Industry Trends

1. Global research: AI and machine learning, cloud computing and 5G will be the most important technologies

Recently, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) released the IEEE Global Survey: The Impact of Technology in 2022 and Beyond. According to the survey results, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud computing and 5G technology will become the most important technologies affecting 2022, while manufacturing, financial services and healthcare industries will be the most benefited from technological development in 2022. industry. The report shows that the three technologies of artificial intelligence and machine learning (21%), cloud computing (20%) and 5G (17%), which will be rapidly developed and widely used in 2021, will also continue to affect people's work and work in 2022. life has an important impact. In this regard, global respondents believe that industries such as telemedicine (24%), distance education (20%), communications (15%), entertainment sports and live events (14%) will have more room for growth in 2022 .

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2. my country has built the world's largest and most technologically advanced 5G independent networking network

Up to now, my country has built more than 1.15 million 5G base stations, accounting for more than 70% of the world's total. It is the world's largest and most technologically advanced 5G independent network. All prefecture-level urban areas, more than 97% of county urban areas and 40% of townships and towns have achieved 5G network coverage. 5G end users have reached 450 million, accounting for more than 80% of the world. 5G core technology remains ahead. Chinese enterprises have declared that they have global leading advantages in the number of 5G standard essential patents, domestic brand 5G system equipment shipments, and chip design capabilities. In the first three quarters, 5G mobile phone shipments in the domestic market reached 183 million units, a year-on-year increase of 70.4%, accounting for 73.8% of mobile phone shipments in the same period. From the perspective of coverage, 100% of prefecture-level cities, 97% of county towns and 40% of townships have already covered 5G networks.

3. China Mobile has been issued IPO approval by the China Securities Regulatory Commission and is about to start the issuance

A few days ago, on December 13, China Mobile obtained the IPO approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and is about to start the issuance. According to the prospectus, the funds raised from this issuance will focus on "new infrastructure, new elements, and new kinetic energy", and will be invested in "5G boutique network construction projects", "cloud resources new infrastructure construction projects", "gigabit smart home construction projects" and "smart China". Taiwan Construction Project" and "New Generation Information Technology R&D and Digital Intelligence Ecological Construction Project". According to public information, based on the goal of being a world-class information service technology innovation company, China Mobile has made every effort to promote new infrastructure, integrate new elements, stimulate new kinetic energy, and unswervingly fulfill its responsibilities as the main force in building a network power, digital China, and smart society. Mission, and strive to build a "great power" for the party and the country to rely on and trust in the Internet and information industry. Relying on stable, positive and sustainable performance and financial performance, China Mobile has long been committed to creating rich investment returns and greater shareholder value for investors, and the considerable dividend income has further boosted China Mobile's investment value.

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4. Apple officially released the Android version of the AirTag "tracker detection" app

Apple recently released an Android software that can be used to find AirTag Bluetooth anti-lost devices. After the AirTag was launched earlier this year, some people questioned that the product could be used by criminals to track someone by quietly slipping it into someone's bag or car. After receiving this feedback, Apple released some software updates for its own products to warn people if they were carrying unknown AirTags. Also, at that time they would provide an app for Android users to locate the AirTag--Tracker Detect". According to Apple's developer page on the Google Play Store, the app was released a few days ago and is 19MB in size, requiring location and matching with The Bluetooth device pairing permission can work properly. At present, it should be said that the "Tracker Detect" application function is still very simple, it is a scanning program, and the user can only actively scan the device. It cannot actively discover that the device is around.

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5. "Attach" NFC to your clothes: you can pay securely by waving your sleeves

A recent University of California study successfully enabled wearers to digitally interact with nearby NFC devices by integrating advanced magnetic metamaterials into everyday clothing. Moreover, compared to the traditional NFC function that can only take effect within 10cm, such clothes have a signal within 1.2 meters. The starting point of the researchers this time is to establish a whole-body intelligent connection on the human body, so it is necessary to arrange wireless sensors in different places for signal collection and transmission to form a magnetic induction network. Inspired by the production of modern low-cost vinyl garments, this magnetic induction element can be directly "affixed" to ready-made clothes by hot pressing without the need for complex sewing techniques and wire connections, and the material itself is inexpensive. However, there are also disadvantages. For example, the material can only "survive" in cold water for 20 minutes. In order to withstand the washing frequency of daily clothes, more durable magnetic induction materials need to be developed.

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6. Another new force in domestic electric vehicle entrepreneurship

According to media reports, the new energy vehicle brand "NIUTRON" will be officially released on December 15. Its brand founder is Li Yinan, who was also the founder of Mavericks Electric Vehicle. It has been three years since Li Yinan built the car. It is reported that Liu Chuankai, vice president of Mavericks Design, has joined the team. At present, the R&D team of Niu Chuangxin Energy has nearly 1,000 people. It is reported that Niu Innovation Energy has landed in Changzhou. According to relevant sources, Niu Chuangxin Energy has acquired Jiangsu Jintan Dacheng Automobile Technology Industrial Park. Outside the factory, the "NIUTRON" logo is also very conspicuous. This industrial park is only more than 40 kilometers away from the Changzhou production base of Ideal Auto, and only more than 30 kilometers away from the Changzhou factory of BAIC New Energy and the Changzhou base of Maverick Electric Vehicles. However, the relevant person in charge of Niu Innovation Energy told the media that his company has no direct relationship with Mavericks Electric.

