Christmas in China is a bustling time, while Christmas in Western countries is a culture. This is actually just like Chinese people celebrating the Spring Festival. As China has greater international influence, Western countries have gradually become a habit of celebrating the "Chinese New Year". However, Westerners who do not have Chinese culture are just for fun and experience different Eastern customs. Similarly, Christmas in Westerners is the same as the Chinese people celebrating the Spring Festival. One of the most important festivals of the year in the United States is completely different from the feeling in China.

Zhou Liwen returned home and had a happy and peaceful Christmas with his family. During the whole Christmas holiday, he was with his family. He installed the Christmas tree by himself, rode his son on his shoulder and took his wife to the mall to buy gifts, decorate the Christmas tree, hung decorations and Christmas cards at the doorstep, and learned to roast turkey with chef Paul, put a red and white Christmas hat on the little guy, and quietly placed the little Christmas red socks stuffed with gifts by the little guy's bed at night...

These not only made the little guy who had Christmas for the first time happily danced happily, but even his parents enjoyed this different festive atmosphere. Of course, Liu Ting, who was indispensable to visiting the festival together, made Lin Yaxuan very happy. The arrival of her best friend made Lin Yaxuan very happy. She even slept in the same room all night and had endless talks, which made Zhou Liwen neglected for a few days, but he was not unhappy at all and smiled every day. She accompanied her parents and played with the little guy, and called some friends to say hello during the festival. Zhou Liwen, who temporarily put down her work, was no different from ordinary people.

It was not until after New Year's Day that Zhou Liwen's peaceful life was broken. On January 3, Liao Yuancheng rushed over from the Taiwan Strait. He returned before Christmas. After Zhou Liwen gradually moved the company's focus from Huacheng to Silicon Valley, Liao Yuancheng had to stay in the United States for at least the first half of the year. In addition to some company businesses to deal with, this time he returned, there was another very important task.

The new company established in Silicon Valley is not far from the headquarters of Scopa, and is similar to most IT companies in Silicon Valley. The independent company area is simple and practical. Except for the HGO standing at the door, it is not very eye-catching when you look rough.

However, no company in Silicon Valley will underestimate this, even the famous giants such as Intel, HP, Cisco, and Apple. As the world's number one smartphone brand, Or is not only a single mobile phone manufacturer, but also an IT star that cannot be ignored. In particular, some smartphone system and system platform stores of Or have created a new direction for IT in mobile phones. Compared with the company's headquarters, Or may not have some medium-sized IT companies set up in Silicon Valley, but they are far ahead of them in terms of influence and position in IT and electronic manufacturing, especially in the mobile phone manufacturing industry.

The United States headquarters has a six-story office building with a geometric structure. It is mainly divided into five centers, each of which is a product and market center, an administrative center, an operation center, a regional center and a R&D center.

The Products and Marketing Center now has three major departments: Marketing Department, Smartphone Department, and Software Store Platform Department, but updated departments will soon join.

The Administrative Center has a comprehensive office, Human Resources Department, Legal Department and Asset Management Department.

The operation center has a procurement department, project engineering department, production department and after-sales service department.

The regional center is in charge of each sales regional network, and is divided into major countries and regions of each region according to North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, etc.

As for the R&D center, due to Zhou Liwen's establishment, although the entire Or R&D center headquarters is located in Silicon Valley, it is directly responsible for the three-legged attitude of Cheng's branches in Huacheng and Seoul, and is the most important core of the entire company.

In addition to the five major departments, the headquarters also opens entertainment facilities such as gyms, cafes, audio and video centers for employees to use.

On the day Liao Yuancheng came back, Zhou Liwen went to the company and met him in the chairman's office.

"Old Liao, it's the Spring Festival soon and you're still working hard. In fact, you can spend the Spring Festival in the Taiwan Strait before coming back." Zhou Liwen said apologetically with the secretary who made a cup of coffee for Liao Yuancheng. With the improvement of the headquarters, Liao Yuancheng is now mainly responsible for the R&D center and is also the president of Asia. The president of the headquarters is Zhou Liwen, but he hired several vice presidents through the headhunting company, especially the executive vice president and vice president of the administration, both professionals who have rich experience in Texas Instruments and IHM, to help him manage the entire company in an orderly manner.

Liao Yuancheng said thank you, took the coffee and said with a smile: "It's okay, my family is here together this time, and I will spend the Spring Festival here directly. There are still many Chinese on the West Coast, and the atmosphere of the Spring Festival is not bad compared to the Taiwan Strait. Besides, Bill is urging it tightly, and the R&D center project has reached a critical moment. I don't feel at ease if I don't come back and stare at this."

