Chapter 274 The global sales trend of brain-computer terminals has become unstoppable
As the saying goes, some people are happy and some are sad.
While consumers and developers around the world are immersed in the excitement and frenzy of the "Era of Consciousness Internet".
The wave of the times has hit hard the technological empires built on LCD screens, and they were all caught off guard by the times.
Japan, Sony headquarters.
The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely solemn, almost suffocating.
The huge conference screen displays the grand blueprint and market forecasts for PS5 and its subsequent models.
Some of the numbers they were proud of now seem so pale and feeble under the impact of dimensionality reduction brought by brain-computer terminals.
After a while, an executive spoke with difficulty: "According to preliminary evaluation, the immersion provided by the brain-computer terminal platform is completely unmatched by existing VR equipment and game consoles. "
"They have bypassed all the hardware we rely on, such as controllers, helmets, and the screen itself. The performance improvement of our next-generation console PS5 will depend on conscious interaction. "In the face of the brain-computer terminal platform, it has lost all meaning. "
Another executive at the meeting said bitterly: "What is even more fatal is the content ecosystem. Almost all mainstream or small and medium-sized third-party manufacturers, including our long-term core partners, have now announced their full commitment to the metaverse. We-we are being abandoned by the times-"
Abandoned by the times!
These words made the participants feel a deep sense of powerlessness and despair.
· The future of the PS series of game consoles, including Sony's, has been cast by a thick layer of gloom that is almost impossible to dispel.
The people present knew it very well and could foresee it.
As the sales of brain-computer terminals continue to climb, prices may drop in the future, and their ownership will be widely spread and popularized.
The category of home game consoles will usher in irreparable shrinkage in the foreseeable future until it comes to an end.
This day will not come soon, but it has become an irreversible trend, which is the most desperate.
The capital market is often the first to feel the biting chill. Just one week after the launch of the brain-computer terminal, Sony's stock price plummeted by more than 47%, almost halving.
The storm also swept to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, North Magnesium.
"The Xbo department is facing an existential crisis!" reads the beginning of an internal emergency assessment report.
Microsoft foresaw the cloud era and the AI revolution, but it never expected that what would subvert the operating system would not be another better operating system, but a new interactive dimension.
This is actually not their fault. No one could have thought of it before it happened.
“Lu An and Metaverse Intelligent Control have not only destroyed game consoles, they are destroying Windows, the foundation of our survival.” A vice president of technology said in a trembling voice.
Just imagine a scene like this, when people can socialize, entertain, work, and even create in a metaverse based on brain-computer terminals through their minds, in such a complete and even habitable digital world in a certain sense.
Do they still need an operating system with a "desktop" metaphor built on a two-dimensional screen?
Do you still need to use the mouse to click on icons and use the keyboard to enter text symbols?
The brain-computer terminal hardware platform and the metaverse digital world ecology are essentially a next-generation computing platform that bypasses all traditional human-computer interaction media and is directly connected to consciousness.
Although there is cross-platform information communication between the digital world and the real world, this does not necessarily require a PC. Smartphones can also do it, and mobile terminals have more advantages and are more convenient.
· Personal computers will not disappear immediately, nor will they disappear completely. They will still exist for a period of time as productivity tools or auxiliary terminals for brain-computer platforms.
However, its status as the center of digital life for ordinary users is predictably shaky.
As the sales of brain-computer terminals continue to climb, the number of users remaining is getting larger and larger.
What will follow is bound to be a continued decline in the sales of the Windows operating system. The capital market has voted with its feet. Microsoft's stock price has also suffered the same fate as Sony, which has suffered the most tragic plunge in twenty years.
Such panic is spreading.
In response to the upcoming cold winter in the PC market, giant hardware manufacturers such as Intel and AMD urgently reassessed their chip roadmaps.
Although NVIDIA's GPUs are of great value in backend data centers supporting brain-computer terminals, the prospects for consumer-grade graphics card business are also clouded.
· Monitors, keyboards, mice, and high-end gaming headset manufacturers around the world, a huge hardware ecological chain built around traditional PCs and consoles, have already felt the bone-chilling cold in advance, as if hearing the rumble of the rolling wheels of the times.
But in crises, there are often opportunities for change.
At Apple headquarters, a complex emotion is spreading.
The closed ecosystem and so-called experience-first concept that Apple relies on for its success have also faced unprecedented challenges in the face of brain-computer terminal platforms.
But Apple’s huge cash reserves and strong engineering capabilities give them more time to react.
However, serious differences still emerged at its internal emergency meeting.
· Yifang believes that it should spend huge sums of money to quickly develop its own non-invasive brain-computer device technology to compete head-on with Metaverse Intelligent Control.
