AOL's stock has been rising for two days in a row. Just as investors were grinning from ear to ear, waiting for Wednesday's market trends, the official account of 3dfx suddenly posted a comment.
3dfx did not have an official tribe before. Their current official tribe was only registered a week ago. In this week, they only gained more than a hundred fans, and these more than a hundred fans are basically from the company.
staff.
The tribe on Wednesday was the first tribe they posted after registering their account. Within two hours after this tribe was posted, their number of fans increased from more than 100 to more than 10,000, and the tribe’s views exceeded
Five hundred thousand.
The content of the tribe is as follows: 3dfx has been acquired by a company called Blue Galaxy.
Just when everyone was speculating about the origin of Blue Galaxy, Jimmy announced his personal tribe. From today on, he will serve as the chairman and CEO of Blue Galaxy.
Only then did people suddenly realize that when 3dfx was involved in a lawsuit with Nvidia at the end of the previous year, it was Deep Space that helped 3dfx resolve the matter.
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After getting married, Jimmy only had three days of rest before quickly getting back to work.
In fact, Jimmy also wants to rest for two more days, but Britney is even busier than her. Jimmy is still in Jinling, and Britney has already boarded a plane to Hawaii, USA. She has a performance in Hawaii on Thursday.
Jimmy flew to the United States the next day, but he did not fly directly to San Jose, where 3dfx headquarters is located, nor did he return to the Deep Space US headquarters in New York. Instead, he went to Austin, Texas. The destination of his trip was a company called
Intrinsity's chip manufacturing company.
Many people have never heard of the company inrrinsity. In fact, it is indeed not well-known.
The company was first established in 1993. At that time, the company's name was Exponential Technology. Their first product was a Power ISA architecture chip specifically designed for Apple's PowerPC. The chip's name was x704.
If Apple can use their product, then their company will definitely develop well.
But unfortunately, Apple did not use their products. After losing such a big customer as Apple, it directly led to the bankruptcy and reorganization of the company.
In 1997, the remaining employees of Exponential gathered together and founded evsx, which was renamed intrinsic three years later in 2000.
Before Yu Dong came to Austin, he made an appointment with Snoop, the general manager of intrinsic company.
Snoop hosted Jimmy in his office.
Intrinsity's office is very small, and General Manager Snoop's office is even smaller, not even as big as a set of sofas in Jimmy's office...Snoop's office only has an artificial leather sofa chair.
Snoop handed Jimmy a cup of coffee and said sheepishly, "I'm very sorry, our conditions are too simple."
Jimmy smiled and took the coffee, looked around Snoop's office again, and said, "This is not too shabby. When YU and I first established the company ten years ago, the conditions were much shabbier than what you have here.
You know, China's development ten years ago was not very good, and even in a city like Jinling, it was not easy to rent a decent office."
In fact, Jimmy said this completely to comfort Snoop. China's development was indeed not good ten years ago, and there was no decent office space in Jinling. But when the Deep Space Company was first established ten years ago, the office of the group was very large. Jimmy
My own office is at least twice as big as Snoop's. Even Yu Dong's assistant has an office of his own, which is bigger than Snoop's.
However, Snoop felt very comfortable hearing these words. He smiled and said, "All success has a starting point. The development of Deep Space Company in the past ten years is like a miracle. We were first established in 1993.
It has been nearly ten years now, but our development is completely incomparable to yours."
Jimmy took a sip of coffee... This coffee tasted really bad, but he didn't even frown.
"Having taken the liberty to visit your company, I haven't caused any trouble to you, have I?"
Snoop waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, it's our honor for you to come to our company. Many people in our company are fans of you and YU. Your deeds have been praised among us. However, I also
I would like to ask, what is the purpose of your visit this time?"
Two days ago, when he received a call from Jimmy, Snoop was full of surprise. Even if he racked his brains, he could not figure out the reason why the head of the Deep Space Company took the initiative to call him.
Although Deep Space is also involved in the semiconductor industry, their company is too small to have anything to do with Deep Space.
But he asked Jimmy on the phone what was going on here, but Jimmy said he just wanted to visit their company.
Although this request was very inexplicable, Snoop couldn't refuse it. God, that was Jimmy, the most popular person in the business circle recently.
On the one hand, Deep Space Corporation has a hot relationship with AOL and is planning to acquire Huawei, which has attracted a lot of attention in the industry. On the other hand, Jimmy has just married the little diva Britney, which can be said to be a great harvest in career and love.
Snoop just said that everyone in his company is a fan of Jimmy and YU. This is a bit exaggerated, but it is true that many colleagues are very concerned about the trends of Deep Space Company, including Snoop himself.
Jimmy smiled and said, "Do you know that I just acquired 3dfx?"
Snoop nodded, "Of course I am concerned about such a big matter. In fact, I was already paying attention when 3dfx was in litigation with NVIDIA. Later, NVIDIA withdrew the lawsuit and the matter was settled. I was still wondering why.
This time I saw the tribe you posted, and I finally understood. But what does this matter have to do with us?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Jimmy smiled, "I founded Blue Galaxy because I wanted to develop chips for BenQ mobile phones, but we did not have the technology in this area, so we acquired
3dfx, but you also know that 3dfx technology is basically concentrated on graphics cards and 3D, so we need another technical team."
Snoop raised his eyebrows, "You mean, us?"
Jimmy nodded, "That's you."
"But." Snoop frowned, "But we don't have any mobile phone chip technology. The mobile Internet market is indeed growing, but it is still too small and we are not involved."
Jimmy smiled and nodded. Snoop was right. Although mobile Internet is on the rise, the market is too small. Not only are small companies like Snoop not interested in it, but even Intel and ADM are not interested in it.
