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Chapter 100 : Technology Transfer from the Professional Market
SGI was a newly born company, but absolutely not a small workshop.
None of those who could make a name for themselves in Silicon Valley were easy targets to mess with.
But this didn't mean it truly had no rivals in its own field.
"Mr. Clark, the Geometry Engine you created is absolutely an astonishing piece of art."
Inside the reception room, the two sat facing each other.
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Jim Clark, who had just emerged from poverty relying on SGI, already had somewhat of a big shot's aura.
"Mr. Lin overpraises me. I have studied the NovaWonder produced by your esteemed company, and truly benefited a lot."
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Jim was not a businessman; more often than not, he still considered himself an engineer.
In all fairness, the ingenious architectural design and excellent power consumption ratio of the NovaWonder were absolutely top-tier in the industry.
"I really didn't expect such an astonishing work to come from a game company."
He had studied that chip and knew GAMENOVA's history of making their fortune even better, truly clicking his tongue in wonder at their scientific research capabilities.
Ёǹu m̄ а́
"Mr. Lin sought out our SGI, is it to discuss cooperation on graphics chips?"
"You could say that. We need some technology transfer from the professional market. I noticed the graphics workstations produced by SGI are very good."
"For a startup company like ours to be noticed by Mr. Lin is also my honor."
The customary pleasantries allowed both sides to have a preliminary understanding of each other.
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Lin Lixin paused, his gaze sweeping over this middle-aged prodigy who had made his fortune.
[Jim Clark]
Ẅ.е́ b nоv̀е̇ĺ Е̊ n̂ ǔm̃а̃
[Overall Evaluation]: S (Growing Silicon Valley Rookie)
[Hardware Architecture]: 143 (Growth Value: S)
[Graphics Technology]: 131 (Growth Value: S)
[Image Design]: 81 (Growth Value: A+)
[Administration & Finance]: 103 (Growth Value: A+)
This was an absolute technical backbone with almost no flaws, and also a person with his own pride and persistence.
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Just money might not necessarily convince him to bring the entire SGI to defect to GAMENOVA.
A highly controlling and emotional talent.
Such labels reminded Lin Lixin of Carmack.
"Mr. Clark…"
Lin Lixin slowly spoke, pondering a suitable entry point. "Have you ever considered developing the consumer market?"
"Consumer market? You mean the cheap, lower-tier market?"
Wеbn̊ӧ v̈ e l̊ Е́ nũm̄ а̄
Jim revealed a look of understanding.
SGI's current main strategy was exactly extreme performance, targeting those big clients in Hollywood.
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The industry's top-tier 3D rendering performance allowed their newly born company to transform into the first choice for practitioners with relevant needs.
"Someone is already doing the lower-tier market. We have no need to fight Sun for market share."
In the field of graphics workstations, besides their SGI, there were only two giants that could sit at the table.
Sun and Apollo.
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Apollo was originally a pioneer in the workstation field. This company, established back in '80, had cultivated its mature client base earlier than them.
Its flagship product, the DOMAIN series, was even more invincible in the market.
Coupled with its proprietary operating system, DOMAIN-OS, it formed its own closed ecosystem.
To deal with them, Jim took a different approach, giving up general computing performance and focusing entirely on graphics performance, which allowed them to differentiate themselves and survive.
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And Sun was a competitor on a different path from them.
The Motorola 68000 series processors made Sun's product prices far lower than SGI and Apollo. Although also a newcomer established in '82, its growth speed was extremely terrifying, frantically devouring market share.
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Jim knew very well the foundation of SGI's foothold and would not rashly start a war with Sun.
They couldn't win, and there was no need to fight.
"Then what thoughts does Mr. Jim have for the future?"
Lin Lixin knew very well the respective fates of these three Silicon Valley veterans in the future.
SGI was absolutely the one that fared the worst among the three.
But by that time, Jim would have long extricated himself from SGI.
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If the worldline didn't change much, Apollo would gradually lose competitiveness in the future due to its closed operating system and be acquired by HP in '89.
And Sun…
Lin Lixin's eyes flickered. Sun would become the one who won in the end.
"Mr. Clark, SGI's products are certainly excellent, but they lack the decisive technology like Sun's."
"What?"
Jim's expression changed slightly. Lin Lixin's statement was somewhat too explicit, simply saying directly that their SGI was no good.
W̌ е b̄ n ov̀ е̄l̃ Е n ům̆а̇
"The SPARC processor architecture and Solaris operating system, as well as the standardization of the TCP/IP network protocol."
At the beginning of their design, Sun's workstations had made many forward-looking layouts for the internet.
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Coupled with the unique architecture and extreme cost-effectiveness, Sun became the undisputed workstation overlord in the 80s and 90s.
SGI could only continue to cultivate deeply in the high-end graphics field and hold onto its basic market.
But these were not too important to Lin Lixin.
The true trump card that made Sun go crazy killing wouldn't officially debut until 1995.
Е n̄u̇ m̆а .i d́
Its name was… Java.
Dun dun dun. Who could have thought that this insurmountable mountain in the computer language world was born in the hands of a company that made complete machines.
Hearing Lin Lixin's words, the words of rebuttal stuck in Jim's throat and were swallowed back.
After a long while, he finally spoke again: "Mr. Lin, I know what you want to do. You want to equip GAMENOVA's game consoles with top-tier graphics chips like those in SGI graphics workstations."
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"But, a game console priced at less than $300 can't even cover the R&D costs."
The cost of developing top-tier graphics chips was an astronomical figure. The amortized cost per chip was simply unacceptable for this kind of lower-tier market entertainment product.
Е̂ n u m̃ а̇ . і̆ d́
"You are right, Mr. Clark. I don't want my game consoles to sell for more than arcade machines."
Lin Lixin nodded. There was nothing to question about this point.
3D chips placed in this era were already black technology.
"But I'm not planning to do 3D either. What I need is a 2D graphics accelerator card, a 'graphics card' that can support more colors and higher resolutions."
"Mr. Clark, the sales volume of the next-generation console starts at tens of millions of units. Compared to the limited market of workstations, I am very looking forward to seeing SGI's products enter every household."
"Sun's attention is entirely focused on PCs. This is our opportunity."
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Chewing on the pie Lin Lixin drew, Jim suddenly felt that Lin Lixin's meeting with him this time seemed to be more than just cooperating to develop a new graphics chip.
He looked up at Lin Lixin, their eyes meeting.
The corner of Lin Lixin's mouth hooked up, revealing an exceptionally brilliant smile.
"Mr. Clark, believe me, funding is absolutely the easiest problem we will encounter to solve."
If throwing money could break through technical thresholds, Lin Lixin would have brought out the PS1 ten years early.
Lin Lixin successively took out several documents from his briefcase.
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"What we need to do is establish standards. What I need is not just a graphics chip, but a 'general-purpose graphics accelerator card'."
"An independent, parallel, professional coprocessor dedicated to massive data matrix calculations and graphics processing, separate from the CPU."
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(End of Chapter)
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