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1. Ren Zhengfei issued glory phone incentives, grassroots quarterly bonus is expected to reach millions;
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Towards the end of the year, the cell phone market came cut down a single message in the industry a pessimistic mood, Huawei Internet brand glory phone a message today was brush burst friends circle.
Earlier today, a picture circulated on the internet showed that a single royalty commission package was released, mainly to enhance the sales volume of Glory brand handsets and to grant a single commission bonus package for Glory brand handsets to be implemented in the fourth quarter of this year. According to estimates, Glory phone grassroots employees is expected quarterly bonuses of up to one million.
According to media reports, the phone has been verified to Honor mobile phones, the document is true. Huawei founder and president Ren Zhengfei also personally signed the document.
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It is reported that glory brand mobile phone sales commission will be commissioned, different stalls, different models of mobile phone single commission the same. Specifically, is the glory brand mobile phone bonus = single commission * sales * acceleration incentive coefficient * contribution profit completion rate That is to say, the entire glory staff to assess the contribution of service users, after the completion of the company given the amount of profits, the more service users, the more bonuses, and not cap.
In addition, the personal bonuses do not pay on the rank.As long as make outstanding contributions, in this new program, 13 employees can also get the bonus of 23 employees.Rough estimate, Huawei's quarter-level employees also have nearly quarterly bonuses Million.
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According to insiders, the glory of the company staff incentives and assessment methods to adjust, and from the adjustment results, Glory Group is relatively more independent, there are independent financial statements, and overseas glory brand operation also belongs to the glory At present, Glory has achieved the goal of becoming the No.1 brand of Internet mobile phone in China.The next goal is to enter the world and meet the larger goal of global challenge three years ago five years ago. Therefore, some supporting SAR policies will be given .
2. Yu Chengdong: Huawei next year to enter the United States and operators to sell Mate 10;
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Sina Technology News Beijing December 18 evening news, Huawei Consumer Business President Yu Chengdong confirmed today that Huawei will aggressively enter the US market in 2018, in cooperation with mobile operators to sell smartphones.
Yu Chengdong said in an interview that the first cooperation model will be Huawei's flagship mobile phone Mate 10, but did not disclose the sales price, and which operator cooperation. Yu Chengdong said it will be held in Las Vegas next month CES show release details.
At present, Huawei sells some models in the United States through some e-retailers and online channels, but has no market share with operators, so its market share in the United States is relatively small. In the United States, most mobile phones are sold through mobile operators.
Yu Chengdong said: 'Next year, we will sell flagship handsets in the United States through mobile operators and we believe Huawei can bring value to operators and consumers in the United States, such as better products, better innovation and better users Experience. '
Yu Chengdong also said: 'We are the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, and second place is very close, so we may soon become the second largest vendor.'
In addition, Huawei is also going to sell handsets to operators in Japan next year. "Yu Chengdong said:" For Huawei, next year will be a very important year. "(Li Ming)
3. Screen fingerprints or 3D sensing suppress manufacturers bilateral bet 2018 new machine trend has been set;
Set micro-mesh news, iPhone X to give up fingerprint recognition using Face ID gradually gaining market acceptance, so that non-Apple camp mobile phone factory also accelerated layout, according to vendor vendors revealed that Huawei, OPPO, millet and other brand manufacturers have embraced 3D sensor technology. It is foreseen that, with the 3D sensing technology market continues to open, 2018 will launch a new machine with 3D sensing capabilities will be sprung up, the fingerprint recognition application under the screen may face crowding effect.
3D sensing VS screen fingerprint, surging or suppressed
According to vendor vendors, more and more mobile phone and component factory layout 3D sensing technology, as the fingerprint recognition solutions under the screen, in addition to the mainland mobile phone brand factory VIVO attitude is more clear, will still be under the screen fingerprinting technology to To achieve the purpose of strategic risk diversification, most international and Chinese mobile phone brand manufacturers hold a wait-and-see attitude toward the application of fingerprinting on the screen, and will face the test of market acceptance in the future.
In the 3D sensing technology, Qualcomm together Wonderland to develop 3D sensing technology is gradually narrowing the gap with Apple, according to expectations, Qualcomm 3D sensor chip shipments will be delivered in the first quarter of 2018 handset manufacturers implanted in Europe Philippine Technology and Huawei are also developing their own 3D optical and sensing module, the entire 3D sensing technology market will usher in the 2018 burst period.
