1. Foreign media: Qu Ping iPhone or boosting Apple's market value exceeded 1 trillion US dollars by the end of this year;
According to Tencent Technology Editor's news, the news that Apple will add more features to the new iPhone has emerged in recent weeks. One of the sources said that Apple will launch an iPhone with a gesture control function for music screens next year. According to media reports, although the iPhone may not be available until next year, it has already brought about a stimulating factor in pulling up Apple's stock price. Therefore, before the end of this year, the market value of Apple may exceed one trillion US dollars. Here's this. The main content of the article.
Looking back at the iPhone series, it's not hard to find that this device may be the ultimate motive force that drives Apple's market value to more than a trillion dollars.
According to recent news from Bloomberg, Apple is developing an iPhone with a curved screen. When the user's finger is close to the phone, the mobile phone can sense it, and according to the user's gestures to complete the corresponding task without having to touch the display with the finger Screen.
This new display may use OLED technology and may bend a little from top to bottom. However, this new version of the iPhone will be at least a year away from the market, but it may have become the current market value that has driven Apple’s current $853 billion increase. An important driving force to 1 trillion US dollars.
Daniel Ives, head of technology research business at GBH Insights, a market analysis agency, said, “We think that the new iPhone and OLED design will become one of the key factors for Apple to prove its huge ecological period. 'To this end, Iraq Weiss predicts that the market value of Apple will exceed $1 trillion by the end of this year. It is expected that the iPhone's upgrade volume may reach 350 million over the next 18 months.
The iPhone’s revenue accounts for about two-thirds of Apple’s total revenue, but this business has been continuously growing and will increasingly become an important factor in pushing the Apple market to exceed the US$1 trillion mark.
Silicon Valley’s close attention to Apple’s technology analyst and futurist researcher Tim Bajarin said that if Apple continues to add more drastically improved features and other impressive features to the new iPhone, such as The new iPhone interactive mode, etc., This will not only promote current iPhone users competing to buy a new version of the iPhone, but also will promote other brands of smart phone users to switch to Apple mobile phone.
Bagalin also said that once Apple redefines the market, it will often benefit more people, especially those who want to buy high-end equipment.
2. Taiwan's panel makers faced tariffs on the mainland China from letting go;
President Trump launched a steel-aluminium heavy duty policy and became a hot topic in the iron and steel industry. However, changes in the industrial environment can sometimes allow the industry to let go of tariff concerns. Experts say that the panel industry is fighting for landed tax avoidance, and it has gone to Elijah-type products and land plants. Competition is an example.
Chen Jianci, a market analyst at IDC, said that the Taiwanese panel maker had been optimistic about the TV panel market in mainland China and hoped to land a panel factory to avoid tariffs; even after the Ministry of Economic Affairs approved Taiwan's panel makers to land on the 7.5-generation plant, it took the initiative to fight for it. Landed at a higher generation of the 8.5 generation plant. The main consideration is to improve the competitiveness of the television panel market in mainland China in order to achieve better economic cutting efficiency, in addition to tariff factors.
However, things were counterproductive. Chen Jianchao pointed out that the panel industry has undergone rapid changes. After the Ministry of Economic Affairs approved the landing of the Taiwan panel plant AUO with an 8.5-generation plant, the speed of building 8.5-generation panel plants in mainland China has accelerated, eventually causing panel manufacturers to build; On behalf of the factory, tariffs can be exempted, but to avoid oversupply and causing panel prices to fall, AUO still has to give up its 8.5-generation plant landing program.
He said that AUO gave up its plan to land on the 8.5 generations of traditional amorphous silicon panel plant to grab the mainland China TV panel market. Instead, the original plan was to replace it with 6 generations of low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) panels due to the low-temperature polysilicon panel technology level. Higher, locked high-end mobile phone panel market.
He explained that although AUO gave up its 8.5th generation plant to produce TV panels, TV panels produced in Taiwan are still sold. In order to minimize the impact of tariffs, they can only sell niche products with high gold content and relatively high prices. Mainly, pushing the product differentiation with the industry.
