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Musk elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering; Intel CEO: Chip supply is expected to remain tight until 2023; McDonald's filed a trademark application for the meta-universe "virtual restaurant"; Samsung's memory department issued another "retention" bonus; CEIBS denied that the Gülen Fund was redeemed for 40 billion; Tencent Pictures will be merged into CDG; Huanrui Century responds to tax arrears rumors; the official NFT blind box on Ice Pier will go on sale; Fudan University team develops new crown detection equipment...

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Musk was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering

On February 9, the National Academy of Engineering announced the list of additional academicians of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, including 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians. These include SpaceX founder Musk, LG Energy Solutions Michigan President Denise Gray, GE Smart Grid Business Development Head John McDonald, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor of Beijing Institute of Technology Fang Daining. At present, the total number of academicians of the National Academy of Engineering is 2388, and the number of foreign academicians is 310. (The Paper)

Intel CEO: Chip supply is expected to remain tight until 2023

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said the company expects chip supply to remain tight at least until the end of 2023, when the supply situation will improve in 2025-2030, when Intel and other manufacturers will increase fab production to meet growing demand and technology upgrades. (Sina Technology)

Large companies

McDonald's filed a trademark application for Metacosmos "Virtual Restaurant."

McDonald's recently filed a trademark application for a metacostem-based virtual restaurant, including "operating a virtual restaurant featuring real and virtual goods" and "operating an online virtual restaurant that provides home delivery services", becoming the latest company to apply for trademark registration for virtual goods and services in the metasymonic world. The company also plans to register trademarks in its virtual McCafe for "online real and virtual concerts" and other entertainment services. (Sina Finance)

Samsung's memory department issued another "stay" bonus

Employees who work in Samsung's electronic memory division in South Korea told the media that he recently received a "service bonus" from the company worth three months' salary in January salary, which brought his total bonus amount to 11 months last year. In December last year, all employees of the Samsung Group had received a "profit bonus" equivalent to half a year's salary and a "special bonus" equivalent to two months' salary. Together with the service bonus just received, the total bonus amount of the memory department employees last year reached 11 months' salary, and the annual income reached "23 salaries". (Financial Associated Press)

Sibe responded to the restaurant's large screen playing indecent videos

Recently, an indecent video appeared on the screen of a restaurant in Xibei Noodle Village, the TV screen facing the mall aisle, and the customers who passed by saw this scene, while the mother holding the child in the store quickly avoided it. In this regard, Xibei related people said that it has been confirmed by non-employees through surveillance video screening, and has been alarmed to deal with, and the store has also turned off the wi-Fi screen projection function.

CEIBS denied that the Gülen Fund had been redeemed for $40 billion

Rumors say that because of its high-level layout of many new energy varieties. A number of insurance institutions and wealth management subsidiaries have responded that they have not redeemed Gülen's related funds in recent days.

After inquiry, Gülen currently manages 5 funds, in addition to two pharmaceutical funds, the other three funds are industry-wide funds, the scale adds up to less than 20 billion, and the vast majority are held by retail investors. Even if all institutional holders are redeemed, the share does not add up to 1 billion. In addition, the scale of the special account managed by Gülen is only 1.1 billion. (China Fund News)

The average loss of investors in the Ningde era after the festival exceeded 1.5 million

After the Spring Festival of the Ningde era, it fell by nearly 15%, and the market value evaporated by more than 200 billion yuan. As of the third quarter of last year, the number of shareholders of the stock was 134,200. At the end of the fourth quarter of last year, more than 1680 funds held CATL, holding a total of 261 million shares, calculating that the total market value of the fund's holdings in 2022 evaporated by more than 26 billion yuan. (Upstream News)

Tencent Pictures will be merged into CDG

It is reported that the main part of Tencent Pictures will be adjusted from PCG (platform and content business group) to CDG (enterprise development business group), while Cheng Wu, vice president of Tencent Group and CEO of Yuwen, will continue to lead the business sector. After this adjustment, Tencent Pictures, as the film and television label of Tencent, will focus on the development of melodic works of the times and assume more social responsibilities. The development of Tencent Pictures' original IP film and television with strong commercial attributes will be entrusted to Xinli Media, Yuwen Film and Television, and Tencent Animation under PCG, which are subsidiaries of Yuwen Group. (Interface)

SMIC: Fourth Quarter 2021 Net Profit Increased by 172.7% Year-on-Year

SMIC announced in Hong Kong that in the fourth quarter of 2021, it achieved total operating income of 10.26 billion yuan, an increase of 53.8% year-on-year, and net profit of 3.415 billion yuan, an increase of 172.7% year-on-year. Sales revenue increased primarily due to higher wafer sales volumes, higher average selling prices and changes in the product mix, as well as higher returns on investments in associated companies and financial assets.