On the screen fingerprint recognition, according to sources, Synaptics screen fingerprint recognition program has been adopted by a top handset manufacturers, the 2018 CES on-site demonstration of smart phones with on-screen fingerprint recognition, Synaptics Clear ID screen fingerprint sensor Designed for full-screen smartphones, the screen is woken up intelligently only when needed, and the mobile phone maker is said to be VIVO, which is now mass-producing and will be available soon.
In fact, the cost is high at the present stage, regardless of whether it is a 3D sensing or an in-screen fingerprinting solution. It is bound to exert a lot of pressure on the global mobile phone brand factory that is intending to reduce costs. It is difficult to import both functions at the same time Similar solutions, the current market trend has clearly moved closer to the 3D sensor solutions, including the international and mainland mobile phone brands prefer 3D sensor solutions, if the market trend remains unchanged, the future of the market fingerprint identification solutions under the screen Space will be limited.
Up to Apple, not just 3D sensing technology
Throughout the global competition in high-end smart phones, due to the extensive Apple layout, with strong resources, to open up the upstream and downstream supply chain context, the ability to integrate software and hardware, making 3D sensing face recognition, face payment, face unlock And other functions tend to improve, although Apple is not the first to launch fingerprint recognition capabilities of mobile phone brand manufacturers, but in the global mobile phone war situation often play a late starter, leading the vane's role.
In contrast, the vast majority of Android camp mobile phone brand manufacturers layout of poor management, especially in the upcoming 2017 in the more difficult environment, such as the iPhone X with a special full screen, Face ID, wireless charging capabilities, Andrews Camp handset manufacturers are difficult to quickly cut into the current just still in the trend of full screen with the concept of packaging new machines, the change is not significant.
In fact, this is also the status quo that the mobile phone oligarchy has to face.Because the Android camp vendors are limited by the middle and low-end smartphone battlefield, the product is difficult to differentiate, hard to have the same resources and chips into Apple's 3D sensing and other new technologies , Can only look forward to more diverse solutions appear.In this case, the mobile phone upstream related companies jointly launched a one-stop solution to help mobile phone brands quickly catch up with the trend of 3D sensor applications.
According to the supply chain vendors, currently including Qualcomm, Wonder King Optoelectronics, Sun Life, and other play the role of pin through the lead by Qualcomm to provide algorithms, Qi Jing Optoelectronics to provide DOE / Projector / NIR Sensor, the letter is NIR / Projector / RGB assembly, multi-party cooperation Launched 3D image sensor technology solutions, and access to domestic first-line mobile phone brands favor the industry came OPPO, millet, etc. have been approved to adopt, is expected in the development of 3D sensor technology applications to Apple to catch up.
According to Da-En-Guan Lin Enping pointed out that, in response to the market demand for 3D sensing, Dali also put relevant research, the current launch of the 3D sensor lens has three solutions, including all-glass, plastic and glass mixed lens mode + P), full plastic lens with auto zoom (AF), ultimately depends on the mobile phone brand customer needs and design, if the rear lens need to zoom, then add 3D sensor lens, each phone will be equipped with 3 or 4 Lens, cost and technical difficulty will be further enhanced.
Overall, driven by the iPhone X sales, mobile phone 3D sensing technology has become a new trend, overseas and domestic mobile phone brands are catching up and speeding up. With the application of 3D sensing technology, mobile phones will be made Equipped with lens growth, camera specifications are padded, related components manufacturers have the opportunity to rely on the rapid rise of 3D sensor business opportunities.In addition, the iPhone X shaped full screen, wireless charging function driven by 2018 domestic handset manufacturers and Supply chain manufacturers will usher in more opportunities for innovation, more supply chain components plant will stand out, but failed to successfully enter the vendor vendors will also be out.
4. Glory V10 evaluation: artificial intelligence cell phone can bring us so much!
(Set micro / evaluation) Artificial Intelligence has become the current concept of the hottest.However, Huawei has a strong technical strength of the concept has become a reality, in September this year, first introduced its first artificial intelligence processor Kirin 970, based on this The chip introduced the Huawei mate 10 series and glory V10 artificial intelligence mobile phone.
Some people say artificial intelligence or pseudo-concept, can not bring us any change, but when Xiaobian get V10 glory, completely changed my opinion. Glory V10 based on artificial intelligence technology to bring a wide range of mobile phone vision. , To share Xiaobian user experience.
