Near noon, Emmanuel Brandt left the Scober headquarters of the rental park on the east side of Westeros Science Park, drove over Igrit Avenue in the center, and came to Igrit Park on the west side. To be precise, Igrit headquarters area 2 next to the greening park on the south. After the first area on the north side was completed, Igrit began to build the second park, with the total area of ​​the two major parks reaching 60 hectares.

Just by looking at the scale of the headquarters, you can imagine the huge size of Igret at this time.

In comparison, on the east side of Egret Avenue, in addition to Tincobaier also set apart 30 hectares of headquarters park under construction, there are also 60 hectares of rental office spaces for the outside world. At this time, more than 100 large and small technology companies gathered, including Tincobaier, Instagram, eBay, Scober, and new technology companies such as Broadcast, which have been acquired by Tincobaier.

According to the address given by Girl A in advance, she parked the car outside a building in the second district of Igret headquarters. Emmanuel did not immediately push the door open, but took out the makeup mirror in her bag and carefully checked her makeup. Because she was focused on her work, she didn't care too much about these things on weekdays, and she often had no slants. Today is different. She would have to have a meal with that man later.

Looking at the flawless fair face in the mirror, Emmanuel suddenly felt annoyed and self-pity. His six-foot height, fair skin, and high IQ and education were all perfectly in line with his aesthetic sense. When she first saw him, she had some thoughts in her heart, but until now, there was no result.

Is it because of red hair?

No, he shouldn't care about this old and stale boring concept.

However, since I suddenly had a thought, maybe I could dye my blonde hair after taking the time, there would be no more mistakes.

It was lunch time, and there were more and more people around.

The three young men in neat shirts and trousers, who were looking at Egret's employees, happened to pass by Emmanuel's car, who was looking in front of the mirror. They glanced at each other occasionally and couldn't move.

Waiting deliberately for a while, Emmanuel, who was wearing a black OL suit, got off the car. Although Emmanuel, wearing high heels, was more outstanding than all three men, the other party still came over and one of them met up and said, "Hey, this lady, are you here for the interview?"

Emmanuel looked at the three guys in front of him with a slightly weird expression: "Do I look like I'm interviewing?"

The man who spoke seemed not to feel the badness in Emmanuel's tone, smiled and reached out to him: "I'll know, I'm Jason. And, no matter what, it's lunch time now, how about going to have a meal together?"

Emmanuel glanced at the hand that reached out, and he turned around and left without any attention.

Some complaints.

It has been more than a year since San Francisco was fortunate. With the increasing wave of new technology, Emmanuel clearly realized how impetuous Silicon Valley is now. When you just met these guys who may have dozens or millions of stock options, you are full of confidence, and your daily life is like a nouveau riche and carnival every night. At present, almost attracting call girls and drug dealers from all over the world to gather in this area.

Just like just now, the restaurant inside Igret had already provided quite superior catering treatment, but the three of them obviously planned to go out for a meal, which made Emmanuel, who had a wealthy background and good education, very disliked.

When I entered a restaurant dedicated to executives in the building, I happened to meet the four giants Simon and Igrit, who were also coming to eat. Emmanuel immediately changed his mind and hugged the big boss and hugged and greeted him. Of course, he did not forget to shake hands with Tim Berners Lee and others.

The obvious difference in treatment inevitably attracted a few jokes, and Emmanuel also smiled and fought back.

Then everyone did not sit together. Bezos and others dispersed. Simon chose a long table of four, signaling Emmanuel to sit opposite him, and took Girl A to sit on the other side, ordering food and saying, "C will come here later."

Emmanuel nodded.

Given Simon's busyness now, this lunch is not just a casual reminiscence, but a serious matter to talk about.

After ordering the meal, Girl C arrived.

After a simple greeting, watching Emmanuel occupy the position facing her boss, the C girl could only sit diagonally opposite her.

After Claire ordered the meal, Simon also got to the point and said to Emmanuel: "You should have read the technical information about WiFi and Bluetooth, right?"

