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The two-hour press conference officially ended at 12 o'clock.

Afterwards, Igret Company also prepared a reception at the nearby Marriott Hotel. Of course, it was impossible for all of the more than 2,000 guests to come. The number of invited guests this time was less than 200.

There is still a work schedule here in the afternoon. Simon did not leave immediately after the press conference, but rushed to the Marriott Hotel with a group of executives from the Westeros system.

"The White House is preparing to set up the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Simon, should they send you an invitation?"

In the crowded reception hall, Simon got together with James Raybold, Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee to chat about some of the recent moves in Washington.

Hearing the question from the door classmate, Simon nodded, gestured to Tim Berners-Lee, and said, "Tim will hold the title of consultant in this office."

Although the U.S. stock market began to recover in the first half of the year, the economic recession in the U.S. cannot be reversed immediately. The domestic property market remains stagnant, the unemployment rate is still rising, and the proportion of the poor in the U.S. has also hit a new high in two decades.

War honor cannot be eaten as a meal.

Everyone sighed with emotion for the heroic performance of the US military in the Gulf War at the beginning of the year. As the economic environment continued to deteriorate, the honors the Bush administration relied on in the Gulf War were also swallowed up, and the support rate continued to decline.

In order to salvage fast-failing approval ratings, the White House has had to turn more attention domestically.

The listing of Cisco and America Online has created two corporate giants with a market value of 10 billion yuan, and the trend of the Internet industry's outbreak is becoming more and more obvious.

Rapidly developing emerging industries undoubtedly means more employment and domestic economic growth. Two new technology companies that have already broken through the market value of 10 billion just after listing undoubtedly prove this, and Senator Al Gore proposed this. The "Information Superhighway Act" reminded that the White House has also quickly turned its attention to the Internet industry, and is looking for the establishment of a science and technology policy office dedicated to this area.

Simon had previously received an invitation from the White House, hoping that he would serve as an adviser to this science and technology policy office. Of course, he had no time, and because of his position, it was not suitable to do so, so he recommended Tim Berners-Lee.

Tim Berners-Lee is the CEO of Igret, and the most important point is that he is British, and will not involve too many issues of political leanings. John Chambers and Steve Case, CEOs of Cisco and AOL, politely declined invitations to the advisory title, citing too busy work.

Serving as an adviser to the Bush Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy will certainly have a crucial impact on the White House's next policy direction in the field of new technology. However, if nothing else, Bush has only one year left in power, and since the bet has been made, even if there is an accident, Simon is unlikely to ignore his position for temporary gain.

After all, people have to have a position.

It is obviously impossible for Bill Gates to know Simon's layout. Hearing that Tim Berners-Lee will serve as a consultant for this office, Simon himself did not agree, so he made up his mind to reject the title of consultant.

Deep down, the gate classmates put themselves on the same level as Simon.

Everyone chatted for a while, and Intel's CEO Andy Grove came over to say hello and mentioned another thing: "Simon, what do you think of the recently established aim alliance between Apple, IBM and Motorola?"

The aim alliance, whose names are taken from the initials of Apple, IBM and Motorola, is mainly to promote the powerpc architecture cpu processor that the three companies are still brewing.

powerpc is a reduced instruction set computer (risc) architecture, which corresponds to Intel's x86 complex instruction set computer (cisc) architecture.

The arm architecture processor in the smartphone era is also of the risc type.

To use a more common metaphor, the difference between risc and cisc, like wild boar and elephant, basically belong to two 'species'.

Intel later tried to lay out chips on the mobile terminal, and the reason why several attempts have failed, the root cause is here, an elephant is stuffed into a wild boar cage, even a newly born baby elephant, the body will appear too ' huge'.

cisc has strong computing power and is more suitable for mainframes and even supercomputers in this era.

The computing power of risc is weak, but before the Internet era, risc was enough to meet the computing needs of personal computers.

