Nvidia?

Zhang Chen's eyes froze, and he smiled casually: "I've heard of you, you make 3D graphics cards?"

The Asian man nodded: "Yes, my name is Jensen Wong, I started my business with two other colleagues a few years ago, we have two graphics cards, we have a relatively good technical accumulation, recently our third-generation graphics card is about to be released, I can guarantee that its performance is not inferior to Voodoo." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Not inferior to Voodoo? That is, not better than Voodoo?"

"Voodoo just outperforms us on their own GLIDE API, but when it comes to generic OpenGL and Direct3d, our 3rd Gen graphics cards are confident to be better than them in every way. ”

Zhang Chen naturally knows that Nvidia will not be worse than Voodoo's manufacturer 3dfx, and even in the next few years, Nvidia will completely acquire the dying 3dfx.

Zhang Chen raised his glass and gestured to him: "Are you Chinese? Do you have a Chinese name?"

Jensen Huang was stunned and said in stumbling Chinese: "Yes, my name is Huang Renxun, and I don't speak Chinese well." ”

Zhang Chen nodded, sure enough, calculate the time, NVIDIA's epoch-making product Riva128 should be launched soon.

"It doesn't matter if you don't speak Chinese, can you tell us where your confidence in your products comes from" Zhang Chen looked at Huang Renxun quietly.

Huang Renxun's eyes lit up, he had been doing sales work for two years, and what he was most afraid of was that customers didn't ask, since Zhang Chen asked, he had the opportunity to sell his graphics card.

Huang Renxun spoke quickly: "The NV3 display chip we have just developed is currently the only 128-bit display chip, which can achieve a fill rate of 100M/s, which is the highest among all PC display chips on the market now." ”

"At the same time, we were involved in the development of standards for DirectX and the design of the OpenGL standards, which gives us much broader support for games and graphics software than Voodoo. ”

"Most importantly, our graphics card supports AGP interface, which is a new graphics interface that Intel just formulated last year, and the data transmission bandwidth can reach 266M/s. And our NV3 chip is a chip that really supports the APG bus, not just a change of interface. ”

Huang Renxun's eloquence is very good, different from ordinary technical nerds, but it is very capable of fooling, in his boasting, NV3 is already unparalleled in the world, but Zhang Chen knows that Riva128 based on NV3 chip is still inferior to Voodoo in terms of imaging effect.

But Zhang Chen himself is not ready to carry Voodoo's graphics card on iCom, on the one hand, the cost is too high, on the other hand, after contacting 3dfx, Zhang Chen found that the rapid decline of this company is not unreasonable.

After Bob Mansfield got Jonathan's design requirements, the first thing that came to mind in the graphics chip part was 3DFX.

However, 3dfx behaved extremely arrogantly, refusing to customize a Voodoo graphics card for iCom with 2D functionality, refusing to make changes to the form of Voodoo's public graphics card, and rejecting Bob's request to buy a chip separately to obtain authorization to redesign the graphics card.

Since iCom is an all-in-one machine, all accessories must be integrated in the display, so it is impossible to use the public version of the graphics card, and the shape must be changed.

After testing many chips, Bob believes that Trident's 9750 chipset has the highest integration and stability, and the performance is not bad, and it can be authorized for OEM, Bob has decided to use Trident's chips in the first generation of iCom.

Seeing Huang Renxun in front of him, Zhang Chen suddenly thought that Factory N would be able to achieve the hegemony of the graphics card industry in the future, which seemed to be riva128 from the NV3 chip. Since this product can leave a great reputation for future generations, at least it proves that the performance is far superior to its peers, and there are no quality problems.

Zhang Chen thought for a while: "If your chip is as good as you say, I would like to take a look, and if you have time tomorrow, I will bring our professionals to evaluate your chip together." ”

Huang Renxun was overjoyed, he didn't know what Matrix was doing, but he just guessed that this newly established company should be involved in the PC manufacturing industry, and if he could break NV3 into the OEM market, even if it was just selling 20,000 graphics cards, it would be able to relieve most of his financial pressure, at least keep nVIDIA alive.

nVIDIA's current financial situation is very tight, and the failure of NV2 not only caused Huang Renxun to lose a lot, but also lost the seven million dollars that Sega gave him to research a new generation of game console display chips, which can be said to be in debt, if NV3 can not succeed again, then he is really desperate.

