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Tom Clusi slowly explained the conditions that he had discussed with Kira Katara. "Mr. Shi, AMD has made the following adjustments to our conditions.
First, AMD will provide Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. with a free supercomputer as a server.
The supercomputer's performance will not be lower than 10TFLops.
Second, AMD will provide the supercomputer operating system for the supercomputer for free.
Third, AMD will hold a press conference to announce our cooperation with Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. to increase Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s reputation.
Fourth, AMD will provide the supercomputer maintenance service for Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. for free. "
After stating all the conditions in one breath, Tom Cruz asked, "Mr. Shi, are the conditions that we, AMD, have offered enough sincerity for our cooperation?"
Listening to Tom Cruise's four conditions, Shi Lei's sleepiness disappeared. This was because AMD's new round of cooperation conditions were simply too good!
A supercomputer with 10TFLops performance would cost at least 200 million in the Xia Xia market. A corresponding supercomputer operating system would cost at least 10 million in the Xia Xia market. As for AMD holding a press conference to announce their cooperation with Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. to increase Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s reputation would be greatly improved.
After all, AMD had a high reputation all over the world. Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. could not be compared to AMD.
AMD's new cooperation conditions seemed to be a one-sided benefit for Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd.
The so-called cooperation had to be mutually beneficial to have the possibility of success.
It was very difficult to succeed in a one-sided benefit, unless there was a huge external influence.
But Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. and AMD did not have any external influence!
Shi Lei was very rational. He knew AMD's corresponding conditions, but he did not say it out loud.
"Mr. Tom, I think I'm very clear about AMD's sincerity!
But, what price does AMD want Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. to pay? "
Tom Clusi chuckled. "Mr. Shi, the things that AMD needs will not make things difficult for you.
First, we need 100,000 invitation codes for 'World of the Brave'. This should be a simple request, right?
Secondly, we need to optimize AMD's CPU and graphics cards for 'Brave World' to improve the performance of platform A.
Thirdly, we need Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. to hold a press conference to announce their cooperation with AMD and recommend AMD CPUs and graphics cards first. "
After Shi Lei heard these three requirements, he sneered in his heart. These were probably just the basic requirements.
After all, in terms of value, the above requirements could not be compared to the price AMD had to pay.
Although 100,000 invitation codes for the World of the Brave's closed beta testing were worth 1 billion yuan at the moment, if a large number of invitation codes were put into the market, it would definitely cause the price of the invitation codes to drop drastically.
Therefore, no one knew how much the 100,000 invitation codes were worth.
On the other hand, the supercomputer provided by AMD was worth 200 million yuan!
"Mr. Tom, your AMD company can't possibly only have these three requirements, right?
If you only have these three requests, then our Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. can promise you now! "Shi Lei didn't intend to beat around the bush and responded directly.
Tom Cruz quickly said, "Mr. Shi, you are indeed very observant. We still have one more important request.
It's about the invitation codes for the World of the Brave's closed beta testing. How much will our actual sales increase after matching them with AMD's products? "
Shi Lei asked in surprise, "Mr. Tom, are you talking about CPU or graphics cards?"
"Both together!" Tom Clusi replied.
"Mr. Tom, forgive me for being blunt, but AMD seems to be selling graphics chips in the graphics card industry. Then, other graphics card manufacturers will do a second processing before selling them, right?" Shi Lei was quite familiar with AMD's situation. AMD's biggest business was selling CPU.
As for graphics cards, AMD was an upstream manufacturer. They only sold graphics chips and did not do any direct sales to users.
"As for the graphics cards, we will allocate a portion of the invitation codes for the closed beta testing. The downstream graphics card manufacturers will follow our rules and make a specific sales plan. Then, we will refer to the downstream graphics card manufacturers' sales," Tom Cruz replied.
Although AMD didn't directly sell graphics cards, there were many graphics card manufacturers that used AMD's graphics chips!
"Mr. Tom, tell me the details." Shi Lei wanted to hear AMD's specific plan.