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Although Xiaobian have seen this phone before the Internet, but when the opening of the packaging was also astonished a bit. I get to be glory V10 aurora blue color version. Packaging simple and generous, in addition to open the phone, the random distribution charge Head, USB cable, manual, etc. It is noteworthy that also distribution of the phone case now less and less distribution of the headset manufacturers, and delivery of mobile phone shell manufacturers more and more.
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Appearance, the glory of the V10 is quite stunning. Full power of the screen after boot one very shocking. Not only the right and left borders very narrow, and the upper and lower borders are also very narrow. Glory V10 positive with a 5.99-inch screen, 18: 9 ratio full screen design , Can have a 5.5-inch cell phone grip.Color matching, the glory of the V10 has aurora blue, dark night magic, beach gold and charm red four, full of fashion sense.
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Glory back of the V10 I like very much, using an integrated metal design smooth luster, posterior 'Big Eye Meng' dual camera design, taking into account the visual effects and the actual experience.That said, due to the use of a variety of glass and ceramic back cover cell phone, Still found the best metal back cover, do not slip non-stick fingerprints.
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Glory V10 Another I love is that the full screen design still retains the fingerprint sensor.Work, eat a large number of scenes, we are all placed on the phone on the table, if the post-fingerprint also need to pick up and then unlock Very troublesome. Glory V10 Home button is not press type, in addition to fingerprinting unlock function, but also touch the back, left or right slide to open the recent tasks, long press to return to the main screen function, a Home button instead of virtual navigation Column, but the user can still open the virtual navigation bar in the settings.The top of the fuselage for infrared sensors and noise reduction Mike.
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Side view, the glory V10 design is simple, and very thin.Full screen era how to make the phone thinner is also a major design difficulties, glory V10 uses a larger 3750 mA battery, the body thickness of only 6.97 mm.
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Glory V10 retained the headphone jack, which also won the favor of many consumers.In addition, the use of USB Type-C transmission interface, the next year more and more detailed phones will switch to this standard.The upper border is Infrared sensor and noise reduction microphone.Currently, the glory of V10 is still quite humane everywhere for users to consider very comprehensive.
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In 2012, Huawei set up a lab in 2012 to explore artificial smartphones. In 2016, the first artificial smart phone, Glory Magic, was born. In 2017, Unicorn 970 and Glory V10 fully opened the era of artificial intelligence.
The glory V10 equipped with artificial intelligence chip Kirin 970, innovative integrated NPU dedicated hardware processing unit, its AI performance significantly better than the CPU and GPU. Compared to the four Cortex-A73 core, the same AI tasks to deal with the new heterogeneous computing Architecture has about 25 times the performance and 1/50 power consumption to image recognition speed, for example, Kirin 970 can reach about 33 images per second, much higher than the industry over the same period.
At the same time, the machine is also equipped with 4 / 6GB memory, 64 / 128GB storage, 3750mAh battery (5V / 4.5A super fast charge), dual SIM dual 4G dual VoLTE, Android 8.0 EMUI 8.0 operating system.
Here we look at the powerful configuration:
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Glory V10 artificial intelligence function opens a new chapter:
Take me, let's talk about the most important technical breakthrough glory V10 - Artificial Intelligence!
The glory of V10 for the first time let Xiaobian feel what is the real artificial intelligence in the traditional sense of the smart phones are only perception, there is no cognitive ability while the glory of the V10 has the same people to recognize things Ability Next Xiaobian we see several features:
First: Glory V10 has wisdom eyes
VIA glory V10 new AI photography after more than a million photos training, real-time identification during the shooting portraits, food, night and other 13 kinds of photographs, and the subject for automatic parameter setting and imaging adjustment, even if the camera is also white Can easily shoot a good movie.
Such as when the lens is facing the leaves, can identify the leaves.
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When the lens alignment food can identify any food
When the camera is facing the kittens and puppies, the same can accurately identify (due to the office no small animals, smart with photo recognition)
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Some people say that this identification is beneficial? Xiaobian tell you.
Previously, the phone did not recognize the items you want to shoot, now know will have a lot of wonderful chemical reactions.For example, when taking pictures, when the phone identifies portraits, food, night, etc., the camera parameters will be automatically adjusted to the corresponding mode , And is the best and the real-time parameter calibration, making a photo idiot can shoot a lot of feeling, which in previous smartphones can not do.