The three giants set up the aim alliance to promote powerpc, in fact, it is also to fight against the rapidly rising Microsoft and Intel wintel alliance.

Although the Intel chips of this era, even the latest 486 processors, have an operating frequency of only 50mhz, which is not on the same level as the processors that exceed 5ghz many years later, but throughout the 1980s, the computing performance of Intel processors was relatively high compared to users. In terms of demand, there is still a surplus and the price is too expensive.

The powerpc architecture processor promoted by the aim alliance just "makes up for" the two "disadvantages" of Intel's chip's excess performance and high price.

If it was ten years ago, the aim alliance might still be successful.

Now, with the advent of the Internet era, personal computers have developed from simple text applications to multimedia applications such as images, sounds and even videos.

The demand will only get higher and higher, and the aim alliance is promoting the risc-based powerpc architecture at this time, and the results can be imagined.

In the original time and space, Apple insisted on the powerpc architecture until 2005, during which the computer giant that created the era of personal computers also declined all the way, and Jobs finally had to fall back to Intel.

Simon did not directly answer Andy Grove's question, but glanced at him and his classmates, respectively, and asked, "Have you read the information about the ati company in Canada?"

ati is a display chip development company that was established in 1985. After many years, people who are a little proficient in computers and like to play games know a card and n card, of which the a card is produced by ati.

Now the Nvidia company that produces n-cards has not yet been established, but ati already has a good technical foundation. After Simon saw the company's information a month ago, he instructed James Raybold to contact the company.

Graphics card chips have appeared in the early 1980s, and professional graphics workstations are equipped with graphics card units. However, the graphics cards of this era have not yet reached the consumer level that can be used by ordinary PCs. Mainly before the 1990s, there was no such thing at all. kind of necessary.

However, with the advent of the Internet era, if you want a computer to have excellent multimedia functions, a PC-level graphics card is essential.

Andy Grove and Bill Gates both nodded.

ati has launched a relatively successful professional-grade graphics chip in 1987, and now it is one of the important 2d and 3d graphics chip suppliers in the industry.

Simon continued: "In the past, some people always thought that the performance of Intel CPUs was excessive, but I believe that as long as users who have access to the Internet, they no longer think so. With the increase in the demand for multimedia functions such as image, sound and video in personal computers , users' requirements for computer performance will also increase rapidly, so I don't think the aim alliance that goes against the trend can have any good results."

Bill Gates asked subconsciously, "Simon, does this have anything to do with ati?"

"Of course, I believe that pure cpu can no longer meet the computing needs of users. It just so happens that ati is developing PC-level graphics chips, and it is expected that the product will be available early next year. Westeros has invested 50 million US dollars to obtain this company. 25% stake, I hope Microsoft and Intel can work together to promote the application of consumer-grade graphics cards.”

This matter has been mentioned by Simon in the information given to both of them.

In fact, Simon also analyzed the demand trend of PC-level graphics cards for the two of them in the email, but they were both very busy and obviously had not fully recovered.

Noticing the subtle changes in expressions on the faces of Bill Gates and Andy Grove, Simon laughed: "So, Westeros only bought a 25% stake in ati, purely to promote PC-class graphics cards. For the development and promotion of chips, the two of you can continue to contact this company. ati is not listed. You can decide whether to invest in this company. I believe that the market size of new graphics cards in the future will not be much worse than that of cpu chips. , I prefer Intel to buy this company outright, Andy, if you do, 25% of Westeros can be transferred to you at the original price."

Hearing Simon said that the market size of graphics card chips will not be much worse than that of CPU chips, Bill Gates and Andy Grove couldn't help but look at each other.

Simon is actually not very clear on the size of the GPU chip market, but the GPU chip will be very important in the future whether it is the PC era or the smartphone era. Investing in this industry now has a bright future.

On the premise that it already has enough technology accumulation, if ati can get the support of the two giants Microsoft and Intel this time, it will not be easy to be overtaken by Nvidia, which comes from behind.

