(.) Celebrating Christmas in China is a boisterous one, while Christmas in Western countries is a culture.

Zhou Liwen returned home and spent a happy and peaceful Christmas with his family, with whom he spent the entire Christmas holiday. Install the Christmas tree by himself, ride his son on his shoulder and take his wife to the mall to buy gifts, decorate the Christmas tree, hang decorations and Christmas cards at the door of the house, learn to roast turkey with chef Paul, put on a red and white Santa hat for the little one, and quietly put the Christmas little red socks stuffed with gifts on the little one's bedside ...... at night.

These not only make the little ones who spend Christmas for the first time dance happily, but even the parents are happy to enjoy this different festive atmosphere. Of course, Liu Ting, who was indispensable as a guest during the festival together, made Lin Yaxuan very happy with the arrival of her best friend, and even the two of them slept in the same room all night and couldn't finish chatting, which made Zhou Liwen be left out in the cold for a few days, but he didn't look unhappy at all, and he laughed every day. Accompanying his parents, playing with the little ones, and calling some friends to greet him on holidays, Zhou Liwen, who temporarily put down his work, is no different from ordinary people.

It wasn't until after New Year's Day that Zhou Liwen's peaceful life was broken. On January 3, Liao Yuancheng rushed over from the Taiwan Strait, he went back before Christmas, as Zhou Liwen gradually moved the company's focus from Huacheng to Silicon Valley, Liao Yuancheng had to stay in the United States for at least half a year, and this time he came back in addition to some company business to deal with, there is also a very important job.

The new company in Silicon Valley is not far from Scopa's headquarters, and like most IT companies in Silicon Valley, the company area is simple and functional, with the exception of the hgo standing at the door.

However, none of the so many IT companies in Silicon Valley will underestimate here, even the well-known Intel, HP, Cisco, as the world's No. 1 smartphone brand, is now not only a single mobile phone manufacturer, but also a new IT star that cannot be ignored. In particular, the smart phone system and system platform store of OR has created a new direction of IT in mobile phones, compared with the scale of the company's headquarters, OR may not be as large as some IT companies set up in Silicon Valley, but it is far ahead of them in terms of influence and position in IT and electronics manufacturing, especially in the mobile phone manufacturing industry.

The U.S. headquarters has a whole geometric structure of the floor office building, which is mainly divided into five hearts, which are product and market center, administrative heart, operation heart, regional heart and R&D heart.

The product and marketing center now has three departments: the marketing department, the smartphone department, and the software store platform department, but there will be newer departments soon.

The administrative heart has a general office, a human resources department, a legal department, and an asset management department.

The operation center has a purchasing department, a project engineering department, a production department and an after-sales service department.

The regional center is in charge of the sales regional network, according to North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania...... and other continents, and then subdivided into major national and regional departments in each region.

As for the R&D heart, due to Zhou Liwen's setup, although the headquarters of the entire or R&D heart is located in Silicon Valley, it has a three-legged posture with the branches in Huacheng and Seoul, all of which are directly responsible to Zhou Liwen by Liao Yuancheng, which is the most important core of the entire company.

In addition to the five major departments, the headquarters has also opened a gym, café, audio-visual center and other entertainment facilities for employees to use.

On the day Liao Yuancheng came back, Zhou Liwen went to the company and met him in the chairman's office.

"Lao Liao, it's going to be the Spring Festival soon, and it's hard for you to fly around, in fact, you can come back after the Spring Festival in the Taiwan Strait." Let the secretary make a cup of coffee for Liao Yuancheng, Zhou Liwen said apologetically. With the improvement of the headquarters, Liao Yuancheng is now mainly responsible for the work of R&D and is also the president of Asia. The president of the headquarters is Zhou Liwen, but he hired several vice presidents through the headhunting company, especially the executive vice president and the executive vice president, who are professionals with rich experience in Texas Instruments and IH, to help him keep the whole company in order.

