The city of Cambridge is located about 70 kilometers northeast of London. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On Saturday, October 5th, Eric took Caroline to Cambridge early in the morning and took a helicopter to avoid being followed by the paparazzi who had been surrounding the Pinewood Studios.

Caroline spent a month collecting a lot of information about ARM, and also contacted Arm President Roger Wilson, realizing Eric's interest in ARM, and the other party was also very eager, and the two agreed to meet today.

Although he has the same surname Wilson, Roger Wilson has no relationship with the Caroline family, and like Barbara Brookley's half-brother Michael Wilson, Wilson belongs to a very common British surname.

Eric also discussed this issue with Caroline with great interest on the helicopter, Caroline just said that their family was Wilson of Berkshire, although the girl did not have any pride when she spoke, but the tone of voice was natural, giving Eric the feeling that it was like the ancient Zhao Song children said that we are the Zhao family in Hejian.

The historic city of Cambridge doesn't have a single tall building, it's full of quaint houses that look at least a few hundred years old, and if it weren't for the modern cars on both sides of the road, it's certainly more enjoyable to wander around such a historic town.

The appointment with Roger Wilson was two o'clock in the afternoon, and Eric and Caroline were hanging out in Cambridge in the morning.

It was originally to steal a half-day of leisure, but unfortunately Eric and Caroline walked together, it was still too eye-catching, not because of the appearance of the two handsome men and beautiful women, mainly because of the difference in their height, even if Caroline was wearing high-heeled boots, her height was still only as high as Eric's shoulders, but they were both wearing black trench coats today, although Caroline's women's trench coat was definitely much smaller than Eric, but it still looked a little bit like a couple's outfit.

Finally, passing by a women's clothing store, Eric took the girl in, and when he came out, Eric's outfit was still the same, but Caroline changed into a pink women's hoodie, and the light-colored slacks underneath were still the same as before, but the original high-heeled boots were replaced by white flat shoes.

Throwing Caroline's clothes to the attendant who was not far behind him, Eric looked up and down at the girl with an uncomfortable expression, and smiled, "That's a little more pleasing to the eye." ”

Caroline noticed the wicked smile on Eric's lips and said shyly, "Eric, you must be playing some bad idea again." ”

Eric shook his head and said, "No, we won't attract attention like this, everyone will just think you're my sister or something." ”

Caroline wrinkled her little nose in annoyance and said, "I don't want to be your sister." ”

Eric said casually, "Then cousin." ”

Caroline decided that Eric was just joking, so she didn't refute it, but the little brain couldn't help but turn around on issues like English law and genetics.

Continuing to wander through the narrow alleys of Cambridge, passing a boutique, Eric saw a light grey deer hunting hat in the store, so he bought one and put it on, and put away the flat glasses that were used as a cover.

Caroline teased awkwardly as Eric fiddled with the hat, "You don't look like Sherlock Holmes at all." ”

Eric pressed down the brim of his hat and smiled, "Is it because he's too handsome?" ”

Caroline laughed: "No, because in the original book, Sherlock Holmes was set to be middle-aged, and he still has a beard." ”

Eric said: "Maybe I can invest in a younger version of Sherlock Holmes in the future, set in the modern era, and Charlotte and Watson will have to follow the trend and make it unforgettable." ”

Caroline fantasized about Eric's destruction of the classic and laughed, "Hehe, that must be messy." ”

Eric laughed, "Maybe everyone will like it." ”

The University of Cambridge has more than thirty colleges and research institutes, scattered in the south-west of the city of Cambridge.

Caroline took Eric to several of the more well-known colleges, and also to the dormitory where she used to live with Rachel, and at eleven o'clock in the morning, on Caroline's recommendation, the two settled lunch at a pizzeria, and then wandered to a small park opposite Queen's College in Cambridge, not too far from the café agreed with Roger Wilson. Between the small park and Queen's College is the famous Cam-River, which is transliterated as the River Cam, and there are many bridges over the river.

It was past noon, and he didn't plan to go any further, so Eric asked for ARM's information from the bodyguards who accompanied him, and went to a bench in the small park to sit down on a bench to the Sword River, and knocked on his side, and Caroline sat down with him.

The autumn sun always has a bit of cold paleness, which is easy to touch, but fortunately, it is noon, and it can always bring some warmth to the body.

Stretching his legs and putting the information on his lap, sniffing the faint fragrance coming from Caroline beside him, Eric casually flipped through the materials in his hand, he had read them several times before, and some important information was also memorized in his mind.

Speaking of which, the reason for the appearance of ARM processors is very interesting, in one word, poor.

In the early eighties, with the rise of the PC, the British BBC television station did a documentary about microprocessors, which caused a strong response from the audience, and the BBC then decided to cooperate with Acorn Computer, which can be said to be the parent company of Arm, to launch a cheap PC to sell to interested audiences.

ACORN is very poor, unlike the IT giants such as IBM and Intel in the United States, and does not have enough financial resources to develop high-performance processor chips with complex instruction set (CISC) as the core, and can only develop low-cost and low-power processors based on the reduced instruction set (RISC) with relatively little transistor demand.

But due to the overall trend of the PC industry in pursuit of more powerful processors, Acorn quickly declined after a brief period of success on the cheap side.

In 1990, Apple Computer noticed the advantages of Arm technology and cooperated with some engineers from the former Acorn company to establish Arm to develop processor chips for Apple's Newton tablet.

Although the Newton tablet has a very advanced design concept, it is very low in practicality and expensive. After several generations of the product, it is now on the verge of discontinuation.

Because of the failure of Newton's tablet, ARM has experienced a low ebb for several years, and in the last two years, because of the rise of digital mobile phones, ARM has once again found the direction of development, and ARM is currently working closely with Texas Instruments to develop mobile phone chips based on ARM technology.

Coincidentally, this chip was commissioned by Nokia to be developed by Texas Instruments.

Although Nokia has a strong advantage in digital communication technology, the research and development of its own chips has only just begun, and before that, it used processors from chip manufacturers such as Texas Instruments.

At present, because the first ARM mobile phone chip has not been officially launched, ARM has not attracted much attention from the industry. ARM is also not listed, and the shareholding structure is relatively simple, mainly scattered in the hands of Apple and ARM's parent company, and it only takes about $80 million to buy ARM.

At present, there are only a few companies such as Apple Computer and Texas Instruments, and after buying ARM, it is easy to control the further spread of ARM technology.

However, the next layout of ARM technology needs to be carefully considered. (To be continued.) )