1. Hisense: Both parties with Sharp have revoked all lawsuits, and the reasons for their withdrawal cannot be disclosed;
According to Japanese media reports, according to Japanese media reports, Zhou Houjian, chairman of Hisense Group, said in an interview that regarding the conflict between the use of Sharp TV brands in the US market between Hisense and Sharp, 'the parties have revoked all lawsuits. The reasons for revocation cannot be said, but we have improved sales volume and profitability.
MicroSet has previously reported that in 2015, Hisense invested US$23.7 million to acquire Sharp's entire equity and assets in a Mexican plant, and obtained Sharp TV's brand rights in the Americas (except Brazil). Sharp authorized Hisense for 5 years from January 2016 The SHARP brand can be used to sell LCD TVs in the North American market.
In April 2016, Foxconn acquired Sharp's 66% stake for 389 billion yen (equivalent to US$3.5 billion). This is the first time in the history of Chinese companies to acquire a well-known household appliance brand in Japan. After investing in Sharp, Hon Hai invested in Sharp. With the renaissance of the brand, Sharp plans to withdraw the license granted to the Hisense Group's television brand in the US market. However, Hisense Group stated that it has no desire to accept Sharp's ideas.
In order to recapture the North American market, Sharp did not hesitate to file a lawsuit. On June 9, 2017, Sharp lodged a lawsuit against the Chinese Hisense Group in the Californian court in relation to the licensing rights of LCD TV sales in the North American market and asked Hisense to stop using the Sharp TV business brand. , and claim damages of at least $100 million.
In addition, for the Toshiba TV business related to the acquisition, Zhou Houjian pointed out that 'In 1 year, turning profit is my personal desire, but it must be done within 3 years'. Zhou Houjian stated that it will acquire Toshiba TV It is because Toshiba TV has 3 great values. The first is brand power, the second is technical ability, and the third is to have complementary relationship with Hisense.
It is reported that on 14th November 2017, Toshiba entered into an equity transfer contract with Qingdao Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hisense Group, and Toshiba’s 95% stake in Toshiba Visual Solutions (TVS), a subsidiary of its television business, was established. Selling to Qingdao Hisense Electric for approximately 12.9 billion yen, Toshiba will own the remaining 5% stake.
2. The United States chief trade advisor: The next step is to address China's intellectual property issues;
Peter Navarro, chief trade adviser to the White House, told Fox Business that the next move in the US trade policy would be to deal with China’s stealing of intellectual property. He pointed out that China steals American technology and forces the United States. Enterprise transfer technology. He pointed out that the U.S. business community was hurt by China and was forced to abandon its technology to enter the Asian market. The U.S. government will make some suggestions to President Trump that no one in the United States will object.
Navarro also stated that Trump has the courage to deal with related issues, and said he entered the White House and wanted to dispose of it. Astark Finance
3. Korean AI semiconductor patent surged tenfold in four years;
According to South Korea’s Intellectual Property Office, according to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, there were 391 semiconductor AI patents in 2017, 32 in 2013, and more than ten times in recent four years. The speed has been increasing year by year. There were 59 cases in 2014 and growth in 2015. Between 30 and 77, the number doubled to 167 in 2016.
Further classification, the vast majority of new patents are non-memory semiconductors, with a proportion close to 80% (79%), of which 42% are applied in machine learning. For example, the new generation AI chips have human-like neural structures, and related applications have mushroomed.
Amy Webb, founder of Future Today Institute, pointed out in the just-released annual science and technology trend report that AI development is like a modern military and military competition. With 730 million Internet users and China's support for national resources, China is expected to become the world's top power.
The report stated that in 2018, the recognition technology, AI assistants, and the use of AI-specific chips were popularized, and the smart phones were forecasted to be near the end of the day, replaced by smart watches, smart glasses, and other wearable devices.
4. Regular army approach! Alibaba blockchain patents first in the world These local government leaders
From the discussion of the WeChat Blockchain's WeChat Group at 3 o'clock during the Spring Festival to the release of the “Three Questions” blockchain in the People's Daily, the blockchain is undoubtedly the biggest hot spot this year. While the concept was detonated, It also caused widespread anxiety. The blockchain technique, which has been riddled with a number of unprovable visions, has gradually been mythic because of the rendering of bitcoin and other digital currencies and ICO-rich myths.
On the other hand, the blockchain has also been criticized. The reasons include the lack of mature applications, short-term large-scale commercial use, and related digital currency and ICO speculation. Some people think that blockchain is a subversive. Sex, will build the next generation of value Internet, and some people believe that 99% of the so-called blockchain projects are Ponzi schemes that use ICO to make money.
In fact, when many people think that blockchains are castles in the air, or when the knowledge of blockchains is limited to 'circling money', some 'regular forces' have already deployed in this area. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released as early as 2016. The White Paper on China's Blockchain Technology and Application Development, Guiyang, Quzhou and other local governments also introduced relevant plans and preferential policies as early as possible to seize the opportunities.
Regular army has entered early
On March 13, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released an announcement saying that in the near future, the Informatization and Software Services Division will conduct a special study on the preparation of the National Blockchain and Distributed Accounting Technology Standardization Technical Committee. The Division will actively promote related work and accelerate the promotion of the standard. The committee was established, and stated that one of the purposes of the move was to promote the formation of a complete blockchain standard system as soon as possible and to do a good job in ISO/TC 307 technology.
The TC 307 full name of the "blockchain and distributed billing technology technical committee" is a technical committee established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and focused on the field of blockchain. It carries out standardization work such as basics, identity authentication, and smart contracts. China has participated in relevant standardization activities as a participating country (P member) and has made positive progress. In addition to ISO, international standardization bodies such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have also initiated blockchain standardization work.
