Chapter 848 Graphics Card Production

I picked a few more pleasing ones one after another, and added about 1 million funds to the a+ venture capital. Even giants like Comcast will devote themselves to building cable broadband infrastructure next year. I have nothing to worry about. Related Hardware manufacturers must have a better life.

Even if the risk of a start-up company is high and the success rate is low, as long as the 11 million venture capital can be incubated, not to mention Netscape, a listed company such as dts will not lose money.

"Director Jiang promised to help with the team's signings. He said that he just got a loan from the local government and will continue to concentrate on making VCD players. Next year, he will upgrade the production line and expand the manufacturing scale to cope with competition."

"Palm is doing well after being acquired by American Robot Company. Jeffrey Hawkins and other founding teams have a very stable research and development environment. He has regained his interest in making handheld computers and plans to launch the next generation of PDA products next year."

"Jim Clark brought me into a venture capital project, which was included in the eleven million, and planned to make professional management software for the medical industry. He said this was promised to you, and he also asked me to remind you, next Months, that is, in January next year, Netscape will make a big move."

Dr. Chen continued to report that the shares of the three companies managed by a+ venture capital are not high. Wanyan has 15%, Palm 5%, and Netscape a little over 3%. They can only passively accept the actual controller of the company business decisions.

Now the only one who can call the shots is 3dfx. After additional investment, A+ Venture Capital has become the largest shareholder of this 3D acceleration chip company, owning about 38% of the shares. So at the end of 1995, Highland The park held a dinner party, and he personally entertained the 3dfx founding trio accompanied by Dr. May, as well as the newly recruited company president Ballard.

"Where are your bodyguards?" Ross Smith, the leader of the trio, was very impressed with Tony and the silencer.

"Bodyguard? Oh, that's my cousin. They went to the Caribbean for vacation." Song Ya replied.

"Hehe, don't worry about aplus, we have now started accepting orders from graphics card manufacturers, the situation has changed, they really need our voodoo chip, voodoo1."

The trio was shivering in the cold wind in Chicago. Ross Smith let out a sigh of relief, turned up the collar of his coat, retracted his neck, and kept moving his body to keep warm while protesting: "I said, we can go into the house." Are you chatting here? Your pier is beautiful, but it's just... just a little cold."

I did it on purpose, Song Ya didn't like the three liars anyway, touched the warm mink coat on his body, "Don't you want to enjoy the beauty of the five great lakes?"

"Uh, okay." Ross Smith rushed to the pier and nunuzui, "The scenery is really nice, there should be a yacht here,

I heard that Mr. Jim Clark intends to spend tens of millions of dollars to build his dream sailboat, and it will take three years to build it. "

"There was one before, and I sent someone to drive it to the Bahamas."

The boat was sent by Mariah Carey, and it has already gone to the Bahamas through the developed inland river system of the United States. After the divorce, it still belongs to her. Thinking of the two quarreling about the yacht several times before, everything seems like yesterday, Song Yaxin I couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"We plan to set graphics card manufacturers into different cooperation levels, cooperation models, chip prices, and supply volumes, so that we can better control them."

3dfx President Ballard, who was also shivering with the cold like the trio, said.

"Well, let's go in and talk about it in detail." Song Ya stopped the "punishment" since he had no enmity with him.

"Yeah!" The trio happily ran towards the villa, picking up the snow on the ground and smashing it into snowballs.

"These guys..."

Although they are liars and have big mouths, these three people are indeed big boys with full-value tech nerds. Their innocence made Song Ya shake his head and smile wryly. If I didn't know in my heart that these three guys are not so bad and don't love money so much, I wouldn't increase my capital for the second time. That time, the trio also transferred many of the founder's shares in their hands for the sake of the company, and at the same time paid There is also corporate control.

To some extent, they are a bit like Jeffrey Hawkins of palm. The burden of realizing technology is the first, and they don't like cumbersome management affairs, and put money in the second place.

"In February next year, our chip foundry tsmc will start the official version of voodoo1 commercial chip tape-out. In March, we will conduct joint testing with cooperative graphics card manufacturers. We will distribute the goods in May and officially release them at the end of May. The promotional activities and media advertisements will also be synchronized. At present, there will be three of our highest-level partners, orchid, stb and Diamond, they will participate in the test earlier and deeper, produce commercially available products earlier, and get more with cheaper wholesale prices chip."

Entering the warm room, Ballard began to formally report to work, "The second level has innovation, Elsa..."

"Wait." Song Ya interrupted him, "Raise innovation to the first level."

"Uh, aplus, this is linked to the size of the manufacturer's purchases. If they want to increase the level of cooperation, they should order more chips from us instead of..." Ballard said hesitantly.

"You're an expert on inventory management, Ballard, and I understand your job."

Ballard is a senior manager recruited through a headhunting company, and he is doing a good job so far. Song Ya said mildly: "But you know, I have a good relationship with the two bosses of Innovation. Their boss Hu deliberately Please call me, I’m still the spokesperson for their Sound Blaster, have you seen the commercial I shot for them?”

"Of course, we are all their Sound Blaster users."

Ross Smith continued, "It's very useful, and you smiled brightly on the outer packaging of his house aplus."

"Please allow me to discuss with them..." Ballard did not immediately agree, but took the trio and Dr. May aside for a small meeting, and then made several phone calls, "Okay, yes, But we have to sign a supplementary agreement with Chuangxin, and they must keep this matter a secret, otherwise, other partners will rebel, and Chuangxin will also face fines from us.”

"We are an upstream company, and the last thing we want to see is a graphics card manufacturer challenging our authority."

Rose Smith proudly said: "We will sell out whoever is dishonest."

"Aren't you afraid that they will switch to other chip manufacturers?" Dr. Chen asked.

"At present, there is no competitor that can compete with voodoo chips." Ballard said: "At least for the whole year of 1996, we will be in a very good seller's market."

"I just said trust us, aplus, your investment will not be in vain." Rose Smith laughed.

"Um……"

Song Ya was satisfied, and continued to study the documents in his hand. Among the lower-level manufacturers, the name of Wanwan Company appeared most frequently, accounting for more than half. Now it is a major manufacturing center of the global electronics and semiconductor industry, and even keeps ahead of Silla, which was specially supported by the United States to suppress the basic semiconductor industry.

Well done, he was also very satisfied, "Isn't there any mainland China company?" But it seems that no mainland company has been found.

"Our unified pricing of 3D accelerator cards will be very expensive, and Huaguo Mainland's consumption and manufacturing capabilities will not work." Ross Smith said.

"Oh." Song Yanu pursed his lips and put down the document.

"Only one has submitted an application." Ballard saw the boss's intentions, "It seems to be called QDI, yes, the QDI manufacturing department under Rannov mainly focuses on OEM."

"Since you applied..." Song Ya hinted frantically.

"Okay, I'll put them in our maker list."

Ballard nodded, "It's not difficult to manufacture a graphics card. I'll ask someone to provide them with some technical assistance, but keep it secret."