Near noon, Emmanuel Brandt left the Scobo headquarters in the external rental park on the east side of the Westeros Science and Technology Park, drove across the central Ygrit Avenue, and came to the Ygrit Park on the west side. , to be precise, it is the second area of the Yigrit headquarters next to the green park in the south. After the completion of the first area on the north side, Yigrit immediately began to build the second park. The total area of the two parks reached 60 hectares.
Just looking at the size of the headquarters, you can imagine the huge size of Ygrit at this time.
In comparison, on the east side of Igret Avenue, in addition to the 30-hectare headquarters park that is being built by Tinker Bayer, there is also 60 hectares of office space for rent to the outside world. At this time, more than a hundred large and small companies have gathered. technology companies, including Tinker Bayer who is temporarily squeezed in, as well as emerging technology companies such as Instagram, eBay, Scoop, and Broadcast, which has been acquired by Tinker Bayer.
According to the address given by Girl A in advance, he parked the car outside a building in District 2 of Ygritte Headquarters. Emmanuel did not open the car door immediately, but took out the makeup mirror in his bag and carefully checked his makeup, because Focusing on work, she doesn't pay much attention to these things on weekdays, and she often looks slovenly. Today is different. I will have dinner with that man later.
Looking at this flawless white face in the mirror, Emmanuel suddenly felt a little angry and self-pitying. His six-foot height, fair skin, and high IQ and high education were all in line with his aesthetics. When she first met him, she already had some thoughts in her heart, but until now, there was no result.
Is it because of the red hair
No, he shouldn't care about such old and boring ideas.
However, now that I thought about it, I suddenly had the idea that maybe I could take the time to dye my hair blond, and then there would be nothing wrong with it.
It was already lunch time, and there were gradually more and more people around.
Three young men in neat shirts and trousers who looked like Igret employees happened to pass by Emmanuel's car, who was looking at himself in the mirror. They occasionally glanced at him and suddenly couldn't move.
Deliberately waiting for a moment, Emmanuel, who was wearing a black OL suit, got off the car. Although Emmanuel in high heels was taller than the three men, the other man still came over and one of them struck up a conversation: "Hi, this is Miss, are you here for an interview?"
Emmanuel looked at the three guys in front of him with a slightly strange expression: "Do I look like I'm on an interview?"
The person who spoke seemed not to sense the unkindness in Emmanuel's tone, smiled, and reached out: "Let me meet you, I'm Jason. And, anyway, it's lunch time now, how about we go have a meal together? "
Emmanuel glanced at the stretched out hand and turned away without any intention of paying any more attention to it.
There is also some slander.
It has been more than a year since San Francisco was finalized. As the new technology wave becomes more and more fierce, Emmanuel clearly realizes how impetuous Silicon Valley is now, and he has just met these guys who may have dozens or millions of stock options. , the self-confidence is also through the roof, and every day, like a nouveau riche, he spends a lot of money, partying every night, and now almost attracts call girls and drug dealers from all over the world to gather in this area.
Just like just now, even though the internal restaurant of Igret has provided quite superior dining treatment, the three of them obviously still intend to go out to dine. This makes Emmanuel, who comes from a wealthy family and has a good education, very uncomfortable.
Entering a restaurant dedicated to executives in the building, he happened to meet Simon and Igret, who were also coming to dine. Emmanuel immediately changed his mind and went forward to hug and greet the big boss. Of course, he did not forget to talk to Ti M. Berners-Lee shook hands with the others and exchanged greetings.
The obvious differential treatment inevitably led to some teasing, and Emmanuel also smiled and fought back.
Then everyone did not sit together. Bezos and others dispersed. Simon chose a long table for four people and motioned Emmanuel to sit opposite. He took Girl A and sat on the other side while ordering food. : "C will come over later."
Emmanuel nodded.
With how busy Simon is now, this lunch is certainly not just a casual reminiscing about old times, but something serious to talk about.
Just after ordering food, Lady C also arrived.
