Chapter 1029

Near noon, Emmanuel Brant left the Scomber headquarters in the rental park on the east side of the westero Science Park, drove across the igritte Avenue in the center, and came to the igritte park on the west side. To be exact, it is the igritte headquarters zone 2 next to the Green Park in the south. After the completion of zone 1 on the north side, igritte began to build the second park, the two major parks The total area of the district is 60 hectares.

Just look at the size of the headquarters, you can imagine the huge volume of igritte at this time.

In contrast, on the east side of igritte Avenue, in addition to the 30 hectare headquarters park being built by dincobail, there are also 60 hectare office space for external rental. At this time, there are more than 100 large and small technology companies gathered, including dincobail, instagram, eBay, scober and other companies that have been included by dincobail Broadcast and other cutting-edge technology companies.

According to the address given by girl a in advance, she parked the car outside a building in the Second District of igritte headquarters. Instead of pushing the door open, Emmanuel took out the make-up mirror in her satchel and examined her make-up carefully. Because she focused on her work, she didn't care too much about it, and she often was slovenly. Today is different. I'm going to have dinner with that man later.

looking at the perfect white face in the mirror, Emmanuel suddenly feels angry and self pity. His six foot height, white skin and high IQ and high education are all in line with his aesthetics. When she first met him, she had some thoughts in her heart, but until now, there was no result.

Is it because of red hair?

No, he shouldn't care about this old, stale, boring idea.

However, since I thought of it, I suddenly came up with the idea that maybe I can dye my blonde hair sometime. By then, there will be no more mistakes.

It's lunchtime and there are more and more people around.

Three young men in neat shirts and trousers, who were employees of igritte, happened to pass in front of Emmanuel, who was looking at himself in the mirror. They glanced at him occasionally and couldn't move.

Deliberately waiting for a moment, Emmanuel, who was wearing a black ol suit, got out of the car. Although Emmanuel, who was wearing high-heeled shoes, was taller than all three men, the other side still came up to him. One of them accosted him and said, "Hi, miss, are you here for an interview?"

Emmanuel looked at the three guys with a slightly queer expression: "do I look like an interviewer?"

The man who opened his mouth didn't seem to feel the bad tone in Emmanuel's voice. With a smile, he reached over and said, "meet me, I'm Jason. And anyway, it's lunchtime. How about having dinner together? "

Emmanuel did not pay any attention to his outstretched hand. He turned and left.

There is also some abdominal pain.

San Francisco has been a foregone conclusion for more than a year. With the surge of new technology, Emmanuel clearly realized how impetuous Silicon Valley is now. When he just met these guys who may have tens of millions of stock options, his self-confidence was also bursting, and his daily life was just like that of the upstarts. All kinds of extravagance and night revelry almost attracted the whole world The world's call girls and drug dealers gather in this area.

Just like just now, it is clear that igritte's internal restaurant has already provided quite superior catering treatment, and the three people obviously still intend to go out for dinner, which makes Emmanuel, who is well-off and well-educated, dislike it very much.

Entering a restaurant dedicated to senior executives in the building, he happens to meet Simon and igritte, who are also here for dinner. Emmanuel immediately changes his mind, embraces the boss, and of course he does not forget to shake hands with Tim Berners Lee.

Obviously different treatment, inevitably lead to a few jokes, Emmanuel also laughed back.

Then they didn't sit together. Bezos and others scattered. Simon chose a long table for four and motioned Emmanuel to sit opposite. He took girl a to sit on the other side. While ordering, he said, "C will come over later."

Emmanuel nodded.

With Simon's current level of busyness, this lunch is not a casual reminiscence, but a business to talk about.

Just after ordering, girl c arrived with her.

Simple greeting, watching Emmanuel occupy the position directly opposite his boss, C girl can only sit diagonally opposite.

When Claire ordered, Simon went straight to the point and said to Emmanuel, "you should have seen the technical information about WiFi and Bluetooth, haven't you?"

With regard to WiFi and Bluetooth, Simon has been paying close attention to it for several years, and has taken decisive action.

Three years ago, igritte's Australian branch found out that a professor of the University of Sydney intended to develop a wireless transmission technology, and resolutely gave financial support. As a result, the patent of WiFi technology easily fell into the hands of westrow system.

As for Bluetooth, because it involves wireless communication and data transmission, all major communication giants are developing it. Simon's technical standards come from Nokia. At the same time, in order to avoid too many standards of Bluetooth technology, Nokia has taken the lead in formulating unified standards with Ericsson, Sony, Toshiba and other companies.In a word, westero system has absolute initiative for both technologies.

