27 April 1995.

Nvidia Corporation.

On this day, CEO Jensen Huang welcomed an uninvited guest.

It can't be said to be an uninvited guest, because this neon man had already made an appointment a month ago-

President of Pokeni Co., Ltd. Aoi Chi Yuan.

Huang himself was a little surprised to make an appointment, so early in advance, and the company's fame was much greater than he realized.

Now Nvidia is still a small and unknown company, less than two years after its establishment, the company does not even have a mature product that can be sold.

In such a situation, the president of Qing Zhiyuan actually came from thousands of miles away.

With NVIDIA's current operation, even if you don't make an appointment, the youth president will come to your door unimpeded.

So before they met, Huang actually had a lot of affection for the president of the island nation.

At least from this incident, it can be seen that Qing Zhiyuan is a person who pays attention to details.

Around 10 o'clock in the morning, President Seizhiyuan arrived as scheduled.

When he saw Qing Zhiyuan himself, Huang was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that the president of this famous neon game company would be so young.

Qing Zhiyuan is a thin young man.

The skin is very white, the sword eyebrows are starry, the appearance is dignified, and the temperament is quite in line with Huang Jenxun's imagination, but there is a gap in age.

Pokeni is even more famous in the United States than in the neon homeland, especially Diablo and Pokémon, two series of games that are hot in the United States and are sought after by countless children.

Huang himself is a gamer.

The reason why he founded Nvidia is also because he and two other partners believe that the game industry will become a very promising outlet in the future, and although the PC is temporarily lagging behind the video game industry, they believe that with the development of PC hardware in the future, it will eventually become a powerful game console.

The name of the company is taken from the Latin word sight.

So Nvidia was founded with the intention of manufacturing graphics chips for the video game industry.

They believe that one day the PC will become a consumer-grade device for enjoying games and multimedia.

Huang Jenxun was even more excited to see Qing Zhiyuan.

After all, I finally met the boss of the game developer I liked, and this person still took the initiative to cross the ocean to find him.

……

The young youth president also has a little secretary by his side, which is very beautiful, and the little secretary is dragging a suitcase in his hand, and he doesn't know what is inside.

While Huang was looking at himself, Qing Zhiyuan was also looking at him.

32-year-old Lao Huang, with a good figure, I don't know if he was born like this or has practiced, a little handsome.

Like the old Huang in his impression, he was wearing a black leather coat.

Qing Zhiyuan has seen this leather coat many times, as if the leather coat is Huang Jenxun's body.

"Hello, President Seijiwon."

Huang greeted warmly in English, "Nice to meet you." ”

"Hello, hello. I'm also glad to meet you. ”

……

Knowing that Qing Zhiyuan had half Chinese ancestry, the two also tried to say a few words in Chinese.

Although Huang is Chinese, he left China's treasure island to live in the United States at a very young age, so although he can speak a little Chinese and stumble some simple sentences, he mainly communicates in English.

Inviting Qing Zhiyuan and Ayase into his office, Huang asked with some confusion, "So I see that President Qing said in the appointment email that he wants to come and seek cooperation with NVIDIA, right?" ”

"Hmm."

Qing Zhiyuan nodded.

"By the way, Kensen," Jensen Huang's English name is Jensen Huang, "do you have a television here?" Before we officially say what we need, I want to show you one thing. ”

Huang Jenxun was stunned for a moment, then quickly nodded, "Yes, yes." ”

So a few people moved to the conference room.

In fact, two desktops are placed here, as well as televisions and several game consoles.

It can be seen that Nvidia has been thinking about serving the game from the beginning.

After all, in this world, in addition to games, it seems that other industries do not have such a big demand for graphics cards.

So Qing Zhiyuan asked Akane Ayase to open the box, take out the Sony PS game console inside, and connect the device.

Huang and the other two partners stood next to him and exchanged glances.

It was clear that the youth president was going to show them a game.

It's just that they don't know what it is.

Huang Jenxun clasped his hands and smiled, silently guessing Qing Zhiyuan's true intentions for coming today.

Nvidia is a company that specializes in graphics processing chips.

Isn't this president of a game company asking us to make game consoles?

Or is it involved in the development of game consoles?

……

Once all the devices are connected, Qingzhiyuan starts the game.

"Kensen, this is a new 3D game we have developed, and it is not on the shelves yet, but I would love to show you."

After Qing Zhiyuan finished speaking, he controlled the controller and began to show them the first level of "Pokémon 3D World".

Huang is no stranger to the PlayStation console.

