Chapter 810 ARM

Labour protection laws in the UK are much stricter than those in North America. A slight violation of the work schedule by the crew may be investigated by the trade union. At twelve o’clock at noon, the crew will stop working for meals on time.

Eric instructed Peter Ritchie to prepare two lunches, and then took Caroline to the office dedicated to the 007 crew in the administrative district.

Carrying the small box for Caroline, Eric looked at the girl beside him and asked, "I saw you come so early in the morning, isn't your home nearby?"

Caroline felt uncomfortable following Eric empty-handed, but she was embarrassed to ask for the box back, raised her face from time to time to look at Eric beside her, nodded and replied, "Yeah, right here in Thailand. By the river Mu."

Caroline was obviously accustomed to this kind of positioning description of her home, but Eric didn't know where the Tame River was, but it should be very close to here. ?"

"Very good, but my father is still so busy, just like... just like you, my brothers are also very busy, and my mother is often the only one at home."

Eric smiled and said: "In this case, you can spend more time with your mother during this time."

Caroline nodded obediently: "I will."

The two soon came to the temporary office, and Caroline opened the small box with the password, and three rectangular boxes were neatly stacked inside.

Eric opened the box, and there was an mp3 player slightly larger than the old-fashioned lighter, with a beautiful sky blue paint shell, a ring-wheel operation interface, and a pure white display. In addition to the player, the box also comes with accessories such as headphones, a charger and a data cable.

Seeing that Eric turned on the computer skillfully and turned on the computer on the desktop, Caroline introduced in a low voice: "This is the latest product from the R&D center. It uses a 512m micro hard drive and a rechargeable lithium battery. The material of the display screen is the latest generation of tft, which can meet eight hours of playback time on a single charge, and the data transmission uses a usb transmission line.”

Eric simply tried the operation a few times, stored a few songs in the player in advance, put on the earphones, and the pleasant music came out from the earphones.

He took out another box from the box and handed it to Caroline. Eric said, "You can try it too."

"I, can I?" Caroline asked uncertainly. Seeing that Eric had already stuffed it, the girl caught it and opened it carefully. Although she brought these three samples all the way from Los Angeles, because of her good upbringing, Caroline, although curious, did not open them in advance.

The one in her hand happened to be pink, and Caroline knew that the last one should be pure white. The finished mp3 player finalized by the R&D center has three colors, sky blue, pure white and pink.

Caroline has been following up on the information of Firefly Electronics, but it is the first time to use the finished product of the mp3 player.

Eric glanced at the girl playing with the mp3 in her hand awkwardly, smiled, and saw that the computer on the desktop was turned on, and connected to the Internet.

Yahoo has started to set foot overseas in the last two years. Currently, it has branches in major English-speaking countries as well as Japan, Germany and France, and has started to operate portal websites, Yahoo Mail, instant messaging and other services.

Eric opened the Yahoo Music Store in the United States. The Yahoo Music Store will be open to the public on the day the mp3 is released.

Currently only in internal testing phase.

After logging in to the website, Eric picked up the usb data cable on the desktop and lowered his head to connect to the host computer, only to find that the computer in the office did not have a usb interface. I recalled that USB data transmission is a technical standard that Intel, IBM, Microsoft and other IT giants started to promote last year. That is to say, only the latest personal computers have USB interfaces.

In addition to usb, the two mainstream data transmission standards that have emerged are Apple's FireWire interface. However, since last year, Apple's market share has begun to fall off a cliff. This year, it is expected to account for only 5% of North American personal computer sales. Even if Jobs returns to Apple in a few years, Apple's computer is not destined to be. In the mainstream of personal computers, Eric did not let the R&D department make technical investment in this area.

The computer in front of him could not be used for data transmission, so Eric had to give up temporarily, and planned to go back to his residence at night to test again. There is a usb interface on his own laptop.

At this time, Peter Richie opened the door with two lunches and put the lunch on the coffee table in the lounge area. Seeing that Eric had no other orders, he nodded and greeted Caroline, then pushed the door and left.

Caroline just learned how to play songs, and she quickly took off her headphones when she saw Peter Rich bringing her lunch.

Eric took Caroline to the sofa and sat down, and said, "Time is tight, so I can only invite you to lunch here, don't you mind?"

"No, it won't," Caroline shook her head and took the initiative to take her lunch out of the convenience bag.

A few simple lunches, sandwiches, grilled meats, small cakes, and vegetable salads, seem to be pretty good, but in fact, whoever eats them knows.

Eric is no longer able to complain about the food of the British. He just wants to fill his stomach. The crew has only an hour's lunch break, and he is too lazy to open a small stove for himself. Looking at Caroline's accustomed appearance, it is obvious that girls should eat these.

Alas, what a pity.

Caroline took out two glasses of apple juice and handed it to Eric, just noticing Eric's expression, and curiously asked, "Eric, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing," Eric shook his head and calmly picked up a cheese sandwich and took a bite.

Caroline blinked her big eyes a few times, smiled softly, and said, "Eric, do you think British food is hard to eat?"

Seeing that Caroline didn't mind, Eric nodded seriously.

"Haha," Caroline smiled, not angry, but retorted slightly: "We, we are just pursuing simplicity."

Eric has been able to appreciate the little pride in the girl's bones as an Englishman since he met Caroline, and instead of continuing this topic, he said: "The mp3 player has been completed, how is the progress of the e-book reader? already?"

