The newly established 3Dfx company is currently working on the first generation of 3D graphics accelerator cards.

Coupled with the accompanying Glide graphics program interface, if nothing else, the first generation of 3D graphics accelerator cards will be released in November next year, and will be named Voodoo Voodoo.

Originally, this would be an epoch-making product, and for the first time on a microcomputer, it would achieve strong support for 3D graphics processing.

However, Huaxin Technology, which was born out of nowhere, completely sent 3Dfx to the grave.

The next day, it was published in the media that a company in Huaxia released a graphics acceleration card, which perfectly integrates 2D/3D processing on a chip, and has strong performance, which can complete 2 million floating point calculations per second and fill hundreds of thousands of triangles.

"How is this possible, God, the design speed of our 3D accelerator card is not an order of magnitude as this one. ”

Brian's first instinct was to think about whether it was April Fool's Day and someone had played a prank.

But then he collapsed on his desk.

If this news is true, then 3Dfx no longer exists. ”

Assistant Diaz knocked on the door, and after coming in, he said helplessly to Brian: "Professor Brian, we have received a notice from Wall Street that the other party believes that there is no need to develop Voodoo graphics cards, and they have decided that starting next month, they will stop funding 3Dfx." ”

Brian shrugged his shoulders and smiled wryly: "This is the practice of capitalists, Diaz, it seems that we need to think of other ways." ”

Diaz handed over the letter of resignation in his hand and said expressionlessly: "Professor Brian, you know, I have two children, they are studying in a private school in Huazhou, and the tuition of this school has always been ......."

Brian took the resignation and nodded helplessly, while Diaz walked to the door, turned around again, and said to Brian: "Professor Brian, there is a piece of news that may be useful to you, Wall Street has found someone to take over the shares of 3Dfx, and I heard that they are negotiating with ATI and Intel......"

Brian slammed the table and said angrily, "Are these Wall Street vampires crazy for an unconfirmed piece of news? What price can Intel and ATI give? Do you want to sweep 3Dfx into the trash?"

For many science and technology enterprises in the United States and other countries, the capital predators of Wall Street are both love and hate for them.

These financial capitalists can provide them with a large amount of financial support, and they can also coordinate various aspects of the relationship for the enterprise.

But after all, they are capital, and the pursuit of profit by capital is its essence, and the premise of their help is to ask for a large amount of shares, and when they perceive that the market wind is not in the right direction, they will not hesitate to abandon the enterprise.

This is the kind of embarrassment that 3Dfx is in right now, and in fact Brian can't change anything about it.

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For Microsoft, their source of information is not only newspapers, but also a report sent by Mr. Powell, the president of China, overnight.

Powell marked the document as expedited, and the report was quickly delivered to Bill's office early the next morning.

Bill likes to eat breakfast in the office and enjoy the beauty of his surroundings in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with his coffee, like a proud lion patrolling his territory.

However, upon seeing the report, Bill uncharacteristically stopped to enjoy his meal, walked to his desk, and paced back and forth.

"Mr. Chairman, is it unappetizing for breakfast today? Chef Page has also prepared a tender bacon sandwich, which will be delivered later. ”

Bill shook his head, stopped, and said to his assistant Brala, "It's not about breakfast, Miss Brala, I need to hold a board meeting, the quickest time possible!"

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Intel's response lagged a lot, as they scoffed at the information in the media and didn't send anyone to find out about the situation.

But it wasn't until Goldman Sachs made an offer to sell a stake in 3Dfx that Intel woke up from a dream.

For Intel, 3Dfx is a small start-up company, but as soon as 3Dfx was founded, it showed an aggressive momentum.

Although there are no products yet, many patents have been registered, and 3Dfx is ambitious, and the appetite is great at the beginning, trying to grasp the graphics program interface and graphics chips in their hands.

If Goldman Sachs had made such an offer before, even at a 50% premium, Vice President Paul Rico would have managed to convince the board.

But now, he couldn't make up his mind now.

Paul Rico knows all too well what is going on on on Wall Street.

Goldman Sachs is also the majority shareholder of SGI, a U.S.-based company that has been working in the field of minicomputer image processing for many years.

Paul Rico thought about it for a while, if he was in charge of Goldman Sachs, he would definitely choose to marry Silicon and 3Dfx instead of selling 3Dfx to Intel.

The reason why Goldman Sachs is doing this now is obvious, this is a poison, and Intel naturally will not be so stupid.

Paul Rico did not turn down Goldman Sachs' offer in the first place.

"Let's drag it out first, if Goldman Sachs asks, it will say that Intel thinks Goldman Sachs' offer is too high and needs to be considered. ”

Assistant Feliro explained: "Mr. Paul, but Goldman Sachs has not made an offer for the time being. ”

Paul Rico waved his hand and said, "That's better, let's just say that Intel is considering an offer for 3Dfx, but I think they'll make a further offer soon." ”

As soon as Feliro was about to ask what to do next, he saw Paul Rico and continued: "Feliro, I need you to contact the personnel of Intel's North Bay Office immediately.

Since Huaxin Technology has officially released the product, the tape-out of the chip should begin to be tested on the board manufacturer.

Intel needs them to provide the tape-out of the entire product line of graphics chips and memory chips, and immediately ship them back to the United States by air. ”

Feliro walked out of the office, in fact, Intel and Wanwan's board company have always had a good relationship.

As the top existence in the semiconductor industry and the food chain, Intel has an unparalleled influence on the board industry of Wanwan.

Paul Rico thought, should this influence be realized and postpone the distribution time of Huaxin Technology's graphics cards?

Paul Rico suddenly felt a little dry and picked up the coffee on the table and took a sip.

Compared with chips, Paul Rico is more worried about DDR memory chips.

The reason is simple, Intel has never entered the field of independent graphics accelerator cards, and for them, there is no real pain in losing it.

But DDR video memory is different, the chipsets of previous generations, the formulation of memory standards, are led by Intel.

EDO memory is already weakened, there is no need to continue research and development, and Intel does not have a clear idea of the next generation of memory standards.

However, judging from the published data, the high performance and low price of DDR memory undoubtedly have strong market competitiveness.

It's a tough opponent.