Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

This year's Christmas Eve in Tokyo was as lively as in previous years.

The Fuyukawa family's side was a relatively quiet residential area, but in the alley with street lights on, there were still many drunk office workers walking towards home, chattering with their friends. However, the noise from the outside world did not cross the high walls of the Fuyukawa family.

"Give me 200 million U.S. dollars after the new year."

The family was having dinner and drinking in the backyard. Toru Fuyukawa had just lost a dice game when the drunk Miyano Mitsuko hugged him and did a [30-second suffocation] with him. His head had just been pulled out of the milky-scented big thunder when Chika Oohara next to him said this.

Two hundred million US dollars?

Hearing this, Dongchuan Che was stunned. He took the wine glass and clinked it with Ohara Chika's, with a curious look in his eyes.

"What can I do with more money?"

He didn't think Chika Ohara wanted the money to buy something. In the current Fuyukawa family, Chika Ohara managed the company's money, and Sayoko managed the family's money. If she was short of money in life, she should have waited until Sayoko was present before asking. And if it was not for life, then it was for business.

Have you found any good investment projects?

Dongchuan Che thought for a moment, and a look of understanding appeared in his eyes. As expected, Ohara Chika, who was also slightly drunk and half lying on the sofa, took a sip of beer and said, "I have my eyes on an American graphics card company and plan to acquire some of their stocks."

"Graphics cards? Why do you suddenly want to invest in this field?"

Dongchuan Che was stunned at first, then looked at Ohara Chika with a bit of amusement and appreciation. Ohara Chika put her fair calves on his thighs, rubbed them coquettishly, and said with a smile: "Come on, haven't you been paying attention to this too? I only noticed this after reading your records."

"Oh~~ So you were peeking at my office documents!"

Dongchuan Che took another sip of wine, hugged Izumi Himawari, who was having a great time playing rock-paper-scissors with Sato Fujiko and the others, and winked at her and teased her. Ohara Chika rolled her eyes with an unpleasant smile.

"What? It was you who didn't lock the screen of your tablet during your lunch break. I just saw it while pouring coffee for you. Okay, okay, I won't talk nonsense with you. Anyway, that graphics card company is different from other graphics card companies on the market. Its main research and development direction is computing programming, not 3D graphics rendering. I think this company has potential."

"A graphics card company that focuses on computing programming?"

Listening to Chika Ohara's chattering, Toru Dongchuan didn't pay much attention at first, but after hearing the key words, his expression straightened slightly.

The graphics card companies in this world are also very strong, and AI technology has also developed, but it has only developed. The technical level of AI is roughly equivalent to the level of about 15 years in the previous life, and is far from the level of OpenAI.

As for graphics cards, although the graphics card companies in this life are no weaker than those in the previous life in 3D graphics rendering, otherwise he would not be able to make games like "Elden Ring". However, the graphics card manufacturers in this world are all focusing on 3D graphics rendering rather than computing programming, and the difference here is the difference between NVIDIA and AMD.

Nvidia's most well-known business is gaming graphics cards, but the reason why Nvidia can take up 80% of the market share of discrete graphics cards and leave AMD graphics cards, also known as A cards, far behind is mainly because Nvidia has CUDA, a [parallel computing platform and programming model], which mainly allows programmers to use the computing power of GPU (discrete graphics card).

Anyone who knows a little about AI knows that what AI needs most is computing power, and computing power needs to be provided by chips.

Computer chips are mainly divided into CPU and GPU, but the upper limit of CPU computing power is not as high as GPU. The most powerful i9 series CPU has only a dozen or twenty cores, while the number of cores of independent graphics cards and GPUs is calculated in tens of thousands.

Therefore, if you want to do AI intelligence, you must use GPU chips. But not all GPUs (discrete graphics cards) can be used for computing power, which requires supporting programs and software. NVIDIA's CUDA software can maximize the computing power of NVIDIA's discrete graphics chips.

This is actually why when mining Bitcoin back then, people bought N cards for mining instead of A cards.

There is nothing wrong with A cards in 3D graphics rendering, and their gaming performance is about the same as N cards, but because there is no matching computing program, this chip cannot fully exert its computing power. This is why Nvidia's stock price soared after a breakthrough in AI intelligence, while AMD's stock price did not increase that much.

Because NVIDIA is not only doing 3D graphics rendering, but also computing power systems such as CUDA, and the CUDA computing power system can only be used with NVIDIA graphics cards.

And this life.

To put it simply, all graphics card manufacturers in the world now follow AMD's path. They are very good at 3D graphics rendering, but they cannot provide strong computing power support for the AI ​​field like NVIDIA. Those who understand how profitable the AI ​​field is know that NVIDIA used the AI ​​tailwind and some political factors to directly increase the company's market value to 3.4 trillion US dollars!

What a concept!

South Korea, which ranks 2018th in the world in terms of GDP, had a total GDP of only 1.6 trillion US dollars in !

One NVIDIA is worth two South Koreas!

Of course, people are afraid of becoming famous just as pigs are afraid of becoming fat.

In Dongchuan Che's opinion, being too wealthy is not a good thing, because even if he doesn't want to get involved in politics, he will be dragged into it. No one can ignore the elephant in the room. Politics is an extremely dangerous cesspool. Not to mention that once you enter the political field, your whole family will suffer if you are not careful. He himself has no interest in scheming and talking nonsense with others every day. But he doesn't mind finding a powerful company to invest hundreds of millions of dollars and then earn a fortune of tens of billions of dollars.

