At two o'clock in the afternoon, Eric took Caroline to the agreed cafe between the two parties on time, and Roger Wilson was already waiting there.

Roger Wilson is about forty years old, tall, wearing a light gray suit, frameless glasses, and combed his hair meticulously, not at all the unkempt style of a technical engineer as people think of.

After politely introducing each other, find a seat and sit down.

After ordering coffee and waiting for the waiter to leave, Roger Wilson looked at Eric without a trace and said, "Mr. Williams, is the shooting of 007 still going well? Are you looking forward to it?"

Eric nodded and said, "Of course, everything goes well, and, Roger, you can call me Eric."

"Okay, Eric," Roger Wilson nodded with a smile, "Actually, we were very surprised to learn that you were interested in arm."

Eric smiled. After all, the other party was an engineer who focused on technology and started to take the initiative to get into the topic so quickly.

The waiter brought the coffee over, Eric paused for a moment, and when the other party left again, he said: "I have always been very interested in the IT field, and in my opinion, arm technology has a very wide application prospect, so Caroline asked to collect technical information about arm."

Roger Wilson thought for a while and said, "Eric, can I know your specific expectations for arm technology?"

"Of course," Eric nodded and looked at Caroline.

The girl took out a Newton tablet from her bag and placed it on the desktop.

Eric turned on the tablet and said, "I hope to buy arm and continue to focus on the development of application software chips."

If you want to buy the arm company, you need a reasonable reason, otherwise the arm's technical team would not be able to follow a purposeless boss.

The purpose of Eric buying arm is very simple. In order to prevent the widespread spread of arm technology, he or she may even cut off the technical authorization of possible competitors.

But this reason that is very meaningful to the public is definitely not worthy of being told by outsiders.

As for the development of mobile phone chips, Eric already has Nokia and Qualcomm. As long as these two companies are fully authorized by arm technology, their R&D capabilities in mobile phone chips will definitely be far beyond arm itself.

After careful consideration, Eric placed his target on his tablet.

Roger Wilson took the Newton tablet from Eric, and operated it briefly for a few seconds, but his expression was a little sad, saying, "Eric, I talked to Apple's eO Mr. John Scully last time. They may be going to stop the production of Newton tablet next year, so this product should be considered a failure."

Roger Wilson's subtext is obviously saying that Eric's choice to develop a tablet and handheld computer is not a wise move.

But Eric disagreed with Roger Wilson's point of view, saying: "Roger, Newton itself is a very excellent product. The reason why it failed was that it did not find its own suitable price and market position. According to the information I collected in my hands, the overall shipment of the handheld computer market reached 3 million units last year, and in the first half of this year, this number reached 2.6 million. It can be said that this is a very rapid growth market."

Roger Wilson quickly calculated that if Eric was right, the market size of tablets would reach about $2.5 billion this year based on an average price of $500. Although this figure seems insignificant compared to the $100 billion personal computer market, it is enough to prove the value of tablets.

The original intention of arm was to develop processors for Apple's Newton tablets. Roger Wilson and most of the arm's engineers were very affectionate about tablets.

After thinking about it, Roger Wilson said, "So, Eric, what kind of tablet do you want to build?"

Eric said: "I plan to build this tablet into a peripheral hardware product of Yahoo Networks. If we can cooperate, arm will be responsible for the development of chips, and Yahoo will develop a special operating system for this tablet, integrating Yahoo's browser, instant messaging, email and other service software into this tablet. I hope this product focuses more on entertainment and practicality. It can not only connect to the Internet, but also read books, listen to music, etc."

"According to your words, this is actually a mini handheld P-terminal," Roger Wilson said. "But Eric, have you ever considered how to connect to the network? The biggest advantage of a tablet is mobility. You can use it anywhere, but if you have to drag a long network cable around in order to use the network, I think most people will think that this is not as convenient as a laptop."

"This is easy to solve," Eric smiled. "At the beginning of this year, I happened to ask Firefly Electronics to buy a complete patent for wireless LAN technology called ii. This technology can connect terminal devices to the Internet within a short distance. Although the spread distance is only a few dozen meters, it is enough to meet the requirements of a person to use the Internet at will in his home or in the company."

“This seems to be very similar to the Bluetooth technology introduced by Ericsson,” Roger Wilson said. “But, Eric, we might be able to integrate the II technology into the tablet, but where does the signal transmitter come from?”

Wireless routers with integrated ii technology did not begin to rise until ten years later. Although Firefly controls a large number of Cisco's equity, Cisco's main business area is the enterprise-level router market and does not involve personal consumption terminals on a large scale. Eric will not deliberately interfere with Cisco's business ideas.

Since Cisco cannot provide any help in this regard, it will be difficult for Eric to use the power of Fireflies to promote other router companies to develop wireless routers.

However, this problem is not difficult to solve.
Chapter completed!