Hollywood Hunter

It was close to noon when Emmanuel Brandt left the Scotia headquarters on the east side of the Westeros Technology Park, and drove across the central Igrete Avenue to the west side of the Igrete campus, or to be more precise, the Igrete Headquarters II on the south side next to the Green Park.

Just by looking at the size of the headquarters, one can imagine the enormous size of Igrete at this time.

In comparison, on the east side of Iqaluit Avenue, in addition to the 30-hectare headquarters campus under construction by Tinkerbell, there are also 60 hectares of office space for lease, which is home to more than 100 technology companies of all sizes, including Tinkerbell, which is temporarily squeezed in there, as well as new technology companies such as Instagram, eBay, Scotch Plaid, and Broadcast, which is already in Tinkerbell's pocket.

According to the address given in advance by the A-girl, the car was parked outside a building in the second district of Ygritte's headquarters, Emmanuelle did not immediately push open the car door, but took out the makeup mirror in her satchel to carefully check her makeup, because of the focus on work, she usually does not care too much about these, often still unkempt. But today was different, she was going to dine with that man later on.

Looking at the flawless white face in the mirror, Emmanuelle was suddenly a little annoyed and self-pitying, six feet tall, fair skin, as well as a high IQ and high education, all of which perfectly fit his aesthetic. When she had first met him, certain thoughts had been stored in her mind, but, until now, nothing had come of it.

Was it because of the red hair?

No, he shouldn't be bothered with such quaint and clichéd boring notions.

However, now that he thought of it, the idea suddenly came to him as well, maybe he could dye his hair blonde sometime, and then, it would never be a bad idea again.

It was already lunchtime, and the number of people around was increasing.

Three young men in neat shirts and trousers, who look like employees of Ignite, happen to pass by Emmanuelle's car, which is taking a look at itself in the mirror, and occasionally glance at it.

Deliberately waiting for a moment, to be dressed in a black OL suit Emmanuel get out of the car, although wearing high heels Emmanuel height than the three men, the other came over, one of them accosted: "Hey, this lady, are you here for an interview?"

Emmanuel looked at the three guys in front of him with a slightly odd expression, "Do I look like I'm interviewing?"

As if he didn't sense the unkindness in Emmanuel's tone, the man who started the conversation gave a smile and reached over, "Get to know each other, I'm Jason. And, anyway, it's lunchtime, how about joining us?"

Emmanuel turned his eyes to the outstretched hand, not bothering to turn around at all.

And some bellyaching.

It had been more than a year since the San Francisco settlement, with the new wave of technology more and more raging, Emmanuel clearly appreciate how impetuous the current Silicon Valley, and just met these guys who may easily have dozens of millions of stock options in the body, self-confidence is also bursting, the daily even more like a rich man like all kinds of big money, night partying, and now almost attracted the world's call girls and drug dealers gathered in this area.

Just like just now, even though the internal dining room of Ygritte has been providing excellent food and beverage treatment, the three of them still obviously intend to go out to eat, all of which is very uncomfortable for the privileged and well-bred Emmanuelle.

When he entered the building's executive dining room, he happened to encounter Simon and Ignatius who had also arrived for dinner.

The obvious distinction inevitably drew a few jokes, and Emmanuel laughed back.

Everyone didn't sit together afterwards, Bezos and the others spread out, Simon picking out a long table for four, gesturing for Emmanuel to sit across from him and himself with the A-girls on the other side of it.

Emmanuel nodded.

With Simon's current busy schedule, this lunch certainly wasn't just a casual catch-up, but business to discuss.

Having just finished ordering, the C-girl arrived with her.

Greeted briefly, she watched as Emmanuelle took the seat directly opposite her boss, and the C-girl had to sit diagonally across from her.

When Claire had ordered, Simon also got straight to the point, saying to Emmanuelle, "You should have read the technical information about WiFi and Bluetooth, right?"

With regard to WiFi and Bluetooth, Simon had paid close attention and made a decisive move a few years back.

Three years ago, Ignite's Australian subsidiary learned that a professor at the University of Sydney was interested in developing a wireless transmission technology, and decided to provide financial support, so the patent for WiFi technology easily fell into the hands of the Westeros system.

As for Bluetooth, because it involves wireless communication and data transmission, all the major communication giants are developing it, and the technical standard in Simon's hands comes from Nokia, meanwhile, in order to avoid the standard of Bluetooth technology is too diverse, Nokia has taken the lead to make a unified standard together with Ericsson, Sony, Toshiba and other companies.

All in all, the Westeros system has absolute initiative for both technologies.

Emmanuel nodded at Simon's mention of this and said, "Boss, what you mean is that you want Scotty to shift to the development of wireless communication type chips?"