Of course, Simon didn't plan to put his eggs in one basket either.

In addition to ati, Westeros is also contacting some other graphics card chip companies recently, but the accumulation of these companies is not as deep as ati, and it is unlikely that a PC-level graphics chip will be launched within two or three years. this purpose.

However, the research and development of pc-level chips is completed, and if you want to promote it, you must support it from the corresponding manufacturers.

Cooperating with Microsoft and Intel is undoubtedly the best choice.

Both Bill Gates and Andy Grove understood that although Simon was discussing with them in the tone of advice, the young man had obviously made up some ideas, and if the two did not cooperate, Westeros might It is necessary to formally put forward relevant proposals on the board of directors of the two companies as a major shareholder.

Whether it's Bill Gates or Andy Grove, the founders of Microsoft and Intel, they certainly don't want outsiders to get involved in their companies, but they're definitely not the kind of people who can't take correct advice. people.

Promising to discuss this matter in private, everyone talked about other things.

Naturally, the noon reception could not last too long. At one o'clock in the afternoon, guests began to leave one after another.

Simon saw off Andy Grove and his classmates, and returned to the reception hall. C-girl Claire Gein, who had never found a chance to say hello, came over, followed by a petite girl, but she was Another Jennifer, the little girl who rushed to the stage of Madonna's concert, should have been studying computer science at Stanford University, Jennifer Bray.

After greeting girl C, Simon looked at the little girl next to her who gave the impression of being a minor. She felt like she reached out and touched her head, and said with a smile, "Jenny, how are you doing recently?"

It is probably that women have a naturally sensitive sixth sense. The little girl shrank her neck tenderly, and her beautiful eyes were filled with a little bit of anticipation.

The little girl didn't seem to be as restrained as before in front of Simon, as if she had known a good friend for a long time, with a little familiarity in her tone: "I'm helping Claire do something."

Girl C explained: "Jenny was working as my assistant recently, and just happened to exercise in advance."

Simon glanced at Claire, then turned to the little girl and said, "Don't you need to go to class?"

Seeing that the smile on Simon's face seemed to subside, Jennifer Bray quickly shook her head: "No, it's all after school time."

Simon actually didn't have some notion that his studies were too big, he just asked casually, noticed the little girl's nervousness, and resumed his smile, and said, "Pay attention to scheduling your time. Although I don't think college courses are so important, you should learn things still have to be learned.”

Jennifer Bray nodded immediately, like a chicken pecking rice: "I will."

I really want to touch my head.

Then, the little girl in front of her neck shrank again.

The girl C next to her was keenly aware of these details, and couldn't help showing some smiles.

After just a few simple chats, and seeing that the time was about the same, Simon and several executives from Igret joined together and left the Marriott Hotel ahead of schedule.

The reception in the hall did not end immediately. Hui sent Simon and others away in a large group of people. Lady C took Jennifer Brie back to the hall, looked at the little girl a few times, and raised her hand to rub her pretty blonde hair. on the head.

Jennifer Bray was rubbed over her head by Lady C and let go before she blinked and asked with a puzzled look, "C, what's wrong?"

Lady C pinched the girl's delicate face again and smiled, "Little fairy."

The disguise was revealed, Jennifer Bray stopped pretending, couldn't help but glanced in the direction Simon was leaving, and looked around, suddenly asked: "c, have you and the boss, um, have sex? "

Girl C nodded without hesitation: "Hmm."

The little girl looked at Lady C, her eyes blinked a few times, and she shook her head and said, "Forget it, it's no use asking you."

Claire raised her hand and knocked on the little girl's head: "You're a little silly, okay? Men like silly girls."

Jennifer Bray tilted her head, unable to avoid Claire's knock, and still retorted: "Simon doesn't like it."

Claire raised her eyebrows slightly: "How do you know?"

The little girl said of course: "I just know."

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