Near noon, Emmanuel Brandt left the Scooper headquarters on the east side of the Westeros Science Park, drove across the central Igrete Avenue, and came to the Igrete Campus on the west side, to be precise, the second area of the Igrete headquarters next to the green park in the south, and after the completion of the first area on the north side, Igrete immediately began to build the second park, with a total area of 60 hectares.

Just looking at the size of the headquarters, you can imagine the huge size of Igrett at this time.

In contrast, on the east side of Eaglet Boulevard, in addition to the 30-hectare headquarters park under construction that has also been set aside for Tinkobar, there is also 60 hectares of office space for rent, and more than 100 large and small technology companies have gathered at this time, including Tinkobar, which is temporarily crowded into it, as well as Instagram, eBay, Scober, Broadcast and other cutting-edge technology companies that have been included in Tinkobar.

According to the address given by Girl A in advance, the car was parked outside a building in the second district of the Eagle headquarters, Emmanuel did not immediately push the car door, but took out the makeup mirror in her satchel and carefully checked the makeup. Today is different, I'm going to dine with that man later,

Looking at this flawless white face in the mirror, Emmanuel suddenly felt a little annoyed and self-pitying, six feet tall, fair skin, and high IQ and high education, all of which were completely in line with his aesthetics. When she first saw 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 this old-fashioned and boring notion.

However, since I thought of it, I suddenly had an idea that maybe I could dye my blonde hair when I had time, and when the time came, there would be no more mistakes.

It's lunchtime, and the people around are getting bigger.

Three young men in neat shirts and trousers, who looked like employees of Igret, happened to pass by Emmanuel's car who was taking a self-portrait in the mirror.

Deliberately waited for a while, waiting for Emmanuel in a black OL suit to get out of the car, although Emmanuel in high heels stood taller than the three men, the other party still walked over, and one of them accosted: "Hey, this young lady, 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 interviewing?"

The person who opened his mouth didn't seem to feel the unkindness in Emmanuel's tone, showed a smile, and stretched out his hand: "Meet, I'm Jason." And, anyway, it's lunchtime, so how about we go have a meal together?"

Emmanuel glanced at the outstretched hand, paid no further attention to it, and turned to leave.

There is also some slander.

It's been more than a year since San Francisco was settled, and with the surging tide of new technology, Emmanuel clearly realized how impetuous Silicon Valley is now, and just met these guys who may have tens of millions of stock options at every turn, and their self-confidence is also bursting, and their daily life is like a nouveau riche with all kinds of extravagance, night and night party, which now attracts almost all the world's call girls and drug dealers to gather in this area.

Just like just now, it was clear that the in-house restaurant of Igrete had provided quite superior catering treatment, and the three of them obviously planned to go out to eat, which made Emmanuel, who was from a wealthy background and had a good upbringing, very unaccustomed to it.

Entering a special restaurant for executives in the building, he happened to meet Simon and Igrett Four, who also came to eat, Emmanuel immediately changed his mind, stepped forward to hug and greet the big boss, and of course did not forget to shake hands with Tim Berners Lee and others.

The obvious difference in treatment inevitably drew a few laughs, and Emmanuel also laughed back.

Then everyone didn't sit together, Bezos and the others dispersed, Simon picked a long table for four people, motioned for Emmanuel to sit opposite, and took Girl A to sit on the other side, and said while ordering: "Wait a minute, C will come over too." ”

Emmanuel nodded.

With Simon's current busyness, this lunch is certainly not a casual reminiscence, but something serious to talk about.

Just finished ordering, Girl C also arrived.

Simply greeting, seeing that Emmanuel occupied the position directly opposite her boss, and Girl C could only sit diagonally opposite.

After Claire ordered the meal, Simon also went 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 it a few years ago and has made a decisive move.

Three years ago, Igret's Australian branch discovered that a professor at the University of Sydney was interested in developing a wireless transmission technology, and decisively gave financial support, so the patent for WiFi technology easily fell into the hands of Westeros.

As for Bluetooth, because it involves wireless communication and data transmission, all major communication giants are developing it, and the technical standards in Simon's hands come from Nokia, and at the same time, in order to avoid the standards of Bluetooth technology being too diverse, Nokia has taken the lead in uniting Ericsson, Sony, Toshiba and other companies to develop unified standards.

