Chapter 150 The Crazy Graphics Card Market and Daxia's Request

"It seems you don't know."

Hao Yang was slightly surprised, then took out a report and handed it over.

Seeing this, Lin Feng also took the stack of documents.

This stack of documents is an analysis and price report on the graphics card market.

The graphics card analysis report describes the performance of graphics cards and the analysis of the graphics card market, which can give people a clear understanding of the graphics card market after reading it.

After this is the price report, in which you can see the price growth trend of graphics cards in recent years.

In this price growth trend chart, the price of graphics cards in the past two days has skyrocketed like a rocket, attracting a lot of attention.

Taking the price of ASUS GTX 980Ti graphics card as an example, when the second-generation deep sleep aid was released a few months ago, the official price of the graphics card was 5399 summer yuan.

Now, the official price of an ASUS GTX 980Ti graphics card with the same configuration and performance has risen to 6750 summer yuan without any performance improvement!

It was during this period that the price of graphics cards increased by 1351 summer yuan out of thin air!

The performance has not increased, but the price has increased so much out of thin air. The price of this graphics card is simply crazy.

And you have to know that this is just the official price given the current situation in the graphics card market.

You just have to imagine what a graphics card with an official price will look like, but in reality you will never be able to buy one with an official price.

Unless you are lucky enough to grab a small batch of graphics cards for promotions during holidays.

According to the current special market conditions of graphics cards, if you want to buy a graphics card, you usually have to increase the price by 20% to 30%.

That is to say, after adding 6750% ​​to 8100% of the marked price of 8775 Xia Yuan, the actual cost would be Xia Yuan and Xia Yuan!

The price of this graphics card has gone crazy!

If you want to buy a high-end ASUS GTX 980Ti graphics card, it will cost you 8100 summer yuan and 8775 summer yuan.

This price is far higher than that of a computer host, and it is crazy to spend so much money on a graphics card!
After all, with the current prices of other computer hardware, you can build a pretty good mainstream desktop computer for 3000 yuan.

If you don't buy a graphics card, you can build a top-of-the-line mainstream desktop computer by spending 5000 yuan.

Under such circumstances, the price expenditure proportion of graphics cards has reached a crazy level and has reached a seriously unreasonable level.

Witnessing such a crazy situation, Lin Feng couldn't help but be speechless.

Lin Feng felt somewhat familiar with such prices. After all, he had come from that era and knew how crazy the price of graphics cards could skyrocket.

Now looking at this familiar price and the year of 2015, Lin Feng couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Sure enough, in the era of big data and AI, only Nvidia is laughing the happiest.

It is no wonder that their market value in the previous life exceeded the trillion US dollar mark and joined the trillion US dollar market value club.

In fact, given that the global graphics card market is highly monopolized by two companies, it would be strange if they couldn't do it.

On the other side, Colonel Hao Yang watched Lin Feng finish reading the document in his hand, then smiled bitterly and said:

"As you can see, graphics cards have gone crazy, and their prices have risen to unacceptable levels."

Having said that, Colonel Hao Yang hesitated for a moment, then looked at Lin Feng and said:

"Come to think of it, you may not know about the secret war that has been going on during this period."

"Secret war?"

Lin Feng raised his eyebrows, not knowing what the so-called secret war was.

"During this period, our Daxia Security Management Office arrested thousands of people.

The reason for their arrest was suspected of espionage and criminal activities.

Their goal is to specifically target you, your parents, and even Starway Technology and Starway Genes."

"Oh?"

Hearing Colonel Hao Yang's words, Lin Feng's eyebrows raised slightly. He didn't expect that such a thing would happen in secret.

In response, Colonel Hao Yang did not stop talking, he just continued:

"We were able to create such amazing results in just a dozen days, thanks to the artificial intelligence Skynet. We used the artificial intelligence Skynet to develop an 'anti-espionage and hidden dangers early elimination system'.

The function of this system is to secretly monitor the data of all public and private surveillance cameras in real time.

In addition, all electronic equipment was monitored and monitored, which is why we were able to create such a big and surprising effect."