IPRdaily and the IncoPat Innovation Index Research Center released the '2017 Global Blockchain Enterprise Patent Rankings (Top 100)', showing that among the top 100 companies, 49% were Chinese companies, followed by the United States, which accounted for 33%; Ali. Bab is ranked No. 1 and Bank of America is ranked No. 2. This report covers the number of patents publicly announced in 2017 in the world, including invention applications, utility models, and design patents.
It is worth noting that among the 100 companies listed on the list, three Chinese companies are classified as 'Central Bankers', namely the Institute of Digital Currency of the People's Bank of China, the Beijing Smart Card Technology Research Institute of China Billing Credit Card Industry Development Co., Ltd. and the People's Bank of China. Printing Institute of Science and Technology, the three countries have a total of 33 global patents, 22 and 13, a total of 68, far more than 43 Ali Group.
Local governments successively issued plans to lead Guiyang and Zhangzhou.
Local governments have also begun to lay out, Guiyang, Zhangzhou and other places have obviously taken the lead in the country.
During the two sessions this year, the deputy of the National People's Congress and the Mayor of Guiyang City, Chen Wei, said that Guiyang made breakthroughs in blockchain, artificial intelligence, and databases, and published a white paper entitled “Development and Application of Blockchain in Guiyang”, and built a blockchain test. Platforms, Blockchain Internet Labs, Bobby Labs and other innovative platforms.
The Securities Times reporter noted that the development and application of “Guiyang Blockchain Development and Application” mentioned by Chen Hao had already been released as early as December 2016. White Paper Guiyang Guideline for the Development of Blockchain, Promotion Principles, Main Goals, Overall Architecture, Space The layout, application path and promotion plan were elaborated. It was proposed that after five years of efforts, a batch of blockchain application scenarios be created in the city, a group of block chain innovation enterprises will be nurtured, a batch of scalable business models will be formed, and a batch of business models will be launched. The blockchain rules and standards system, the main target for building a demonstration area for the application of blockchain applications and digital currency applications.
The white paper explains the technical architecture of the Sovereign Blockchain from the data layer, the network layer, the consensus layer, the incentive layer, the contract layer, and the application layer, and builds a 'one core, four zones, multiple centers' spatial layout and different stages of application. The path and promotion plan will make a master plan for the development of the roadmap of Guiyang's development blockchain.
According to the white paper, the key application scenarios of the blockchain in Guiyang are mainly government, people's livelihood and business. It covers 12 subdivided areas. The specific roadmap is divided into three phases: In the first phase, government data sharing is selected in the field of government affairs. , Data cable cage supervision, Internet financial supervision and other political blockchain application scenarios; Selection of precision poverty alleviation, personal data service centers, personal medical and health data, smart travel and other civil blockchain application scenarios in the civil sector; selection of bills in the commercial sector , Small and micro enterprise credit certification, data transaction and data asset circulation, supply chain management and supply chain finance, freight logistics and other commercial blockchain application scenarios, and propose solutions. The second phase, the first phase of the 12 application scenarios On the further selection of blockchain applications in various fields. The third stage, the realization of the application of Sovereign blockchain and the national digital currency system.
Chen Hao revealed that this year Guiyang will not only continue to cultivate the ecology of the blockchain industry, but will also focus on theoretical research and will further explore and expand the concept of 'sovereign blockchain'.
Ganzhou, Jiangxi, has also taken the lead in the exploration of blockchain construction. The Sandbox Park in Jiangxi Province's blockchain financial industry and the local new financial regulatory sandbox are the first blockchain supervisory sandboxes that are led by government departments in China. .
Zhangzhou Park, the blockchain financial industry of Zhangzhou, is the first project to be launched by the Ministry of Industry and Finance of the Internet Finance Key Laboratory. It is jointly established by the People’s Government of Ganzhou City, the National Internet Emergency Response Center, Xinhuanet Co., Ltd., and Chenzhou New Chain Financial Information Service Co., Ltd. , Incorporating information technology, local finance and sandbox supervision, a number of well-known domestic Internet technology companies and listed companies have been invited to participate in the park, and they are actively exploring the use of blockchain technology to establish support and development for blockchain finance industries. Regulatory platform to promote the healthy development of blockchain finance industry.
In addition, in May 2017, the People's Government of Ganzhou City, the National Internet Emergency Response Center, and Xinhuanet jointly established the Guideline Committee of the Compliance Blockchain, to comprehensively study the problems in the development and application of the current blockchain technology and explore the blockchain. How the technology services supervision, form the rules and guidelines of China's first compliant blockchain - "Guidelines for Compliance Blockchain".
Guangzhou is also at the forefront. Among the related policies introduced in Guangzhou, the most influential is the “blockchain 10” that was launched at the end of last year, namely the “Guangzhou Development Zone in Huangpu District of Guangzhou to promote the development of blockchain industry. This support policy will give priority support to the development, application, technology, platform, and finance of the blockchain industry. Huangpu District expects to increase financial input by around RMB 200 million each year. Local blockchain industry development.
In addition, in July last year, the Huangpu District Government and the Administrative Committee of the Guangzhou Development Zone promoted the establishment of the Guangzhou Blockchain Industry Association, positioning itself as a high-end professional industry organization based on Guangzhou and facing blockchain technology in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau. , Nearly 50 member companies, focusing on enterprises in Huangpu District and Guangzhou Development Zone, extending within and outside the province, covering Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau in the Dawan District. Four major platforms are under construction, namely blockchain universal development platform and blockchain dual-invention platform (Creation space and incubator), blockchain technology innovation platform (new type R&D institution), blockchain industry public service platform, and plans to construct and construct blockchain industrial park of Guangzhou Development Zone in the later period. Securities Times Net