Silicon Valley

Henry took back the design drawings of the sailing hotel, and there are plans to build a sailing hotel in Malibu Beach on the west coast of California! Malibu is located in the northwest of Los Angeles, adjacent to Hollywood. The coastline stretches for 21 miles, with beautiful scenery and the most beautiful sea view in the world. Historically, it was the territory of Native American tribes, and "Malibu" means "roaring beach" in Indian language, so it is also a surfer's paradise! ! !

In addition, as far as Henry knows, the residence of the male lead in the movie "Iron Man" is located in Malibu! It can be said that there are millions of mansions here! Henry built a seven-star hotel here, just to attract the rich! ! !

However, this is not in a hurry, because Henry is already very busy.

The bidding for the design of the Williams Center has already started. Henry is discussing with his company how to build the company headquarters and connect all the headquarters. Each company's headquarters building is different and needs to be highly recognizable. And unique and simple, become the logo of the company. At a glance, others will know what company this building belongs to!

Each company's requirements for the headquarters building will finally be summarized to Henry's side, and Henry will personally review and modify it according to his own ideas, and then tell the design company the requirements, and the design company will design according to the requirements. Henry thinks Satisfied, will use it!

First of all, Henry felt that with the Williams Laboratory as the center, the stars and the moon form a multi-layered ring shape, and in order to maintain its independence, each building is not connected to each other, but will be built with glass The channel connects the Williams lab.

The streets formed between the rings are Commercial Street and Entrepreneurship Street!

And outside this circle, hospitals, hotels, supermarkets, etc. will be built, which together will make up the Williams Center!

Henry predicts that he will build at least forty headquarters buildings, large and small. The layers are clear, at least twice as many as the 19 buildings in Rockefeller Center, and so many buildings stand in Williams Center. It must be magnificent! ! !

Henry has already thought about the general idea, and what the specific construction will look like depends on the level of the designer!

Henry then made the request public. The eyes of the world's major design companies are red, and they have sent the most capable designers to design, and many companies have even pushed aside other design work and gone all out...

During this period, Cisco certification exams began. Henry paid special attention and reminded employees that they must strengthen the crackdown on cheating. Prevent cheating from happening! after. Henry represented Silicon Valley Electronics Group at the American Electronic Technology Exhibition held in Los Angeles!

The technology exhibition will be held in the hotel lobby, and each company will have an opportunity to showcase their company's products on stage! Then, there will be judges to rate the products on display.

Henry's sudden arrival immediately made the people who came to participate in the science and technology exhibition enthusiastic!

"Mr. Henry Williams, it's a pleasure to meet you. I welcome you to the Electronic Technology Exhibition in Los Angeles!" The chairman of the organizer brought three or four people to him and greeted Henry.

"Hello!" Henry nodded and simply greeted them without talking much. Then went to the seat of Silicon Valley Electronics Group.

After sitting down, Henry found a group of Asian faces sitting in a row on the right.

Henry turned his head and asked Harrison, the CEO of Silicon Valley Electronics Group, who was sitting beside him: "Which country are those people from?"

"Japan," Harrison added, "seems like a representative of Sony!"

"Sony?" Henry muttered to himself, suddenly thinking of something, and suddenly laughed again.

At this time, the technology exhibition has already begun.

Each company has ten minutes to explain their products. The product that Silicon Valley Electronics Group will show this time is a micro hard drive, which will be the smallest hard drive in the world. Only 1 inch! ! !

The presentations of the previous companies on the stage were not very impressive. After an hour, it was finally the turn of Silicon Valley Electronics Group.

Henry came to the stage with a micro hard drive!

"Hello everyone, this time, on behalf of Silicon Valley Electronics Group, I will introduce to you a new product developed by our company! This product will surely shock you, why do you say that?" Henry paused deliberately, his eyes swept under the stage After a circle, he said loudly: "Just because it broke the world record..."

With that said, Henry took out the micro-hard drive and held it in front of him, smiling: "Do you think this thing is a little familiar?"

"Yes, it will indeed make you familiar, because it is the hard disk you are familiar with!!!"

