Chapter 137

Test response. The opening of the Pangea system caused a tectonic shift in the computer industry. 〈Cloud games change the world〉 〈Users respond enthusiastically to the new service of Earth Resources〉 〈Play the game you want in 1 second〉 〈Earth Resource Dreaming of a Hyper-Connected Society〉 〈The Pangea system that unites all computers together. Will it bring an end to high-end computer sales? Cloud services have been used by companies and government offices for quite some time. Earth Resource received praise from the media for leading the popularization of personal computers at once. “Eddie, how are things?” “After starting the service, 100,000 testers were filled in 3 minutes.” “Are there any problems?” “Not yet. It has ample capacity.” At Earth Resource, most of the employees at the company went to work and did emergency work. On the day you open the service, you don’t know when or what will happen, and if you are inexperienced in dealing with it, you will be criticized by the media. A member of the customer affairs team came and said. “I don’t think the testers complained much. There are some opinions that it is inconvenient for FPS games where reaction speed is important.” “That’s where the technical limitations exist.” A system that receives a signal from the customer’s computer, executes it on this side, and transmits the screen. In terms of communication technology, there was a minimum physical limit on response speed. It was also the part that Oh Myung-woo pointed out in advance. “Kim Shin, Eddie. This system has major flaws.” “What?” “Gamers won’t be satisfied if they feel like it’s slow, even if it’s convenient. It feels like my concentration is dripping.” “I think I know what you mean.” Efforts to lower the latency rate. There have been some improvements on the technical side, but in the end, money is the solution to most problems. It is a rule of capitalist society that for problems that cannot be solved with money, you should look to see if there is a lack of money. “You have to invest. Is there any other answer besides investing?” When customers from Asian countries connect to the US, where the data center is located, the latency rate inevitably increases. That’s why it boldly acquired or leased data centers in Asia and Europe. ―Kim Shin: I need money. ―Ellie: Money? ―Kim Shin: To take over the data center from Earth Resources. I want to get a loan for cash flow. There were a lot of documents required to get a loan in Korea. How easy is it to borrow someone else’s money? But the last time I got an easy loan from JP Morgan to build a data center. ―Ellie: How much money do you need? ―Kim Shin: 13 billion dollars. Maybe more is needed ―Ellie: For that amount, our company can handle everything. I will contact the person in charge. A few simple text messages sent the loan approval internally, and the New York loan team brought the paperwork to San Francisco. “It is an honor to meet CEO Kim Shin.” “What do I say?” “He is my role model. Earth Resources has a short business history inside our investment bank, but we gave it the highest credit rating and applied preferential interest rates for transactions.” After talking with the person in charge and stamping the documents, $13 billion was deposited that day. The interest rate was just over 2%. ‘This is why people say that they do business with other people’s money.’ And active investment. “CEO, there is a data center building in Hong Kong.” “Jong-yeop. Send a takeover team.” “KT says they can rent a data center in Chuncheon. The price is a bit expensive.” “Let’s rent. Korean service is important.” “Sweden’s state-run news agency has put up a sale, and we will proceed with negotiations.” “Yes. Try it the way you live.” Earth Resource moved, and JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs were also commissioned to purchase the data center. In this way, even world-class companies such as Microsoft and Google made drastic expenditures that were difficult to do in one month. ‘Was money the solution to most problems?’ It wasn’t just the acquisition of a data center for the Pangea system. A business that is difficult to make a profit from game services alone. As the number of users of the Earth channel increases, frequently used contents are stored in the local data server. Movies and TV shows that you watch a lot in your country. It is to store frequently used data nearby. The overall speed was improved by arranging educational or documentary videos that were occasionally viewed in a way provided by the US server. “From April, we will be able to provide 4K video.” “Then let’s do it. To be honest, our content isn’t great.” Octopus game and Top Gun. Although many other dramas are gaining popularity, they do not provide differentiated fun compared to other OTTs. ‘It shouldn’t become a place where there is nothing to see after seeing a few.’ We decided to go ahead with the image quality that customers can feel with their skin. Channel where the video service takes place 7. Channel 7, which is generating sales by receiving corporate advertisements, also wanted to provide features for streamers with better picture quality. When the business is doing well, it is right to invest harder. ‘It feels like being rich in a data center.’ When investing in coins or stocks, there was a sense of nervousness that if something goes wrong, the price will drop and you will lose everything. Data centers are to stable fixed asset and expenses for the business. The Pangea system lowered the latency quite a bit, and games with fast response speeds weren’t the goal anyway. Oh Myung-woo said as if declaring war. “We need to capture the mobile game market.” “Yes. It should be.” “Console, fish game. I don’t have to catch them all. However, sales in the mobile game market are overwhelmingly large.” Mobile accounts for more than 60% of the total game market revenue. The Pangea system also targeted mobile devices. The release of games that can be run back and forth between computers and mobile devices was becoming a trend. The Pangea system does not require a separate program to be installed, and can be accessed from anywhere. “It would be nice to target countries where 5G service is available. There won’t be any lag on a cell phone.” Even with the current technology, lag has not occurred in mobile games. ‘When the 5G service was implemented in Korea, I thought what would be the use of it even if the mobile phone speed became faster.’ It felt like the world was changing rapidly. Even if you don’t feel the leap in technology, the way people live now is quite different from a few years ago. “What do you eat for lunch?” “I want to eat jajangmyeon after a long time.” “Good. Looks delicious.” The test with 100,000 people went smoothly. ―I tried Earth Resources’ Pangea system, and it was great. -How is it? ―I play games, and it feels faster than the computer I paid 1.5 million won for. -Is that enough? ―Execution speed is different. Press to run. Giga LAN users say that there is almost no frame drop. ―I am a current 5950x and 2080TI user. If you install the mod in Warhammer 3, there is a turn leak, but it is not in Pangea. Too fast, great satisfaction. ―I am playing a city-building game. As the size of the city increases, it stutters with 8 CPUs and 64 GB of memory, but it becomes a completely different game when running on Pangea. It’s so damn fast. ―The media said that FPS games are not allowed? -Don’t trust the giraffes. Response rate is quite fast. ―It’s gold in Last Survivor. I can’t feel the difference between running on a computer and Pangea. Enough to enjoy Users’ reactions were made into articles in real time. 〈Earth Resource, a great success in launching the Pangea system〉 〈Users participating as testers show great satisfaction〉 〈Environmental groups welcome it as it can reduce unnecessary power consumption and waste of resources〉 〈Stock prices of computer-related companies. An additional 6% decline following the previous day’s 5% decline＞ 〈“What should I do with Donghak ants?” Lee Seong-electronics, Hylnix collapsed side by side＞ 〈Tears of Donghak ants at the decline of Lee Seong-electronics’ stock price〉 Donghak ants screamed as the stock price of Lee Seong Electronics in Korea fell 16% in two days. ―Who are the stockbrokers who said they would go for 100,000 electrons? ―I bought it on the 89th floor. Level 70 now. ―It feels like it goes down faster than the elevator at my house hahaha ―700 million won from Seong-Eun Lee. Waiting to recover? – No one knows at this point. A tectonic shift occurred in the semiconductor industry itself. It may decline throughout the year. ―If you are Kim Shin-hyung, you might know. ―I was going to take a break when my older brother told me to sell all American stocks, but then I came back to the ‘Director’ to earn pocket money. ―It would be nice if I could buy Earth Resources stock. ―Then I have to buy all my property and even my soul as collateral. Seon Jae-yong was checking the reaction to the article and the users in the vice-president’s office of Lee Seong-electronics. Scrolling down quietly, sometimes smiling. After a while, I called the president of the semiconductor division. “This is Seon Jae-yong. The share price of Lee Sung Electronics fell 16.3%.” – No face. Vice President. “Did memory semiconductor prices drop a lot?” ―DRAM contract prices fell by 3%, but spot prices are falling by more than 15%. The unit price of NAND flash is also falling at a similar rate. I could feel that the president of the semiconductor division was answering the phone nervously. “What are your prospects?” ―The impact caused by Earth Resources is significant. Shipments of highly profitable products are expected to decrease significantly. Winter has arrived in the semiconductor market. Seon Jae-yong smiled softly and said heavily. “At times like this, please keep the atmosphere in the business department good. Let’s see if there are any areas where the company can improve so that we can reduce unnecessary expenses and take it as an opportunity to take off.” ―As the vice president said, we will renovate our division. Seon Jae-yong’s expression brightened as he hung up the phone. Last year’s operating profit of Electronics, which represents the Yisheng Group, was 36 trillion. Gone are the days of sticking to one semiconductor like in the past, and above all… …. ‘It’s a derivative. That’s thrilling.’ From a young age, he was taught the successor of the opposite sex group. I was interested in the financial field as much as business management. Fundamentally, if he lacked greed for money, he would not have been able to get the position of successor to the group. Not only mismanagement in a bright place, but a slush fund that is hidden and operated in the dark. It was a big adventure for Seon Jae-yong to follow Kim Shin and bet the amount of money he had overseas. ‘To think that 2 trillion has already become 4.5 trillion.’ USA. It’s amazing how casually these investments are made on Wall Street. In the global foreign exchange market alone, the daily transaction volume reached 6.6 trillion dollars, and the power of the US financial sector made the total number of heterosexual groups extremely modest. “Chief Secretary Kwon.” “Yes. Vice President.” “Expand the domestic care list for CEO Shin Kim one step further.” “I will update it sometime today.” Profits of Isung Biologics, the construction of data centers around the world. Here’s to personal property growth. The Lee Sung Group decided to create a friendly environment in Korea for Kim Shin’s distant relatives and the companies he owns.