7. China Automobile Association: The new energy vehicle market has shifted from policy-driven to market-driven

According to the statistics and analysis of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, in November 2021, the production and sales of automobiles continued to decline year-on-year. Although the downward pressure is great, the industry still has many bright spots. First, the market demand for new energy vehicles is still strong, and production and sales continue to hit new highs. The cumulative output has exceeded 3 million units, and the sales volume is close to 3 million units. The cumulative sales penetration rate from January to November has increased to 12.7%. Acceptance is getting higher and higher, and the new energy vehicle market has shifted from policy-driven to market-driven; second, this month's auto exports also continued to maintain rapid year-on-year growth; third, the share of Chinese brand passenger vehicles maintained a year-on-year increase for 8 consecutive months. IT House learned that in November 2021, the performance of the new energy vehicle market is still outstanding, with production and sales hitting record highs, reaching 457,000 and 450,000 respectively, a month-on-month increase of 15.1% and 17.3%, and a year-on-year increase of 1.3 times and 1.2%. times. From January to November 2021, the production and sales of new energy vehicles will reach 3.023 million and 2.990 million respectively, a year-on-year increase of 1.7 times.

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8. Special rectification of "virtual currency mining" in Zhejiang

According to the China Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision News, the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Provincial Party Committee Network Information Office and other departments have recently formed a joint inspection team. In this way, 36 IP addresses of 20 state-owned units in 7 regions of the province were raided and 36 IP addresses were checked, and a number of violations of regulations and disciplines involving the use of public resources to participate in virtual currency "mining" and transactions were seriously investigated. In addition, 78 units in Zhejiang Province suspected of using public resources to "mine" carried out self-examination and self-correction, found out the situation and dealt with it, and carried out party discipline and regulations education by drawing inferences from other facts. State-owned units checked more than 500 personal computers, servers and other terminals, seized 68 "mining machines" and more than 260 single machines, and verified 12 virtual currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero, and Magpie. Since the beginning of this year, multiple departments have jointly carried out a comprehensive and whole-chain encirclement and suppression of virtual currency "mining" behavior. The People's Bank of China, together with relevant departments, has issued the "Notice on Further Preventing and Disposing of the Risk of Hype in Virtual Currency Transactions", clarifying that virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities Activity.

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9. China's first hyper-realistic virtual idol signed with Warner Bros.

China's first hyper-realistic virtual idol - Ha Jiang signed with Warner, becoming Warner's first virtual music artist, also known as "metaverse virtual artist". She released her first solo debut single "MISS WHO", whose music was composed from the world-class head record company Warner Music, and the technology supports the intelligent synthetic sound customization technology from Microsoft. Microsoft chose Hajiang because in the contemporary era of continuous evolution of AI technology, the ability of machines to speak has changed from the initial cold words to the ability to speak and learn to sing. For Microsoft, Warner, and Harbin, this is a complementary and win-win situation. At this stage, it is still relatively difficult to make a profit on virtual idols, but the potential is great, and there will continue to be business opportunities. Virtual idols are still in the initial stage of development.

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10. MIT develops a new AI vision system

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a framework that could help machines see the world like humans do. Their new AI system for analyzing scenes learns to perceive real-world objects from just a few images, and perceives the scene based on those learned objects. The researchers built the framework using probabilistic programming, an artificial intelligence approach that enables the system to cross-check detected objects with input data to see if the images recorded by the cameras might match any candidate scenes. In addition to improving the safety of self-driving cars, the work could also improve the performance of computer perception systems, the researchers noted. In the future, the researchers hope to push the system further so that it can learn about an object from a single image or frame in a movie, and then be able to robustly detect that object in different scenes. They also want to explore using 3DP3 to collect training data for neural networks.

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11. This algorithm can identify potential cyber offenders based on chat frequency alone

Recently, computer researchers from Tokushima University in Japan and Cyber Agent, an agent of a large Japanese network company, published a paper in "Human Behavior Computing". They used machine learning methods to analyze the usage data of a social game under Cyber Agent. And without monitoring the chat content, only based on basic information such as the number of chats, chat objects, chat time, etc., it is possible to more accurately identify potential cyber offenders and predict the approximate time of illegal acts. The researchers combined a variety of neural network models and algorithms to build artificial intelligence for predicting illegal events. Performance test results show that AI can more accurately predict future offender and victim accounts based on user data. Entering the time, frequency, and object of the user's chat within two months, AI's prediction accuracy for illegal accounts in the next two months can reach 84.85%, and the prediction accuracy for victim accounts is also close to 85%.

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12. In the future, Samsung Galaxy Buds will be equipped with biometric sensors

According to a recently published patent, Samsung is considering equipping future Galaxy Buds with biometric sensors for healthcare purposes. In June of this year, Samsung Electronics applied to the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) for a patent for an "audio output device and method of operation for obtaining biometric data." The 47-page document, approved on December 9, 2021, details how and why Samsung wants to equip its Bluetooth earbuds with multiple biometric sensors. By equipping the headset with biometric sensors, information about the user's health status can be detected. The sensor is placed at the tip of the earbud so that it is in the user's ear canal when the earbud is worn. This allows for optimal measurements. Biometric sensors enable users to obtain various health information. Additionally, the patented Samsung Galaxy Buds are equipped with a "worn detection sensor" that can detect if the earphones are being worn. This means that the biometric sensor will only take measurements when it is properly attached to the ear. Whether Samsung actually intends to include biometric sensors for its future Bluetooth earbuds is unclear. This is certainly not unthinkable.