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Tesla China was exposed to receive 30,000 vehicle orders in 3 days
According to Shell Finance news, Tesla China just announced a price cut, selling 30,000 cars in three days!
A few days ago, Tesla China's official website announced that Model 3 and Model Y all domestic models have significantly reduced their prices, with Model 3 starting at 229,900 yuan and Model Y starting at 259,900 yuan, setting a record low for Tesla China's price.
In addition, the sharp increase in car orders is also reflected in other aspects, previously, the Model Y pick-up cycle was generally 1-4 weeks, and after the price reduction, the official website showed that the pick-up cycle has become 2-5 weeks.
However, Tao Lin, Tesla's vice president of external affairs, said that the extension of the delivery cycle is also related to the effective working time, which is the Spring Festival and is unlikely to reach full production in January.
At present, Tesla China has not responded to the news that "30,000 car orders were obtained in 3 days".
Musk Starlink began deploying European airliner services
Musk's Starlink began to deploy passenger aircraft services in full swing!
On Tuesday, Air Baltic announced that it will equip all Airbus A220-300 fleets with SpaceX's Starlink Internet connection system.
This means that on all Baltic Airlines flights, every passenger will be able to access the Internet for free.
More specifically, Starlink can provide aircraft with transmission rates of up to 350Mbps with latency as low as 20ms, allowing passengers to engage in activities previously unavailable in flight, including online gaming, virtual private networks, and other high-data-rate activities.
And, airBaltic CEO Martin Goss said the partnership means that Baltic Airlines will be the first airline in Europe to introduce high-speed, unlimited and free satellite internet on board.
The original Quest VR headset will stop updating
Meta plans to stop updating the original Quest VR headset and remove some social features.
The news comes from a screenshot of an email circulating online showing that Quest 1's social features will be completely removed on March 5.
This means that Quest 1 players not only lose the Meta Horizon Home social features, but they can no longer create or join parties.
However, Meta will continue to provide "major bug fixes and security patches" for Quest 1 players until 2024.
According to The Verge, why Meta stopped updating the original Quest VR headset may be related to the hardware configuration.
The Quest 1 was released in May 2019 and the Quest 2 in October of the following year, and the two headsets are not very different in terms of functionality, only in hardware configuration.
The former is powered by the Snapdragon 835/Kryo 280 platform launched by Qualcomm in 2017, and the latter is powered by the Snapdragon XR2 released in 2020.
The Verge speculates that Meta is currently under pressure from tight budgets and layoffs, and may not want to continue to spend more energy and money on older hardware.
The iPhone 16Pro will be equipped with an under-screen ID
According to The Elec, the iPhone 16 Pro will be equipped with an under-screen ID, and this year's much-talked about Lingdong Island function may disappear, replaced by a front camera circular punch, but the under-screen ID is limited to the Pro series.
At present, the screen under-screen recognition technology is not mature, and it is expected to be applied to mobile phones in 2024.
At the same time, the news also confirmed the rumor that all four models in the iPhone 15 lineup will offer the Dynamic Island feature.
It is worth mentioning that Apple's update is in line with the roadmap developed by display analyst Ross Young in May last year.
He outlined a cycle in which Apple would take turns introducing modified display modules or new display technology between Pro and non-Pro models each year.
Intel releases new chip designs
Intel introduced server chips with new designs in an attempt to recover lost market share.
According to Bloomberg, on Tuesday, local time, Intel officially launched the Sapphire Rapids fourth-generation Xeon CPU and Ponte Vecchio Max GPU series.
The latest Sapphire Rapids CPU has up to 60 cores, which is 50% higher than the previous third-generation CPU with only 40 cores. Intel also says this will increase general-purpose computing power by 53% compared to its predecessor.
At present, the fourth generation of Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs has been put into use in cloud computing systems operated by Alphabet's Google and Amazon's AWS.
Over the past period, Intel's dominance in the server field has been continuously weakened by AMD.
Third-quarter sales of Intel's data center division fell 27 percent to $4.2 billion, while AMD's data center division revenue grew 45 percent over the same period.
The release of Intel's new server products, CEO Pat Kirsinger said: This is part of a plan to bring Intel back to the forefront of the industry.
Baidu's Intelligent Driving Business Group is starting job reductions
According to CaiLian News, Baidu Intelligent Driving Group (IDG) is undergoing layoffs.
The layoffs are concentrated in the Vehicle-Road Coordination, Intelligent Networking and Intelligent Transportation Business Units under the Intelligent Transportation Division (ACE), and the reduction ratio is large.
In addition, people familiar with the matter revealed that the ACE department has been notified that all employees do not have year-end bonuses.
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