The iPhone 15 premium is not as good as Huawei's new machine; 15 people from the "Renren Film and Television Subtitling Group" were sentenced|Science and Technology Morning Post

Hot Focus

iPhone 15 series open pre-sale: the standard version is cold, and the premium is not as good as Huawei Mate60 Pro

The standard version of the iPhone 15 series of products was cold, and the delivery date of the Pro series was extended to nearly two months. Among them, the premium of iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max is between 300-900 yuan, which is significantly lower than the previous year. At present, the premium of Huawei Mate60 standard version is about 700 yuan, the premium of Mate60 Pro is between 1200-1500 yuan, and the premium of Mate60 Pro+ is 2000 yuan. (Titanium Media)

Fifteen people were sentenced in the "Renren Film and Television Subtitling Group" case, making illegal profits of more than 12 million yuan

The Supreme People's Procuratorate informed that the website of the "Renren Film and Television Subtitling Group" and related clients downloaded unauthorized film and television works from abroad for users to watch and download online, and the amount of illegal business exceeded 12 million yuan. Fifteen people were sentenced to imprisonment of up to three years and six months and a maximum fine of 1.5 million yuan. (Daily Economic News)

Tech companies

Demand slowed and TSMC asked suppliers to delay equipment deliveries

Affected by economic conditions and weak end-market demand, China's TSMC asked major suppliers to delay deliveries of high-end chip manufacturing equipment, including companies such as ASML. TSMC expects the delay in deliveries to be short-term. TSMC has postponed the start date of chip production at its Arizona plant to 2025, showing the difficulty and cost of building a factory in the United States. (All-weather technology)

In 2024, 5G mobile phone shipments will account for more than 85%: the price will drop to 700 yuan Huawei may become a key variable

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Finance recently issued the Action Plan for Stable Growth in Electronic Information Manufacturing Industry 2023-2024. The plan sets a target of more than 24 trillion yuan in the operating income of the mainland electronic information manufacturing industry from 2023 to 2024, and the shipment volume of 5G mobile phones in the mobile phone market accounts for more than 85%. Experts believe that increasing 5G mobile phone shipments will promote 5G applications and the development of the digital economy. At present, mainland 5G mobile phone brands are mainly dominated by OPPO, vivo, honor, Xiaomi, realme, etc., and most of them have achieved full 5G mobile phone product shipments. (China Business News)

Xiaohongshu's self-operated store "Welfare Society" announced its closure in November: it has been in operation for almost 10 years

Xiaohongshu's self-operated store "Welfare Society" will stop selling on October 16 and officially close on November 16 to better meet the rapidly growing user demand. The welfare society has been in operation for nine years since December 2014. The closure means that Xiaohongshu will focus more on e-commerce and clarify the direction of commercialization. At the same time, Xiaohongshu also plans to close its e-commerce platform "Little Oasis" on October 31. (Global Tech)

Douyin's new rules: ban on holding orders, live broadcast of exams

Douyin recently issued two new rules: strict control of illegal orders in live streaming rooms, including welfare goods or attractive products as gimmicks to attract users to stay and interact for a long time, but failing to pass on information about the event to users, violators will face a series of penalties; The "Health Score Trial Operation Announcement" was issued to further standardize the behavior of platform users in the live broadcast room, with a maximum score of 100 points for new anchors, 110 points for high-quality anchors, and 120 points for professional anchors. Those with a score of zero will be banned from streaming. (Everyone is a product manager)

AI weather vane

It is reported that SoftBank may invest in OpenAI, and Son will take tens of billions of dollars to smash artificial intelligence

Son plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in artificial intelligence, and OpenAI and its star product, ChatGPT, are optional investments. SoftBank may have a broad strategic partnership with OpenAI or invest heavily in OpenAI's direct competitors. In addition, British artificial intelligence chip maker Graphcore is also considering acquisition. Arm's initial public offering raised nearly $5 billion and will expand SoftBank's fund to $65 billion. (Tencent Technology)

Google wants to challenge GPT-4 and has invited some companies to test Gemini

Google is testing its generative AI Gemini to further enhance its AI capabilities. Gemini AI combines AlphaGo's technology with large language models and is more capable than OpenAI's GPT-4, enabling "chat conversations," "analyzing chart data," "creating images," and even "controlling software with natural language commands." Google wants Gemini AI to power its consumer AI products such as the Bard chatbot to better compete with competitors such as Microsoft Azure. (IT House)

China's 15 billion billion supercomputers shortlisted for the Gordon Bell Award!

The Association for Computing Machinery recently announced the Gordon Bell Prize (known as the "Nobel Prize for Supercomputing Applications"), a research paper based on China's 1.5 EXAFLOPS (exascale) supercomputer, which will be presented at the SC23 Supercomputing Conference in Denver in November. (Xinzhixun)

Tech figures

Huawei Xu Zhijun: It is recommended to use domestic chips on a large scale

At the 2023 World Computing Conference, Huawei Vice Chairman Xu Zhijun said that China's computing industry is under pressure and should firmly build a sustainable computing industry ecosystem. He mentioned that Huawei is accelerating the merger of the Kunpeng ecosystem and PKS ecosystem with China Electronics to form the Pengteng ecosystem, and introducing support policies. He stressed that China needs to develop its own processors, operating systems and databases, and improve its domestic capabilities to ensure security. At the same time, the future is unpredictable, so all chips should be built on the available semiconductor manufacturing field. (Xinzhixun)

Honor Zhao Ming: Will buy Mate60/iPhone 15 series for experience

Honor CEO Zhao Ming said that he was disappointed with the predictability of the current iPhone iterative upgrade, but he would not be happy. In response to whether he was worried that his products would become "cannon fodder", he expressed full confidence that there were enough innovative products and was willing to compete with Apple and Huawei. He also said that they have teams that buy and experience great competitors. (IT House)

Smart new products

The news said that the iPhone 15 Pro series models have problems with color change and fingerprint absorption

After Apple's iPhone 15/Pro series models were started in the experience area, the media shared that the Pro model had problems of discoloration and fingerprint absorption. There are color changes in the operation buttons and volume keys, mainly blue and black versions. Although Apple officially said that the model uses high-quality alloys and new thermomechanical process processing, users expect that these problems may be more obvious in actual use. (IT House)