Chapter 1326

[网]Chicago 1990 "I will bring my faith and family values ​​to the presidency to build an America that is not only good, but a better America, which is why I announced today that I am running for President of the United States, and I need you and I'm going on a journey together..."

At the beginning of September, in the conference room of the headquarters of A+ Records, Song Ya rested her chin and watched TV with the room full of people. Vice President Al Gore officially announced his candidacy in his hometown of Tennessee today.

'Faith and family values', Al Gore, who is only 50 years old this year, announced in his speech that he is more conservative and more 'family-focused' than the current commander-in-chief. The lace scandals of the current Grand Reign keep a distance.

"We will work hard to give our children a fresh start, a higher start, a new century, a higher place! Thank you! God bless you! Bless America!"

The speech was short and the venue was small. Participants held campaign slogans with the words 'gore2000', and the stars and stripes were everywhere.

"He will be a great leader." The representative of the EA company present at 3dfx said with a smile to himself.

"Um."

Song Ya feebly agreed, he was a bit lazy to care about EA's people, in the first half of the year, EA had already announced that it would port a large number of its games to Sony's upcoming ps2 game console platform, which meant that it would give Sega DS console competition The opponent has added a lot of games.

And every time Sega sells one less console, its own 3dfx display chip will also sell one less.

No way, Sega likes to play rigid and rigid balance skills. Knowing that EA is very important to them, they also acquired and supported a cutting-edge company in the field of sports games that EA is good at. This aroused EA's dissatisfaction and vigilance. Sonny hooks up, fighting back with the same balancing act.

Whether the host platform is more important to game companies, or vice versa... It's hard to say.

But now the relationship between EA and Sega has taken a turn for the worse, and even his own 3dfx is also unlucky.

After Gore announced his candidacy, television stations began to broadcast his campaign advertisements, and Americans of all colors, ethnicities and classes expressed their support for the camera.

Song Ya turned off the TV.

Everyone in the room had nothing to look at, and everyone noticed that the youngest self-made billionaire, the black pharaoh and the director of 3dfx, seemed to be in a bad mood right now.

So fell into silence.

Jim Keller, the only company CTO who is not a member of the 3dfx board of directors, is also there, quietly looking at him with the unique curious eyes of a genius with a high IQ. This is the first time the two have met.

Song Ya was actually in a good mood today, and didn't notice Jim Keller's eyes. He sighed slightly and raised his wrist to look at his watch. Someone was late, causing everyone to have to wait. His time was precious, and he was just a little upset.

His mind flew back to a few days ago.

Daly Jr. won the primary election stage of the Chicago mayoral election, which is tantamount to being re-elected. He can't even hide from the celebratory dinner, even if Daly Jr. frees up his hand, he is likely to start a fierce fight with the governor.

"The wife of the current president has bought a house in New York, and she is also announcing her candidacy for the New York State Senator next year. She also claimed that her family has no power to fight various lawsuits such as the Paula Jones case and the Lewinsky case. Savings, so the money to buy a house is borrowed from friends, banker friend Terry McAuliffe, next year’s Donkey Party National Convention will also be held in New York.”

Underwood also came back, and the two got together logically, "That couple doesn't need Chicago anymore." Underwood said.

Song Ya didn't care about the couple, "Senator Joseph Lieberman..." All he cared about was the rich third generation.

"Don't worry, I can always figure out a way."

Underwood seemed very determined. The two chatted while observing Little Daly, who was surrounded by well-dressed wealthy businessmen and celebrities in the distance to congratulate him. "The foundation of cooperation between them is not solid."

"Yeah." The two absolutely trusted each other, Song Ya didn't urge any more, and instead guessed with Underwood about the relationship between Gore and Chicago.

I heard that Gore's people had come to talk to Daly Jr. after he won the election, and Peter Flock should have sent people too, but this was an absolute secret between the three parties, and he and Underwood had no way of knowing the details.