All in all, the Westeros system has absolute initiative over both technologies.

Emmanuel heard Simon mention this, nodded, and said, "Boss, you mean, let Scober 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, and your thinking is correct, of course, there are some deviations, and today is to clarify these issues, about the next development direction of Scober." ”

Due to the explosion of China's VCD industry and the flood of new technology bubbles, coupled with the addition of Westeros concept stocks, the market value of Scooper, which was acquired two years ago, has now rushed to more than $20 billion. For Simon, who is well versed in the future prospects of VCDs, this far exceeds the actual value of Scober.

Although Scooper has started the research and development of DVD video decoding chips, unlike the VCD video decoding chips that maintain a monopoly at this time, in the future DVD industry, Scooper is destined to only change from the current role of the leader of the VCD industry to share some marginal interests from Sony, Toshiba and other DVD core manufacturers.

Therefore, without the transformation, the decline of Scober will be inevitable.

Since Scober's stock price at this time far exceeded its actual value, Simon designed an M&A expansion strategy using Scrooper's stock as 'money' more than two months ago, referring to the routine of AOL's acquisition of Time Warner in memory, and transformed it by initiating mergers and acquisitions in other fields.

Emmanuel's team of Skooper also executed Simon's plan well. In just over two months, Scober has successfully merged three start-up semiconductor companies, one of which is called 'Broadcom'.

In the original time and space, people are more familiar with Qualcomm, but in fact, they don't know, Broadcom, the company, in the industry and Qualcomm status, both are high-tech companies mainly engaged in technology licensing and chip development in the field of communications, and Broadcom's fields are more extensive than Qualcomm, one of them, Broadcom once belonged to the world's largest WiFi chip manufacturer.

Simon was a little surprised when he first saw Emmanuel's acquisition report, but he didn't expect Scober to bring Broadcom under his command so many years in advance.

However, after research, it was found that the current Broadcom and the later Broadcom are completely different things.

Broadcom, which was co-founded by two Stanford professors five years ago, is currently mainly launching cable TV set-top box communication chips for receiving and processing digital signals, which is still 108,000 miles away from the giants in the communications field that were later able to compete with Qualcomm.

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

With the current situation of the cable TV industry that continues to expand around the world, this is a very promising business plan, and it is also the main reason why Broadcom, which was planning an IPO, gave up its listing and took the initiative to accept the acquisition of Scober, otherwise, if the two companies have no relationship and complementarity at all, the slightly wiser business owners will not easily agree to a similar takeover offer.

For example, Qualcomm, if Scooper launches an acquisition of Qualcomm with a market value of only a few billion dollars at this time, Simon certainly wants to pick up this kind of bargain, but the probability of Qualcomm agreeing is very small, even if Westeros is also a shareholder of Qualcomm. Because the business of the two companies is not related.

Simon is in favor of Scober's expansion into cable TV, but he hopes that Scober will take advantage of the current situation to get involved in more areas.

In Ygritt's executive cafeteria, Simon said and took out an Apple Newton tablet from the satchel of Girl A beside him, handed it to Emmanuel opposite, and said: "Maybe you also know this, Apple's PDA product, in my opinion, the positioning of this product's business assistant is obviously wrong, you can know about these privately." What we are going to talk about today is the next step after Tinkobar's acquisition of Apple, the next step will be to launch the home mobile Internet ecological plan. ”

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 chicken, with an expensive price of $900, but only some simple functions such as calendars, clocks, drawings, notes, etc., and the battery capacity was very low, and the handwriting function as a highlight was actually dispensable.

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

Thinking so, Emmanuel listened to Simon's words at the end, and looked up at the big boss: "Mobile Internet, boss, does this have anything to do with the Newton tablet?"

"Of course, the tablet is the key, more accurately, it will be the ultimate form of the future mobile Internet plan, and I hope that Tinkobar will be able to rely on the existing technology base and be able to combine the current several flagship products, all in one pocket-sized tablet. ”

Emmanuel immediately noticed the problem and turned his head to look at Girl C beside him: "In that case, C, I think you should do everything you can to prevent this product from being born, right?"

Now Tinkobar, the main products, iPlayer, iCam and iRec, annual shipments have reached tens of millions or even tens of millions, if these electronic products are integrated into a mere tablet, it will inevitably mean that the market share of iPlayer and other products has been impacted, or even eliminated.