The other party advocates seeking cooperation with Metaverse Intelligent Control to introduce the Metaverse digital ecosystem to Apple devices, or to develop exclusive high-end content adapted to brain-computer terminals.
Another party believes that brain-computer terminal devices are still bulky, and Apple should stick to mobile terminals and lightweight AR devices, focusing on the "superposition" of the real and digital worlds rather than complete "replacement."
· There are huge differences between the parties, and it is difficult to reach a consensus for a while. This also reflects that the giants are also confused.
Some of the giants of the old days panicked, while others rowed hard, trying to turn the huge bow.
What Lu An demolished was not the door of any company. What he demolished was the invisible wall of "computer" that the world recognized.
Everyone realizes that a digital era of the Metaverse defined by Metaverse intelligence and control has undoubtedly begun.
Lu An and the Yuanjie Intelligence Control under his control have not declared war on anyone, but they have broken the foundation stones of a series of old thrones.
At the end of the month, Yuanjie Intelligent Control’s new headquarters was announced.
Lingxi brought the company's third quarter financial report to the door of Lu An's office, knocked on the door, opened the door and entered the house when she heard the answer.
Seeing that there was no one else, Lingxi walked slowly towards the desk.
"Master, Sister Qiuyan asked me to sign the third quarter financial report for you." Lingxi put the materials on the desk and briefly reported: "The company's third quarter revenue reached 818.582 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of +388.59%; the net profit was 535.471 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of +817.45%."
Metaverse Intelligent Control’s performance during the third quarter of previous years was relatively weak.
But the performance report card for the third quarter of this year is super explosive, and the net profit is even more explosive, increasing eight times year-on-year. The most direct reason for such huge profits in the third quarter is the overseas military trade business of the foreign trade version of the armed robot.
During the third quarter, the company sold a total of 34,000 foreign trade version armed robots, generating revenue of 568.106 billion yuan.
And the profit margin of the military trade business is more than ten times. The total of these military trade orders has brought a net profit of 453.1 billion to Metaverse Intelligent Control.
The company's other old business sectors have seen steady growth. Sales of Xiaoyuan robots have continued to climb, generating revenue of 121.937 billion yuan in the third quarter; bionic prosthetics have generated revenue of 47.328 billion yuan; solid-state lattice batteries have grown rapidly, generating revenue of 65.286 billion yuan; insurance and other other businesses have generated a total revenue of 15.923 billion yuan.
At the end, Lingxi added: "The company's net assets at the end of the period reached 1.39 trillion, and its cash reserves exceeded 800 billion."
Lu An glanced briefly, and then signed He stamped the words, handed the materials to her again and ordered: "As usual, just use my moderator account to announce the two performance data of revenue and profit margin in the Yuanjie community."
Lingxi nodded: "Good master."
After receiving Lu An’s instruction, Lingxi immediately imitated his tone and announced the third quarter results on the Yuanjie community.
In just ten minutes, Metaverse Intelligent Control’s third quarter results were reported by major media.
Junyi Venture Capital Headquarters.
"In the third quarter, the revenue was 818.5 billion and the net profit was 535.4 billion. This earning power can be said to be the best in the universe!!" At this moment, Zheng Hongyi was reading the news of "Cailianshe" reporting the third quarter performance of Metaverse Intelligent Control, and he was filled with amazement.
Metaverse Intelligent Control generated revenue of 632.5 billion in the first half of the year and net profit of 328.9 billion.
The revenue in the first three quarters of this year has exceeded the trillion mark, reaching 1.45 trillion, and the net profit in the three quarters reached 864.3 billion.
Such an explosive performance has made a certain small and micro tobacco enterprise feel inferior.
“Everyone still underestimates the potential of this company—” Zheng Hongyi couldn’t help but secretly marveled that such a large scale could maintain such a terrifying high growth momentum, and it was getting stronger and stronger.
It is simply unprecedented, and I’m afraid it will be hard to come by anyone in the future.
Zheng Hongyi certainly knows why Yuanjie Intelligent Control's third quarter performance is so exaggerated. It is mainly supported by the foreign trade version of the armed robot business. There may not be such a large military trade order in the next few years.
But he firmly believes that the company's performance next year, even without the blessing of overseas military trade orders, will never shrink.
Because Yuanjie Intelligent Control has opened up a new business, that is, brain-computer terminals, which is another extremely exaggerated new growth point for performance.
Nearly 3.5 million units of the new product were sold in the first three days after its launch, generating revenue of nearly 230 billion.
Zheng Hongyi was thinking that maybe the shipment volume of brain-computer terminals has exceeded 5 million units now. In the last quarter of this year, November and December, brain-computer terminals are definitely expected to exceed the sales mark of 10 million units in the last two months.
By then, the revenue from this major business segment alone is conservatively estimated to be the same as the overseas military trade business in the third quarter, with a high probability of exceeding it.
