The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 388 Product Display [Additional]

After lunch at noon, it's another highlight of the day, which is the second round of bidding for the $3 million server purchase order.

This time, the five merchants that entered the second round will bring their samples to Apple for display. This is also the part that Capad and Yang Zhiyuan are most looking forward to. They are very curious about the server of the Jiangnan Group. What a joke.

But what disappointed Kappard and Yang Zhiyuan was that they couldn't see the Jiangnan Group's server immediately, and this time they took turns to display it.

Apple gave each company half an hour to demonstrate the performance of their own devices, and Jiangnan Group's products were at the end, so Kappard could only watch other companies on the stage show their own products first.

It is worth mentioning that, except for the server itself, other devices are provided by Apple, and you are not allowed to use your own devices.

The reason is simple, because Apple is worried that the data of its own devices will be falsified. Even if there is no data falsification, it is possible to professionally optimize its own devices to increase the data by a few percent.

Therefore, it is strictly forbidden to use the built-in equipment, but must be used and tested with Apple's equipment, so that it can reflect the level in actual use.

Kappard is still very happy about this request, because in this way, those rubbish guys who try to fake bids by means of fraud will have nothing to hide.

The same performance is actually lower than several times the price, and it is a product made in China. Kapard does not believe that there will be such an unscientific thing in the world.

The three companies shown above, including Kappard’s own, are lacking in nature. After all, the products of these competitors have not released any new products.

But when the new company, America First, was first introduced, Kappard was taken aback.

First of all, this company gave up computing servers, and they only bid for storage servers.

Secondly, the quality of this storage-type server is extremely high, which is the same level as IBM's storage-type server, and the data is basically exactly the same.

Kappard clearly remembered that when the representative of IBM heard that the storage capacity of a single storage server was 6TB, the shortest response time was 0.18 seconds, the longest response time was 1.24 seconds, and the power was 550W, the IBM representative’s face It's all green.

Because after a careful comparison, the US-first product has a lower power of 550W. Don't underestimate this figure. This means that the energy saving is about 10%, and Apple will purchase tens of thousands of such storage servers in one go. If you can save 50W of electricity per hour, then 50 units per hour is 500, which is [-] kilowatt-hours of electricity.

A day is 240 million watts, which is 2400 kilowatt-hours of electricity. After a year, it is 90 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is worth 9 U.S. dollars... Well, well, there is really no need for energy conservation and emission reduction in the United States. People are not bad at all. The gap can be ignored.

Therefore, the price of the electricity bill can be ignored, but when the representative of America First quoted the price, the representative of IBM's face turned purple.

Because the executives who made the specific quotation before knew it, and now it has been announced at the bidding meeting, the quotation of the US-first storage server is 7999 US dollars, which is 2000 US dollars cheaper than IBM's equipment. The price was absolutely unacceptable to IBM, so his face turned purple.

But Kappard's face is not good, because the storage capacity of HP Compaq's storage server is only 4TB, but the shortest response time is as high as 0.32 seconds, and the longest is even delayed to 5 seconds. above.

Kappard swears to God that in their own laboratory, it is absolutely impossible to respond for such a long time. It is entirely because Apple's IMC equipment is not compatible with their own equipment that such a high response time occurs. Absolutely no falsification of the data.

In fact, even with such data, Kappard is very confident that he can win the order, because their equipment only costs US$5999.

IBM's equipment, on average, costs 1 US dollars for 1666TB of data.

However, the average data storage of 1TB of their own equipment only costs US$1499. Although the response time is longer and the power consumption is higher, Apple is not the kind of application website that pursues the ultimate response speed. Websites, in fact, provide some basic services to their users, and do not require too long a response time.

So Kapod feels that his own products are still very competitive. Didn’t you see that Yahoo finally chose its own equipment because of the gap of 200 dollars per terabyte?
However, after the U.S.-first quotation, their equipment costs only US$1 per TB, which is about US$1333 cheaper than their own equipment, and other data is completely ahead of IBM's equipment.

