Successively picked a few more pleasing ones, about one million additional funds for A+ venture capital, even Comcast kind of giants will bury their heads in wired broadband infrastructure next year, what else do they have to worry about, the relevant hardware manufacturers must have a better life.

Even if the startup is risky and has a low success rate, as long as the 11 million venture capital can be incubated, not to mention Netscape, listed companies such as DTS will not lose money.

"Director Jiang promised to help in the team's recruitment, he said that he just got a loan from the local government, continue to concentrate on making VCD machines, next year will upgrade the production line, expand the manufacturing scale to cope with the competition."

"Palm is doing well after being acquired by Mi Guo Robotics, and the founding team such as Jeffrey Hawkins has a very stable R&D environment, and his mind to make a handheld computer is up again, and he plans to launch the next generation of PDA products next year."

"Jim Clark took me to a venture capital project that included 11 million miles to make professional management software for the healthcare industry. He said that this was promised to you, and he also asked me to remind you that there will be a big move in Netscape next month, in January of next year. ”

Dr. Chen went on to report that the shares of the three companies managed by A+ Ventures are not high, with 15 percent Wanyan, 5 percent Palm, and a little more than 3 percent Netscape, and can only passively accept the business decisions of the actual controllers of the company.

Now the only one who can call the shots is 3DFX, after additional investment, A+ Ventures has become the largest shareholder of the 3D acceleration chip company, with about 38% of the shares, so at the end of '95, a dinner was held in Highland Park, where he personally entertained the 3DFX founding trio, accompanied by Dr. May, and the newly recruited company's president, Ballard.

"Where's your bodyguards?" Ross Smith, the leader of the trio, was impressed with Tony and the silencer.

"Bodyguards? Oh, that's my cousin, they went on vacation to the Caribbean. Song Ya replied.

"Hehe, don't worry, APLUS, we have now started to accept orders from graphics card manufacturers, the situation has changed, they need our Voodoo chip, Voodoo 1."

The trio shivered in the Chicago wind, and Ross Smith let out a hot breath, erected the collar of his coat, tucked his neck in, and kept moving his body to warm up while protesting: "I said, can we go into the house and talk?" Your marina is beautiful, but it's just ...... It's just a little cold. ”

I deliberately, Song Ya didn't like this liar, and touched the warm mink coat on his body, "Don't you enjoy the beauty of the Great Lakes?" ”

"Uh, okay." Ross Smith said to Nunu, "The scenery is really good, there should be a yacht here, I heard that Mr. Jim Clark plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build his dream sailboat, and it will take three years to build it alone." ”

"There used to be one, and I had people drive it to the Bahamas."

The boat was given by Mariah Carey, and she had already gone to the Bahamas through the developed inland river system of the United States, and it was still owned by her after the divorce, thinking that the two had quarreled several times over this yacht before, everything was like yesterday, Song Ya couldn't help but sigh a little in her heart.

"We plan to divide graphics card manufacturers into different levels of cooperation, cooperation models, chip prices, and supply volumes, so that we can better control them."

Ballard, the president of 3DFX, who was also shivering with the cold, said.

"Well, let's go in and talk about it in detail." He had no enmity with him, so Song Ya stopped 'punishing'.

"Yay!" The trio happily ran to the villa, and halfway through scooped up the snow on the ground and smashed it into snowballs.

"These guys ......"

Although they are liars and have big mouths, these three people are indeed big boys with full value of technology nerds, and their childlike innocence makes Song Ya shake his head and smile bitterly. If it weren't for the fact that these three guys were not so bad and didn't love money so much, they wouldn't have increased their capital for the second time, and that time the trio also transferred many of the founder's shares in their hands for the sake of the company, and at the same time paid for the control of the company.

They're somewhat similar to Palm's Jeffrey Hawkins, implementing the technical baggage first, not liking tedious administrative matters and putting money second.

"In February next year, our chip foundry TSMC will start the official version of Voodoo1 commercial chip tape-out, and in March we will carry out joint testing with cooperative graphics card manufacturers, and we will distribute the goods in May, and officially launch them at the end of May. At present, we have three highest-level partners, Orchid, STB and Dimeng, who will be involved in testing earlier and more deeply, produce commercially available products earlier, and get more chips at cheaper wholesale prices. ”

Entering the warm room, Ballard began to report officially, "The second level is Innovation, Elsa......"

"Wait." Song Ya interrupted him, "Take innovation to the first level." ”

"Well, APLUS, this is tied to the size of the manufacturer's purchase, if they want to improve the level of cooperation, then they should order more of our chips, not ......," Ballard said hesitantly.

"You're an inventory management expert, Ballard, and I can understand what you do."

Ballard is a senior manager found through a headhunting company, and he is doing a good job so far, Song Ya said tactfully: "But you know, I have a good relationship with the two bosses of Innovation, their boss Hu specially called me a few days ago to ask me, I am still the spokesperson of their voice control card, have you seen the advertisement I shot for them?" ”

"Of course, we're all users of their Voice Blaster card."

Ross Smith continued, "It's very useful, you're smiling big on the outer packaging of his house APLUS." ”

"Please allow me to discuss it with them......" Ballard didn't say yes right away, but pulled the trio and Dr. May aside for a small meeting, and then made a few more phone calls, "Okay, yes, but we have to sign a supplementary agreement with Innovation, and they have to keep it a secret about it, otherwise, the other partners will rebel and Innovation will face our fines." ”

"We're an upstream company and the last thing we want is to see a graphics card manufacturer challenge our authority."

Ross Smith said proudly: "Whoever is not honest we will be out of stock for whom." ”

"Aren't you afraid that they will switch to other chip manufacturers?" Dr. Chan asked.

"There is no competitor that can compete with Voodoo chips." "We're going to be in a very good seller's market for at least '96," Ballard said. ”

"I just said believe us and APLUS, your investment will not be wasted." Ross Smith laughed.

"Hmmm......"

Song Ya was satisfied, and continued to study the documents in his hand, among the lower-level manufacturers, the name of the bending company appeared most frequently, probably accounting for more than half. Now it is a major manufacturing center in the global electronics and semiconductor industry, and even Silla is in the lead in order to suppress the semiconductor industry in the United States.

Well done, he was also very satisfied, "Isn't there a single mainland Chinese enterprise?" "But I don't seem to have found any mainland companies.

"The unified pricing of our 3D accelerator card will be very expensive, and the consumption and manufacturing capacity of mainland China will not be good." Ross Smith said.

"Oh." Song Yanunu mouthed and put down the papers.

"Only one has ever submitted an application." Ballard saw the boss's thoughts, "It seems to be called QDI, yes, the QDI manufacturing department under Lanoff is mainly OEM." ”

"Since you applied for ......," Song Ya hinted frantically.

"Okay, I'll put them on our list of manufacturers."

Ballard nodded, "It's not difficult to make graphics cards, I'll have someone give them some technical help, but keep it a secret." ”