"Thank you."
Jim Keller prepared a whiteboard. He took the oil-based pen and began to write and draw on it. At the same time, he explained: "We will abandon the previous generation architecture on the voodoo5 project..."
"Is it necessary to make such a big bet? The previous-generation architecture has been very mature, and we are still the market leader."
3dfx's second-largest individual shareholder who personally attended the meeting interrupted Jim Keller and raised questions.
"Unfortunately, our single-card performance has been surpassed by nv's tnt2ultra this year, so we are no longer the front runners." Song Ya said displeasedly.
"Maybe you shouldn't have driven Ross and the others away..." The second largest individual shareholder had always firmly supported him, but after the trio left, they began to shake the correctness of their previous behavior.
"If they are still there, our voodoo will only be still playing 16-bit color, and the gap with nv will only get bigger and bigger. The responsibility for the performance from leading to backward is the three of them." Song Ya retorted.
"After they went to the stb, they said that 16-bit color was enough, otherwise it would squeeze the polygon performance of the display chip."
It seems that this guy has been paying attention to the remarks made by the trio after they left, "This is a problem of resource allocation, at this stage..."
"At any stage, I don't accept that the performance data is surpassed by the opponent. The graphics card buyers are believers who read the book data, so they don't care about the current trade-off..."
Song Ya did his homework during this time, "They will only buy graphics cards from the head company, and we can't lose the crown of the king of performance."
"but……"
"Well, now is not the time to talk about this, Mr. Keller, please continue." Song Ya raised his hand to stop the other party.
"Thank you, our computing unit..." Jim Keller continued to explain the rough architecture he drew: "In order to cooperate with voodoo5, we must also rewrite glideapi on a large scale. This work must be completed before March next year. "
Glideapi has already been jointly developed by Song Ya with both hands and Microsoft. Ballmer doesn't understand this technology, and probably rarely talks about such trivial matters, but the people he brought with him understood and immediately interjected: "Time is too tight."
"We will find a way to increase some resources." Ballmer turned his head to stop his men.
Song Ya pursed his lips, and Microsoft is also playing balance. They have never given up their d3dapi, and it is impossible to see 3dfx dominating the family. The more rivals such as nv, the better.
In business, it’s okay, but... after all, it’s a bit unpleasant.
"Thank you Jim Keller for the wonderful commentary."
The boring technical route demonstration is like a heavenly book. Song Ya didn’t understand much at all. He led everyone to the end of the applause, with his hands on the table, his eyes firm and full of pressure and said: "I don’t allow our products to be in the performance rankings. The performance is lagging behind our competitors, single-card performance, not dual-card sli, which is expensive and poor in sales!"
"I don't allow our 3dfx to be just a family sought after by professional hardware media and enthusiasts, but the sales figures and profits are lower than those of competitors. They are notorious rock stars!"
"I don't allow us to lose this war!"
In the large studio of the a+ film studio not far from the building, Blade Warrior director Zach Schneider and the photographer are instructing their staff to assume dozens of high-speed cameras in front of the green screen in a semi-circular shape. This is a big hit in the first half of the year. The technology used in the classic visual effects of the movie Matrix "Bullet Time" is now being imitated in large numbers by other crews, and each has its own magical powers to expand the use of scenes.
"So we will compete fiercely with our opponents on every product line next year. Our voodoo5 will cooperate with graphics card manufacturers to sell versions in various price ranges, just like our opponents! voodoo5sli, voodoo5max, voodoo5super, voodoo5plus, voodoo5, voodoo5mini ..."
When Song Ya said this, the director representative of id company, a shooting game, smiled and said: "In this case, we will become mockers who are mocked."
The director of nec, who is responsible for some voodoo3 chip foundries, represents the interface: "If we learn nv's product strategy, then we need to cooperate with chip packaging and testing manufacturers on a large scale to select and subdivide chips of different physiques... This means higher costs. "
Song Ya gave these two guys a glance, and was not disturbed. "So, we need to increase the total capital expenditure of 200 million dollars in order to defeat our competitors!"
Ballmer, who was originally watching the play silently with great interest, took a closer look at the hundred richest man and black pharaoh and gave him a deep look in surprise when he heard this sentence.
Song Ya happened to look over, and stared at him. Ballmer saw the fierceness in the opponent's eyes, and a slight sense of familiarity rose in his heart.
The mayor’s office, at this time, Little Daly had just sent away the special envoy for Gore’s visit to Chicago. "Damn it!" He turned and tanned in front of his cronies. "Gore seemed to think he had plenty of time for me and Peter plays a balance between the two. He will not have to pay too much for the infighting Chicago politics next year and still get our support!"
"The reality is like this." The cronies replied calmly, "We are now like this inside of us...it is indeed that we need his support more."
"That's impossible!"
Little Daly said grimly: "That pesky Peter Flock must be solved as soon as possible!"
"Hehe, our governor may not know that Kozko has agreed to be a taint witness." The cronies smiled and put a document on Little Daly's desk.
"Let's do it then!" Little Daly made a decision. "He shouldn't want to work in that position until 2001 to be responsible for the rezoning of the constituency. I will not allow it!"
That is big political capital, and Peter is very pleased with the voters...
"Peter's energy in the law enforcement agency..." Another older and more respectful cronies hesitated, "He is very black when he is insane. Shouldn't he consider it more carefully?"
"If you don't think about it, time is the most tolerant of waste. We must all be fast!"
Little Daley can't stand Peter now, let alone delaying time, he ordered his cronies: "Go to the lieutenant governor, let me find a chance to have a good chat with him! This is a life-and-death war!"
"Therefore, we need to expand our software department to rewrite glideapi. We need to find a better packaging and testing manufacturer to reach cooperation. We need to expand our marketing department and fight a legal battle with nv. At the same time, all Resources will be tilted towards Jim Keller and his project team to help them design the world's invincible voodoo5 chip!"
Song Ya continued to say in a deep voice: "In order to raise sufficient funds for the above work, 3dfx will issue some additional shares to strategic partners such as Microsoft. It will be decided today at this meeting!"
The directors made a commotion. Even though they had learned some news in advance, they were still very shocked. They whispered to each other and couldn't help but look at Ballmer.
Ballmer also smiled at everyone, he is here, and Microsoft's attitude is self-evident.
"As the chairman of 3dfx, you may know my deeds in other fields better, but I want to say that the reason why I can achieve a little bit of success is because I have an extremely strong desire to win."
Song Ya glanced over the faces of the directors at the meeting, "I don't like failure! I rarely lose! So now... please vote!"
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