I saw Zheng Hongyi murmuring: "With such a rough calculation, coupled with the steady growth of the old business, isn't Metaverse Intelligent Control expected to achieve a revenue of 900 billion or even 1 trillion in the fourth quarter of this year? Oh my God -"
It's not that I don't know, but I was really shocked when I calculated it.
Based on this development momentum, wouldn’t Metaverse Intelligent Control be expected to surpass Wal-Mart Group in 2018 and become the first of the world’s top 500 companies?
And he is also the double champion in revenue and profit?
As employees of Metaverse Intelligent Control, the employees were very excited when they saw Big BOSS announcing the company’s third quarter results.
Dividends for next year are expected to increase more than five times compared to 2016. The revenue in the fourth quarter is expected to exceed that in the third quarter, but the net profit will definitely not be as good as in the third quarter, because the profit margin of brain-computer terminals is not as high as the profit margin of the military trade business, which is more than ten times.
But considering the revenue base, the conservative estimate of net profit in the fourth quarter should be 300 billion.
Calculated, the total net profit this year is expected to reach 1.16 trillion yuan. Metaverse Intelligent Control will create an unprecedented record and become the first super giant group in history with annual net profit exceeding the one trillion mark.
In other words, 20% of net profit will be paid out as dividends next year, which means the dividend per share will reach about 2,328 yuan.
Even employees who receive a guaranteed allotment of 500 shares will receive 1.164 million in dividends next year alone. The annual dividend exceeds one million, which is higher than their salary.
As an employee of Metaverse Intelligent Control, how can you not be excited?
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The time has come to November.
The global tsunami triggered by the release of brain-computer terminals by Metaverse Intelligent Control has quickly transformed into a raging commercial torrent after the initial shock to technology and humanity.
The most uncomfortable ones are undoubtedly the super consortiums of OMG.
In the first half of the year, they launched a "soft blockade" or "secret blockade" operation against Yuanjie Intelligent Control, but now they are being roasted on the fire.
Because it is no longer able to suppress the internal pressure and there are huge differences, the technology giants of the United States must connect to the digital world of the Metaverse.
Rejecting access is tantamount to denying access to the future.
The advent of brain-computer terminals has put both giants and small businesses on the same starting line. Small businesses are now working hard, hoping to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to grow into a new generation of giants or the top of a line.
Those technology giants in Silicon Valley are now very worried that they have not kept up with the times and will be replaced and eliminated.
Faced with this situation, this general trend is obviously not something that a few super consortiums can suppress just because they want to.
Furthermore, consumers of Omagnesium also have a strong willingness to purchase.
Just three weeks after the release of the brain-computer terminal, an overseas private survey covering Beijing, Europe and East Asia showed that more than 68% of the respondents expressed "extreme desire" to experience or own a brain-computer terminal device, even after being told that its price may be very expensive.
On external social media, the topic "We want brain computers" has overwhelmed all negative public opinions that try to lead to "security risks" or "technical threats".
Especially the "Generation Z" group born between 1995 and 2009, they are known as the "generation" and "Internet natives". This group, whether at home or abroad, has shown an extreme desire and infinite longing for the digital world of the Metaverse.
On the Internet today, tens of thousands of "Generation Z" groups are speaking out and petitioning, asking how they can experience the digital world of the Metaverse, or how they can buy brain-computer terminals.
Market demand and user desire, in the eyes of terminal purchasers, are all money.
In private gatherings, Silicon Valley's technological elites are eager to share any technical analysis of brain-computer terminals and denounce the slow progress in related fields in their country.
The neuroscience laboratories of universities and the R&D departments of top technology companies have received external emails full of anxious questions: When will we have our own brain-computer terminals?
The answer is a frustrating silence!
The reaction of the capital market was the most direct and cruel. Those related listed companies that had competed or cooperated with Metaverse Intelligent Control and had failed negotiations saw their stock prices fall accordingly.
In sharp contrast, any company that can be related to the concept of Metaverse Intelligent Control or "brain-computer terminal", even a company that just announces that it is "researching adaptation", will experience a short-term surge in its stock price.
Even Zhang Xingchuan’s “Fourth Dimension”, a company that provides artificial epidermis and bionic muscle layers for Metaverse Intelligent Control, has seen its stock price soar again.
Some internally informed funds predicted that the ban would definitely be "unlocked" at that time, so the stock price began to anticipate this and strengthened.
Consumers vote with their feet, and capital chooses with money.
The trend of global sales of brain-computer terminals has become unstoppable.
As soon as November began, foreign buyers began to arrive one after another. They came to Jianing City one after another and gathered together at Metaverse Intelligent Control. They held banknotes in their hands and declared that they wanted to purchase brain-computer terminals and sell them as agents around the world.