I stole someone else's ticket to rebirth

Eat and leave.

Zheng Yi thought Li Yang wanted to have a face-to-face meeting at the dinner table, but Li Yang didn't even mention it.

Are we not going to update the software that cost at least tens of millions to prepare?

Are the two sides really uncooperative?

After returning, he thought about it carefully and found that he had overlooked a problem.

That means Li Yang is not short of money.

He may have created Aurora Studio just as a hobby, and because of his status as a contestant, he nominally transferred Aurora Studio away.

In essence, he can also control the life and death of Aurora Studios.

Even if there is compensation, how much can this project lose?

Compared with Jiying Automobile, it’s just drizzle.

He had Jiang Banxia's back to him and also had the confidence to reject him.

Therefore, the negotiation tactics used with other companies would not work. Li Yang clearly wanted benefits, and he couldn't treat them like a beggar.

Generally, NVIDIA only leaves 10% of the space for the terminal link. If this were given to Li Yang, no one would even look at it.

Zheng Yi did not gain nothing this time. At least it could be seen that Li Yang was willing to spend money.

Likewise, he must be given the opportunity to make money.

After Nvidia expands its production, it will not be possible to reduce its production capacity easily. Seeking market is the most important thing.

Half of Nvidia’s annual shipments are in the Asia-Pacific region, and the company has its own agents, with deep-seated conflicts of interest.

If we give Aurora Studio too big a discount, it will impact the market of other agents, and the situation will then be very difficult.

Unless... Aurora Studios is willing to sign a long-term contract and agree to some other conditions.

Zheng Yi did not leave immediately. After resting for a night, he watched the second stage of the PCL finals on site.

There are two phases in total, each phase lasts three days.

He doesn't like playing games. At his age, he has no interest in it at all.

No matter how good the game is, it is far from as high as the threshold brought by money, power and women.

However, the PUBG games still look very comfortable, and you can basically understand them even if you have never played the game.

He could see that Li Yang really liked playing games and he thoroughly enjoyed himself on the court.

When he was given the camera, he expressed his emotions without hesitation.

After the game ended that day, Zheng Yi invited Li Yang again.

But unfortunately, Li Yang refused because he needed to prepare for tomorrow's game.

Zheng Yi just waited until the PCL finals were over, when the Koala team won the championship with a considerable advantage...

He sent a congratulatory message to Li Yang, and the two met again that evening.

Zheng Yi became more and more certain that Li Yang took the game very seriously and would not let it fail easily.

"Mr. Li, congratulations. Your generation pursues e-sports just like my generation pursued the World Cup and the NBA. You are already the best e-sports player of this era."

Zheng Yi flattered him.

Li Yang responded: "Mr. Zheng is too kind. This sentence is suitable to be said after winning the world championship this year."

"Hahaha……"

Zheng Yi didn't think Li Yang was that crazy.

It’s just an e-sports event. Even if you don’t win the championship, it’s nothing to brag about it.

Compared to other industries, he does not need the identity of an e-sports player.

It's like a billionaire who brags that he's going to buy a house, but fails to do so due to purchase restrictions. You can't laugh at others for not being able to afford it.

Even if Li Yang didn't win the championship this time, wouldn't it be easy for him to win the championship? He had the ability to form the strongest team, and he didn't care about any cost.

No matter what, you won’t lose as much money in e-sports as in car manufacturing.

After chatting for a while, Zheng Yi got straight to the point and said, "I have talked to the head office, and they are still very keen on cooperating with Aurora Studios. However, we have already given them great sincerity in the terms, so there is not much room for us to lower the terms."

Li Yang thought for a while and said, "Brother, you have been working hard these days and have been in Jiangbei all the time, so I will be honest this time. I can give you orders worth 5 billion US dollars a year, but I want a 30% profit margin."

When Zheng Yi heard this, he knew that his persistence over the past few days was not in vain.

A five billion dollar order...

Nvidia's sales last year were only $12 billion.

It has been in steady decline this year, with second-quarter sales of just $2 billion.

Fortunately, sales in the first quarter reached more than 50 billion US dollars, otherwise this year's performance would have declined by %

If Li Yang can get an order worth 5 billion US dollars, even if it will affect other markets, at least this year's performance will be stabilized.

What Wall Street likes most is to anchor stock prices through performance. This $5 billion order is a temptation that the entire company cannot refuse, even if it gives up 30% of the profit margin.

Their products have a high premium in themselves because they have technological advantages.

Even if some companies can spend a lot of money to catch up with their technology, they will never be able to beat them in terms of cost.

Isn’t business all about competing on cost?

With Li Yang's conditions, the rest became much easier to discuss.

NVIDIA also has to add some conditions, and Li Yang also has to add some conditions.

For example, Nvidia wants to sign a five-year contract to sponsor the game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds for $1.4 billion over five years, but requires Aurora Studios' annual order volume to not be less than $5 billion.

And it is different from other agents. Other agents help NVIDIA sell products and then get commissions from NVIDIA based on the shipment volume.

When cooperating with Aurora Studio, the profit margin is directly deducted and included in the factory price.

