Chapter 264 Graphics Card, River Boat
Austin, Texas.
Carlisle Group Headquarters.
Old Bu was sitting at his desk, holding his personal cell phone that Yu Sanyuan hung up on, looking up at the splicing screen monitor in the distance.
In the screen, David Ensig, the wholly-owned shareholder and chairman of 3Dfx, chairman of the Tijuana Group, chairman of the North American Ocean Shipping Group, chairman of the North American New Steel Group, and Wyoming farmer, is doing a talk show in, boastful talk.
"Of all the hardware included in a computer, the graphics card is the least technical thing. It may not be as difficult to manufacture as the main chassis."
"We must not be misled by the term 'display chip' similar to 'CPU chip', thinking that it is very high-end."
"If we describe it in simple words, the CPU is to train a senior university professor. He knows everything and can do everything. He can calculate, send emails, run games, etc. Therefore, the CPU needs more advanced process technology to make the professor's The brain is more complex, and it does not require too many threads to process data at the same time, 2, 6, or 8 are all fine.”
"The GPU trains a group of primary school students to convert data into grid images, and then stitch these images into a picture with a resolution of 640x760, or 960x1080, so the GPU needs faster and more data transmission channels. , perhaps grouped into groups of 32 threads, forming hundreds or perhaps thousands of total threads to complete drawing and rendering faster without requiring a too complicated brain.”
"In general, if you want a graphics card to be powerful, stacking data transmission efficiency is enough."
"This is related to the speed of the video memory, the speed of the carrier board, the speed of reading and writing the running memory or reading the stored data."
"As for the graphics card being so simple, why did the powerful 3Dfx suddenly fail?"
"We need to know that in the field of graphics display, whoever controls the API, that is, the application programming interface, controls the formulation of standards for graphics hardware."
"Before 1997, 90% of 3D games only supported the GlideAPI developed by 3Dfx. After all, 3Dfx created the era of 3D games."
"For Microsoft, how could it be possible for an outsider to dominate the 3D graphics API under win?"
"In order to make more money, and to further monopolize the computer market, Microsoft must kill 3Dfx's GlideAPI, and must squeeze out 3Dfx's graphics programming interface, OpenGL, which is used to render 2D and 3D vector graphics."
"Soon, Microsoft entered the game console market, launched Xbox, and supported the low-end graphics card manufacturer Nvidia to fight with 3Dfx..."
"Currently, 90% of computers use the win system. Microsoft is not compatible with the 3Dfx graphics card plug-in, or cannot read the 3Dfx graphics card. If the built-in Direct3DAPI is introduced, we will naturally be unable to survive."
"It can be said that this is an unfair commercial competition with a monopolistic nature."
"Thank you to the California court, thank you to Pioneer, and thank you to the people who support 3Dfx. We use the law as a weapon to defeat evil, and 3Dfx regains win system compatibility."
"And here, I officially announce that the Voodoo Avengers series of independent graphics cards and external 3D dedicated daughter cards will be available in August this year."
"The lowest version uses 0.12um process technology, has 8 pipelines, 128M video memory, 256Bit video memory width, supports 160 hardware instructions, and can operate 16 material quantities at the same time..."
"The new design, the new high-precision floating point data specifications, can use multiple texture maps, and can also make the game screen present a cinematic experience."
"This will be an epoch-making change in the field of graphics cards!"
When Lao Bu saw this, he picked up David Ensig's information.
The other party was originally a down-and-out middle-class salesman. After losing his job, he suddenly received God's favor.
I found money while walking.
Use the money you found to play the arcade and get ten grand slams in a row.
Went to Las Vegas with Grand Slam prize money and won $200 million in one night...
Later, he bought the Tijuana Shipyard and unexpectedly gained more than 500 senior mechanical engineers.
After simple repairs, the shipyard restarted, and within a month, multiple luxury cruise ships were built and sold to Mexico...
Then he cooperated with the Smith family and skyrocketed.
Now he is not only the largest capitalist in California, but also the second donor to the democratic faction.
It is said that in the North American mid-term election, the other party will join forces with Colin's wife, Shirari, to besiege Xiaobu.
Is this normal?
If he hadn't known that the other party had a close relationship with Old Smith, or if he hadn't known that Old Smith had a falling out with Europe.
Old Bu almost suspected that the other party was another spokesperson of the Rothschild consortium in North America after the Walton family.
But now...
Obviously, the opponent is an important chess piece placed by Smith in the West.
Used to use California resources to contain the Lao Bu family entrenched in Texas.
For 3Dfx to be resurrected, it must be that Old Smith put pressure on Silicon Valley companies and Pioneer through Wall Street capital, and signed secret agreements with Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, etc. to allow 3Dfx to be relisted.
