Mainland China took the lead in releasing a high-definition wireless audio standard
Recently, the Chinese Music Association, together with Sennheiser, Goertek, Huawei and other more than 30 domestic and foreign enterprises, formulated and officially announced the high-definition wireless audio standard - HWA (Hi-Res Wireless Audio). The development of clear standards for consumers' listening experience such as wireless audio quality, connectivity, power consumption, and noise reduction will bring the high-definition wireless audio experience closer to more consumers and continue to promote the development of the audio industry. The official release of this standard also marks that the mainland wireless audio industry has reached the world's leading level in technical research, product design, quality evaluation and other fields, and will continue to gather industry consensus in the future to promote the healthy development and sustained prosperity of the mainland audio industry. Subsequently, "the mainland took the lead in releasing high-definition wireless audio standards" on Weibo hot search, triggering heated discussion among netizens.
Thales, Ericsson and Qualcomm plan to launch a 5G space program
Thales, Ericsson, and Qualcomm have announced the launch of a 5G space program, which plans to enable smartphone users to access high-speed connectivity no matter where they are in the world by developing satellite networks. French aerospace company Thales, Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson and American chip company Qualcomm are testing how to use low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to run 5G networks to help individuals in extreme geographic and remote areas access the internet. The tripartites plan to launch satellites in 4-5 years, which could cost 8 billion euros. At present, the project is still in its infancy, and the three parties have conducted parallel studies and are about to enter the ground testing stage. It is expected that the final network speed can achieve "tens of megabits per second", and the speed is between 4G and 5G.
During the year, the three members will leave, what happened to Huawei's intelligent vehicle division?
It is reported that Chen Yilun, chief architect of the intelligent driving product department of Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solutions Division (hereinafter referred to as "BU"), has left the company, and Chen Yilun has been at least the third core person to leave huawei's intelligent vehicle BU this year. At the end of January this year, Su Zhen, the former president of Huawei Intelligent Driving, left his job; Three months later, Cai Jianyong, general manager of Huawei's smart car BU intelligent vehicle control product department, was confirmed to "jump ship". That is to say, in just half a year, Huawei's smart car BU has three members of the general left. For the departure of Chen Yilun and other core personnel, Lin Xi, deputy secretary-general of the Intelligent Networking Professional Committee of the China Communications Industry Association, said in an interview with the Securities Daily reporter: "Due to laws and regulations, road conditions, data independence, and technical restrictions, the current actual scenario of automatic driving is difficult to land quickly, and in the short term, advanced automatic driving technology can only be realized in the laboratory state, and it is temporarily impossible to achieve large-scale mass production and performance cash." At the same time, the research and development of autonomous driving technology requires a lot of financial and material resources, and for Huawei at this stage, it is obvious that the investment consumption is too large, and it is not what it is willing to see. Huawei has repeatedly adjusted the organizational structure and internal resources of the car, focusing on areas where it can quickly achieve commercial use.
Rao Zhengguang, Vice President of Huawei's Digital Finance Corps: Four major technological capabilities promote the digital development of the financial industry
At the CXO Innovation Private Conference of Huawei Financial Brokerage, Rao Zhengguang, Vice President of Huawei Digital Finance Corps, said that HUAWEI CLOUD serves more than 300 financial customers worldwide, and will support the digital development of the financial industry from four aspects in the future, one is to provide a new ICT infrastructure that is resilient, reliable, flexible and efficient, intelligent operation and maintenance, and green and low-carbon. The second is to build an agile and intelligent business engine, focusing on agile development, precision marketing, distributed core, real-time risk control, and automated operation scenarios; The third is to rely on Hongmeng, 5G news, live short videos, and digital people to build new digital channels; The fourth is to help the digital transformation of the industry in the fields of inclusive finance, industrial finance, and scene finance, and promote business innovation from the three perspectives of integrated ecology, diversified services, and business models.
Virtual digital people are hot out of the circle, and the overall market size will reach 270 billion yuan in 2030
The overall market size will reach 270 billion yuan in 2030, which is the calculation of the virtual digital human market in the mainland by the Head Leopard Research Institute. In recent years, driven by the concept of metaversity, the AI digital human market has heated up rapidly, from virtual singer Luo Tianyi, to digital virtual idols Ling _Ling, AYAYI, Nan Mengxia, Liu Yexi, and then to the virtual idol group A-soul and other virtual digital people frequently appear in the public eye. "Virtual digital people have begun to integrate into our lives with unique creativity and interactivity. However, at present, virtual digital people are still in the initial stage of development, and there is still a certain distance from the landing of scale. A number of industry insiders said in an interview with the "China Business Daily" reporter.