After a simple greeting, and watching Emmanuel occupy the seat facing his boss, Girl C could only sit diagonally opposite.
After Claire ordered the meal, Simon got straight to the point and said to Emmanuel: "You should have read the technical information about WiFi and Bluetooth, right?"
Regarding WiFi and Bluetooth, Simon has been paying close attention to them in the past few years and has taken decisive action.
Igrit's Australian branch found out three years ago that a professor from the University of Sydney was interested in developing a wireless transmission technology and decisively provided financial support. As a result, the patent for WiFi technology easily fell into the hands of the Westeros system.
As for Bluetooth, because it involves wireless communication and data transmission, all major communication giants are developing it. The technical standards in Simon's hands come from Nokia. At the same time, in order to avoid too many Bluetooth technology standards, Nokia has taken the lead in joining forces with Ericsson, Sony, Toshiba, etc. The company develops unified standards.
All in all, the Westeros system has absolute initiative in both technologies.
When Emmanuel heard Simon mention this, he nodded and said, "Boss, do you mean to ask Scober to turn to the research and development of wireless communication chips?"
"Yes," Simon said, "In addition, I have also read the information of the Broadcom company that Scober recently bought. Your ideas here are correct. Of course, there are some deviations. Today I will clarify these issues. About the next step for Scoop."
Due to the explosion of China's VCD industry and the proliferation of new technology bubbles, as well as the addition of Westeros concept stocks, the market value of Scobo, acquired two years ago, has now reached more than 20 billion US dollars. For Simon, who is familiar with the future prospects of VCD, this far exceeds the actual value of Scoop.
Although Scobo has started the research and development of DVD video decoding chips, but unlike the VCD video decoding chip that maintains a monopoly at this time, in the future DVD industry, Scobo is destined to shift from its current role as the leader of the VCD industry to that of Sony, Toshiba and other core DVD manufacturers are divided into some fringe profit enterprises that are left behind.
Therefore, if transformation is not carried out, Scoop's decline will be inevitable.
Since Scoop's stock price at this time far exceeds its actual value, Simon designed a merger and acquisition expansion strategy using Scoop's stock as "banknote" more than two months ago by referring to the memory of AOL's acquisition of Time Warner. Initiate mergers and acquisitions for transformation.
The Scobo team led by Emmanuel also implemented Simon's plan well. In just over two months, Scobo successfully merged three start-up semiconductor companies, one of which was named Broadcom.
In the original time and space, people were more familiar with Qualcomm, but they didn’t actually know that Broadcom’s status in the industry is comparable to Qualcomm. Both are high-tech companies that specialize in technology licensing and chip development in the communications field, and Broadcom’s It covers a wider range of fields than Qualcomm. One of them, Broadcom was once the world's largest WiFi chip manufacturer.
When Simon first saw the acquisition report submitted by Emmanuel, he was a little surprised. He did not expect that Scoop could acquire Broadcom so many years in advance.
However, after research, we found that the current Broadcom and the later Broadcom are completely different things.
Broadcom, founded five years ago by two Stanford professors, currently mainly launches cable TV set-top box communication chips for receiving and processing digital signals. It also has thousands of communications giants that can later compete with Qualcomm. miles distance.
Scobo's acquisition is mainly to get involved in the field of cable TV. It plans to combine Broadcom's communication chips with Scobo's decoding chips and other technologies to build a complete cable TV set-top box solution.
Given the current industry status quo, where the cable TV industry continues to expand globally, this is a business plan with a very bright future. It is also the main reason why Broadcom, which was planning an IPO, gave up its listing and took the initiative to accept Scoop's acquisition. Otherwise, if the two companies There is absolutely no correlation or complementarity between the two companies, and no wise business owner would easily agree to a similar acquisition offer.
For example, Qualcomm. If Scoop launched an acquisition of Qualcomm, which has a market value of only several billion dollars at this time, Simon would certainly want to take advantage of this, but the chance of Qualcomm agreeing is very small, even if Westeros is also a shareholder of Qualcomm. no. Because the businesses of the two companies have nothing to do with each other.
