Coquettish Rebirth

Of course, Jia Hongjian seemed unreliable to this matter, but Lianxiang and 3dfx executives liked it very much.After the two parties signed the cooperation agreement on September 9, they held a press conference at the beginning of October.This press conference was named "Welcome to the New Era".As a press conference jointly held by both parties, it is also the first media meeting for 17dfx executives to come to China.

This meeting went to a lot of media, and it can be said that it has had enough space.Then, maybe the retouching fee given by Lianxiang is also enough, so the reports in the media all write about 3dfx, which is all kinds of bullshit - "As the fastest growing company in Silicon Valley, after 3dfx was established in 1994, within two years It has become the monopoly overlord of the world graphics card market. Within 5 years of establishment, they have 6 US patents, 7 proprietary technologies, 10 state-owned proprietary technologies, 4 US registered trademarks and 7 proprietary trademarks... "

In fact, regarding these introductions to patents, Jia Hongjian felt that they were quite incomprehensible—who in the real Silicon Valley didn’t have tens of thousands of patents?Even Huaxia Hi-Tech, a company established in 93, has hundreds of patents, okay?For example, the search engine of Sherlock Holmes, how many engines, and even the online management page of the music pod love, the patents in it are probably no less than 3dfx and theirs!Not to mention that registered trademarks and the like are also advertised as achievements!If the trademark is really the achievement, then it is obvious that Huaxia Hi-Tech has more trademarks than 3dfx!If Huaxia Hi-Tech is in the mouths of these media, what will it look like?

Of course.Such a simple flattery is definitely not enough-"3dfx company has now passed the ISO9002 certification, the sales revenue in 98 was 2.1 million U.S. dollars, and the chip output was 600 million pieces... 3dfx company president, sales manager in Asia and general manager of Lianxiang Group , the general manager of the pc and package business department of Lianxiang Group and the general manager of the channel marketing department visited the meeting in person. The two sides expressed their views on the prospect of further cooperation and expressed that they will cooperate in a wider field. The specific plan will be negotiated and arranged according to specific circumstances. ..."

Jia Hongjian couldn't help laughing at these words!What is cooperation in a broader field?How can a graphics card manufacturer follow another one!That is to say, Lianxiang's branded machine will directly come out with a built-in 3dfx graphics card, and then this kind of graphics card is authorized by 3dfx to Lianxiang so that they can produce it themselves!With such a broken cooperation model, what can be said to be cooperation in a wider field?It depends on the specific situation in the future and the consultation arrangements. What good consultation arrangements are there?Isn't it just to say something nice to let the reporters have something to brag about?

Then it's like iso9002 certification...what's there to brag about with this crap?Is this something you can brag about?What is this iso9002?To put it bluntly, it is "Quality Assurance Model for Production, Installation and Service of Quality System".And what are their standards?It is "the design complexity is low. The design maturity is high. The product structure is not too complicated, the manufacturing complexity is high, and the product has safety and economic requirements. When this standard is selected, the supplier shall provide the purchaser with production, installation and quality assurance of the service process.”

Such a stuff.To put it bluntly, it is a quality assurance.But does quality assurance mean that something must be good?Obviously not necessarily!If Jia Hongjian produced something that no one wanted at all.Then passed iso9002.Guarantee the quality, and then this thing will be fine?Everyone will buy it?Obviously not!If Jia Hongjian produces a good product, even if it fails ISO9002.He doesn't have to guarantee the quality?Obviously not!So what is the ISO standard? When foreign markets don’t trust Chinese manufacturers, and feel that Chinese manufacturers are as unreliable as South American companies, there is an ISO certification, that is, they can be obtained. A little stuff that the other party trusts.But this thing is of no use to an already famous international brand. Those who should be responsible must be responsible, and it does not mean that they are not responsible without certification.

After looking at the developments in Lianxiang, Jia Hongjian made a phone call to Lao Huang to ask about the current situation of Nvidia.As for Nvidia, although Jia Hongjian has already bought it and occupies a large number of shares.However, just like what was clearly written when signing the contract before, Jia Hongjian owns the equity and ownership, but the management right must be handed over to Lao Huang.This old Huang is a power control, he just likes to be an actual operator.In view of the very good management of this old Huang in history, Jia Hongjian was also willing to delegate power to him. In the end, he just hired an accounting firm to check the accounts every year, and Jia Hongjian became the shopkeeper directly.

