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7 months is 7 months, nothing more than a fight.

In the next few hours, everyone began to speak freely about the iMac plan, such as research and development budget, team size, product positioning and so on.

When the meeting ended, everyone realized that it was past six o'clock in the afternoon, and the meeting lasted for more than five hours.

Simon simply invited everyone to have another dinner together, and then took the two girls A and C to leave the Eaglet Park in Mountain View City and rush to the mountain villa in Woodside on the other side of the city.

Inside the black Mercedes.

Girls A and C sat on both sides of Simon, one on the left and the other on the right. Girl C held Simon's arm affectionately, and leaned against the man with a coquettish expression: "Boss, you haven't congratulated me yet."

Feeling the fragrance of women coming from around him, Simon asked with a smile, "Congratulations?"

Claire showed a half-truth and half-fake little resentment: "Congratulations to me for becoming the third richest man on the "Forbes" list last month!"

"Well, congratulations, super rich Miss C."

"Ah."

Girl C was very satisfied immediately, her head was still resting on Simon's shoulder, and she quickly said, "Boss, I also attended B's wedding last Saturday, and D."

"Did you catch the bride throwing flowers?"

Claire moved her head, but didn't leave Simon's shoulder, as if very dissatisfied: "Boss, do you want me to snatch it?"

"Yeah, there are too many women around me, I want to drive some away so I can find new girls."

Claire finally raised her head and looked at Simon again: "Boss, do you want to drive me away?"

Simon put his arm around the girl's waist and patted it: "As long as you are all good, and remember to find a boyfriend in the future, you must be careful about your wallet, don't be cheated, and remember to sign a prenuptial agreement when you get married. I don't want It's maddening to see me make all that money for you guys, only to be scammed by another man."

Girl C pouted slightly: "Boss, you still don't believe in people's hearts."

Simon nodded: "Yeah, I don't believe it, so I don't force it."

Miss C leaned back on Simon's shoulder, and said carefully, "Then, boss, where are you and your wife?"

"Jenny and I," Simon said with a smile on his face without shy away, "Actually, I'm the passive one, very passive."

Miss C blinked her eyes, and suddenly smiled again: "I understand."

Of course Simon knew what Claire was thinking, shook his head slightly, and said with a smile: "No, you don't understand."

"Of course I understand."

"Do not."

"of course."

"..."

On the other side, girl A, who was listening quietly, unconsciously raised the corners of her lips.

Back at the mountain villa in Woodside, in addition to the team of waiters who arrived in advance, Miss D also rushed over after get off work, and there was also little Jenny who rushed to ask for a hug as soon as Simon got off the car. The girl entered Stanford in 1991 , not only completed the undergraduate and master studies in only five years, but also became the right-hand man of D girl in Instagram in the past two years.

However, the 23-year-old girl was only 155 centimeters tall when we first met, and she is still so small now.

Simon easily hugged little Jenny in his arms, held her up and weighed her, and teased, "It still hasn't grown taller, it just seems to be fat."

Jennifer Bray wrapped her hands and feet around Simon like a little koala, kissing Simon's face and coquettishly: "It won't grow anymore, and my type can also make Simon change your taste, and, fat A little bit, it actually makes more sense.”

Simon pretended to be disgusted and avoided the little mouth where the girl kissed him on the cheek and then leaned over to ask for a kiss. He came to the living room and threw the girl on the sofa before saying hello to Miss D.

It's been a long time since I left the United States for more than half a month.

So this night was a little ridiculous.

Although he pretended to be disgusted, Simon still had more feelings for the women who had been with him for many years.In the middle of the night, he also described teaching the women a small Chinese poem on the white and naked back of the girl C.

The lonely white rabbit walks around.Clothes are not as good as new, people are not as old.

After some explanations, a fictional story was added. After listening to the story, the tearful little Jenny expressed that she wanted to get a tattoo on her body. Simon recommended the soles of the feet, saying that other areas belong to Westeros, and scribbling is prohibited. .

Chapter 1029 Skober's Transformation

Near noon, Emmanuel Brandt left the Scooper headquarters on the east side of the Westeros Science and Technology Park, which was leased to the outside world, and drove across the Ygret Avenue in the middle to the Ygret Park on the west side. To be precise, it is the second area of ​​Eaglet headquarters next to the green park in the south. After the completion of the first area on the north side, Eaglet 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 Ygritte at this time.

