Hollywood Hunter

Near noon, Emmanuel Brandt left the Skober Headquarters on the east side of Westeros Tech Park, which was rented out to the outside world, drove across Eaglet Avenue in the center, and came to Eaglet Park on the west side. , to be precise, it is the second area of ​​the Igreit headquarters next to the green park in the south. After the completion of the first area on the north side, Igreat 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 Igret at this time.

In comparison, on the east side of Igrete Avenue, in addition to Tinkber, which is also a park, there is also 60 hectares of office space for external rental. At this time, more than 100 large and small technology companies have gathered, many of which are temporary. Tinkber crowded in it, as well as stagra, ebay, skober, who has been in the bag of tinkerber

Adcast and other cutting-edge technology companies.

The car was parked outside a building in the second district of the Ygritte headquarters according to the address given by the girl in advance. Emmanuel did not immediately open the car door, but took out the vanity mirror in the bag to check the makeup carefully, because Concentrating on work, she doesn't care too much about these on weekdays, and often she is sloppy. Today is different. I will have dinner with that man later.

Looking at this flawless white face in the mirror, Emmanuel suddenly felt resentful and self-pity. Six feet tall, fair skin, and a high IQ and a high degree of education, all of which fit his aesthetic perfectly. The first time she saw him, 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 and boring concept.

However, since I thought about it, I suddenly had an idea, maybe I can take the time to dye my blonde hair, and then there will be no more mistakes.

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

Three young men in neat shirts and trousers who looked like Igreit employees happened to pass by Emmanuel's car, who was taking a selfie in the mirror.

After waiting for a while, Emmanuel, who was wearing a black suit, got out of the car. Although Emmanuel in high heels was taller than the three men, the other party came over, and one of them approached, "Hey, this guy Miss, are you here for an interview?"

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

The man who spoke didn't seem to feel the badness in Emmanuel's tone, smiled, and reached out: "Get to know me, I'm Jason. And, anyway, it's lunch time, how about having a meal together? "

Emmanuel glanced at the outstretched hand, without any intention of ignoring it, turned around and left.

There is also some slander.

It has been more than a year since San Francisco has been finalized. As the wave of new technology becomes more and more turbulent, Emmanuel clearly understands how impetuous the current Silicon Valley is, and just met these guys who may have tens of millions of stock options at every turn. , self-confidence is also bursting, and every day is like a nouveau riche with all kinds of extravagance, carnival every night, and now almost attracts call girls and drug dealers from all over the world to gather in this area.

Just like just now, it was obvious that the restaurant in Igret had already provided quite superior dining treatment, and the three of them obviously planned to go out to eat, which made Emmanuel, who was well-born and well-bred, very unaccustomed.

Entering a special restaurant for executives in the building, he happened to meet Simon and Igret's big four who also came to dine. Emmanuel immediately changed his mind and stepped forward to hug and greet the big boss. Am Berners-Lee shook hands and greeted each other.

The obvious difference in treatment inevitably attracted a few jokes, and Emmanuel also countered with a smile.

Then everyone didn't sit together, Bezos and others dispersed, Simon chose a four-person long table, motioned Emmanuel to sit opposite, and sat on the other side with girl a, while ordering food and saying : "Wait for c to come too."

Emmanuel nodded.

Given how busy Simon is now, of course this lunch is not a casual reminiscence, but something serious to talk about.

Just after ordering, Lady C also arrived.

A simple greeting, watching Emmanuel occupy the position facing her boss, and the C girl can only sit diagonally opposite. After Claire ordered, Simon also went straight to the point and said to Emmanuel: "You should have read the technical information about ifi and Bluetooth, right?"

Regarding ifi and bluetooth, Simon has paid close attention to it a few years ago and made a decisive move.

Three years ago, Igret's Australian branch found out that a professor at the University of Sydney was interested in developing a wireless transmission technology, and decisively gave financial support, so the patent for ifi technology easily fell into the hands of the Westeros system.

As for Bluetooth, because it involves wireless communication and data transmission, all major communication giants are developing it. The technical standards in Simon's hands come from Nokia. At the same time, in order to avoid too many Bluetooth technology standards, Nokia has taken the lead in uniting Ericsson, Sony, Toshiba, etc. The company develops uniform standards.