"Yeah," Simon said, "Also, I've read about that recent purchase of Broadcom by Scotia, and you guys are on the right track here, but of course, there are some deviations, and today is to clarify those questions about where Scotia is going next."

Due to the explosion of China's VCD industry and the proliferation of new technology bubbles, coupled with the addition of the Westeros concept stock, the market capitalization of Scorber, which was acquired two years ago, has now hit over $20 billion. For Simon, who is familiar with the future prospects of VCDs, this far exceeds the actual value of Scotch Plaid.

Although Scoble has started the DVD video decoding chip research and development, but with this time to maintain a monopoly of VCD video decoding chip is different, the future of the DVD industry, Scoble is destined to only from the current role of the dominant VCD industry into the DVD core manufacturers such as Sony, Toshiba and other marginal interests of the enterprise to share some of the leftovers.

Therefore, if the transition is not made, the decline of Scotch-Brite will be inevitable.

Since Scoble's stock price at this time far exceeded its actual value, Simon more than two months ago, with reference to the memory of AOL's acquisition of Time Warner's routine, designed to use Scoble's stock as 'money' M&A expansion strategy, through the launch of mergers and acquisitions to other areas of transformation.

The Scotia team led by Emmanuel also executed Simon's plan well. In just over two months, Scotch Plaid has successfully acquired three semiconductor start-ups, one of which, Broadcom, is better known as 'Broadcom'.

In the original space, people are more familiar with Qualcomm, but in fact do not know, Broadcom, the company, in the industry's position is comparable to Qualcomm, both are high-tech companies specializing in licensing technology and chip development in the field of communications, and Broadcom's involvement in a wider range of areas than Qualcomm, one of them, Broadcom once belonged to the world's number one WiFi chip manufacturers.

Simon was initially surprised to see the acquisition report submitted by Emmanuel, and did not expect Scottrade to take Broadcom under its wing so many years in advance.

However, research has revealed that the Broadcom of today and the Broadcom of later are completely different things.

Founded five years ago by two Stanford professors, Broadcom's main product is a cable TV set-top box communication chip for receiving and processing digital signals, which is still miles away from the communications giants that later competed with Qualcomm.

This acquisition by Scotia, mainly to enter the cable TV field, plans to combine Broadcom's communication chips with Scotia's decoding chips and other technologies to build a complete cable TV set-top box solution.

This is a business plan with a very bright future, given the current state of the industry, which is still expanding globally in the cable TV field, and is also the main reason why Broadcom, which was planning an IPO, gave up its IPO and took the initiative to accept the acquisition by Skoobay.

For example, if Scottrade were to launch a bid for Qualcomm, which has a market capitalization of just a few billion dollars, Simon would of course want to take advantage of the offer, but the chances of Qualcomm agreeing are very slim, even if Westeros is also a Qualcomm shareholder. Because the two companies' businesses are unrelated.

Simon is very much in favor of this expansion into cable TV, however, he still hopes that Scottrade can take advantage of the current good situation to get involved in more areas.

In the executive dining room of Ygritte's, Simon said he took an Apple Newton tablet out of the satchel of the A-girl next to him and handed it to Emmanuel across the room, saying, "Perhaps you know this, too, Apple's PDA product, which in my opinion is significantly misplaced as a business assistant, which you can learn about in private. What we're talking about today is the next step in the home-based mobile connected ecosystem plan that Tinkerbell is going to launch after acquiring Apple."

Emmanuel took the Newton tablet from Simon and powered it up skillfully. She happened to use it, but just as much found it to be very chickenshit, with an expensive $900 price tag, but only a few simple functions like calendar, clock, drawing, and note taking, and a very low battery, and the handwriting function that was the highlight was actually dispensable.

In short, as a business assistant, it might as well be a handy pocket notebook.

Thinking this way, Emmanuel listened to Simon at the end of his speech and looked up at the big boss: "Mobile connectivity, boss, does this have anything to do with the Newton tablet?"

"Of course, the tablet computer is the key to this, more accurately, it will be the ultimate form of future mobile connectivity plans, and I hope that Tinkerbell, relying on the existing technology base, will be able to concentrate several of the current main products, all in one pocket-sized tablet computer."

Emmanuel immediately spotted the problem and turned her head to look at the C-girl beside her, "In that case, C, I think you'll do everything you can to stop this product from being created, right?"

The current Tinkerbell, the main several productions,,, iCam and iRec, annual shipments reached the tens of millions or even tens of millions level, if these electronic products are integrated into the district a tablet computer, will certainly mean that the market share of other products have been impacted, or even eliminated.

C Girl didn't care about Emmanuelle's ridicule and shook her head, "Do I look like someone who is that visionless?"

"There are a lot of things that aren't just what you want or don't want." Emmanuel said with a smile and turned to Simon, "So, boss, what needs to be done on Scotty's side?"

