Silicon Valley

Henry returned to the Williams laboratory and asked about the research progress of wifi, java, and p2p. The p2p technology has been realized for a long time, and it is currently studying how to use this technology more maturely and efficiently. With the big framework of java, the development speed is very fast, and the java language can be launched within two years! It's just that the research and development of wifi technology is a bit slow, and without three or four years of development, it may be difficult to apply it to the market.

Henry thought of Bluetooth technology from wifi technology, and suddenly remembered that in 1994, the Swedish telecom giant Ericsson invented Bluetooth technology. This technology has very promising application prospects. The unanimous support of a large number of companies such as Cypress and Siemens, and then more than 2,000 companies joined the Bluetooth SIG, including many of the world's most famous companies in the fields of computer, communications and consumer electronics, and even the manufacture of automobiles and cameras. Merchants and Manufacturers...

Bluetooth technology belongs to a short-range, low-cost wireless connection technology, and is an open solution that can realize wireless transmission of voice and data. When wifi is not popular, bluetooth technology is undoubtedly the best alternative!

Bluetooth technology was widely used in mobile phones in the early days! The most common one is that two mobile phones are close together, connect to Bluetooth, and then realize wireless data transmission!

Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth technology have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Wifi has more advantages than Bluetooth in terms of medium and long distance and transmission speed, and Bluetooth is also unique in terms of low power consumption and cost.

Henry said that the only way to catch everything is to be king.

Both wifi technology and bluetooth technology are included in the bag! ! !

Therefore, Henry couldn't wait to set up a Bluetooth development team, poaching people from all over the world, and recruiting many fresh graduates of wireless communication technology from universities around the world. Henry opened the golden finger and told them directly, first try to study Bluetooth technology in the microwave spectrum range of 2.402GHz to 2.480GHz. What Henry told them was to try, in fact, the microwave spectrum for Bluetooth technology is in the 2.402GHz to 2.480GHz range. In this way, you can avoid detours. Save a lot of time, anyway, before Ericsson. Register the Bluetooth technology patent! ! !

When Henry set up the bluetooth development team, the cdma chip developed by Qualcomm and ARM has been completed, combining Qualcomm's cdma technology with the ARM instruction set core, and having a powerful and stable CDMA communication network. And support WAP service! WAP is a network communication protocol that Qualcomm announced to the outside world when it subsequently held a product launch conference to release cdma chips. WAP makes mobile Inter have a common standard, and its goal is to introduce rich information and advanced services of Inter into wireless terminals such as mobile phones.

Therefore, after the product launch, it caused a global sensation!

In particular, the introduction of the WAP network communication protocol makes it possible for mobile phones to surf the Internet. Global telecommunications giant. Phone makers are rushing to Qualcomm! ! !

Although WAP has not yet formed a standard. However, as a giant company of CDMA technology standards, Qualcomm, the launch of the WAP network communication protocol, naturally comes naturally, and a company that does not want to join WAP is not a good company...

Even the GSM Alliance has to kneel and lick to Qualcomm, who called Qualcomm the first to propose the WAP network communication protocol! Everyone recognizes it and can form a standard. If the GSM Alliance does not want to be eliminated, it must come! ! ! The GSM Alliance actually doesn't really want to promote WAP. The reason is that the GSM network uses narrowband technology, and the network speed is not good. Compared with CDMA network, it has great advantages! If GSM proposes WAP, it is equivalent to helping CDMA. Therefore, even if GSM thinks of these, it cannot propose WAP when the market has not fully established itself!

However, Qualcomm moved too fast, and the CDMA chip was developed with the WAP function, and the GSM Alliance suddenly felt a deep sense of helplessness!

The GSM network is just low cost, and the others are compared with CDMA. Simply useless! ! !

In this world, under the influence of Henry, CDMA started not much slower than GSM. In the previous life, Qualcomm was only a small company in the beginning. Therefore, CDMA developed slowly, while GSM was supported by the European Union and dominated the market early! CDMA is struggling, but in the end it still relies on technology to kill its way, and what about GSM? In the end, it was eliminated, and even European countries have announced the suspension of GSM services! ! !

At present, the analog mobile network still occupies the mainstream all over the world, but the development of GSM and CDMA has become a trend!

Especially in developed countries, the elimination of analog mobile networks is very fast. More than 65% of the European market already belongs to GSM, and 55% of the North American market belongs to CDMA.

It can be said that the simulated mobile network is enough to ignore, and the real confrontation is GSM and CDMA!

But as soon as WAP comes out, I am afraid that the balance of victory will be in favor of CDMA.

The chip released by Qualcomm this time, called "Snapdragon 100", is a very simple entry-level "feature machine" chip. Each chip sells for one thousand dollars, but the cost price is less than four hundred dollars! Although it is so expensive, the company you want to buy has already crossed the threshold! ! !

At present, a mobile phone generally costs three or four thousand dollars, and the most expensive component in a mobile phone is the communication chip!

Buying a "Xiaolong 100" chip, plus other manufacturing costs, the total cost of a mobile phone will not be as high as two thousand dollars, but you can buy three thousand, four thousand, or even five thousand dollars! ! !

A mobile phone that can access the Internet, this gimmick is not big enough?

In the United States, email is very popular and a part of everyday life. As far as Henry knew in his previous life, some Americans would rather use a BB phone than a mobile phone because it is cheaper. Would rather hold my phone for email than make a phone call, also because it's cheap. This phenomenon is the same as Chinese texting without calling...

Naturally, mobile phones with e-mail capabilities can certainly be sought after by the masses!

Therefore, if the mobile phone can send and receive e-mails, it will undoubtedly have a great competitive advantage for mobile phones and telecom operators! ! !

Therefore, the "Snapdragon 100" chip is extremely popular! ! !

In the United States, major telecommunications companies that have built CDMA networks have begun to advise mobile phone makers with whom they work closely, asking them to buy "Snapdragon 100" chips to produce custom phones. Mobile phone manufacturers also know the benefits of this "Snapdragon 100" chip. They immediately adjusted their production plans and purchased "Snapdragon 100" chips from Qualcomm to produce mobile phones that can connect to the Internet! ! !

In just one week, the number of orders reached 1 million chips. This is still the case when the CDMA network is not popularized. If the CDMA network is popularized all over the world, the number of chips sold by Qualcomm in a year will reach tens of millions. If mobile phones are also popular, one person will sell at least hundreds of millions of chips a year! ! !

For the second time, the global mobile phone and telecommunications companies gathered Qualcomm, the last time was the CDMA standard, this time the WAP standard. All major media have a different view on Qualcomm, how can this company be so awesome! ! ! ! !

"Chairman, we made this WAP network communication protocol according to what you said before. Now WAP has attracted global attention, and it is only a matter of time before the standard is formed!!!"

"Well, that's good!" Henry said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "A first-class company sets the standard, and Qualcomm will follow the standard in the future!!!"

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(To be continued ~^~)