The Lin family brothers and sisters visited Hollywood in Los Angeles, and Yang Yun was very relieved that Brother Cheng Long arranged for someone to take them.

Yang Yun contacted Cao Carrey, a second-generation Chinese immigrant who had a first-class relationship in the first class of the plane, and was said to be in the venture capital business, and sent a luxury Lincoln to take Yang Yun to a European-style oversized villa in a wealthy area.

Yang Yun, who was shocked by the low-key and luxurious decoration of the villa, took the initiative to shake hands with Cao Kairui and came to the living room. ”

"Please!" Cao Kairui was very polite and smiled and gestured.

"Do you have a company in the United States that does computer graphics processing GPU chips?" Yang Yun asked: "I want to invest, participate in shares, and if the price is right, I can buy it." ”

The smile on Cao Kairui's face froze, and his expression was very strange: "You want to enter the computer hardware industry?" ”

Yang Yun was a little apprehensive in his heart: "What? I can't get into this business? ”

Cao Kairui nodded: "In Silicon Valley, high-tech is basically in the hands of American companies, the big conglomerates in North America monopolize the upper class, the Chinese are not very popular, and I almost never see Chinese companies appear on the list of shareholders of famous companies in Silicon Valley." ”

Yang Yun didn't believe it very much: "I don't agree with this, I went to Taiwan once last year, and I heard that several new chip high-tech companies have been established in Taiwan, all of which were brought back from Silicon Valley in the United States." ”

One of the companies he was talking about was VIA Electronics, but Yang Yun didn't quite know what it was doing just by listening to the name of this company. But Lin Fannan only said one name, and Yang Yun suddenly realized.

Wang Xuehong. The daughter of Wang Yongqing, the richest man in Taiwan, and the boss of HTC in later generations. At the same time, he is also the owner of this VIA Electronics.

Yang Yun was silent at the time, suppressed his excitement, and entrusted Lin Fannan to find a way to contact the other party to buy shares or something.

But Lin Fannan refused on the spot, she is the daughter of the richest man in Taiwan, and she still needs you to buy shares? It is a company established by a husband and wife, how can outsiders be allowed to participate?

Yang Yun was depressed about this for a long time, and finally had to give up the acquisition and stake in HTC.

Cao Kairui heard Yang Yun talk about this VIA Electronics, and suddenly realized: "I have heard of this person. Chen Wenqi is a very powerful person, he is an employee of Intel, Jishu is very good, and he should have several patents in his hand. But it is precisely because of the serious anti-Chinese ideology in the United States that they have no way to stay in Silicon Valley to start a business, but return to Taiwan. ”

So that's it!

Yang Yun has a headache, how to deal with this anti-Chinese thought? Is it going to be acquired in the name of KTT? Or is it......

Yang Yun asked tentatively: "I wonder if Boss Cao has a way to help contact and acquire some famous graphics processing companies?" For example, Intel's chip division, or ATI. Nvidia, Gigabyte, Asus, Sapphire or something. Oops, that's all I can think of......"

This is still Yang Yun's assembly of his own and his classmates' computers when he was in college before he was reborn. Some of the contents that were written down when shopping on Taobao in the computer city.

He only knows that Intel does integrated chips, and ATI and Nvidia do independent chips. Gigabyte ASUS is a second-tier brand that makes both motherboards and chips, and Yang Yun now knows nothing about the US PC market. You can only cast nets to catch fish.

Cao Kairui was taken aback: "Are there so many companies, why haven't I heard of so many of them?" Intel, don't think about it, as I just said, it's impossible for them to sell this kind of company with pure American blood. I've only vaguely heard of ATI in the last few, but is this small company really worth investing in? ”

Yang Yun was vigilant, kept an eye on it, and said perfunctorily: "It is Intel that is worth investing in, and other companies are backup options, so I will consider it if it is really not good." ”

Cao Kairui nodded: "I'll help you inquire about these things." ”

After finishing business, Cao Kairui kept Yang Yun for dinner, but Yang Yun happened to answer a phone call and made an excuse to leave.

For the acquisition of graphics card manufacturers, Yang Yun will not hang himself from this tree.

Besides, Cao Kairui was just a general acquaintance, asking him for news, and by the way, he came to find out if it was really as he said on the plane, there was nothing he couldn't do in the United States.

The manufacturers he said just now were the ones he could remember, and he made a phone call to Yang Zhan and asked him to inquire about the relevant information.

Soon, Yang Yun got an answer.

Yang Zhan said: "I'm afraid there is only one company to choose from, and that is ATI. ”

Is ATI yes?

Yang Yun was a little excited, this company is an international giant that will not be able to do it in later generations, the super hegemon of the discrete graphics card industry, and Nvidia almost dominates the global discrete graphics card market.