Emmanuel heard Simon mention this, nodded and said, "boss, do you mean to let scober turn to the development of wireless communication chips?"

"Yes," Simon said, "in addition, I've read the information about the Broadcom company that scupper recently bought. Your ideas are right. Of course, there are some deviations. Today, I'd like to clarify these problems and the next development direction of scupper."

due to the explosion of China's VCD industry and the proliferation of new technology bubbles, plus the addition of Weiss Trojan stock, the market value of the company, which was acquired two years ago, has been above $20 billion. For Simon, who is familiar with the future of VCD, this far exceeds the real value of scopper.

Although scupper has started the research and development of DVD video decoder chip, it is different from VCD video decoder chip which maintains monopoly at this time. In the future DVD industry, scupper is doomed to change its role from the current VCD industry leader to a marginal interest enterprise which shares some of the leftovers from Sony, Toshiba and other DVD core manufacturers.

Therefore, if there is no transformation, the decline of Scomber will be inevitable.

Since scopper's stock price is far higher than its actual value at this time, Simon designed a M & A expansion strategy using scopper's stock as a "cash" two months ago, referring to AOL's acquisition of Time Warner in his memory. He launched a M & A to other fields for transformation.

Emmanuel's Scomber team also carried out Simon's plan well. In just over two months, scupper successfully acquired three start-up semiconductor companies, one of which is called Broadcom.

In the original time and space, people were more familiar with Qualcomm, but they didn't know that Broadcom had the same status as Qualcomm in the industry. Both of them were high-tech companies mainly engaged in technology licensing and chip development in the field of communication. Moreover, Broadcom was involved in a wider range of fields than Qualcomm. One of them was Broadcom once the world's largest WiFi chip manufacturer.

Simon was surprised to see Emmanuel's acquisition report at first. He didn't expect that scupper could bring Broadcom into the company so many years in advance.

However, after the research, we found that the current Broadcom is totally different from the later Broadcom.

Broadcom, which was founded five years ago by two Stanford professors, is now mainly Promoting CATV set-top box communication chips for receiving and processing digital signals. It is still thousands of miles away from the communication giants who are able to compete with Qualcomm.

The acquisition of scupper is mainly to get involved in the field of cable TV. It plans to combine Broadcom's communication chip with scupper's decoding chip and other technologies to build a complete set-top box solution for cable TV.

At present, the cable TV industry is still expanding all over the world. This is a very bright business plan. It is also the main reason why Broadcom, which was originally planning its IPO, gave up listing and took the initiative to accept the acquisition of scupper. Otherwise, if the two companies have no complementary relationship at all, the slightly wiser business owners will not easily agree to such a plan Tender offer.

For example, if scupper makes an acquisition of a company with a market value of only a few billion US dollars, Simon will certainly want to take advantage of it, but the chances of its consent are very small, even if westero is a shareholder of the company. Because the businesses of the two companies are unrelated.

Simon is very much in favor of scopper's expansion into the field of cable TV, but he still hopes scopper can make good use of the current good situation to get involved in more fields.

In igritte's executive restaurant, Simon took an Apple Newton tablet from a girl's satchel, handed it to Emmanuel opposite, and said, "maybe you know this, Apple's PDA product. In my opinion, the positioning of the business assistant of this product is obviously wrong. You can know this in private. What we are going to talk about today is the family mobile Internet ecological plan that will be launched in the next step after tincobail's acquisition of apple. "

Emmanuel took over Simon's Newton tablet and turned it on skillfully. She has just used it, but she also thinks it's very cheap. It's $900 expensive, but it only has some simple functions such as calendar, clock, drawing and note taking. Moreover, the battery capacity is very low, and the handwriting function as a highlight is also dispensable.

In short, as a business assistant, it's not as convenient as a pocket notebook.

With this in mind, Emmanuel listened to Simon and looked up at the boss: "mobile Internet, boss, does this have anything to do with Newton tablet?"

"Of course, the tablet is the key. More accurately, it will be the ultimate form of the future mobile Internet plan. I hope Tinkerbell can rely on the existing technology foundation to focus all the current several main products on a pocket tablet."

Emmanuel immediately found the problem and turned to the C girl beside him: "in this case, C, I think you should try your best to prevent the birth of this product, right?"

Now, tincobail's main products, iPlayer, ICAM and IREC, have annual shipments of tens of millions or even tens of millions. If these electronic products are integrated into just one tablet computer, it will inevitably mean that the market share of iPlayer and other products will be impacted or even eliminated.Girl C didn't care about Emmanuel's teasing. She shook her head and said, "do I look like such a visionless person?"

"A lot of things are not what you want or what you don't want." Emmanuel said with a smile and then turned to Simon: "boss, what do you need to do on Scomber's side?"

