Super Game Empire

The Lin brother and sister visited Hollywood in Los Angeles. Yang Yun was relieved to have someone to take him with him.

Yang Yun contacted Cao Kairui, a second-generation Chinese immigrant who met in the first class of the plane. It is said that he was in a venture capital business and sent a luxury Lincoln to a European-style building in a wealthy area.

In front of the super large villa.

Yang Yun, shocked by the low-key and luxurious decoration inside the villa, took the initiative to shake hands with Cao Kairui, came to the living room, and after reminiscing about the past, Yang Yun directly raised the question: "Kerry, you said you are in a venture capital business and you must be knowledgeable.

I just want to ask you something.”

"Please say it!" Cao Kairui was very polite and gestured with a smile.

"Does there any company in the United States that is better for computer graphics processing GPU chips?" Yang Yun asked: "I want to invest and participate in the stakes. If the price is right, I can buy it."

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

Yang Yun was a little nervous: "What? Can't I enter this line?"

Cao Kairui nodded: "In Silicon Valley, high technology is basically in the hands of American companies. Large consortiums in North America monopolize the upper-level technology. Chinese people are not very popular. I have almost never seen Chinese companies appear in famous companies in Silicon Valley.

On the list of shareholders.”

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

One of the ones he mentioned was VIA Electronics, and he only heard the name of the company. Yang Yun was not sure what he did, but Lin Fannan only said one name. Yang Yun suddenly realized it.

Wang Xuehong, the daughter of Taiwan’s richest man Wang Yongqing, is the boss of HTC in later generations, and is also the boss of this VIA Electronics company.

Yang Yun remained calm at the time, suppressed his excitement and entrusted Lin Fannan to find a way to contact the other party, invest in or acquire it.

But Lin Fannan refused on the spot. He is the daughter of Taiwan’s richest man. You still need to invest in it? He is a company established by a couple. How can outsiders be allowed to participate?

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

When Cao Kairui heard Yang Yun talk about this VIA Electronics, he suddenly realized: "I have heard of this person. Chen Wenqi is a very powerful person. He is an employee of Intel and his skills are very good. He should have several patented technologies in his hand. But also

It is precisely because of the United States' serious anti-Chinese thinking that they cannot stay in Silicon Valley to start a business, but return to Taiwan."

So that's it!

Yang Yun had a headache. How should I deal with this anti-Chinese idea? Should I acquire it in the name of KTT? Or...

Yang Yun asked tentatively: "I wonder if Boss Cao has any way to help contact and acquire some famous graphics processing companies? For example, Intel's chip department, or ATI. Nvidia, Gigabyte, Asus, Sapphire, etc., oh.

That's all I can remember…”

This is some of the content that Yang Yun wrote down when he assembled his own and his classmates' computers when he was in college before he was reborn.

He only knows that Intel makes integrated chips, ATI and NVIDIA make independent chips, and Gigabytes Asus are second-tier brands that make motherboards and chips. Yang Yun now knows nothing about the US PC market and can only cast a net to catch fish.

Cao Kairui was shocked: "Are there so many companies? Why haven't I heard of many of them? Don't think about Intel. As I said just now, it is impossible for them to sell such pure American ancestry companies.

Yes, I have only vaguely heard of ATI, but is this small company really worth investing in?"

Yang Yun became very alert, took a scruple and said perfunctorily: "It is worth investing in Intel. Other companies are alternatives. If they really don't work, I will consider it."

Cao Kairui nodded: "I'll help you find out about these things."

After talking about the main business, Cao Kairui asked Yang Yun to have dinner, but Yang Yun happened to answer a call and made an excuse to leave.

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

Besides, Cao Kairui was just a common friend, asking him for information, and by the way, come and find out if it is true that he is as he said on the plane, there is nothing he can't do in the United States.

He could remember the names of the manufacturers he mentioned just now. He called Yang Zhan and asked him to inquire about relevant information.

Soon, Yang Yun got a reply.

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

ATI is it?

Yang Yun was a little excited. This company was an international giant that was extremely awesome in the future. It was the super overlord of the independent graphics card industry and Nvidia almost dominated the global independent graphics card market.

