Fresh early technology丨Huawei Pura 70 is on sale, the official website is empty in seconds, Lei Jun's live broadcast refutes rumors and cool life, and Lenovo releases the first batch of six new AI PC products

Comprehensive report of the 21st Century Business Herald New Quality Productivity Research Institute

Good morning, a new day has begun. What's interesting happening in the tech industry in the last 24 hours?

【Giant Wind Vane】

1. Huawei Pura70 is on sale, there is a long queue in stores, and the official website is empty in seconds. At 10:08 a.m. on April 18, Huawei officially announced that the Huawei Pura70 series officially went on sale and joined Huawei's "Pioneer Program". On the official website, from 10:08 a.m., in less than a minute, many models of the Pura70 series have appeared "not for sale" or "temporarily out of stock". At around 9:40 a.m. that day, a long queue had formed at the entrance of Huawei's flagship store in a business district in Shenzhen.

2, Lei Jun refutes rumors about Shuangwen life: I am not the top student in the college entrance examination When my life was at a low point, there was no cold 4 billion in Cari. Lei Jun denied in the live broadcast on Douyin that he was the top student in the college entrance examination and did not score more than 700 points, and emphasized that he did not have a "cold 4 billion" in the card at the low point of his life. A spokesman for Xiaomi had already debunked the rumor in December last year. Lei Jun said that life is not a cool article, but a down-to-earth process, thank you for your understanding and support. The process of founding Xiaomi was full of challenges and setbacks, and he believes that perseverance after constantly experiencing failures and challenges is the secret of success.

3. Intel released Hala Point to support cutting-edge research in the field of brain-inspired AI. Intel has released a large neuromorphic system, codenamed Hala Point. The system is built on the Intel Loihi 2 Neuromorph processor, which is mainly used to support cutting-edge research in the field of brain-inspired AI, and solves the current challenges of AI in terms of efficiency and sustainability by combining high-efficiency deep learning with novel brain-inspired continuous learning and optimization capabilities. It is reported that on the basis of the first-generation research system, the new system has increased the neuronal capacity by more than 10 times, the number of neurons has reached 1.15 billion, and the performance has also been increased by 12 times.

4. The U.S. House of Representatives promoted a new bill involving "byte stripping TikTok", and TikTok responded. On April 18, TikTok responded to the latest developments, saying that the U.S. House of Representatives once again forced a ban bill under the cover of a bill related to foreign humanitarian assistance, which would trample on the free speech rights of 170 million Americans, destroy 7 million businesses, and shut down a platform that contributes $24 billion a year to the U.S. economy.

5. Douyin Mini Program should make graphic content and support third-party companies to distribute content and monetize. Douyin Mini Program is expanding the diversity of content on the platform through open source, including graphics and texts. Douyin has invited a number of content apps to distribute content and monetize on Douyin Mini Programs and Douyin Videos. In Douyin's planning, the Mini Program will be used as the core carrier of content, carrying the complete content consistent with the content app, and the Douyin video account will be used as the drainage content carrier, publishing clips through the official and user accounts to complete the drainage of the Mini Program. In addition, users of content apps can also submit and forward graphic content to Douyin in the future, covering the entire Douyin domain through distribution scenarios such as search and private domain.

6. Cook's visit may promote Apple's expansion in Southeast Asia and will open the first physical store in Malaysia. Apple CEO Tim Cook will meet with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on April 18 and 19 local time, according to people familiar with the matter, which is the end of Cook's largest trip to Southeast Asia in years. It is reported that Cook's trip may pave the way for Apple's more active sales activities in Southeast Asia. As part of the plan, Apple is close to opening its first brick-and-mortar store in Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. According to Apple's official website, the company currently has five physical stores in Southeast Asia, three of which are in Singapore and two in Thailand.

7. Google fired 28 employees who protested against Israeli projects. Google laid off 28 employees for their involvement in protests against the Nimbus project. Nimbus is a $1.2 billion contract between Google and Amazon. The project provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with capabilities such as cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Israel's Ministry of Finance said in 2021 that the construction of the project would take many years. In a memo sent to all employees, Chris Rackow, Google's global head of security, said there was no tolerance for such behavior in the workplace. He also warned that the company would take further action if necessary.

8. Jingdong launched the Jingxi direct store, and the official announcement that the price of all goods is lower than that of other e-commerce platforms. On April 17th, Jingxi's special shopping brand, Jingxi Direct Sales, released a Weibo and officially announced the launch of the "Price Competition" activity, in which the prices of all categories and all goods in Jingxi Direct Store were lower than similar products on other e-commerce platforms, and consumers would pay double for their purchases.