Huang Renxun took out a graphics card like a trick, "Don't wait for tomorrow, you can do it now!"

Zhang Chen looked at Huang Renxun speechlessly, this guy is too anxious.

Huang Renxun knows that he is a little reckless, but who knows what will happen tomorrow after one night? Avoid long nights and dreams, chase after customers, and use all means to let customers deepen their understanding when they still want to understand, this is Huang Renxun's understanding of sales.

Zhang Chen called Bob Mansfield over, Bob frowned when he saw Huang Renxun, pulled Zhang Chen aside and whispered, "Zack, this guy I know, I dealt with him when I was looking at Rayser before. This guy is full of running trains, and he can't believe what he says at all, and his previous two products have failed, so I guess I can't hold on anymore. ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Bob, since he has something with him, we might as well take a look, maybe there is a surprise?"

Bob Mansfield was helpless: "Okay, but I don't have any hope, let's go back to the company now?"

Zhang Chen shook his head, called the manager on duty of roseood, and asked him to prepare a desktop computer to move to the field, and just do the test in the field.

As long as you have money, Roseood can meet all your needs, and within ten minutes, four waiters have moved over a set of desktops and a modem, and brought in a phone line. Zhang Chen glanced at the computer, it was actually the latest model of Compaq, which had just been launched for less than a month.

Huang Renxun opened the chassis a little nervously, and looked at it, the motherboard already has an AGP slot, it doesn't matter if there is no, he brought two graphics cards, and PCI also brought one.

Plug in the graphics card, start the computer, install the driver, reboot, a series of actions in one go, indos95 behaves normally during this period, there is no problem.

Bob Mansfield took over the review, downloading a small program from his mailbox that weighed just over 120k.

"Peak 1.2 million polygons?" Bob was a little surprised when the value came out, "This is very close to Voodoo's value, no, in terms of stable performance, it has surpassed Voodoo." ”

Zhang Chen nodded slightly, sure enough, this graphics card should be riva128.

At this time, many Matrix employees were already around, and they were all amazed when they saw the performance of the NV3 chip.

Bob didn't give up, and did a floating-point test, a single-clock test, and a data transmission bandwidth test on NV3, and in the end, Bob could only admit: "Okay, this is a good product, but there are still a lot of bugs, and we need to improve it, and I don't know if we can catch up with our product release." ”

Huang Renxun tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart: "Bob, you have also seen it, now that this chip is close to success, we will complete the repair work before the official release of the bug problem you mentioned." Zack, what do you think?"

Zhang Chen looked at Bob, who shrugged: "If their officially released products can reach the same level in terms of performance, and complete our testing and special shape design within a month, I have no problem." ”

Zhang Chen thought for a moment: "Jensen, if you own all the intellectual property rights, I agree to work with you to integrate your graphics card into the new product we are going to launch." ”

Huang Renxun was overjoyed, and just wanted to say something, he heard Zhang Chen continue: "However, I want to talk to you about another business now, 5 million US dollars, 40% of the shares, if you agree, you can sign a contract tomorrow, and the first batch of 1.5 million US dollars of investment will arrive in three days, you think about it." ”

Huang Renxun's lips moved twice, his NV3 chip has been successfully researched, as long as it is successfully introduced to the market, in this era of speaking with performance, there is no need to worry about sales, and there is no need for financing at this time.

And Zhang Chen's lion opened his mouth, although five million dollars is a lot, if before the NV3 is successfully developed, let alone 30%, he is willing to let him and the two partners sell all the shares of the company. But now that he saw that there was a turnaround, he made Zhang Chen want to take 30% of the shares all of a sudden, which made him feel unfair.

Riva128 is my first 3D graphics card, I bought it with New Year's money in February 98, it cost me 900 yuan, and I really wanted to sleep with it at that time.

(End of chapter)