As for the content of the agreement...
Refer to the 3 million + 5 million second-hand graphics cards that Old Smith and General Electric dumped to the East.
It is not difficult to see that 3Dfx’s future business will mainly be oriented to the East.
This has almost no business conflict with companies such as Microsoft and Nvidia. This is probably an important reason why Silicon Valley companies bow to Old Smith.
But Yu Sanyuan of Oriental is working on a "keyboard that can be connected to the Internet to watch videos and play games."
If the above factors are connected in series, and Old Smith is added to form the North American Ocean Shipping Group from scratch...
The situation has become very clear.
Sanyuan Agriculture has joined forces with the Smith family.
Old Smith helped Yu Sanyuan complete the industrial deployment on the technology side.
Yu Sanyuan, in turn, helped Old Smith complete the next phase of his strategy in the East.
For example, after the high-speed railway is opened, Old Smith can take Yu Sanyuan's high-speed train to transport the products flowing into the East from North America to various parts of the East, and then carry out an all-round attack on the business territory of the Old Bu family.
It even disrupted the supply lines of the Lao Bu family through ocean transportation.
Just like the two missing 300,000-ton cruise ships.
Maybe Old Smith lost it on purpose and gave it to pirates to rob the Zhao family's ocean-going ships.
So Lao Bu took into account the increasingly worthless graphics card matrix and the increasingly severe situation, so he called Yu Yang again.
What Old Smith can give, he can also give.
……
Wudu Sanyuan Pharmaceutical Corporation.
In the vast and dark staff restaurant, only the southeast corner was lit.
Yu Yang is sitting at the long table, and on the left is an old chef who is sometimes tasting wine and sometimes picking up serving chopsticks to handle hot pot ingredients.
On the right is nearly 50-year-old Jiang Wenqing, the newly promoted general manager of the southwest region and former head of Wudu Sanyuan Pharmaceutical Corporation.
Yu Yang hung up the phone again, and just as he was about to speak, the girl at the front desk of the company trotted in.
Since he didn’t know Yu Yang, he looked at Jiang Wenqing first...
"This is Director Yu. If you have anything to say, just say it."
"Hello, Director Yu! The deputy head of Wudu City Police is here to visit."
Yu Yang picked up the tripe prepared by the old chef and said, "We have already eaten half of it. It would be inappropriate to let people sit down at the table."
Jiang Wenqing stood up and said: "The boss, he is very motivated, but he has been suppressed by the head of law before, and has not been promoted in thirteen years."
"Good guy, it seems that he is very motivated... I invite you."
After a while.
The deputy head of the Fog City Police, dressed in casual clothes, walked in alone following the little girl at the front desk.
Yu Yang was not an arrogant person. He stood up and greeted him: "Boss, we finally meet."
"Dr. Yu, I'm very sorry. I made you a little unhappy when you first arrived here."
"It doesn't count. It's Lao Jiang's work. He didn't do it well and has already been criticized."
Yu Yang motioned to sit down, "Let me introduce you again. This is Jiang Wenqing, the general manager of Sanyuan Agriculture Southwest Region."
"Mr. Jiang!"
"No matter what, we are all contributing to the development of southwest China."
The deputy head of the city police was stunned for a moment, "Yes, yes, let's work together."
As he said that, he took out his mobile phone and said, "Dr. Yu, just now, I discovered this."
"Huh?" Yu Yang picked it up and looked through it. There was a call record with a deceased local snake, "What is this?"
"This is my phone."
"What to do? Give it to me as your handle? Or the certificate of surrender you gave me?"
"..."
"Take it back, I don't need this thing... By the way, Lao Jiang, you contact the Xintai Data Center and ask them to find the communications provider and delete the relevant records."
"Okay, Mr. Yu."
Yu Yang motioned to the deputy head of the city police, "Sit down and try the top hot pot dishes in Fog City."
The latter's hands trembled slightly, suppressing his excitement, and sat on the side of the table, "Thank you, Dong Yu."
"I can't help you with anything at work, but if you have any difficulties in life, just ask."
"Here, there are many people who support evil forces. Some use them to look after homes and homes, some use them to make money from everywhere, and some use them as a basis for promotion... The head of law is just one of them."< br>
"It seems like this place is even more chaotic than Shiliying."
"Director Yu, I hope to send my family to Shili Camp...otherwise I will be retaliated against soon."
"You are the police."
"Dr. Yu..."
"It's not that I won't help you, I mean, can you toughen up?"
"..."
"Use your family as bait, who will catch whom, then uproot them and send them together to repair the Yellow River. Do you understand?"
"Dr. Yu, it's easy to hide from open guns, but hard to guard against hidden arrows."
