Chapter 64 ATI's Request
Yang Hailong heard Jester say this, and also felt that this was a way, Jester's grandfather was a patriotic Chinese registered in the central government, Jester himself was also valued by ministerial-level leaders, and he was also a young entrepreneur who had already made a career in the United States, and he really didn't have anything to worry about Yang Hailong.
But he couldn't do anything about it, so he moved his gaze to Qin Shuyao.
When Qin Shuyao heard Jester say this, her thin face turned red again, and then her face first showed a hint of hesitation, and then she looked up at Jester's face with a faint smile, and whispered, "Then thank you." ”
Jester drove his own high-horsepower Ford F150 pickup truck carrying Qin Shuyao, first went back to his grandfather's manor to say goodbye to his sister-in-law, and by the way, asked if his sister-in-law would like to come to his own company to be the financial director, after all, how does it not look like the courage that a company aspiring to be a large enterprise should have.
His sister-in-law only said that she should think about it again, the business she took over now was very important, and it would be very useful for her to enhance her reputation in the circle after doing it successfully, and Jester could only agree.
When his sister-in-law knew that he was going to send Qin Shuyao back to Los Angeles, and saw the beautiful and polite Qin Shuyao, she immediately liked it very much, when she saw Jester's old-fashioned high-horsepower F150 pickup truck, she immediately semi-compulsively asked Jester to drive her own treasured Ferrari 365GT4/BB to send other girls back, Jester was still a little reluctant, you must know that he always has a fear of supercars that he doesn't know what the reason is, and always thinks that this kind of car is a moving coffin.
It's not as atmospheric as his thick dà muscle pickup.
However, after seeing this rare silver-white Ferrari classic supercar, I was immediately attracted by its special design aesthetic of geometric sections, especially the six thick exhaust pipes arranged on the left and right behind this car, which immediately made Jester's heart eager.
He likes muscle cars because of their high horsepower, and he likes the roar of the engine the most.
And just when he saw these six exhaust pipes, it was as if he heard the roar of the motor, and his blood boiled.
Ferrari 365GT4/BB is a landmark work in the history of world sports cars, Qin Shuyao, a little girl who was born in China and grew up in China, couldn't help but show a curious look on her face when she saw this sports car with some strange shapes in her eyes.
But she couldn't help but ask.
"Get in the car." Jester beckoned her.
Qin Shuyao nodded, got into the car, Jester started the car, probably considering the relationship between a girl in his car, Jester could not increase the horsepower to the maximum, but the acceleration of this sports car is still very terrifying, sixty miles to accelerate in less than six seconds, this speed is definitely the top in the civilian sports cars of this era.
Jester is usually used to driving high-horsepower muscle cars, and now he drives this kind of lightweight, high-horsepower supercar, and there is no difficulty in handling, from the suburbs of San Francisco directly to Los Angeles, seeing that the road is extremely empty, he can't help but gradually increase the throttle.
However, to Jester's surprise, he didn't expect Qin Shuyao, who usually looks weak and weak, and blushes after being watched for a long time, to have no aversion to the speeding sports car.
There was even a faint hint of excitement.
Of course, Jester saw the scenery on both sides of the road retreating rapidly, and he was speeding as if he were riding on a lightning bolt, and his face showed a look of enjoyment.
"It's no wonder that the future generations of cars, guns, and balls can be tied for the three major cancers in the game industry! It's enough to just have this kind of unspeakable pleasure. Jester, who was enjoying the thrill of driving this classic Ferrari car, thought.
However, both Jester and Qin Shuyao were bored, and for five or six hours all the way, one was concentrating on driving, peeking at the girl sitting next to her from time to time, and Ling Yi only knew how to look at the scenery on the side of the road through the car window, and the two only said a few dispensable words, and just went all the way back to Los Angeles.
Now that USC is on vacation, but the school's dormitory can also be lived, Jester sent Qin Shuyao to the vicinity of USC and stopped the car.
It was already night, but it wasn't too late, and there were still a lot of pedestrians.
After the two said goodbye to each other, Qin Shuyao was also about to leave.
Jester wanted to say something, but every time he opened his mouth, he forgot what he was about to say.
This time, seeing Qin Shuyao's pretty figure pushing the door out of the car, and about to leave with cheerful steps, Jester finally mustered up the courage, also pushed the car door, got out of the car, and stopped Qin Shuyao, who was about to leave.
Qin Shuyao turned to look at Jester in some surprise, looking at him suspiciously.
The moment Jester saw Qin Shuyao's delicate face, he seemed to have lost the courage he had so hard mustered before, and just opened his mouth, revealing a smile that seemed a little awkward to others, and said hesitantly.
"We can do it...... Friends? ”
Qin Shuyao listened to Jester's words, his face flushed slightly, but the next moment he returned to normal.
"Aren't we friends now?" Qin Shuyao asked with a smile on his face and a little strange.
"Maybe, maybe, yes." The smile on Jester's face was normal, he wanted to talk about another kind of friend, but he didn't say it after all.
"That's it!" Qin Shuyao also smiled happily when she heard Jester's answer, and she waved her hand, "Then I'll go." ”
"Let's start with friends." Jester thought as he waved his hand.
It wasn't until Qin Shuyao's figure disappeared into the USC campus in the night that Jester returned to the car, he smashed the steering wheel a little ventingly, and suddenly hated himself extremely much, why was he so careless in this regard?
