The labor protection laws in the United Kingdom are much stricter than those in North America, and the crew may be investigated by the union for the slightest violation of the work schedule, and at 12 o'clock at noon, the crew stops work and eats on time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Eric tells Peter Rich to prepare two lunches, and then leads Caroline to the office dedicated to the 007 crew of the Borough District.

Carrying the small box for Caroline, Eric looked at the girl beside him and asked, "I saw you come so early in the morning, your house can't be near here, right?"

Caroline felt a little uncomfortable following Eric empty-handed, but she was embarrassed to ask for the box back, and from time to time raised her face to look at Eric beside her, nodded and replied, "Yes, it's by the Tyme." ”

Caroline was obviously used to this description of her home, but Eric didn't know where the Tyme was, but it should be very close, so he didn't ask much, and said, "Are your mom and dad okay?"

"It's good, but Dad is still so busy, like ...... Just like you, my brothers are also busy, and my mother is often the only one in the house. ”

Eric smiled and said, "In that case, you can spend more time with your mother during this time." ”

Caroline nodded obediently, "I will." ”

The two soon arrived in the makeshift office, where Caroline opened the small box with the code and found three rectangular boxes neatly stacked inside.

Eric opened the box, revealing an MP3 player that was slightly larger than an old-fashioned lighter, with a beautiful sky-blue lacquered casing, a ring-wheel interface, and a pure white display. In addition to the player, the box also comes with accessories such as headphones, chargers, and cables.

Seeing Eric skillfully turn on the computer, and casually open the computer on the desktop, Caroline whispered next to her: "This is the latest finished product from the R&D center, using 512M micro hard disk and rechargeable lithium battery, the display screen material is the latest generation TFT, one-time charging can meet eight hours of playtime, and the data transmission is a USB transmission cable." ”

Eric simply tried to operate it a few times, and a few songs were stored in the player in advance, and when he put on the headphones, the sound of pleasant music came out of the headphones.

Pulling another box out of the box and handing it to Caroline, Eric said, "You can try it too." ”

"Me, is that okay?" asked Caroline, uncertainly, and seeing that Eric had already stuffed it, the girl caught it and opened it carefully. Although she brought these three samples all the way from Los Angeles, Caroline was curious because of her good upbringing, but she did not open them in advance.

The one in her hand happens to be pink, Caroline knows that the last one should be pure white, and the finished MP3 player finalized by the R&D center has a total of three colors, sky blue, pure white and pink.

Caroline has been following up on Firefly Electronics, but it is the first time to use an MP3 player, and she is not as familiar as Eric, and she still needs to read the manual before she can use it.

Eric looked at the girl awkwardly fiddling with the mp3 in her hand, smiled, and saw that the computer on the desktop was turned on, and connected to the Internet.

Yahoo has been expanding overseas in the last two years, and now has subsidiaries in major English-speaking countries, as well as Japan, Germany and France, and has begun to operate portals, Yahoo mailboxes, instant messaging and other businesses.

Eric is opening the Yahoo Music Store in the United States, which will be open to the public at the same time as the MP3 release date, and is currently only in the internal testing stage.

After logging into the website, Eric picked up the USB cable on the desktop and lowered his head to connect to the computer host, only to find that the computer that came with the office did not have a USB port. After recalling, USB data transmission is a technical standard that IT giants such as Intel, IBM, and Microsoft only began to promote last year, that is, only the latest personal computers have USB interfaces.

In addition to USB, Apple's FireWire interface is the two mainstream data transmission standards that have emerged. However, since last year, Apple's market share has begun to fall off a cliff, and this year it is expected to account for only 5% of North American PC sales.

The computer in front of him could not be used for data transfer, so Eric had to give up for the time being, planning to return to his apartment in the evening to test again, his own laptop had a USB port.

Peter Ritchie came in with two lunches, put them on the coffee table in the lounge area, and when Eric had no other instructions, he nodded to Caroline and pushed the door away.

Caroline had just learned how to play the song, and when Peter Ritchie brought lunch, she quickly took off her headphones.

Eric took Caroline to the couch and sat down, and said, "Time is tight, so I can only briefly invite you to lunch here, don't you mind?"

"No, it won't," Caroline shook her head, taking the initiative to take her lunch out of her convenience bag.

A few very simple lunches, sandwiches, grilled meats, small cakes, and vegetable salad, seem to be pretty good, but in fact, whoever eats them knows.

Eric can't complain about the food of the British, he just wants to fill his stomach, and the crew's lunch break is only an hour, and he doesn't bother to open a small stove for himself. Looking at Caroline's accustomed look, it was obvious that the girl should eat these too.

Alas, how pitiful.

Caroline took out two glasses of apple juice and handed one to Eric, just noticed Eric's expression and asked curiously, "Eric, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing," Eric shook his head, calmly picking up a cheese sandwich and taking a bite.

Caroline's big eyes blinked a few times, and she laughed softly, "Eric, do you think English food is unpalatable?"

Seeing that Caroline didn't mind, Eric nodded solemnly.

"Hehe," Caroline smiled, not angry, but retorted slightly, "We, we're just looking for simplicity." ”

Eric, who had been able to appreciate the girl's little pride in being British since he met Caroline, did not continue the topic, but said, "The mp3 player is finished, how is the progress of the e-book reader?"

