Chapter 833： [Some are N ways to pry open consumers' wallets]

The two came to an office in the R&D laboratory to have a further conversation. Gao Hua looked at Luo Sheng and replied: "The current manufacturing cost has been compressed to the range of 40,000 yuan. Basically, we have put the energy in the cloud. All the modules have been put up."

"The manufacturing cost of 40,000 yuan..." Luo Sheng muttered to himself in thought.

In terms of cost reduction, the cloud computing of the brother company Bluestar Technology Group provides a complete set of the most advanced cloud service support for virtual brains.

Regardless of the large matrix of the virtual brain, there are no hardware modules such as CPU, memory, and hard disk inside the host. These hardware are the latest generation of semiconductor technology, using 5 nanometer-level process technology, DNA storage technology, etc.

One word is expensive, and the general public simply cannot afford it.

Fortunately, Bluestar Technology’s cloud computing service is powerful enough to bring all these hardware together in the cloud, so the virtual brain is only used as a client interface, and users connect to the cloud-based super central computer through the host.

In this way, users’ barriers to entry can be lowered and more people can afford this product. Users only need to access the virtual world through the terminal virtual brain to access personal desktop systems, data and various applications. service.

All this is actually not much different from using a traditional personal computer.

It seems that the cost of this aspect has been passed on to the Blue Coast company, but the cloud computing solution is a complete set of service solutions, including cloud resources, transmission protocols and cloud terminals, and realizes on-demand services such as desktop, application, hardware, and computing power. , The service model of flexible distribution is provided to users.

Due to the concentration of services on demand and flexible distribution in one pool, the use of resources is improved through the elastic increase and decrease of demand at the bottom and peak.

Like a traditional personal computer, when the user is sleeping and resting, the device is also turned off. This window period cannot be effectively used, which is a waste of vacant resources and unnecessary sunk costs.

It can be used perfectly through the cloud. When a user here goes offline, the resources allocated to him will be returned to the resource pool and then allocated to the next user who sends an access request.

Similarly, the advantages of cloud computing will also be revealed. For example, system upgrades and vulnerabilities repair are centralized in the cloud, without personal operations. On the cloud, viruses have no attachments, and personal data is stored in the cloud. The mechanism is backed up, personal data will not be lost, all applications, data, and various interfaces can be managed and controlled in a unified manner, so as to ensure that enterprise-level data will not be lost, and many other advantages.

Luo Sheng finished thinking and said: "The cost of 40,000 yuan for the terminal is not cheap, but it is not expensive. It is at a price that ordinary consumers can afford. It is almost the same, and it will not be able to squeeze a few cost prices down. The key is whether the dilution of the entire operating cost can meet the company's expectations."

Gao Hua said with a smile: "We obviously don't do a one-off sale. I believe that in the eyes of most people, such high-end technology products will cost hundreds of thousands of sets. It is expected that we can put them there and we can be confident. To receive value-added services, each user spends tens of thousands of yuan to buy a brain-computer host, but to access the virtual world, they have to purchase cloud computing resources, and various charging models such as monthly, quarterly, and annual fees are introduced."

"Desktop systems should also be bought. When users buy a brain-computer host, we provide a basic free desktop system that can support most of the functions, but more advanced functions have to be unlocked for a fee. First, use free Dafa to bring in people hooks. You can create an advanced application to experience one week of irregular activities for free, and defeat the user’s wallet defense layer by layer..."

If you are not afraid of the user coming, you are afraid of not coming. When you come, as long as you get in the car, there are N ways to pry open the user's wallet.

This is actually the housekeeping skills of the Blue Coast and Bluestar Technology. The ecosystem construction in the fields of social networking and smartphones has accumulated rich experience and routines, which can be copied in the ecosystem of the virtual world.

It’s just changed to a more compelling place, but the taste is still the original one, the formula is still the original one, and even the users are basically the original users.

In the end, Luo Sheng made a final decision and said: "You internally discussed a final pricing plan and reported it to me, and the summer conference was officially launched."

Gao Hua was energetic, and immediately nodded in response: "No problem!"

Luo Sheng stayed in the virtual brain-computer project department building for a few minutes and then returned to his CEO's office. He came to the desk and turned on the work computer to call up the virtual brain-computer upstream and downstream supply chain.

The first generation of virtual brains has been finalized, and the next step is the issue of high-volume production. Xiongxin Electronics' production capacity has now kept up. Suppliers in other links have received the advance payment from the father of the first party on the blue coast. , It’s no problem to keep up with the rhythm.

Follow the dad on the azure coast and drink spicy food. Dad’s business is always the first priority. If the order of dad is delayed, the supply chain system will be eliminated. This is big meat, UU read don’t Relatively speaking, customer orders are just mosquito legs.

After a rough understanding of the supply chain links, there is no problem. Luo Sheng opened the deployment of Bluestar Technology’s Nebula Star-Cloud. Bluestar Technology Group has completed the upgrade of the third-generation Nebulas system in China. The center has been upgraded to DNA storage technology.

In the past year, about half of its data centers were closed, and the remaining half replaced DNA storage data centers, but the storage capacity directly increased by 1 billion times the amount of days, which is equivalent to the original base. Increased storage capacity by ten orders of magnitude, this is an epoch-making storage technology that focuses on the future.

The latest generation of data centers uses DNA storage technology, which means that data can be stored for more than 5,000 years. And unlike traditional storage media such as hard disks and tapes, DNA storage does not require frequent maintenance, and storage capacity is expanded. Ten orders of magnitude, but the overall operating cost has not increased. Instead, the overall operating cost has been reduced by about 28% due to the closure of a large number of previous-generation data centers, which is a reduction of nearly a third of the expenditure.

Many foreign media and the industry do not understand Luo Sheng's decision, because no matter how you look at it, the data generated by all humans currently occupy less than 1% of the storage ratio, which is a waste of resources.

They don't even know the birth of virtual brains and virtual worlds. The amount of data generated every day will increase exponentially, and the demand for storage will increase exponentially.

This crazy expansion is obviously to welcome the arrival of the virtual world, but also to welcome the arrival of the fourth human technological revolution. By that time, human demand for data storage will only soar further.

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