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…Which is very impressive. You were yourself only a 10-year-old company doing over $1 billion in revenue. Right. The following week, I went to California, and I called him back without advanced notice. I called Jensen. I think there was a telephone number on the stationery that he sent me the letter on. Jensen himself picked up the phone, and there was a lot of background noise. He was arguing something with his people. As soon as I introduced myself, said this is Morris Chang, he immediately shouted at those people that were making noises. He said, quiet. Morris Chang is calling me. I then proceeded to make an appointment with him to visit him, to visit NVIDIA the next day or something like that. That was our first visit, our first meeting. He immediately impressed me with his articulateness, and also impressed me with his optimism, while he was also very frank. He told me that NVIDIA was in financial difficulties, but the chip that he wanted now to have foundried would not only save the company, it will also make NVIDIA a major customer of TSMC. That was actually quite a bold statement. We were over $1 billion, and to be a major customer of ours he would have to produce revenue for us over at least $50 million a year. Was that chip the RIVA 128?…

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