Chapter 445

The two-hour press conference officially ended at 12 noon.

Igritte also prepared a reception at the nearby Marriott Hotel. Of course, it was impossible for all the guests with more than 2000 people to come. The number of guests invited this time was less than 200.

There is a work schedule in the afternoon. Simon did not leave San Francisco immediately after the press conference. Instead, he rushed to the Marriott Hotel with a group of senior executives of westrow system.

"The White House is preparing to set up a science and technology policy office. Simon, should we send you an invitation?"

In the crowded reception hall.

Simon got together with James Leibold, Bill Gates and Tim Berners Lee to talk about some recent moves in Washington.

Hearing Damen's question, Simon nodded, motioned to Tim Berners Lee and said, "Tim will be a consultant in this office."

Although the U.S. stock market began to recover in the first half of the year, the U.S. economic recession could not be reversed immediately. The domestic property market is still flat, the unemployment rate is still rising, and the proportion of poor people in the United States has also reached a new high in 20 years.

The honor of war cannot be used as food.

We all lamented the heroic performance of the U.S. military in the Gulf War at the beginning of the year. With the continuous deterioration of the economic environment, the honor gained by the Bush administration by relying on the Gulf War has been swallowed up, and the support rate has continued to decline.

In order to recover the rapidly losing support, the White House has to turn more attention to the country.

The listing of Cisco and AOL has created two enterprise giants with a market value of 10 billion. The trend of Internet industry outbreak is more and more obvious.

The rapid development of emerging industries undoubtedly means more employment and domestic economic growth. Two new technology companies that have just been listed and broken through the market value of 10 billion have undoubtedly proved this. In addition, the information highway act proposed by Senator Al Gore reminds us that the White House has also quickly started to pay attention to the Internet industry and is looking for a special office Office of science and technology policy for this area.

Simon had been invited by the White House to serve as an adviser to the science and technology policy office. Of course, he didn't have the time. Because of his position, he was not suitable to do so, so he recommended Tim Berners Lee.

Tim Berners Lee is the CEO of igritte. The most important point is that he is British. He won't involve too much political orientation.

John Chambers and Steve case, CEOs of Cisco and AOL, declined the offer of the title of consultant because they were too busy.

As an adviser to the office of science and technology policy of the Bush administration, I am sure that I can have a crucial impact on the policy direction of the White House in the field of new science and technology.

However, if there is no accident, Bush will only be in power for one year.

Moreover, since he has made a bet, even if there is an accident in this time and space, Simon can not ignore his position for the sake of temporary interests.

After all, people have to take a stand.

Bill Gates obviously can't know Simon's layout. When he heard that Tim Berners Lee would be the consultant of this office, Simon didn't agree, so he decided to give up the title.

Deep down, Damen put himself on the same level as Simon.

After chatting for a while, Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel, came up to say hello and mentioned another thing: "Simon, what do you think of the aim alliance recently established by apple, IBM and Motorola?"

Aim alliance, whose names are taken from the initials of apple, IBM and Motorola, is mainly to promote the PowerPC architecture CPU processor that the three companies have been brewing for a long time.

PowerPC is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, corresponding to Intel's x86 complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture.

In the future, the arm architecture processor in the era of smart phones also belongs to RISC type.

In a popular metaphor, RISC and CISC are just like wild boar and elephant. They basically belong to two 'species'.

Intel later tried to lay out chips on the mobile end, but several attempts have failed. The fundamental reason is that an elephant is stuffed into a wild boar cage, and even a newborn elephant's body will appear too "huge.".

CISC has a strong computing power, this era is more suitable for mainframe and even supercomputer.

RISC's computing power is weak, but before the Internet era, RISC is enough to meet the computing needs of personal computers.

The three giants set up aim alliance to promote PowerPC, in fact, is also to fight against the rapid rise of Microsoft and Intel's Wintel alliance.