Second: Glory V10 has the language skills of wisdom
For those who like to travel abroad, the language barrier is undoubtedly the biggest obstacle to experience the glory of the V10 AI accompanying translation function, support for 50+ language graphics and voice translation. AI custom version of Microsoft translator, the use of NPU semantic content to speed up Translation speed, to the local restaurant orders overseas, as long as the alignment menu to take pictures, you can quickly translate the name of the dishes, so 'beat that understand.' And glory V10 built-in voice translation, like a free translation assistant to take you Travel around the world.
Alignment of an English product description, can be translated into Chinese
Aiming at speaking, you can translate Chinese into dozens of languages in real time, and in the same way you can type in real-time translations. With this function, you can travel around the world with the V10.
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Third: AI blessing, face recognition features more cool, more secure
iPhone X face unlock feature makes everyone feel very cool.The glory V10 in hardware and software + artificial intelligence algorithm has this feature, and more secure.
Glory V10 face recognition to unlock, support raised his hand bright screen, pick up the phone for a moment, the phone will automatically light screen, face to the screen, the phone will automatically identify facial features, matching facial data will be able to unlock, save Intermediate steps.
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In addition, in terms of security, many users are concerned about the security risks of face unlocking, such as being peeped privately by others when the eyes are closed by unlocking the face. The glory V10 anti-eye-opening and smart display lock screen notification function can dispel users' Not only prevents the user from losing the phone or disclosing information when the eyes are closed, but also when the new message is available, only the owner can see the details of the message; for others, it hides the message and keeps your secret; in addition, the mobile phone follows the user's gaze, Whether sitting or lying on the side, the phone will automatically switch the horizontal and vertical screen to meet the face viewing angle.
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For example, based on scene analysis and semantic analysis, glory V10 smart screen and intelligent assistant initiative to recommend the necessary information for users, filtering spam, Emancipating the user's time.Double finger tap, you can start the semantic recognition, such as the news appeared Zhao Liying, two fingers press to pop-up related Weibo, Baidu Encyclopedia and other information, currently supports 12 service cards, browsers and news customers End, greatly saving search time.
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In short, glory V10 with the wisdom of the powerful learning engine, life, work, study and entertainment to provide wisdom to help.
Take a picture
Camera function has become the core function of the phone, this glory V10 up and down in a lot of effort.
Rear camera, the machine uses the fourth generation of double shooting technology, full upgrade dual cameras, 20 million AI zoom dual camera, take pictures more clearly, F1.8 + F1.8 large aperture lens combination, the blur effect is more accurate. Continue to maintain the traditional advantages of black and white integration of photographs and other advantages at the same time, glory V10 and capture, night photography and other aspects of system optimization and promotion. 2in1PDAF dual-core focusing technology, focusing faster, higher coke rate; Upgrade to make the camera respond faster.
AI zoom dual camera, through 16M color lens + 20M black and white lens asymmetric combination of black and white sensor relative color sensor, bringing details to enhance, so that photos up to 2 times the double camera zoom, zoom in and still clear. Times above) to enlarge, the use of AI super resolution algorithm to bring detail enhancements, and then also shoot clear.At the same time, the brain can make up the picture details, the fuzzy picture can be sharpened.
Now take a look at the handy shot of a few photos now!
If, backlit camera, facing the sun to take pictures, we can still see the architectural glass, and ordinary cell phone camera is either too sunshine or the glass is completely dark.
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Take pictures in auto mode
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Indoor dark light pictures, still can adjust the light to the best
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Glory V10 recognize the food, shoot bright color, so Xiaobian appetite increased
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to sum up:
Glory V10 brought artificial intelligence into the smart phone, does bring us a whole new user experience now, due to master the AI chip technology, within six months, it is difficult for other manufacturers in the field of Al close glory V10 experience .If you Are buying machines, it is worth Xiaobian recommended.
5.iPhone X turned out to define the phone for the next 10 years;
iPhone X specification exposure, forecasted the future trend of mobile phones: 3D sensing, augmented reality and artificial intelligence, non-mobile camp phone brands have also followed the layout, and Apple each other signs.
Apple would like to once again define the next 10 years smart phone technology, dominate the market for 10 years, can become a trend, to see the dynamics of competitors know.
