San Jose, also known as San Jose, is located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of nearly one million and is the third most populous city in California. It is located in the Silicon Valley of the Santa Clara Valley south of the San Francisco Bay. It is the capital and city of Santa Clara County. The district includes Santa Clara County, bordering the Kaiote River and 6 kilometers northwest from San Francisco. It is the 10th largest city in the United States and is known as the "Heart of Silicon Valley."
World-famous high-tech companies such as gtel, hp, gcpi, apple, yahoo, 3dx, nvidia, ebay, marvell, etc. gather in San Jose.
"Mr. Sellers, on behalf of Guozhi Computer Company, I would like to reserve a voodoo2 worth 10,000 yuan. Please give me a preferential price, Mr. Sellers."
"Mr. Sun, that's easy to talk about!"
Sun Jian and his entourage rushed to San Jose, the headquarters of 3dx Company, and ordered from the CEO voodoo2, which has the best performance on the market and is popular around the world, to prepare for Guozhi's second-generation Pentium II computer.
Some media commented on voodoo2 like this: When voodoo2 is ready to be released, I don’t know how many players are waiting for it. It makes voodoo a myth, it makes all games proud of only3dx, and it brings us the coveted sli (i.e. Two pieces of voodoo2 are connected in parallel to obtain double the speed), which makes voodoo2 even more powerful.
The retail price of voodoo2 in the domestic market is 2,900 yuan, which is very high. It is a must-buy 3D graphics card for gamers.
Every time he comes to the United States, Sun Jian will make a trip to San Jose.
In addition to the headquarters of Atic and Atic Securities in New York, most of Sun Jian's investments in the United States are in San Jose.
Sun Jian is an honorary citizen of San Jose.
For Sun Jian, a reborn person, operating an industry is not as good as investing in high-tech stocks on Nasdaq, and investing in high-tech stocks is not as good as investing in the original company of the IT boss in his previous life, which is a timely help.
Atic is the controlling shareholder of GCA, and GCA is the controlling shareholder of GPIC.
Atic and its subsidiary Wukong Angel Investment Fund are also the largest shareholders of Apple, Yahoo, 3dx, Nvidia, eBay, and Marvell. They have made a written commitment that as strategic investors, they have voting rights but will not participate in the company's operation and management.
No one could have imagined that Sun Jian would be lying on his back now, and in about ten years, he would become the richest man in the world just by holding shares in these IT companies.
The first generation product of vgacard is the ativgaonder image display card released by ati company, but it only has the function of outputting images.
By the second generation, the graphics card graphics accelerator card already has graphics processing capabilities, partially liberating the CPU from a large amount of graphics calculation work, and the pengxp and indos9 interfaces run more smoothly.
By the third generation, the videocard video accelerator card had the video auxiliary decoding function, and at this time it was still the company that led the release.
After going through monochrome, color, 2D, video, and into the 3D era, the graphics card market has ushered in a new situation.
In the following years, driven by the emerging PC trend at that time, ATI's revenue increased year by year. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, ATI's turnover reached nearly 100 million US dollars, and it ranked among the top 50 high-tech companies in Canada. company.
In April 1992, ATI released the mach32 graphics card with integrated graphics acceleration function, and its turnover exceeded US$100 million.
In 1993, ati was successfully listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
In this era, ATI will call the graphics processor VPU.
In 1996, the Voodoo series under 3dx suddenly emerged. The fourth-generation 3D accelerator card revolutionized all PC graphics processors and ushered in the "Warring States Era" in the history of graphics cards.
In November 1997, voodoo2 was born, and 3dx became the industry leader in 3D graphics cards, monopolizing 8% of the 3D graphics card market share.
ATI began to focus on integrating graphics chips for large PCs such as IBM.
In October 1997, ATI was selected as the market leader in the graphics chip industry by IDC.
In his previous life, Sun Jian only knew NVIDIA, not ATI, nor did he know He Guoyuan, a Chinese elite. He met ATI and He Guoyuan in 1991 through Chen Yongqing.
In July 1991, with the assistance of more than 100 technical personnel and more than two years of hard work, Chen Yongqing's team finally successfully developed the server gzc1000s. The production of Guozhi brand servers also required important components such as hard drives, memory, and graphics cards. Guozhi Communications The Semiconductor Research Institute cannot solve the problem on its own in a short time.
Chen Yongqing told Sun Jian that ATI, a company founded by Canadian Chinese He Guoyuan in 1988, is an important company that develops and produces 2D and 3D graphics cards.
Sun Jian immediately instructed Yu Jianguo to pay attention to the Canadian ati company. In October 1992, ati conducted a C round of financing, issued 20 million shares in Canadian dollars, and raised 100 million Canadian dollars. Wukong Angel Investment Fund invested 20 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 27.3 million US dollars. Canadian dollars purchased 460,000 shares, accounting for 9.9% of the total share capital of 0.0 million shares.
On November 12, 1993, ati was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange with the stock code: aty. Yu Jianguo attended the listing bell-ringing ceremony in his dual capacity as director and largest shareholder.
On November 22, 1993, Sun Jian met He Guoyuan, one of the representatives of Canadian Chinese elites, at the Second World Chinese Entrepreneurs Conference in Hong Kong. They cherished each other and had a good conversation.
In August 1997, at the Fourth World Chinese Entrepreneurs Conference held in Vancouver, Canada, He Guoyuan, as a representative of the Chinese elite, was already sitting in the center of the first row of the audience.
At the Second World Chinese Entrepreneurs Conference, Sun Jian met and made friends with many young Chinese elites in the IT industry.
Silicon Valley is the mecca for global entrepreneurial elites!
Atic owns Silicon Valley Atic, and the building is close to GCA and GPIC. The headquarters of Wukong Angel Investment Fund i is located in Silicon Valley Atic. Zhao Yuda serves as the general manager of Silicon Valley Atic, and Lin Chang serves as the general manager of Wukong Angel Investment Fund.
On September 4, 1999, Pierre Omidyar registered and founded the predecessor of the aueb website eBay in San Jose. He successively received an investment of US$1 million from the Wukong Angel Investment Fund and held 4 million shares, accounting for 40% of shares.
eBay plans to issue 20 million shares publicly and plan to be listed on Nasdaq in September 1998.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are still studying at Stanford University, have been targeted by Sun Jian, but he will not bother. When Google needs A-round financing, Wukong Angel Investment Fund will appear. in front of them.
Marvell Technology, headquartered in San Jose, was founded in 1999 by Indonesian overseas Chinese Zhou Xiuwen, his wife Dai Weili, and his brother Zhou Xiuwu. It develops and produces disk control chips. The three of them are computer Ph.D. graduates from Berkeley and have technical skills. background, but never received training in business administration or finance.
In 1996, Marvell was short of money, so Zhou Xiuwen came to the door. Lin Chang invested US$1 million on behalf of Wukong Angel Investment Fund, holding 40% of the shares and enjoying priority in the B-round financing.
Since its establishment in 1991, Wukong Angel Investment Fund has participated in venture capital investments in high-tech companies such as Mosaic Netscape Communications, Yahoo!, AsiaInfo Technology and Cadabra, the former name of Amazon.