All in all, the Westeros system has absolute control over both technologies.

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

"Yeah," Simon said, "In addition, I have also seen the information on the Broadcom company that Scooby bought recently. Your thinking is correct, of course, there are some deviations. Today, I will clarify these issues. On the next step for Skopos."

Due to the outbreak 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 Scooby Corporation, which was acquired two years ago, has reached more than 20 billion US dollars. For Simon, who is familiar with the future prospects of vcd, this far exceeds the actual value of Scooby.

Although Scooby has already started the research and development of DVD video decoding chips, it is different from the vcd video decoding chips that maintain a monopoly at this time. Toshiba and other core dvd manufacturers share some leftovers from marginal benefit companies.

Therefore, without a transformation, the decline of Scooby will be inevitable.

Since the stock price of Skobo at this time is far higher than the actual value, Simon, referring to the routine of AOL's acquisition of Time Warner in memory, devised an M\u0026A expansion strategy using Skobo stock as 'banknotes' more than two months ago. Initiate mergers and acquisitions for transformation.

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

In the original time and space, people were more familiar with Qualcomm, but in fact they didn’t know that Broadcom’s position in the industry was comparable to that of Qualcomm. Both are high-tech companies focusing on technology licensing and chip development in the field of communications. The fields involved are wider than that of Qualcomm. One of them, Broadcom was once the world's largest ifi chip manufacturer.

Simon was a little surprised when he first saw the acquisition report submitted by Emmanuel.

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. distance in .

Scooby's acquisition is mainly to get involved in the field of cable television, and plans to combine Broadcom's communication chips with Scooby's decoding chips and other technologies to build a complete cable TV set-top box solution.

Given the current state of the industry in which the cable TV sector continues to expand globally, this is a very promising business plan, and it is also the main reason why Broadcom, which was planning i The company is completely unrelated and complementary, and no sensible business owner would easily agree to a similar takeover offer.

For example, Qualcomm, if Scooby launches an acquisition of Qualcomm with a market value of only a few billion dollars at this time, Simon of course wants to take this kind of cheap, but the chance of Qualcomm agreeing is very small, even if Westeros is also a shareholder of Qualcomm. no. Because the business of the two companies is unrelated. Simon is in favor of Skober's expansion into cable TV, but he still hopes Skober can take advantage of the current good situation to get involved in more fields.

In Igret's executive dining room, Simon said that he took out an Apple Newton tablet from a girl's shoulder bag beside him, handed it to Emmanuel on the opposite side, and said, "Perhaps you also know this, Apple's pda Product, in my opinion, the business assistant positioning of this product is obviously wrong, you can learn about it privately. What we are going to talk about today is the home-based mobile Internet ecological plan that will be launched in the next step after Tinkerbell acquires Apple.”

Emmanuel took the Newton tablet handed over by Simon and started it proficiently. She happened to have used it, but also felt that this product was very tasteless. At an expensive price of $900, it only had some simple functions such as calendar, clock, drawing, and notes, and the battery capacity was very low. The handwriting function that is the highlight is actually available. No.

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

Thinking like this, Emmanuel listened to Simon and looked up at the big boss: "Mobile Internet, boss, does this have anything to do with the Newton tablet?"

"Of course, the tablet is the key, and more accurately, it will be the ultimate form of the future mobile Internet plan. I hope that Tincober can rely on the existing technical foundation to concentrate all the current major products. In a pocket tablet."

Emmanuel immediately discovered the problem and turned 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?"

Now Tinkber, the main products, ipyer, ica 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 ipyer has been impacted or even eliminated.

Girl C didn't care about Emmanuel's ridicule, and shook her head: "Do I look like such a visionless person?"

"A lot of things are not just what you want or what you don't want to do." Emmanuel said with a smile, and turned to Simon again: "Boss, then, what needs to be done on Skober's side?"

Simon did not answer directly, but pointed to the Newton tablet in the red-haired girl's hand again: "With the current technical level of screens, batteries, chips, etc., this Apple product has actually reached a very high level, so if you want to achieve The level of integration I am talking about will take about five to ten years. The product in your hands, Tincober will combine with its own technology developed in recent years. Practical e-book reader and digital music player functions, what Skober needs to do, is very important. Through the ifi and bluetooth technology I gave you, develop related chips to realize tablet computers, and even ipyer, ica, etc.