Apple advance notice of the three major non-Apple camp to invest actively in the layout
Currently, regardless of the 3D sensing lens technology, AR augmented reality and artificial intelligence chips, handset makers other than Apple have long been mobilized to actively invest.
In the 3D sensing technology, the most noteworthy company is Shenzhen Obi Zhongguang.Last year, the market is still for MediaTek fingerprint recognition company remittances, stock prices rose excited, MediaTek has quietly to 350 million US dollars price, Invest in this 3D sensing company, into another field of biometrics.View back, MediaTek investment time point is extremely accurate.
Huang Yuanhao, founder of Obihiro Light, disclosed in an interview that as early as November 2015, Obihiro started selling 3D sensors, which is also the first company in China to design and manufacture 3D sensors, And has a complete solution, is one of the few existing off-the-shelf products in the MediaTek blessing, OPPO is actively working with Obi Optronics, the phone with 3D sensing and AR capabilities.
Returning to Taiwan, China, on August 30, Qualcomm and Wonder Vision announced a partnership to launch a 3D sensing product that integrates Qualcomm's Spectra ISP signal processor and Wonder Vision's wafer-level optics (WLO) It is estimated that put into operation in the first quarter of 2018. The flagship mobile phone of a new generation of Xiaomi plans to adopt the products of Qualcomm and Wonderful King; Huawei is expected to cooperate with Israel Mantis Vision Company.
'Android camp phone, to be able to compete with Apple in the second half of 2018.' An analyst observed.Hardware power production in the first quarter of next year, why Android camp's mobile phone products to be equipped with 3D sensing by the end of next year?
Algorithms and Applications Microbiology 3D sensing is also hard to catch up with Apple's footsteps
'The relevant algorithms and applications are not yet ready,' he analyzed, although early next year already have the relevant components, but must have the correct algorithm to make different designs of mobile phones are correctly in accordance with the signal sent by the phone to calculate the face Size, and, even if the phone can detect the correct distance, lack of applications is also a big problem.
On the contrary, Apple has accumulated a lot of special applications, such as Animoji augmented reality emoji, emoticons to follow your expression together, but also to develop an augmented reality camera, can help you search for friends in the large-scale activities, Apple camp Augmented reality games like Our World, the zombie shooting game, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and so on are not available in the non-Apple mobile phone brands.
In June of this year, just announced the AR software ARKit development platform, Google followed in September released ARCore, an augmented reality development tool, claiming to put 100 million Android phones into an augmented reality platform .In April this year, Facebook also changed in the past Betting on VR, publishing AR Studio at developer conferences, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, augmented reality glasses are expensive, and popularization can take a long time, but everyone With smartphones, the first major augmented reality hardware should be cell phones, or in other words, these big companies are grabbing AR application development teams this year.
When we visited Kaiyun Technology, we discovered this phenomenon.
Kai Yun Technology is a Taiwanese company, in the past three years, they focus on the development of 3D imaging technology, with their technology, just pick up the phone for their own take a photo, the system can automatically design your own 3D virtual doll , Doll with wigs, glasses, these virtual accessories, there is no problem.
Kai Yun was originally based on their own research and development '3D pat', '3D stickers' make money from both App, did not expect this year, almost named mobile phone manufacturers and Facebook, all rushed to visit .For example, China's mobile phone leader Huawei is currently working with Qiyun to transform Qiyun into a display application on the Huawei AR platform. Facebook also visited Qiyun several times this year with Qiyun and Mito Xiu Xiu on the list as key AR partners in Asia.
'A month ago, wonderland chairman Wu Bing-sheng sat in this room,' Qi Yun, chairman of Qi Yun said a few days, the wonders decided to invest Kai-yun, and even Samsung had planned to find them cooperation.
Next, the software is the key.University of Broadcom Pudeyu that can convince consumers for 3D sensing and AR money, the number of games and applications is the key.He estimates that there will be 74% next year, Apple's mobile phone Equipped with 3D sensing, but only 2% of Android phones equipped with this feature.
Artificial intelligence processor tug of war Android, Apple camp each other signs
Apple's flagship iPhone X release, as well as another major feature highlight, is the A11 Bionic, an artificial intelligence processor with a built-in dual-core Neural Engine. Without it, Cook's well- AR and somatosensory function will not work.