As soon as Henry finished speaking, there was an uproar in the audience, and there was a lot of discussion.

"How is it possible? How can the hard disk be so small?!!"

"Yeah, it's really too small!"

"What on earth did the Silicon Valley Electronics Group do to make the hard drive so small!!!"

"..."

Henry made a gesture for everyone to be quiet. Afterwards, he said: "This hard disk is only 1 inch in size, but the storage capacity reaches 50MB! In our company, this very small hard disk is defined as a micro hard disk. The micro hard disk is small in size, but its storage capacity is larger than that of the memory. The flash card is larger and is very suitable for small electronic products such as cameras and mobile phones, and it must have a great market competition advantage!!! Here, I will tell you a little bit, on May 1st, Silicon Valley Electronics Group will use the Microdrive has made an innovative electronic product! Once this electronic product is released, it will definitely change the way of life of human beings!”

"Definitely!!!" Henry said at the end, emphasizing one sentence with particular certainty.

Afterwards, Henry walked down the stage calmly with a smile on his face.

The major companies in the audience were shocked by the micro hard drive for a while. It can be said that Silicon Valley Electronics Group has made a big splash at this technology exhibition. It is conceivable that the front page news of the next day will inevitably be the micro hard disk of Silicon Valley Electronics Group. ! ! !

Some are happy and some are sad.

Japanese companies simply hated Silicon Valley Electronics Group. They not only poached many of their talents, but also competed with them for business in hard drives, memory, LCD screens and other products, resulting in a sharp decline in the company's performance. Now, Silicon Valley Electronics Group has actually launched a micro hard drive, which has made a splash, making the company's reputation greatly increased, and it will be even more difficult to deal with in the future!

When Henry returned to his seat. Some Sony representatives on the right snorted in disapproval, showing provocative eyes.

At this time, the host announced that a representative from Sony had been invited to show the product. The Sony representative stood up. With a proud look on his face, he made a thumbs-down gesture at Henry, with an obvious meaning, "your. No! Mine, great!"

Cao, you still despise me? When Lao Tzu MP3 comes out, you will play Sony Walkman like a dog! ! !

A trace of disdain and sneer flashed across Henry's face.

After the Sony representative came to the stage, he looked proud and said to everyone in the audience: "Hello everyone. My name is Ichiro Yamada. The product that Sony has come to participate in the electronic technology exhibition this time is the latest Sony Walkman - MiniDisc , referred to as MD, we use magneto-optical discs as storage media. After three years of research and development, we at Sony finally combined traditional magnetic disk technology with modern optical technology to create a magneto-optical disc with the sound quality of this magneto-optical disc. Very close to CD, but MiniDisc Walkman is smaller than CD Walkman, and there is no music pause during exercise!!!"

"Therefore, our Sony MiniDisc Walkman will be the best Walkman right now!!!"

Ichiro Yamada, the representative of Sony Corporation, finished speaking. He laughed unintentionally.

At this time, many companies in the audience couldn't help being shocked by the MiniDisc Walkman, secretly thinking, Sony is really good, others are still using CDs, but it actually uses magneto-optical discs...

After enjoying enough vanity, the Sony representative announced loudly: "Our MiniDisc Walkman will be officially released on May 1, and the price of each is only $500!!!"

Seeing this, Henry couldn't help but smile.

Very good, actually and the release time of MP3 is the same day. I just don't know how the dead word is written! ! ! You sell 500 dollars, and the MP3 of Silicon Valley Electronics Group sells for 499 dollars, not only disgusting Sony, but also robbing its users! ! !

"In the US, MP3s are going to make the MiniDisc a complete loser!"

At this time, Yamada Ichiro, the representative of Sony, walked down, and when he passed Henry, he glanced proudly!

Henry shook his head and laughed, as did Harrison, CEO of Silicon Valley Electronics Group.

Harrison smiled at Henry: "Chairman, I think Sony's face will be very 'wonderful' on May 1st!"

"It goes without saying," said Henry, "absolutely wonderful..."

Harrison and Henry looked at each other and couldn't help laughing!

