I’m in Hollywood Chapter 813: The reason for the truth

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At two o'clock in the afternoon, Eric took Carolyn to the coffee shop agreed upon by both parties on time. Roger · Will was already waiting there.

Roger · Will is about 40 years old, tall, wearing a light gray suit, wearing rimless glasses, and meticulously combing his hair. There is no insignificant technical engineer's edging.

After introducing each other politely, find a place to sit down.

I ordered coffee and waited for the waiter to leave. Roger · Will looked at Eric without any trace, saying: "Mr. Williams, shoots of 007 is still going well, but are you all looking forward to it?"

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

"Okay, Eric," Roger · Will nodded with a smile and said, "Actually, we were very surprised when we learned that you are interested in ARM."

Eric smiled. After all, the other party was still an engineer focused on technology, so he started to step into the subject so quickly.

The waitress brought the coffee over, Eric paused a little, and waited for the other party to leave again, and then said: "I have always been very interested in the IT field, and, in my opinion, ARM technology has a very wide range Application prospects, so let Carolyn collect technical information about ARM. "

Roger · Will thinks for a while and says: "Eric, can I know your specific expectations for ARM technology?"

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

The girl took a Newton tablet from her bag and put it on her desk.

Eric opened 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 ARM, you need a reasonable reason, otherwise ARM's technical team cannot follow a purposeless Boss.

The purpose of Eric to buy ARM is very simple, in order to prevent the widespread spread of ARM technology, and even cut off the technology authorization of possible competitors.

But this monopolistic reason is definitely not alien.

As for the research and development of mobile phone chips, Eric already has Nokia and Qualcomm. As long as these two companies are fully authorized by ARM technology, their research and development strength in mobile phone chips will definitely far exceed ARM itself.

After careful consideration, Eric put the target on the tablet.

Roger · Will took the Newton tablet from Eric, and after a few simple operations, the expression was a little sad, saying: "Eric, I last called Apple CEOJohn · SCalley on the phone, they may The production of the Newton tablet will be stopped next year, so this product should be considered a failure. "

Roger · Will Xun's subtext is obviously saying that Eric is not wise to choose to develop a tablet handheld computer.

But Eric disagrees with Roger · Will Xun's point of view, he said: "Roger, Newton itself is a very good product, the reason why it failed, but did not find its own suitable price and market positioning. According to my hands According to the data collected, the overall shipment of the handheld computer market reached 3 million last year, and in the first half of this year, this number has reached 2600,000. It can be said that this is a very fast-growing market. "

Roger · Will quickly counted consider as finished. If Eric is right, according to the average price of 500USD, the market size of tablet PCs will reach about 2.5 billion USD this year. Although this number is insignificant compared to the hundreds of billions of USD personal computer market, but it is enough to prove the value of the existence of tablet computers.

The original intention of ARM was to develop a processor for Newton tablet of Apple Inc.. Roger · Will and most engineers of ARM are still very affectionate about tablet computers.

Thinking for a while, Roger · Will said: "So, Eric, what kind of tablet do you want to build?"

Eric said: "I plan to make this tablet a peripheral hardware product of Yahoo network company. If we can cooperate, ARM will be responsible for chip development, and Yahoo will develop a special operation for this tablet. The system integrates Yahoo's browser, instant messaging, e-mail and other service software into this tablet. I hope this product is more focused on entertainment and practicality, it can not only connect to the Internet, but also be able to read and listen Music, etc. "

"According to your opinion, this is actually a mini handheld PC terminal," Roger · Will said: "However, Eric, have you considered how to connect to the network, the biggest advantage of the tablet is mobile You can use it anywhere, but if you want to use the network, you must drag a long network cable around. I think most people will think that this is not as convenient as a laptop. "

"This is a good solution," Eric laughed: "Earlier this year, I happened to let Firefly Electronics buy a complete patent for a wireless LAN technology called WIFI, which can realize the terminal within a short distance. The connection between the device and the Internet, although the propagation distance is only tens of meters, but it is enough to meet the requirements of a person to use the Internet in their own home or company area. "

"This seems to be very similar to the Bluetooth technology launched by Ericsson," Roger · Will said: "But, Eric, we may be able to integrate WIFI technology into the tablet, but where does the signal source come from?"

Wireless routing integrated with WIFI technology did not start to rise until ten years later. Although Firefly controls a large share of Cisco, Cisco ’s main business area is the enterprise router market, and there is no large-scale personal consumer terminal, Eric. Nor will he deliberately interfere with Cisco's business ideas.

Since Cisco cannot provide any help in this regard, it is difficult for Eric to promote the development of wireless routers by other router companies with the power of Firefly.

However, this problem is not difficult to solve.

Eric said: "As long as a person is connected to the Internet, it is also very easy to create a signal emission source, or it can be called a" hot spot ". We only need to equip this tablet with a WIFI Compared with the price of hundreds of USD for tablet computers, the peripherals of technology chips and signal transmitters, the production cost of this mini WIFI signal transmitter may be only ten USD, so just like the charger for tablet computers, it is not Will cause too much burden on its overall cost and selling price, and the feasibility is very strong. "(To be continued.)