In this regard, the gap between the Android camp and Apple smaller.In September, Huawei's processor maker Hass has released the first artificial intelligence processor Kirin 970, which is the world's first built-in discrete neural network unit of mobile phone artificial intelligence processing Samsung is expected to launch a new generation of Exynos processors in 2018, will integrate neural network calculus technology, according to legend, the model is equipped with the flagship Galaxy S9.
In addition to mobile phone brands, handset chip makers have also competed to plug flagged artificial intelligence processor market, have the opportunity to allow more non-Apple mobile phone brands, into the artificial intelligence processor.In July, Qualcomm announced the provision of Snapdragon nerve Processing Engine Software Development Kit enables mobile devices equipped with Snapdragon processors to speed up the processing of deep neural networks, and recently a new generation of Helio P70 processors from MediaTek will be built with built-in neural network technology and is expected to go into production next year.
From the Android camp layout can be seen, 3D sensing, AR and AI, is also an important keyword in the development of mobile phones next year, Obi Zhongguang and other emerging companies performance, it is noteworthy.
Financial information
6. From a number of consulting firm reports on 2018 M & A trends in science and technology
Set micro-grid comprehensive report, today, the living environment of science and technology goals are completely different from the first wave of digital revolution stage, the trend of technological development has also changed dramatically.Many veteran companies need to learn new technologies and skills to maintain its leading position.And mergers and acquisitions, is the enterprise One of the breakthroughs in the bottleneck phase of development is one of the means to get new technology and new business quickly.In the "2017 Merger Report: Revival of Technology M & A" released by Boston Consulting Group, the company pointed out that through technology M & A, the company can In a relatively short period of time, the much-needed science and technology are needed to achieve development and even win-win situations.
The Boston Consulting Group outlines the nine trends in technology M & A. The three most critical trends are the core technologies needed for digital transformation such as Industry 4.0, cloud computing and cloud computing solutions, mobile technologies and software vendors, etc. In the digital transformation process , The newly emerging artificial intelligence, financial technology, demand for IoT, data analysis and the world's active capital continue to drive the M & A. The consulting firm believes that technology for new and new markets will still be seen by 2018 Mergers and acquisitions continued, including mergers and acquisitions backed by state funds in mainland China, of which two-thirds were cross-border mergers and acquisitions, concentrated in North America and Europe (including Sinochem's $ 44 billion acquisition of Syngenta); private equity funds PE); the proportion of technology M & A driven by the demand for digital transformation increased significantly.
According to Bloomberg data, global technology M & A transactions for the year ended November 24 amounted to US $ 312.9 billion, a slight decline of 5.4% over the same period of last year. However, this category did not count as a communication category. For example, Alphabet bought the HTC mobile phone unit is Were classified as communications, 29.9% more than in the same period of last year if they were included in communications. The global communications industry has so far acquired a total of $ 569.8 billion in assets in 2017, up 50.5% over the same period of last year.
Mergers and acquisitions in the field of artificial intelligence are particularly prominent in 2017, as of December 2017, the global mergers and acquisitions completed AI field reached as high as 21.3 billion US dollars, more than 26 transactions more than in 2015. Full of expectations, hype and fierce competition Of the AI field, just as the vigorous boom of the California gold rush that year is expected to continue into 2018.
Source: Economist
2018 Trend of M & A in Science and Technology
So, the global M & A prospects and trends in 2018 can be said that digital transformation is one of the core drivers.According to Deloitte's survey of more than 1,000 business and private equity fund managers, surveyed U.S. companies and private equity funds were 68% And 76% expect that M & A transactions will continue to grow in 2018 and 63% believe the transaction will increase in size and 34% are expected to be flat.
Motivation behind the mergers and acquisitions shows that in addition to 20% for technology acquisition, 19% is for market share expansion, 16% for diversification of products or services, 12% for digital strategy, and 9% Is to obtain the necessary talent.Among them, the 'digital strategy' is only appeared in 2017 the answer, but it has become the manager of the M & A in the eyes of the fourth important reason; 'access to talent' accounted for the proportion of the previous 4% of the year more than doubled.
In terms of risk, Deloitte summarizes the four risks that may affect mergers and acquisitions, including global economic uncertainty (20% but 6% lower than last year), capital market volatility (17% -4% lower than last year) , The transaction was overvalued (15%, 1% lower), and the possible postponement of the relevant laws and regulations on core business (13%, down 6% from the previous year).
