prevent the human brain from being interrupted in deep sleep.

On average, the time a person uses the computing power of artificial intelligence Jarvis does not exceed one hour.

Under such circumstances, a person's computing power cost of more than 0.5 yuan is already considered high.

Of course, the computing power cost is not high, but the tax cost is high.

Xingtu Technology has to pay taxes on the two yuan service fee collected every day.

The tax on software is relatively high, with the value-added tax reaching 17% of the full amount, plus 25% corporate income tax and other additional taxes...

The value-added tax is calculated based on the total sales price, and the corporate income tax is calculated based on the profit. The total tax rate for the two is 36%.

However, due to other additional taxes such as education and urban construction, the final total tax rate reaches a painful 40%!

So if you can charge customers two yuan in service fees a day, if your cost is 0.5 yuan and your income is 1.5 yuan, then you will pay a total tax rate of 40%.

1.5 multiplied by 0.4, Xingtu Technology can only earn 0.9 yuan, which is actually quite bleak income.

Of course, because the actual computing power cost is far less than 0.5 yuan, Xingtu Technology can still earn 1 yuan a day.

In this case, Xingtu Technology is really not unscrupulous by only making one dollar from you a day.

After all, if 1000 million deep sleep aid devices were sold, the daily revenue would only be 1000 million yuan, and the monthly net income would be 3 million yuan.

Then, considering that graphics cards are so expensive, if the hardware purchase cost and data center construction cost are included, Xingtu Technology really doesn’t make much money, and may even lose money.

Therefore, Xingtu Technology really didn’t make much money from service fees, and Xingtu Technology really has no bad intentions.

Fortunately, after Lin Feng's explanation, people finally understood Xingtu Technology's difficulties. Those who cursed Xingtu Technology for being unscrupulous and for charging too much for its services finally calmed down.

Although there are still a small number of people who complain that Xingtu Technology’s equipment is too expensive and that its service fees are too expensive, it’s fine as long as the vast majority of netizens do not have strong objections.

So Lin Feng did not delay any further and directly announced the expected launch time of the second-generation deep sleep aid.

Raymond Lam said that the earliest it could be released is on Christmas Day, December 12, and the latest might be delayed until next year's Spring Festival.

As for which countries can purchase it, there is naturally no way to determine it at once.

Lin Feng said that Xingtu Technology's second-generation deep sleep assistance device is being prepared to be sent to medical departments in other countries for review.

If the medical authorities in other countries pass the review, Xingtu Technology will arrange for the listing as soon as possible.

During this period, if people from other countries want to obtain deep sleep aids, they can go to other countries to buy them and then bring them back to their own countries.

In response to this, netizens in Daxia were naturally cheering, but netizens overseas were quite depressed.

I just hope that my country’s medical authorities can quickly review and approve Xingtu Technology’s second-generation deep sleep aid so that I can buy it earlier.

Of course, many overseas netizens decided not to wait and went directly to Daxia to buy the second-generation deep sleep aid, or directly purchased it through abnormal channels.

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After the press conference, news about the second-generation deep sleep aid quickly spread to the global technology media circle through the hands of global media.

"Sleep revolution! From now on, the duration of deep sleep will reach 65% to 70%!"

"Cost analysis of Xingtu Technology's second-generation deep sleep aid?"

"Xingtu Technology is too shady? The price of its deep sleep aid is comparable to that of an iPhone 6 in Pingguo!"

"Invida became the ultimate winner?"

“Graphics card prices have skyrocketed again. Following Bitcoin, the computing power requirements of artificial intelligence have led to a scarcity of graphics cards.”

“The second generation of deep sleep aid may be launched on December 12th!”

“AI deep sleep service fee? A detailed analysis of Xingtu Technology’s marketing tactics!”

"Artificial intelligence Jarvis creates another miracle. Following the robotic arms and drones, it enters the field of sleep aids?"

At this time, domestic and foreign technology media are all reporting related news. These news have different focuses, but they are all extremely eye-catching.

After all, after some time of media publicity on the benefits of deep sleep, netizens have naturally developed an interest in and demand for deep sleep aids.

At this time, as Xingtu Technology exposed the equipment prices and service fees, they were naturally very concerned. It can be said that many people were gearing up to buy them.

Among them, overseas netizens are also paying close attention to the developments of their own country's medical departments, wanting to know when the second-generation deep sleep aid will be approved.

Of course, not to mention the developments in overseas medical offices, the medical offices in the capital are currently in a state of confusion.

It turns out that Xingtu Technology wanted to speed up the inspection process so that it could release its products on Christmas.

Early the next morning after the test, they sent the prototype to the medical department in the capital for inspection via the air channel.

The medical department in the capital city naturally knew the specific effects of this thing, and theoretically it wouldn't make them so entangled.

The real reason that makes them entangled is that this thing can actually be used to lay many hidden tricks.

If these secret moves are not handled properly, they may disrupt the order of a country!
(End of this chapter)