Large companies that lack various market research information reports and technology accumulation also look down on the mobile Internet market.
And now looking at the development of mobile phones, they do not need to have dedicated chip research and development.
Jimmy smiled and said, "Everything remains the same. Whether the mobile Internet market is big or small is not something you need to consider. In fact, there is not much competitiveness in the chip research and development of mobile Internet. If you change
It is easy to achieve results on this track. In addition, I will not let you fight alone. Not only will you have the technical support of 3dfx, I will also recruit another strong person for you.
team."
"Another strong team?" Snoop asked doubtfully.
"Keep it a secret for now." Jimmy said with a smile.
Snoop was silent. Faced with Jimmy's invitation, he hesitated. Deep Space Company was certainly a good home, but Jimmy wanted them to invest in the mobile Internet market.
Jimmy and the others spent such a high price to acquire 3dfx and come to Austin in person, which definitely shows that they are very optimistic about the mobile Internet chip market.
If their judgment is right, then as Jimmy said, their intrinsic ability can also shine on the new track, but what if Deep Space Company makes a wrong judgment? They have devoted themselves wholeheartedly to this track, and then they will be able to shine on the new track.
What should I do? Will it be thrown away like garbage by the deep space company?
Even if the Deep Space Company is very conscientious and can properly arrange for them, it can only make them have enough food and clothing, and there will definitely not be any big development. Although their current situation is very embarrassing, they are still very ambitious.
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After all, Deep Space Company is a big company. If they make a mistake in judgment and lose hundreds of millions of dollars, it will not be a big deal for them, but this is different for their small company.
Seeing Snoop's hesitation, Jimmy continued, "Blue Star Sky will acquire your company for US$15 million."
When he heard fifteen million dollars, Snoop suddenly raised his head and looked at Jimmy in disbelief.
Seeing Snoop's expression, Jimmy laughed, because he knew that the matter was settled.
It stands to reason that a small company like Intrinsity is definitely not worth 15 million US dollars. It doesn't even need to be acquired. It just needs to spend high salaries to poach the company's technical personnel to the blue starry sky.
But acquiring companies don’t just go to the wet market to buy food, they also have to worry about everything. The main thing is to be fast, fast and stable. What they need to care about is not how much the current Intrinsity company is worth, but how much value this company can bring to them.
If Intrinsity can really produce a low-power, high-performance mobile phone chip for BenQ Mobile, let alone 15 million US dollars, even if there is a zero at the end, Jimmy won't even blink.
While waiting for Snoop to respond, Jimmy added, "Your current employees' salaries will remain unchanged, but the company will give you some options. Everyone has them, but the proportions are different."
Snoop rubbed his hands, "Then what else do you want from us?"
At this time, Snoop was embarrassed to make demands, but asked Jimmy if he had any new demands for them. After all, in his opinion, if there were no more demands, this acquisition would be too cheap for them. One thousand
Not to mention five million US dollars, but also to give them dividend options. Snoop has never encountered such a good thing in his life.
Jimmy smiled and waved his hand, "There are no other requirements. As long as you agree to this condition, I will have someone draw up the contract today, and we can sign the contract tomorrow. After your matter is over, I will go to another place. Just like
What I just told you is that you will be assigned a group of good helpers... In fact, you will help each other."
"No problem, I can definitely decide this matter. You ask someone to draft the contract. Once we make sure there is no problem, we can sign it. Everything from then on will be up to your arrangements."
Jimmy smiled and spent $15 million in one breath. What he wanted was this efficiency. He needed to start up the new Blue Star Company in a short time.
"No problem." Jimmy stood up, "I will go back to the hotel first. In about three hours, please go to the hotel where I am staying. My legal team is on the way with the contract."
"Three hours...that is four o'clock, okay, I understand."
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The acquisition contract was signed very smoothly. Jimmy asked the legal team to draft the acquisition contract before he came. Snoop had no objections to the terms of the contract, so there was no part of the contract to be modified, so he just signed it.
After signing the contract, Snow shook hands with Jimmy and said, "Mr. James, the intrinsic value will be yours from now on."
Jimmy smiled and responded, "No, no, no, it's not just mine, it's ours. Whether Intrinsity can succeed and whether Blue Starry Sky can succeed still depends on you."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "We will do our best not to let you down."
Jimmy smiled: "I believe you can do it."
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After Jimmy left Austin, he went to the Santa Clara Valley in San Francisco.
In an empty office, he met a fifty-seven-year-old Daniel Doberbul.
Looking at the empty office, Jimmy smiled and said, "Looks like this, are you planning to build a new company?"
Daniel Doberbul spread his hands and said, "I have this idea, but I haven't made a decision yet. Why did you come to see me?"
"I'm here to help you make up your mind." Jimmy smiled.
If Blue Starry Sky wants to succeed, apart from the intrinsic company, the most critical thing is the old man in front of it.
Of course, it's not just the old man alone, but also the old man's loyal younger brothers.
Daniel Doberbull is a very well-known figure in the industry. When he was in his early thirties, Doberbull joined Dec Corporation, a legendary giant in the electronics field, and participated in the leadership of the development of the highly popular high-performance chip alpha.
Later, as the head of dec's R&D center in Silicon Valley, he teamed up with ARM to build the StrongARM project, striving to combine the high performance of the alpha chip with the low power consumption of ARM to design a stronger, faster, and lighter chip.
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At that time, Dec's Silicon Valley R&D center gathered a large number of top talents in the semiconductor industry, and with the support of Stanford and the University of California, many young people were involved in it, and Doberbul was like a star among them, very loved
, belongs to the kind that responds to everything at once.
Chapter completed!