Chapter 1463

"Harvey? Ha ha... It's all right. I was a little angry that day. Now I calm down."

After picking up the plane and getting angry, Songya has been cold and violent towards David Geffen and Harvey Weinstein, who refused to communicate. He didn't answer Harvey's phone until early March, "I? No, business as usual? No, I won't change anything... Well, the same is true for Oscar. See you at the award ceremony?"

After losing such a temper, things became interesting. Harvey was skeptical on the other end of the phone. After their "victimization alliance", they should no longer trust themselves, because they all know that the black law is paranoid and small-minded.

"Ha ha ha!"

Put away his mobile phone and Songya continued to laugh while watching TV.

He is in the conference room of 3dfx headquarters. The people who came to the board of directors have not arrived yet. He and some directors choose to wait while watching TV.

"The bankruptcy and reorganization of STB company failed. In an interview with this reporter earlier, the three STB company managers and former 3dfx founders claimed that they did not regret leaving 3dfx and firmly believed that there was no problem with STB's technical and commercial route. STB would launch a new reorganization plan as soon as possible after the second creditors' meeting..."

3dfx appeared on the screen with the voice over. Oh, no, the STB trio is still dressed up in Silicon Valley technology house, but their spirit is much wilted. In addition to Ross, the boss who is talking to the microphone, the other two are stunned, their eyes are empty and silent. Scott, the former CTO of 3dfx, also renewed his beard, which is much more haggard than that in the past.

"We just set the performance record of the graphics card last year, and we are the best..." Ross still boasted brazenly, "the official launch is only the last step."

The TV station knows very well that in the upper right corner of the picture, he gave him the record breaking engineering sample card. The long and wide green PCB board is equipped with eight small cooling fans, which are eight STB display chips. Other matching video memory and capacitors are almost full of spare space, and the largest consumer grade tower chassis can't fit it.

"Ha ha ha!"

The whole room laughed this time. In order to break the performance record created by the latest vodoo dual card SLI of 3dfx, the trio frantically integrated eight STB display chips on a PCB. The TV layout can not show the funniest part of the card. Before, STB released a demonstration video on the Internet. After the power was turned on, eight cooling fans turned on at the same time, which can be called a terrible roar, just like a helicopter taking off.

Due to its insistence on self-produced graphics cards, STB has become the enemy of all graphics card manufacturers. Before falling into bankruptcy and reorganization, the market share has been classified into the other category, which is not worth mentioning. Moreover, it is subject to high manufacturing costs and serious losses, which leads to a vicious circle in the operation of the company.

STB has long been out of the eyes of industry leader 3dfx. Now treat them as fun.

Ballard, the former 3dfx president who "defected" with the trio, also jumped the boat and ran away early.

"Sorry, we're late."

CEO ASA hurried to.

The board members also arrived, "OK, meeting! Meeting!" Song Ya smiled and picked up the remote control to turn off the TV.

Although the atmosphere is harmonious, there will be a war here today. Song Ya coughed and switched to Su Rong for a second, asking the Secretary to announce the agenda of the meeting.

Today's meeting is mainly to discuss the upcoming annual report of the last fiscal year. Thanks to the leading structure advantages left by Jim Keller, the continuous shipment with Xbox, the sales of various models of Fengjian in the PC machine and DIY market, and the good operation of OEM and sealing and testing chain in East Asia, 3dfx recorded the highest profit and profit margin in history last year, ranking first in the two industries, Only slightly behind NV in market share and sales, low-end graphics card NV still has advantages.

"Investors will like it," Song Ya commented with a smile.

"But we must show in the annual report that we have just been abandoned by apple."

The Challenger appeared. The second largest individual shareholder of 3dfx also came to the meeting today, "because you, aplus, are fighting for MP3 Walkman with them."

"Is that why Apple refuses to continue using our chips?"

Song Ya came prepared, narrowed his eyes and looked at each other, and said, "did they tell us orally or in official documents?"

Of course, apple can't say that. It will cause trouble in law and public relations. The reason for changing chip suppliers must be official words such as "based on cost and performance considerations".

"That's not true."

The second largest individual shareholder of 3dfx, who had planned to take the opportunity to attack, was also aware of this paradox. As long as apple didn't know what to say, he couldn't throw the responsibility on the old man of the black law. There was no reason for the rebellion. If Apple said it clearly, the black Pharaoh could take the opportunity to publicly cry out his grievances and launch a legal and public opinion offensive against apple. His rebellion still had no reason

"Well, but I think everyone here knows aplus..." he had to say so.

"Apple's existing models still need to continue to use our chips?"

Song Ya ignored him and directly asked CEO ASA, "otherwise, the PC goods purchased by the user are wrong, and you can initiate a class action against it, right?"

"Yes, but the quantity we supply to apple is not high. The market share of their high-performance desktop powermac is too low..."

ASA nodded, "we don't lose much."

"But it is a big bad news in this financial report, which means that we are excluded from the supply chain by a world-famous computer manufacturer," said the second largest individual shareholder.

Songya glanced at him, still ignored, turned and continued to ask the company's legal affairs: "what if we just break the apple goods now?"

"If they don't execute the contract, they will sue and lose," replied clo, chief legal officer of 3dfx who attended the meeting.