"Don't worry, I will give you a group of good hands."
"How much?"
Yu Yang was slightly startled, "50 people?"
"5000."
"???"
The deputy head of the city police gritted his teeth and said, "The minimum is 3,000."
"..."
Yu Yang originally had a good impression of Wudu, but looking at the serious expression on the other side, he couldn't help but take a breath, "Real or false?"
"Really."
"No wonder Deputy Director Liu of Dongshan, the regional leader who was carefully selected for me, was so timid when he came here..."
Yu Yang said, and just as he was about to chat with Lao Ren from the ADM special research team, the little girl at the front desk ran in again.
"Director Yu, the city manager is here to visit."
"Just say I'm taking a rest."
After Yu Yang finished speaking, he put down his chopsticks and said, "It's better to withdraw the investment. This is not a project in the four southern provinces. I just felt that the location was good, so I just set up the head office."
Jiang Wenqing said quickly: "Master, if we divest our investment, the high-speed rail lines will also have to be adjusted."
“This is simple, just talk to the railway system and make a budget.”
Before he finished speaking, the little girl at the front desk walked into the restaurant again.
"Director Yu, the city manager said that we must meet him."
"People are worried that I will suddenly withdraw my investment after learning the specific situation."
The deputy head of the city police shook his head and said: "It should be that he learned that I was coming."
"The information is very well-informed, which reminds me of our cities and towns, where temporary workers are stationed at various intersections to attract investment and provide superior vehicles."
"Actually, it's all the same. After all, when the superior leader comes, you must know it in advance, otherwise how will you arrange it."
Yu Yang looked thoughtfully at Jiang Wenqing.
The latter was so frightened that his legs weakened, "Director Yu, I didn't know you were coming at all. It was the deputy head of the city police who gave me the news, saying that the entire foggy city's top management already knew about it. It wasn't until then that I knew your whereabouts." Exposed.”
"No, what I mean is, since everyone knows I'm coming, why not build a river boat, invite everyone aboard to have hot pot, then we lock the cabin and sink the boat in the river."
Jiang Wenqing: "???"
Old chef: "???"
Deputy person in charge of the city police: "..."
The girl at the front desk: "..."
"Just kidding, I'll go greet you personally."
Yu Yang wiped his mouth, stood up and motioned to the girl at the front desk to lead the way.
Wait until you reach the lobby on the first floor.
A middle-aged man in his fifties and four of his peers were standing on the right side of the door, talking in low voices.
Yu Yang passed the front desk and learned who the real owner was, and stepped forward to hold the other person's hand. "I'm sorry, leader, I didn't expect it to be so late. You can still take care of everything and come down to inspect."
"Mr. Yu, I'm extremely sorry for bothering you at such a late hour."
"Boss, let's go to the reception room."
Along with the conversation, eight little girls at the front desk, some led the way, some ran to decorate the venue, and some prepared tea and snacks...
A little bit.
In the lobby with red carpet.
Yu Yang and the city manager were sitting on the sofa. Behind them was the recorder, and below them were their respective entourages.
"Mr. Yu, Wudu attaches great importance to various projects of Sanyuan Agriculture. If you have any difficulties during the investment process, you can feel free to ask me."
"There's no problem, it's just that I'm running out of money recently and I plan to withdraw my capital."
"???"
"Furthermore, the high-speed rail line is too circuitous. I plan to take the southern Guizhou District into Nanyun, and then go north to Bashu."
"Mr. Yu..."
Before he finished speaking, Yu Yang took out his mobile phone from his pocket, looked at the screen, and roared:
"Old Man Bu, how many calls have you made? Do you still want me to sleep?"
"Yu, let's take a rest after talking about things."
"I told you, I'm not interested in your graphics cards at all."
"Yu, I know your plan. You plan to package the high-speed railway industry in a more luxurious way, so you need a lot of graphics cards. I can help you."
"No, second-hand graphics cards are lagging behind after all. I plan to wait for the Voodoo Avengers to be launched."
"The cost of new graphics cards is too high. It costs less than 2,000 yuan a piece. But you purchased 3 million of my second-hand graphics cards for less than $100 each. Moreover, 3Dfx went bankrupt twice and the research and development progress has been unable to keep up. Go to ATI and Nvidia, I can help you get more advanced ones.”
"True or false?"
"Really, I sincerely seek your cooperation."
"Let me think about it."
"Then I'll see you tomorrow morning."
Yu Yang hung up the phone and looked at the city manager, "Sorry, this old man Bu is too clingy."
"Old Man Bu?"
"Oh, Old Boo, Little Boo's father, the father of the North American manager."
"..."
(End of chapter)