Hollywood Hunter

The two-hour press conference officially ended at 12 o'clock.

Igrid then prepared a reception at the nearby Marriott Hotel. The audience of more than two thousand people on the scene could certainly not all come. The number of invited guests this time was less than two hundred.

In the afternoon, there is a work schedule here. Simon did not leave immediately after the press conference, but rushed to the Marriott Hotel with a group of executives in the Westeros system.

"The White House is preparing to set up a science and technology policy office, Simon, should you be invited over there?"

In the crowded reception hall, Simon and James Rebold, Bill Gates, and Tim Berners-Lee gathered together to chat about some recent moves in Washington.

Hearing the questions from the classmates, Simon nodded and gestured to Tim Berners Lee, saying: "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 economic recession in the U.S. could not be reversed immediately. The domestic property market is still ruined, the unemployment rate is still rising, and the proportion of the poor in the United States has reached a new high in two decades.

War honors cannot be used as meals.

Everyone sighed about the heroic performance of the US military in the Gulf War at the beginning of the year. As the economic environment continued to deteriorate, the honour the Bush administration relied on in the Gulf War was also swallowed up, and its support rate continued to decline.

In order to restore the rapidly lost support rate, the White House had to turn more attention to the domestic.

The listing of Cisco and AOL has created two enterprise giants with a market value of 10 billion yuan, and the trend of the Internet industry is becoming more and more obvious.

The rapid development of emerging industries will undoubtedly mean more employment and domestic economic growth. Two new technology companies that have broken through the market value of tens of billions of dollars just after going public have undoubtedly proved this, plus the proposal of Senator Al Gore of Congress The "Information Superhighway Act" reminds the White House to quickly turn its attention to the Internet industry, and seeks to establish a technology policy office specifically for this area.

Simon had received an invitation from the White House before, hoping that he would serve as an advisor to this Office of Science and Technology Policy. Of course, he had no time. Because of his position, it was not suitable for this, so he recommended Tim Berners-Lee.

Tim Berners-Lee is the CEO of Eaglet, and the most important thing is the British, which will not involve too many political tendencies.The CEOs of Cisco and AOL, John Chambers and Steve Case, politely declined the invitation for the title of consultant, citing too much work.

As a consultant to the Bush Administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, it will certainly have a crucial impact on the White House’s policy direction in the new technology field.However, if there is no accident, Bush has only one year left in power, and since the bet has already been made, even if there is an accident, Simon cannot ignore his position for a temporary benefit.

After all, people need to take some positions.

Bill Gates obviously couldn't know Simon's layout. Hearing that Tim Berners-Lee would serve as an adviser to this office, Simon himself did not agree, so he made up his mind to push the title of adviser.

Deep down, the door classmates put themselves on the same level as Simon.

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

The AIM Alliance, whose names are taken from the initials of the three companies Apple, IBM and Motorola, is mainly to promote the three companies brewing the still PowerPC architecture CPU processor.

PowerPC is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, corresponding to Intel's x86 complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture.

The ARM architecture processor in the era of smart phones is also of the RISC type.

In a more popular metaphor, the difference between RISC and CISC, like wild boar and elephant, basically belongs to two'species'.

Intel later tried to lay out the chip on the mobile side. The reason why several attempts have failed. The root cause is here. Putting an elephant in the wild boar cage, even the baby elephant just born, the body will appear too ' huge'.

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

RISC's computing power is weak. Before the Internet era, RISC was enough to meet the computing needs of personal computers.

The Big Three set up the AIM alliance to promote PowerPC, in fact, to fight against the rapidly rising Microsoft and Intel Wintel alliance.

Although the Intel chips in this era, even the latest 486 processor, has a computing frequency of only 50Mhz, which is not the same as the processor that exceeds 5Ghz in many years, but in the entire 1980s, the computing performance of Intel processors is relative to the user. In terms of demand, it is still surplus and the price is too expensive.

The PowerPC architecture processor promoted by the AIM Alliance just'makes up' the two'shortcomings' of excess performance and high price of Intel chips.

If it was ten years ago, the AIM alliance may still be successful.

Now, with the advent of the Internet era, personal computers are developing from simple text applications to multimedia directions such as images, sounds, and videos, and users' demands for PC performance will only increase. At this time, the AIM Alliance promotes the PowerPC architecture based on RISC. The results can be imagined.

In the original space and time, Apple has insisted on the PowerPC architecture until 2005. During this period, the computer giant that pioneered the era of the personal computer has also declined. Jobs finally had to fall back to Intel.

Simon did not directly answer Andy Grove's question, but glanced at him and his classmates separately and asked, "Have you read the information about the Canadian ATI company?"

ATI is a display chip development company, founded in 1985. Many years later, anyone who is proficient in computers and likes to play games knows A card and N card, among which A card is produced by ATI.

Now Nvidia, which produces N cards, has not yet been established, but ATI already has a good technical foundation. Simon saw this company's information a month ago, and he instructed James Rebold to contact this company.

Graphics chips have appeared in the early 1980s. Professional graphics workstations are equipped with graphics units. However, the graphics cards of this era have not yet reached the consumer level that can be used by ordinary PCs. It is mainly before the 1990s. Kind of necessary.

However, with the advent of the Internet era, if you want a computer with excellent multimedia capabilities, PC-level graphics cards are essential.

Both Andy Grove and Bill Gates nodded.

ATI has launched a relatively successful professional-grade graphics chip in 1987, and is now one of the most important 2D and 3D graphics chip suppliers in the industry.