According to the news inquired by Yang Zhan, Nvidia has not appeared at all, and at the same time, in ATI's product list, the most suitable graphics chip for Sega is only an 8-bit graphics chip!

Yang Yun couldn't help but roar: "Is there a mistake!" We all use 8-bit graphics chips on MD, and it's been almost 3 years, is ATI still 8-bit? ”

Yang Zhan couldn't explain clearly on the phone, and said: "Their public information is an 8-bit dual-chip graphics card, that is, 8+8, Mr. Yang, if you are really interested in it, you can go to Canada to meet them in person, and talk about jishu and acquisitions." Their founder, He Guoyuan, is also of Chinese descent! ”

Yang Yun couldn't laugh or cry, it seemed that he had to go to Canada in person.

This is not haode point, many well-known large enterprises on Shijie are very unevenly distributed on the earth, and if you want to talk about acquisitions, you have to run from place to place, and you are tired to death.

Originally, he wanted to hand over the acquisition of ATI to Yang Zhan, but Yang Yun was not very relieved, such an important company was better controlled by himself, in case the other party shouted a high price and exceeded Yang Zhan's heart, and the talks between the two sides collapsed, it would be worth the loss.

1 million, 10 million, it is not a problem, as long as ATI can solve the defects of Sega Saturn's 2D and 3D image processing, He Guoyuan can buy it even if it is offered 100 million US dollars.

Didn't ATI make more than 100 million in later generations? Fools don't buy it.

Of course, the premise is that ATI is willing to sell.

But unfortunately, at the ATI headquarters in Ontario, Canada, Yang Yun was rejected.

Mr. Ho did not want to sell ATI, and his other two Hong Kong immigration partners also tactfully refused.

He Guoyuan said: "Mr. Yang, there are more than 170 manufacturers around the world who have participated in the production of VESA video standards, if you only want to enter the graphics card production industry, the threshold of transnational production jishu, in fact, you can acquire any participating company." ”

And Liu Likai, director of the jishu department, spoke more politely: "Now there are many manufacturers on the market who make similar goods with us, you can consider others, the three of us are just reluctant to create this company by ourselves, we have been established for 7 years." ”

How could Yang Yun go and acquire other companies? The key is that he now knows about ATI's R&D, and ATI is developing a 32-bit chip that jumps directly from 8+8 to 32-bit.

From the few words revealed by He Guoyuan, Yang Yun knew a few specific data, 24-bit true color output, 2M video memory, 32-bit ATI68800 main chip, 16-bit ATI68875 auxiliary chip, with graphics acceleration function, compared with only 8-bit chip with display jishu, that is a qualitative improvement!

Isn't that exactly what Sega Labs wants?

It's a pity that ATI is too tough, neither willing to sell, nor willing to offend Longteng Company, Yang Yun tried to offer $100 million, and the other party did not let go, and there was no intention to talk.

He Guoyuan proposed another solution: "If Longteng has procurement needs for graphics processing chips, everyone is a son and daughter of China, and we can supply it at the best price." ”

Yang Yun couldn't laugh or cry, although he did rare these 32-bit graphics processing chips, but he was more interested in ATI.

These chips can't be used directly after they are bought, and they still need to be made by ATI to make small changes to design a version of a certain model for Longteng alone, and Sega R&D personnel have to explore the efficiency of instruction set, software compression and release, so it is estimated that it will take another year or two to toss.

Isn't this the same as NEC?

NEC provided 32-bit CPU and then ignored it, and went to build its own game console with Hudson and other companies, plus NEC ran into a bunch of bad things, and there were no R&D personnel to guide Sega, zuihou or the Chinese Academy of Sciences sent the most haode experts to Sega laboratory to assist, so he made a 32-bit Sega Model1 substrate.

So Yang Yun plans to directly acquire ATI, what's the point of just purchasing chips?

He came to Canada to negotiate in person, not to sign a purchase contract, the contract can be done by sending a sales manager, he wants more than that!

But no matter how beautiful the words are, they can't impress these three people, ATI's business is booming, they have become Microsoft's gold supplier, providing graphics chips optimized for the Windows operating system, they are about to set up a subsidiary in Europe, they have submitted for listing jihua, and it is very likely that it will be listed next year.

People's business is doing well, the future is bright, weishenme wants to sell?

Yang Yun was disappointed, and after thinking about it for two days, he was about to retreat, and when he signed a supply agreement with ATI, he received a call from Cao Kairui.

The hearty voice on the phone was still the same: "Mr. Yang, what you asked me about a few days ago already has an eyebrow." ”

Yang Yun was overjoyed: "How is it?" It wouldn't be Intel willing to sell the graphics chip division, right? ”

Cao Kairui smiled: "How can Intel be sold!" It's another company, ATI is willing to accept our investment! ”

What the!

Yang Yun has nothing to say, what is going on? (To be continued......)