February 22, the first day after the start of the Spring Festival, millet chairman Lei Jun in the media training camp WeChat group made a fourth quarter from China's IDC mobile phone shipments reported information, including the number one Huawei shipped Volume continued to grow, up 6.5% from the previous year, ranking second, third-place OPPO and vivo have shown double-digit decline, ranked fourth shipments of millet achieved about 57% year-on-year growth. At the same time Lei Jun posted this message on his personal Weibo and added that 'As long as Xiaomi insists on making a good product with a touching price and good price, it will surely win the hearts of rice noodles and certainly be able to return to China first. "
Shortly after that, on the 23rd, Xiaomi signed a strategic memorandum with Microsoft and announced that it will reach deep cooperation in the field of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and hardware products, further substantiating the message that millet will accelerate its internationalization.
The pre-holiday, on the millet IPO this year in Hong Kong's rumors of news has roared in various channels, and pass the estimated value of 90 billion to 110 billion US dollars.
All these show that millet will create more turmoil in 2018 and change the pattern in many fields.
2018, millet international full of imagination?
February 24, millet 4 55-inch television in India millet home, millet mall in India and India's largest e-commerce platform Flipkart was officially on sale millet mall and Flipkart only 10 seconds sold out, many millet house prototype was short .
IDC recently announced the share of handsets in the Indian market for 2017, with Xiaomi ranking the second with a share of 20.9%. In 2018, the company's goal is to challenge Samsung and win its first share.
At the annual meeting of millet millet, Wang Xiang, senior vice president of millet's international business, disclosed that millet has now entered the world's 73 countries and regions and ranked the top three in market share in 9 countries. Also at the annual meeting, Lei Jun proposed The slogan of 'Domestic Counterattack, Preparing for a Battle, Global Market, and Opening up Territories' has also made 2018 millet internationalization full of imagination.
As millet's internationalization accelerates, it is also beginning to encounter more and more resistance in various markets.In India, in order to protect the local manufacturing industry, tariffs on mobile phones have been continuously raised, ranging from 10% to 15% in two months To 20% .Micro's response is to increase investment in Indian factories, the current millet and Foxconn cooperation with manufacturing plants in India.If this year to achieve the first goal, millet may reinvest in India, a new factory.
One of the important goals of this strategic cooperation with Microsoft is to obtain more resources and more support for its internationalization process.In this cooperation agreement shows that one of the first, millet further use of Microsoft cloud Azure In the international market, we provide user data storage, bandwidth, computing and service for Xiaomi.Secondly, the two companies will cooperate in notebook computer devices, in the joint marketing, channel support and millet future notebook and notebook product development, etc., Microsoft Third, the two sides are discussing the possibilities of integrating Microsoft Cortana and Xiaomi smart speakers into the international market.
Lei Jun has its own cloud - Jinshan Yun, Lei Jun said a few years ago to invest billions of dollars to support Jinshan's future 'all in Cloud', so most of the millet in the country most of the storage, bandwidth and computing use their Jinshan cloud. At present, Jinshan Cloud mainly covers the domestic market, so choosing a global cloud becomes a must.
Currently, cloud computing is extremely fiercely competitive in the Chinese market. Almost all of the international cloud companies are involved in the cloud computing competition in the Chinese market, together with China's BAT, etc. Microsoft gives its own cloud Azure platform in China to help China Enterprises 'Going Global' and International Enterprises 'Please Come In', and made it clear that Microsoft is not only providing services and product support to enterprises that go out, but also many resources including channels, markets, technologies and so on in various countries in the world To further enhance the differentiated competitiveness of Microsoft cloud.Microsoft has previously reached an agreement with millet in cross-licensing and transfer of patents to provide support for millet products to enter the international market.Therefore, the strategic cooperation between millet and Microsoft is very important The appeal is to help their own international.
Lei Jun in the AI and the Internet of Things and more play?
The agreement states that the two parties will conduct extensive and multi-level cooperation in AI and will cover Microsoft AI technologies such as computer vision, speech, natural language processing, text input, interactive AI, knowledge base and search, as well as Bing search, Edge Browsers, Microsoft Small Hook, Microsoft Small Ice, SwiftKey, Microsoft Translator, Pix Camera, Cognitive Services, Skype and other Microsoft products and services.
This covers almost all of Microsoft's technology in the field of artificial intelligence. Microsoft has a wide range of AI technologies and services, and Xiaomi has a wide range of hardware and Internet products. "AI + IoT, is the Lei Jun positioning of millet's future. Based on this Positioning, after millet has reached a strategic cooperation with Baidu.
Lei Jun said at the Internet of Things developer conference in Xiaomi that millet has access to over 85 million devices of 400 partners over the past three years and is the largest IoT platform in the world with more than 10 million daily trips. It is the Internet of things, because the Internet of Things has both 'things' and 'networks'. Objects and devices are the greatest advantages of the difference between LEI and BAT. IoT represents a new opportunity for the industry.
AI + IoT, AI technology and services can make landing faster, intelligent hardware can make users better understand, and in addition to manufacturing smart hardware Xiaomi device, it is possible to create intelligent modules, Lei Jun had talked about three years ago, millet developed general intelligence Modules, so give the smart device has more intelligence, from smart devices to the IoT platform and 'smart core' enterprises, Lei Jun in the AI and the Internet of Things era may have more games and ideas.
Millet may become the largest IPO this year HKEx?
February 8, Xiaomi ecological WAMS Technology listed on the NYSE, financing 110 million US dollars, in addition, a number of millet ecological chain companies are also planning an IPO, indicating that the millet ecosystem companies have begun to enter the development and maturity. The rumors that millet will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the third quarter of this year is also getting richer. According to the rumor, the millet IPO is estimated at 90 billion to 110 billion U.S. dollars and may become the largest IPO of Hong Kong Stock Exchange this year.
Millet is about to go public, once again raised public concern about the Internet company's listing rules .In order to protect the interests of retail investors, loss-making companies can not be listed in the country, so most of the Internet companies to overseas listing, there VIE architecture, the current Internet company VIE structure is already commonplace.China's capital market is it possible to change such a rule?
In response to the "Proposal on Optimizing the System of the Shanghai Stock Exchange under the China Securities Regulatory Commission" in January this year, the SFC said that the SFC has always attached great importance to the development of the capital market to support the development of the hi-tech industries such as the Internet. The next step will be to actively study the relevant industry policy guidelines for the Internet industry , Promote the construction of a multi-level capital market system and build a long-term mechanism for capital markets to serve hi-tech industries such as the Internet and strive to bring more Internet companies to the market for financing.
About the listing of millet, about the financing of Internet companies, leaving a lot of suspense.