Simon didn't answer directly, but pointed to the Newton tablet in the red haired girl's hand again: "with the current screen, battery, chip and other technical level, Apple's product has actually reached a very high level, so it will take about five to ten years to achieve the integration level I said. This product in your hand, tincobail, will be combined with its own technology developed in recent years. By integrating into the micro hard disk solution, it will focus on more practical e-book reader and digital music player functions. What scupper has to do is very critical. Through the WiFi and Bluetooth technology I gave you, it will develop related chips to realize tablet computers, even iPlayer, ICAM, etc It's a wireless connection to personal computers and the Internet. "

When Emmanuel heard this, he thought a little, and his eyes lit up quickly.

You know, just in the first eight months of this year, the global total shipment volume of ticobair's three main products, ICAM, iPlayer and IREC, has reached a terrible 56 million units. It is estimated that the annual total shipment volume is expected to be close to 90 million units. Next year, this number will exceed 100 million units.

If tincobaier can use the chips developed by scupper in its main electronic products with a total shipment of over 100 billion in the future, scupper will easily step beyond the threshold of transformation in the era of VCD, and even, let alone the current market value of 20 billion US dollars, it is not impossible to reach 100 billion in the future.

Simon looked into Emmanuel's eager blue eyes and said with a smile, "do you understand?"

Emmanuel nodded: "boss, in this case, maybe scober should try to build his own wafer factory."

"No," Simon said. Knowing that self built Fabs are still the instinctive thinking of many semiconductor companies at the present stage, he immediately rejected: "according to Moore's law, the iterative update speed of the semiconductor industry is very fast. Therefore, for most semiconductor companies, it will be more and more uneconomic to build fabs, and the semiconductor industry will gradually incline to the division of design and production From now on, OEM is the general trend of the whole semiconductor industry. Therefore, scupper only needs to focus on technology research and development and chip design, and leave chip production to other companies. I will also have a layout in this area. "

In the future, even the giants like Intel will start to seek OEM to share the high construction cost of the Fab. With the size of scupper at this time, building their own Fab will definitely not be worth the loss, or even bring themselves down.

As for some hidden worries that may be caused by the lack of self owned factories, there will be no such problem for the westero system. Simon won't let scupper build his own wafer factory, but he won't let go of the layout of the wafer foundry industry. The goals have been chosen, and the entry time is next year.

Once the financial crisis breaks out in Southeast Asia, as a capital intensive enterprise, the two famous Asian wafer foundry giants will be in trouble, and then it will be the opportunity of westero system.

The waiter delivered lunch one after another, and several people at the table began to discuss more details.

Limited to the current technical level of all aspects, the first phase of dinkbaier's mobile Internet plan will last for two years.

First, next fall, tincobail will combine iBook, which has been quietly developing in recent years, with Apple's tablet technology to launch the first generation of ipad-10, which can be used as e-book reader and digital music player.

Then, in the autumn of 1998, as scupper completes its related chip development work and the further development of electronic technology, Tinkerbell will release home router with built-in WiFi function and micro hard disk iPad tablet with the same built-in WiFi technology, officially opening the era of mobile Internet.

As for the three main products at this stage, of course, they will not be eliminated so soon. For example, IREC is limited to the wireless transmission rate. The huge video files are not suitable for wireless transmission, and will still be mainly wired.

The key is integration.

Several existing products will be gradually integrated into the iPad tablet, and even the subsequent launch of mobile phone call function, that is, the iPhone, which has also been in tincobail's huge "I" series trademark inventory.

And then realize the family type short distance mobile Internet to the era of unlimited mobile Internet.

The lunch lasted an hour, and Emmanuel understood Simon's ideas very thoroughly.

If Simon is such a latecomer, looking back on the past, he won't feel that the whole plan is special. But at this moment, as a time native, Emmanuel Brant only feels that the young man sitting opposite him is just like a wild horse.

Most ordinary people tend to live in the moment, the other side has easily spread their chess game in a professional field to 10 years later. Perhaps, only such an amazing man can accumulate $1.5 trillion in just 10 years and create a miracle business empire.He rubbed the porcelain cup of after dinner coffee from the waiter and waited for the man who was only two feet away from him to finish his last words. When he realized that it was time to leave, Emmanuel was reluctant to give up. Thinking of one thing, he looked at Simon and asked, "by the way, Lao ban, over there in fusion times, do you want to have a look these days?"

In addition to scober's chairman, Emmanuel, who holds a doctorate in particle physics, volunteered to be president of fusion times, one of Simon's three avant-garde technology companies. The project has been progressing steadily, and ground has been broken on the 50 hectare fusiontimes headquarters in the small town of Morgan hills, southwest of San Jose.