In comparison, on the east side of Eaglet Avenue, in addition to the 30-hectare headquarters park that Tinkber also set aside for construction, there is also a 60-hectare office space for external lease. At this time, more than 100 people of all sizes gathered Technology companies, including Tinkber, who is temporarily squeezed into it, as well as cutting-edge technology companies such as Instagram, eBay, Scooper, and Broadcast, which has been acquired by Tinkbel.

According to the address given by girl A in advance, the car was parked outside a building in the second district of Ygritte's headquarters. Emmanuel did not open the door immediately, but took out the makeup mirror in his satchel to check his makeup carefully, because Concentrating 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 fair face in the mirror, Emmanuel suddenly felt a little annoyed and self-pitying. His six-foot height, fair skin, and high IQ and education all fit his aesthetics perfectly.When she saw him for the first time, 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, trite, boring idea.

However, since I thought about it, I suddenly had an idea, maybe I can dye my hair blond if I take the time, then there will be no difference.

It was lunch time, and there were gradually 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 taking a selfie in the mirror.

Deliberately waiting for a while, waiting for Emmanuel, who was wearing a black OL suit, to get out of the car. Although Emmanuel, who was wearing high heels, was taller than the three men, the other party came over, and one of them accosted: "Hi, this 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 interviewing?"

The person who spoke didn't seem to feel the unkindness in Emmanuel's tone. He smiled and reached out his hand: "Get to know me, I'm Jason. Besides, anyway, it's lunch time now, how about going to have a meal together? "

Emmanuel squinted at the hand that was stretched out, turned around and left without paying any attention to it.

There are also some defamations.

It has been more than a year since San Francisco was settled. With the wave of new technology becoming more and more turbulent, 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. , the self-confidence is also bursting, and the daily life is like an upstart, all kinds of extravagance, carnival every night, almost attracting call girls and drug dealers from all over the world to gather in this area.

Just like just now, it is obvious that the internal restaurant of Igret has provided quite superior catering treatment, and the three of them obviously plan to go out to eat, which makes Emmanuel, who is well-born and well-educated, very uncomfortable.

Entering a restaurant dedicated to executives in the building, I happened to meet the four giants of Simon and Igret who also came to eat. Emmanuel immediately changed his mind and stepped forward to hug and greet the big boss. Jim Berners-Lee and several people shook hands and greeted each other.

The obvious difference in treatment inevitably caused a few jokes, and Emmanuel also fought back with a smile.

Then everyone did not sit together, Bezos and others dispersed, Simon chose a long table for four people, and motioned to Emmanuel to sit opposite, and he sat on the other side with girl A, and said while ordering : "C will also come over later."

Emmanuel nodded.

With Simon's current busyness, this lunch is of course not a casual recap, but a serious matter to discuss.

Just after ordering, Miss C also arrived.

Greeting briefly, watching Emmanuel occupy the position facing her boss, Miss C can only sit diagonally opposite.

After Claire had ordered, Simon also 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 paid close attention to it in the past few years and made a decisive move.

Eaglet's Australian branch found out three years ago that a professor at the University of Sydney intended to develop a wireless transmission technology, and decisively provided financial support, so 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, major communication giants are developing it. The technical standards in the hands of Simon come from Nokia. The company sets uniform standards.

All in all, the Westeros system has absolute initiative in these two technologies.

Emmanuel nodded when he heard Simon mentioning this, and said, "Boss, what do you mean, let Skopper turn to the research and development of wireless communication chips?"

"That's right," Simon said, "In addition, I have also read the information on the Broadcom company that Skopper recently bought. Your thinking here is correct. Of course, there are some deviations. Today I will clarify these issues. Regarding the next development direction of Skoop."

Due to the explosion of China's VCD industry and the proliferation of new technology bubbles, coupled with the addition of Westeros concept stocks, the current market value of Scooper, which was acquired two years ago, has reached more than 200 billion US dollars.For Simon, who is familiar with the future prospects of VCD, this far exceeds the actual value of Skopper.