"You're too impulsive, aplus. Don't bring the grievances of your other industries to 3dfx." the second largest individual shareholder reluctantly.

"I'll ask."

Song Ya answered quietly, "so we must write in the financial report that Apple no longer orders chips from us?"

"The financial report of last fiscal year... We can balance the text." the CFO, who also attended the meeting, hinted that he could operate and stuff this bad news into the next financial report. "After all, the two sides have not officially interrupted cooperation."

"Apple will certainly find a way to announce it later," Microsoft's Board representative reminded, "just use a clever way... We know jobs's character too well."

“OK。”

Song Ya nodded. "Then vote. Those who agree to revise the financial report can raise their hands." he first raised his hands and immediately scanned the field to observe the actions of the other 12 directors.

ASA and the directors loyal to him immediately raised their hands with the boss, and others hesitated a little before making a choice. The hands of the two directors in the game industry, EA and idsoftware, were raised with Microsoft. The Labor Director representing the labor union and an independent director representing the interests of PC manufacturers such as HP and Silicon Valley politicians followed the crowd after half of the vote.

Then NEC's director representative observed the situation and raised his hand.

Finally, the focus is only the second largest individual shareholder and a director representative of minority shareholders, who sit together.

"Really, it's clear that after the financial report comes out, the market reaction will be very enthusiastic. There must be some accidents."

The second largest individual shareholder raised his hand with the representatives of minority shareholders while complaining, "I'm not aiming at you, aplus." he also added.

"I understand. OK, all votes passed."

Song Ya has paid attention to Microsoft and the game industry. With the release of Xbox, it seems that Microsoft has gradually established its control over the American game industry. Although their relationship also includes competition because they insist on acquiring, supporting their own studios and monopolizing games.

For the time being, I can still control the board of directors, but this is a hidden danger. If today's Microsoft director representative is replaced by Ballmer with great personal charm... Another controversial proposal will indeed be dangerous.

It's time for a board re-election, at least to get rid of the already insignificant director represented by id software and replace him with someone who is not in the game industry.

Although Microsoft supported itself just now, it was just because of the same interests.

The second largest individual shareholders and representatives of minority shareholders are temporarily inactive.

"Well, let's discuss the specific date and agenda of the shareholders' meeting next month... It's just the year of re-election, isn't it?" he said. He is the emperor of 3dfx and can't face any challenges. He must eliminate any hidden dangers at the source, he asked the secretary.

"Yes."

"OK, let's discuss the agenda of the shareholders' meeting." he smiled meaningfully at the second largest individual shareholder. During this period, we must reduce the wariness of Microsoft and idsoftware.

The other party immediately glared back with an angry look.

The black law is really vindictive. Revenge doesn't happen overnight, the Microsoft representative thought.

Maybe you can take advantage of this opportunity? He observed the situation secretly and was ready to go back and report to boss Ballmer.

"Aplus, I was just talking about things..."

But after the meeting, the second largest individual shareholder changed his face, was scared to explain all the way, and chased Shi Shi Ran's black law old man out.

"A wonderful annual report! 3dfx continues to maintain its leading position in the industry. The only bad news comes from the loss of new orders from apple. " Bloomberg.

"3dfx released a better than expected financial report for 2002, showing that the company is in good operation. The only bad news is that they have lost Apple's new orders, but they account for a small proportion of sales...".

"3dfx continues their glorious journey, but the crisis has quietly arrived. Big buyer Apple has become the first computer manufacturer to abandon them...".

"3dfx released better than expected financial results for 2002, but can it continue to dominate the display chip industry this year? They seem to have been rejected by apple, which has become the only hidden worry about the stock price performance after the resumption of trading... "CNBC.

"Huh?"

There are also some 3dfx loose stocks in his hand. He is hiding at home licking the wound. By the way, after the trio who pays attention to his old owner swept the news, boss Ross immediately cheered, "why does Apple suddenly no longer cooperate with them?"

"I didn't say why. I'll ask..."

In STB, I lost my pants, but the trio was not bankrupt, the enterprising spirit was not lost, and the action force was still explosive. Scott immediately picked up the phone and asked his friends around.

"Don't you know?!" the friend was very surprised.

"We've been busy with bankruptcy and reorganization recently... We're so busy that we can only sleep four hours a day." Scott's mouth shriveled in embarrassment.

Wronged!

"I told you to jump from the STB, you see how smart Ballard is!" the friend continued to stab him in the heart, "you don't leave 3dfx... Now you have a fortune of at least hundreds of millions!"

"Yes."

Scott was deeply regretful, but now he didn't want to listen to this, "I'm asking you something!"

"Because another company of aplus is competing with apple for the MP3 player market!" the friend shouted, "Steve Jobs wants to teach his younger generation a lesson! Don't you even care about this major event in the electronics industry?"

"Busy..."

Scott immediately passed the news on to his best friend.

"Great! Let's find jobs! Apple needs us now! Don't want 3dfx chips, they don't have many choices left! Our STB technology and patents can provide them with chips to deal with other display chip manufacturers!"

Boss Ross was more excited. He slapped his hands and shouted, "go! Let's go suddenly... No! Go to see jobs!"

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