...

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the science and technology exhibition ended, and the judges' scores came out.

The Micro Disk scored 10 points, ranking first; the MiniDisc Walkman scored 9 points, ranking second...

After receiving the award and leaving the hotel, someone came over to contact Henry.

"Hello, Mr. Henry Williams, I'm Johnny Edie, a director of Kodak!"

"Hello, Mr. Johnny Edie!" Hearing that he was a director of Kodak, Henry was enlightened and understood why he was looking for him.

"Mr. Williams, I just saw your Silicon Valley Electronics Group's micro-drive at the technology show, and I think it's very good, as you said, very suitable for camera products. Therefore, we at Kodak want to cooperate with Silicon Valley Electronics Group. , launch a digital hard drive camera!"

"Yeah! This is fine, or else, find a place and let's talk in detail!" Henry laughed.

"Of course!" Johnny Edie nodded.

The two then joined Silicon Valley electronics group CEO Harrison at a nearby high-end hotel, ordering meals and discussing business.

Henry introduced: "At present, our micro-disks are limited in production and expensive. Therefore, if Kodak wants to buy them, we can only provide 10,000 micro-disks per month for the time being, and the price of each micro-disk is 200 Dollar!"

Johnny Edie frowned and said, "Let's not say how much the output is, but the price is a bit expensive. Mr. Williams, you see, the micro hard drive is so small, how can it not cost 200 US dollars... "

"Mr. Johnny Edie, maybe you don't understand, it is precisely because the micro-hard drive is small that it is expensive. In order to manufacture the micro-hard drive, we have developed a lot of technologies, and the research and development fee alone is an astronomical sum! Naturally, we To earn back from the micro hard drive... Mr. Johnny Edie, do you think this is true?" Henry smiled and asked rhetorically.

Johnny Edie deliberately picked up the glass and tasted the red wine slowly, pretending not to hear it.

After a while, Johnny Edie put down the wine glass and said, "Mr. Williams, our Kodak company is very sincere and really wants to cooperate with Silicon Valley Electronics Group. Besides, with the sales of our company's cameras, you sell us more micro hard drives. The company can make small profits but quick turnover!"

Small profits but quick turnover? Head caught in the door? It can be said that the micro hard disk is currently in a monopoly position. If it does not take the opportunity to make money at a high price, it will make small profits but quick turnover? Kodak has also been the leader in the camera field for a long time, and has suffered from a fatal disease, and does not even look at who is sitting in front of him!

"Mr. Johnny Edie, $200 for a micro hard drive, no more, no less, no price! If you Kodak want to cooperate, let's continue talking; if you don't want to cooperate, don't talk! "Henry said firmly.

Johnny Edie's face turned a little red, and he couldn't stand Henry's tone. He suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "Isn't the price going to drop at all!!!"

"No drop!!!" Henry said solemnly. Henry's original intention was to promote micro hard drives and do hunger marketing. Kodak is a camera company, and there is no conflict with its own company's products for the time being, so he is willing to talk to him. However, Kodak is clever and thinks that it has a large sales volume. Silicon Valley Electronics Group bowed its head and sold the micro hard drive at a low price. But this is absolutely impossible!

What happened to Kodak, I don't sell you micro hard drives anymore~!

Johnny Edie didn't have a good temper, so he stood up immediately and said, "Okay, Mr. Williams, it seems that our Kodak company can't cooperate with your company anymore, farewell!!!"

"No delivery!"

Johnny Edie snorted coldly, slammed the door and left.

Harrison whispered: "Chairman, in fact, I think we can acquire Carl Zeiss and develop our own cameras..."

"Well," Henry nodded, "Carl Zeiss is a German company that manufactures optical systems, industrial measuring instruments and medical equipment, and is a world-class company that manufactures camera lenses. Many of Sony's camera technologies come from Carl Zeiss!! In this way, you send someone to contact them and see that they seem to have the intention of selling the company! You tell them that Silicon Valley Electronics Group is willing to buy their company at a premium of 10%..."

"Well, I see!" Harrison nodded.

(To be continued ~^~)