201: Are graphics cards so great? What we want is a photolithography machine!!!

"Let's tally it for another two days. Once the data growth slows down, I'll respond to everything at once," Lu Shenwei mused.

The netizens had their demands, and he naturally wouldn't ignore them, but things had to be prioritized.

The top-spec 4090 graphics card is selling for over seven thousand? The even more outrageous overclocked versions go for over ten thousand.

The most critical part is that they aren't even sold to gamers; the majority are sold to mining farm owners.

Gamers scrimp and save, finally managing to snag a 'used by a girl' card from the Seafood Market, only to find out it's a mining card.

Scrimping and saving, thinking you've married a nice girl, only to find out she has a venereal disease?

A very small number of lucky ones can actually use them, but those with bad luck end up burning through their motherboards. No wonder netizens respectfully refer to the graphics card General Manager as the Big Yellow Dog.

After much deliberation, Lu Shenwei selected the graphics card and processor that netizens were calling for the most and entered the system mall to check the prices.

He didn't know until he checked, and once he did, he was shocked. The prices were outrageous, right?

The exchange price for core technology is 10 billion? And the key exchange unit is USD!!!

Lu Shenwei angrily closed the mall. Is the R&D cost for gaming computer hardware really this high now?

But then he thought, if the graphics card is expensive, maybe the processor is cheap.

Lu Shenwei turned back and entered the system mall again, only to find that the processor was even more expensive than the graphics card—it cost 15 billion USD!!!

"Do you play games in your free time?" Lu Shenwei asked.

Zhou Cun shook his head. Lu Shenwei wondered aloud, "Are computer accessories for gaming this expensive now?"

In his previous life, his parents had passed away early, and the mundane, exhausting life and work had suffocated Lu Shenwei.

Therefore, he didn't know much about computer games or international affairs, and he was even less clear about the value of graphics cards and processors.

"I'll consult with some professionals and give you an answer tomorrow," Zhou Cun thought for a moment and said.

Lu Shenwei nodded and instructed, "The Zhu Hai Airshow is at the beginning of next month. Get all the things on your plate sorted out and come with me."

"The Zhu Hai Airshow? Isn't that a weapons airshow? We're going too?" Zhou Cun asked in surprise.

Lu Shenwei said helplessly, "I don't want to either, but Director Xu and Chen Guang invited us at the same time. I can't just reject their good intentions, right?"

"The Army and the Air Force are inviting us at the same time? That's definitely hard to refuse."

"Just think of it as a vacation. I heard that the 'Desert Camel' big spenders will be at the exhibition."

Lu Shenwei said with a chuckle, and Zhou Cun just nodded.

On the Julong Steel official website, netizens were using the message board like a forum.

【It's been days since the overseas petition started, and the daily visits to the domestic Julong Steel official website have exceeded one million. Why hasn't Julong Steel come out to say anything yet?】

【Isn't it because you guys are too outrageous? Treating the Julong Steel website like a wishing well. Director Lu is a businessman who does R&D, not a god.】

【I'm wide awake now that you mentioned this. I strongly protest the graphics card being number one on the wish list; processors are what the vast majority of gamers need most.】

【Processors aren't that expensive, but the graphics cards are just... it's like absurdity opening the door for absurdity—it's absurd to the extreme.】

【Exactly, exactly. The Yellow Dog abandoned the gamers and chose to collude with the mining bosses.】

【The Yellow Dog deserves to die. Director Lu, save us! @Lu Shenwei @Ma Quanlin @Wang Zizhong @Zhou Cun!】

【Bro above, this is a message board, not a forum.】

【Has anyone bought any Julong Steel merchandise? Why isn't it on the official website?】

【Go to the Twilight Stationery store to buy it, 28 each, but it seems to be limited; everyone can only buy one.】

【That's ridiculous, even merchandise is limited?】

【I heard the first batch sold out. It's sold out in several provinces and cities, and they are rushing production.】

