199. synergy
Hoyeong buried herself in the airplane seat and went to sleep for a while.
Fortunately, there was a direct flight from Quebec to San Francisco.
He recalled a conversation with Professor Donovan.
‘I’ll finish everything in 15 days and go back to Korea.’
Professor Donovan was a man full of enthusiasm.
I burned my passion as if I was trying to make amends for the years I lived away from research.
As if responding to his passion, Ho-young readily arranged for him a business class flight to Korea, and immediately contacted the research facility in Korea and ordered the preparation of a laboratory for Professor Donovan.
‘As expected, I feel like I gain strength when I’m with a person who is full of passion.’
Hoyoung went to bed in a good mood.
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It was two days later when Hoyoung held a meeting at AMD.
He arrived earlier than the original appointment time and was waiting for the people he was supposed to meet today.
‘I’ll meet people full of passion today.’
The people he decided to meet today were also more passionate than anyone else, so Hoyoung waited with anticipation for the meeting later.
After waiting for about 20 minutes, several people entered the room where Hoyeong was waiting.
“Oh, Mr. Yoon! How much is this?”
“Mr. Harper. how are you?”
One of them was Harper Sanders, whom Ho-young had known before.
Harper and Ho-young meet after years, but Ho-young thinks Harper looks younger than he did then.
“ha ha ha! Thanks to you, I’m doing well. Thanks to Gaia Investment’s investment, we also completed the development of our own CPU, and it is doing well in the market now.”
Hoyoung thought that the reason why Harper’s face was so bright was because of the current situation in the CPU market.
AMD was in a situation where it released its own CPU, ‘Athlon’ because of the astronomical investment invested by Hoyoung.
Prior to the release of Athlon, AMD had a notorious reputation for making only copies of Intel’s products, but after the release of Athlon, it was rapidly encroaching on the market with a reputation for better performance at a lower price than Pentium, Intel’s flagship product. was doing
“Fortunately, the. Actually, I did invest, but I didn’t expect the results to come out this quickly.”
“haha. Is it a synergy created by outstanding talent and sufficient investment?”
“okay.”
Hoyoung glanced at the two men and women behind Harper and continued with a playful tone.
“Seeing that you brought them here today, do you think they are very competent and play an important role?”
“ha ha ha. That’s right. two minutes. Would you like to come this way?”
At Harper’s words, the man and woman stood side by side in front of Hoyoung.
In fact, the moment Hoyoung saw their faces, he recognized who they were.
But I was deliberately pretending not to know.
“This is Lisa Sue. He is an incredibly talented person who joined our company the year before last.”
“It’s embarrassing to say that right in front of my eyes. nice to meet you Mr. Yoon. I have met many people on the Internet or in magazines, and it is an honor to meet you like this.”
Lisa Su bowed her head slightly.
Hoyoung also looked at her and lowered his head slightly before speaking.
“I am very happy too. Did you go to MIT? Among my acquaintances, there are several acquaintances who graduated from that school.”
“okay?”
“yes. All of them are excellent people. As expected, MIT is rumored to be a prestigious school, and it seems that the rumor is true without looking further.”
Lisa Su laughed at Hoyeong’s joke.
Lisa Su.
Although she was born in Taiwan, her parents immigrated to the United States when she was two years old, and naturally followed her.
In her previous life, Lisa Su originally built a successful career at IBM or Freescale before joining AMD in 2012 as Vice President and General Manager. .
‘Even in the next five years, Lisa Su will definitely become a great manager.’
Harper Sanders used to say that he wanted to resign from management and live comfortably as an engineer, but he continued to serve as CEO because there was no suitable person.
However, in Hoyoung’s mind, he thought that in five years, Harper would be able to retire as he so desired.
“Lego, this is Jensen Huang, now the team leader of the graphic architecture field.”
Scared of Harper’s words, Jensen Hwang held out his right hand to Hoyoung and spoke briefly.
“This is Jensen Huang.”
“yes. I’ve always wanted to see you, but I’m finally seeing you like this.”
Hoyoung’s words were sincere.
He had been trying to establish a meeting with Jensen Huang for several years.
However, when Hoyoung was in the US, Jensen Hwang went to Taiwan, and when Hoyeong was in Asia, he went to the US again.
“I don’t know why you wanted to see me.”
Jensen Huang shook his head and said, and Hoyeong smiled at him.
Originally, as Hoyoung remembers, Jensen Hwang should have quit the company a long time ago and went out to set up Nvidia.
But he was still working for this company.
There was a story behind Jensen Huang’s departure from AMD that people in the world don’t know about.
Initially, Jen-Hsun Huang and his closest engineer, Chris Malachowski, proposed the graphic architecture they collaborated on to the company.
However, at this time, AMD was in a hurry to copy and make CPUs, so their proposal was unlikely to work.
But this life was different.
The huge amount of money invested by Hoyoung created compatibility, not recession, in AMD, and the proposals of Jensen Hwang and Chris Malachowski were naturally accepted by AMD.
As a result, a separate field of graphics architecture was created at AMD, and as a result, AMD was growing into a fairly well-known company in the field of graphics chips.