From a different point of view, he analyzed that compared with TV tariffs, mainland China has a lighter tax on panels, so Taiwan panel makers sell TV panels in mainland China, assemble panel modules in mainland China, and sell them to mainland China. TV brands also reduce the impact of tariffs.
Therefore, even though panel makers were concerned about tariffs, but they were allowed to land and exempt from customs duties and were faced with a competition for bargaining prices, the panel makers considered the industrial order and environmental changes and let go of the tariff preferences that were not easy to obtain, and gave up the original landing. Set up a factory plan to avoid competition in the Red Sea industry and look for niche-based products to expand business opportunities.
3. Well-known speaker brand Sonos plans IPO issues: Recruitment information exposes mystery;
Sina Technology News Beijing time on April 6 evening news, foreign media reports, Spotify streaming music service provider in Sweden has just listed, Apple's another competitor in the music market Sonos is also planning an IPO (initial public offering) matters.
Founded in 2002, Sonos is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, and specializes in integrated wireless smart audio, smart home theater audio, and wireless smart audio connector devices. According to the website of "Variety" (Variety), according to the recruitment of Sonos. The information shows that this company is planning an IPO issue.
In recent weeks, Sonos has started recruiting some of the core legal and financial personnel and asked them to have a working experience in a listed company. Among them, Sonos clearly stated in a job request to prepare financial statements for listed companies. In addition, Sonos requires the applicant to own the position. Public accounting experience. It is advisable to have experience in the four largest accounting firms.
In addition, Sonos is still looking for a new general counsel, and also requires the working experience of a listed company. Sonos writes that applicants need to have a multi-billion-dollar public company as general counsel.
Sonos kept silent about the IPO plan. The company said in a statement that the IPO is something that all technology companies are considering.
But before that, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence did not deny the IPO. Spencer said in a statement last year: 'We are considering whether the IPO is the next option. We are in a good position, The scale of the company has grown and the profitability is considerable. '(Li Ming)
4. Musk: Artificial intelligence may become a permanent dictator
Sina Technology News Beijing time on April 6 evening news, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk) in a documentary on artificial intelligence recently said that humans may unknowingly created an 'immortal Dictators' and will never be able to get out of their domination.
Musk made the above remarks in the latest documentary Do You Trust This Computer?. He said that the period of dictatorship of artificial intelligence will be far beyond any one of the regimes. Achieve indefinite oppression of humanity.
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, many well-known technologists have issued early warnings about the impact of artificial intelligence on society in the future. This is also the latest statement made by Musk about artificial intelligence threats in recent months.
In September last year, Musk warned people that artificial intelligence may trigger the Third World War. He said: 'All countries will focus on the development of computer science, and countries’ competition for the dominance of artificial intelligence may trigger the third world war.' Musk believes that the war in the era of artificial intelligence was not initiated by the leader of a country. All this will be automated. In other words, artificial intelligence will automatically plan strategies to find out the tactics with the highest probability of winning.
At the end of last year, Musk added that artificial intelligence is the greatest threat to human civilization. Musk stated that the most immediate threat in the short term is that artificial intelligence will replace human work. In the next 20 years, the work of drivers will be subverted by artificial intelligence. After that, 12% to 15% of the world's labor force will be unemployed due to artificial intelligence.
Musk also believes that mankind will need to combine with machines in the future to become a 'semi-robot' to avoid being eliminated in the era of artificial intelligence. For this reason, Musk also set up an artificial intelligence startup Neuralink to study human-machine interfaces. .
It was also based on concerns about artificial intelligence that Musk had a plan for 'colonial Mars'. According to the plan, Spacecraft's space exploration technology company SpaceX plans to make at least two cargo ships land on Mars by 2022. 2024 Achieve the landing of two cargo spacecraft and two manned spaceships.
Musk said that in the face of the 'dark age' that may result from artificial intelligence in the future, colonization of Mars will be a necessary step to ensure the survival of mankind.