Simon has been paying close attention to WiFi and Bluetooth a few years ago and has taken decisive action.

Igrit's Australian branch three years ago discovered that a professor at the University of Sydney was interested in developing a wireless transmission technology and decisively provided financial support. Therefore, the patent for WiFi technology was easily put into the hands of the Westeros system.

As for Bluetooth, because it involves wireless communications and data transmission, major communication giants are developing. Simon's technical standards come from Nokia. At the same time, in order to avoid too diverse standards for Bluetooth technology, Nokia has taken the lead in developing unified standards with Ericsson, Sony, Toshiba and other companies.

In short, the Westeros system has absolute initiative in both technologies.

When Emmanuel heard Simon mention this, he nodded and said, "Boss, do you mean, let Scooper switch to the development of wireless communication chips?"

"Yes," Simon said: "In addition, I have also read the information about the Broadcom company that Scooper recently bought. Your ideas are correct, of course, there are some deviations. Today I will clarify these issues, about Scooper's next development direction."

Due to the explosion of China's VCD industry and the proliferation of new technology bubbles, coupled with the addition of Westeros concept stocks, Scooper, which was acquired two years ago, has now achieved a market value of more than US$20 billion. For Simon, who is familiar with the future prospects of VCD, this far exceeds Scooper's actual value.

Although Scooper has started the research and development of DVD video decoding chips, unlike the VCD video decoding chips that remained monopoly at this time, in the future, Scooper is destined to be able to change from the current leading role of the VCD industry to the marginal interest companies that have been divided into some leftovers from core DVD manufacturers such as Sony and Toshiba.

Therefore, if there is no transformation, Scooper's decline will be inevitable.

Since Scooper's stock price at this time far exceeded its actual value, Simon referred to the routine of American Online's acquisition of Time Warner more than two months ago, he designed a merger and acquisition expansion strategy that used Scooper's stock as a "money" and transformed by launching mergers and acquisitions in other fields.

The Scooper team led by Emmanuel also well implemented Simon's plan. In just over two months, Scooper successfully merged three startup semiconductor companies, one of which was called "Botong".

In the original time and space, people were more familiar with Qualcomm, but in fact they didn't know that Broadcom's company has a similar position in the industry as Qualcomm. Both are high-tech companies that mainly engage in technical licensing and chip development in the field of communications. Moreover, Broadcom's fields are more extensive than Qualcomm. One of them, Broadcom was once the world's largest WiFi chip manufacturer.

Simon was a little surprised when he first saw the acquisition report submitted by Emmanuel. He did not expect Scooper to take Broadcom under his command so many years in advance.

However, after research, it was found that Broadcom now and Broadcom later were completely different.

Broadcom, founded by two Stanford professors five years ago, is currently the main product of cable TV set-top box communication chips used to receive and process digital signals. It is still a distance from the communication giants that later compete with Qualcomm.

Scooper's acquisition is mainly to enter the field of cable TV. It plans to combine Broadcom's communication chips with Scooper's decoding chips and other technologies to build a complete cable TV set-top box solution.

Given the current industry situation where the cable TV field continues to expand globally, this is a very promising business plan and the main reason why Broadcom, which was originally planning an IPO, gave up its listing and took the initiative to accept Scooper's acquisition. Otherwise, if the two companies had no connection and complementarity at all, the slightly wiser business owners would not easily agree to a similar acquisition offer.

For example, if Scooper initiated an acquisition of Qualcomm, which has a market value of only a few billion US dollars, Simon certainly wanted to get such a bargain, but the chance of Qualcomm agreeing is very small, even Westeros is a shareholder of Qualcomm, because the businesses of the two companies have nothing to do.

Simon agrees with Scooper's expansion into the cable TV field this time, but he still hopes that Scooper can make good use of the current good situation and enter more fields.

