Chapter 942? No One Cares About Us
3DFX is a delicious poison. Once released, its powerful performance instantly detonated the global technology and game circles. It seems that everyone is proud of owning a Voodoo graphics card, but this thing needs to be matched with Intel's new Pentium processor with MMX instruction set, and other Only a high-end 2D graphics card can give full play to its performance, and the price of the main body is only 399 knives. If you save a whole set of PC, even hardcore gamers will feel sore and want to cry.
In contrast, the Sony PS game console is only 299, and it is often discounted!
Song Ya wanted to cry even more. The uninformed financial media used what "venture capital geniuses" "special insight" "incomprehensible lonely investors" "not as simple as a flying pig" "He funded the 3D revolution!" ’ ‘Who is being cheated now? ’ One after another, postscripts were sent out, apologizing and touting in all kinds of nasty language. People who didn’t know thought they had bought soft articles!
"But I was really cheated!"
Those self-proclaimed experts have never judged correctly. At present, 3DFX has burned through 20 million financing and 10 million loans. Voodoo chips have indeed begun to make money, but the profit scale is not enough to support the development of next-generation products. In the display card field where companies big and small compete, the lead will only be temporary.
"ATI will launch similar products soon, and the gap with us is not too big."
"Hey, the bank won't lend anymore. They say our fixed assets are close to insolvency, unless you help guarantee..."
"It doesn't matter, both Carmack and EA are willing to join the new round of financing, and our product convinced them."
"Jim Clark? No, he withdrew his previous intention, saying that making hardware is thankless..."
Ross, the boss of the trio, sat opposite the conference table, dodging Song Ya's furious throwing attack with a playful smile on his face. Pens, bow ties, pocket squares, cufflinks, he, who had just finished his wedding groomsman task, threw everything he could get at hand. past.
"Don't, don't..."
Seeing him pick up the glass, other people waved their hands and pulled their arms, "APLUS, don't be so angry, except for the lack of funds, our situation is much better now than before. It can be said that we are on the right track. We are already a mature chip design company with stable profitability." 3DFX President Ballard persuaded.
"Except! No! Lack! Capital! Money!?" Song Ya was so angry that she gritted her teeth.
"No way, the main reason is still dragged down by the price of EDO memory. I heard that Micron is trying to use ASML's stepper PAS5500 to eliminate Nikon and Canon equipment. If successful, memory manufacturing costs will be greatly reduced."
Ballard said,
"According to the user pain points we surveyed, we plan to release a new graphics card with integrated 3D and 2D chips, temporarily named Voodoo Rush, which can save users some purchase costs, and the situation will improve. Next year, our Voodoo2 will be more powerful."
"I heard? What if?"
Song Ya rolled her eyes, "I feel like you are all cooperating to deceive me! You and the three of them are in the same boat, Ballard."
"We're making history, APLUS," Ross said.
"Use my money to create history." Song Ya glared at him, "How much money do we need to burn before launching the next generation of products?"
"Another thirty million."
Song Ya finally threw the glass out of his hand.
"boss……"
Linda pushed the door open when she heard the movement, and looked at the group of people staring at the glass shards on the ground, silently, "Do you have time? MJ just released a new MV, which caused a lot of controversy."
"I don't care about him, don't bother me with this kind of thing."
How could Song Ya have the mood to care about this, "I definitely can't afford 30 million, and I won't. Also, the second largest investor in 3DFX just called to inform me that they have united with some small shareholders and are going to hold an emergency shareholder meeting." The meeting also appointed an accounting company to audit the accounts. Now that Voodoo graphics cards are so popular, tell them that not only will they not be able to recover their investment, but even the capital chain will be broken, no one will believe it? They all think that I am about to make a fortune!"
"Then take the money from Carmack and EA. They are experts, which shows that we are more optimistic. Then accept some Wall Street funds and start the listing process."
Ballard should have made up his mind a long time ago, "It is in our interests to be more closely bound with game companies, and we have proven our strength, and we will be favored by the capital market in the future. If we get these two sums of money, we will survive this It's been a tough time, but our future is bright, and you're sure to make a fortune APLUS."
"How much did Carmack and EA bid? What about Wall Street?" Song Ya asked.
Ballard glanced at the trio and reported several financing conditions that were close to robbery.
"No, how much do you need to burn in the next quarter?"
