"Geek Headlines" - Technologist's News Circle!
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A quick look at the news in one minute!
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PC giant HP will lay off two waves in a row! Rare damage to R&D and senior executives
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IDC released the 2023 China collaborative robot market report: the scale exceeded 1.48 billion yuan and the shipment exceeded 30,000 units
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Zhao Ming talks about Glory's independence from Huawei: the original family is too successful and there is a lot of pressure to come out
- Alibaba International released the translation model Marco, which surpassed Google, DeepL, etc
- Huawei's new brain-computer interface chip patent has been exposed, which is its second brain-computer interface patent
- CATL established the Hong Kong Research Institute
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It is reported that Meta has laid off another employee, involving WhatsApp, Instagram and other departments
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Apple's App Store crashed globally late at night, blocking app downloads
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Anthony, the "godfather of unmanned driving", said that he is more optimistic about Tesla and hopes that Musk will have less hype
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Intel's R&D investment exceeds that of AMD and Nvidia combined, but its market capitalization still lags behind
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The new M4 MacBook Pro is expected to be released this month, with news that Apple's supply chain is ready
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openKylin launches the RISC-V unified image burning tool to solve the problem of fragmentation
Domestic news
PC giant HP will lay off two waves in a row! Rare damage to R&D and senior executives
According to media reports, Hewlett-Packard (HP) Taiwan Branch reported that it will carry out two waves of layoffs from October, affecting about 20 to 30 people, including senior executives such as R&D departments and vice presidents. This is the second PC brand company to adjust its manpower in Taiwan this year after Lenovo, and it is also a rare layoff in HP's history for the R&D department and senior management.
Although the number of layoffs did not reach 100, the layoffs have attracted great attention from the outside world, because HP's previous manpower adjustments were mostly concentrated in the sales department, and this time it rarely involved the R&D department and top management. It is reported that HP's global layoff plan began in 2022, when it was announced that it would lay off 10% of its global workforce by fiscal year 2025, which is expected to affect 4,000 to 6,000 employees. In its earnings call last quarter, HP reiterated its goal of reducing overall annual structural costs by $1.6 billion by the end of fiscal 2025. (Fast Technology)
IDC released the 2023 China collaborative robot market report: the scale exceeded 1.48 billion yuan and the shipment exceeded 30,000 units
Market research agency IDC released the 2023 mainland collaborative robot market share report yesterday (October 16), and estimates that in the next three years, collaborative robots will be the product with the highest willingness of users to plan to purchase, accounting for 57%, and the market development prospect is optimistic. According to the report, the overall size of China's collaborative robot market in 2023 will exceed 1.48 billion yuan, with sales and shipments exceeding 30,000 units. From the perspective of the overall market structure, there are many manufacturers that provide collaborative robot products, among which AUBO Intelligence, Jieka Robot, Yuejiang, Universal Robots, Elite, Han's Robot, Ruierman and other manufacturers occupy the main market share in the market.
Zhao Ming talks about Glory's independence from Huawei: the original family is too successful and there is a lot of pressure to come out
A few days ago, Zhao Ming, CEO of Honor, Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group, and He Yifan, deputy editor-in-chief of China Entrepreneur magazine, jointly broadcast live to talk about the current situation and future trend of AI development, what changes AI mobile phones will bring, as well as topics such as enterprise development and entrepreneurship and entrepreneur IP building.
Zhao Ming said when talking about the independent Huawei business: "Objectively speaking, the relationship between our two sides is more clean than that of any other company, and the relationship with Huawei may be more severe. Zhao Ming said frankly, the original family is too successful, the greater the pressure to be independent, the original does not have this ability, some things that do not need to be done, to start from scratch, the starting point is high, but also means that others have expectations for you, or the invisible pressure on yourself is greater.
Alibaba International released the translation model Marco, which surpassed Google, DeepL, etc
On October 16, Ali International's newly developed translation model Marco was officially launched, supporting 15 global mainstream languages including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and French. Based on Flores, a widely used open-source evaluation dataset, the Marco translation model is ahead of the benchmark translation products on the market, such as Google Translate, DeepL, GPT-4, etc., in terms of BLEU automatic evaluation indicators, and the effect and cost are industry-leading. At present, Marco has been opened for use by global users on the Aidge, the official website of Alibaba International.