Although the operation frequency of Intel chips in this era, even the latest 486 processor, is only 50MHz, which is different from that of the processor with 5GHz many years later, in the whole 1980s, because most PCs can only carry out simple word processing operation, and the graphics interface operating system is far from reaching the later popularity, so it is only tens of megahertz Compared with the demand of users, the computing performance of Intel processor with computing frequency is still surplus, and the price is too expensive.The PowerPC architecture processor promoted by aim just "makes up" for the two "shortcomings" of Intel chips, i.e. excessive performance and high price.

But a decade ago, the aim alliance against the Wintel alliance might have succeeded.

Now, with the advent of the Internet era, personal computers are developing from simple text applications to multimedia applications such as image, sound and even video. Users' demand for PC performance will only be higher and higher. At this time, aim alliance promotes PowerPC architecture chips based on RISC, and the results can be imagined.

In the original time and space, apple always insisted on the PowerPC architecture until 2005, during which the computer giant, which created the era of personal computer, also declined all the way, and jobs finally had to go back to the new Intel film.

Simon didn't answer Andy Grove's question directly. Instead, he looked at him and his classmates and asked, "have you read the information about ATI company in Canada?"

ATI is a display chip development company, founded in 1985.

Many years later, people who are slightly proficient in computers and like to play games all know a card and N card, of which a card is produced by ATI.

At present, NVIDIA, which produces n-cards, has not yet been established, but ATI already has a good accumulation of technology. Simon, seeing the company's information a month ago, instructed James Leibold to contact ATI.

Graphics card chips have appeared since the early 1980s, and professional graphics workstations are equipped with graphics card units.

However, the graphics cards of this era have not yet reached the consumption level that can be used by ordinary PCs, mainly before the 1990s, so there is no need at all.

With the advent of the Internet era, if you want a computer to have excellent multimedia functions, PC level graphics card is essential.

Andy Grove and Bill Gates both nodded.

ATI launched a relatively successful professional graphics chip in 1987, and now it is one of the important 2D and 3D graphics chip suppliers in the industry.

Simon went on: "in the past, there were always people who thought that Intel's CPU had excessive performance, but I believe that as long as the users who have contacted the Internet, they don't think so any more. With the increasing demand of personal computer for multimedia functions such as image, sound and video, the user's demand for computer performance will also increase rapidly. So, I don't think the aim alliance going against the trend will have any good results. "

Bill Gates asked subconsciously, "Simon, what does this have to do with ATI?"

"Of course, I think even Intel's CPU will gradually fail to meet the performance requirements of users, and the graphics chip can make up for the lack of CPU in multimedia. It happens that ATI is developing PC grade graphics chips, and it is expected to produce products early next year. Westero has invested 50 million US dollars to obtain 25% equity of this company. Next, I hope Microsoft and Intel can promote the application of consumer grade graphics cards together. "

Simon has mentioned all these things in the information he gave them.

Simon also specially analyzed the demand trend of PC grade graphics card, but Bill Gates and Andy Grove did not have Simon's advantages, so they did not have time to respond.

Of course, there must be other reasons.

No matter Microsoft or Intel, they certainly don't want Simon to interfere too much in their company's affairs.

Noting the subtle changes on the faces of Bill Gates and Andy Grove, Simon said with a smile: "so, westero only bought 25% of ATI's shares, just to promote the development and promotion of PC grade graphics chips. You two can continue to contact this company. ATI is not listed. Microsoft and Intel can decide whether to invest in this company. I believe the market scale of graphics chip will not be much worse than CPU chip in the future. In fact, I would recommend that Intel can buy this company as a whole. Andy, if you do that, 25% of the shares held by Westeros can be transferred to you at the original price. "

After hearing Simon say that the future market scale of graphics chip will not be much worse than CPU chip, Bill Gates and Andy Grove can't help but look at each other and finally attach importance to it.

They don't doubt the vision of Westeros.

Simon is not very clear about the scale of the GPU chip market in the future, but GPU chips will be very important in the future, whether it is the era of PC or the era of smart phones. There is no doubt that there is a bright future for investment in this industry now.