The current commander-in-chief no longer needs Chicago and discards it like a shoe, but Gore will definitely need it if he wants to be the future commander-in-chief. Everyone is betting.

"Maybe until Gore comes to Chicago this month to see the clues." Underwood said.

"Oh, I'm stressed right now."

Little Daly has already won the election, and the deep-rooted Daly family will not be reduced to the point where he can't do without himself, but Peter, who has a shallow foundation, can't do it. After the hand of little Daly, Peter began to be impatient, and he urgently needed support.

And because he has been one of Gore's benefactors and invested heavily in Gore's Internet domain, Peter has made it clear that he hopes to accompany Gore to meet Gore when he comes to Chicago this month.

This move will undoubtedly be suspicious of Daly Jr.

But Peter, the kind of ruthless character who still remembers killing Cassidy's father Vic years later, had better not make him unhappy when he was really anxious.

Dilemma, can't Gore, who is still performing the duties of deputy commander, come to Chicago with great difficulty and find an excuse to hide out? That's why Song Ya said that there was a lot of pressure.

"I understand." Underwood naturally understood, "What are you going to do?" he asked.

"Should go, I asked Michelle to ask Mr. Daly for forgiveness in advance."

Song Ya replied. Michelle had been Daly Jr.'s assistant to the mayor's office, and she had always been there politically.

"Be confident aplus, I heard that this year's Fuji ratio, you can enter the world's top 100 richest people?" Underwood smiled and persuaded: "It doesn't matter, little Daly still has such a heart."

"Almost." Song Ya shrugged, "I hope so..."

He is observing others, and others are observing him. After a difficult election campaign with a single black mother, Daly Jr., who has a great influence on the black community, generally does not think much about him, even if he just Michelle learned that he would accompany his arch-enemy Peter to meet Gore.

"I heard that today this kid will be ranked the 81st richest man in the world with a net worth of 4.5 billion, and will be tied with the two brothers of the media giant Newhouse family."

The confidant whispered to the little Daly: "The little Bronfman who is at odds with him is 4.1 billion, just at the threshold of the top 100 richest people, and he has already overtaken him. There are still rumors in Hollywood that they bet that whoever will go bankrupt first... "

"Chicago's pride..." Little Daly smiled, "I don't care about him. We will talk about it with Gore in person."

"Aplus! People are here!"

Going back to this moment, former 3dfx CEO McLaren excitedly appeared at the door of the meeting room, "Let's go down." He still held the board of directors after retirement.

"OK."

Song Ya's spirit was shaken, and he immediately went downstairs with other directors, watching the convoys approaching from far and near lined up in a tacit line, except for Jim Keller, they all took the opportunity to tidy up their instruments. .

This is a historic moment for 3dfx, because as the convoy stopped at the gate, a bald middle-aged white man opened the door and got off. He was the CEO of Microsoft. In 1999, Fuji was the fourth richest man in the world, with a net worth of 190. Five billion Ballmer.

"Aplus! Haha..."

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Ballmer seemed to be full of energy at all times. He laughed and stretched out his hand, shaking Song Ya, "The shameless guy you talked about is here."

Some directors who knew about the spat between Netscape and Microsoft immediately burst out laughing.

"That's what Jim Clark taught me." Song Ya also smiled and let it go.

"Hahaha!"

Ballmer laughed with everyone, "Hello, hello..." After shaking hands with the directors, "This may be my first meeting in a record company." Ballmer looked up again The a+ record headquarters building laughed.

Everyone laughed again.

He has mastered the rhythm of the conversation, "Want to visit?" Song Ya asked.

"convenient?"

"certainly."

"Okay." Ballmer readily agreed.

Song Ya took them to visit his record company, personally responsible for the explanation, and stopped before each riaa platinum record was certified, "I released this single in 1990, and this is 1991..."

At this time in Washington, Underwood, who had returned to his shabby Congressman's office on Capitol Hill, and Doug, the chief of staff, were on the phone. On January 1st of the beginning of the year, he had moved out of the donkey party's House of Representatives whip office.