It's not like you at all! Where is the courage to talk and laugh with legends such as Minoru Arakawa, Lee Kun-hee, and Hayakuo Nakayama!
Cursing to himself, he sat in the car for a few more minutes before Jester started the car and drove back at full speed.
When Jester comes back from out of town, he always goes to the company first, rather than going home, because the company must have accumulated a lot of work that he needs to deal with when he leaves.
When he arrives at Mars Entertainment, Jester sees that the lights in Mark Seni's room are still on.
"It's really desperate." Jester also admires Mark Seney very much, since the establishment of his R&D team, he has been working overtime almost every day, and fortunately, he is also a bachelor like himself, otherwise, his girlfriend may have to come to make a big fuss at the Mars Entertainment headquarters.
Jester entered the office, and instead of going to his office, he went straight to Mark Seni's room.
The first thing I saw when I opened the door was a strange sight.
A computer motherboard was disassembled, and a separate cable was taken out from the outside to connect to something that looked like a boxy, videotape-like, while Mark Saini leaned back in his chair, frowning, and his eyes staring blankly at the glowing fluorescent computer screen.
"What are you doing?" Jester approached with some curiosity, and he realized that this time Mark Seni was not working on his "Avengers", but seemed to be writing some kind of program.
"You're back?" Mark Seni also saw Jester come in, and he stretched a little lazily, and a tired look appeared on his face.
"What's wrong with you? Why are your eyes so red? Jester glanced at Mark Saini and saw that his eyes were as bloodshot as he had been for days and nights, and that his table was full of boxes of five or six companies that often called for pizza from the company, and that empty Coca-Cola cans were still full of trash cans on one side of the table.
"I haven't slept in two days."
Mark Saini yawned, then stretched out his finger and pointed to the thing Jester had just seen in the door that made him feel a little strange, and said, "You control the company that specializes in the development of display chips, what is it called ATI, they sent a sample of the graphics processing chip they designed for our home machine the day before yesterday, and our hardware department found that the effect was very good, it seems to be using some unique architecture, and then their R&D minister told me that they designed a special one for use in IBM/ The graphics card on the PC-compatible machine, the one that is used on our eight-bit PPU, is this new architecture that they just developed, and by the way, this is the graphics card sample they sent. ”
As he spoke, Mark Sayny pointed to Jester, which felt a little thick, square, like a videotape, and continued: "The graphics card has excellent image processing capabilities, and they want the company to focus on this product, but it's ......"
As soon as Mark Seney said this, Jester understood, and before Mark Saini could finish speaking, he interrupted him with a smile and said, "However, after they went to sell around, they found that few computer companies were interested in their graphics card?" ”
"Yes." Mark Seni glanced at Jester in surprise, then asked with a puzzled look on his face, "How do you know?" Have they contacted you? ”
"Huh."
Jester smiled and said bluntly, "Not really, I just heard you say it, but you only need to think about it." Mark, you know, the market only has a market for a product when it needs it. When the market doesn't need this product, no matter how advanced it is, it won't have a market. ”
As he spoke, Jester walked up to the graphics card that ATI had just developed, pointed to it and said, "Although I don't know how good it is, I think its ability to process images must be the best for the rest of the personal computers on the market, but then again, it seems that today's personal computers don't need a sixteen-bit graphics card at all, because no program needs a sixteen-bit graphics card to run, isn't it?" ”
After listening to Jester's words, Mark Saini clapped his palms and said with some admiration: "I didn't expect you to be exactly the same as what the CEO of ATI said. I didn't expect it to be like that at all, but the CEO You were looking for also understood after the sales failed, how did you ......?"
"Let's not talk about that yet."
Jester waved his hand, he knew about it naturally because he knew the marketing model of those graphics card manufacturers in later generations.
Later generations of software vendors have been in cahoots with hardware, hardware vendors have launched more and more high-performance hardware, and software vendors have launched games that require stronger hardware to run, the two collude together, which is why the two major graphics card vendors in the future can be so valuable, otherwise, in this world, except for those specialized graphics workers, who can use such a powerful graphics card? Do writers who only use WORD codewords need it?
Not requires.
"You better answer my question at the beginning, what is this doing?" Jester asked Mark Seney rhetorically.
When Jester said this, Mark Seni immediately became a little excited.
"The CEO of ATI, Mr. He, came to us for help, hoping that we could make a computer game that was as influential as we had before, but required ultra-high graphics processing power to run, so that those computer users could force those hardware vendors to order their newly developed 16-bit graphics cards from them in order to play the game. Then I wondered if I could move the reel effect that I had already done on the arcade machine to my PC. You know, since Eugene Jarvis finished the reeling effect on an arcade machine in '81, no one has ever been able to do it on a personal computer! ”
As he spoke, Mark Saini's originally excited tone gradually became low, "But I've tried various methods in the past two days, the base board of the arcade machine is different from the base board architecture of the computer, and some technologies that can be done on the arcade machine are difficult to implement on the personal computer, even if you do it reluctantly, it will be very unsmooth." ”
As he spoke, Mark Seni beckoned Jester to his computer screen and ran him a program.
is a program that simulates the effect of reels.
However, Jester couldn't help but have a feeling that he couldn't bear to look at this scroll effect on his personal computer.
Anyway, this reel effect is a little stronger than the slide.
Can you imagine a slide-like scrolling effect?
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