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Huawei officially issued a document: Jin Yuzhi took over as CEO of Chebu, and Yu Chengdong was promoted to chairman
Huawei has officially issued an internal document, Jin Yuzhi, President of the Optical Product Line, took over as CEO of Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, and Yu Chengdong became Chairman of Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU. This personnel adjustment is to help Huawei achieve commercial success in the field of intelligent vehicles, and Huawei will continue to increase business investment in automotive-related fields. (Tencent Technology)
5G chips are frustrated again! Why is Apple still "stuck in the neck" by Qualcomm?
The media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that at the end of last year, Apple tested its self-developed 5G baseband chip, 3 years behind Qualcomm, which will lead to the iPhone's network speed can not match the opponent, so Apple dismissed the idea of using the chip in the 2023 model and postponed the launch to 2024, but then realized that this goal could not be achieved. People familiar with the matter also said that Apple's "folding" 5G baseband chip was caused by themselves. Due to technical challenges, poor communication, and differences of opinion among responsible persons on whether 5G baseband chips should be self-developed, the progress of chip research has been slow. (All-weather technology)
European chip law takes effect: global share of chip production should increase from the current 10% to 20% by 2030
A few days ago, the European "Chip Act" officially came into effect. According to the European Commission's announcement, the scheme promotes the industrialization of key technologies through the European Chip Project, encouraging public and private companies to invest in the manufacturing facilities of chipmakers and their suppliers. The bill also requires that by 2030, the EU's share of global chip production should increase from the current 10% to 20%, meeting its own and world market needs. (Tencent Technology)
Hong Kong's "currency circle" scam involves a number of artists Hong Kong media revealed that Cheung Zhilin went to the police station to assist in the investigation of the case
According to Hong Kong media reports, after the virtual asset trading platform JPEX was recently named by the Securities and Futures Commission as operating without a license, Hong Kong police have arrested at least 11 people so far, including Internet celebrity Lin Zuo, YouTube Internet celebrities "Chen Yi" and "Zhu Gongzi", and another news said that artist Cheung Zhilin went to the Wan Chai Police Headquarters on the 21st to assist in the investigation. The Hong Kong police said that as of 17 pm on the 21st, the police had received a total of 2,197 victim reports, involving about HK$1.37 billion. (Global Network)
Tech companies
Qualcomm: The Shanghai company is expected to lay off employees, but the "large-scale" "withdrawal from Shanghai" is not true
In response to recent market rumors that Qualcomm has made large-scale layoffs in its Shanghai division, Qualcomm responded that the company is taking steps to adjust to achieve investment in important growth opportunities and business diversification. Layoffs are one such measure, but the phrases of "mass layoffs", "office closures" and "evacuation from Shanghai" are exaggerated. These adjustments are expected to be substantially completed in the first half of fiscal 2024 and will incur additional adjustment charges, primarily in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023. (CBN)
The German government plans to ban Huawei, ZTE, operators: unrealistic, reserve the right to claim litigation
Germany's interior ministry is considering a phased ban on Chinese telecom equipment such as Huawei and ZTE, citing "preventing a second Nord Stream incident." However, the plan has not yet been agreed upon by the federal government and has sparked fierce opposition from telecom operators. Telecom operators argue that the plan cannot be implemented, will harm the interests of users, and may file claims against the government. (Observer.com)
AI weather vane
No more relying on Broadcom! Google plans to start developing its own AI chips: it could save billions of dollars a year
According to people familiar with the matter, in order to cut AI spending, Google executives have been discussing abandoning Broadcom as an AI chip supplier as soon as 2027. The news also said that Google will completely design its own "tensor processor (TPU)" in the future, which may save Google billions of dollars in costs every year. (Tencent Technology)
OpenAI Multimodal New Advancement: DALL-E3 is once again disrupting the art world after a year and a half of updates
OpenAI announced that the third version of the enterprise generative AI art platform DALL-E, DALL-E 3, has entered the research preview stage and will be available to ChatGPT Plus users and enterprise customers through APIs in October. Dall-E3 is more like ChatGPT as an assistant of humans, humans communicate with ChatGPT, and brainstorm with ChatGPT, ChatGPT translates human thoughts into "prompts" that can be understood by Dall-E 3, and finally allows human ideas to be more accurately implemented by AI. (AI Future Refers North)
Toyota Research Institute shows a big trick of robot AI: no manual coding, no need for manual coding, using touch to efficiently learn new skills
According to media reports, the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) has successfully developed a breakthrough generative AI technology, the robot behavior model, to teach robots various dexterous skills in a "robot kindergarten". This robot behavior model is based on AI's diffusion strategy and can learn new skills after dozens of demonstrations of new skills. (Wisdom Stuff)
It is reported that Zhipu AI wholly acquired Tsinghua large model company Lingxin Intelligence
According to media reports, Tsinghua's AI startup Lingxin Intelligent has been wholly acquired by Zhipu AI. According to industry insiders, the overall valuation at the time of its final transaction was around hundreds of millions of yuan. Previously, Zhipu AI also participated in the angel round and pre-A round of financing of Lingxin Intelligence. It is reported that after the completion of the Pre-A round, the market valuation of Lingxin Intelligent is $100 million. (Qubits)
ChatGPT copy defendant! Seventeen writers, including the author of Game of Thrones, sued OpenAI
OpenAI is in trouble again! Several writers, including the original author of Game of Thrones, sued OpenAI for copyright infringement. The writers filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan, New York, through the National Writers Association, accusing OpenAI of bulk copying plaintiffs' copyrighted works without permission, feeding them into the company's "big language model," and responding to similar textual needs from users. (The Paper)
Tech figures
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou: Huawei currently has 4,700 partners in the Kunpeng field
Huawei Vice Chairman Meng Wanzhou recently disclosed that since 2019, Huawei has had 4,700 partners in the Kunpeng field, including 11 complete machine partners, accounting for 95% of shipments in 2022. At the same time, in the field of Ascend, since 2018, it has developed more than 30 hardware partners and more than 1,300 software partners, and incubated more than 50 mainstream large models and more than 2,600 AI scenario solutions. (Beijing Business Daily)
Chairman of Luxshare Precision: This year, three new iPhones are being produced and are preparing for the production of Apple's first headset
Wang Laichun, chairman of Luxshare Precision, recently said that the company has produced three new iPhones for Apple this year, doubling sales compared with last year, and will prepare for the production of Apple's first headset, Vision Pro, early next year. Wang Laichun also said that the company will actively cooperate with Apple to achieve the goal of "carbon neutrality" in the supply chain by 2030. (The Paper)
Smart new products
Equipped with Huawei's HiSilicon chip, LeEco will launch a new projector product
LeEco recently announced that it will hold the "LeEco 2023 Autumn Media Conference" on September 25, and is expected to release a projector that supports native 4K+HDR, all equipped with domestic Huawei HiSilicon chips. In addition, LeEco will also announce new future plans at the media conference, and may bring some new ecological products. (IT House)
NIO released its first smartphone NIO Phone, with a starting price of 6499 yuan
A few days ago, at the NIO Innovation and Technology Day, NIO officially released its first smartphone NIO Phone. Li Bin said that this is a flagship level of smart phone products, the main mobile phone and car ecological interconnection, the machine is equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen2 processor, starting price of 6499 yuan, NIO owners support 10,000 points payment exchange. Li Bin revealed that the second-generation NIO Phone is already under research and development, and will produce headphone products in the future, but may not launch watch products. (Tencent News Periscope)