In the restaurant of Egret's executive, Simon said, taking out an Apple Newton tablet from the shoulder bag of the A-small girl next to him, handing it to Emmanuel opposite him, and said, "Maybe you also know this, Apple's PDA product. In my opinion, the business assistant of this product has made obvious mistakes in positioning, and you can understand these in private. What we are going to talk about today is the home mobile Internet ecosystem plan that will be launched next after Tinkobaier acquires Apple."

Emmanuel took the Newton tablet handed over by Simon and started it skillfully. She happened to use it, but she also thought this product was very useless. It was expensive at $900, but it only had some simple functions such as calendar, clock, drawing, notes, etc., and the battery capacity was very low. The handwriting function, as a highlight, was actually optional.

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

Thinking of this, Emmanuel heard Simon say it at the end and looked up at the big boss: "Mobile Internet, boss, does this have anything to do with Newton's tablet?"

"Of course, tablets are the key, and more accurate. They will be the ultimate form of future mobile Internet plans. I hope that Tinkobaier can rely on the existing technical foundation to concentrate several of the current main products in a pocket-sized tablet."

Emmanuel immediately discovered the problem and turned his head to look at the C girl beside him: "In this case, C, I think you should do your best to prevent the birth of this product, right?"

Nowadays, the major products of Tinkobaier, 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, it will inevitably mean that the market share of iPlayer and other products will be impacted or even eliminated.

Girl C didn't care about Emmanuel's teasing and shook her head and said, "Do I look like such a visionary person?"

"Many things are not about what you want or what you don't want." Emmanuel said with a smile, then turned to Simon: "Boss, then, what do Scooper need to do here?"

Simon did not answer directly, but pointed to the Newton tablet in the redhead's hand again: "With the current technical standards of screen, battery, chip, etc., Apple's product has actually reached a very high level, so it will take about five to ten years to achieve the level of integration I mentioned. The product in your hand, Tincobaier will next be combined with the own technology developed in recent years. By integrating the micro hard drive solution, it focuses on more practical e-book readers and digital music player functions. What Scooper needs to do is very important. Through the WiFi and Bluetooth technology I gave you, we will develop related chips, realize tablet computers, and even iPlayer, iCam and other products, wirelessly connect with personal computers and the Internet."

Emmanuel's eyes lit up quickly when he heard this.

You should know that in the first eight months of this year, the total global shipment volume of iCam, iPlayer and iRec, which Tinkobaier mainly specializes in three products, has reached a terrifying 56 million units. It is expected that the total shipment volume for the whole year is expected to be close to 90 million units. Next year, this number will exceed 100 million.

If Tincobaier's main electronic products with a total shipment volume of over 100 million in the future can use chips developed by Scooper, Scooper will easily overcome the transformation threshold of the post-VCD era. Not to mention the current market value of US$20 billion, it is not impossible to reach 100 billion in the future.

Simon looked at Emmanuel's pretty blue eyes that were eager to try, and smiled and said, "Did you figure it out?"

Emmanuel nodded: "Boss, since that's the case, maybe Scouber should try to build his own wafer factory."

"No," Simon knew that it was still the instinctive idea of ​​many semiconductor companies at this stage, but immediately rejected it: "According to Moore's Law, the iteration and update speed of the semiconductor industry is very fast. Therefore, for most semiconductor companies, it will be less and less cost-effective to build wafers. The semiconductor industry will gradually tend to separate design and production. Foundry is a major trend in the entire semiconductor industry. Therefore, Scooper 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 some arrangements in this regard."

In the future, even giants like Intel will begin to seek foundry in order to share the high cost of wafer fab construction. With Scooper's size at this time, building a wafer fab will definitely not be worth the cost and will even drag itself down.

As for some hidden worries that may be caused by the lack of own factories, there will be no problem for the Westeros system. Simon did not allow Scooper to build his own wafer factory, but he would not miss the layout of the wafer foundry industry. The goal has been selected, and the entry time is next year.

