Electronic Enthusiast Network Report (Text/Zhang Ying) On June 21, the focus of attention in the technology industry came to the Huawei Developer Conference in Dongguan, and Huawei pure-blooded Hongmeng officially sounded the clarion call for commercial use. Huawei has announced that HarmonyOS NEXT will no longer support Android apps, breaking the dominance of Western operating systems in China. With its excellent features of full-scene coverage, native intelligence, and native security, the system leads global users into an unprecedented new era of intelligent life.
Yu Chengdong, Executive Director of Huawei and Chairman of Huawei Device BG, said: "Today's launch of Pureblood HarmonyOS is a full-scenario intelligent operating system based on OpenHarmony, which is an independent and controllable operating system originating from China. Native HarmonyOS breaks the bipolar pattern of mobile operating systems, realizes the autonomy and controllability, safety and reliability of the core technology of the operating system, and provides a better choice for the world. ”
At the developer conference on the same day, Huawei launched the beta version of HarmonyOS NEXT for developers, which is expected to be commercially available in the fourth quarter. In response to the acceleration of the era of intelligent connectivity, Openharmony, which focuses on IoT applications, is becoming the fastest-growing open-source operating system for smart terminals. On June 21, HiSilicon announced that it would work with OpenHarmony to bring huge imagination to the future of intelligent connectivity composed of IoT terminals, smartphones, PCs and other intelligent terminals.
What are the core competencies of HiSilicon and OpenHarmony? What are the improvements in IoT scenarios? What are the milestones of HiSilicon's cooperation with OpenHarmony? Following in the footsteps of electronics enthusiast reporters, let's take a look at the HiSilicon + OpenHarmony exhibition area.
Grow together and prosper together! HiSilicon and OpenHarmony are building three innovative advantages
On June 13, data from Counterpoint Research, an international research firm, showed that Huawei's HarmonyOS operating system has reached an important milestone in the Chinese market. In the first quarter of 2024, HarmonyOS surpassed Apple's iOS for the first time to become the second largest mobile operating system in China. HarmonyOS's growth is not limited to China. Globally, its market share doubled year-over-year to reach 4% in the first quarter of 2024.
Image from Counterpoint's official website
"OpenHarmony, as the underlying architecture of HarmonyOS NEXT, has a self-developed HarmonyOS kernel that surpasses the Linux kernel, which is more secure and smoother, and the performance is improved by 10.7%." Gong Ti, Chairman of the OpenHarmony Project Group Working Committee and President of Huawei's Device BG Software Dept, said.
In 2020, Huawei donated the basic capabilities of the HarmonyOS to the OpenSource Foundation to form the OpenHarmony open source project, which has been open source for more than three years, with more than 250 partners joining the OpenHarmony ecosystem, more than 7,500 co-builders contributing, contributing more than 100 million lines of code, and more than 570 software and hardware products passing the OpenHarmony compatibility test, covering education, finance, transportation, government affairs, and Medical, aviation and other industries.
As the world's leading semiconductor design, development, sales, and after-sales service company, HiSilicon has always been committed to enabling the Internet of Everything (IoT) smart devices and building the cornerstone of the intelligent era.
HiSilicon and HarmonyOS have partnered to provide a comprehensive solution for simplified, small, and standard devices, and has three innovative advantages: First, interoperability: HiSilicon's OpenHarmony solution connects HarmonyOS and OpenHarmonyOS for the first time, enabling the interconnection between Huawei products and other smart products.
Second, solutions such as HiSilicon Honghu introduce richer intelligent interaction methods to OpenHarmony, such as starlight pointing remote control, radar and dToF fusion perception, etc., which are combined with the HarmonyOS soft bus to provide innovative opportunities for intelligent interaction.
HiSilicon has been an important contributor to OpenHarmony, combining the underlying design of the chip architecture with the understanding of the OS, and providing developers and consumers with a better experience through the collaborative optimization of software and hardware.
Experience upgrade: Honghu Media + OpenHarmony, smart large-screen interaction and display upgrade
Smart wearable + OpenHarmony to improve sports health and happiness index, and expand new application space
Ivan Lam, a senior analyst at Counterpoint, said that for the operating system and the ecosystem, the user's requirements are "both, and, and", not only to adapt to various applications, but also to have a good user experience, and to cover all kinds of long-tail requirements, and the compatibility and coverage expansion of the ecosystem is a long-term process, which requires the participation of hardware manufacturers and software developers. Since the cooperation between HiSilicon and OpenHarmony, HiSilicon has achieved some phased results in software and hardware synergy.
