The New Generation

"I was careless."

Looking at the order volume that was showing signs of exploding again, Han Yang secretly wiped away a sweat.

He had thought that raising the price would balance the order volume and computing power, but at this moment, Han Yang realized that he had forgotten to consider the factor of word-of-mouth spreading causing the order volume to increase again.

Now, with the word-of-mouth fermenting, even though the price had been raised once, the number of orders was still so large that Han Yang couldn't finish them all.

There was nothing he could do. Han Yang's service was good, fast, and cheap. Many old customers would spontaneously promote him after finishing one order, which attracted more customers. It had gotten to the point where old customers had to book their next order a few days in advance after finishing one. Otherwise, their orders would have to wait in line.

Raise the price again?

After a brief thought, Han Yang still rejected this plan.

Frequent price increases had a certain suspicion of taking advantage of others, which would cause a certain degree of reputation collapse and would not achieve much increase in revenue.

At this stage, it was better to maintain the current situation. Only when the computing power increased and the equipment was in place, and he could take on any number of orders, could the problem be fundamentally solved.

It was just that Han Yang was suffering a bit at the moment. Facing customers who were full of complaints because they had to wait in line, Han Yang could only be extra careful everywhere.

"Sorry, sorry, the small shop has limited capacity, and there are too many orders, we really can't finish them all."

"The power leveling guy has been working 24 hours non-stop, we really can't squeeze out any more time. Don't worry, we will finish it as soon as possible."

"Sorry, big brother, our small shop values reputation. Think about it, you were originally waiting in line properly, but then someone who paid extra cut in front of you, you wouldn't be happy, right?"

"You guys are quite honest. You have so many orders, hurry up and expand, hire people."

"Thank you for the compliment, your recognition is our biggest motivation. The small shop is already preparing to hire people and expand as quickly as possible, but this takes time, people need to be trained, and equipment needs to be assembled. Don't worry, the small shop will expand in at most two months, and then you won't have to wait in line."

"Really, this is the first time I've seen someone like you, not making money when it's right there."

"Sorry, big brother, I'm really sorry, it's all our fault."

24 hours a day, Han Yang was almost always apologizing. It had gotten to the point where if he saw a bird fly into the yard, Han Yang would almost subconsciously apologize.

At this time, another old customer's order was successfully completed. Han Yang operated his phone and directly sent a message: "Dear, your task has been completed, please log in as soon as possible to check, if possible, please give the small shop a good review~"

"Holy crap, as expected of Fuxing, it's done so quickly? The two days of waiting in line weren't in vain. By the way, how did you guys do it? I looked for several experts for this BOSS level, but they couldn't beat it."

"Actually, it's not that difficult, it's just that the operations and positioning need to be more precise."

"You're an expert. By the way, why don't you make videos? Self-media is so popular now, and your skills are so high, just making some extreme clear videos would make more money than just grinding for power leveling money, right?"

The customer's words caused Han Yang to think a little.

This was indeed the case. If he made videos and did self-media, Han Yang was sure that he would make a lot of money. Maybe he could even become an internet celebrity.

But after a moment of thought, Han Yang still rejected this idea.

Ordinary people wanted fame because with fame came money. But what Han Yang feared most was precisely fame.

He didn't want to be famous, he even feared being famous.

If he attracted the attention of the Ita and exposed his secret, it would be a disaster.

It was good to run an online game studio like this, accumulating initial funds without attracting the attention of others. When his computing power was high enough, he would have ways to make more money without being famous.

"However, what this customer said also makes sense. Such high efficiency all the time will also attract some attention. In the future, I should not play so extremely. I won't take BOSS orders with too poor attributes, and even if I take orders with better attributes, I should deliberately take a little longer and not finish them so quickly."

This would inevitably lead to a decrease in the number of orders taken, affecting income. But for safety, necessary sacrifices were worth it. Besides, this could also free up some computing power. It just so happened that he was going to start researching the new generation of chips, and this computing power would be useful.

"Thank you for your suggestion, the small shop will consider it."

After sending off this customer, Han Yang immediately deliberately lowered the efficiency of subsequent power leveling. As expected, the increased waiting time caused many customers to complain again.

A few days later, a new batch of materials finally arrived.

On this batch of circuit boards, the distance between different semiconductor mounting holes was closer, and the volume of the semiconductors was also smaller. Even the cables were much thinner.

If he could successfully use these materials to produce a new generation of CPUs, then it would have a 2.72mm process, nearly double that of the previous generation CPU. At the same time, the number of integrated semiconductors on it would reach about 20,000.

Its frequency would also reach around 200KHZ, and overall, the computing power should increase by about 15 times.

However, the improvement in performance also meant an improvement in processing accuracy. Originally, with just a lamp for lighting, Han Yang could easily operate whether it was soldering semiconductors or installing capacitors and resistors. But now, integrating more circuits in the same volume was not that simple.

Han Yang even had to buy special lighting and smaller soldering guns, and sometimes he had to use a magnifying glass to move forward with the work.

Not only that, the research and development of the new generation CPU also involved the software level. Han Yang had to write the instruction set and other things for this CPU himself, and the process of inputting the code was also very cumbersome. He had to constantly open and close a few switch-like things, inputting the code bit by bit.

If it weren't for the computing power saved by deliberately slowing down the power leveling efficiency before, Han Yang felt that he would have gone crazy long ago.

"This generation of CPU can still be done by hand. When developing the next generation CPU, I have to find a way to make some tools to assist. By the way, I also have to develop a set of programming languages myself. Otherwise, I will be exhausted sooner or later if I keep writing code using assembly language or even machine language."

After finally finishing today's work, even with the chip assistance, Han Yang was very tired.

Counting it, it had been exactly one month since the Nash Equilibrium Strategy was adopted. After a month of hard work and busyness, it was finally time to reap the rewards.

"Total income this month... seventy-six thousand, expenses twenty-seven thousand, leaving forty-nine thousand. Not bad, not bad."

Looking at the huge sum of forty-nine thousand lying in his bank card, Han Yang was very satisfied.