I’m in Hollywood

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Eric took Carlolin to arrive at the agreed coffee shop on time, and Roger Wilson had already waited there.

Roger Wilson is about forty years old. He is tall, wearing a light gray suit, with rimless glasses, and his hair is meticulously combed. There is no such thing as a technical engineer's unskilled.

After politely introducing each other, find the location to sit down.

I ordered the coffee, and waited for the waiter to leave. Roger Wilson looked at Eric with no trace. He said, "Mr. Williams, is the shooting of 007 still going well, but everyone is looking forward to it?"

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

"Well, Eric," Roger Wilson nodded with a smile and said: "In fact, we were very surprised when we learned that you were interested in arm."

Eric smiled, and the other party was still focused on the technical engineer, so he began to actively step into the theme.

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

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

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

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

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

Want to buy arm company, after all, need a reasonable reason, otherwise arm technical team can not follow a purposeless boss.

Eric bought the arm for the very simple purpose, in order to prevent the wide spread of arm technology, and even cut off the technical authorization of possible competitors.

But the reason for this monopoly is definitely not enough for outsiders.

As for the research and development of mobile phone chips, Eric has already owned Nokia and Qualcomm. The two companies have the full authorization of arm technology, and the research and development strength in mobile phone chips is far more than the arm itself.

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

Roger Wilson took the Newtons from Eric's hand and simply operated a few times, but his expression was a bit stunned. "Eric, I last called the Apple eo John Sculley." They may stop the production of Newton's 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 flat-panel handheld is not a smart move.

However, Eric disagreed with Roger Wilson's point of view. He said: "Roger, Newton itself is a very good product. It failed, but it did not find its own suitable price and market positioning. According to my hands. According to the information collected, the total shipments of the handheld computer market reached 3 million units last year. In the first half of this year, this figure has reached 2.6 million. It can be said that this is a very fast-growing market."

Roger Wilson quickly calculated that if Eric is right, at an average price of $500, the market for tablets this year will reach about $2.5 billion. Although this number is insignificant compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars in the PC market, it is enough to prove the value of the tablet.

The original intention of Arm was to develop the processor for Apple's Newton tablet. Most of Roger Wilson and the engineers of arm are very affectionate about the tablet.

Thinking about it, Roger Wilson 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! Networks. If we can cooperate, arm will be responsible for the development of the chip, Yahoo will develop a special operating system for this tablet. Yahoo's browser, instant messaging, e-mail and other service software are integrated into this tablet. I hope this product is more focused on entertainment and practicality, it can not only connect to the Internet, but also can read books and listen to music. and many more."

"According to your statement, this is actually a mini handheld p terminal," Roger Wilson said: "However, Eric, have you considered how to connect to the network? The biggest advantage of the tablet is mobility. You can use it anywhere, but if you want to use the network, you have to 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 said with a smile. "At the beginning of this year, I just let Firefly Electronics buy a complete patent for wireless LAN technology, called ii. This technology can realize terminal equipment in a short distance. The connection with the Internet, although the distance of communication is only a few tens of meters, is enough to meet the requirements of a person to use the Internet arbitrarily in his home or company area."

"It 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 source come from?"

Wireless routing with integrated ii technology will not begin until a decade later. Although Firefly controls a large stake in Cisco, Cisco's main business area is the enterprise router market, and there is no large-scale personal consumer terminal. Eric does not. Will deliberately interfere with Cisco's business ideas.

Since Cisco can't help in this area, it is difficult for Eric to use the power of fireflies to push other router companies to develop wireless routers.

However, this issue is not difficult to solve.

Eric said: "As long as a person has access to the Internet, it is very easy to create a signal source, or you can call it a 'hot spot'. We only need to equip this tablet with a technology. The peripherals of the chip and signal transmitter, compared to the price of a tablet for hundreds of dollars, this mini ii signal transmitter may cost only ten dollars, so it is like a tablet charger. It is too burdensome for its overall cost and selling price, and it is very feasible." (To be continued.)