Simon approves of Scoop's expansion into cable television, but he still hopes that Scoop can take advantage of the current good situation to get involved in more areas.
In the executive dining room of Ygritte, Simon took out an Apple Newton tablet from the bag of Girl A next to him, handed it to Emmanuel opposite, and said: "Maybe you also know this, Apple's PDA Product, in my opinion, the business assistant positioning of this product is obviously wrong, you can learn about this privately. What we are talking about today is the home-based mobile Internet ecosystem plan that will be launched next after Tinker Bayer acquires Apple."
Emmanuel took the Newton tablet handed over by Simon and turned it on skillfully. She happened to have used it, but she also felt that this product was very useless. It was expensive at $900, but it only had some simple functions such as calendar, clock, drawing, and note-taking. The battery capacity was very low. The handwriting function as the highlight was actually available. Optional.
In short, as a business assistant, it is not as convenient as a pocket notebook.
Thinking like this, Emmanuel listened to Simon's last words and looked up at the big boss: "Mobile Internet, boss, does this have anything to do with the Newton Tablet?"
"Of course, the tablet computer is the key. To be more precise, it will be the ultimate form of the future mobile Internet plan. I hope that Tinker Bayer can rely on the existing technical foundation to integrate all the current flagship products. In a pocket-sized tablet."
Emmanuel immediately discovered the problem and turned to look at girl C next to him: "In this case, C, I think you should do your best to prevent the birth of this product, right?"
Nowadays, Tinker Bayer'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 a mere tablet computer, it will inevitably mean The market share of products such as iPlayer has been impacted or even eliminated.
Girl C didn't pay attention to Emmanuel's teasing, shook her head and said: "Do I look like such a short-sighted person?"
"Many things are not just what you want or what you don't want." Emmanuel said with a smile, then turned to Simon: "Boss, what needs to be done here at Scoob?"
Simon did not answer directly, but pointed to the Newton tablet in the red-haired girl's hand again: "With the current technical standards of screens, batteries, chips, etc., Apple's product has actually reached a very high level. Therefore, if you want to achieve The level of integration I'm talking about will probably take five to ten years. The product you have in hand will be combined with its own technology developed in recent years by Tinco Bayer. By integrating the micro hard drive solution, it will focus on more Practical e-book reader and digital music player functions, what Scobo has to do is very critical. Through the WiFi and Bluetooth technology I gave you, develop related chips to realize tablet computers, even iPlayer, iCam and other products. Wireless connections to PCs and the Internet.”
When Emmanuel heard this, he thought for a moment, and his eyes quickly lit up.
You know, in just the first eight months of this year, the total global shipments of Tinco Bayer's three main products, iCam, iPlayer and iRec, have reached a terrifying 56 million units, and the total annual shipments are expected to be close to 90 million units. Taiwan, and next year, this number will easily exceed 100 million.
If Tinco Bayer's flagship electronic products with a total shipment volume exceeding 100 million in the future can use the chips developed by Scobo, Scobo will easily pass the transformation threshold of the post-VCD era, not to mention the current market value of US$20 billion. , it is not impossible to reach 100 billion in the future.
Simon looked at Emmanuel's beautiful blue eyes that were eager to try, and smiled: "Do you understand?"
Emmanuel nodded: "Boss, in this case, maybe Scooper should try to build his own wafer factory."
"No need." Simon knew that building self-built wafer fabs was still the instinctive idea of many semiconductor companies at this stage, but he immediately rejected it: "According to Moore's Law, the iterative update speed of the semiconductor industry is very fast. Therefore, for most semiconductor companies, , it will become increasingly uneconomical to build a self-built wafer factory in the future, and the semiconductor industry will gradually tend to separate design and production. OEM is the general trend of the entire semiconductor industry. Therefore, Scobo only needs to focus on technology research and development and chip design. I will leave the chip production to other companies, and I will also make arrangements in this regard."