According to the information found by Yang Zhan, Nvidia has not appeared yet. At the same time, the graphics chip that is most suitable for Sega in the product list is only an 8-bit graphics chip!

Yang Yun couldn't help but roar: "Are you wrong? We use 8-bit graphics chips on MD, and it's almost 3 years since we've been there. 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 it.

Talking about technology and acquisitions. Their founder He Guoyuan is also a Chinese!”

Yang Yun was amused and crying. It seemed that he had to go to Canada in person.

This is a bad point. Many well-known large companies in the world are very unevenly distributed on the earth. If you want to discuss acquisitions, you have to run from one place to another, which is exhausting.

I originally wanted to hand over the acquisition of ATI to Yang Zhan, but Yang Yun was not relieved. It is better to control such an important company by himself. If the other party calls for a high price and exceeds Yang Zhan's psychological price, the two sides will discuss

If it collapses, it will be more than worth the loss.

1 million or 10 million is no problem. As long as ATI can solve the defects of Sega Saturn's 2D and 3D image processing, even if He Guoyuan offers 100 million US dollars, Yang Yun can make a decision to buy it.

ATI made more than 100 million in later generations? A fool wouldn't buy it.

Of course, the prerequisite is that ATI is willing to sell it.

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

He Guoyuan did not want to sell ATI, and his other two Hong Kong immigration partners also expressed their tactful refusal.

He Guoyuan said this: "Mr. Yang has participated in the VESA video standard production, and there are more than 170 manufacturers around the world. If you only want to enter the graphics card production industry and the threshold for multinational production technology, you can actually acquire any participating company."

Liu Likai, director of the technical department, spoke more politely: "There are so many manufacturers in the market that make similar products as us. You can consider others. The three of us just can't bear to leave the company we created with our own hands. We have been established for 7 years."

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

From the words revealed by He Guoyuan, Yang Yun learned 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, and only display technology 8

Compared with the bit chip, that is a qualitative improvement!

Isn't this what Sega Lab wants?

Unfortunately, ATI is too tough and is neither willing to sell it nor offend Longteng Company. Yang Yun tried to offer a price of $100 million and the other party didn't let it go, and there was no intention of talking.

He Guoyuan proposed another solution: "If Longteng Company has procurement needs on graphics processing chips, everyone is the sons and daughters of China, and we can supply the goods at the best price."

Yang Yun was amused and crying. Although he really liked these 32-bit graphics processing chips, he was more interested in ATI.

These chips cannot be used directly after buying them. ATI still needs to make minor changes to design a certain model version for Longteng. Sega R&D personnel have to explore the command set and the efficiency of software compression and release.

It probably will take another one or two years.

Isn't this the same as NEC?

NEC then ignored it and went to build its own game console with companies like Hudson. In addition, NEC encountered a lot of bad things, and no R&D personnel came to guide Sega. In the end, the Chinese Academy of Sciences sent the most

Good experts came to Sega Laboratory for assistance and made a 32-bit Sega Model1 substrate.

So Yang Yun plans to acquire ATI directly. What is the point of just purchasing chips?

He came to Canada in person to negotiate, not to sign a procurement contract. He could handle the contract with any sales manager, and he wanted more than that!

But no matter how beautiful the words are, they cannot impress these three people. ATI's business is booming. They have become Microsoft's gold suppliers, providing graphics chip optimization technology for Windows operating systems. They are about to set up a subsidiary in Europe and have submitted their listing plans.

, very likely to be available next year.

People are doing a good business and have a bright future. Why do they need to sell it?

Yang Yun was very disappointed. After two days of thinking, he was about to settle for the second time. When he signed a supply agreement with ATI, he received a call from Cao Kairui.

The cheerful voice was still on the phone: "Mr. Yang, what you asked me about a few days ago has already made a name for yourself."

Yang Yun was overjoyed: "How is it? Could it be that Intel is willing to sell graphics card chips, right?"

Cao Kairui smiled and said, "How could Intel sell it? It's another company, and ATI is willing to accept our capital injection!"

What!

Yang Yun had nothing to say. What was going on?