Are you the one who will be robbed? Song Ya Song Ya looked at Dr. Mei who was in charge of supervising 3DFX. After getting a nod of confirmation, he picked up the landline microphone in front of him and dialed a number.
"If memory prices don't drop, combined with the current sales situation...well, at least 10 million more will be needed," Ballard said.
"O'Grady, it's me, APLUS, I need your Northern Trust to raise a sum of money for my company. Well, about 10 million, the business situation of the company...is not very good, otherwise I won't ask you for help. Come on! I'm your big client, the biggest one, right? Don't say no easily when I need your help..."
According to Sloan's donor theory, politicians don't feel distressed when they use taxpayers' money. Isn't it the same for these senior bank managers? Song Ya is a person who is very good at inferring other cases from one instance, "Northern Trust should help solve the loan of about 5 million yuan, you can support it for a while before we talk about it."
The trio cheered.
The gangsters pretending to be hip-hop are getting more and more difficult to use, and Song Ya is almost at a loss for them, so they can't really beat them up, can they? The trio may have gradually figured out this point, "One and a half, if the situation doesn't get better in a month, you know my temper. Then you can continue to talk to potential investors such as Carmack, but tell them, I don't Accept being robbed."
Of course, it is necessary to continue to intimidate.
"That's it." Song Ya walked out of the conference room, "Linda, what did you just say?"
"MJ's new MV."
"Well, let's go take a look." Pushing open the door of her office, Mira, who was half lying on the president's chair of A+ Records, stared, "The meeting is over?" She yawned.
"Haha, why did you come here? Do you need to continue to rest? If not, that's fine. Let's watch MJ's new MV together."
Song Ya went to pick up Mira and put it on her lap, and asked Linda to turn on the TV.
Skin head, dead head
skinheads, skeletons
Everybody gone bad
not a single good thing
,
Opportunity and opportunism
Everybody
Everyone is making baseless accusations
In the suit, on the news
in litigation, in the news
Everybody dog food
full of shameless lies
Bang bang, shot dead
Ping pong pong, shot dead
Everybody gone mad
people go crazy
All I wanna say is that
all i have to say is
They dont really care about us
No one really cares about us!
The MV comes from the controversial single they dont care about us in MJ's new album last year, which is the one with words that discriminate against Jews. Rodney King was beaten by police officers in 1992, which led to the Los Angeles incident, and the words and sentences protested by Jews have not been changed.
"The king of pop can still create topicality."
Song Ya looked at MJ, who was full of dissatisfaction with the 1993 case on the screen, and grinned: "But is this really good? The scars will be exposed after four years? Does he want to be in the crucial election year when the Donkey Party is in power?" Inciting the donkey party’s basic black group to make trouble? It’s not possible, right? In 1992, the elephant party ruled the world, and now the times have changed...”
"It's really irrational. The MV was scolded by the mainstream media as soon as it was released, and some Jewish groups petitioned to ban the MV from being broadcast." Linda said.
"Um."
MJ's influence is indeed great. Song Ya read an article on Quanmusic's website. His family summarized the ranking data of various music and entertainment media in the first half of this year. MJ is still the most popular singer in Quanmi without a doubt. Wang Garth Brooks ranked second, Madonna third, but there is a flop trend, and will be surpassed by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston in some rankings.
And I occasionally appear in the five to ten range of the list with the fast-rising country queen Shania Twain, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Elton John, and Boyz II man.
Expanding the scope to the world, MJ is still No. 1, Madonna is No. 2, rock stars have surpassed Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, and their own rankings have fallen sharply with many country singers.
No way, hip-hop and country music are still out of the circle, and I am in a better position than country singers, because the slobbery song Ai Se Eu Te Pego is more popular with Latin-speaking audiences.
"The topic spreads very fast, and it is likely to cause this song to hit the top of your Earned It's B chart." Linda asked: "Do we need to do something? Uh, I mean you ran around to announce it this week. , make some news?"
"Don't care about him, you go out, go out."
For the B list, Song Ya is less and less concerned about it. Maybe it is due to the status, or maybe after the change of the statistical algorithm of the B list, his own Chicago conference joint list mode gradually fails, and the cost performance of the list is getting less and less cost-effective. is that, They dont really care about us..." He hummed MJ's song and gnawed madly at the big white girl.
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