Chapter 812 Many Bridges
Cambridge is located in the northeast of London, about 70 kilometers. (Pinyin of bi qi wu)
On Saturday, October 5th, Eric brought Caroline to Cambridge early in the morning. In order to avoid being followed by the paparazzi who had been surrounding Pinewood Studios, he also took a helicopter.
Caroline spent a month collecting a lot of information about arm and contacted Roger Wilson, the president of arm. She realized Eric's interest in arm, and the other party was also very eager. Get in touch.
Despite the same surname Wilson, Roger Wilson has nothing to do with the Caroline family, and like Barbara Bullocky's half-brother Michael Wilson, Wilson is a common British surname.
Eric also discussed this issue with Caroline with great interest on the helicopter. Caroline just said that their family is Wilson from Berkshire. Although the girl did not speak with any pride, but in that tone. Of course, the feeling to Eric is like the children of Zhao Song said that we are the Zhao family in Hejian in ancient times.
The historic city of Cambridge does not have any tall buildings. There are quaint houses that look at least hundreds of years old. If it weren't for the modern cars on both sides of the road, it would destroy the atmosphere. Wandering in such a historical charm In a small town, it is definitely more enjoyable.
The appointment time with Roger Wilson was two o'clock in the afternoon, and Eric and Caroline were hanging out in Cambridge in the morning.
Originally, it was to steal half-day leisure, but unfortunately Eric and Caroline were too conspicuous when they walked together. This is not because of the looks of the two handsome men and beautiful women, but mainly because their height difference is too big. , even if Caroline wears high-heeled boots, her height is still only as high as Eric's shoulders, but they are all wearing black trench coats today. Although Caroline's women's trench coat is definitely a lot smaller than Eric's, it looks like There is still a bit of a couple outfit.
Finally, passing by a women's clothing store, Eric came to his mind, walked in with the girl, and then came out. Eric's attire was still the same, but Caroline changed into a pink women's hoodie, and the following is still The light-colored slacks just now, but the original high-heeled short boots were replaced by white flat shoes.
Throwing the clothes that Caroline just changed to the entourage who was not far behind, Eric looked up and down at the girl with a somewhat uncomfortable expression, and said with a smile, "That's a little more pleasing to the eye."
Caroline noticed the wicked smile at the corner of Eric's mouth, and said shyly, "Eric, you must be playing a bad idea again."
Eric shook his head and said, "No, we won't attract people's attention like this, everyone will just think you are my sister or something."
Caroline wrinkled her little nose in distress,
Said: "I don't want to be your sister."
Eric said casually: "Then cousin is fine."
After Caroline determined that Eric was just joking, she didn't refute any further, but her little brain couldn't help but turn around on issues such as British law and genetics.
Continuing to wander through the narrow alleys of Cambridge, after passing a boutique, Eric saw a light gray deerstalker hat in the store, so he bought one and put it on, by the way, put away the plain glasses that were used as a cover. up.
Caroline fiddled with the hat with great interest to Eric, and joked awkwardly: "You don't look like Sherlock Holmes at all."
Eric pressed down the brim of his hat and said with a smile, "Is it because he is so handsome?"
Caroline smiled and said, "It's not, because in the original book, Sherlock Holmes is set to be middle-aged, and he has a beard."
Eric said: "Maybe I can invest in a younger version of Sherlock Holmes in the future. The background is modern, and Charlotte and Watson have to follow the trend and have an unforgettable experience."
Caroline imagined the scene where Eric destroyed the classics, and laughed: "Haha, that must be very messy."
Eric smiled and said, "Maybe everyone will like it."
The University of Cambridge has more than 30 colleges and research institutions scattered in the southwest of Cambridge.
Caroline took Eric to visit several well-known colleges, and also went to the dormitory where she once lived with Rachel. At eleven o'clock in the morning, under Caroline's recommendation, the two went to a pizza restaurant. The shop settled for lunch, and then wandered into a small park opposite Queen's College, Cambridge, not too far from the coffee shop that Roger Wilson had agreed to. Between the small park and Queen's College is the famous Cam River (cam-river), transliterated as the Kang River, and there are many bridges on the river.
It was past noon, and he didn't plan to go shopping. Eric asked for the arm's information from the accompanying bodyguards. He came to the small park and sat down on a bench in Jianhe. He knocked beside him. Carlo Lin also sat down.
The autumn sun is always a bit cold and pale, and it is easy to make people feel it. Fortunately, it is noon, and it can always bring some warmth when it is sprinkled on the body.
He raised his legs and put the document on his knees, sniffing the faint fragrance from Caroline beside him, Eric opened the document in his hand at will, he had read it several times before, and some important information was also memorized. in my mind.
Speaking of which, the reason for the emergence of the arm processor is very interesting, one word, poor.
In the early 1980s, with the rise of PCs, British BBC TV made a documentary about microprocessors, which aroused strong reactions from the audience. BBC then decided to cooperate with the computer company that can be said to be the parent company of arm to launch a Cheap PCs are sold to interested audiences.
rn is very poor, unlike the IT industry giants such as ibm and Intel in the United States, they do not have enough financial resources to develop high-performance processor chips with complex instruction sets (cisc) as the core, and can only use simplified instructions with relatively few transistor requirements. Set (risc) as the basis to develop low-cost, low-power processors.
But because of the overall trend of the entire pc industry to pursue more powerful processors, after a brief success due to the cheap factor, it quickly declined.
In 1990, Apple Computer Company noticed the advantages of arm technology, and cooperated with some engineers of the original company to set up Arm Company to develop processor chips for Apple's Newton tablet computer.
Although the Newton plate has a very advanced design concept, its practicality is very low and the price is high. After several generations of products, it is now on the verge of being discontinued.
Because of the failure of the Newton tablet, arm has experienced a low ebb for several years. In the past two years, due to the rise of digital mobile phones, arm has found its development direction again. At present, arm is working closely with Texas Instruments to develop mobile phones based on arm technology. chip.
Coincidentally, this chip was commissioned by Nokia to develop Texas Instruments.
Although Nokia has strong advantages in digital communication technology, its independent chip research and development has just begun. Before that, it used processors from chip manufacturers such as Texas Instruments.
At present, because the first arm mobile phone chip has not been officially launched, arm company has not attracted much attention from the industry. Arm is also not listed, and its shareholding structure is relatively simple. It is mainly scattered in the hands of Apple and the parent company of Arm. It only takes about 80 million US dollars to buy Arm.
The external authorization of arm technology is not as widespread as in the previous life. At present, there are only a few companies such as Apple Computer and Texas Instruments. After buying arm, it is also easy to control the further diffusion of arm technology.
However, the next layout of arm technology needs to be carefully considered.