MediaTek confirmed that after nearly two weeks of review, it successfully obtained permission from Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs’ International Trade Bureau to resume shipments to China’s mainland communications and mobile phone brand factory ZTE.
However, the industry believes that although the Ministry of Economic Affairs released the Taiwanese factory to ship ZTE, the U.S. restrictions on ZTE's seven years (the U.S. may not ship to ZTE) are still in existence. Now U.S. business still holds many key technologies or zero. Components, ZTE Terminal products can still be observed.
On April 17, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a seven-year ban on export control to ZTE, a communications equipment factory in the Chinese mainland, and asked all US companies not to sell components to ZTE. The Ministry of Economic Affairs’s International Trade Bureau subsequently wrote the associations on the 23rd. Require related businesses to ship to ZTE, must apply according to the import and export control regulations, and then obtain the goods after passing through. The major domestic component manufacturers have recently suspended shipments to ZTE completely, one by one by the International Trade Bureau.
MediaTek confirmed yesterday that it has successfully obtained permission to resume shipments to ZTE.
The supply chain pointed out that American companies holding key technologies are still subject to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s seven-year embargo rule and cannot ship to ZTE; non-U.S. companies do not violate regulatory exports as long as they receive technology licensed from U.S. companies. Technology category, can still ship.
At present, Taiwan’s practice is to apply for a system. Manufacturers with shipping requirements must submit their applications on their own. MediaTek examines and approves, and on behalf of the government, is releasing companies that qualify for shipment.
The industry believes that for Qualcomm, a competitor unable to ship for seven years, MediaTek can ship to ZTE and it will have a chance to replace it. However, the ecosystem of component products is complex and American companies have a key or exclusive position in many areas. It is the mobile phone's operating system or communication high-end chip, etc. It is still necessary to observe when ZTE's terminal products such as communications or mobile phones resume their formal shipments. Economic Daily
2. IoT application acceleration Multi-axis will become the mainstream of future sensors
In the IT market, sensing is not a new technology. Not only has the technology matured for a long time, but the application has also been widely used. The industry has pointed out that sensors are the first line of sensing networks. In terms of technology, motion sensing is currently the most popular technology. Sensing is still in development, but it has considerable potential for growth in the future.
Looking into the future of sensory technology, whether there is an Internet of Things or a wearable device, there are still several common trends in the future sensing components. The first is the multi-axis of the system, and the development of the sensing system towards multi-axis is important for sensing the application market. Trend, in fact, the multi-axis of the sensing system has never stopped, from the early generation of single-axis sensors, to the current common three-axis, 6-axis, 9-axis, 10-axis, 11-axis, and even the latest 12-axis sensing system, multi-axis is already an irreversible path.
What are the axes of the sensor's so-called 'multi-axis'? Which axes are necessary and which are only secondary? In general, from three-axis accelerometers, three-axis gyroscopes to three-axis electronic compasses, these 9 Axis has almost become the standard equipment for smart phones. With these three types of sensors, almost all applications can be completed. This can be called the 'three main axes' in a sensing system.
In addition to these three types of sensors, altimeters, pressure gauges, thermometers, and photosensors, etc., have all been added to the sensing system and become one of the members of multi-axis. Since multi-axis is an established trend, the future will be More manufacturers continue to develop more shaft sensing platforms to meet the needs of market applications. Ctimes
3. Google Chief Scientist: We have started to produce custom chips to accelerate AI
At present, AI has become a point of promotion for many smartphones, such as AI face recognition, AI chips, AI scene recognition, etc. When it comes to products equipped with artificial intelligence chips, perhaps everyone will think of the Unicorn 970's NPU processing unit. A11 bionic processor neural network or Qualcomm 660 AIE...
In fact, Google is actually a pioneer in terms of artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence chips. I don't know if everyone still remembers TPU, a Google-built processor that is tailor-made for machine learning.
▲ Google's second-generation TPU
So, what does Google think of AI chips?
At the AI technology sharing conference held in the Chinese office, Google’s chief scientist Greg Corrado gave his opinion on the chip issue. He believes that Google has now started producing custom chips that can accelerate AI, but such chips are not dedicated. AI chip.