Because when it was released at the end of last year, PS was quite hyped.

High performance, 3D image support, and an ultra-low price of $299 make Sony's PS a masterpiece and sell crazy in the United States.

In order to study the game and the future development direction of NVIDIA, they also bought several PS.

The only drawback is that there are still relatively few games on PS, and according to Huang's own thinking, there is no game on the market that can fully exploit the performance of PS.

However, when they came back from buying PS, Huang and the two partners had a big doubt about each other-

The controller design of the PS is completely different from the controller of all game consoles on the market today.

In addition to the D-pad and buttons, there are also many [useless functions]

For example, the double joystick, index and middle finger buttons......

Huang couldn't understand that.

If you develop a feature that you don't use, then the product is a failed design.

So Huang thinks Sony wouldn't be stupid enough to develop such a "useless" product, it must have some kind of special purpose.

Until today –

He saw the game that Qing Zhiyuan brought.

……

Huang saw Chi-won skillfully manipulate the twin joysticks, allowing Pikachu to move and steer back and forth on the screen, and the entire 3D scene was brought to life at once.

He only felt his heart beat a little faster.

The whole person's brain buzzed.

He finally understood—

Sony's PS, whether it's 3D performance, or the special design of the handle, it's all for today.

It's like a lock specially made for this key of Pokeni.

No one had been able to get a glimpse of the treasure inside the door until the key came.

You will find that the treasure inside the door is so shining and shocking.

It's not that the graphics of "Pokémon 3D World" are beautiful, but this set of modes and standards opens the door to a new world.

Huang was immediately transparent.

……

After the demonstration, Qing Zhiyuan put the controller aside, turned around and said to several NVIDIA founders, "This is our newly developed 3D game, which so far only Sony's PS platform can support." ”

"Hmm."

The crowd nodded.

It is true that only PS can support such a game.

"Sony's PS game console development, in fact, POKENI also participated, the 3D function and the design of the controller, in fact, we put forward a request to Sony, the purpose is to make the game that everyone sees today."

"Hmm...... It should be said that not only for this game, but also for the development of more interesting and groundbreaking 3D games in the future. ”

I see.

Huang and the two partners nodded, and everything was understandable.

Why did Sony develop such a weird controller, and why no game has been able to bring out the 3D performance of PS until now.

It turned out that all this was premeditated.

Sony's PS is tailor-made for pokeni's games.

"But...... I still don't understand, what does the youth president want us to do? What can we do for pokeni. Huang asked politely.

Qing Zhiyuan smiled slightly and began to get to the point.

"Well, we evaluated it internally and found that the current pace of personal computer development is actually quite fast, and there will be more and more games that can be played on computers in the future.

Today's computer performance is actually able to meet most work needs, but games are very hardware performance-hungry things.

On the one hand, we feel that the future of computer games is promising, and we want to develop new games on the computer, but on the other hand, we are limited by the limitations of current computer hardware, and we feel very difficult.

That's why I want to come here to seek NVIDIA's cooperation and help. ”

Well?

The crowd laughed happily.

Qing Zhiyuan's concept coincides with the founders of NVIDIA, and even directly speaks to their hearts.

"So what kind of games does Pokeni want to develop on the computer, and what kind of hardware support does it need?" Huang asked.

"3D shooter." Qing Zhiyuan said.

"3D shooter?"

"Hmm."

Qing Zhiyuan stretched out his hands and simulated the operation of the keyboard and mouse in the air.

"Playing a shooting game on a computer and you need 3D effects, keyboard to control movement, mouse to control steering and shooting......"

He briefly described what a shooting game looks like on the computer and how to play it.

"But the tricky part is that we're now using a program to simulate, which is very expensive, and the CPU and memory consumption is so high that it is almost impossible to drive a game like this.

So we need a 3D graphics card, a chip that runs efficiently and is specifically designed to handle 3D graphics. ”

After hearing this, everyone fell into deep thought.

……

At this very moment, Huang's heart was pounding.

It was a magical feeling of fate.

He deeply felt what Qing Zhiyuan's arrival meant.

What Nvidia had been looking for for so long was said lightly by this man from across the sea.

And so concrete.

Specifically, they can imagine what kind of changes this 3D shooter will bring when it comes out in the future.

Specifically, Huang felt that he would be able to make this graphics card in the next second.

It was even specific to make him feel that if he didn't seize this opportunity, then Nvidia might be finished.

And once this opportunity is seized, Nvidia will hopefully become a powerful chip company like AMD.

If there is a god.

At this moment, God has come.

……

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