9. Musk said that the severance pay of some laid off employees was too low and would be corrected. According to Jiemian News, on the occasion of Tesla's largest layoffs in history, Musk said in a brief email to employees on Wednesday: "In the process of our restructuring of Tesla, I noticed that some severance payments were unreasonably low. I apologize for the mistake. We are making immediate corrections. ”

10. Qualcomm CEO Ammon: Hybrid AI is the future of AI. At the 10th Lenovo Innovation and Technology Conference, Qualcomm President and CEO Ammon proposed that hybrid AI is the future of AI. Hybrid AI leverages AI on both the device side and in the cloud to distribute and orchestrate workloads through high-performance connectivity, resulting in smarter, personalized user experiences. At the same time, the data on the device side can also improve the accuracy of AI applications.

11. Oracle announced that it will invest more than $8 billion in Japan in 10 years for cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Oracle announced on April 17 local time that it will invest more than $8 billion in 10 years from this year to meet Japan's growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The investment will expand the reach of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's remote software services in Japan, the statement said. In addition, to help customers and partners meet Japan's digital sovereignty requirements, Oracle will significantly expand its operations and staff its engineering teams in Japan.

12. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: China's 5G mobile phone shipments reached 56.43 million units in the first quarter, accounting for 83.7% of mobile phone shipments in the same period. Zhao Zhiguo, spokesman and chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council on the 18th that in the first quarter, China's 5G mobile phone shipments reached 56.43 million units, accounting for 83.7% of mobile phone shipments in the same period. In terms of industry applications, 5G applications have been integrated into 74 of the 97 major categories of the national economy, and have been promoted on a large scale in key areas such as industry, mining, electric power, and medical care, with more than 10,000 "5G + Industrial Internet" projects, and the application empowerment has accelerated its expansion to core control links.

13. The first self-developed nine-spectrum high-definition camera in mainland China sent back the first satellite image. According to CCTV News, recently, the Long March-2D carrier rocket successfully sent the four-dimensional Gaojing-3 01 satellite into the predetermined orbit, and the four-dimensional wide-format focal plane electronics component independently developed by the electronic chip was successfully started up and transmitted back to the first satellite picture, the first image is clear, rich in layers and accurate in color.

14. Canalys: 2024Q1 Indian smartphone market shipments increased by 15% year-on-year. According to a Canalys report, India's smartphone market shipped 35.3 million units in the first quarter of 2024, up 15% year-on-year. The strong market performance was mainly due to the improved inventory position of manufacturers, which enabled the channel to launch a variety of new products. Despite lower shipments in the first quarter of 2023, the market is still facing inflationary pressures, weak demand, and inventories.

【Science and Technology Financial Reports】

TSMC's net profit in Q1 2024 is NT$225.5 billion. According to data released by TSMC, the net profit in the first quarter of 2024 was NT$225.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9%, estimated at NT$214.91 billion, sales in the first quarter were NT$592.64 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17%, and NT$583.46 billion, and the operating profit in the first quarter was NT$249.02 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%, estimated at NT$240.87 billion, and a gross profit margin of 53.1% in the first quarter, estimated at 53%.

【The most core insights】

1. Microsoft is reported to plan to stock up on 1.8 million AI chips by the end of the year and spend $100 billion on GPUs and data centers by 2027. Microsoft is reportedly stockpiling artificial intelligence (AI) chips on a large scale, with an internal goal of securing 1.8 million AI chips by the end of 2024, tripling the number of graphics processing units (GPUs). In addition, Microsoft is reported to spend about $100 billion on GPUs and data centers from this fiscal year to fiscal year 2027.

2. Micron Technology will receive more than $6 billion in CHIPS bill grants next week. Micron Technology, the largest U.S. maker of computer memory chips, is expected to receive more than $6 billion from the U.S. Department of Commerce to cover the cost of building a factory in China. According to people familiar with the matter, the matter has not yet been finalized and could be announced as early as next week. It's unclear whether Micron plans to accept loans from the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 in addition to direct grants.

【Trendy New Products】

Lenovo released the first batch of six new AI PC products. On April 18, at the 2024 Lenovo Innovation and Technology Conference, Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, announced that Lenovo officially released its AI PC series products. It is understood that Lenovo released the first batch of six new AI PC products such as Yoga Book AI Yuanqi Edition. Yang Yuanqing introduced that the new AI species has five characteristics: it is equipped with a personalized AI agent agent "Lenovo Xiaotian", and has a strong local heterogeneous computing power combining CPU, GPU, and NPU, and has the ability to establish a personal knowledge base for each owner, connect to an open artificial intelligence application ecology, and can protect personal data and privacy security.

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