Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 1050 - 407: The Annoying Bragging!

United States, Seattle, Microsoft Headquarters.

Satya Nadella just opened his inbox and saw an email from a specially watched sender among the pile of unread emails. After waiting for a whole week, a message finally arrived. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

He clicked to take a look, and the other party scheduled a video call through Teams at 9 PM Pacific Time.

In about eleven hours, he could engage in a conversation with Qiao Ze regarding cooperation issues between the two parties.

Honestly speaking, Satya Nadella somewhat felt that the Huaxia people were a bit presumptuous.

After all, this cooperation was initiated by the other party. After throwing out a bunch of proposals and providing him with a video website, they directly cold shouldered him for an entire week. From any angle, it seemed quite impolite.

Fortunately, for a mature business leader, these things are tolerable.

Shortly after the momentary displeasure, Satya Nadella began considering how to negotiate with Qiao Ze to maximize benefits.

This is not a straightforward matter.

Based on his research on Qiao Ze, he is a pure scientist, and his personality can be described as cold and hard, and he is taciturn. From any level, he is not a pleasing negotiation opponent.

But there is no choice; in this world, can everything be just as one wishes?

However, before he could get into the right mindset, Kevin Scott walked into his office, led by his secretary.

"Mr. Nadella, Kevin..."

"Alright, go ahead and do your work. Phew... Satya, you need to look at this!"

"What?"

"The content of the press conference held by Huaxia Youwei Group early this morning is a new GPU architecture. Graphics cards with a completely new core unit will be mass-produced in half a year! Various performances, including AI computing capability, will be significantly improved!"

"Oh?"

Satya Nadella was aware that Youwei Group held a technology release yesterday.

With Youwei Group’s current scale, no tech company can ignore this enterprise. Moreover, the information about this conference was released only a week in advance, which already gave a very special impression.

There are two reasons why Satya Nadella did not pay immediate attention. Firstly, the conference chose to start at 2 PM Huaxia Time, which is 2 AM Pacific Time, a considerably inconvenient time; secondly, Youwei Group and Microsoft are not exactly direct competitors.

Also, no matter how good Youwei Group’s products are, it would be difficult to sell them in the market that Microsoft is currently primarily focusing on.

Therefore, Satya Nadella did not choose to alter his routine to immediately focus on this conference.

Facts have proven his choice was correct.

See, this press conference indeed has nothing to do with Microsoft.

Although Microsoft is also researching and developing GPU-related technologies, such as DirectX, it’s mainly to enhance its own services. It doesn’t involve much on the hardware level.

These days, high-tech companies that can dominate the market often have very deep moats, usually built over decades of accumulation. Microsoft’s main business at present is systems and games, concentrated in software, so it is definitely unlikely to rashly compete in hardware with Intel and NVIDIA, nor can it outcompete them.

Youwei Group suddenly making strides in this deep blue field was indeed unexpected to him.

"Not only that, you should see Qiao Ze’s speech at this press conference. I have prepared a translated version, do you want to take a look together now?"

"Of course, why not?" Satya Nadella said solemnly.

Having no message for a week, with Qiao Ze suddenly appearing at Youwei Group’s technology conference last night, and suddenly having time to video call with him today, if there wasn’t any information he wanted to convey through this, Satya Nadella absolutely wouldn’t believe it.

Twenty minutes later, when the stock market trading time arrived, Satya Nadella opened the trading software.

Sure enough, as soon as the market opened, graphics card design and production companies led by NVIDIA began a plunge; before the two men in the office were mentally prepared, NVIDIA activated the LULD mechanism, pausing trading.

Or you could say it was directly halted.

At this time, NVIDIA’s stock price had already dropped by seven points, while Intel and AMD were not faring well, each dropping four points.

These hardware leading stocks also successfully fueled the panic in the entire tech sector, and both Apple Inc. and Google had already fallen by two points along with them. It was rather Adobe Inc., which provides graphic design and video editing software, whose stock was still holding steady.

However, it must be said that GPU architecture updates should be favorable for service-providing companies like this.

If NVIDIA or Intel had launched this kind of good news, Adobe Inc. would likely have surged dramatically. Unfortunately, this exciting good news wasn’t particularly related to them. Of course, Satya Nadella’s attention was not focused on these.

"They didn’t even present an engineering sample at the conference but were able to instigate such market panic?"

Yes, even after roughly watching for only twenty minutes, Satya Nadella had already understood what the two-hour-long conference yesterday was about.

Many things can be directly skimmed.

For example, the half-hour content presented by Qiao Ze in the beginning took up an entire quarter of the conference time and was highly popular on Huaxia’s network. Satya Nadella watched for less than twenty seconds before skipping over it directly.

To him, the information contained in this half-hour was simply that Qiao Ze indeed personally attended the conference and gave explanations of the theoretical aspects of the new graphics card. Other content, for 99.99% of the world’s population, constitutes ineffective information that he does not need to pay attention to.

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