"The main problem is the processor chip. Arm has focused on developing mobile phone chips with Texas Instruments in the past two years, and has no spare capacity to provide us with more technical support, so the R&D center can only use the technology provided by arm to design its own, although there is no The mobile phone chip is so complicated, but the development of the reader's control chip is still much more difficult than the audio decoding chip of the mp3 player..."

Caroline was talking when she saw Eric suddenly raised her head and interrupted her: "arm?"

"arm is a company in Cambridge, mainly engaged in the authorization of the core design technology of microprocessor chips," Caroline replied, seeing Eric suddenly lost in thought, and asked, "Eric, what's the problem? ?"

Of course there are problems, big problems.

Eric sighed in his heart that Microsoft and Intel's domination of the personal computer market is irreversible. In addition to taking a step ahead through Yahoo, America Online and Cisco on the Internet, Eric has also been considering and implementing future smart phones and mobile phones. layout in the Internet age.

Qualcomm, Nokia, Yahoo, and the investment in the mobile communication company sprint are all important pawns that Eric will be under ten years later, but if you think about the wintel alliance, you will know that if you want to firmly grasp the right to speak in the mobile era in the future, On the one hand, it is the mobile phone operating system, and on the other hand, it is the mobile phone processor chip.

In the original time and space, arm chips firmly controlled more than 95% of the mobile smart terminal market. Almost all electronic manufacturers such as Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung used arm chip technology. However, after more than ten years, because of arm's extensive and even some flooded authorization, and mainstream manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung have abandoned arm's public version architecture after the technology is mature, they have begun to develop their own chip solutions based on it. It controls a large number of core patents, but it is completely impossible to have a monopoly similar to Intel's in the pc processor industry.

But now, everything has just begun.

If you can win arm in advance, even if other mobile chip technology standards will appear in the future, but in the case that arm has proved the superiority of its technical solutions in the previous life, there are giant companies in the whole industry chain such as Qualcomm, Nokia, and sprint. With the support of channels, markets and other aspects, it is not impossible for arm to once again unify the mobile chip arena, and even reach Intel's position in the pc chip market.

Thinking of this, Eric looked up to look for Peter Rich, but happened to meet Caroline's suspicious eyes.

After calming down a little, realizing that Peter Rich would definitely be by his side to help with his daily affairs, and there was a ready-made candidate in front of him, Eric asked, "Caroline, how long is your vacation? "

Caroline didn't know what happened to Eric suddenly, but she still replied, "Half a month."

"Hey, I'll give you an extended vacation, how about a month?"

"Huh?" Caroline was even more puzzled.

Eric continued: "It's like this, I just happened to think of something. Since you are here, you don't need to transfer people from Los Angeles. During this time, I hope you can help me collect information about arm company. You have done Qualcomm’s data collection before, you should be very skilled, I need everything about arm, including their management information, shareholders, business status, partners, etc.”

Thinking of Qualcomm, Caroline roughly understood Eric's intentions and said, "Eric, are you planning to acquire this company?"

Eric nodded and said, "At that time, you may go to Cambridge, and I will have a driver specially assigned to you."

"No, no," Caroline shook her head quickly and said, "I can drive myself, and I know a lot of people in Cambridge."

"That's fine, if you need any help, you can contact Peter, or call me directly," Eric said, noticing that the expression on the girl's face was no longer as relaxed as before, realizing something, Said: "This, is it disturbing your vacation a bit, if you don't want to do it, I'll call Kelly to send someone over."

"No, no, I will," Caroline shook her head quickly.

In fact, she was just thinking that if she could stay in the UK for a month and have special work to do, wouldn't she be able to find reasons to see Eric often.

Thinking of this, Caroline felt a little heat on her cheeks.

The two had lunch and chatted about some details. Before leaving, Eric gave the pink mp3 player to Caroline.

Although Caroline liked this player very much, she declined: "This is a sample, how can I ask for it." △≧miào.*bi(.*)gé△≧,

"The sample was originally intended for people to try," Eric smiled and put the box into the girl's hand, saying, "I'll have someone send you a Yahoo Music Store account at night. By the way, if you want to download music, You may need the latest computer with a usb interface, and I can't help you with that. When you're done trying it out, take the time to write a trial report."

"Well, okay," Caroline put the player away.

An hour is actually very short, Caroline looked at her watch, it was already twelve fifty-five, and she said goodbye and left.

Eric asked Peter Ritchie to send the remaining two mp3s to his residence, and then ordered to assist Caroline in collecting arm information, and started the afternoon work.

Kate has always acted cautiously since she joined the group. After all, she is only a newcomer, and she is also an outsider from Australia. However, since Eric accepted her suggestion in the morning, she finally let go and began to express her suggestion boldly.

Since Kate entered the group in Italy, Pierce Brosnan has always been a little depressed because he often can't keep up with Kate's rhythm. However, because of Eric's support, and even if Kate performs well, it will eventually It's just a Bond girl, it's impossible to have too much influence on his status in the crew. Therefore, Pierce Brosnan has not shown too many negative emotions, except for occasionally appearing a little tangled when playing with Kate, the whole filming process. All went well.

The shooting of the underwater photography base ended successfully in the afternoon, and most of Kate’s opposite scenes with Pierce Brosnan were completed. The rest of Kate’s scenes will be with Christina Aguilera, who plays her sister. A brand new branch that has nothing to do with the original. Of course, there are also not many scenes. After all, this is a 007 movie. James Bond will always be the core of the core. Although Eric has absolute control of the 007 series, he Nor will it make too many changes to the overall style of the James Bond series.