Liao Yuancheng said thank you, took the coffee and said with a smile: "It's okay, my family also came here this time, and the Spring Festival will be directly here when the time comes." There are still a lot of Chinese on the West Coast, and the atmosphere of the Spring Festival is not worse than that in the Taiwan Strait. What's more, Bill's side is urging urgently, and the project of R&D has reached a critical juncture, and I don't feel at ease if I don't come back to stare at it. ”

Zhou Liwen nodded slightly, Liao Yuancheng said that Bill is now the executive vice president of or, this is a very good guy, although his reputation is not as loud as Microsoft's Bill, but he is very capable in the company's management, and now he is Zhou Liwen's capable subordinate.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived. As soon as Liao Yuancheng put down the coffee cup, Bill came. Entering the office, he first greeted Zhou Liwen, and then said to Liao Yuancheng with a smile: "Dear Liao, you came faster than I thought." ”

"Hehe, it seems that this is your compliment to me?" Liao Yuancheng got up happily, joked with him, and then shook hands with each other.

"BVC, we're going to speed up" After the secretary brought Bill's coffee, and when the secretary left, Bill restrained his smile and said to Zhou Liwen with a serious expression: "At Christmas, I received news that Apple's tablet has taken out samples, according to their internal name, this small toy called IPN has initially met the design requirements, so we must rush to finalize the product as soon as possible in front of them." ”

"That's why I came back so early." Without waiting for Zhou Liwen to speak, Liao Yuancheng took the words first, but he was a little skeptical: "If I'm not mistaken, in 2 years, Apple has developed a prototype, but there are many problems with the prototype, and in the end this plan was shelved." Bill, is your message accurate? Apple is so fast this time? ”

Bill smiled bitterly: "Of course the news is accurate, do you know Joey?" ”

"Is it another Bill?" Liao Yuancheng thought for a while and asked.

Bill nodded and said: "It's him, although he left Oracle last year to become a venture capitalist, but he has a lot of connections in the IT industry, and it just so happens that he and I are friends, and I met Joey on an occasion at Christmas, and he didn't intend to say the news." ”

Hearing Bill say this, both Zhou Liwen and Liao Yuancheng no longer questioned it. William. Nelson. Joey, also known as Bill, is a well-known figure in the IT industry and a world-renowned computing expert. In a sense, Joey's contribution to the development of computers is even greater than that of Microsoft's Bill, because his work on the EB operating system has not only been recognized by the world, but also his more notable contributions include TCPPV, UE port, which are now widely used in operating systems such as iriebgn0luu, and he has also made great contributions to the development of free software by open source for others to use and improve for free.

Prior to leaving U, Joey was the Chief Scientist of the U Spoon and one of the founders of the company. However, in the end, because of the difference in philosophy, he fell out with Oracle and left his job.

Tablet computer, this product began to enter the research and development stage as early as Zhou Liwen's layout of smart phones, but the research and development progress of tablet computers has been much slower than that of smart phones in recent years.

Zhou Liwen is not a professional in electronics, nor is he a computer expert. Originally, he thought that smartphones and tablets were similar, and it should not be difficult to make smartphones and tablets. However, during the R&D process, he realized that things are far from so simple, a smartphone is a smartphone, a tablet is a tablet, and the two are not the same concept at all.

This was also as early as 993, after the Japanese took the lead in making the so-called "stylus computer", which caused a sensation for a while, but in the end it was not commercially successful due to various problems. Two years later, Microsoft officially released TEFP and its dedicated operating system, UXPTEFPCPDHC, in New York, but the product failed due to hardware and operating system reasons.

In other words, there are two main business applications to solve the tablet, one is software, and the other is hardware.

Software of course refers to the operating system, you must know that the operating system used in the current market is almost all designed for desktop computers, even if it is modified in the tablet computer has a great discomfort. Zhou Liwen is ahead of the curve in this regard, and the IOB operating system he and Cisco designed for smartphones can run smoothly on tablets after being rewritten, and because the operation of smartphones is similar to that of tablets, it is more suitable for tablets than Microsoft's Windows system.

As for the hardware, it is more troublesome, a tablet not only includes the main chips, motherboards and other main components, but also other indispensable things. For example, flip systems, memory, batteries, touch screens, and so on. In particular, the battery and touch screen are the main keys to the commercial use of tablets, and unlike smaller smartphones, tablets have a large area and also consume a lot of power, which requires a very high battery. If a tablet can only last an hour or even half an hour of work, then it has no practical value at all. As for touch screen technology, although Zhou Liwen solved the problem of small touch screens in smart phones, on tablet computers, such a large touch screen technology is still a bottleneck at present. In addition, coupled with the current hardware technical problems mentioned in other mentioned, even Zhou Liwen's or company has not been able to officially launch this product so far.

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