Chapter 901 Voodoo

Of course, if the target object changes from NVIDIA to ATI, the method will naturally not be the same.

In particular, He Guoyuan firmly believes in the wet towel theory and will never agree to the company being acquired.

Of course, that doesn't mean it won't happen.

After all, ATI was later acquired by AMD in 2006 for US$5.4 billion.

However, at the time of the acquisition, ATI had already been pushed out of the spotlight by NVIDIA, which came from behind, and was in deep trouble.

At that time, He Guoyuan also had to sell. But now, there is no other way.

As for Qin Feng waiting until then to make the acquisition, it would be too long. That's still several years away. In the past few years, my CPU may have been far behind Intel.

Qin Feng can accept that the CPU performance can only be compared with Intel's low-end, but he cannot say that it will be completely driven out of the market. With the current development, it is very possible.

Therefore, Qin Feng can only play comprehensive cards and use overall performance to improve competitiveness.

But what makes Qin Feng very helpless is that Nvidia chose to cooperate closely with Microsoft for political correctness reasons. While He Guoyuan, although he was happy with the cooperation intention of the company from China, he clearly rejected any cooperation with Qin Feng. suggestions.

ATI can provide display chips for Qin Feng, but it does not accept any other cooperation.

ATI is currently very powerful and is the leader in display chips. The display chip market share exceeds 70%. In a few countries, it has reached 90% market share. With such a strong market position, ATI does not need to cooperate with anyone.

"Mr. Qin, if you want to buy our display chips, we are very welcome. And I am willing to supply you with the goods at a price 5% lower than the market supply price." He Guoyuan said, "But for your other intentions, I will only I can say sorry!"

"I understand. Thank you Mr. He. I will consider your suggestion carefully and contact you again!" Qin Feng had no choice but to hang up the phone.

"What's wrong?" Yihannuo came over with a fruit plate.

Qin Feng shrugged.

"It seems that this world is not smooth sailing, and not everything goes as planned." Qin Feng sighed.

Originally, Qin Feng thought that as long as he had the memory of future generations, everything would be simple.

But in fact, memory is memory, and the things that happen in memory all happen naturally at that point. If you force yourself to intervene, some may succeed, but some may not succeed.

For example, this time, Qin Feng failed one after another.

But Qin Feng was not discouraged.

On the market, there are currently other display chip manufacturers, not only the powerful ATI, the promising NVIDIA, but also the Voodoo of 3DFX, which is now in full swing.

Voodoo graphics card can be said to be the most powerful 3D graphics card today. In the 3D field, it surpasses ATI. Currently, the dream configuration of many computer gamers is Pentium 2 equipped with Voodoo 2 graphics card.

However, this graphics card has a flaw, that is, its 2D display performance is relatively mediocre, and the price is a bit expensive.

Therefore, it is not a standard configuration, but a configuration for a few enthusiasts.

Therefore, Voodoo graphics cards are indeed very good and have a high market share, but they are only limited to a few high-end markets.

After all, the demand for 3D graphics cards is not large at this stage, and there are not many 3D computer games on the market. In particular, no matter how good the Voodoo graphics card is, the game graphics displayed in its games cannot be compared with that of the PS.

The real 3D masterpiece games are still on the home console platform. Although there are many games on the computer platform, currently, it is still not enough to support 3D games.

Therefore, Voodoo graphics cards are popular but not very profitable.

In addition, the Voodoo graphics card made a fatal mistake, that is, it did not support Microsoft's DirectX, which caused it to be abandoned by the market in the next two to three years. It was eventually acquired by Nvidia for a very cheap price of $75 million.

Compared with its status and market appeal, it is really cheap.

It's a pity that the market never believes in tears.

As for the reason why Nvidia can grow into a giant in the display chip market and catch up from behind, it is because of its cooperation with Microsoft. In the early days, Nvidia maintained close cooperation with Microsoft and was the first to support DirectX. This allowed Microsoft to completely dominate the home computer operating system and laid a solid foundation.

What is given back to NVIDIA is all Microsoft XBOX orders. The entire XBOX display chip comes from NVIDIA. This also caused Nvidia's market share to soar instantly, eventually surpassing ATI.

Qin Feng tapped his fingers.

After all this calculation, my most powerful opponent is actually Microsoft.

Qin Feng is not hostile to Microsoft at present. There is no way. It's not that I don't want to compete, but that I don't have any possibility of competition at all.

This is like an ant telling an elephant that it wants to challenge it to kill the elephant.

This is just a joke, no one will take it seriously.

But in reality, Qin Feng is really facing the terrifying Microsoft.

In particular, Microsoft's tentacles have already entered the domestic market.

Microsoft's win98 will be launched soon. Net Yiding Sanshi has cooperated with Microsoft.

Qin Feng's thoughts turned around and he finally shook his head, not thinking about it.

Some things are too far away to think about so much.

For Qin Feng, what really needs to be considered is how to acquire display chips.

Voodoo is the most suitable at the moment. However, this company is currently too bloated.

Voodoo 2 is the best graphics card at the moment and is the dream of all gamers.

Although, the company doesn't make much money. Because the development cost is too high, the manufacturing cost of a single card is too high, and the sales volume is not high. You can call the entire company an empty shell.

However, people are high-spirited.

It's like asking a general who has just won a great victory if he is worried about failure in the next war. Isn’t this looking for a fight?

Although this day is not far away.

In 2000, Voodoo was acquired by Nvidia.

It is now the middle of 1998, so two years have passed.

A company that is now extremely prosperous will be acquired by Nvidia, which currently looks inconspicuous. If you tell others, no one will believe it. Of course, this also illustrates how fierce the competition in the IT market is.

In the graphics card market, competition is even more intense.

But, how can I get an entry point?

Qin Feng searched for relevant information on the Internet and accidentally discovered a coincidence. A very coincidental point.

3DFX was founded by Sellers, Gary-Tarolli and Ross-Smith, designers from Silicon Valley Graphics, Digital Equipment Corporation, MIPS Computer Systems and Pellucid.

And these three people happened to be students in the computer department of Reed College. That is, in theory, Qin Feng's alumni.

There is a layer of relationship.