Thinking of this, Dongchuan Che drank the beer in his hand in one gulp, then picked up the bottle to fill it up for himself, and poured half a glass for Ohara Chika, and asked: "Are you sure about that company?"

Ohara Chika nodded, "I've read their financial report, and there's nothing fishy about the company's operations. As for the company's capabilities, Kozuki Takeuchi and Futaba also said it's OK, so we can give it a try."

"Is that so? Okay then. After the new year starts, you come up with the plan and I'll approve the order."

"Hehe, I knew that Che was the best."

Dongchuan Che did not ask for specific details, and did not even mention in whose name the shares would be purchased. On the one hand, it was because he was not particularly knowledgeable about finance, and on the other hand, it was because he trusted his woman.

To be honest, this approach was a bit arrogant, but women naturally prefer men who trust them, not to mention that Chika Ohara was not an ignorant little girl. She pressed her soft little face against Toru Fuyukawa's back and acted like a spoiled child, then excitedly ran to Sayoko to discuss the ownership of the shares, and Sayoko did not show much surprise.

In the past two years, as the company has become richer, especially after the mobile game "FGO" became a hit, Dongchuan Che did not let all the money lie in the bank.

Except for the project development funds and reserve funds sufficient to pay employees' salaries for 18 months, a lot of other money has been invested.

For example, although the company does not have offline physical channels now, it has also bought a large number of shares in companies such as [Walmart], [Sam's Club] and [KO! Second Dimension Offline Chain Store] in Japan, becoming a small shareholder of these companies.

In fact, because the Holy Light Society itself is also involved in the entertainment industry, many directors came to it through their connections to solicit investment last year.

Of course, with Dongchuan Che's current worth, let alone Japanese directors, even those Hollywood directors whose movies cost hundreds of millions of dollars would not be able to meet him if they wanted to. However, because Yuezhu Asuka is very interested in the directing industry, Dongchuan Che also met many Hollywood directors last year.

There were even a few directors who really thought he was a pervert and brought actresses to his house.

It must be said that the young European and American actresses that Dongchuan Che had met were also somewhat famous actresses in the European and American entertainment circles. They not only had good temperament but were also very beautiful. However, he still refused.

On the one hand, although those female stars are indeed very beautiful, the women in their families are also extremely beautiful.

On the other hand, as his relationship with Sayoko and the others grew deeper, he, who was about to turn 30, gradually began to calm down and focus more on his career and family.

Dongchuan Che is about to enter the next stage of his life, but interestingly, the outside world doesn't think so. Because he rejected many beautiful female stars, rumors have begun to spread in the entertainment industry that "Dongchuan Che played too hard when he was young and is no longer capable."

It should be said or not, the Japanese news media is also very bold to say it. This rumor was on the headlines of the entertainment section at the time, causing shock on the Internet. There were even many Chinese players who came to Japan to study and ran to the downstairs of the Holy Light Society with banners, clamoring to recommend some "tonic" Chinese medicine to Dongchuan Che, saying something strange like "Western medicine treats symptoms, Chinese medicine treats the root cause."

It's quite a big deal.

Dongchuan Che himself didn't care much about these rumors, he just took them as a joke, after all, whether he was "capable" or not, Sayoko and the others who could only lie on the bed and gasp every night had the most say. But what's interesting is that Izumi Himawari is getting more and more vigorous now. After several years of training in the entertainment industry, she is no longer the high school girl who was a little "bullying at home" and very introverted in front of outsiders.

In an interview with a media reporter, when she was asked the question "Is Dongchuan Che really capable?", she said directly to the camera "You media people should stop looking for trouble all day long. My Che makes me cry every day."

A very fierce answer!

It caused a huge uproar in society at the time, but it wasn't a big problem.

The relationship between Himawari Izumi and Toru Fuyukawa was announced very early on, and although Himawari Izumi is a pure-looking female college student, Toru Fuyukawa never packaged her personality. After all, personality is something that works well in the early stages and can attract countless fans, but personality is always a boomerang, and there are few people in the entertainment industry who have established a personality that will not collapse in the end.

And

In fact, talented artists don’t really need to establish their own personas.

It's just like after the Red and White Songs Festival, because of Izumi Himawari's public confession, many fans clamored to stop being her fans, but in the past two years, Izumi Himawari's fans around the world have increased.

This is partly because Toru Fuyukawa wrote many songs for her, but more importantly, it is because Izumi Himawari is really hardworking. Now, more than one-third of the songs in her albums are her original songs, and the market response is very good.

"Xiao Kui has grown up now."

Maybe because he drank a lot of wine tonight, Dongchuan Che's thoughts were a little erratic. Looking at Izumi Himawari, who was excitedly shaking dice with Sato Fujiko, he smiled a little and gulped down a big mouthful of beer. At this time, a drunk little girl came up to him.

"Hey, you said before that you would play Warcraft with me after the New Year and help boost the popularity of my live broadcast room. You won't break your promise, right?"

"Huh? Why are you suddenly asking about this topic?"

Looking at Futaba Koyama holding a wine glass in both hands, exuding the aroma of wine and milk, Toukawa Che slightly raised his eyebrows. "World of Warcraft" is about half a month away from release, and the company's publicity and promotion has also started a long time ago. In fact, more than half of the employees who stayed in the company to work overtime during the Chinese New Year were doing bug adjustments, value adjustments, and publicity and promotion operations for "World of Warcraft". However.