The classroom buzzed with noise — students shuffling papers, the professor droning on about stress analysis, the squeak of chalk against a faded blackboard. Timothy barely heard any of it. His phone had just lit up with the subject line that made his chest seize.
[From: NVIDIA Research Ops
Subject: Final Proposal – Strictly Confidential
His hand shook as he tapped it open under the desk, pretending to jot notes in his pad.
Dear Mr. Guerrero,
After internal deliberation and executive review, NVIDIA is prepared to raise its offer for your prototype GPU, along with the schematics and complete blueprints.
Our revised offer is $1.2 billion USD (One Billion, Two Hundred Million United States Dollars).
This offer represents the full weight of our commitment. It is, however, also our final and absolute limit. The risks associated with production, the uncertainty of scaling, and the unprecedented nature of the design prevent us from going further.
The terms remain as before:
