my return 2002

Chapter 376 AI Chip
The explosion of [Ghost Blowing Lantern] brought the biggest impact to the video platform.

Prior to this, the video platform was more of a broadcasting medium. It did not produce film and television content itself.

After the 360 ​​video data broke out after the first broadcast of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", it immediately attracted the eager attention of other video platforms, especially Youku, Tudou, and Sohu.

Youku's Gu Yongqiang immediately held a meeting of executives to discuss the feasibility of self-made film and television dramas.

"The company is going to submit an IPO soon. This year is a crucial year for Youku, and it is also a year that determines the survival of Youku. Don't think I am alarmist. You have all seen the momentum of 360 video. Meng, if this continues, our market share will be further eroded, and by then, let alone an IPO, even the company may go bankrupt.”

The video industry started to sprout in 2006, and it has been three years now. During this period, many video platforms were born. Due to the lax copyright supervision at the beginning, video platforms began to grow wildly with a large number of pirated resources, but even those who did not need to buy videos at the beginning In the case of copyright infringement, most video platforms are still at a loss.

Even 360 Video is losing money every year. Of course, there are exceptions, and the only exception is LeTV. Accountant Jia’s methods of accounting are impeccable. It became profitable, and people have to admire his "professionalism".

With the indentation of copyright in 2009, the life of each video platform is even more difficult, and the financial situation that is not well-off is even worse. As a result, some websites that originally made videos can only go to do live video broadcasting to seek survival space. .

The money-burning war in the video industry has been going on for more than three years, which has reached a critical point for the Internet industry. If the performance still does not improve, those investment institutions may withdraw their capital and leave the market. It is also difficult to continue to invest more.

Going public is actually a manifestation of investors' wishes, but in order to go public successfully, Youku needs to put up data, so that it can tell stories to investors all over the world, and investors can take the opportunity to cash out.

Gu Yongqiang is very clear that with the strong performance of 360 Video, once Youku fails to go public and obtain a large amount of financial support, it will be difficult to beat the other party. During the three years of competition with 360 Video, Gu Yongqiang has expressed emotion more than once: It's a pity that youku doesn't have a rich father like Shen Lang behind you.

Everyone in the meeting room saw Gu Yongqiang's expression and knew that he had made a decision. Today's meeting was here to give everyone a breath, and naturally no one expressed any objection.

Upon seeing this, Gu Yongqiang was also very satisfied with his prestige in the company, and immediately announced the establishment of Youku Film and Television Production Department, responsible for the production of film and television dramas.

"If you have any thoughts on the production of this film and television drama, you can talk about it. It doesn't matter if you make a mistake. Today's meeting is to hope that everyone can brainstorm."

The executives looked at each other, and someone made a suggestion.

"I think the explosion of [Ghost Blowing the Lantern] is already very telling. The adaptation of the novel into a film and television drama can not only attract the attention of a large number of fans of the original work, but also the story of the novel is more novel. The user portraits of our video platform are generally relatively young. Those same themes on the platform are not very attractive to these users, I think if you want to make a self-made series, it is best to choose some more influential novels for adaptation."

"Well, I think what Manager Liu said makes sense. Novel adaptations are inherently topical and attention-getting. Not to mention anything else, it can save a lot of expenses just for publicity. It's definitely a good deal."

Most of the time, this is how to follow the trend. Once a business model is approved and has a template, many people will copy it according to this template. This is the most time-saving and labor-saving model with the highest success rate.

Gu Yongqiang also nodded slightly: "This is indeed a solution, but the popular novels on the market are basically on the Xingchen Chinese website. How can we get the authorization to adapt this part of the work?"

After four years of development, Xingchen Chinese.com has already established its status as the No. [-] brother of online literature, and Singularity has been completely reduced to a niche website that is independently supported and maintained by blood red. During this period, Xingchen Chinese.com also acquired Novels. And set up the Xingchen female frequency network, and successively invested in Hongxiu Tianxiang, Jinjiang and other female frequency websites.

