Chapter 1029 (1/2)
Near noon, Emmanuel Brant left the Scomber headquarters in the rental park on the east side of the westero Science Park, drove across the igritte Avenue in the center, and came to the igritte park on the west side. To be exact, it is the igritte headquarters zone 2 next to the Green Park in the south. After the completion of zone 1 on the north side, igritte began to build the second park, the two major parks The total area of the district is 60 hectares.
Just look at the size of the headquarters, you can imagine the huge volume of igritte at this time.
In contrast, on the east side of igritte Avenue, in addition to the 30 hectare headquarters park being built by dincobail, there are also 60 hectare office space for external rental. At this time, there are more than 100 large and small technology companies gathered, including dincobail, instagram, eBay, scober and other companies that have been included by dincobail Broadcast and other cutting-edge technology companies.
According to the address given by girl a in advance, she parked the car outside a building in the Second District of igritte headquarters. Instead of pushing the door open, Emmanuel took out the make-up mirror in her satchel and examined her make-up carefully. Because she focused on her work, she didn't care too much about it, and she often was slovenly. Today is different. I'm going to have dinner with that man later.
looking at the perfect white face in the mirror, Emmanuel suddenly feels angry and self pity. His six foot height, white skin and high IQ and high education are all in line with his aesthetics. When she first met 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, stale, boring idea.
However, since I thought of it, I suddenly came up with the idea that maybe I can dye my blonde hair sometime. By then, there will be no more mistakes.
It's lunchtime and there are more and more people around.
Three young men in neat shirts and trousers, who were employees of igritte, happened to pass in front of Emmanuel, who was looking at himself in the mirror. They glanced at him occasionally and couldn't move.
Deliberately waiting for a moment, Emmanuel, who was wearing a black ol suit, got out of the car. Although Emmanuel, who was wearing high-heeled shoes, was taller than all three men, the other side still came up to him. One of them accosted him and said, ”Hi, miss, are you here for an interview?”
Emmanuel looked at the three guys with a slightly queer expression: ”do I look like an interviewer?”
The man who opened his mouth didn't seem to feel the bad tone in Emmanuel's voice. With a smile, he reached over and said, ”meet me, I'm Jason. And anyway, it's lunchtime. How about having dinner together? ”
Emmanuel did not pay any attention to his outstretched hand. He turned and left.
There is also some abdominal pain.
San Francisco has been a foregone conclusion for more than a year. With the surge of new technology, Emmanuel clearly realized how impetuous Silicon Valley is now. When he just met these guys who may have tens of millions of stock options, his self-confidence was also bursting, and his daily life was just like that of the upstarts. All kinds of extravagance and night revelry almost attracted the whole world The world's call girls and drug dealers gather in this area.
Just like just now, it is clear that igritte's internal restaurant has already provided quite superior catering treatment, and the three people obviously still intend to go out for dinner, which makes Emmanuel, who is well-off and well-educated, dislike it very much.
Entering a restaurant dedicated to senior executives in the building, he happens to meet Simon and igritte, who are also here for dinner. Emmanuel immediately changes his mind, embraces the boss, and of course he does not forget to shake hands with Tim Berners Lee.
Obviously different treatment, inevitably lead to a few jokes, Emmanuel also laughed back.
Then they didn't sit together. Bezos and others scattered. Simon chose a long table for four and motioned Emmanuel to sit opposite. He took girl a to sit on the other side. While ordering, he said, ”C will come over later.”
Emmanuel nodded.
With Simon's current level of busyness, this lunch is not a casual reminiscence, but a business to talk about.
Just after ordering, girl c arrived with her.
Simple greeting, watching Emmanuel occupy the position directly opposite his boss, C girl can only sit diagonally opposite.
When Claire ordered, Simon went straight to the point and said to Emmanuel, ”you should have seen the technical information about WiFi and Bluetooth, haven't you?”
With regard to WiFi and Bluetooth, Simon has been paying close attention to it for several years, and has taken decisive action.
Three years ago, igritte's Australian branch found out that a professor of the University of Sydney intended to develop a wireless transmission technology, and resolutely gave financial support. As a result, the patent of WiFi technology easily fell into the hands of westrow system.
As for Bluetooth, because it involves wireless communication and data transmission, all major communication giants are developing it. Simon's technical standards come from Nokia. At the same time, in order to avoid too many standards of Bluetooth technology, Nokia has taken the lead in formulating unified standards with Ericsson, Sony, Toshiba and other companies.In a word, westero system has absolute initiative for both technologies.
Emmanuel heard Simon mention this, nodded and said, ”boss, do you mean to let scober turn to the development of wireless communication chips?”
”Yes,” Simon said, ”in addition, I've read the information about the Broadcom company that scupper recently bought. Your ideas are right. Of course, there are some deviations. Today, I'd like to clarify these problems and the next development direction of scupper.”
due to the explosion of China's VCD industry and the proliferation of new technology bubbles, plus the addition of Weiss Trojan stock, the market value of the company, which was acquired two years ago, has been above $20 billion. For Simon, who is familiar with the future of VCD, this far exceeds the real value of scopper.