Zhou Liwen nodded slightly. The Bill that Liao Yuancheng mentioned is now Or's executive vice president. This is a very remarkable guy. Although his fame is not as good as that of Microsoft's Bill, he is very capable in the company's operations. Now he is a subordinate of Zhou Liwen Deli.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived. As soon as Liao Yuancheng put down the coffee cup, Bill came. When he entered the office, he greeted Zhou Liwen first, and then smiled and said to Liao Yuancheng: "Dear Liao, you are coming faster than I thought."

"Haha, it seems that this is your praise for me?" Liao Yuancheng stood up happily, joked with him, and then shook hands with each other.

"Bavc, we're going to speed up." After the secretary brought Bill's coffee, Bill smiled and said seriously to Zhou Liwen, "I received news on Christmas that Apple's tablet has taken out samples. According to their internal name, this small toy called Ipan has initially met the design requirements, so we must rush to them to shape the product as soon as possible."

"This is also the reason why I came back so early." Before Zhou Liwen could speak, Liao Yuancheng took the words first, but he said with some doubts: "If I remember correctly, Apple had already developed a prototype in two years, but there were many problems with the prototype, and the plan was finally put on hold. Bill, is your news accurate? Apple is so fast this time?"

Bill smiled bitterly and said, "The news is certainly accurate. Do you know Joey?"

"Is it another Bill?" Liao Yuancheng thought about it and asked.

Bill nodded and said, "It's him that he left Oracle's U to switch to venture capital last year, but he has a lot of connections in the IT industry. It happened that he and I were friends. He met Joey on an occasion on Christmas, and the news was something he said inadvertently."

After hearing what Bill said, neither Zhou Liwen nor Liao Yuancheng questioned. William Nelson Joey, also known as Bill, is a well-known figure in the IT industry and a world-renowned computing expert. In a sense, Joey's contribution to the development of computers is even greater than that of Bill at Microsoft, because his work performance in EB operating systems has not only been recognized by the world, but also has more eye-catching contributions including TCPPvt and UE port a1. These software are now widely used in operating systems such as IarIEBGN0Ltuu. He also has open source code for others to use and improve freely, making great contributions to the development of free software.

Before leaving u, Joey was the chief scientist of uR and one of the founders of the company. However, in the end, he had a disastrous relationship with Oracle due to his different ideas and resigned in disgrace.

Tablet computers, this product began to enter the R&D stage when Zhou Liwen laid out his smartphone, but in recent years, the research and development progress of tablet computers has been much slower than that of smartphones.

Zhou Liwen is not a professional electronics expert, nor is he a computer expert. Originally, he thought that smartphones are similar to tablets, and it should not be difficult to make smartphones and tablets. However, during the research and development process, he realized that things are far from that simple. Smartphones are smartphones and tablets are tablets, and the two are not the same concept at all.

This was also the first time in 1993 when the Japanese made the so-called "stylus computer". Although it caused a sensation for a while, it was not commercially successful due to various problems. Two years later, Microsoft officially released Taefp and its dedicated operating system uXpTaefpCPdhttc in New York, but this product ultimately failed due to hardware and operating system reasons.

In other words, there are two major aspects to solve the problem of the main commercial use of tablets, one is software, and the other is hardware.

Of course, software refers to the operating system. You should know that the operating systems used by computers on the market are almost all designed for desktop computers, and even after modification, there is a great discomfort in tablet computers. Zhou Liwen is ahead of this. He and Cisco are in the process of using smartphones to run smoothly in tablet computers after rewriting. Moreover, since the operation of smartphones is similar to that of tablet computers, it is more suitable for tablet computers than Microsoft's window system.

As for hardware, it is quite troublesome. A tablet computer not only includes main chips, motherboards and other main components, but also other indispensable things, such as flip systems, memory, batteries and touch screens, etc. Especially batteries and touch screens, which are the main keys that plague the commercial use of tablets. Unlike smaller smartphones, tablets have a large area and consume a large amount of power, which requires very high battery requirements. If a tablet computer can only work for one hour or even half an hour, then it has no practical value at all. As for touch screen technology, although Zhou Liwen solved the problem of small touch screens in smartphones, such a large touch screen technology is still a bottleneck on tablets. In addition, coupled with the current hardware technology problems mentioned, even Zhou Liwen's Or company has not officially launched this product so far.
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