Chapter 516: New Code for Getting Rich Quickly!

In November 1999, after the Hong Kong Island financial defense war came to an end, Li Xiaofan went to Silicon Valley to visit Tang Xinyi, and by the way, he inspected the projects he invested in and his Y-Lab entrepreneurial incubator project.

In the NVIDIA office, Huang Renxun, the leather swordsman, was in high spirits and proudly told Li Xiaofan some good news:

His NVIDIA company had just been named "the most influential 3D display chip company" by the famous American IT magazine PC Magazine, and the newly launched RIVA TNT graphics acceleration chip won the Editor's Choice Award of PC Magazine.

At the same time, NVIDIA was also selected as a member of the OpenGL Architecture Review Committee.

Last year, after NVIDIA released the first high-performance 128-bit, Direct3D display chip RIVA 128 chip, the shipment volume reached 1 million pieces by the end of the year. At present, the company has established extensive cooperation with the world's leading computer OEM manufacturers, including: Dell, Gateway, Micron, etc.

In March this year, NVIDIA and foundry TSMC established a strategic alliance partnership.

In May, NVIDIA and Microsoft jointly promoted their jointly developed graphics card DirectX 6.0 program at the Computer Game Developers Conference.

After receiving support from Microsoft, NVIDIA has become even more powerful and has the potential to dominate the graphics card industry.

Huang Renxun proudly told Li Xiaofan that if the current situation continues, 3DFX will be defeated by them, and NVIDIA is likely to win all the spring graphics card orders for Intel Pentium Ⅲ from major computer OEM manufacturers in the spring of next year...

"Very good, Jensen, congratulations on the great progress NVIDIA has made under your leadership!" Li Xiaofan said happily after listening to Huang Renxun's introduction.

"Mr. Li, I should thank you for your insight and continuous investment in us!"

"Jensen, you're welcome. There is one thing I may need to say hello to you in advance. As you know, Dr. Zhang and I are working together to build a state-of-the-art wafer foundry similar to TSMC, the 'Loongson International' project, in Hong Kong Island. Once the new 'Longxing International' wafer foundry is completed at the end of next year, we may need your order support..."

"Mr. Li, you are our shareholder and director, I must support you, as long as the quality of the new wafer foundry is not a problem."

"Jensen, you can rest assured. Dr. Zhang is a global wafer fab planning and construction expert from the former IT Texas Instruments, and he is very prestigious in the global semiconductor industry..."

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After leaving NVIDIA, Li Xiaofan, accompanied by Lin Muchu and Gu Qijun, inspected the Y-Lab startup incubator.

Because of the special achievements of Nvidia, which Li Xiaofan invested in, in 3D graphics cards and support for 3D games, Li Xiaofan asked Gu Qijun to set up a special area for game developers in the incubator. Li Xiaofan realized that electronic games are a huge business.

In the game area of ​​the Y-Lab startup incubator, Li Xiaofan met John Romero, who was developing games.

At the end of last year, John Romero left ID software game company because of his super fight with John Carmack.

Later, he was invited by Li Xiaofan and Gu Qijun to join the Y-Lab startup incubator. At the same time, Li Xiaofan bought John Romero's part of ID software's shares and invested in John Romero to develop new games together with Eidos Technologies of the UK.

John Romero named his new company "Ion Storm" and is currently developing a shooting game called "Daikatana".

John Romero introduced to Li Xiaofan that the story of his new game "Daikatana" revolves around a fictional magic "Daikatana", which will interpret the epic plot content.

Li Xiaofan feels that the story of the game designed by John Romero is huge and complex. The whole game is divided into four chapters. The weapons and monsters that appear in each chapter, the scenes and styles displayed are different.

In these four chapters, players can travel from the future Japan to ancient Greece, from medieval Norway to Honolulu around 2030. The span of time and space is amazing.

Each chapter includes up to six paragraphs, and each paragraph is divided into four to six parts...

Li Xiaofan found that Romero seemed to be obsessed with nitpicking in game design.

He pursued the most perfect design in his mind regardless of cost and benefit, and for this reason he did not hesitate to completely overturn and start over many times on the eve of the completion of development.

Originally planned to develop "Big Knife" for only half a year, it seems that it will take a long time to be launched on the market...

For this willful game predecessor, Li Xiaofan only respects and encourages.

When Li Xiaofan came to Lin Muchu and Gu Qijun's office and borrowed Gu Qijun's computer to surf the Internet and send and receive several emails, he suddenly found a game icon called "The Legend of Mir" on Gu Qijun's computer desktop.

"Legend!" Li Xiaofan couldn't help but blurt out after seeing this familiar icon.

"Mr. Li, are you also playing this new game?" Gu Qijun asked curiously.

"Qijun, is this game developed by a Korean company?" Li Xiaofan did not answer Gu Qijun's question.

"Mr. Li, yes, this online graphic role-playing game was recently launched by a Korean software company called Actoz Soft. It is called "The Legend of Mir" in English and "Legend: Overlord War" in Chinese..."

Oh yeah, that's right!

Li Xiaofan couldn't help but cheer in his heart. The current "The Legend of Mir: Overlord War" is the predecessor of the "Legend 2" game that Shanda later represented, and it can also be called "Legend 1".

Li Xiaofan gradually recalled that the predecessor was in 1998, when the Korean Actoz company, which had just been established for 2 years, launched the "The Legend of Mir: Overlord War" game, which can be called "Legend 1". This game received good feedback after it was launched.

Later, the Korean Actoz company continued its efforts and launched "Legend 2", which is "Legend of Mir2" based on "Legend 1". However, the performance of "Legend 2" in the Korean domestic market was not very good. At that time, the Korean online game market entered the era of "Paradise", and "Paradise" was the unshakable first online game at that time.

So "Legend 2", which had a certain degree of overlap with "Paradise" in terms of gameplay, was quickly abandoned by Actoz. Subsequently, Park Guanhao, the head of the R&D team of "Legend 2", left Actoz and founded the famous Wemade. Actoz handed "Legend 2" to Wemade for operation and management, and obtained 40% of Wemade's equity and the co-authorship rights of "Legend 2" in exchange...

At that time, Chen Tianqiao accidentally discovered the "Legend 2" project. At this time, his first business venture fell into trouble due to the arrival of the Internet bubble, so he decided to give it a try and bet on "Legend 2". He found Actoz and won the Chinese agency rights of "Legend 2" for only 300,000 US dollars...

From then on, this legendary game became a gold mine for Shanda and Chen Tianqiao. Four years later, 31-year-old Chen Tianqiao completed his comeback and ranked first in the "Hurun 2004 IT Rich List" with assets of 8.8 billion yuan, stepping on Ding Lei, the richest man who ranked first the previous year!

Someone once calculated that from starting with 500,000 yuan to a net worth of 10 billion in 2005, Chen Tianqiao earned nearly 10 million yuan a day on average in more than five years.

At this moment, Li Xiaofan has found a new code to get rich!