Chapter 64 ATI's Request
When Yang Hailong heard Jester say this, he also thought this was a solution. Jester's grandfather was a patriotic Chinese registered in the central government. Jester himself has also received the attention of ministerial leaders. He has also made a young entrepreneur who has made a career in the United States. He is really worried about him.
But he couldn't make any decision on this matter, so he turned his eyes to Qin Shuyao.
Qin Shuyao heard Jester say this, her thin skin turned red again without any effort, and then a look of hesitation appeared on her face first, then she looked up at Jester's face with a faint smile and whispered: "Thank you then."
Jester drove his own big horsepower Ford F150 pickup truck and carried Qin Shuyao. He first went back to his grandfather's manor to say goodbye to his sister-in-law. By the way, if his sister-in-law would like to come to his company to be a financial director, after all, he always asked the financial company to do his own company's financial OEM, how does it look like the courage that a large enterprise should have.
His sister-in-law just said that she wanted to consider it again. The business she took over is very important. After successful work, it is very useful for her to increase her reputation in the circle. Jester could only agree.
When his sister-in-law knew that he was going to send Qin Shuyao back to Los Angeles, she saw the beautiful and polite Qin Shuyao, and she immediately liked it very much. When she saw Jester's old-fashioned high-power F150 pickup truck, she immediately forced Jester to drive her own treasured Ferrari 365GT4/BB to send a girl back. Jester was a little reluctant at first, but she knew that he always had a fear of supercars that didn't know what the reason was, and always thought that this kind of car was a moving coffin.
It's not as grand as his thick and atmospheric muscle pickup.
However, after seeing this rare silver-white Ferrari classic supercar, he was immediately attracted by its special design aesthetic, especially seeing the six thick exhaust pipes arranged on the left and right sides of the car, which immediately made Jester feel enthusiastic.
He likes muscle cars because of the high horsepower of muscle cars. He likes the sound of the loud horsepower engine roaring the most.
But when he saw these six exhaust pipes, he was as if he had heard the roar of the motor, and his blood was boiling.
Ferrari 365GT4/BB is a work that is of milestone in the history of world sports cars. Qin Shuyao, a little girl born and raised in China, couldn't help but show a curious look on her face when she saw this sports car with a strange shape in her eyes.
But she still held back and didn't ask.
"Get in the car." Jester greeted her.
Qin Shuyao nodded and got in the car. Jester started the car. Perhaps because of the fact that there was a girl in his car, Jester could not increase the horsepower to the maximum, but the acceleration of this sports car is still very terrible. It takes less than six seconds to accelerate six miles. This speed is definitely the top among the civil sports cars of this era.
Jester is used to driving a big horsepower muscle car, but now it is not difficult to control this lightweight big horsepower supercar. He went straight to the road leading to Los Angeles from the suburbs of San Francisco. When he saw that the road was extremely empty, he couldn't help but gradually increase the accelerator.
However, what surprised Jester was that Qin Shuyao, who usually looked weak and blushed after being watched for a long time, was not disgusted with the galloping sports car.
There was even a hint of excitement.
Of course, Jester saw the scenery on both sides of the road retreating rapidly, and he ran rapidly like he was riding on a bolt of lightning, and his face also showed a look of enjoyment.
"No wonder later generations of cars and guns can be ranked among the three major cancers in the game world! It's enough to rely on this kind of venting pleasure that can only be understood but not expressed." Jester, who is enjoying the pleasure of driving this classic Ferrari sports car, thought so.
However, both Jester and Qin Shuyao were dull. For five or six hours, one was driving attentively and occasionally glanced at the girl sitting next to her, but the other one knew to look at the scenery on the roadside through the car window. The two of them said a few dispensable words and returned to Los Angeles all the way.
Now the University of Southern California has been on holiday, but the school dormitory can also be accommodated. Jester sent Qin Shuyao to the vicinity of University of Southern California and stopped the car.
It was already night, but it was not too late, and there were still many pedestrians.
After the two said goodbye to each other, Qin Shuyao also wanted to leave.
Jester wanted to say something, but before that, every time he opened his mouth, he forgot what he wanted to say.
This time, seeing Qin Shuyao's pretty figure pushing out the door from the car and leaving with cheerful steps, Jester finally plucked up the courage, pushed open the door, got out of the car, and called Qin Shuyao who was about to leave.
Qin Shuyao turned around in surprise and looked at Jester, looking at him in confusion.
The moment when Jester saw Qin Shuyao's delicate face, he seemed to have lost the courage he had finally plucked up before. He just opened his mouth and showed a smile that seemed awkward to others, and said hesitantly.
“Can we be… friends?”
Qin Shuyao's face turned slightly red after hearing Jester's words, but she returned to normal in the next moment.
"Aren't we friends now?" Qin Shuyao asked with a strange smile on her face.
"Maybe, maybe, yes." The smile on Jester's face also became normal. What he wanted to say was another kind of friend, and he didn't say it after all.
"That's all!" Qin Shuyao was also very happy to hear Jester's answer. She waved her hand, "Then I'll leave."
"Then let's start with friends." Jester thought so while waved his hand.
It was not until Qin Shuyao's figure disappeared into the campus of the University of Southern California in the night that Jester returned to the car. He smashed the steering wheel with some venting style and suddenly hated himself extremely. Why is he so useless in this regard?
This doesn’t look like me at all! Where did I have the courage to chat and laugh with legendary figures such as Aarakawa Mi, Lee Kun-hee, and Juno Nakayama!