Several products that connect wirelessly to PCs and the Internet. "

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

You know, in the first eight months of this year, the total global shipments of Tinkber's three main products, ica, ipyer and irec, have reached a terrifying 56 million units, and the total annual shipments are expected to be close to 90 million. Taiwan, and next year, this number will easily exceed 100 million.

If Tinkerbell's flagship electronic products with a total shipment volume exceeding 100 million can use chips developed by Skober, Skober will easily pass the transition threshold of the post-vcd era, not to mention the current market value of 20 billion US dollars , it is not impossible to reach 100 billion in the future.

Simon looked at Emmanuel's beautiful blue eyes that were eager to try, and smiled: "Do you understand?"

Emmanuel nodded: "Boss, since this is the case, maybe Skober should try to build his own wafer factory."

"No need," Simon knew that self-built fabs were still the instinctive idea of ​​many semiconductor companies at this stage, but he immediately rejected: "According to Moore's Law, the iterative update speed of the semiconductor industry is very fast, so for most semiconductor companies , it will become more and more uneconomical to build a fab, the semiconductor industry will gradually tend to separate design and production, and foundry is the general trend of the entire semiconductor industry. Therefore, Scooby only needs to focus on technology research and development and chip design, Chip production will be handed over to other companies, and I will also make arrangements in this regard.”

In the future, even giants like Intel will begin to seek out foundries in order to share the high cost of fab construction. With Skober's size at this time, building a fab by itself will definitely outweigh the gains and even drag itself down.

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

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

The waiter brought the 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 Tinkobeier's mobile interconnection plan will last for two years.

First, next fall, Tinkerbell will combine i, which has been quietly developing in recent years, and Apple's tablet technology, to 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 Scooby completed its own related chip development work and further development of electronic technology, Tinkerbell will release a home router with built-in ifi function and a micro-hard disk version of the ipad tablet with the same built-in ifi 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 quickly. For example, irec, which is limited by the rate of wireless transmission, is not suitable for wireless transmission of huge video files, and will still be dominated by wired connections.

The key is integration.

Several existing products are gradually integrated into the ipad tablet computer, and even the subsequent launch of the mobile phone call function, which is also ipne, which is also already in the huge 'i' series trademark inventory of Tincober.

Then realize the arrival of the era of home-style short-distance mobile Internet to the era of unlimited mobile Internet.

The lunch lasted for an hour, and Emmanuel understood Simon's thinking very well.

If it is a latecomer like Simon, looking back in the past, 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, It's simply unrealistic.

Most ordinary people tend to live in the moment, and the opponent has easily spread their chess game in a professional field to 10 years later. Probably, only such an amazing man can accumulate a huge fortune of 15 trillion US dollars in just 10 years and create a business empire that can be called a miracle.

Rubbing the china cup of after-dinner coffee brought by the waiter, waiting for the man who was only two feet away from him to finish his last words, and realizing that it was time to part, Emmanuel felt reluctant and remembered one thing, Looking at Simon with a stern look, he asked, "By the way, boss, on the side of fntis, do you want to come and take a look at it these days?"

In addition to the chairman of Scooby, Emmanuel, who holds a doctorate in particle physics, also volunteered to be the president of fntis, one of the three avant-garde technology companies promoted by Simon. The project has been progressing steadily, with ground breaking on the 50-hectare fntis headquarters in the small town of Morgan Hill, southwest of San Jose.

"Of course, but it will wait until tomorrow afternoon. I will go over here to check on rcity and fntis. Remember to arrange the time," Simon said, raising his wrist to check the time. Bezos was in the restaurant. After the person had left, he also stood up and said, "Then, that's it for today, Aiman, you and C can go back first."

Emmanuel glanced at the two girls A and C who stood up together at the table, and had to stand up, looking at the man opposite, and summoning the courage to say: "Boss, do you have time tonight to eat together?"

Simon looked at the red-haired girl who was taller than him because she was wearing high heels after getting up, smiled and shook her head without concealing: "Not tonight, I have to accompany Alice."

