Eight Hundred and Thirteenth Chapter on the Clear Reason

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Eric and Caroline arrived at the agreed coffee shop on time, and Roger Wilson was already waiting there. Want to read ??book ???·book??·

Roger Wilson was about forty years old, tall, wearing a light gray suit and rimless glasses, his hair was meticulously combed, and he did not have the sloppy appearance of a technical engineer.

After politely introducing each other, find a seat and sit down.

After ordering coffee and waiting for the waiter to leave, Roger Wilson looked at Eric without a trace, and said, "Mr. Williams, is the shooting of 007 going well, everyone is looking forward to it?"

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

"Okay, Eric," Roger Wilson nodded with a smile, "Actually, we were very surprised when we learned that you were interested in arm."

Eric smiled. After all, the other party was still an engineer who focused on technology, and he began to take the initiative to step into the theme so quickly.

The waiter brought the coffee, Eric paused for a while, 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 of Application prospects, so I asked Caroline to collect technical information about arm.

Roger Wilson thought for a while and said, "Eric, may I know your specific expectations for arm technology?"

"Of course," Eric nodded, looking at Caroline.

The girl took out a Newton tablet from her bag and put 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."

If you want to buy arm company, you need a reasonable reason after all, otherwise arm's technical team will not be able to follow a purposeless boss.

The purpose of Eric buying arm is very simple, in order to prevent the wide spread of arm technology, and even cut off the technology authorization to possible competitors.

But this monopoly means the full reason is certainly not enough for outsiders.

As for the research and development of mobile phone chips, Eric already owns Nokia and Qualcomm. As long as these two companies get the full authorization of arm technology,

The research and development strength in mobile phone chips definitely far exceeds that of arm itself.

After careful consideration, Eric set his sights on the tablet.

Roger Wilson took the Newton tablet from Eric and operated it a few times, but his expression was a little sad, and said, "Eric, I spoke on the phone with Mr. John Sculley, the CEO of Apple last time. , they may stop the production of Newton tablets next year, so this product should be considered a failure.

Roger Wilson's subtext is clearly saying that Eric's choice to develop a tablet handheld computer is not a wise move.

But Eric disagreed with Roger Wilson's point of view. He said: "Roger, the Newton itself is a very good product. The reason why it failed is that it 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 has reached 3 million units last year, and in the first half of this year, this number has reached 2.6 million. It can be said that this is a very fast-growing market."

Roger Wilson quickly calculated that if Eric was right, at an average price of $500, the tablet market would be around $2.5 billion this year. Although this number is insignificant compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars in the PC market, it is enough to justify the existence of tablets.

The original intention of arm was to develop processors for Apple's Newton tablet. Roger Wilson and most of arm's engineers are still very emotional about tablet computers.

After 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 computer a peripheral hardware product of Yahoo Networks. If we can cooperate, arm will be responsible for the development of the chip, and Yahoo will develop a special operating system for this tablet computer. , which integrates Yahoo's browser, instant messaging, e-mail and other service software into this tablet. I hope this product focuses more on entertainment and practicality, it can not only connect to the Internet, but also read books and listen to music and many more."

"According to what you said, this is actually a mini handheld PC terminal," Roger Wilson said: "However, Eric, have you considered how to connect to the Internet? The biggest advantage of tablet computers is mobility. , you can use it anywhere, but if you have to drag a long network cable around in order to use the network, I think most people will think that this is not as convenient as a laptop.”

"This is a very good solution," Eric smiled. "At the beginning of this year, I happened to let Firefly Electronics buy a complete patent for a wireless local area network technology called wifi, which can realize terminal equipment in a short distance. The connection to the Internet, although the transmission distance is only a few tens of meters, is enough to meet the requirements of a person to use the Internet arbitrarily in one's own home or company area."

"It seems very similar to the bluetooth technology introduced by Ericsson," Roger Wilson said. "But, Eric, we may be able to integrate wifi technology into the tablet, but where does the signal originate from?"

Wireless routing that integrates wifi technology will not start to emerge until ten years later. Although Firefly controls a large amount of Cisco's equity, Cisco's main business area is the enterprise-level router market, and it does not involve a wide range of personal consumer terminals, and neither does Eric. Will deliberately interfere with Cisco's business ideas.

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

However, this problem is not difficult to solve.

Eric said: "As long as a person has access to the Internet in their home, it is very easy to create a signal transmitter, or 'hotspot' as you can call it. We just need to equip the tablet with a wifi technology. Chips and peripherals of the signal transmitter, compared to the price of hundreds of dollars for tablet computers, this mini wifi signal transmitter may cost only ten dollars to make, so like the charger of the tablet computer, it will not Too much burden on its overall cost and selling price, and the feasibility is very strong." (To be continued.)