Simon continued: "In the past, there were always people who believed that Intel CPUs had excess performance. However, I believe that as long as users who have been exposed to the Internet do not think so anymore. As the demand for multimedia functions such as images, sounds, and videos in personal computers increases, The user's requirements for computer performance will also increase rapidly, so I don’t think the AIM alliance, which goes against the trend, will have any good results."

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

"Of course, I believe that a simple CPU can no longer meet the computing needs of users. It happens that ATI is developing PC-level graphics chips. It is expected that the product will be available early next year. Westeros has invested $50 million to obtain this company. With a 25% stake, I hope Microsoft and Intel can work together to promote the use of consumer-grade graphics."

Simon has mentioned this in the information given to both of them.

Simon actually analyzed the demand trend of PC-class graphics cards for the two in the email, but the two are very busy, and obviously have not fully recovered.

Noting the subtle expression changes on the faces of Bill Gates and Andy Grove, Simon smiled: "So, Westero only bought a 25% stake in ATI, purely to promote PC-level graphics. For the development and promotion of chips, the two of you can continue to contact this company. ATI is not listed. You can decide whether to invest in this company. I believe that the future market size of new graphics cards will not be much worse than that of CPU chips. In fact I recommend Intel to buy this company in its entirety. Andy, if you do this, 25% of Westeros can be transferred to you at the original price."

Hearing Simon said that the market size of graphics chips will not be much worse than that of CPU chips, Bill Gates and Andy Grove couldn't help looking at each other.

Simon is actually not quite sure about the size of the GPU chip market later, but GPU chips will be crucial in the PC era and the smartphone era in the future. Investing in this industry is definitely promising.

With sufficient technology accumulation, if ATI can gain the support of Microsoft and Intel this time, it will not be easy to be overtaken by Nvidia.

Of course, Simon did not plan to put the eggs in a basket.

In addition to ATI, Westeros has also been in contact with some other graphics chip companies recently, but these companies have not accumulated as much as ATI. It is unlikely that PC-level graphics chips will be launched in two or three years. Only ATI can achieve it early next year. This purpose.

However, the development of PC-level chips is completed. If you want to promote them, you must support the corresponding manufacturers.

Cooperation with Microsoft and Intel is undoubtedly the best choice.

Bill Gates and Andy Grove both understood that although Simon discussed them with suggestions, the young man clearly had some ideas. If the two didn’t cooperate, Westeros might As a major shareholder, relevant proposals should be formally proposed on the boards of the two companies.

Both Bill Gates and Andy Grove are founders of Microsoft and Intel. They certainly don’t want outsiders to blend in with their own companies, but they are definitely not the kind that can’t accept the right advice. people.

He promised to discuss this matter privately and everyone talked about others.

The reception at noon naturally cannot last too long. At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, guests will start to leave.

Simon sent Andy Grove and his classmates back to the reception hall. Before that, C Girl, Claire Gein, who had never found a chance to say hello, walked over, followed by a petite girl, but Another Jennifer, the little girl who rushed on the stage of Madonna's concert, should have been studying computer science Jennifer Bray at Stanford University.

Saying hello to girl C, Simon looked at the little girl who gave him a feeling of underage. He felt like he reached over and touched his head. He smiled and said, "Jenny, how are you doing?"

Probably the woman has a natural and sensitive sixth sense. The little girl shrank her neck delicately, and her pretty eyes looked a little shallow.

The little girl no longer seemed so restrained in front of Simon, as if she had known a good friend for a long time, with a small acquaintance in her tone: "I'm doing something for Claire."

Girl C explained: "Jenny is working as my assistant recently, so I just exercise in advance."

Simon glanced at Claire and turned to the little girl again: "Don't you need to go to class?"

Seeing the smile on Simon's face seemed to have calmed down, Jennifer Bray shook his head quickly: "No, it's all after school time."

Simon didn’t actually have a certain concept of being overwhelming in school, but just asked casually, and noticed the girl’s nervousness, and regained her smile. Things to learn."

Jennifer Berry nodded immediately, and the chick pecked rice like: "I will."

I really want to touch my head.

Then the girl's neck shrank again.

The C girl next to him was keenly aware of these details and couldn't help smiling.

After just a few chats, it seemed that the time was almost the same. Simon and Igret joined several executives and left the Marriott hotel early.

The reception in the hall did not end immediately, and Hui sent Simon and others away in a large group of people. Girl C brought Jennifer Bray back to the hall, looked at the little girl, and rubbed her hands on the beautiful blonde hair. On the head.

Jennifer Bray was rubbed by the head of Girl C and let go, before blinking, her face puzzled: "C, what's wrong?"

Girl C squeezed on the girl's delicate face again and smiled: "Little Goblin."

The disguise was revealed, Jennifer Bry stopped pretending, and couldn’t help looking at Simon’s direction of departure. He also looked around, and suddenly asked, “C, you and the boss, have you ever gone to bed? "

Girl C nodded without hesitation: "Well."

The little girl looked at girl C, her eyes blinked a few times, and she shook her head: "Forget it, asking you is also a blank question."

Claire raised her hand and knocked on the little girl's head: "Are you stupid, OK? Men like silly girls."

Jennifer Bry tilted her head and failed to escape Claire's knock, still retorting: "Simon doesn't like it."

Claire raised her eyebrows slightly: "How do you know?"

The little girl took it for granted: "I just know."