At the same time, he said that so far he has not seen any successes that are completely different from traditional computing chips. He believes that existing chips should be optimized specifically for AI, making chips faster and lower power consumption when completing AI tasks. The benefits are even higher.
Greg Corrado uses AlphaGo as an example. He thinks that AlphaGo's computing chip is Google's optimized chip for AI.
4. Intel's big and small nuclear processor Lakefield, CPU is powerful, but GPU efficiency may become weak
Although, Intel, the processor manufacturer, has not developed smoothly on mobile processors. However, Intel has yet to fully abandon the mobile market. Because foreign media reports, Intel will use a 10nm process to produce a code name. For Lakefield's single-chip processing processor, the ARM processor's bigLITTLE-sized core architecture design was introduced, which will make this single-chip processor a CPU with high performance.
The report pointed out that ARM's bigLITTLE size core design architecture is that the CPU has a high-performance core and a low-power core, and mobilizes different cores for different application situations in order to achieve the goal of balancing performance and power consumption. Currently, it includes Qualcomm 845 and 835, Huawei's Kirin 960 and 970, MediaTek Helio series processors all use the bigLITTLE architecture, which is generally 4 core + 4 small core designs.
For Intel, their single-chip processors also hope to solve the problem of performance and power consumption. At present, Intel also has high-performance X86 cores in its hands, and it also has Atom processor technology for low-power platforms. Nuclear design seems to be an inevitable trend. Therefore, there have been rumours recently that Intel will launch a Lakefield core single-chip processor produced on a 10-nanometer process. The core is the high-performance Ice lake architecture. The low-power core is New generation Atom core Tremont.
The report further pointed out that Lakefield's CPU performance will be stronger than the Qualcomm processor, but GPU performance may become a weakness of the pole processor. Because it uses the Intel Gen11 graphics architecture, performance is better than the current Gen9/9.5. Fortunately, Qualcomm has always had an advantage in the field of mobile GPUs. No matter Samsung, Hass, or MediaTek have failed to shake Qualcomm's Andero GPU status, Lakefield is temporarily unable to surpass Qualcomm's advantage in this respect.
Finally, at the time of Lakefield's release, there was a saying that it was the 2019 World Communications Conference (MWC), that is, between February and March 2019. However, Intel’s 10-nanometer production volume room was recently With the announcement of delay, it is still uncertain that Lakefield will be able to mass-produce it before 2019. Therefore, the correct release time of Lakefield must still wait for further announcements from Intel officials. TechNews
5. Qualcomm 5G Economic Report: 5G will spawn an Indian 'GDP'
Qualcomm Technology, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, and several industry experts have jointly published a study called The 5G Economy, which states that 5G will generate $12 trillion in products and services. At the same time create 22 million jobs.
The study found that the overall economic benefits of 5G will be realized globally before 2035. It will support a wide range of industries, where retail, education, transportation, entertainment and other industries will generate value as high as 123,000 through 5G technology. Billion dollar goods and services.
The study also shows that by 2035, only the 5G value chain (OEM vendors, carriers, content creators, application developers, and consumers) will generate up to $3.5 trillion in total revenue, while creating 22 million jobs. Positions. Over time, 5G drives global GDP growth to be equal to the current GDP of India (about 3 trillion U.S. dollars). India is currently the world's seventh largest economy.
Global business decision makers and opinion leaders all expect that 5G can bring wide benefits to the overall society and economy, realize new products and services, increase productivity, and allow new industries to rise. According to statistics, more than 90% of respondents The authors agree that 5G will bring unprecedented new products, new services, and new technological solutions.
The study focused on the 5G opinion survey among business and technology industry leaders. According to the results, 5G will have a profound impact on the global economy. The overwhelming majority of decision makers in the technology industry and other industries also strongly believe that 5G has the ability to Promote the overall transformation of the economy.
The research results of “5G Economy” are based on research conducted by more than 3,500 corporate decision makers, technology innovators, opinion leaders, and technology enthusiasts worldwide, highlighting the global economic and social impact that 5G will have in the coming decades.