Tom Cruz began to explain, "Mr. Shi, as for the invitation codes for the World of the Brave's closed beta testing, after we start the matching sales, AMD's total sales of CPU equipment will increase by 100%.
As for the graphics card manufacturers that use AMD's graphics chips, AMD has chosen three partners: MSI, ASUS, and Sapphire.
We hope that the total sales of these three partners will increase by more than 50%. "
Tom Cruz took a deep breath and continued, "According to the schedule provided by Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd., 'World of the Brave' will be officially closed beta testing on April 30th. As for AMD, we hope that within these four months, at least three months will reach our target.
"If our target is achieved, then all four of AMD's promises will be fulfilled.
If we don't reach our target, based on the specific percentage, Dream Entertainment Co., Ltd. will have to compensate AMD for the cost of the supercomputer and operating system. "
Shi Lei frowned slightly. AMD's calculations were really good. This VAM agreement was extremely beneficial to AMD.
If they reached their target, then a supercomputer would only be worth 200 million yuan. Compared to AMD's CPU sales, it was nothing.
Not to mention the three biggest graphics card manufacturers in AMD's camp. Their increased sales would naturally increase AMD's orders and create more value for AMD.
However, this VAM agreement was also extremely beneficial to Shi Lei.
If 'World of the Brave' was really that awesome and could help AMD reach their target, then Shi Lei would at least save the cost of a supercomputer and the investment of a supercomputer system.
However, was AMD's target really that easy to achieve?
Even though Shi Lei was not a professional market analyst or a professional statistician, Shi Lei still knew one fact.
The total capacity of the market was limited. There would not be an increase for no reason. It was basically impossible to suddenly increase the sales by 100%.
Even though Shi Lei was full of confidence in 'World of the Brave', Shi Lei still maintained a clear head.
The CPU market was very simple. It was either AMD or Intel. It was not as chaotic as the graphics card market.
Although there were only two camps in the graphics card market, either AMD or nVIDIA, these two camps did not sell graphics cards directly to users. Instead, a large number of graphics card manufacturers would buy graphics chips from them and then process them before selling them to users.
There were many graphics card manufacturers of varying sizes. There were about 30 slightly famous ones and even more unknown ones.
Such a chaotic market gave MSI, ASUS, and Sapphire, these three old powerhouses, more space to perform.
There was no need to explain too much about MSI and ASUS. Everyone knew their capabilities.
Before ATI was acquired by AMD, Sapphire produced graphics cards for ATI. In other words, they were ATI's official cards.
It was not hard to imagine that Sapphire's capabilities were also very strong. They were second to none in AMD's graphics card camp.
In such a chaotic graphics card market, it was not a big problem for these three old powerhouses to increase their sales by 50%.
However, in the CPU market, the two giants, AMD and Intel, were the only two giants in the CPU market.
There was only so much market share. AMD wanted to rely on the invitation code for 'World of the Brave' to increase their sales by 100%. It was not that Shi Lei looked down on 'World of the Brave'. It was just that 'World of the Brave' was not good enough.
If it was a nerve sensor game, it might be possible to achieve such a level. However, it was really impossible for a somatosensory game!
After some rough analysis, Shi Lei came to an answer. That was, 'World of the Brave' could not achieve such a level.
He also could not agree to AMD's new cooperation plan. Otherwise, he would definitely die a horrible death!
"Mr. Tom, AMD's conditions are a bit too high!"
Shi Lei replied, "We, Dream Entertainment Limited, can still consider agreeing to your graphics card sales conditions.
However, you should know the situation of the CPU market better than me. I only want to say that it is impossible to achieve a 100% increase in sales.
This VAM agreement is not fair to us. It needs to be revised. "
In the personal computer consumer market in 2007, AMD's market share was close to 40%. What would happen if they doubled their market share?
Wouldn't that put Intel at an absolute disadvantage?
Tom Clusi obviously knew that it was impossible to achieve a 100% increase in CPU sales. He replied, "Mr. Shi, how do you think we should revise the VAM agreement?"
(To be continued.
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