"Sure, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow afternoon. I'll go over to see SolarCity and fusion times here. Then you'll remember to arrange the time," Simon said. He raised his wrist and looked at the time. Bezos in the restaurant had already left. He also stood up and said, "well, that's it today. Aiman, you and C can go back first."

Emmanuel glanced at the two girls a and C who stood up together at the dining table. She had to stand up and look at the man opposite. She said bravely, "boss, do you have time tonight to have dinner together?"

Simon looked up at the redhead who was taller than himself because of her high heels. He shook his head with a smile and didn't hide: "not tonight. I want to be with Alice."

Last night was girl C. they made an appointment for the housekeeper tonight.

Now that he has spoken, Emmanuel does not give up easily: "well, what about tomorrow night?"

"I'm going back to Los Angeles tomorrow night."

"Can we not go back?"

"No, there's a reception in Los Angeles tomorrow night."

“……”

Outside the restaurant building, Claire, who watched the man leave with a girl and walk to the parking lot, said with a smile to Emmanuel, "actually, you can try to visit Alice tonight, just say you want to borrow a juicer or something."

Emmanuel was too lazy to roll his eyes: "are you sure I won't be kicked out?"

Red haired girl and Alice Ferguson are quite familiar. For the convenience of work, they both live in the villa in the North residential area of the science park here. It's OK to visit them. Just like C and D girls are a circle, the proud and workaholic helmsman of Amazon mall also has his own circle.

Moreover, although the other side has obvious lace tendency, the red haired girl who has tried quietly has not been able to become close friends with the other side.

I'm very likely to be expelled if I come here tonight.

As for Emmanuel herself, her circle is on Chen Qinglin's side, but Chen and Lin are either in China or in New York. On the contrary, they seldom come here.

Claire saw Emmanuel rolling his eyes, still smiling, shrugged and said: "there's no way, the boss is really busy, there are too many women, just like last night, we can only share with the four of us."

Emmanuel listened to girl C's private gossip such as 1v4. He wanted to laugh at it. He hesitated a little and looked left and right. There was no one else. He couldn't help asking, "he Great? "

girl c smiles mysteriously with a sense of superiority:" I won't tell you. "

Emmanuelton rolled his eyes again and stopped asking.

On the other hand, Simon is really busy, not only at night, but also during the day.

Yesterday was left for Tinkerbell to discuss the subsequent layout after the acquisition of apple. Today is all about igritte. In the morning, he discussed with several persons in charge how to deal with the anti-monopoly investigation initiated by the Ministry of justice again. In the afternoon, he discussed separately the progress of igritte's recent plans, such as starting a new batch of data center construction. He was busy until 7 p.m It's a long time.

Even late at night after the happy, but also by workaholic housekeeper pressed on the bed to continue to talk about some work.

The next morning was a meeting of Cisco, AOL and other companies.

AOL is currently the two major headquarters on the East and west coasts. Previously, AOL mainly developed business on the east coast and focused on technology research and development on the west coast. At the beginning, AOL transferred its headquarters from Virginia to San Francisco. In recent years, AOL's main business has been focused on the east coast and New York.

However, with the announcement of the latest telecommunication act released by the Clinton administration to deregulate the telecommunications industry, and the fact that the East Coast business has entered the ceiling, AOL has turned to the West Coast States again, and the West Coast headquarters has become important again. The morning meeting was about the expansion of the west coast.

Because of being too busy, many smaller decisions, such as the cooperation between tingcobaier mobile Internet ecological plan and scupper, and instagram founded by D girl quietly launched the IPO plan of listing at the end of the year, can only be discussed in the morning, middle and evening meal.

On Friday afternoon, I saw fusion times and SolarCity. Simon left for Los Angeles at more than six o'clock in the evening.

Weekends are not easy either.

In September, it's not far from the end of the year. For two consecutive days at the weekend, Simon is busy with the final cut and marketing plan of a series of films in the end of the year. Then, the new week, September 16, leaves for New York again.In the past busy week, something closely related to the westero system is also happening.

For example, on September 12, New York Fashion Week opened, announcing the spring and summer fashion season of 1997.

Then, on September 13, Black Friday, danielis Entertainment's game Department released another masterpiece, Diablo, which has been integrated into Blizzard's silicon and neural key studio.

Then, on September 14, Saturday, dinkbaier held a relatively small autumn press conference, launched ivid camera products and other small peripheries for network video calls, and in private, dinkbaier also began to contact with Denise to carry out cooperation between ivid camera and American Pie project.