Last night, it was C girls and the others. Tonight, the time has been reserved for the housekeeper.

Now that he has spoken, Emmanuel has not

You give up easily: "So, what about tomorrow night?"

"Going back to Los Angeles tomorrow night."

"Can you go back?"

"No, there is a reception in Los Angeles tomorrow night."

"..."

Outside the restaurant building, Claire, who was walking towards the parking lot as the man left with the girl a, smiled and said to Emmanuel: "Actually, you can try visiting Alice's place tonight, just say you want to borrow a juicer. machine or something."

Emmanuel didn't bother to roll his eyes: "Are you sure I won't be kicked out?"

The red-haired girl and Alice Ferguson are relatively familiar with each other. For the convenience of work, they both currently live in the villa in the northern residential area of ​​the science and technology park here. It is okay to visit, but it is just like the two girls C and D are in a circle , the arrogant and workaholic Amazon helm also has his own circle.

Moreover, although the other party has obvious lace tendencies, the red-haired girl who has quietly tried it has not been able to become close friends with the other party.

If you rush over tonight, the chances of being kicked out are very high.

As for Emmanuel herself, her circle is on Chen Qing and Lin Su's side, but Chen and Lin are either in China or New York, and they rarely come here.

Seeing Emmanuel rolling his eyes, Claire still smiled and shrugged: "Then there is no way, the boss is really busy, and there are too many women, just like last night, only the four of us can share it together."

Emmanuel heard the private gossip like 1v4 directly spoken by C girl, wanted to laugh at a few words, hesitated a little, glanced left and right to see no one else, and couldn't help asking: "He... is very powerful?"

Girl C smiled mysteriously with a sense of superiority: "I won't tell you."

Emmanuel rolled his eyes again and stopped asking.

On the other hand, Simon is really busy, not only at night, but also during the day.

Yesterday's time was left to Tinkerbell to discuss the follow-up layout after the acquisition of Apple. Today is all about Igret. In the morning, I discussed with several responsible persons to deal with the antitrust investigation launched by the Ministry of Justice again. In the afternoon They also discussed the progress of Igreat's recent plans such as starting a new batch of data center construction, and they were busy until more than seven o'clock in the evening.

Even after having a good night, he was pressed on the bed by the workaholic housekeeper and continued to talk about some work.

The next morning was a meeting of several companies such as Cisco and AOL.

AOL is currently the two major headquarters on the east and west coasts. Previously, the east coast mainly developed business, and the west coast focused on technology research and development. When AOL moved its headquarters from Virginia to San Francisco, in recent years, AOL's main business has been focused on the East Coast, and its focus is also on New York.

However, with the announcement of the latest "Telecommunication Act" released by the Clinton administration for the telecommunications industry, and the fact that the East Coast business has entered the ceiling, AOL has turned its attention to the West Coast states again, and the West Coast headquarters has become important again. The morning meeting was all about West Coast expansion.

Because of being too busy, many smaller decisions, such as the cooperation between Tinkobel's mobile Internet ecological plan and Skober, and the stagra founded by d-girl quietly launched the i plan, which is planned to be listed at the end of the year, can only be made in the morning, noon, and evening. Discuss these times during meals.

After seeing fntis and rcity again on Friday afternoon, Simon left to fly back to Los Angeles at more than 6 o'clock in the evening.

Weekends aren't easy either.

Entering September, it is not far from the major schedules at the end of the year. For two consecutive weekends, Simon was busy with the final editing of a series of films and marketing plans for the year-end schedule. Then, a new week, September 16th, set off again to fly to New York.

And just in the past busy week, something closely related to the Westeros system has also happened.

For example, on September 12, New York Fashion Week opened, announcing the opening of the 1997 spring and summer fashion season.

Then, in September, the gaming division of Liz Entertainment released another masterpiece, "Diablo", which has been integrated into the Blizzard label's Silicon and Neurokey Studio.

Then, on Saturday, September 14th, Tin Kebair held a relatively small fall conference, listing ivid camera products for online video calls and some other small peripherals, and in private, Tin Kebair. Er also began to approach Daenerys on the collaboration between the ivid camera and the "American Pie" project.