Lady C didn't care about Emmanuel's teasing, and shook her head, "Do I look like such a visionary person?"

"A lot of things don't mean you can do what you want or how you don't want to. Emmanuel smiled and turned to Simon, "Boss, what does Scooper need to do?"

Simon didn't answer directly, but pointed to the Newton tablet in the redhead's hand again: "With the current technical level of screen, battery, chip and so on, Apple's product has actually reached a fairly high level, so it will take about five to ten years to achieve the level of integration I said." This product in your hand, Tinkobar will be combined with its own technology developed in recent years, by integrating the micro-hard disk solution, focusing on more practical e-book readers and digital music player functions, what Scober wants to do, is very critical, through the WiFi and Bluetooth technology I gave you, develop related chips, and realize tablet computers, and even iPlayer, iCam and other products, and personal computers and the Internet for wireless connection. ”

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

You know, just in the first 8 months of this year, the total global shipments of the three main products of Tinkobayer's 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, and next year, this number will easily exceed 100 million.

If Tinkobar's main electronic products with a total shipment of more than 100 million yuan in the future can use the chips developed by Scober, Scober will easily step into the transformation threshold of the post-VCD era, and even, not to mention the current market value of 20 billion US dollars, it is not impossible to reach 100 billion in the future.

Simon looked at Emmanuel's beautiful blue eyes and smiled, "Figured it out?"

Emmanuel nodded: "Boss, in that case, maybe Scober should try to build his own wafer factory." ”

"No," Simon knew that building their own wafer factories was still the instinctive idea of many semiconductor companies at this stage, but he immediately vetoed it: "According to Moore's Law, the iterative update speed of the semiconductor industry is very fast, therefore, for most semiconductor companies, it will be less and less cost-effective to build wafer factories from scratch, and the semiconductor industry will gradually tend to separate design and production, and foundry is the general trend of the entire semiconductor industry." Therefore, Scober only needs to focus on technology research and development and chip design, and the chip production will be handed over to other companies, and I will also have a layout in this regard. ”

In the future, even giants like Intel will begin to seek foundries in order to share the high cost of wafer factory construction.

As for some of the concerns that may come with the lack of 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 goals have been selected, and the entry time is next year.

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

Waiters brought lunch one after another, and several people at the table began to discuss more details.

Limited to the current state of the art in all aspects, the first phase of the Tinkobar mobile Internet plan will be two years.

First of all, next fall, Tinkobar will launch the first generation of the iPad-10 that can be used as an e-book reader and digital music player, combining iBook, which has been quietly developed in recent years, with Apple's tablet technology.

Then, in the autumn of 1998, as Scober completed its own chip development work and further development of electronic technology, Tinkobay would release a home router with built-in WiFi function and a micro-hard version of the iPad tablet with 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 quickly, such as iRec, which is limited to the rate of wireless transmission, and huge video files are not suitable for wireless transmission, and will still be dominated by wired connections.

It's all about integration.

Several existing products were gradually integrated into the iPad tablet, and later a mobile phone call function was introduced, which was also part of Tinkobar's extensive 'i' series of trademarks.

And then realize the arrival of the era of home-type short-distance mobile Internet to unlimited mobile Internet.

The lunch lasted an hour, and Emmanuel grasped Simon's train of thought very thoroughly.

If it was a latecomer like Simon, looking back on the past, he wouldn't feel 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 was simply imaginative.

Most ordinary people tend to live in the present, and the other party has easily spread their chess game in a professional field to 10 years later. Probably, only such a brilliant man can accumulate a huge net worth of $1.5 trillion in just 10 years and create a business empire that can be called a miracle.

Rubbing the porcelain cup of after-dinner coffee delivered by the waiter, after the man on the other side who was only two feet away from him finished his last words, realizing that it was time to separate, Emmanuel was reluctant, remembered something, looked at Simon with bright eyes, and asked, "By the way, boss, FusionTimes, do you want to go over and take a look these days?"

In addition to Scober's chairman, Emmanuel, who has a Ph.D. in particle physics, offered to serve as president of FusionTimes, one of the three avant-garde technology companies that Simon single-handedly promoted. The project has been progressing steadily, with the breaking of ground on the 50-hectare FusionTimes headquarters in the small town of Morgan Hill southwest of San Jose.