Huawei's new brain-computer interface chip patent has been exposed, which is its second brain-computer interface patent
A few days ago, a patent titled "method for controlling stimulators, stimulators, brain-computer interface systems and chips" was recently published on the website of the State Intellectual Property Office, and the inventor of the patent is Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; The patent provides a method for controlling the stimulator, the stimulator, the brain-computer interface system, and the chip. (Finance Associated Press)
CATL established the Hong Kong Research Institute
On 15 October, CATL Hong Kong Research Institute was inaugurated, marking CATL's official presence at the Hong Kong Science Park. It is reported that the research institute has a total area of more than 800 square meters and is the sixth global R&D center set up by CATL outside Chinese mainland and Germany. The first phase of CATL's Hong Kong Research Institute will launch nearly 100 R&D projects and plan to recruit 200 people to engage in scientific research. At the same time, CATL will also work with local universities to vigorously promote industry-university-research cooperation and accelerate the construction of Hong Kong's new energy value chain and zero-carbon scenarios.
International news
It is reported that Meta has laid off another employee, involving WhatsApp, Instagram and other departments
According to The Verge, Meta has begun laying off employees in several departments, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs, according to people familiar with the matter. These layoffs appear to be related to the restructuring of specific teams rather than large-scale company-wide layoffs. At the moment, some Meta employees have started posting on social media that they have been fired, but Meta has not yet responded to this news. (IT House)
Apple's App Store crashed globally late at night, blocking app downloads
After 23:00 p.m. on October 16, a large number of Apple users at home and abroad reported that they could not use the App Store, whether it was iPhone, iPad or Mac, they could not download apps, nor could they load the list of apps that had purchased apps, involving China, America, Europe, Japan, South Korea and other places. But it doesn't seem that all users have been affected, at least these issues have not yet been reflected on Apple's official system status page, although a large number of users do say they are affected.
Anthony, the "godfather of unmanned driving", said that he is more optimistic about Tesla and hopes that Musk will have less hype
On October 16, according to Business Insider, Antho·ny Levandowski, known as the "godfather of autonomous driving", said in an interview that Tesla currently has an extremely strong position in the field of autonomous driving, and may even be ahead of its rival Waymo in some key aspects. Lewandowski is an engineer who co-founded Google's self-driving project Project Chauffeur, now Waymo, in 2009 and is regarded as a pioneer in the self-driving car industry.
Some analysts pointed out that Musk talked eloquently at the press conference, but there were too few details. Lewandowski agrees with this, and he hopes that Tesla will provide more substantive content and less hype on self-driving technology. (Phoenix.com Technology)
Intel's R&D investment exceeds that of AMD and Nvidia combined, but its market capitalization still lags behind
According to the latest data from the Tech Fund, Intel's R&D spending in 2023 will exceed $16.5 billion, which is not only more than Nvidia and AMD combined, but also makes it one of the semiconductor companies with the highest R&D investment. But Intel's market capitalization still lags behind Nvidia and AMD, with Nvidia reaching $3.237 trillion as of October 15, 2024, AMD has a market capitalization of $255.39 billion, and Intel's market capitalization is only $98.96 billion.
While Intel CEOs are already working to cut product lines and projects, there are still dozens of product categories and thousands of SKUs covering multiple areas such as CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, networking equipment, quantum computing, and more. In addition, Intel also has semiconductor production processes and packaging technologies, each of which requires a large amount of R&D funds to maintain. NVIDIA's R&D investment is mainly focused on data center GPUs, client PC GPUs, network equipment and DPUs and other products, and the hot sales of these products also make it able to increase R&D investment to promote the development of new products.
The new M4 MacBook Pro is expected to be released this month, with news that Apple's supply chain is ready
On October 16, DigiTimes reported that Apple's supply chain has prepared for the new MacBook Pro with the M4 chip, and the new model is expected to be released this month. Analysts believe that the latest M4 MacBook Pro may drive shipments of related components, and "this trend is evident in the September revenue reports of fruit chain component suppliers such as Zhaoli Technology and Xinriyu".
For programmers
openKylin launches the RISC-V unified image burning tool to solve the problem of fragmentation
openKylin said yesterday that it has supported a variety of hardware platforms based on the RISC-V architecture, but due to the inconsistent definition of hardware interfaces of various RISC-V vendors, the format and content of the img image partition of each RISC-V platform are inconsistent, so it is impossible to make a unified img image.
In order to solve the problem of RISC-V image fragmentation, the RISC-V SIG team of the openKylin community has developed the RISC-V unified image burning tool, which allows users to use the programming tool to build and burn img images suitable for a RISC-V hardware platform based on the unified ISO image. At present, the burning tool supports VisionFive2, LicheePi4a and Milk-v-pioneer, and more platforms will be added in the future.