Gross profit margin hit a new high in nearly 26 years, and the tide of cutting orders could not be "cut" by TSMC
TSMC's second-quarter financial report was freshly released, and its performance was still strong: revenue, net profit, and gross profit margin all increased, and the profit side performance was particularly prominent. Among them, the net profit soared by 76.4% year-on-year, and the gross profit margin hit a new high in nearly 26 years. However, from the changes in the revenue structure, we can still find some unfavorable signals. In the second quarter, the proportion of smartphone business revenue declined again, and the revenue growth rate was only a mere 3%; Businesses such as automotive and the Internet of Things have not seen much improvement, and high-performance computing has almost become the only revenue engine. Thinking back to the previous semiconductor single storm, investors seem to have a hard time dispelling their worries about TSMC's performance in the second half of the year. However, TSMC's senior management is still full of confidence in its own business – in addition to optimistic about the growth potential of the high-performance computing business, this confidence also comes from the trust in its own market share and technology. It is a well-known fact that the advanced process field is the double male chase of TSMC and Samsung. For TSMC, as long as it can ensure that it wins Samsung, other opponents will not be a problem.
The power battery recycling market size is expected to exceed 40 billion yuan in 2025
The 7th China International New Energy Conference 2022, co-organized by Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Network (SMM) and Shanghai Futures Exchange, was held from July 14 to July 15. Gao Weiqiao, deputy general manager of Zhejiang Huayou Recycling Technology Co., Ltd., said that the power battery will usher in a large-scale retirement period, and the field of power battery recycling has become a blue ocean market. It is estimated that in 2021, the scale of the mainland waste power battery recycling market will further increase to about 15 billion yuan, and the market size will exceed 40 billion yuan by 2025.
BYD reinforces intelligence and intends to develop its own intelligent driving chip
To make up for the shortcomings of intelligence, BYD chose to start from familiar areas. 36 Carbon learned from a number of people familiar with the matter that BYD is planning to independently develop a special chip for intelligent driving, the project is led by BYD Semiconductor team, has sent demand to the design company, and it is also recruiting BSP technical team. "If the progress is fast, you can tape the film at the end of the year." A source told 36 Carbon. BSP is a board support package that provides a standard interface to the operating system running on the chip. Industry insiders told 36 Carbon that starting from BSP, it is not uncommon to start chip research and development, "The chip is not the primary, you can develop BSP on the development board, wait for the chip to come out, and then do joint debugging." ”
Byte's server products based on self-developed DPU boards are commercially available and will look for opportunities outside of IaaS
ByteDance's volcano engine server product "elastic bare metal cloud server EBM" based on self-developed DPU board has been officially commercialized, which is equipped with Intel and AMD's latest computing platforms, and external customers can purchase it on the official website of Volcano Engine. Volcano Engine EBM adopts software and hardware virtualization technology, which mainly serves high-bandwidth, low-latency, data-intensive application scenarios, such as intelligent driving, biomedicine, network security and other fields. DPU, or Data Processing Unit, is considered by the industry to be the third most important computing chip in the data center scenario after CPUs and GPUs. It is understood that Volcano Engine is a cloud service platform under ByteDance, which began to do self-developed DPU board business in early 2020, that is, smart network cards, mainly to solve problems such as virtualization offload and storage optimization. Although the core of DPU comes from the IaaS field of cloud computing, Volcano Engine and douyin and other services see the value of DPU smart network cards in the fields of PaaS, SaaS and storage.
Shenzhen Huaqiang North ran another chip IPO
July 15 news, Zhongke Blue News officially landed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, the IPO price of 91.66 yuan / share, the main business of Zhongke Blue News for wireless audio SoC chip research and development, design and sales, the main products include TWS Bluetooth headset chip, non-TWS Bluetooth headset chip, Bluetooth speaker chip, etc., the product can be widely used in TWS Bluetooth headset, neck-mounted headphones, headsets, business unilateral Bluetooth headsets, as well as Bluetooth speakers, car Bluetooth audio, TV audio, smart wearable devices, Wireless interconnect terminals such as IoT devices.