【Director Lu doesn't care about the money from making merchandise. If you ask me, stop messing with graphics cards and processors; why not just make a lithography machine?】

【Great idea from the guy above. Making a lithography machine can solve the problem of being strangled by the Eagle Sauce.】

【This proposal is reliable, everyone upvote it.】

【If you make a 5nm lithography machine, the Yellow Dog and processor manufacturers will probably lose sleep.】

【Starting with 5nm isn't very realistic; we have to start from 7nm or 10nm.】

【Stop dreaming. To start, it must be at least 12nm civilian technology. Starting with 7nm level is indeed inappropriate.】

【Why is it inappropriate? Don't look down on our Dragon Xia researchers. Back in the day, when we were poor and blank, didn't we use abacuses to calculate the mushroom bomb?】

【Times have changed. As long as we people of Dragon Xia put in the effort to do it, there is nothing we can't accomplish.】

"This friend is right. Sincerity can open even metal and stone. The intelligence of our Dragon Xia people is number one in the world," Brother Qi commented.

【Holy crap! A living Brother Qi? I can actually run into him on the Julong official website?】

【It really is Brother Qi. Talk to the Julong Steel boss, will you? Tell him to make the lithography machine first.】

【To be honest, you guys asking Brother Qi to persuade Director Lu is no different from the Nine-Headed Insect asking Benboba to get rid of Tang Monk and his disciples?】

"I occasionally mooch a meal at Julong Steel, but I'm not close enough to influence Director Lu's decisions," Brother Qi explained with a chuckle.

【Good luck, Brother Qi. Once you get close to him, then ask Director Lu.】

【Bai Xiaoying is so close to Director Lu, and even she hasn't mentioned it. Brother Qi will probably have to get in line.】

Brother Qi said casually, "Even if I were close to him, a lithography machine certainly wouldn't be my first choice."

【You don't want a lithography machine? What does Brother Qi want?】

【Who doesn't know the little schemes in Brother Qi's head?】

【great black fish, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, orbital bombers, high-performance electromagnetic cannons, Laser Cannons, etc.—these are what Brother Qi wants.】

"The friend above hit the nail on the head. Actually, compared to those, what I want more right now is an upgraded version of the 'Big Fatty.' Dragon Xia really needs long-range delivery capabilities," Brother Qi said.

【Isn't Long Xia's 'Big Flatbed' pretty good? Is this delivery capability still not enough?】

【Don't get it wrong. The 'Big Flatbed' is for landing operations. What we need is the kind of super-large transport aircraft that the Mao Xiong used to raid the younger brother's capital—the kind that can carry tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.】

【An-225 Dream Transport Aircraft: Why don't you just say my name?】

【The An-225 is good, but the only one that existed has already been blown up by the younger brother himself. Eagle Sauce's C-17 is also quite good.】

【In front of the Big Brother's An-225, the Eagle Sauce's C-17 is just a little brother among little brothers. But even as a little brother, they won't sell it to us.】

【The S3 season preseason has been going on for so long, and the world situation has changed suddenly. We really need to consider large transport aircraft; the delivery capability of the active-duty 'Big Fatty' is still a bit low.】

【The 'Big Fatty' has a payload of about 60 tons, Eagle Sauce's C-17 has a payload of 125 tons, and the An-225 has a payload of 200 tons. The Big Brother's equipment is still the best.】

【@Julong Steel, Director Lu, can't you build a large transport aircraft? The kind that can carry people.】

【The three major aerospace research Groups—X-Fei, C-Fei, and S-Fei—have only managed to build the 'Big Fatty' in the last twenty years. You're now asking Julong Steel, which has no technical foundation, to build a super-large transport aircraft? Isn't that making things difficult for them?】

【Ahem, Julong Steel does have a technical foundation. Have you forgotten the super-large unmanned transport aircraft that showed its face once?】