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The female assistant nodded: "Yes."

Simon looked over pretending to be dissatisfied: "What are you, don't pretend to understand if you don't understand."

The female assistant glared over slightly, and retorted: "Understood, men are greedy bastards."

"..."

"Ha ha……"

Chatting and laughing all the way, the Boeing 500 landed at San Francisco San Jose Airport in less than 767 minutes after traveling more than 40 kilometers.

Arriving at the San Francisco Municipal Auditorium where the new product launch event was held, there were still more than 20 minutes before the launch event.

With the successive listing of AOL and Cisco, Eaglet, the most important part of Westeros' Internet industry layout, has also received more and more attention from the industry.

Therefore, not only the local media in North America, but also journalists from overseas countries flocked to this press conference. Including other guests from various fields, the number of people attending this conference exceeded 2000.

Simon greeted several executives of Igret, and only had time to briefly greet Bill Gates, John Sculley and other important guests in the industry who came to join him specially this time, and the press conference was about to start.

Although the next press conference focused on Ypay and Ystore, since it has attracted a lot of media attention, Eaglet’s management took advantage of the opportunity to make this conference a comprehensive product promotion meeting for Eaglet. .

At ten o'clock, the press conference officially began.

As the CEO of Igret, Tim Berners-Lee took the lead as the main person in charge, although his power has been basically emptied by two powerful subordinates, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz. Delivered a speech, briefly introducing Eaglet's development history in recent years and the current situation and prospects of the entire Internet industry.

Afterwards, Carol Bartz came on stage for the second time, focusing on the YWS products of Eagletec.

YWS is the abbreviation of Ygritte Web Service (Ygritte Web Service), and Simon named it after the AWS (Amazon Web Service) in his memory.

Of course, the biggest difference between the two at this stage is that YWS still provides traditional web space hosting and leasing services, and cloud computing technology is still under development.

However, compared with other competitors in the same industry, YWS has obvious advantages.

Eaglet's YWS also includes services such as one-stop website solutions that most website creators need at this stage.

Different from the period when the Internet industry has been very mature many years later, at this stage, there is still a big talent gap in the Internet industry. The fool-like network solutions provided by YWS can save many companies or individuals who want to test the Internet. The most critical technical hurdle.

Of course, there are limitations to this fool-like web service.

Not proficient in certain technologies, just relying on "assembly", just like the counterfeit products in Simon's memory, is doomed to be difficult to grow.

To further develop, Internet companies must have their own talent and technical teams.

However, these are all things to say.

The most critical thing about the Internet at this stage is to enrich the Internet or to be more precise, the content resources of the World Wide Web platform at the fastest speed.

This is equivalent to making a person full before pursuing a more refined life.

In order to achieve this goal, in the first half of the year, Eaglet built four new large-scale data centers in various parts of the United States.

Moreover, once cloud computing technology is put into use next year, the computing power of these existing data centers will be released to the greatest extent.By then, Eaglet will have no rivals in related businesses, taking advantage of advantages in terms of opportunities, technology, and cost.

Although it involves a relatively low-level technical topic, none of the guests participating in this conference today are rookies, and they have done a lot of preparation work in advance.

Eaglet's cloud computing project "Housewife Project" is still being kept secret. However, many guests at the scene have already felt the strong ambition of Eaglet Corporation based on Carol Bartz's recommendation.

As the Internet industry enters the fast lane, everyone can experience the explosive growth of Internet sites, and many companies have begun to invest in related businesses such as server hosting and leasing.

Eaglet, who holds a series of core patents of World Wide Web technology, has too many advantages that even a giant like IBM can hardly match.

Back then, in order to prevent affiliates such as Intel and Microsoft from becoming dominant, IBM could also force these companies to license patents to others.Now, the Internet is an emerging industry, and Eaglet is a unique giant, so no one can force Eaglet to make concessions that he does not want.

Half an hour later, with warm applause, Carol Butz completed her presentation.

Then, Tim Berners-Lee took the stage again.

This technical executive is responsible for introducing some new products and functions of Eaglet Portal. In fact, many of them have already been officially launched. Influence.

After careful preparation in advance and a product that is directly oriented to users, Tim Berners-Lee's presentation also ended with applause.

After Tim Berners-Lee, there are still two major new products that are not heavyweight.

This time, an executive from the PC giant Compaq took the stage to introduce his personal computer specially customized for the Internet platform.

In fact, I also considered letting C girl come to the stage to promote iCam in advance.

However, this card camera product has been in the limelight for several months. The most difficult problem facing Tinkerbell now is to solve a series of supply chain, technology research and development and product production capacity brought about by the surge in market demand. and other issues.

Traditional electronics giants have shown too many advantages in this regard.

Whether it is Japan's Sony, Panasonic and other manufacturers or American electronics companies, they have established projects or released their own Internet camera products in recent months. Traditional giants have their own complete parts supply chains and product processing plants. to satisfy the market's needs.