At present, the pursuit of intelligent life has been extended to the media center of the living room, and the increasingly technological TV, projector and other equipment are seizing the C position in the family living room. At present, the functions of smart TVs and projectors are immature, and poor interaction ability is the main pain point. Bird & Bird Media + OpenHarmony booth gave us the latest answers. Walking into the booth of Honghu Media, the reporter first saw that Konka TV and Huawei HiSilicon jointly demonstrated the innovative solution of Honghu Media based on the OpenHarmony Standard level.
The booth staff said,Konka smart screen is equipped with Hisilicon Honghu media entry-level T300chip,Mainstream solution for2K,With AI-PQ image quality tuning function,120HzHigh brush super sensitive screen,P3Ultra wide color gamut,HDRhigh dynamic range image。
The combination of Bird & Bird media devices and OpenHarmony has achieved experience upgrades in two major directions: first, it runs more smoothly and occupies less resources, through the vertical integration of software and hardware cores, with the support of the underlying distributed technology, OpenHarmony can seamlessly call peripheral external devices such as wireless speakers to build a cross-device collaborative audio-visual system; The second is the use of pointing remote control,With the blessing of the Starlight solution,Starlight pointing remote control can provide a better experience for smart TV interaction。 It is reported that Konka smart screen has not yet been on the star flash remote control,6month21day,Haier Casarte and HiSilicon launched the world's first star flash pointing remote control。
"Develop a projector that supports the OpenHarmony system,In the future, it can be interconnected with Hongmeng mobile phones,The experience is more silky,OpenHarmony's own distributed soft bus and the smoothness of the software,Compared with Android, it has obvious advantages,More advantages in memory occupation,Android platform may need1G occupation,Open source Hongmeng only needs 512M is enough。 The staff of the Shenzhen New Zhilian Software booth told reporters.
"The mainstream projector solutions we provide to customers, mainly using Honghu P300 projection solution, monolithic LCD projection equipment mainly matches 1080P resolution, projector brightness can be more than 500 lumens, 2LCD projector can be more than 1000 lumens, 3LCD can be more than 2000 lumens, equipped with Honghu P800 program, is the main product of 4K projection, can be customized and developed according to customer needs." Field crews are optimistic about the growth in demand in the home and commercial projection markets this year.
According to IDC's latest survey, China's smart wearable market shipments increased by 36.2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, achieving a clear market growth trend. Pan Xuefei, assistant research director of IDC China, said that the current wearable market has an obvious trend of upgrading around experience, and user consumption in the watch market still focuses on brands, especially in the mid-to-high-end market. Exquisite appearance and attractiveness are important, but technological innovation, especially in the field of health, is very important, and the market urgently needs the emergence of new chips, sensor technologies and algorithms to create more choices for consumers.
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Click to view - Equipped with HiSilicon's wearable solution watch dial
The reporter learned about the latest product progress at the smart wearable + OpenHarmony booth. The staff of the Lingwei booth told reporters: "Navigation applications, payment applications, information provision, Himalayas, bus NFC, healthy blood oxygen and blood pressure detection are all application points that consumers focus on, in running, cycling and other scenarios where users are inconvenient to take out their mobile phones, you can first use your mobile phone to scan the code of the smart watch, and the mobile phone will automatically flow to the smart watch when the application is navigating." It is convenient for people to exercise outdoors, and a pleasant experience will follow. ”
The reporter tested multiple functions on the spot, and it was indeed silky smooth to use. The Lingwei watch adopts HiSilicon's smart wearable W610 solution, which is based on a 4-core architecture of dual CPU+GPU+DSP, with strong performance, smooth and cool UI display, and low-latency video decoding and playback. The W610 supports a 60Hz refresh rate, and its GPU technology supports AMOLED 16.7 million colors and MIPI 60 frames.
It is reported that HiSilicon cooperated with smart watches from brands such as Lingwei, Kumi, and Yizhun to showcase products that have passed the OpenHarmony certification. The HiSilicon W610 has been commercialized in a number of LQ series smart watches of Lingwei Technology, which supports OpenHarmony and Native+JS dual engines, and supports applications such as payment, rides, navigation, and large models.