The mainstream online novels on the market are basically related to the Xingchen Chinese website.

"Mr. Gu, as far as I know, the contract signed by Xingchen Chinese.com and the author of the novel is only for the agency of copyright development. Can we try to contact some authors in private and get the authorization from the author?"

Gu Yongqiang's eyes brightened: "Well, this is a way, you can try it."

Of course, Youku is not the only one eyeing Xingchen Chinese.com, many film and television companies have also taken action. Suddenly, many online writers discovered that the novel copyrights in their hands are so valuable?

Although with the process of commercialization of the web text market, the income of web text authors has been increasing in recent years, but most of the authors are just living on their own, and only those leading authors can achieve a relatively ideal income.

And selling a copy of the novel copyright can offset the author's income from the author's hard work for several years. How can the authors sit still?Everyone was in a commotion. In some of the more high-end author groups, there were discussions about the copyright of novels almost every day. Today, someone's novel was liked, and someone's novel was quoted 50 tomorrow.

But there is one thing, when everyone's novels were signed, they signed an agency copyright development contract with Xingchen Chinese Network. If you want to sell the copyright, you need to negotiate with the website, and the website will also charge a certain fee.

As a result, many web writers began to contact their editors to inquire about the situation.

The editor does not have such authority, so he can only continue to report to his superiors, layer by layer, and finally the report reaches Shen Lang.

Regarding this issue, Shen Lang was a little hesitant for a while. In his layout, the Xingchen Chinese website is the upstream of the cultural industry, and it is specially used to export original IP works. This is a big cake, but because the market environment is not open enough, so Its value has not been reflected, and the explosion of [Ghost Blowing Lantern] has advanced the timeline of the IP adaptation craze.

It's just that with the current production capacity of Dew Mountain, they can't produce a few dramas a year. There are at least dozens of popular novels on the Internet every year, and Mountain Dew alone can't keep up.

However, if the author is allowed to negotiate with the film and television company by himself, it is equivalent to making a wedding dress for others.

If the author's request is directly rejected, it will inevitably cause the author to be dissatisfied, and maybe someone will take advantage of the vacancy and win over a group of top authors to start anew.

Shen Lang thought for a while, and called Hou Hongliang, Zhou Shengjun, and Xingchen Chinese website executives to the conference room for a meeting.

"That's the case, what do you think?"

The executives of Xingchen Chinese.com didn’t make a sound, and they all looked at Hou Hongliang and Zhou Shengjun nervously. They were several levels lower than them in terms of positions. There will definitely be a big storm at that time.

Zhou Shengjun naturally hoped that the copyright would be in his own hands, not to mention too much, if there are a few dramas like [Ghost Blowing the Lantern] out a year, maybe 360 ​​videos will be profitable in a few years.

Seeing Zhou Shengjun looking at him expectantly, Hou Hongliang couldn't help but wryly smiled: "With Mountain Dew's current production team, at most three to five dramas will be produced a year, and they can't be at the level of [Ghost Blowing the Lantern]. The production of "Ghost Blowing Lantern" alone took nine months plus post-production, and some small productions were interspersed in the middle to maximize the team's benefits."

Zhou Shengjun couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he heard that, and said unwillingly: "But handing over the copyright, wouldn't it increase our competitors? As far as I know, platforms such as Youku, Tudou, and Sohu have all established film and television production departments."

An executive from Xingchen Chinese.com said cautiously: "However, if we do not agree with the author to sell the copyright, the result will inevitably be that a large number of authors leave, and we will lose more than that."

Shen Lang nodded, this was what he was most worried about.

"Is it possible to do this? The Xingchen Chinese website recommends some novels that are more suitable for adaptation into film and television dramas to Mountain Dew Film and Television. Mr. Hou arranges the screenwriters to review and see which ones you need, and select some of them. A batch of relatively high-quality copyrights can be bought directly, and the operation of Xingchen Chinese Network can negotiate with film and television companies for the rest, so as to prevent some authors from not understanding the value of their own copyrights and selling them at a low price in a daze."