While cursing himself, he sat in the car for a few minutes. Then Jester started the car and drove back at a high speed.
When Jester comes back from another place, he will go to the company first, rather than go home directly, because the company must have accumulated a lot of work that he needs to handle when he leaves.
When he arrived at Mars Entertainment, Jester saw that the lights in Mark Seney's room were still on.
"It's really hard." Jester also admired Mark Seney very much. Since his R&D team was established, he has worked overtime almost every day. Fortunately, he is like himself, a bachelor. Otherwise, his girlfriend might have come to make a big fuss in the Mars Entertainment Headquarters.
Jester entered the company and did not go to his office, but went directly to Mark Seney's room.
When I opened the door, I saw a strange scene at the first glance.
A computer motherboard was disassembled and a line was connected from outside to a square-looking thing similar to a video tape. Mark Seni leaned on a chair, frowned, and his eyes were staring at the flashing fluorescent computer screen.
"What are you doing?" Jester walked up curiously and looked at it. He found that this time Mark Seney was not studying his "Avengers", but seemed to be writing some program.
"Are you back?" Mark Seney also saw Jester coming in. He stretched his waist a little, and a look of fatigue appeared on his face.
"What's wrong with you? Why are your eyes so red?" Jester glanced at Mark Seney and found that his eyes were as blood-filled as they hadn't slept for several days and nights. Moreover, his table was filled with five or six boxes of takeout from pizza shops that companies often called, and the empty Coca-Cola cans were still filled with the trash cans on the side of the table.
"I haven't slept for two days."
Mark Seney yawned, then pointed to the thing that Jester saw just in the door that made him feel a little strange, and said, "You hold a company specializing in the development of display chips. What is the name of ATI? They sent the sample of the graphics processing chip they designed for our home machine that we designed the day before yesterday. After testing our hardware department, we found that the effect was very good, and it seemed to be using some unique architecture. Then their R&D department told me that they designed a display graphics card specially used on IBM/PC compatible machines. The one used on our eight-bit PPU is this new architecture they just developed. By the way, this is the sample of the graphics card they sent."
As he said, Mark Seney pointed at Jester and felt a bit thick and square, like a videotape, and continued: "This graphics card has excellent image processing capabilities. They want the company to focus on this product, but..."
After Mark Seney said this, Jester understood. Before Mark Seney could finish his words, he interrupted him with a smile and said, "But after they went to sell it, they found that few computer companies were interested in their graphics card?"
"Yes." Mark Seney glanced at Jester with some surprise, then looked puzzled on his face and asked, "How did you know? They have contacted you?"
"hehe."
Jester smiled and said bluntly, "No, I just heard you say that, but you only need to think about it. Mark, you have to know that the market will only have a market when it needs a product. When the market does not need this product, no matter how advanced it is, it will not have a market."
While speaking, Jester walked to the graphics card that ATI had just developed and pointed at it, "Although I don't know how it performs, I think its image processing capability will definitely be better than other personal computers on the market, but then again, it seems that the current personal computers do not need a sixteen-digit graphics card at all, because no program needs a sixteen-digit graphics card to run, right?"
After hearing Jester's words, Mark Seney clapped his palms and said with some admiration: "I didn't expect you to say exactly the same as that CEO He of ATI. Originally, I thought, wouldn't a product with technological advantages definitely be favored by the market? I didn't expect that it was not the case at all. However, the CEO He you found only understood after the sales failed. Why are you..."
"Let's not talk about this for now."
Jester waved his hand, and he knew this naturally because he knew the marketing model of those graphics card dealers in later generations.
Later software vendors have colluded with hardware. Hardware vendors have launched hardware with increasingly high performance, while software vendors have launched games that require stronger performance hardware to run. The two colluded together. This is why the two major graphics card vendors in the future can be so valuable. Otherwise, in addition to those specialized graphics workers in this world, who can use such powerful graphics cards? Do text workers who only use WORD code words need it?
It is impossible to need it.
"You'd better answer my initial question first. What are you doing?" Jester asked Mark Seney.
After Jester said this, Mark Seney immediately became a little excited.
"The CEO of ATI came to us for help, hoping that we can produce a computer game that is as influential as we used to, but requires super high image processing capabilities to run, so that computer users can force hardware vendors to order their newly developed sixteen-bit graphics cards from them in order to play this game. Then I wonder if I can move the scroll effect that has been completed on the arcade to my personal computer. You know, since Eugene Jarvis completed the scroll effect on the arcade in 1981, no one has ever completed it on the personal computer!"
As he said that, Mark Seni's tone, which was a little excited, gradually became low, "But I have tried various methods in the past two days. The arcade substrate is different from the computer's substrate structure. Some technologies that can be used on arcades are difficult to implement on personal computers. Even if you force it to do it, it will be very unsmooth."
While saying that, Mark Seney called Jester to his computer screen and ran a program for him.
It is a program that simulates the effects of a scroll.
However, when Jester looked at the scroll effect on his personal computer, he couldn't help but feel unbearable to look at it carefully.
How to say, the effect of this scroll is a little better than that of the slideshow.
Can you imagine the effect of a slide-like scroll?
PS1: Please recommend votes!!
PS2: If anyone wants to play this game, I recommend playing the Vientiane Senluo version, which adds a lot of MODs, which is indeed more playable than the original one.
Chapter completed!