"The main problem is the processor chip, ARM has focused on developing mobile phone chips with Texas Instruments in the past two years, and there is no spare energy to provide us with more technical support, so the R&D center can only use the technology provided by ARM to design itself, although it is not as complex as the mobile phone chip, but the research and development of the control chip of the reader is still much more difficult than the audio decoding chip of the MP3 player......"

Caroline was talking, but Eric suddenly looked up and interrupted her, "Arm?"

"Arm is a Cambridge company that licenses the core design technology of microprocessor chips," Caroline replied, seeing Eric's sudden thoughtful look, she asked, "Eric, is there any problem?"

Of course there is a problem, a big problem.

Eric sighed in his heart, Microsoft and Intel have been irreversible in dominating the personal computer market, in addition to taking the lead on the Internet through Yahoo, AOL and Cisco, Eric has also been considering and implementing the layout of the future smartphone and mobile Internet era.

Qualcomm, Nokia, Yahoo and the investment in the mobile communication company Sprint are all important chess pieces for Eric to play for the next ten years, but if you think about the Wintel Alliance, you can know that if you want to firmly grasp the right to speak in the mobile era in the future, on the one hand, the mobile phone operating system, and on the other hand, the mobile phone processor chip.

In the original time and space, ARM chips firmly control more than 95% of the mobile intelligent terminal market, and almost all electronics manufacturers such as Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung use ARM chip technology for their chips. However, more than ten years later, because of ARM's extensive and even somewhat widespread licensing, and mainstream manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung have abandoned ARM's public architecture after the technology matured, and began to develop their own chip solutions on its basis, although ARM controls a large number of core patents, it is completely impossible to have a monopoly similar to Intel's monopoly position in the PC processor industry.

But now, it's just getting started.

If ARM can be won in advance, even if there will be other mobile chip technology standards in the future, but in the case that ARM has proven the superiority of its technical solutions in the previous life, and with the support of giant companies in the whole industry chain such as Qualcomm, Nokia, and Sprint, it is not impossible for ARM to once again dominate the mobile chip rivers and lakes, and even reach Intel's position in the PC chip market.

With this in mind, Eric looked up to find Peter Richie, but happened to meet Caroline's puzzled gaze.

After calming down a bit, and realizing that Peter Ritchie must be by his side to help with his day-to-day affairs, and that there was a ready-made candidate in front of him, Eric asked, "Caroline, how long is your vacation this time?"

Caroline didn't know what had happened to Eric suddenly, but she replied, "Half a month." ”

"Now, I'll give you an extended vacation, how about a month?"

"Huh?" Caroline wondered even more.

Eric continued: "That's right, it just so happened that something suddenly occurred to me, and since you're here, you don't need to transfer people from Los Angeles. During this time, I hope you can help me collect information about ARM, you have done Qualcomm's data collection before, you should be very proficient, I need everything from ARM, including their management information, shareholders, business status, partners, etc. ”

Thinking of Qualcomm, Caroline roughly understood Eric's intentions and said, "Eric, are you planning to buy this company?"

Eric nodded and said, "When the time comes, you may have to go to Cambridge City, and I will have someone transfer a driver for you." ”

"No, no," Caroline quickly shook her head and said, "I can drive myself, and I know a lot of people in Cambridge." ”

"Forget it, if you need any help, you can contact Peter, or call me directly," Eric said, noticing that the expression on the girl's face was no longer as relaxed as it had been just now, and realized something, "This, is it a little disturbing your vacation, if you don't want to do it, I'll call Kelly and ask Kelly to send someone." ”

"No, no, I do," Caroline quickly shook her head.

Actually, she was just thinking that if she could stay here in the UK for a month and have a special job to do, wouldn't it be better to find a reason to meet Eric often.

Thinking of this, Caroline felt her cheeks heat up slightly.

The two of them ate lunch and talked about some details, and before leaving, Eric gave Caroline the pink mp3 player.

Although Caroline liked this player very much, she excused herself: "This, it's a sample, how can I ask for it." ”

"The sample was meant to be tried," Eric smiled as he slipped the box into the girl's hand and said, "I'll have someone send you a Yahoo Music Store account at night, by the way, if you want to download music, you may need the latest computer with a USB interface, and I can't help you with this." When you're done trying, take the time to write a trial report. ”

"Well, well," Caroline put the player away.

An hour was a short time, and Caroline looked at her watch, and it was already twelve fifty-five, and she took her leave.

Eric asked Peter Ritchie to deliver the remaining two MP3s to his residence, and gave instructions to help Caroline collect ARM data, and began his afternoon work.

Kate has been a little cautious since she joined the group, after all, she is just a newcomer, and she is also an outsider from Australia. However, since Eric accepted her suggestions in the morning, she has finally let go of some of them, and has begun to express her suggestions boldly.

Since Kate joined the group in Italy, Pierce Brosnan has been a little depressed because he often can't keep up with Kate's rhythm, but because of Eric's support, and Kate's performance is only a Bond girl after all, it is unlikely to have much impact on his status in the crew, so Pierce Brosnan has not shown too many negative emotions, except for occasionally being a little entangled when playing against Kate, the whole filming process went smoothly.

The filming of the underwater camera base ended smoothly in the afternoon, and Kate's rivalry with Pierce Brosnan was mostly completed, and the rest of Kate's scenes will be scenes with Christina Aguilera who plays her sister, which is a new branch line that has nothing to do with the original version, of course, there are not many scenes, after all, this is a 007 movie, James Bond will always be the core of the core, although Eric has absolute control of the 007 series, but he will not make much changes to the overall style of the James Bond series。 (To be continued.) )