Daguo Science and Technology started from the copycat system

Therefore, many senior executives at the scene only knew that Sugon R\u0026D Center was developing artificial intelligence technology.

But they have no idea what the specific technical lines are or what stage of research and development it has reached. They even just learned that the artificial intelligence being developed is called "Dawn".

"For this "dawn" of artificial intelligence, because it is in the research and development stage, I cannot disclose any details.

But no matter what, you don’t have to worry about the chip performance crisis of Sugon Technology, because with the artificial intelligence "Sugon".

Even if the performance of our chips is not as good as other products, we can still be the sales champion. "

Hearing Lin Chen's words, many people at the scene felt itchy in their hearts.

But Lin Chen had already refused to say anything on the grounds of "company secrets", so even though they were very curious, they couldn't continue to say anything.

However, there is still an unresolved problem, which is when will the dawn of artificial intelligence come out? So at this time, Chen Dong asked their doubts on behalf of everyone:

"Then when will the "dawn" of our artificial intelligence come out?"

"If there are no accidents, it will probably be in September."

Lin Chen pondered for a moment and slowly said his answer.

"September."

The senior executives who heard Lin Chen's reply began to make calculations in their minds, thinking about how they should deal with the crisis in the next few months.

However, at this time, Li Qianqiang, the sales director at this time, couldn't help but ask:

"In the past few months, our sales will inevitably suffer a certain impact. I think we should conduct a wave of major price reductions to protect our sales in disguise."

Hearing what Sales Director Li Qianqiang said, some of the senior executives at the scene disagreed and some agreed.

Those who agree believe that in the face of huge competitive pressure, they should cut prices and promote sales at this time.

After all, although the profit per unit is small, the more you sell, the more you will earn in the end.

The opposition group believes that there is no need for them to reduce prices, because even if they reduce prices, it will have no effect. It is better to maintain the original price, which will make more profits.

For a while, the scene fell into a quarrel. Neither of the two factions could convince the other. Generally speaking, the supporters and opponents of both sides were almost evenly divided.

Under such circumstances, people at the scene could only focus on Lin Chen, because only Lin Chen could make the final decision at this time.

Facing the gazes of the people at the scene, Lin Chen thought for a moment and then said:

"It is impossible to reduce prices. We must maintain sufficient profits. After all, once the price drops, the cry of dissatisfaction and the impact on the brand image caused by trying to increase it again will be too great.

But it’s not feasible if we don’t lower prices. After all, the performance of the chips on the opposite side will indeed be far ahead of ours, and we also need to maintain ultra-high sales.

In this case, let’s launch a “sales rebate” activity again.

The discount can be larger, so that we can get a group of free salesmen invisibly without explicitly reducing the price. "

This "promotional counter-profit" activity has repeatedly created miracles, saving Sugon Technology's brand image and sales several times when its brand image and reputation suffered huge blows.

Although this move is a bit old-fashioned at this time, I have to admit that it is quite useful. It can be said that this move is really a universal move.

"I support."

At this time, Huang Hua, the person in charge of Shuguang Trading, expressed his strong support for Lin Chen's decision.

"I support it too."

At this time, Chen Dong also made a decision to support, and people at the scene also nodded gently to express their approval.

In the following time, Sugon Technology made other discussions and decisions. The specific decisions made are not enough for outsiders to understand.

…

Time continued to pass like this, and in the blink of an eye, time turned over January and came to July 2007.

In the past six months, Invida has released their new graphics card as scheduled. This new graphics card is indeed as promised at the time, and its performance is indeed terrifying.

Even without the full optimization support of the Unreal 3 game engine and Unreal 3 Plus engine, they still defeated Sugon graphics cards with their own hardware performance.

Among them, the number of transistors in their new graphics card has reached an astonishing 7.08 billion, which is more than the 3.6 billion transistors of Sugon's second-generation graphics card!

With up to 3.6 billion extra transistors, the second-generation Sugon graphics card will naturally struggle no matter how hard it is, because no matter how much you overclock, it can't surpass the performance improvement brought by the 3.6 billion transistors!

Among them, their new graphics card has an astonishing 2304 stream processors, an astonishing 192 raster units, and fewer texture units, only 48. Even this is completely enough.

In the face of so many transistors, there are so many stream processors and raster units.

Even if your graphics card is fully supported by the game engine, facing the performance improvement brought by 3.6 billion transistors, Sugon graphics cards will naturally have no chance of struggling.

However, with the blessing of the Unreal 3 game engine and the Unreal 3Plus game engine, although the Sugon graphics card was completely defeated in terms of performance, it did not reach a level that people could not resist.

Subsequently, Sugon graphics cards were reduced in price due to the "promotional counter-profit" campaign, and finally due to the insufficient production capacity of Vida graphics cards, although Sugon graphics cards failed, they were not completely defeated.

In terms of sales, Sugon graphics card sales are on par with Invida's new graphics card sales.

Based on the current computer industry's expected production and sales of 269 million computers this year, excluding the fact that some old graphics cards will be installed in new computers, an average of 700,000 graphics cards can be sold every day.

At this time, the sales ratios of both parties are neck and neck. The sales volume of both parties is about 300,000 graphics cards.

As for profits, both parties are about the same. Since Vida's new graphics card uses a 45nm process technology, the cost is naturally very high.

In order not to turn away consumers, their new graphics cards naturally cannot be too expensive.

In the end, the average calculation shows that the profit from selling a graphics card between the two parties is actually not much different.

But in any case, Invida's new graphics card does seriously threaten Sugon's market dominance.

In the next few months, as TSMC stores continue to produce graphics cards using the 45nm process technology, their yield rate will naturally gradually increase, and shipments will increase while reducing production costs.

With this situation, Vida's new graphics cards will naturally gradually squeeze out the living space of Sugon graphics cards, so the market share of Sugon graphics cards will only get worse and worse.

However, when the time came to July, the focus of netizens around the world, including Sugon Technology, was not on the graphics card industry, because Pingguo Company's new iPhone E mobile phone was coming!