Huanrui Century responds to rumors of tax arrears

In response to the "Huanrui Century Tax Arrears" and other related articles that appeared on the Internet, Huanrui Century issued a statement on Weibo saying that the relevant articles were inconsistent with the facts. The problems involved in the "tax balance" in the information released by the State Administration of Taxation in Fuling District, Chongqing Municipality, were caused by relevant facts before 2008, when Xingmei United had not yet been included in the Huanrui system and had nothing to do with the operation of Huanrui Century, and the above problems had been resolved as early as the bankruptcy reorganization stage of Xingmei United, and would not have a further impact on the operation of Huanrui Century.

JD.com revises the rules for shopping back to Beijing beans

Yesterday, Jingdong issued the "Announcement of Revision of the Rules for Returning Shopping to Beijing Beans". The new rules will take effect gradually from February 17. Before the purchase return rule is changed, the shopping return bean order is fulfilled, and the system automatically returns the jingdou to the user account after the order is completed. After the change of the shopping return bean rules, to meet the shopping return bean order, after the order is completed, the user needs to go to the "Jingdong App Homepage - Lingjingdou" or "Jingdong App - My - Jingdou" or "Jingdong App - My - Jingxiang Value" channel click to collect, Jingdou can arrive, shopping return beans from the time of generation, the collection period is valid for 30 days, overdue collection will be invalid. It should be noted that users need to upgrade the JD App to the latest version; PLUS users remain unchanged, and the shopping return will be automatically received after the release. ( IT House )

Investment and financing

Process mining company "Wangfanxin Technology" completed tens of millions of yuan A round of financing

Domestic process mining company "Wangfanxin Technology" recently completed tens of millions of yuan A round of financing, led by Hillhouse Venture Capital. According to reports, this is the third round of financing completed within one year of the establishment of Wangfanxin Technology. This round of financing will accelerate the functional upgrade of the "digital footprint" of Wangfanxin's process mining product, optimize the operation panel, and improve the application and upgrade of the digital footprint in various scenarios.

New energy vehicle electrical system supplier "Smart Green Technology" completed a new round of financing of 100 million yuan

Recently, the new energy vehicle electrical system supplier "Smart Green Technology" announced the completion of a new round of financing of 100 million yuan. This round of financing is led by Xiaomi, yonghua investment, Yuanhe Holdings, leading venture capital and other institutions to follow the investment, the funds raised will be used for high-voltage connection and high-voltage distribution management solutions research and development investment, expand the scale of production, improve the commercial layout.

Craft beer brand "Vanbeer Vanbeer Craft Brewing" completed a multi-million yuan angel round of financing

Craft beer brand "Vanbeer Vanbeer Craft Brewing" recently completed a multi-million yuan angel round of financing, led by 36Kr, followed by Joy Capital. According to reports, Fanbo Craft Brewing takes "emotional craft brewing" as the brand proposition, creates an "emotional drink" craft brewing brand suitable for different scenes and different consumer groups through the mother and child brand matrix, deeply cultivates the chain convenience and superb super terminal channels, and lays out the offline "craft brewing experimental bureau" tavern and the first domestic craft beer intelligent retail machine. This round of financing will be mainly used for brand building and scale expansion.

New technologies/products/services

The official NFT blind box of the ice pier will go on sale

Recently, nWayPlay said on the social platform that the digital blind box of the ice pier officially authorized by the International Olympic Committee will be released at 1:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 12. The total number of digital blind boxes on the ice pier is 500, each 99 US dollars (about 626 yuan), and each person is limited to 5. According to the official website, the Epic Box will contain 3 officially licensed digital brooches: 1 Epic and 2 Rare. It contains 15 versions of the officially licensed mascot (ice pier) performing various winter sports such as skiing, tobogganing, snowboarding, etc., as well as 5 versions of the official emblem of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and 1 version of the poster. It should be noted that the platform does not currently support user purchases in China. （ 3DMGame ）

The Fudan University team developed the new crown testing equipment

According to the People's Daily, the research team of Fudan University has developed a new type of crown detection equipment and methods, and the nucleic acid test results can be produced within 5 minutes, which is better than the existing new crown nucleic acid PCR detection method. The most widely used method is mainly the application of "polymerase chain reaction" (PCR) technology, and the detection time often takes between 2 and 24 hours. It is understood that the research team developed a super-sensitive biosensor based on microelectromechanical systems and integrated this sensor in a portable device. Analysis of genetic material in swabs by microelectronics can detect viral RNA in 0.1 to 4 minutes. This new method is fast, sensitive and simple to operate, not only has no false negative results, but also is much faster than the speed of traditional nucleic acid detection. ( IT House )

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