This is also the only feasible solution at present, and the executives of Xingchen Chinese Network were immediately relieved when they heard it.

Almost a week later, the authors of the novels got a reply from the website, and they were quite satisfied with the plan of the website, especially those novel authors whose copyrights were purchased by Dew Mountain Films, they were all very happy, after all, the production level of [Ghost Blowing Lantern] Put it there, not to mention anything else, if my work can be half as good as [Ghost Blowing Lamp], it will be enough to blow for a lifetime.

Therefore, among the group of novel authors, a saying began to circulate that novels with explosive potential are sold to Dew Mountain Films, and those with mediocre potential are sold to outsiders. Although this statement was later proved to be not completely accurate, it is indeed a series produced by Dew Mountain Films. The probability of explosion is higher.

In late January, Shen Lang came to Hefei from Shanghai to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Zhulong chip factory.

"Mr. Liang, Mr. Zhang has worked hard for you." Shen Lang stood at the gate of the factory and said with emotion.

Zhang Rujin once again explained what is called the miraculous speed of building a factory. In just eight months, the factory was built. Although it may take four to five months for the subsequent mechanical debugging of the lithography machine, etching machine, etc., to officially start , but this speed is amazing enough, worthy of being a master of factory construction.

Of course, this is also inseparable from the high level of local cooperation in Hefei. As early as Shen Lang had just signed a contract with Hefei to determine the location of the factory, the infrastructure construction here had already started.

You must know that this is a great risk. After all, many companies are used to staking land, which is not for production at all. Many local governments dare to invest funds until the company's project is fully implemented.

It is indeed Hefei, which is known as the "City of Las Vegas".

Zhang Rujin and Liang Mengsong looked at each other and smiled: "Haha, it's not hard work, let's not be too hard on our hearts."

Especially Zhang Rujin, who was forced to resign from SMIC was the pain of his life. Now that he finally has the opportunity to re-engage in the chip industry, he is naturally working hard to make some achievements.

Although he knew that the road would definitely not be smooth and it would take a long time, but it was all worth it.

Not long after, Hu Weiwu also came, and with him was his proud disciple Chen Yunji, and a group of leaders from the capital also came.

SMIC was sanctioned by TSMC, and the development of domestic chips was hindered. At this time, the appearance of Zhulong naturally attracted much attention. The most important thing is that Zhulong gave up more advanced manufacturing processes and chose to use domestic equipment and technical routes, which is even more commendable. up.

"Mr. Shen, I hope that you will continue to work hard and push the domestic chip manufacturing process to a new level!" Director Qiu is also among the leaders of this position.

Shen Lang hurriedly cried poorly: "Director Qiu, you also know that chips are an industry that pays attention to the industrial chain, and we alone cannot promote the progress of the entire industry!"

Director Qiu laughed and scolded: "You're here again, that's all right, don't worry, as long as you can provide enough orders, we will also urge the upstream and downstream industrial chains to upgrade their technology according to your requirements."

As long as there is a fulcrum, the entire earth can be leveraged. However, the fact is that there has never been a decent fulcrum in the field of domestic chips.

Even SMIC used foreign equipment and technology before. In essence, SMIC is a foundry like TSMC.

Since it was an inauguration ceremony, according to the usual practice, the leaders would naturally speak on stage to make use of their remaining energy.

Taking advantage of this time, Hu Weiwu called Chen Yunji to the side, and said to Shen Lang: "Xiao Chen is a very good chip talent, he recently had the idea of ​​starting a business, but lacks funds, I wonder if Mr. Shen is interested? "

Shen Lang's heart moved, he naturally knew Chen Yunji's name, this is the big cow who founded the "Cambrian", and he can be regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of AI chips.

At this time, Chen Yunji was still a little immature, and he was a little nervous when facing Shen Lang, but he still fully expressed his idea of ​​starting a business.

As Shen Lang knew, Chen Yunji's goal was to make AI chips. This time, he started earlier.

(End of this chapter)