Ren Zhengfei's latest interview exposed; iPhone 15 went on sale at the scene of scalpers increasing the price of 1,000 yuan|Science and Technology Morning News
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Ren Zhengfei's latest interview exposed: Huawei will become more and more difficult, but Huawei will also become more and more prosperous
A few days ago, Ren Zhengfei talked with Liu Yadong, dean of the School of Journalism and Communication of Nankai University and former editor-in-chief of Science and Technology Daily, talking about the increasingly severe international environment, Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei will become more and more difficult, but Huawei will also become more and more prosperous. If China establishes its own standard system in the future, this standard system will definitely be better than that of the United States. (Tencent Technology)
iPhone 15 series on sale: someone came to line up at 1 a.m., and the scalper on the scene increased the price by 1,000 yuan
The iPhone 15 series officially went on sale after a week of pre-sale, and there were "fruit fans" who came to the door of the Apple store at one o'clock in the morning on the day of the first sale to wait for pickup. In addition, in terms of price, the markup repurchase range given by "scalper" ranges from 1200-1500 yuan, and the markup is concentrated on the iPhone 15 Pro series, of which this year's most sought-after titanium primary color markup is up to about 1500 yuan. (Tencent Technology)
The United States announces the "guardrail" rules of the Chip Act
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Chip Project Office recently said that the U.S. Department of Commerce issued the final rule for implementing the national security protection measures of the Chip and Science Act on September 22. The rule elaborates on two core provisions of the bill: the first prohibits Chip Fund recipients from expanding semiconductor material production capacity in other relevant countries for a period of ten years; The second provision restricts the recipient from carrying out certain joint research or technology licensing activities with relevant foreign entities. (CaiLian News)
Tech companies
Intel was fined $400 million by the European Union for abusing its dominant position in the chip market
A few days ago, Intel was again fined about $400 million by the European Union's antitrust regulator for its previous abuse of its dominant position in the x86 central processing unit (CPU) computer chip market. Earlier, the Court of Justice of the European Union lifted a record fine of 1.06 billion euros against the company. (Tencent Technology)
The British antitrust agency finally relieved: Microsoft's deal to acquire Activision Blizzard received preliminary approval
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it may approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard because the new restructuring plan clearly addresses the antitrust agency's previous concerns. Microsoft's vice chairman and president wrote on social media, "We are encouraged by the positive developments in the CMA review. We are confident that the proposed solution will fully address the remaining issues and we will continue to work towards approval in order to close the transaction by the October 18 deadline. (Cai Lian News)
Faraday Future Global CEO Change! Jia Yueting and others promised to buy the company's shares with half their salary
Faraday Future has announced the resignation of Chen Xuefeng as Global CEO, while Matthias Aydt, who has worked at FF for more than 7 years, has been appointed to take over and focus on driving the production and delivery of FF 91 2.0 Futurist Alliance. Chen Xuefeng will be based in China from September 29, 2023 and will continue to serve as the CEO of FF China. (Tencent Technology)
Google distributed a "reassuring pill": the cooperation with Broadcom remained unchanged, and Broadcom was close to recovering all the losses
A few days ago, some media reported that Google is considering no longer using Broadcom as an AI chip supplier as early as 2027 and turning to independent research and development of AI chips. A Google spokesperson said: "Our work to meet internal and external cloud computing needs has benefited from our cooperation with Broadcom. They have always been excellent partners and we don't think the relationship will change. (Wall Street News)
Only 1 year after its launch, the X platform Circles "circles" function is about to close
The X platform officially launched the "Circle" function in August 2022, when Musk was not the official owner of the company, and after he took charge of the company, this "circle" function was said to "affect the promotion strategy of the X platform", so it was cut after only 1 year of launch. However, Musk did not say exactly why the feature was turned off. (IT House)
LeTV was sentenced to compensate investors 2.04 billion yuan in the first instance, and Jia Yueting bore joint and several compensation
According to the judgment of the Beijing Financial Court, LeTV was sentenced to compensate investors more than 2 billion yuan in the first instance, of which Jia Yueting was required to bear joint and several compensation with LeTV. In terms of intermediaries, the defendant Ping An Securities is jointly and severally liable to the defendant LeTV for the losses of the plaintiff's investors within 10%. (The Paper)
The bottom virtual asset trading platform JPEX thunderstorm, a financial scam involving HK$1.3 billion
JPEX, Hong Kong's largest cryptocurrency exchange, recently exploded, and investors found that they could not withdraw their funds. JPEX claimed that funds were locked up by a third party and said it would continue to operate, and the incident has led to a joint investigation by securities regulators and the police. JPEX's thunderstorm reminds investors to be cautious when investing in virtual assets, which are currently highly risky and uncertain. (Chen Gen on technology)
AI weather vane
Cisco's $28 billion acquisition of Splunk screen security circle: giants are also anxious in the face of the AI wave
Cisco announced the $28 billion acquisition of Splunk, the largest acquisition in Cisco's history, and Cisco's chairman and CEO said in a statement: "From threat detection and response to threat prediction and prevention, we will help organizations large and small improve security and resilience." (CBN)
Can write emails, can make forms! Microsoft announced that the AI assistant will be fully embedded in the operating system next week
Microsoft has announced that it will launch a new unified "smart co-pilot" Copilot experience in the Windows 11 operating system on September 26, designed to help users better organize and process all data across Windows 11 and office software Microsoft 365. (The Paper)
Tech figures
Li Bin talks about NIO's mobile phone: It will definitely be ridiculed by everyone, but we don't care
NIO founder Li Bin recently released the company's first mobile phone. Li Bin answered 32 questions related to mobile phone business, corporate boundaries, NIO strategy, product rhythm and management in a group interview. He stressed that NIO has always stuck to its own direction and will not back down or regret it, while noting that the company still has room for improvement in terms of organizational efficiency and R&D pace. He explained NIO's motivation for making mobile phones and said he didn't care about other people's ridicule. (High beam)