In the areas of mergers and acquisitions, Deloitte pointed out that companies are interested in M & A in machine learning, robotics, artificial intelligence and advanced data analysis, and have a huge appetite. The transaction amount is expected to continue to grow in 2018. In addition, Smaller technology companies achieve strategic goals or integrate new technologies with their core businesses to achieve significant digital transformation benefits. In areas such as artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, data analytics, FinTech, Internet of Things, Chain and other new technologies will determine the future competitiveness At this time, mergers and acquisitions has become a lack of these new technology capabilities enterprises can not make good use of the weapon, if missed the opportunity in the highly competitive future game I am afraid to be more disadvantaged.
According to DIGITIMES 'observation, in addition to the massive acquisition of artificial intelligence enterprises in the United States and Europe, as well as the automation and IOT technology enterprises related to Industry 4.0, the mainland has also actively entered the Southeast Asia market with a population of 600 million through acquisitions since 2017. In the face of Europe and the United States After the block-up of the M & A filing system, which won state funding, was blocked, the mainland's capital gradually turned to Israel for actively seeking technology-related targets for autonomous driving and electric vehicles.
DIGITIMES stressed that in the Asia-Pacific region, the volume of M & A transactions surged 101% annually, with India up 320% to US $ 10.3 billion and Indonesia surging 159.1% to US $ 1.5 billion. The mergers and acquisitions, which lock the two emerging markets, , Video games and e-business unicorns mainly from mainland technology giants such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Jingdong a lot of money.In addition, Japan and South Korea-based advanced Asian countries mergers and acquisitions to create a 548.5% Jumped to 27.1 billion US dollars, mainly driven by the sale of Toshiba Semiconductor and PC sector.
Observing the trend of China's M & A, Baker McKenzie's global trade outlook released by international law firms estimates that M & A activity in mainland China will rebound in 2018. Among them, as China simplifies relevant laws to further attract foreign investment, M & A deals Which is expected to increase by 73% from US $ 28.1 billion in 2017 to US $ 47.9 billion in 2019. In 2019, the transaction volume in the M & A market in mainland China is expected to reach 297.1 billion U.S. dollars with a transaction volume of 2003 cases.
From an industry perspective, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and consumption will gradually become important areas for M & As as the service and consumer spending increasingly become the driving force behind China's economic development.With the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain, high value-added manufacturing Industry-related areas will continue to attract investment, while supporting industries such as communications and technology will also be the favored places for investment. On the other hand, with the transformation of China's economy and the development of science and technology innovation, it is expected that information technology, Healthcare, high-end manufacturing and other industries will continue to be the focus of overseas acquisitions by Chinese enterprises.
Technology M & A transactions really successful it?
Does such a massive volume of technology M & A really add value or benefit businesses? According to data from Boston Consulting, these M & A deals are actually 50 to 50 gambling games, with about half of deals involving technology goals (51% ), Resulting in a positive cumulative anomaly, which benefits. The consulting firm pointed out that the successful mergers and acquisitions need to consider two factors, on the one hand is a strategic element, there is a big risk M & A, the acquirer must be careful to choose their own goals, Billions of dollars of trading may be full of risk, so investors must be cautious, with the lowest risk carefully into the new areas, gradually being acquired company into their own, for their own use.On the other hand, in the long run Consider the experience In the short run, the first acquisitions or single mergers to create higher profits than the mergers and acquisitions firms, but a year later, we found that the completion of a series of M & A companies is the largest Earnings, because these companies are more experienced in resources, execution, mergers and acquisitions integration.
Deloitte's statistics found that in many aspects of overseas M & A transactions, mergers and acquisitions and M & A targets search and screening, integration planning and implementation, valuation and transaction negotiations are the main pain points facing enterprises; due diligence in the implementation of M & A strategy formulation And mergers and acquisitions the subject of search and screening and valuation, as well as the three aspects of the transaction negotiations.After the merger and acquisition of the main challenges of integration with enterprise development has integrated strategy, agreed with the management objectives and access to appropriate resources to develop practical projects Plan and strictly enforce.
'The clever takeover pays attention to every detail of its own M & A goals, including its strategy, its processes, and its team composition so that the acquirer can complete the M & A with minimal risk and enable the business to further develop,' said the Boston Consulting Group.