Japan's Matsushita, which has reached a cooperative relationship with the Westeros system, has also made a trial, hoping to invest in Tinkber.

It is conceivable that if Panasonic's investment is accepted, many of the problems Tinkber is facing at this time will be solved.

However, neither Simon nor Miss C had ever thought about making Tinkobel a subsidiary of Panasonic, and Panasonic would not be willing to acquire only a small amount of stocks without decision-making power, so the two parties did not reach an agreement.

Of course, because it is a new product, although the traditional giants have started to invest in it one after another, because of the limited market size, it is impossible to pay as much attention as Tinkber, who is currently only focusing on this product.

For example, Kodak, a traditional American camera giant, launched digital cameras earlier than Japanese manufacturers, but it may feel the threat of card cameras to traditional film cameras. In order to protect its own interests in the film industry, Kodak did not There is no follow suit.

In Simon's memory, Kodak really refused to embrace the trend of digital cameras because it insisted on its own interests in the film industry, and eventually went bankrupt.

Therefore, Tinkber actually has enough advantages.

Compaq's executives finished introducing their "Internet Computer", and the press conference has been going on for more than an hour.

As the brand spokesperson, Sandra and the famous talk show host Jay Leno, specially invited by the Eaglet team today, came to the stage together and enlivened the atmosphere in the auditorium through a series of jokes, and the final heavyweight link finally arrived.

The first thing that appeared on the big screen in the auditorium was Igret's motto that had been interpreted by countless people but destined to be understood by no one except Simon.

You Know Nothing!

Jeff Bezos took the stage and joked a few words around the adage, and the screen flashed, and the interface of the Ystore app store appeared on the big screen.

In the next half an hour, Jeff Bezos introduced the two products of Ystore and Ypay in detail.

Since you want to 'open a store', you must have products that can attract users.

This time, Ystore put all the PC games accumulated by EA since its establishment in 1982 onto the platform at one time, because the exclusive agreement signed with Nintendo has not yet expired, and the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series unfortunately did not appear this time list of games.

In addition, Ystore has also introduced a large number of PC game works from other manufacturers, and the online version of the real-time strategy game "Dune" series developed by EA will also be launched in the near future.

In fact, in order to put all the content of EA's computer games on Ystore, there were many twists and turns during the period.

EA is originally a game publisher, and Ystore obviously also has the attributes of a publisher, which will undoubtedly threaten EA's traditional business.

EA's executives and other shareholders initially expressed strong opposition to this. Even though many old games have lost their value in the physical market, logging into Ystore is completely 'waste utilization'. The conservative EA management still does not want to do this.

In the end, Daenerys Entertainment put pressure on it as the largest shareholder with 35% of EA's shares, and this decision was passed.

In order to solve this problem once and for all, Simon also recently instructed Nancy Brill to start the one thing that the little woman has always wanted to do, and started negotiations to buy EA outright.

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The two-hour press conference officially ended at 12 noon.

Eaglet Company also prepared a reception reception at the nearby Marriott Hotel. Of course, it was impossible for all the guests and audience with more than 2000 people to come. This time, the number of invited guests was less than 200.

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

"The White House is preparing to establish the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Simon, should an invitation be sent to you?"

Inside the crowded reception hall.

Simon got together with the likes of James Raybould, Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee to chat about some of Washington's latest moves.

Hearing Damen's question, Simon nodded, gestured to Tim Berners-Lee, and said, "Tim will serve as a consultant in this office."

Although the U.S. stock market began to recover in the first half of the year, the U.S. economic recession is unlikely to be reversed immediately. The domestic property market is still in turmoil, the unemployment rate is still rising, and the proportion of poor people in the U.S. has hit a new high in 20 years.

War honors cannot be eaten.

Everyone was impressed by the heroic performance of the U.S. military in the Gulf War at the beginning of the year. As the economic environment continued to deteriorate, the Bush administration's honor gained by relying on the Gulf War was also being swallowed up, and the approval rating continued to decline.

In order to restore the rapidly losing support, the White House had to turn more attention to the country.

The listing of Cisco and AOL has created two corporate giants with a market value of tens of billions, and the Internet industry is becoming more and more explosive.

The rapid development of emerging industries undoubtedly means more employment and domestic economic growth. This is undoubtedly proved by the two new technology companies that have just gone public and have broken through the market value of tens of billions. In addition, Senator Al Gore The proposed "Information Superhighway Act" reminded that the White House also quickly began to pay attention to the Internet industry and explored the establishment of an office of science and technology policy dedicated to this area.

Simon had received an invitation from the White House before, hoping that he would serve as a consultant to the Science and Technology Policy Office. Of course, he didn't have time, and because of his position, he was not suitable for doing 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, so he will not involve too many political inclinations.

The CEOs of Cisco and America Online, John Chambers and Steve Case, politely declined the invitation for the consultant title on the grounds that they were too busy.

Serving as an advisor to the Bush Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy will definitely have a crucial impact on the White House's policy direction in the field of new technologies.