The $699 GPU is priced at $499 for Aurora Studio.

The order volume is calculated based on the price of US$699, otherwise Aurora Studios would have to take million copies, and it might not be able to sell them all even at a discounted price.

Li Yang added that they had priority in the distribution of new products and could adjust the purchase list according to their own needs, such as Nvidia's supercomputing GPU...

Zheng Yi also agreed with this point. It would be a sale no matter who he sold it to.

The supercomputing GPU market is not very large. It is mainly purchased by some large companies to provide them with computing power. The price of each piece is not cheap, ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Zheng Yi has also planned some areas. For example, the products of Aurora Studio cannot directly enter the primary market and cannot be sold in stores. They can only open stores for after-sales service.

At the same time, Li Yang also added some conditions, mainly regarding payment methods.

Aurora Studio only pays 30% of the annual payment each year, and the remaining 70% is paid at 10% per year. The payment for the first year will not be fully settled until the seventh year.

There is nothing wrong with this, as it will not affect Nvidia's finances anyway.

Finally, there are various breach of contract agreements.

Both parties wrote the penalty for breach of contract very high, fearing that the other party would run away, a full $20 billion in penalty for breach of contract.

……

Li Yang waited in Jiangbei for a week, and Zheng Yi also called people over, and they signed all the contracts with each other.

After signing the contract, Li Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

He has long wanted to set up his own computing center. This contract will last until 2023, so he can take the opportunity to get a large number of H100s from Nvidia.

It will be difficult to get it later. After all, Nvidia CEO Huang Laogou is not a good person and he will not cooperate with them at that time.

And domestic alternatives are coming out soon.

Bai Qing came up behind him and gently squeezed his shoulders, "Honey, do you have any work arrangements next?"

Li Yang looked back and saw that Bai Qing was actually wearing black stockings.

Which decent person wears black stockings every day?

This is still in the office.

"That's all. Next up is training and preparing for the World Championship."

"Ah? Don't you want to take a rest?"

Bai Qing felt that Li Yang was already very strong. He hadn't played much in the past six months, but he was still very powerful when he played.

"I can't make any mistakes in the World Championship. I have to work well with my teammates. They haven't played in the World Championship yet, so anything can happen."

Bai Qing whispered, "Why don't I change my name to World Series? My husband will beat me first..."

"Hey... you can't beat them, but you can eat them!"

Everyone tacitly agreed not to mention the matter of marrying Jiang Banxia.

Bai Qing pretended that she had never read the news. She never went online.

As for Li Yang...he has a moral hole in his relationship that can never be filled.

……

Li Yang did start training, and basically he could only video chat with Jiang Banxia every day.

He invited Jiang Banxia to come over more than once, since the distance was not far anyway.

As a result... Jiang Banxia just didn't come.

There was no other way, he could only wait until the World Championship started.

This year's world championship is held in Po County, and they sponsored one million US dollars.

This is what some tourist cities like to do most, inviting some events with a wide audience to play games. E-sports events have the best cost-effectiveness.

Not only does it have a wide audience, but they are all young people and don’t cost much.

If we invite two NBA teams to play games here, the price would be too high, five or six million dollars, and no one would even consider it.

The standards for esports players and football players are different.

During Li Yang's training period, Aurora Studio established a special assembly machine brand.

Except for the GPU and CPU, all other products are domestic brands, priced at 6999. They promise unconditional replacement for non-human faults within two years and five years of after-sales service.

Anyway, NVIDIA is responsible for after-sales service, and they will be responsible for any problems with the product.

The price of the whole machine is not expensive. When it comes to the graphics card, Li Yang only made a 10% profit. This is mainly because some domestic brands are a bit more expensive.

There is no way around it. Li Yang requires high quality and the best after-sales service. In addition, they started late and invested a lot in research and development, so they need to recover the costs.

Li Yang took out a part of the profit he was supposed to earn and developed the relevant supply chain.

As for graphics cards and processors, there are also companies in China.

It’s just that those companies are not short of funds. As long as they have some core technology and there are people willing to invest, they will not get involved in this mess.

The only thing related to the core on his side is storage. After all, Yangtze Memory's new technology has just been broken through and it is short of orders. Otherwise, it will take several years before it wants to compete with South Korea.

……

"Teacher Xue, I'm about to go abroad for a competition. I might have to stay for a month and go back to Jiangcheng tomorrow. If you don't leave the door open for me tonight, I'll force my way in!"

"Are you courting death?"

"No, I can't bear it any longer!"

"You, you, you... come back later in the night..."

……

Li Yang felt that something was wrong with Xue Ning.

I no longer care about him after I had a child.

Although it relieved a lot of his pressure, it was too much, which made him feel a little guilty.

Always need to tidy up from time to time. If you don't tidy up at all, is she still Xue Ning?

If he doesn't do it again, he won't be surprised if Xue Ning runs away with the child one day.

At night, he secretly ran from the balcony to Xue Ning's room.

The good thing about this house in Jiangbei is that Li Yang's bedroom can lead directly to Xue Ning's bedroom. Usually there is a glass door blocking the view, so no one cares.