Simon did not answer directly, but once again pointed to the Newton tablet in the redhead's hands: "With the current technical standards of the screen, battery and chip, this Apple product has actually reached a fairly high level, so to achieve the level of integration I'm talking about, it will probably take another five to ten years. The product you have in your hands, Tinkerbell will next be combined with its own technology developed in recent years, by incorporating a microdrive solution to focus on more practical e-book reader and digital music player functions, and what Scotty is going to do, very crucially, through the WiFi and Bluetooth technology I gave you, develop the relevant chips to enable the tablet, and even, iCam, and several other products, with the personal computer as well as the Interconnection for wireless connectivity."

When Emmanuel heard this, he thought a little, and his eyes quickly lit up.

It should be known that just in the first eight months of this year, the total global shipments of Tinkerbell's main three products, iCam, and iRec, had reached a terrifying 56 million units, and it was expected that the total shipments for the whole year would be close to 90 million units, and next year, this number would break 100 million easily.

If Tinker Bell will ship a total of more than 100 million of the main electronic products can be used in the chip developed by Skoeber, Skoeber will easily pass the threshold of the transformation of the post-VCD era, and even, not to mention the current market value of $ 20 billion, the future is not impossible to reach 100 billion.

Simon sized up Emmanuelle's pretty blue eyes that leapt to life and smiled, "Figure it out?"

Emmanuel nodded, "Boss, in that case, perhaps Scorber should try to build its own wafer fab."

"No need," Simon knew that at this stage it was still the instinctive thinking of many semiconductor companies to build their own fabs, but he immediately vetoed it, "According to Moore's Law, the semiconductor industry iterates and replaces itself very quickly, so it would become increasingly uneconomical for most semiconductor companies to build their own fabs! The semiconductor industry will gradually tend to separate design and production, and foundry is the general trend of the entire semiconductor industry. So, Scoble only needs to focus on technology development and chip design, chip production to other companies, I will also have a layout in this regard."

In the future, even such a giant as Intel in order to share the high cost of fab construction are beginning to look outside of the foundry, with the size of the Scotchberg at this time, to build their own fab, absolutely more than enough to lose, and will even drag themselves down.

As for the lack of its own factory may bring some concerns, for the Westeros system, there will not be this problem. Simon doesn't let Scoble build its own fab, but also won't let go of the layout of the foundry industry, the target has been chosen, the time to enter the game is next year.

Southeast Asia financial crisis outbreak, as a capital-intensive enterprises, the two famous foundry giants in Asia will be in trouble, and then is the opportunity of the Westeros system.

The waiter gradually brought lunch, and several people at the table began to discuss more details.

Limited by the current state of the art on all fronts, the first phase of the Tinkerbell Mobile Interconnect program will be for two years.

First, next fall, Tinkerbell will launch the first generation of the iPad-10, which can be used as an e-book reader and digital music player, combining the iBook, which it has been quietly developing for the last few years, with Apple's tablet technology.

Then, in the fall of 1998, with Scotch Plaid completing its own chip development and further electronic developments, Tinkerbell will release a WiFi-enabled home router and a microdrive version of the iPad, also with WiFi technology, to usher in the era of mobile connectivity.

As for the three main products at this stage, of course they won't be eliminated so soon, such as the iRec, which is limited to the wireless transmission rate and huge video files are not suitable for wireless transmission, and will still be mainly wired connections.

The key is still integration.

Gradually integrate several existing products into the iPad tablet and, even, follow up with mobile phone calling capabilities, the same iPhone that has also long been in Tinkerbell's huge 'i' series trademark inventory.

This led to the arrival of the era of short-distance, home-based mobile connectivity to unlimited mobile Internet.

The lunch lasted an hour, and Emmanuel understood Simon's thinking very thoroughly.

If a later man like Simon had gone back in time, he wouldn't have found the whole plan so special, but at this moment, as a time immigrant, Emmanuel Brandt just felt that the young man sitting across from him was a fantasy.

Most ordinary people tended to live in the present, and the other man had easily laid out his chess game in an area of expertise that would be 10 years away. Probably, only such an amazingly talented man could amass a huge fortune of $1.5 trillion and create a miraculous business empire in just 10 years.

Fondling the porcelain cup of after-dinner coffee brought by the waiter, waiting for the man across the street who was only two feet away from him to finish some last words, realizing that it was time to part, Emmanuel, however, gave birth to a wave of reluctance, remembered something, looked at Simon with glowing eyes, and asked, "By the way, boss, over there, are you going to go over there in the next few days?"

In addition to being Scotia's chairman, Emmanuel, who holds a doctorate in particle physics, had originally volunteered to be president of one of the three avant-garde technology companies that Simon had spearheaded. That project has been moving steadily forward, and ground has already been broken for the 50-hectare headquarters in the small town of Morgan Heights, south of San Jose.