However, if nothing else, Bush will only have one year left in office.

Moreover, now that the bet has been made, even if there is an accident in this time and space, it is impossible for Simon to ignore his position for the sake of temporary interests.

After all, people have to have some positions.

It is obviously impossible for Bill Gates to know the layout of Simon. 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, Damen put himself on the same level as Simon.

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

The AIM Alliance, whose names are taken from the initials of the three companies Apple, IBM and Motorola, is mainly to promote the PowerPC architecture CPU processors that the three companies have been brewing for a long time.

PowerPC is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture that corresponds to Intel's x86 Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) architecture.

The ARM architecture processor in the future smartphone era also belongs to the RISC type.

To use a more popular metaphor, the difference between RISC and CISC is like wild boars and elephants, which basically belong to two 'species'.

Intel later tried to lay out chips on the mobile side. The reason why several attempts have failed is the fundamental reason. If an elephant is stuffed into a wild boar cage, even a newly born baby elephant will appear too big. '.

CISC has strong computing power, and this era is more suitable for mainframes and even supercomputers.

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

The three giants established the AIM alliance to promote PowerPC, in fact, it is also to fight against the rapidly rising Wintel alliance of Microsoft and Intel.

Although the Intel chip of this era, even the latest 486 processor, has a computing frequency of only 50Mhz, which is not the same as the processor that exceeded 5Ghz many years later, but throughout the 80s, because most PCs can only perform simple text Processing operations and graphical interface operating systems are far from reaching the later popularization level. Therefore, the computing performance of Intel processors with only tens of megahertz computing frequencies is still surplus to user needs, and the price is too expensive.

The PowerPC architecture processor promoted by the AIM alliance just "makes up" the two "disadvantages" of Intel's chip performance and high price.

However, if it was ten years ago, the AIM alliance against the Wintel alliance might still be able to succeed.

Now, with the advent of the Internet era, personal computers are developing from simple text applications to multimedia such as images, sounds and even videos. Users will only have higher and higher demands on PC performance. At this time, the AIM Alliance promotes RISC-based PowerPC architecture chips. , the result can be imagined.

In the original time and space, Apple insisted on the PowerPC architecture until 2005. During this period, the computer giant that created the personal computer era also declined all the way. Jobs finally had to return to Intel's new chips.

Simon didn't answer Andy Grove's question directly, but looked at him and Damen respectively, and asked, "Have you read the information about the ATI company in Canada?"

ATI is a display chip development company founded in 1985.

Many years later, anyone who is a little proficient in computers and likes to play games will know the A card and the N card, and the A card is produced by ATI.

Now Nvidia, which produces N cards, has not yet been established, but ATI already has a good technology accumulation. After Simon saw the company's information a month ago, he instructed James Raybould to contact ATI.

Graphics card chips have appeared in the early 80s, and professional graphics workstations are equipped with graphics card units.

However, graphics cards of this era have not yet reached the consumer level that can be used by ordinary PCs, mainly before the 90s, there is no such need at all.

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 relatively successful professional-grade graphics chips in 1987, and is now one of the important suppliers of 2D and 3D graphics chips 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 been exposed to the Internet, they no longer think so. With the increasing demand for multimedia functions such as images, sound and video in personal computers , users’ requirements for computer performance will also increase rapidly. Therefore, I don’t think the AIM alliance, which is going against the trend, will have any good results.”

Bill Gates subconsciously asked: "Simon, what does this have to do with ATI?"

"Of course, I think that even Intel's CPU will gradually fail to meet the performance needs of users, and graphics chips can make up for the lack of CPU in multimedia. It happens that ATI is developing a PC-level graphics chip, and it is expected to come out early next year. Westeros has invested $5000 million for a 25% stake in the company, and next, I hope that Microsoft and Intel can work together to promote the application of consumer-grade graphics cards.”

These things Simon has already mentioned in the materials for the two of them.

Simon also deliberately analyzed the demand trend of PC-level graphics cards. However, Bill Gates and Andy Grove do not have the prophetic advantage of Simon, so they have not had time to respond.

Of course, there must be other reasons as well.

Whether it is Microsoft or Intel, they certainly do not want Simon to intervene too much in their company affairs.

Noticing the subtle changes in the expressions on the faces of Bill Gates and Andy Grove, Simon smiled and said: "So, Westeros only bought 25% of ATI's shares, just to promote PC-level graphics cards. The research and development and promotion of chips, you two can continue to contact this company. ATI is not listed, and Microsoft and Intel can decide whether to invest in this company. I believe that the market size of graphics chips will not be much worse than that of CPU chips in the future. .Actually, I would recommend that Intel buy the entire company. Andy, if you do this, the 25% shares held by Westeros can be transferred to you at the original price."

Hearing Simon say that the market size of graphics card chips will not be much worse than that of CPU chips in the future, Bill Gates and Andy Grove couldn't help but look at each other, and finally paid attention to it in their hearts.