In addition, on the premise of having enough technology accumulation, if ATI can get the support of Microsoft and Intel this time, it will not be easy to be surpassed by NVIDIA.

Simon, of course, is not going to put eggs in one basket.

In addition to ATI, westero is also in contact with some other graphics chip companies recently, but the accumulation of these companies is not as deep as ATI. It is unlikely that PC class graphics chips will be launched in two or three years. Only ATI can achieve this goal early next year.However, after the research and development of PC chip is completed, if you want to promote it, you must have the corresponding OEM (original equipment manufacturer) support.

Microsoft and Intel have a strong influence in the face of OEM manufacturers such as Compaq, HP and Dell. If ATI is attached to these two companies, it will undoubtedly make the promotion of PC class graphics chips get twice the result with half the effort.

Bill Gates and Andy Grove both understand that although Simon discussed with them in a suggestive tone, the young man had obviously made up his mind. If the two do not cooperate, westero may have to formally put forward relevant proposals on the board of directors of the two companies as major shareholders.

Both Bill Gates and Andy Grove are the founders of Microsoft and Intel. Of course, they don't want outsiders to get involved in their own companies, but they are definitely not the kind of people who can't accept the right advice.

They solemnly agreed to discuss the matter seriously afterwards, and then they talked about other things.

The reception at noon can't last long. At one o'clock in the afternoon, guests begin to leave one after another.

Simon sees Andy Grove and his classmates off and goes back to the reception hall. Claire Gaines, who has just failed to find a chance to say hello, comes along with a little girl, but another Jennifer. The little girl who rushed to the stage of Madonna's performance is Jane, who is a computer major at Stanford University NiFe Bree.

Having said hello to girl c, Simon looked at the little girl next to him who felt like an underage lolly. He felt the impulse to reach over and touch her head. He said with a smile, "Jennie, how are you doing?"

Maybe women have a natural sensitive sixth sense. Jennifer shrinks her neck in a coquettish way, with some shallow expectation in her beautiful eyes

moreover, the little girl doesn't seem to be as restrained as before in front of Simon, as if she had known a good friend for a long time. She says with some familiarity: "I'm doing something for Claire."

C girl explained: "Jennie is working as my assistant recently. She just exercises ahead of time."

Simon looked at Claire, then turned to the little girl and said, "don't you need class?"

Seeing that the smile on Simon's face seemed to have subsided, Jennifer Bree shook her head: "no, it's all after school."

Simon didn't have any idea that his studies were better than the sky. He just asked casually. He noticed the little girl's nervousness and returned to smile. He said, "pay attention to the arrangement of time. Although I don't think college courses are very important, I still need to learn what I should learn."

Jennifer Bree immediately nodded, like a chicken pecking at the rice: "I will."

I really want to feel my head.

Then, in front of her, the little girl shrank her neck again.

As if it had been touched.

Next to the C girl keenly aware of these details, the corners of her mouth show a smile.

After just a few words, Simon joined several senior executives of igritte and left the Marriott Hotel.

The reception in the hall did not end immediately. She gathered in a large group of people to send Simon and others away. Girl c returned to the hall with Jennifer berry, looked at the little girl, raised her hand and rubbed it on her beautiful blonde head.

Jennifer Bree was rubbed by C girl's head and let go. Then she blinked. She asked, "C, what's the matter?"

Girl c pinched her delicate face and said with a smile, "goblin."

When the disguise was uncovered, Jennifer Bree stopped pretending and couldn't help looking at Simon's leaving direction. She looked around and suddenly whispered, "C, have you ever slept with your boss, that one?"

C girl nodded without hesitation: "of course, boss is very powerful in bed, you will know in the future."

Little girl looked at C girl, eyes blinked a few winks, shaking his head disappointed way: "forget it, ask you is also white ask."

Claire raised her hand and knocked on the little girl's head: "can you be a little silly? Men like silly girls."

"Simon doesn't like it," retorted Jennifer Bree, who tilted her head to avoid Claire's knock

Claire raised her eyebrows slightly. "How do you know?"

The little girl naturally said, "I just know."