Once the Southeast Asian financial crisis breaks out, as a capital-intensive enterprise, the two famous wafer foundry giants in Asia will be in trouble, and then it will be an opportunity for the Westeros system.

The waiters delivered lunch one after another, and several people on the dining table also began to discuss more details.

Limited to the current technical level in all aspects, the first phase of Tinkobaier Mobile Internet Plan will be two years.

First of all, next fall, Tinkobaier will combine the iBook that has been quietly developing in recent years and Apple's tablet technology to launch the first generation of iPad-10, which can be used as an e-book reader and digital music player.

Then, in the fall of 1998, as Scober completed his related chip development work and further development of electronic technology, Tinkobaier will release a home router with built-in WiFi function and a micro-hard disk version of iPad tablet with same built-in WiFi technology, officially opening the era of mobile Internet.

As for the three main products at this stage, of course, they will not be eliminated so quickly. For example, iRec, limited to wireless transmission speed, huge video files are not suitable for wireless transmission, and will still be mainly wired connections.

The key is integration.

Several existing products have been gradually integrated into iPad tablets, and even the mobile phone call function will be launched later, which is the iPhone, which is also already in the inventory of Tinkobaier's huge ‘i’ series trademarks.

In turn, we will realize the arrival of the era of unlimited mobile Internet with short distances in the home.

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

If it were a latecomer like Simon, looking back, he would not think that the whole plan was anything special, but at this moment, as a time native, Emmanuel Brandt only felt that the young man sitting opposite him was simply imaginative.

Most ordinary people often live in the present, and the other party has easily spread their chess game in a professional field for 10 years. Perhaps only such a stunning man can accumulate a huge net worth of 1.5 trillion US dollars in just 10 years and create a miraculous business empire.

Rubbing the after-meal coffee porcelain cup delivered by the waiter, and after the last words of the man opposite, who was only two feet away from him, realized that it was time to part, Emmanuel felt reluctant to leave, remembered something, looked at Simon with a shimmering eyes and asked, "By the way, boss, FusionTimes, are you going to go over and take a look in the past few days?"

In addition to Scooper's chairman, Emmanuel, who has a PhD in particle physics, also volunteered to serve as president of FusionTimes, one of the three avant-garde technology companies promoted by Simon. The project has been steadily moving forward, and the 50-hectare FusionTimes headquarters in the small town of Morgan Villa in south San Jose has broken ground.

"Of course, but I will wait until tomorrow afternoon. I will go over and take a look at the SolarCity and FusionTimes here. You remember to arrange the time," Simon said, raising his wrist to look at the time. Bezos and others in the restaurant had left. He also stood up and said, "Then, that's it today, Ayman, you and C can go back first."

Emmanuel glanced at the girls A and C who were getting up together at the dining table. He had to stand up, look at the man opposite him, and plucked up the courage and said, "Boss, do you have time tonight, have dinner together?"

Simon looked at the redhead girl who was taller than herself because she was wearing high heels, smiled and shook her head, and did not hide it: "It won't work tonight, I'll accompany Alice."

It was C girls last night, and I made an appointment to leave it to the butler.

Since he had already spoken, Emmanuel did not give up easily: "So, what about tomorrow night?"

"I'm going back to Los Angeles tomorrow night."

"Can you not go back?"

"No, there will be a cocktail party in Los Angeles tomorrow night."

“…”

Outside the restaurant building, watching the man take A girl away, Claire, who walked towards the parking lot together, smiled and said to Emmanuel: "Actually, you can try to visit Alice tonight, and you just want to borrow a juicer or something."

Emmanuel was too lazy to roll his eyes: "Are you sure I won't be kicked out?"

The redhead and Alice Ferguson are quite familiar with each other. For the convenience of work, both of them currently live in a villa in the northern residential area of ​​the Science and Technology Park here. It is okay to visit, but just like the two girls C and D are in the same circle, and the helmsman of the Amazon Mall, who is proud and workaholic, also has his own circle.
To be continued...