Although Skoop has started the research and development of DVD video decoding chips, it is different from the VCD video decoding chips that remain a monopoly at this time. In the future DVD industry, Skoop is destined to change from the current VCD industry leader to Sony, DVD core manufacturers such as Toshiba share some fringe interest companies with leftovers.

Therefore, if there is no transformation, the decline of Scooper will be inevitable.

Since Skoop's stock price at this time far exceeded its actual value, Simon designed an M&A expansion strategy using Skoop's stock as a "banknote" by referring to the routine of AOL's acquisition of Time Warner in his memory more than two months ago. Initiate mergers and acquisitions for transformation.

The Scooper team led by Emmanuel also executed Simon's plan well.In just over two months, Skopper successfully merged three start-up semiconductor companies, one of which was named 'Broadcom'.

In the original time and space, people are more familiar with Qualcomm, but they don’t know that Broadcom’s position in the industry is comparable to that of Qualcomm. Both are high-tech companies mainly engaged in technology licensing and chip development in the communication field, and Broadcom’s It involves a wider range of fields than Qualcomm. One of them, Broadcom, once belonged to the world's largest WiFi chip manufacturer.

When Simon first saw the acquisition report submitted by Emmanuel, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Skooper could acquire Broadcom 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 jointly established by two Stanford professors five years ago, is currently mainly launching a cable TV set-top box communication chip for receiving and processing digital signals. miles away.

Skoop's acquisition this time is mainly to set foot in the cable TV field, and plans to combine Broadcom's communication chip with Skoop's decoding chip and other technologies to build a complete cable TV set-top box solution.

Given the current industry status quo in which the cable TV industry continues to expand globally, this is a business plan with a very bright future, and it is also the main reason why Broadcom, which was planning an IPO, gave up its IPO and took the initiative to accept the acquisition of Skohlberg. Otherwise, if the two There is absolutely no correlation or complementarity in this company, and no sensible business owner will easily agree to a similar acquisition offer.

Take Qualcomm as an example. If Skopper initiates an acquisition of Qualcomm with a market value of only a few billion dollars at this time, Simon certainly wants to take advantage of this kind of bargain, but the chances of Qualcomm agreeing are 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 is in favor of Skopper's expansion into the cable TV field this time, but he still hopes that Skopper can make good use of the current good situation to get involved in more fields.

In the executive restaurant of Igret, Simon took out an Apple Newton tablet from the shoulder bag of the 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 as a business assistant is obviously wrong, and you can learn about it in private. What we are going to talk about today is the family-style mobile Internet ecological plan that will be launched next after Tinkber acquires Apple. "

Emmanuel took the Newton Tablet handed over by Simon and turned it on proficiently.She happened to have used it too, but she also felt that this product was very tasteless. The price of 900 US dollars is expensive, but it only has some simple functions such as calendar, clock, drawing, notes, etc., and the battery capacity is very low. The handwriting function as a highlight is actually available. optional.

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

Thinking of this, Emmanuel looked up at the big boss after listening to Simon's last words: "Mobile Internet, boss, does this have something to do with the Newton tablet?"

"Of course, the tablet is the key. To be more precise, it will be the ultimate form of the future mobile Internet plan. I hope Tinkber can rely on the existing technology foundation to integrate all the current flagship products into one. in a pocket-sized tablet."

Emmanuel immediately noticed the problem, and turned to look at Miss C beside her: "In this case, C, I think you should do your best to prevent the birth of this product, right?"

Now Tinkber, the 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 that The market share of products such as iPlayer has been impacted or even eliminated.

Miss C didn't care about Emmanuel's ridicule, she shook her head and said, "Do I look like such a short-sighted person?"

"A lot of things, it's not that you can do whatever you want or don't do whatever you don't want to do." Emmanuel said with a smile, and then turned to Simon: "Boss, then, what do you need to do on Skobber's side?"

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, etc., Apple's product has actually reached a very high level, so if you want to realize The level of integration I’m talking about will probably take five to ten years. The product in your hand, Tinkobel will then combine with its own technology developed in recent years. Practical e-book reader and digital music player functions, what Skober wants to do is very important. Through the WiFi and Bluetooth technology I gave you, develop related chips to realize tablet computers, even iPlayer, iCam and other products, Connect wirelessly to PCs and to the Internet."

