To tell the truth, in Qin Feng''s heart, NVIDIA is indeed the most powerful, followed by ATI, and voodoo (voodoo) with unlimited scenery is the third.


    But now, of course, we can''t say that.


    "I''m really sorry, national and cultural differences. In China, the more important it is, the more important it is. " Qin Feng quickly explained.


    At the end of the day, there is no better excuse than this one.


    Sure enough, this explanation eased their faces.


    "Three, now, I just want to talk to you about cooperation!" Qin Feng said seriously, "today, your voodoo (voodoo) graphics card is the most powerful 3D graphics card in the computer market, but it is also facing crises and challenges. And our company is also facing a strong win Tel alliance! "


    The three did not say anything, but looked at Qin Feng. For Qin Feng''s alarmist talk, they want to know what flowers Qin Feng can say.


    Qin Feng saw that the three didn''t leave, but stayed. He knew there was a play.


    Anyway, at least if people didn''t leave, they gave themselves a chance.


    "First of all, your company''s graphics card has poor 2D performance development!" Qin Feng said.


    The three nodded. They have no objection to this. After all, their voodoo (voodoo) graphics card is designed specifically for 3D games. If the 2D performance is poor, it is poor.


    I can''t help it. Fortunately, Voodoo 2 has also been enhanced in 2D. Although it is not the top, it is much better than the first generation. It can only be said that it is worse than ATI, but it doesn''t have to be worse than other brands.


    "Of course, in 2D, it''s easy to catch up. The future of computer games is still in 3D!" Qin Feng said.


    The three nodded. If Qin Feng wants to say 2D is important, they will directly brush their sleeves and leave.


    "Let''s talk about 3D. I believe all three students should know that Microsoft''s Win98 system is about to be released!" Qin Feng said.


    When they heard the name of Microsoft, a slight expression of disgust appeared on their faces.


    Qin Feng saw that there was more drama.


    "Microsoft has just launched directx6.0 with NVIDIA. You should also know!" Qin Feng said.


    Ross nodded.


    Don''t they know. They really don''t have a good impression of Microsoft. Too overbearing. Since the launch of Win95, Microsoft has become more and more domineering. Use their strong dominance in the operating system market to require major manufacturers to jointly formulate DirectX standards.


    Is this standard good? Nature is good. It provides a common hardware driver standard for all involved personnel, so that game developers do not have to write different drivers for each brand of hardware, and also reduces the complexity of installing and setting hardware.


    It can be said that this standard is very good. But the problem is here, which is launched by Microsoft. Once the global response is received, all relevant hardware companies and game companies must rely on this platform to develop.


    Although the beneficiary is the world, the biggest beneficiary is Microsoft. With this platform, Microsoft will have no rivals in the desktop system in the future. No one can challenge Microsoft.


    In this case, everyone''s future depends on Microsoft''s face.


    This is what their 3dfx company does not want.


    Their three founders, who jumped out of the company and started a business from a post with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars, are for that freedom.


    So they don''t compromise. They are the only display chip company not open to Microsoft''s DirectX.


    They have their pride.


    "But NVIDIA has cooperated with Microsoft, and NVIDIA will become the most powerful opponent of your company." Qin Feng said.


    "NVIDIA?" The three people smoked their lips.


    NVIDIA, how could it be their opponent.


    ATI is pretty much the same.


    Qin Feng smiled.


    "I have an internal information here. NVIDIA will launch an epoch-making 3D graphics card called TNT within this year!" Qin Feng said, "if my information is correct, TNT''s technical indicators should be 0.35 micron core process, 90mhz core frequency, 8m video memory and 110Mhz video memory frequency. As for its pixel filling rate, it has reached an amazing 180m per second." Qin Feng said slowly.


    When TNT was born, it blew up the world like its name.


    It directly became the hottest graphics card in the world that year, and directly drove voodoo (voodoo) out of the altar.


    Because today''s most popular voodoo (voodoo) graphics card is almost the same in other aspects, the pixel fill rate is only 90m per second.


    It can be said that in terms of pixel filling rate, NVIDIA''s TNT has directly doubled.


    Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels rendered by the graphics processing unit per second. The unit is mpixels (million pixels per second) or gpixels (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used indicator to measure the pixel processing performance of the current graphics card. The rendering pipeline of graphics card is an important part of the display core. It is a group of special channels in the display core that are responsible for matching graphics with colors. The more rendering pipelines, the higher the working frequency of each group of pipelines (generally the core frequency of the graphics card), the higher the filling rate of the drawn graphics card and the higher the performance of the graphics card. Therefore, the performance of the graphics card can be roughly judged from the pixel filling rate of the graphics card.


    It can be said that this directly affects the performance of the graphics card. Especially in 3D processing, pixel filling rate is very important.


    After hearing this, the three were obviously shocked.


    If it does come out, Voodoo 2 is a complete defeat. Even voodoo (voodoo) 3 in their research and development is not as good as TNT in terms of pixel filling rate. Voodoo (voodoo) 3 is planned to be launched in the middle of next year.


    The gap is too big.


    "Qin Feng, how can you know the internal secrets of NVIDIA?" Ross can''t believe it.


    Qin Feng smiled.


    Naturally, he didn''t know, but as one of the game fans who admired TNT and wanted to ask for a piece of the game, he knew the performance of subsequent generations of NVIDIA like the back of his hand.


    No way. In those years, various media reported that NVIDIA''s graphics card performance was crazy. NVIDIA has never disappointed its fans. Its development speed is far beyond Moore''s law. Its performance has doubled and its price has been halved in less than 18 months.


    So Qin Feng went to yingweida. However, NVIDIA, which really mastered the core technology, did not bird itself. In other words, NVIDIA directly embraced the big tree of Microsoft. It really did not need to cooperate with Qin Feng.


    "If that''s true, we''ll really be in trouble!" Ross frowned.


    "No, not just trouble, but crisis!" Qin Feng kept hitting, "because my source, the selling price of TNT, probably won''t exceed $200!"


    No more than $200?!