In the future, even giants like Intel will begin to seek out OEMs in order to share the high cost of building wafer fabs. With the size of Scoop at this time, building a self-built wafer fab will definitely outweigh the gains and losses, and may even bring down itself.
As for some hidden worries that may arise from the lack of its own factories, this problem does not exist for the Westeros system. Simon will not let Scober build his own wafer factory, but he will not let go of the layout of the wafer foundry industry. The target has been selected and the entry time will be next year.
Once the Southeast Asian financial crisis breaks out, as capital-intensive companies, Asia's two famous wafer foundry giants will be in trouble. Then there will be an opportunity for the Westeros system.
The waiters served lunch one after another, and several people at the table began to discuss more details.
Limited to the current technical level in all aspects, the first phase of Tinco Bayer's mobile Internet plan will last for two years.
First, next fall, Tinker Bayer will combine the iBook that has been quietly developed in recent years and Apple's tablet computer technology to launch the first-generation iPad-10, which can be used as an e-book reader and digital music player.
Then, in the fall of 1998, as Scoop completed its own related chip development work and electronic technology further developed, Tinker Bayer would release a home router with built-in WiFi function and a micro-hard drive version of the iPad tablet computer with also built-in WiFi technology. , officially opened 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. Huge video files are not suitable for wireless transmission, and wired connections will still be used.
The key is integration.
Several existing products will be gradually integrated into the iPad tablet computer, and even the mobile phone call function will be launched later, which is also the iPhone that has already been in Tinco Bayer's huge 'i' series trademark inventory.
This will lead to the arrival of the era of home-style short-distance mobile Internet and unlimited mobile Internet.
The lunch lasted an hour, and Emmanuel understood Simon's thinking very thoroughly.
If he were a latecomer like Simon, looking back on the past, he would not think that the whole plan was anything special. But at this moment, as a time native, Emmanuel Brandt only felt that the young man sitting opposite him, It’s simply unimaginable.
When most ordinary people tend to live in the present, the other party has easily spread their chess game in a professional field to 10 years later. Probably, only such an amazingly talented man can accumulate a huge net worth of US$1.5 trillion in just 10 years and create a miraculous business empire.
While stroking the porcelain cup of after-dinner coffee brought by the waiter, after the man opposite her, who was only two feet away from her, finished his last words and realized that it was time to say goodbye, Emmanuel felt a sense of reluctance and remembered one thing. Looking at Simon with dull eyes, he asked: "By the way, boss, FusionTimes, do you want to go over and take a look in the next few days?"
In addition to being the chairman of Scobo, Emmanuel, who has a doctorate in particle physics, also took the initiative to serve as president of FusionTimes, one of the three avant-garde technology companies promoted by Simon. This project has been making steady progress, and ground has been broken on the 50-hectare FusionTimes headquarters in Morgan Hills, a small town south of San Jose.
"Of course, but this will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon. I will go over to take a look at SolarCity and FusionTimes here. Remember to arrange the time then," Simon said, raising his wrist to check the time. Bezos was there in the restaurant. The person had left, and he stood up and said, "Well, that's it for today. Aiman, you and C can go back first."
Emmanuel glanced at the two girls A and C who were standing up together at the dining table. He had no choice but to stand up, looked at the man opposite, and mustered up the courage to say: "Boss, do you have time tonight, let's eat together?"
Simon looked at the red-haired girl who was taller than him because she was wearing high heels after she stood up. He smiled and shook his head, not hiding anything: "I can't do it tonight, I have to accompany Alice."
Last night it was Lady C and they had an appointment to leave it to the housekeeper tonight.
Now that he had spoken, Emmanuel did not give up easily: "So, what about tomorrow night?"
"I'm going back to Los Angeles tomorrow night."
"Can you not go back?"
"No, I have a cocktail party in Los Angeles tomorrow night that I want to attend."