Emmanuel heard this, thought for a while, and his eyes lit up quickly.

You know, just in the first eight months of this year, the total global shipments of the three main products of Tinkobel, iCam, iPlayer and iRec, have reached a terrifying 8 million units, and the total annual shipments are expected to be close to 5600 million. Taiwan, and next year, this number will easily exceed 9000 million.

If the chips developed by Tinkobel can be used in the main electronic products with a total shipment of more than 200 million in the future, Skopel will easily pass the transformation threshold of the post-VCD era, let alone the current market value of 1000 billion US dollars , it is not impossible to reach [-] billion in the future.

Simon looked at Emmanuel's beautiful blue eyes that were eager to try, and said with a smile: "Got it now?"

Emmanuel nodded: "Boss, in this case, maybe Skooper should try to build his own wafer factory."

"No need," Simon knew that self-built fabs are still the instinctive thinking 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, so for most semiconductor companies , it will become less and less cost-effective to build a fab yourself, and the semiconductor industry will gradually tend to separate design and production. Foundry is the general trend of the entire semiconductor industry. Therefore, Skooper only needs to focus on technology research and development and chip design, The chip production is handed over to other companies, and I will also make arrangements in this regard."

In the future, even giants like Intel will start to seek out OEMs in order to share the high cost of fab construction. With Skopper's current size, building a fab by himself will definitely not be worth the gain, and it will even drag itself down.

As for some hidden worries that may be caused by the lack of its own factories, this problem does not exist for the Westeros system.Simon will not let Skopper build his own fab, but he will not let go of the layout of the foundry industry. The goals have been selected, and the entry time is next year.

Once the financial crisis in Southeast Asia breaks out, as capital-intensive companies, the two famous foundry giants in Asia will be in trouble. At that time, it will be an opportunity for the Westeros system.

The waiter delivered 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 Tinkber's mobile internet plan will last for two years.

First, next fall, when Tinkobel will combine the iBook, which has been quietly developing in recent years, with Apple's tablet technology, and 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 Skopper completed his own related chip development work, and the further development of electronic technology, Tinkbel will release a home router with built-in WiFi function and a micro-hard disk version of the iPad tablet computer with 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, and the huge video files are not suitable for wireless transmission, and the wired connection will still be the main one.

The key is still integration.

Gradually integrate several existing products into the iPad tablet computer, and even launch the mobile phone call function later, that is, the iPhone that is also already in the huge 'i' series trademark inventory of Tinkber.

And then realize the family-style short-distance mobile Internet to the arrival of the era of unlimited mobile Internet.

This lunch lasted for an hour, and Emmanuel also understood Simon's thinking very thoroughly.

If it is a latecomer like Simon, looking back at the past, he will not feel that the whole plan is special, but at this moment, as a time native, Emmanuel Brandt only feels that the young man sitting opposite him, It's just wild.

When most ordinary people live in the present, the opponent has easily spread their own chess game in a professional field to 10 years later.Probably, only such a stunningly talented man can accumulate a huge net worth of 10 trillion U.S. dollars in just 1.5 years and create a business empire that can be called a miracle.

Caressing the after-dinner coffee cup brought by the waiter, after the man who was only two feet away from him 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 gleam in his eyes, he asked, "By the way, boss, FusionTimes, are you going to take a look at it in a few days?"

In addition to the chairman of Scooper, Emmanuel, who has a Ph.D. in particle physics, also volunteered to serve as the president of FusionTimes, one of the three avant-garde technology companies promoted by Simon.The project has been progressing steadily, with ground breaking on the 50-hectare FusionTimes headquarters in the small town of Morgan Hill, 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 your time," Simon said, raising his wrist to check the time. The person had already left, so he also stood up and said, "So, 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 dining table, so he had to stand up, looked at the man opposite, and summoned up his courage: "Boss, do you have time tonight, let's have dinner together?"

Simon looked at the red-haired girl who was taller than himself because of the high heels she was wearing after getting up, and shook her head with a smile, without hiding it: "Not tonight, I want to accompany Alice."