"Of course, but this will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon, SolarCity and FusionTimes here, I will go over to take a look, and you remember to arrange the time when the time comes," Simon said, raising his wrist to look at the time, Bezos and the others in the restaurant had already left, he also stood up and said, "Then, that's it for today, Ayman, you and C can go back first." ”

Emmanuel glanced at the two girls A and C who got up together at the table, so he had to stand up, looked at the man opposite, and plucked up the courage to say, "Boss, do you have time tonight, eat together?"

Simon looked at the redhead who was taller than himself because he was wearing high heels after getting up, smiled and shook his head, and did not hide it: "Not tonight, I want to accompany Alice." ”

It was the C girls last night, and tonight I made an appointment to leave it to the housekeeper.

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, there's a drinking party in Los Angeles tomorrow night. ”

“......”

Outside the restaurant building, Claire, who watched the man leave with Girl A and walked to the parking lot together, smiled and said to Emmanuel: "Actually, you can try to visit Alice tonight, just say you want to borrow a juicer or something." ”

Emmanuel didn't even bother to roll his eyes: "Are you sure I won't be kicked out?"

The redhead and Alice Ferguson are still relatively familiar, for the convenience of work, both of them currently live in villas in the northern residential area of the science and technology park, and it is okay to visit, but, just like the C and D girls are a circle, the arrogant and workaholic Amazon mall helmsman also has his own circle.

Moreover, although the other party has obvious lace tendencies, the redhead who has quietly tried it has not been able to become close friends with the other party.

If you rush over tonight, the chances of being kicked out are very high.

As for Emmanuel herself, her circle is on Chen Qinglinsu's side, but Chen and Lin are either in China or New York, but they rarely come here.

Claire saw Emmanuel roll her eyes, still smiling, shrugged her shoulders and said, "Then there is no way, the boss is really busy, and there are too many women, just like last night, only the four of us can share together." ”

Emmanuel listened to Girl C directly say private gossip such as 1V4, and wanted to laugh at a few words, but hesitated slightly, looked left and right at no one else, and couldn't help asking: "...... Amazing?"

Girl C smiled mysteriously with a bit of superiority: "I won't tell you." ”

Emmanuel 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's time was reserved for Tinkobar to discuss the follow-up layout after the acquisition of Apple, and today it was all about Igret, discussing with several responsible persons in the morning to deal with the antitrust investigation launched by the Ministry of Justice again, and in the afternoon they discussed the progress of Igret's recent plans such as starting the construction of a new batch of data centers, and was busy until more than 7 o'clock in the evening.

Even after a good night in the middle of the night, he was pressed on the bed by the workaholic housekeeper and continued to talk about some work.

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

AOL is currently the two headquarters of the East and West Coasts, with the East Coast focusing on business development and the West Coast focusing on technology research and development. AOL moved its headquarters from Virginia to San Francisco, but in recent years, AOL's main business has been focused on the East Coast, and its focus has also shifted to New York.

However, with the announcement of the Clinton administration's latest "Telecommunications Act" to loosen restrictions on the telecommunications industry, and the East Coast business has entered the ceiling, AOL has turned its attention to the West Coast states again, and the West Coast headquarters has become important again. The morning session was devoted to the expansion of the West Coast.

Because of the busyness, many of the smaller decisions, such as the cooperation between Tinkobar and Scober, and the quiet launch of the IPO plan of the D girl's Instagram, which plans to go public at the end of the year, can only be discussed during breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After seeing FusionTimes and SolarCity on Friday afternoon, Simon left for Los Angeles at six o'clock in the evening.

Weekends weren't easy either.

Entering September, it is not far from the end of the year, and for two consecutive days on the weekend, Simon is busy with the final cutting and marketing plan formulation of a series of films in the year-end schedule, and then, in a new week, September 16, he will fly to New York again.

And in the past busy week, something closely related to the Westeros system has been happening.

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

Then, on Black Friday, September 13, Daenerys Entertainment's gaming division released another masterpiece from Silicon & Nerve Studios, which has been integrated into the Blizzard label, Diablo.

Then, on Saturday, September 14th, Tinkobar held a relatively small autumn press conference, putting on the shelves iVid camera products for online video calls and some other small peripherals, and privately, Tinkobar also began to contact Daenerys to carry out the cooperation between the iVid camera and the "American Pie" project.