‘Because I invested in it, AMD’s future will change dramatically.’
Hoyoung nodded his head in a good mood, once again convinced that he could change the future with his will.
“You must be wondering why I asked to meet you today, right?”
“sure.”
The three men and women of AMD watched Hoyoung.
Hoyoung gave them the bundle of papers he had prepared and started explaining the PSP project.
“Do you know about the recently released PlayStation?”
“sure. I already have it at home.”
Lisa Su answered lively.
The other two seemed to know about the PlayStation, but hadn’t bought or played it.
“It’s good. What I’m trying to do is create a portable device that I can play anywhere with that PlayStation in my hand.”
“It’s portable… Are you asking us to create a portable device with comparable performance to the PlayStation?”
“You got it right.”
Hoyoung explained the PSP’s vision and production direction to the three of them for a while.
Fortunately, Harper, Lisa Su, and Jensen Huang nodded.
“So to sum it up, you’re saying you need an all-in-one chip with the CPU and GPU running on one chip?”
“Exactly. It’s amazing that you caught my words at once.”
Hoyoung replied with honest admiration for Lisa Su.
“Ho Ho. What is this?”
Lisa-soo smiled as if she was happy with Ho-young’s praise.
“and···. If the PSP is done right, there is one more product I want to make with those technologies.”
“okay? What product is it?”
“haha. We’ll talk about that once we finish this project properly.”
“All right. Then, let’s create a TF team for this very matter.”
“thank you.”
Harper looked back at Lisa Su and Jensen Huang.
“I want both of you to join this TF team, what do you think?”
“I like it.”
Lisa Su responded before Harper ran out of words, and Huang seemed to need some more time to think.
“I am a bit troubled. Right now, the graphic architecture team also has a lot of work to do…”
Hoyeong didn’t show it, but was very slightly disappointed with Jensen Hwang’s answer.
It was because I was expecting to see a collaboration between Lisa Su and Jensen Huang in this lifetime.
At that time, Harper said something to alleviate some of Hoyeong’s disappointment.
“sulfur. In my opinion, having this technology will further advance our company. Aren’t the graphics architecture teams still experimenting? We will hire more people to conduct the experiment, so why don’t you join this TF team?”
“Mmmmm…”
Jensen Huang thought while stroking his chin, and finally answered.
“Okay. It sounds like fun, so let’s do it.”
At his answer, Hoyoung called out joy inwardly.
“Mr. Harper. In my opinion, there is a company I would like to introduce to you in order to make this project a success.”
“okay? Where are you?”
“Have you ever heard of Qualcomm?”
Harper didn’t seem to come to mind right away, narrowed his eyes for a moment, then applauded! he said.
“Qualcomm! Perhaps the CDMA communication chip…?”
“you’re right. I thought you wouldn’t know, since it’s not a very famous company in the US yet, but you know it well.”
“Because I know at least the names of emerging companies.”
Hoyoung said he wanted to step down from the CEO position, and he seemed to laugh at Harper, who meticulously grasped the trends in the IT market.
“Qualcomm has great skills in making small chipsets. And it’s also a company in which I own 50% of the shares. I will arrange a meeting, so let’s meet with the CEO of Qualcomm and discuss whether to start developing together.”
“All right. With Mr. Yoon owning that much stake, Qualcomm certainly looks like it’s going to be a great company. I need to buy some stock.”
“haha. If you trust me, that would be a good option too.”
Hoyoung and Harper looked at each other and smiled.
‘If Qualcomm and AMD join forces, CPU and GPU will also be solved.’
Hoyoung smiled sincerely and happily, feeling happy at the situation as if it were woven together.
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Returning to Korea after completing all of the tasks he had set out to do, Ho-young instructed his immediate team to do a few things.
The first was sending someone to Sony.
In 1991, Sony introduced the world’s first commercial lithium-ion battery.
While they don’t yet have enough battery capacity in their primitive form, battery technology is visibly advancing.
‘It is not simply a contract for us to receive batteries, but we also receive the right to research and use batteries. Instead, they said they would also share the results of our research with Sony.’
Hoyoung was sure that Sony would never turn down this offer.
The reason why Sony researched battery technology is to use it in their home appliances.
But a huge company like Hermes researches lithium-ion batteries instead?
If so, all you have to do is apply the research results to various home appliances.
And Hoyoung called Miru and gave him a separate order.
“I would like to contact a construction company and purchase a building.”
“yes. Which building should I buy?”
“It’s a department store.”
Miru blinked at Hoyeong’s sudden words.
“Are you trying to get into the department store business?”
“ha ha ha. I have no desire to run a department store business.”
“Well···. All right.”
He must have wondered why he was procrastinating, but he didn’t ask anymore.
This was also one of the factors that Hoyeong liked Miru.
“I will report the progress of this Sampoong Department Store case from time to time.”
“thanks. And, just in case, Sampoong Construction Industry refuses to sell it at the right price, please show me this data.”
“What is this?”
“haha. Shall we call it a trump card that will open the door to the closed Sampoong Construction Industry?”
Hoyeong was thinking of buying the entire department store and preventing a disaster.
