Chapter 981 (1/2)

3dfx's compromise really surprised the industry.

For the outside world, 3dfx company has always been a very proud company.

After all, entrepreneurs, so far, three people are less than 30 years old. Not only that, the company has only been established for less than four years. It is a really young company. At the same time, it is also very successful.

In four years, the world has almost reached the peak of the industry.

This arrogance is understandable.

But also because of this, offended the whole peer.

After all, as a display chip manufacturer, it's too unkind for you to manufacture boards and compete with downstream board manufacturers. Therefore, it has been resisted by all board manufacturers in the industry. These board manufacturers have switched to NVIDIA or ATI.

They don't produce voodoo graphics cards. Let you play by yourself.

The industry is generally not optimistic about this situation. Even if you are at the peak now, the IT industry is updating too fast. It's common to fall into the altar by mistake.

As a result, who would have expected that now it suddenly announced to give up board manufacturers and focus on display chips, which really makes people admire that it is indeed a young company, flexible and flexible.

Therefore, board manufacturers such as ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte also return one after another. After all, Voodoo is just red and can make money. Who doesn't want to make money.

At the moment, Lei Jun's face was confused.

”We bought a board manufacturer?” Lei Jun was so ignorant that he couldn't.

Qin Feng smiled.

”Yes, I bought STB, an old board manufacturer. You arrange someone to accept it, and then move it to China.” Qin Feng said, ”by the way, the acquisition cost US $200 million. In terms of the company's capital flow, if it is insufficient, I will sign another agreement with the bank when I come back! ”

Before that, he borrowed $10 billion. But it's already spent 7788.

For a CPU farm, 10 billion sounds too much. In fact, all kinds of equipment, production lines, employees, R & D and other funds are not enough.

What's more, Huaxia Longxin doesn't make money at all. In China, the manufacturing cost of Godson alone is flat and does not earn a penny. As for the millions of pieces exported, the average loss of each piece is about $5. And with the increase of international logistics costs, this loss will continue. Moreover, the export quantity of Godson is also increasing.

Add in the amazing R & D funds, 10 billion yuan, it's really not worth spending.

This is why Cyrix sold the company so cleanly. Even if there is a new technology that hasn't been taken out, it doesn't hesitate to sell it.

The reason is that the CPU factory is too expensive.

Intel's annual R & D capital is $10 billion. Otherwise, how can we maintain such a strong technical advantage. This is why Intel must sell at a high price.

R & D costs are too high.

This is why Intel hates Qin Feng's price war so much. Let them lose a lot of money out of thin air, and it is difficult to fill the vacancy of R & D funds.

Therefore, some domestic newspapers used to say that they could smash chips with 50 billion yuan, which is pure nonsense.

People's annual R & D cost is more than 50 billion!

Of course, if you have to get a chip, you can say you developed it yourself. That's really OK. However, if we want to truly independent R & D, it is impossible to develop it without a long-term investment of several years or even more.

”Well, there's not a shortage of funds.” Lei Jun said.

Now the company just doesn't make money or lose money. Lei Jun also recognizes it.

Because it is related to the great cause of China. But Qin Feng brought a graphics card manufacturer here. What are you doing?

”Well, what do we do?” Lei Jun didn't understand.