“…”
Outside the restaurant building, Claire watched the man leave with Girl A and walked to the parking lot together and said to Emmanuel with a smile: "Actually, you can try to visit Alice tonight and ask to borrow a juicer. Machine or something.”
Emmanuel didn't even bother to roll his eyes: "Are you sure I won't be kicked out?"
The red-haired girl is relatively familiar with Alice Ferguson. For the convenience of work, they are currently living in a villa in the residential area in the northern part of the science and technology park here. It is okay to visit, but just like girls C and D, they are in the same circle. , the proud and workaholic helmsman of Amazon Mall also has his own circle.
Moreover, even though the other party has obvious lace tendencies, the redhead who quietly tried it failed to become a close friend with the other party.
If you rush in tonight, the chance of being kicked out is very high.
As for Emmanuelle herself, her circle is with Chen Qing and Lin Su, but Chen and Lin are either in China or New York, so they rarely come here.
Seeing Emmanuel rolling his eyes, Claire still smiled and shrugged: "Then there's nothing we can do. The boss is really busy and there are too many women. Just like last night, we can only share it with the four of us."
Emmanuel heard Girl C speak directly about private gossip such as 1V4, and wanted to laugh a few words. He hesitated a little, glanced around and saw no one else, and couldn't help but ask: "He... is very powerful?"
Girl C smiled mysteriously with a sense of superiority: "I won't tell you."
Emmanuel immediately rolled his eyes again and stopped asking.
On the other hand, Simon is really busy, not only at night but even busier during the day.
Yesterday was reserved for Tinker Bayer to discuss all aspects of the follow-up layout after the acquisition of Apple. Today was all about Igret. In the morning, he discussed with several persons in charge how to respond to the antitrust investigation launched again by the Ministry of Justice. In the afternoon They also discussed the progress of Yigrit's recent plans, such as starting the construction of a new batch of data centers, and were busy until more than seven o'clock in the evening.
Even after having fun late at night, the workaholic housekeeper pinned her down on the bed and continued to talk about some work.
The next morning was a meeting of Cisco, AOL and other companies.
AOL currently has two headquarters on the east and west coasts. Previously, the east coast mainly developed business, and the west coast focused on technology research and development. AOL originally transferred its headquarters from Virginia to San Francisco. Since AOL's main business has been focused on the East Coast in recent years, its focus has also been biased toward New York.
However, with the release of the latest "Telecommunications Act" by the Clinton administration to loosen restrictions on the telecommunications industry, and with the East Coast business having reached its ceiling, AOL has turned its attention to the West Coast states again, and the West Coast headquarters has become important again. The morning meeting was to discuss West Coast expansion.
Because I am too busy, many smaller decisions, such as the cooperation between Tinker Bayer Mobile Internet Ecosystem Plan and Scoop, and the Instagram founded by D Girl quietly launching an IPO plan to be listed at the end of the year, can only be made in the morning, noon and evening. Discuss these times during meals.
After seeing FusionTimes and SolarCity again on Friday afternoon, Simon set off to fly back to Los Angeles at around six o'clock in the evening.
The weekend wasn't easy either.
Entering September, the end of the year is not far away. For two consecutive days on the weekend, Simon was busy finalizing and formulating marketing plans for a series of films for the year-end schedule. Then, in the new week, September 16, he set off to fly again. New York.
And just in this past busy week, some things closely related to the Westeros system are also happening.
For example, on September 12, New York Fashion Week opened, announcing the start of the 1997 spring and summer fashion season.
Then, on September 13, Black Friday, the game department of Daenerys Entertainment released another masterpiece of Silicon and Synapse Studios, which has been integrated into the Blizzard label, "Diablo".
Immediately afterwards, on Saturday, September 14th, Tinkby held a relatively small autumn conference, launching iVid camera products for online video calls and some other small peripherals. In private, Tinkby Er also began to contact Daenerys to cooperate on iVid cameras and the "American Pie" project.