"Has the father's interview been on the air? OK, okay." Doug heaved a sigh of relief after answering the phone, and turned on the TV.

"I don't know what Senator Joseph Lieberman helped us solve. I testified in Congress, but Marilyn Manson's records are still coming out. I later heard that he and the record industry were on the same side. ..they partnered to deceive me..."

Remember the distraught father who testified before Congress to regulate the distribution of such records because his son committed suicide because he liked Marilyn Manson songs? it's him.

Underwood chuckled sinisterly with satisfaction after reading it, and he told Doug to find the man.

"Damn it!"

Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut was reminded by friends in the media that this interview would be broadcast, and he was also watching it. The other party named himself and the record industry, which was not clear to him who was politically conservative. A major blow, but no doubt a warning from some friends on Capitol Hill.

This is not easy to deal with, because he really does not have a clear understanding of the Jewish forces in the entertainment industry.

"Reject Bronfman Jr. I don't like that guy who feels good about himself." He ordered to his staff.

In Chicago, Song Ya led Ballmer out of the deep-sea recording studio, and the tour was almost over, and they returned to the large conference room for a formal meeting.

"I'm honored to have Mr. Ballmer join us today."

Standing at the head of the long conference table, he formally introduced Ballmer and said, "Today's agenda is as follows..."

"First of all, our cto, Mr. Jim Keller, will introduce next year's new product, the new architecture of the voodoo chip." He gave up his seat to Jim Keller, and everyone applauded.

"Thanks."

Jim Keller prepared a whiteboard, and he took an oil-based pen and began to write and draw on it, while explaining: "We will abandon the previous generation architecture on the voodoo5 project..."

"Is it necessary to make such a big gamble? The previous generation architecture is very mature, and we are still the leader in the market."

The second largest individual shareholder of 3dfx who attended the meeting in person interrupted Jim Keller to question.

"Unfortunately, our single card performance has been surpassed by nv's tnt2 ultra this year, so we are no longer the leader." Song Ya said displeasedly.

"Maybe you shouldn't force Ross and the others away..." The second largest individual shareholder had always been firmly supporting himself, but after the trio left, they also began to waver in the correctness of their previous actions.

"If they are still there, our voodoo will still be playing 16-bit color, and the gap with nv will only widen. The three of them are responsible for the performance from leading to lagging behind." Song Ya retorted.

"After they went to STB, they said that 16-bit color is enough, otherwise it will squeeze the polygonal performance of the display chip."

It seems that this guy has been paying attention to the remarks after the trio left, "This is a matter of resource allocation, at this stage..."

"At any stage, I don't accept that the performance data is surpassed by the opponent. Graphic card buyers are believers who look at the book data, so they don't care about the trade-offs at the current stage..."

Song Ya has done her homework during this time, "They will only buy graphics cards from leading companies, and we cannot lose the crown of performance king."

"but……"

"Okay, now is not the time to talk about this, Mr. Keller, you can continue." Song Ya raised his hand to stop the other party.

"Thank you, our computing unit..." Jim Keller continued to point out the rough architecture he drew: "In order to cooperate with voodoo5, we must also rewrite the glide API on a large scale, and this work must be completed by March next year .”

The glide API has long been jointly developed by Song Ya and Microsoft. Ballmer does not understand this technology, and probably rarely asks about such trivial matters, but the people he brought understand, and immediately interjected: "Time is too tight."

"We will find a way to increase some resources." Ballmer turned his head to stop his men.

Song Ya pursed her lips, Microsoft is also playing balance, they have never given up their d3d api, and it is impossible to watch 3dfx dominate, the more rivals like nv, the better.

In business talk business, it's okay, but... it's kind of irritating in the end.

"Thank you Jim Keller for the great commentary."

The boring technical route demonstration was like a heavenly book. Song Ya didn't understand much at all. He led everyone to applaud, put his hands on the table, and said with firm eyes and oppression: "I don't allow our products to be listed in the performance rankings." Up and down behind our competitors, single-card performance, not dual-card sli, which is expensive and sells poorly!"