After making a phone call with Lao Huang, Jia Hongjian understood Lao Huang's train of thought—this Lao Huang has already foreseen that 3dfx will die soon, and he even said that he plans to spend money to buy 3dfx in the next year or two!Of course, this is what Lao Huang said to Jia Hongjian. If he said it to others, many people would laugh out loud.In the eyes of many people, this Nvidia is just a little bit able to compete with 3dfx, and it is still far away from being able to eat the opponent.But what they don't know is that in fact, the reversal of the form has already been scheduled-since the foundries have supported Nvidia, the future of 3dfx has basically been determined.

After all, 3dfx is making progress, and Nvidia is not standing still!This Nvidia is now ready to start promoting the concept of gpu-in the past, the core chip on the graphics card was called a graphics processing chip, and what does gpu mean?That is similar to cpu, cpu means central processing unit, and gpu means image processing unit!In other words, this Nvidia's old Huang is planning to increase the importance of the chip on the graphics card to the point where it is almost the same as the CPU!It can be said to fully increase the importance of the graphics card and the importance of the graphics processing chip to describe that the graphics processing chip is not weaker than the cpu to some extent!

For this, Jia Hongjian certainly welcomes it.Although this is just a conceptual hype, Jia Hongjian knows that this is the prelude to the Nvidia dynasty that Lao Huang will start!This old Huang is definitely a good businessman. There are so many different concepts to come up with, but what he is best at is making money, taking advantage of various opportunities to make money!Then, with such an Nvidia in his hands, it will obviously grow stronger and stronger!

On the surface, the proposal of such a gpu concept is an innocuous hype concept.But in fact, the meaning is different-if a small person in the industry proposes a new concept, will anyone listen?It's like amd has put forward many concepts in later generations, what is the result?Intel doesn't follow his method, amd has nothing to do, even if his concept is better, but no one adopts it and no one cooperates!

This is the case in the CPU field, but in the graphics card field, 3dfx was only qualified to propose new concepts before, and now Nvidia has also started to propose concepts, so what does it prove?That proves that Nvidia has become at least one of the market giants!He has already begun to formulate market rules!

It can be said that Lao Huang is very aggressive here, and Jia Hongjian is very relieved to hand over the company to Lao Huang to manage and operate it. In fact, Jia Hongjian heard a saying in his previous life that AMD smoked Intel When they couldn't find North, amd wanted to buy a graphics card manufacturer, and then do their "fusion" road.As a result, at the beginning, Nvidia was the first to see, and then Lao Huang said at the time, it is okay to acquire, but when Nvidia and amd merge into one, then he will be the biggest boss, he will be the boss of amd . Can amd promise this?So there was a breakup!Originally He Guoyuan of ati also disagreed, but as a result, He Guoyuan was emptied, and then ati was sold to amd by other people!

Through this joke, you can basically see Lao Huang's character - he doesn't care about money or anything, at least he doesn't care whether the company is sold or not after he succeeds, he doesn't care how much money he can make by selling the company!What he values ​​is power, that is to be the boss, and that is to win!In other words, he wants to lead the company to win and succeed more!It doesn't matter who owns the business, how much money is given to him!So, for such a competitive person, why didn't Jia Hongjian rest assured that the company would be handed over to him?Jia Hongjian believed that such a smart person as Lao Huang would not ruin his future because of embezzling public funds and making small coffers, which caused him to be expelled from the management by the board of directors, thus losing control of the company!

Here, after paying attention to the prospects of Nvidia, Jia Hongjian no longer cares about the graphics card or Lianxiang.He turned his head to pay attention to the legendary China Railcom and Huaxia Bank.To tell you the truth, Jia Hongjian didn't even go after China Railway Communication was approved by the central government at the beginning of the year to be listed.The current Tietong has not started to operate externally, but is still working on its own internal network—that is, the communication network of each railway station and along the railway.This intranet exists as a "practice" to familiarize China Railcom's personnel with communication services.After all, unless it is a large-scale poaching of people from mobile and telecommunications, how can it be possible to have enough skilled people to do business with the outside world?This business is not difficult to do, what is difficult to find is all the right personnel from top to bottom! (To be continued..)