Although scupper has started the research and development of DVD video decoder chip, it is different from VCD video decoder chip which maintains monopoly at this time. In the future DVD industry, scupper is doomed to change its role from the current VCD industry leader to a marginal interest enterprise which shares some of the leftovers from Sony, Toshiba and other DVD core manufacturers.
Therefore, if there is no transformation, the decline of Scomber will be inevitable.
Since scopper's stock price is far higher than its actual value at this time, Simon designed a M & A expansion strategy using scopper's stock as a ”cash” two months ago, referring to AOL's acquisition of Time Warner in his memory. He launched a M & A to other fields for transformation.
Emmanuel's Scomber team also carried out Simon's plan well. In just over two months, scupper successfully acquired three start-up semiconductor companies, one of which is called Broadcom.
In the original time and space, people were more familiar with Qualcomm, but they didn't know that Broadcom had the same status as Qualcomm in the industry. Both of them were high-tech companies mainly engaged in technology licensing and chip development in the field of communication. Moreover, Broadcom was involved in a wider range of fields than Qualcomm. One of them was Broadcom once the world's largest WiFi chip manufacturer.
Simon was surprised to see Emmanuel's acquisition report at first. He didn't expect that scupper could bring Broadcom into the company so many years in advance.
However, after the research, we found that the current Broadcom is totally different from the later Broadcom.
Broadcom, which was founded five years ago by two Stanford professors, is now mainly Promoting CATV set-top box communication chips for receiving and processing digital signals. It is still thousands of miles away from the communication giants who are able to compete with Qualcomm.
The acquisition of scupper is mainly to get involved in the field of cable TV. It plans to combine Broadcom's communication chip with scupper's decoding chip and other technologies to build a complete set-top box solution for cable TV.
At present, the cable TV industry is still expanding all over the world. This is a very bright business plan. It is also the main reason why Broadcom, which was originally planning its IPO, gave up listing and took the initiative to accept the acquisition of scupper. Otherwise, if the two companies have no complementary relationship at all, the slightly wiser business owners will not easily agree to such a plan Tender offer.
For example, if scupper makes an acquisition of a company with a market value of only a few billion US dollars, Simon will certainly want to take advantage of it, but the chances of its consent are very small, even if westero is a shareholder of the company. Because the businesses of the two companies are unrelated.
Simon is very much in favor of scopper's expansion into the field of cable TV, but he still hopes scopper can make good use of the current good situation to get involved in more fields.
In igritte's executive restaurant, Simon took an Apple Newton tablet from a girl's satchel, handed it to Emmanuel opposite, and said, ”maybe you know this, Apple's PDA product. In my opinion, the positioning of the business assistant of this product is obviously wrong. You can know this in private. What we are going to talk about today is the family mobile Internet ecological plan that will be launched in the next step after tincobail's acquisition of apple. ”
Emmanuel took over Simon's Newton tablet and turned it on skillfully. She has just used it, but she also thinks it's very cheap. It's $900 expensive, but it only has some simple functions such as calendar, clock, drawing and note taking. Moreover, the battery capacity is very low, and the handwriting function as a highlight is also dispensable.
In short, as a business assistant, it's not as convenient as a pocket notebook.
With this in mind, Emmanuel listened to Simon and looked up at the boss: ”mobile Internet, boss, does this have anything to do with Newton tablet?”
”Of course, the tablet is the key. More accurately, it will be the ultimate form of the future mobile Internet plan. I hope Tinkerbell can rely on the existing technology foundation to focus all the current several main products on a pocket tablet.”
Emmanuel immediately found the problem and turned to the C girl beside him: ”in this case, C, I think you should try your best to prevent the birth of this product, right?”
Now, tincobail's main products, iPlayer, ICAM and IREC, have annual shipments of tens of millions or even tens of millions. If these electronic products are integrated into just one tablet computer, 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. She shook her head and said, ”do I look like such a visionless person?”
”A lot of things are not what you want or what you don't want.” Emmanuel said with a smile and then turned to Simon: ”boss, what do you need to do on Scomber's side?”
Simon didn't answer directly, but pointed to the Newton tablet in the red haired girl's hand again: ”with the current screen, battery, chip and other technical level, Apple's product has actually reached a very high level, so it will take about five to ten years to achieve the integration level I said. This product in your hand, tincobail, will be combined with its own technology developed in recent years. By integrating into the micro hard disk solution, it will focus on more practical e-book reader and digital music player functions. What scupper has to do is very critical. Through the WiFi and Bluetooth technology I gave you, it will develop related chips to realize tablet computers, even iPlayer, ICAM, etc It's a wireless connection to personal computers and the Internet. ”
When Emmanuel heard this, he thought a little, and his eyes lit up quickly.