Zhang Fan said that under the screen fingerprint technology development from the project has now nearly 5 years, the process is full of challenges, is expected to achieve large-scale commercial applications in 2018. In addition, Zhang Fan said that I believe the company's 3D face recognition technology, active layout and Strategic investment will reap new returns in 2018. After years of continuous research and development of headphone heart rate sensor chip is also expected to be put into mass production in 2018 commercial.
Set micro comments: With the popularity of Face ID, many people in the industry still doubt the top will become a generation champion, hope that the top can get rid of this curse.
2. Taiwan's industry association called for serious trial Broadcom acquisition of Qualcomm case
Broadcom recently announced the acquisition of Qualcomm. If the merger succeeds, it may seriously curtail the lucrative space for Taiwanese businesses and the future development of Taiwan's industries. The Association recommends in particular to Minister Chen Liangji of the Ministry of Science and Technology that the merger must be approved by the government and hopes the government will attach Conditions for the development of related industries in Taiwan, to help fight for reasonable conditions.
Set micro comments: Broadcom acquisition Qualcomm success will directly affect the global mobile phone and integrated circuit industry in the next few years.
3.Counterpoint: Hisilicon Q3 smart SoC shipments increased by 42%
According to market research firm Counterpoint Research 29 survey released in the third quarter of 2017 the global smart phone SoC market 19% annual increase exceeded 8 billion US dollars, of which Haas Q3 smart SoC shipments grew 42% year-on-year, Is the second fastest growing SoC manufacturers, second only to Samsung, mainly due to the lower base period.
Set micro comments: Ren Zhengfei said Huawei to strengthen the low-end mobile phone market, I believe Kirin low-end processor chips will soon be introduced.
4. Apple Samsung also have trembling HUAWEI this year, the mobile phone shipments target set at 200 million
Last year's performance data was released in the speech of 2018 New Year: Huawei's smartphone sales revenue was around Rmb260bn in 2017, an increase of about 30% over the same period last year; Huawei and Glory brand smartphones shipped up to a full year 153 million units.So soon there are people who disclosed to the media this year, Huawei's smartphone sales target: 200 million Taiwan! Micro comments: Huawei this year to make a breakthrough in the US market is still more difficult to stand firm like the market.
5. Andrews should not imitate Apple to apply for patent bangs
The new patent released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that Apple has already acquired the patent of the iPhone X. In other words, other manufacturers have infringed Apple's patents if they come up with a full screen mobile phone with the same bangs, but OPPO refuses to accept it, Also applied for the bangs patent, from the patent documents, OPPO this application is similar with the Apple iPhone X display screen.
Set micro-comments: This patent is a bit as shameless as sliding to unlock, but since the grant, in order to use the best bangs before the first patent invalid.
6. Full screen, folding screen are weak burst! Samsung or will push the fingerprint with a curly screen
According to foreign media reports, Samsung recently applied for a new patent, which is called 'Rollable OLED Display (Rollable OLED Display), and even has a' high-end version 'that supports fingerprinting.
Set micro-comments: the future for a long period of time the screen will be the protagonist of smart phone innovation.
7. Utopia shares Nexperia, layout automotive electronics industry chain
Nexperia BV, a company independent of NXP, develops, manufactures and sells semiconductor-related standard products and Nexperia BV was sold to a joint venture consortium comprised of Beijing Capital and Chi-Chi Capital in early 2017. This proposed It is in line with the aforesaid development strategy that the automobile industry investment in semiconductor-related industries is held in the form of holding a share of the industrial funds, which is an important leg in the layout of the automobile electronics industry chain.
Set micro-comments: looks more winding, in fact, shares are built before the acquisition of NXP standard products business relative to another acquisition of the radio frequency business, this part of the performance of the last two years is very eye-catching performance.
8.China University of quantum computing new progress: to achieve three quantum dots efficient regulation of semiconductor bits
CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, led by Academician Guo Guangcan, University of Science and Technology of China, made new progress in the research of semiconductor quantum computing chips Laboratory Guo Guoping The research group innovatively introduced a third quantum dot as a control parameter to ensure that the new hybrid quantum Bit coherence under the premise of greatly enhanced hybrid quantum bit controllability.
Set micro-commentary: HKUST three quantum communication academicians are engaged in quantum chips, but the technology line is completely different.
9.CES 2018 worth looking forward to AI technology
In the past few years, artificial intelligence-driven devices and services have been the most popular and interesting project at the world's technology show, with clear new trends in the market beyond 2018. First, mainstream consumer products More and more integrated artificial intelligence, not just those high-end and advanced products.Second, many products will be artificial intelligence built into the front-end equipment, rather than rely on the cloud.
Set micro-comments: Artificial Intelligence is certainly the most popular technology this year CES.