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1995 is definitely a year worthy of special mention for independent graphics cards. 3D graphics accelerator cards officially entered the field of vision of players.
On November 6, 1995, 3Dfx, as a start-up company, launched the Voodoo graphics card, the greatest graphics card in human history. It is the 3D chip with the highest market share in the world, with a graphics card market share of as high as 85% that year.
Voodoo adopts the form of a daughter card and is used in conjunction with the 2D display of the main card. The specialized 3D chip can provide better 3D performance at the same development cost.
Voodoo successfully brought users into the "3D world", making it a shining example of 3D acceleration equipment in the PC field, laying a solid foundation for the vigorous development of 3D accelerator cards in the future, thus ushering in a 3Dfx dynasty.
In November 1997, 3Dfx launched Voodoo2, the most popular 3D graphics card that pushed 3dfx to the top.
The launch of Voodoo2 makes 3dfx's dominance even more unshakable. The performance of Voodoo2 makes it difficult for opponents to match it.
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"Mr. Huang, Guozhi Computer Company has reserved RivaTNT for 50,000 yuan. Please give me a preferential price, Mr. Huang."
Sun Jian also doesn’t know the performance of RivaTNT? I had never played online games in an Internet cafe in my previous life, and I was not a computer enthusiast, so I didn’t pay much attention to the graphics card in my computer.
In its previous life, graphics cards were used as a mining tool and were wildly hyped by the market.
Since NVIDIA dares to promote that the performance of RivaTNT is 1.5 times that of Voodoo2, using 350nm process technology, and will be launched on May 1, RivaTNT will become the world's best-performing 3D graphics card.
Black and white!
Sun Jian was not worried at all.
American consumers are not something businesses and companies dare to mess with casually? False propaganda will be punished by the court and bankrupt, and the boss may be imprisoned. Consumers can enjoy God's treatment in the United States!
Everyone carries the sedan chair!
Huang Renxun agreed to hand over RivaTNT to Sugon Toshiba Wafer Company for production, which was a big order for Sugon Toshiba Wafer Company and an opportunity to showcase its production technology to major international companies.
The impact of the 1998 Asian crisis on the world economy has begun to appear. Although the stock market, foreign exchange market and real estate market in Southeast Asian countries and regions fell by more than 50% last year, they are still falling, causing factories to close down and workers to lose their jobs in large numbers. Many people will lose their jobs for life. All their hard work was wiped out, and they still owed a lot of debt to banks. They had no money for consumption, and they did not dare to borrow money for consumption. The world economy fell into a state of contraction, the market was depressed, the semiconductor market also entered a recession cycle, and orders in the world's wafer foundry market also began to decrease.
Guaranteed by orders from Sugon Communications Group, Guozhi Semiconductor Group, Sugon Automation Group, Sugon Toshiba Technology Company, Sugon Toshiba Elevator Company and other companies, China has become the world's most important manufacturing center for IT, communication equipment and household appliances, communication equipment There is a huge market for home appliance chips, and the six semiconductor production lines of Sugon Toshiba Wafer Company and PGCA Wafer Company are not idle.
According to the plan, a 6-inch wafer and 800nm process semiconductor production line produced by BSEC for PGCA was put into trial production at the end of last year.
In his previous life, without the Asian economic crisis, there would be no richest man like Li. Others sold off their houses and other assets in the panic of 1998, but Li Jiacheng boldly bought the bottom. When the economy began to gradually recover in 1999, he became the biggest winner in Hong Kong!
In previous lives, the Asian economic crisis had little impact on the economies of mainland China, Taiwan and the United States. Without the Asian financial crisis, China's rapid economic rise would not have been possible.
As a reborn person, Sun Jian cashed out from the stock market in advance and had more than HK$60 billion in cash in HTIC's special account, preparing to buy the Hong Kong stock market and real estate at the bottom.
The next RivaTNT2 that NVIDIA successfully develops will definitely use the 250nm process technology, and can be produced by PGCA wafer company, which has a 250nm process technology semiconductor production line that has been put into production.
"Thank you, Mr. Sun!"
Huang Renxun felt happy.
Regardless of the price, Sun Jian took the lead in booking 50,000 RivaTNT on behalf of Guozhi Computer Company. This is the greatest support for RivaTNT. Although Guozhi computers were only launched last year, it is said that 190,000 units were sold in three months. This year, at least 600,000 units sold.
According to IDC predictions, in the next five years, the sales volume of personal computers in mainland China may reach 50 million units, making it the fastest growing country in the world.
Huang Renxun also had this consideration in placing the production of RivaTNT in Sugon Toshiba Wafer Company.
The 50,000 pieces of RivaTNT reserved by Guozhi Computer Company will be used in the most advanced desktop computers.
As a community of interests, we help each other and both parties benefit.
The Graphics Card Research Institute led by Director Zhang Heping is currently working on 8MB graphics cards, which are also 3D independent graphics cards. However, compared with Voodoo2 and RivaTNT 3D graphics cards with a maximum memory capacity of 12MB (4MB post cache, 8MB texture cache), there are still more Big technological gap.
Some technologies cannot be solved with money, but require talent and time.
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Today, among the eight large graphics card companies in the world, in addition to NVIDIA led by Huang Renxun, there is also ATI led by Chinese He Guoyuan.
In 1993, when ATI's shares were listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Nvidia had just been established.
He Guoyuan was born in Yangcheng in 1950. After finishing elementary school in Yangcheng, he immigrated to Xiangjiang. After completing the middle school course, he went to Taiwan Province. After studying electrical engineering at Taiwan National Cheng Kung University, he returned to Xiangjiang and worked in several companies including National Semiconductor Corporation. I worked for an IT company for a while. In 1984, immigrated to Canada.
ATI (Array Teology Industry) company was founded in August 1985. It has a Chinese name called Yetian. The founders are Kwok Yuen Ho, a Chinese who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong, and three other Hong Kong immigrants, Liu Baixing (), Benny Liu (), Liu Likai (), four people prepared to establish a Chinese company in a garage in the small town of Markham, Ontario, Canada. They raised 300,000 Canadian dollars (about 220,000 US dollars) and borrowed 300,000 Canadian dollars from the Canadian branch of Singapore Overseas Union Bank. Canadian dollars, four people felt that the money was not enough to start a computer company, so they decided to open a lower-cost computer graphics chip company.
ATI was born in this garage.
He Guoyuan serves as president of the development department and president of the strategy department.
It was extremely difficult for ATI at the beginning. There were only six employees in the company, and the secretary, receptionist and shipping were all the same people.
CEO He Guoyuan is also a garage cleaner. In addition to technology research and development, he is involved in all company business.
Even so, the initial venture was quickly exhausted. Fortunately, a business loan totaling US$1.8 million from Overseas Union Bank of Singapore was able to sustain ATI.
Although the company struggled at the beginning, He Guoyuan's keen entrepreneurial direction still brought vitality to the company. In October 1985, ATI used ASIC technology to develop the first graphics chip and graphics card. With excellent operations and its own superior technology, ATI , the first order was obtained the next year, 7,000 chips per week, and ATI earned US$10 million that year.