In the subsequent performance display, the US-first equipment also perfectly demonstrated its value, and all data were within the scope of the report.

They even had time to conduct a stress test. In just 10 minutes, dozens of terabytes of data were poured in, and data was continuously erased, re-entered, and erased on the server.

After more than 10 minutes of such horrible tossing, the entire server was still able to work normally, and the various data indicators did not even decrease at all, which made the faces of IBM and Kappard completely purple.

These experiments proved that America First, a company that popped up out of nowhere, has already surpassed IBM.

No, it surpasses the technology of all storage electronic equipment manufacturers in the world. It is as if you only launched the 110-meter hurdles in the United States and thought that the Olympic champion was bound to win, but Liu Xiang fell from the sky. You don’t even know what this thing looks like I don't know, the opponent has already taken away the Olympic champion.

Simply bullshit.

But no matter how nonsense it is, it is also reality. The United States has first used its own real data and experiments to prove its strength.And it is absolutely impossible to be forged. After all, even if you copy the test paper of the first place, you can copy at most a second place. Have you ever seen a first place that exceeds it?

"It's over, there will be new entrants in the market, and it will destroy the entire market structure!!" Kapod, IBM, and representatives of Samsung glanced at each other. They all felt a huge threat and began to try Consider killing this threat in the bud.

After the United States had given priority to displaying its own equipment, it was the turn of Jiangnan Group, which made its finale appearance.

It is not unreasonable to arrange Jiangnan Group as the finale. The computing server displayed in the first battlefield is quite domineering, and its volume is more than 5 times larger than that of any other computing server.

Finally, the specific data was announced. Even if the volume is 5 times larger, the computing power is only the average level of several companies. At the same time, although it is very good at multi-thread computing, the data of single-core computing is relatively poor, but it can barely meet the basic requirements of the bidding documents. line only.

The most deadly thing is that the rated power of such a computing power server is as high as 1900W, while other companies only have about 800W, which is equivalent to more than twice the power consumption of other competitors.

Of course, as I said before, the price of electricity in the United States is very cheap, so the annual increase in electricity bills for such a computing power server may only be 1 US dollars, but its price is only 40 US dollars, which is the price of other computing power. 1/3 of the server, saving a full $80.

Considering the lifespan of a server for up to 10 years, the energy consumption is quite cost-effective.

"It's just a few pieces of garbage connected in parallel!" All the experts here saw this data, and basically understood what was going on with this computing server with weird data, so everyone showed disdain on their faces. Emoticons come out.

But soon, their expressions became serious, because according to the bidding document, Jiangnan Group's most incredible storage server is about to debut.

Soon, this mysterious storage server appeared in front of everyone.

Different from the huge size of the previous computing power server, this storage server is quite small, smaller than the storage server of any other company on the scene, about half the size of a DVD.

At the same time, this server is made of baking varnish, so its appearance is undeniable, and it also crushes the servers of other companies present.

Finally, the data was announced, so everyone knew the data through the information disclosed in the bidding document, but when the representative of Jiangnan Group finally read out that the capacity of a single storage server was 8tb, the shortest response was 0.12 seconds, the response time was 0.98 seconds, and the power was At 600W, all the friends and businessmen on the scene couldn’t help but gasped. This data is really too domineering, but I don’t know the actual test results.

Soon, the server was connected to the equipment provided by Apple.

The test started from the first server, and the same equipment was used without any replacement, so there is no problem on the equipment.

So the friends and merchants present could only watch this server go through rigorous on-site tests one by one. The extreme stress test that the United States had passed before also went through one side. The whole process was perfect without any problems.

"What kind of monster is it inside?" Kappard couldn't help muttering. He just wanted to disassemble this storage server and take a look at the structure and chips inside. It was hard for him to imagine that such a small A storage server actually possesses such unbelievable data.

It's a pity that it is obviously impossible for the Jiangnan Group to give them a chance to take it apart.

At the same time, after the show is over, it will enter the final selection process.

All manufacturer representatives can go back to the hotel to rest at this time, and Apple will announce the final result on the second day.

(End of this chapter)