"I don't allow our 3dfx to be just a rock star who is sought after by professional hardware media and enthusiasts, but whose sales figures and profits are lower than those of competitors!"

"I will not allow us to lose this war!"

In the big studio of a+ movie studio not far from the building, Blade Warrior director Zack Schneider and the cameraman are instructing the staff to put dozens of high-speed cameras in front of the green screen in a semi-circular shape. This is a big hit in the first half of the year. The technology used in the classic visual effects 'Bullet Time' of the movie The Matrix is ​​now being imitated by other crews in large numbers, and each shows their abilities to expand the usage scenarios.

"So next year we will compete fiercely with our opponents on every product line. Our voodoo5 will cooperate with graphics card manufacturers to release versions in various price ranges, just like our opponents! voodoo5 sli, voodoo5 max, voodoo5 super, voodoo5 plus , voodoo5, voodoo5 mini..."

When Song Ya said this, the director representative of id company, which makes shooting games, said with a smile: "In this case, we will become mock imitators."

The representative of nec, who is in charge of part of the voodoo3 chip foundry, said: "If we want to learn nv's product strategy, we need to cooperate with chip packaging and testing manufacturers on a large scale to select and subdivide chips of different constitutions... which means higher costs. "

Song Ya glanced at the two guys without being disturbed, "So, we need to increase the total capital expenditure of 200 million knives to defeat our competitors!"

Ballmer, who was originally interested in watching the show silently, took a close look at this hundred millionaire and black pharaoh by the way, and gave him a deep look in surprise when he heard this sentence.

Song Ya also happened to look over, and met his eyes. Ballmer saw the fierceness in the other's eyes, and a slight sense of familiarity rose in his heart.

At the mayor’s office, Daly Jr. had just sent away the special envoy for Gore’s visit to Chicago. “Damn it!” Peter is playing a balance between the two, he doesn't have to pay too much for the infighting Chicago political scene next year and still get our support!"

"That's the reality." The confidant replied calmly, "What we are doing internally... It is true that we need his support more."

"That's impossible!"

Little Daly said with dark eyes: "We must deal with that annoying Peter Flock as soon as possible!"

"Hehe, our governor may not know that Kozko has agreed to be a tainted witness." The confidant smiled and put a document on Daly's desk.

"Then let's do it!" Little Daly made a decision, "Don't even think about holding that seat until 2001 to be in charge of redistricting, I won't allow it!"

That's great political capital, and Peter is very popular with voters...

"Peter's energy in the law enforcement agencies..." Another older and prudent confidant was still a little hesitant, "He's crazy and his hands are very dark, should we think about it more carefully?"

"Don't think about it, time is the last thing to be wasted, we must do everything quickly!"

Little Daly couldn't stand Peter now, let alone delaying the time, he ordered to his cronies: "Go ask the deputy governor, let me find a chance to have a good chat with him! This is a life-and-death war!"

"Therefore, we need to expand our software department to rewrite the glide api, we need to find better packaging and testing manufacturers to reach cooperation, we need to expand our marketing department, and fight legal battles with nv, and at the same time all resources will be provided to Jim Kay Le and his project team are inclined to help them design the invincible voodoo5 chip!"

Song Ya continued to say in a deep voice: "In order to raise enough funds for the above tasks, 3dfx will issue some additional shares to strategic partners such as Microsoft. It will be decided at this meeting today!"

There was a commotion among the directors, who were shocked even though they had learned some news in advance. They whispered to each other and kept looking at Ballmer.

Ballmer also smiled back at everyone. He has come, and Microsoft's attitude is self-evident.

"As the chairman of 3dfx, you may know more about my deeds in other fields, but I want to say that the reason why I can achieve a little bit of success is because I have an extremely strong competitive spirit."

Song Ya inspected the faces of the participating directors, "I don't like to fail! I rarely lose! So now... please vote!"

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