"Of course, but that will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon, and I'll be over there to look at all the sums over here, so you'll remember to schedule it then," Simon said, raising his wrist to check the time, as several of the Bezos in the restaurant had left, and he also stood up and said, "So, that's it for today, Eman, you and C can go home first."

Emmanuel scanned the two women, A and C, who had risen together at the table, only to follow suit, look across at the man, and summon the courage to say, "Do you have time for dinner tonight, boss?"

Simon sized up the redhead who was a little taller than himself because of the heels he was wearing and smiled and shook his head, not hiding it either, "Not tonight, you have to stay with Alice."

Last night it was the C-girls and the others, tonight time was scheduled to be left for the housekeeper.

Now that she had asked, Emmanuelle didn't give up easily, "So, what about tomorrow night?"

"I'm going back to LA tomorrow night."

"Can we not go back?"

"No, I can't, there's a cocktail party over in LA tomorrow night."

"......"

Outside the restaurant building, Claire, who was watching the men leave with the A-girls and head to the parking lot together, smiled at Emmanuelle, "Actually, you could try to pay Alice a visit tonight, just say you need to borrow a juicer or something."

Emmanuelle didn't even bother to roll her eyes, "Are you sure I won't get kicked out?"

The red-haired girl and Alice Ferguson are still relatively familiar, in order to work convenience, both are currently living in this side of the technology park in the northern residential area of the villa, visitation is fine, but, just like C and D two girls is a circle, the arrogant and workaholic Amazon Mall helmsman also has his own circle.

And even though the other had obvious lace tendencies, the redhead who had quietly tried and failed to become close friends with the other.

Take the liberty of getting together tonight and the odds of being thrown out were very high.

As for Emmanuelle herself, her circle was on Chen Qing Lin Su's side, only Chen and Lin were either in China or New York, but instead rarely came over here.

Claire saw Emmanuelle roll her eyes, still smiling, and shrugged her shoulders, "That can't be helped, the boss is really busy, and there are too many women, like last night, only the four of us can share it together."

Emmanuelle listened to C-girl straight out of 1v4 and other intimate gossip, wanted to scoff a little, a little hesitant, left and right scan no bystanders, couldn't help but ask, "He ...... is great?"

C-girl smiled mysteriously with a bit of superiority, "Not telling you."

Emmanuelle rolled her eyes again at the time and stopped asking questions.

On the other hand, Simon was really busy, not only at night, but even busier during the day.

Yesterday's time was reserved for Tinkerbell to discuss the subsequent layout of various aspects of the acquisition of Apple, and today it was all about Ygritte, discussing with several principals in the morning to deal with the antitrust investigation that had been relaunched by the Department of Justice, and in the afternoon separately discussing the advancement status of Ygritte's recent plans such as starting a new batch of data center construction, and staying busy until after seven o'clock in the evening.

Even late at night after the good times were still pressed into bed by the workaholic housekeeper to continue to talk about some work.

The next morning was a meeting with Cisco, America Online, and several other companies.

America Online was now the two main headquarters on the east and west coasts, previously the east coast was focused on business development and the west coast was focused on technology development. In the beginning, AOL moved its headquarters from Virginia to San Francisco, and since AOL's main business has been on the East Coast in recent years, the focus has been on New York.

However, with the release of the Clinton Administration's latest Telecommunications Act, which unbundled the telecom industry, and the fact that the East Coast business has reached a ceiling, AOL has turned its attention back to the West Coast states, and the West Coast headquarters is once again important. The morning meeting was to discuss West Coast expansion matters.

It was so busy that many of the slightly smaller decisions, like the Tinkerbell Mobile Connected Ecology plan with Scotch Plaid and the quiet launch of the D-girl-founded Instagram's planned IPO at the end of the year, could only be discussed during these early-morning and late-morning meal times.

Friday afternoon saw and two more companies, and Simon departed for Los Angeles at 6 p.m. in the evening.

The weekend wasn't easy either.

As we entered September, the end of the year was not far away, and for two consecutive days, Simon was busy with the final cut and marketing plans for a series of end-of-year films.

And just this past busy week, a number of events closely related to the Westeros system were taking place.

On September 12, for example, New York Fashion Week opened, announcing the start of the Spring/Summer 1997 season.

Then, on September 13, Black Friday, Daenerys Entertainment's gaming division released another title from Silicon and Neural Key Studios, which has been integrated into the Blizzard label, Diablo.

Then, on Saturday, September 14, Tinkerbell held a relatively small fall launch event, shelving iVid camera products for webcam calls and other small peripherals, and privately, Tinkerbell began to reach out to Daenerys to work on the iVid camera and American Pie project.