"I see."

Hearing Colonel Hao Yang's words, Lin Feng showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

I finally understood why Daxia was able to arrest so many criminals and spies in just over ten days.

It turns out that an "anti-espionage and hidden danger elimination system" was developed using artificial intelligence "Skynet" to secretly monitor all electronic devices and cameras.

At this time, Colonel Hao Yang on the other side continued:

"The effect of this 'anti-espionage and hidden dangers early elimination system' is amazing. The Daxia Security Management Office is very satisfied with it and wants to expand it to the whole country.

But after a budget analysis, we found that we couldn’t build it at all because the current graphics cards were too expensive. ”

When he said this, Colonel Hao Yang showed a very helpless expression.

After all, this system is very effective and can be said to be a real national weapon. Its role is no less than that of a military region.

But the construction cost is too high and it cannot be built at all, which is very sad.

虽然去年2014年4月的时候，国产显卡公司景嘉微就成功流片出来了大夏第一个100%国产的GPU图形芯片JM5400，实现了从0到1的突破。

But the problem is that the JM5400 is a low-power, high-performance GPU graphics chip specially designed for use in the military industry, and it is also a GPU graphics chip for embedded purposes.

Under such circumstances, there is no need to think about the graphics performance of this chip. Let alone catching up with the level of mainstream graphics cards, it can't even compare with low-end graphics cards from ten years ago.

It can only be said that the purpose of developing this JM5400 graphics chip is to meet the demand for GPU graphics chips in the military field, and performance was not considered at all.

In the end, even if domestic graphics cards are very cheap, they still cannot solve the problem. Daxia still needs high-performance top-level graphics cards!
Although a large number of JM5400 graphics chips can actually be used to increase performance, it is easy to imagine that more than two dozen JM5400 graphics chips are needed to match the performance of an ASUS GTX 980Ti graphics card.

The combined power consumption of so many chips would be extremely high, and a large amount of electricity would be wasted. In the long run, the cost of use would be a disaster.

When you finally do the math, you’ll find that you might as well just buy the super expensive graphics card.

Under such circumstances, we want to expand the 'Anti-espionage and Potential Danger Elimination System' to the whole country.

Ultimately, we still need to develop domestic high-end graphics cards that are comparable to or even surpass the ASUS GTX 980Ti graphics cards.

"I already know why you are here."

Lin Feng nodded thoughtfully, and then he felt happy.

After all, developing and eventually producing graphics cards on one's own was part of Lin Feng's plan.

At this time, Daxia wanted to support the domestic graphics card industry and wanted Xingtu Technology to develop a high-end graphics card. Naturally, Xingtu Technology would receive a lot of tangible and intangible support.

I can only say that this is like a pillow automatically delivering itself to you when you are sleepy. This is really the best thing that could happen.

On the other hand, Colonel Hao Yang had no idea what Lin Feng was thinking, nor did he know what was in Lin Feng’s mind.

He sighed when Lin Feng showed a thoughtful expression:

"Our country is a developing country. We are building infrastructure everywhere and need money for development. We have to work hard to squeeze out every bit of research and development funds.

If one wants to develop a qualified high-end graphics card at this time, the funds required cannot be solved by hundreds of millions of Xia Yuan. It will at least require tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Xia Yuan.

We naturally cannot come up with so much money, so we can only turn to you for help."

At this point, Colonel Hao Yang said solemnly:

"The role of this 'anti-espionage and hidden dangers early elimination system' is not only to eliminate spies and prevent certain criminals from causing damage in society in advance.

It is also a means to stop foreign forces from interfering and even influencing the public opinion and other aspects of Daxia!

From now on, who took the money to work for whom, who they cheered for, and even who embezzled the money will all be revealed at a glance and can no longer be hidden!

It can be said that this 'anti-espionage and hidden dangers early elimination system' is related to the century-long plan of our Great Xia country, and also to the rise and fall of our organization!
After all, whether the administration of officials is well-organized and strict determines the strength, prosperity and decline of a country or even an organization! "

(End of this chapter)