New Interconnection Experience: Starlight Router helps home networking, and StarLight 8K Mouse helps e-sports players gallop on the field
Wu Hequan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in communication networks, said that the proposal of Starlight technology was born at the right time, and wireless short-range communication is developing towards ultra-wideband, low latency, high reliability and synaesthesia, which also reflects a new innovative mechanism. Ma Bo, an analyst in the global communications industry, believes that Starlight technology combines the advantages of Bluetooth and WiFi, and has surpassed it in terms of maximum number of connections and latency. In the Starlight + OpenHarmony exhibition area, reporters also found exciting innovative products.
HiSilicon exhibited a StarLink router equipped with Wi-Fi 7 chip and StarLink chip. The display is equipped with the Lingxiao 790 set, and the uplink and downlink speed of Wi-Fi7 can reach 3.6Gbps, supporting two-way concurrent and high-speed network for the whole house. The most interesting thing about this router is that it uses local AI cores and anti-interference algorithms, and the more Wi-Fi is used, the easier it is to use. Comprehensively improve the efficiency of home networking and allow more devices to access the network at high speed.
For multi-room, multi-device access scenarios, Huawei Lingxiao sub-parent router Q7 debuts, this is the industry's first home Starlight gateway router, the product is equipped with 2.5G network port + Wi-Fi7, the whole house Wi-Fi7 speed exceeds 2G, Starlight and Wi-Fi devices can be connected, HiSilicon booth staff said that this router can support more than 400 device access, is expected to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The Starlight 8K mouse has attracted special attention. The real-time refresh rate of Starlight Mouse reaches 8000Hz, it has a wireless true 8K refresh rate, and the ultra-low latency transmission and reception reaches 110us. The reporter experienced a live experience, the response is very fast, it is particularly worth noting, the scene considers the deployment of a lot of equipment, the wireless interference is large, and it does not affect the performance of this mouse at all, the wireless return rate of the starlight mouse reaches 4kHz, which eliminates the problem of equipment jamming and "not following hands" from the root, and improves the player's experience.
Yueying Vision + OpenHarmony, smart vision upgrade has been implemented in home security and industry applications
Zhou Jun, secretary general of the CSHIA Smart Home Industry Alliance, found that in the past two years, home security cameras have been activated, mainly due to face recognition of AI functions, which brings the social value of family information interaction, but privacy protection is also a pain point that home security cameras pay special attention to. According to the statistics of Lotu Technology, the monocular camera with 300-4 million pixels in the home security camera is the mainstream choice in the current market, with a total sales share of 55.1%; The growth momentum of high-pixel products cannot be ignored, among which 5 million pixel products have the largest growth.
At HDC, Dahua showcased its AI camera and NVR solution based on HiSilicon's OpenHarmony solution. The staff of the Dahua booth said that the mainstream trend of home dual cameras is 10 million pixels, and the HiSilicon chip is used for object shooting in the high-point distant view of the Dahua Hongmeng privacy protection camera, which has a very good effect and no distortion in the surrounding area. In addition to the HiSilicon Vision Chip, this camera also has a Starlight connection chip, a dual-core solution that brings easy use and ease of use for home cameras, and HarmonyOS native applications solve the pain points of IoT security and prevent privacy leakage.
Dahua's OpenHarmony NVR solution has been applied on a large scale in scenarios such as power assurance and line inspection. Traditional screenless cameras or NVR devices, empowered by the Yueying OpenHarmony liberation solution, can be used to perform convenient proximal maintenance and testing of the camera through mobile devices such as mobile phones, as well as convenient video browsing, file downloading, log collection, and multi-modal interaction of NVRs on mobile devices.
Up to now, 14 chips, including Bird T300, Bird M900, Yueying EY300, Yueying DV300, Yueying S750, wearable main control chip HiSilicon W610, and Starlink IoT chips, including HiSilicon H3861 and Starlink BS21, have been certified by OpenHarmony XTS, covering multiple scenarios such as TVs, projections, cameras, watches, hearing aids, and routers. HiSilicon said that more HiSilicon solutions and products will support OpenHarmony in the future, and everyone can look forward to it.
The starlight lives up to the passers-by, and the rivers favor the hard-working. This year marks the 20th anniversary of HiSilicon's establishment and the fourth year of the development of open source HarmonyOS, and the joint efforts of the two parties will open a new chapter and open a new era for the development of the global intelligent Internet of Things. We believe that HiSilicon's 5+2 solution will fully support OpenHarmony, and that more innovative products and solutions will be launched in the future, providing customized solutions for more industries.