1. MediaTek P22 mobile processor won the vivo Y83 starting;
Micro-message news, MediaTek latest generation of mobile processor Helio P22 reported the first news, the starting model will be vivo Y83. According to P22 fastest production in June, is expected to Vivo Y83 will also be listed on the same day.
The P-22 uses TSMC's 12nm FinFET process technology, which is well known for its low power consumption. It has eight Arm Cortex A53 cores and a maximum clock speed of up to 2.0GHz. It is equipped with CorePilot 4.0 technology for intelligent management of various tasks to achieve perfect performance and power consumption. balance.
GPU uses PowerVR GE8320, frequency 650MHz, supports up to 1600x720 (20:9) screen resolution, supports 1080P 30FPS video playback.
Memory support LPDDR 3/4X, frequency up to 1600MHz, capacity up to 6GB, flash memory up to eMMC 5.1.
Camera side added AI face unlock, smart dual camera (13 million +8 million or single 21 million), etc., Netcom baseband, dual card dual 4G standby, down the highest Cat.7, transmission using Bluetooth 5.0 standard.
Thanks to Mediatek's NeuroPilot artificial intelligence technology, the P22 also provides users with an enhanced edge artificial intelligence (Edge AI) experience, such as support for face recognition, smart albums, single/dual camera depth of field AI camera.
Previously, MediaTek P60 in China, India, and Southeast Asia was adopted by customers including OPPO and VIVO. It is estimated that P22 will introduce AI function into the super mid-market, and it will usher in a new round with vivo. The shipment growth.
2.Qualcomm CEO: 5G boosts China's corporate summit Apple's Samsung status is at stake;
According to "Financial Times" reported on May 30, Beijing Time, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf predicted that the arrival of 5G technology will promote the arrival of Chinese technology companies to the top of the global smartphone industry. , threatening market leaders such as Apple and Samsung.
Morenkov made this bold prediction at a time when national policymakers considered the new generation of wireless technologies as the key to ensuring national security and competitiveness.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Molenkov said that compared with the transition of operators and equipment manufacturers to 4G 10 years ago, the transition of the smartphone industry to 5G is much faster. (Compiling/Shuangye)
3. MediaTek health chip import Android Go smart machine output volume within the year;
MediaTek announced the first smart health platform last year. It has not been announced by mobile phone manufacturers to carry this chip. However, recently, the market is spreading. MediaTek is working with Google and Indian mobile phone manufacturers to integrate the health detection chip into the Android Go platform. Among the mobile phones, it is expected that this year will be expected to begin production of goods.
MediaTek said that since 2011, together with Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan University Hospital has invested a series of medical electronics innovation technology R&D plans and continued to research and innovate in the medical field. Tripartite cooperation reached new milestones in the near future, through bio-sensing chips and algorithms. Assist consumers to monitor blood pressure trends for a long period of time, and immediately grasp personal health status, and then early warning of hypertension to reduce cardiovascular disease mortality.
MediaTek launched Sensio, a smart health platform, last year to detect heart rhythm, blood pressure, blood oxygen, ECG and other functions in 60 seconds. In the market, MediaTek is working with Indian mobile phone brands to create a smart and healthy mobile phone, which will also be used in Google. Android Go, a low-platform operating system, has the opportunity to begin mass production this year. MediaTek does not comment on unreleased products and single customer profiles.
MediaTek has been actively making innovations in the smart phone platform. From the previous fast charging function, it recently added artificial intelligence technology, and also launched heartbeat detection and other technologies for health functions. MediaTek said that hypertension is the top ten cause of death in the global ranking. In one, the prevalence of hypertension in Taiwan has tripled in the past decade. For Taiwanese adults, 1 in 4 people suffers from hypertension. Myocardial infarction caused by hypertension, stroke, heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases , More than cancer has become the most important cause of death.
MediaTek pointed out that using hand-held or wearable devices to monitor blood pressure will greatly reduce the inconvenience of measurement. MediaTek has developed an algorithm for estimating blood pressure trends. Through more than 10,000 data analysis, it can cover more than 80% of users. The scope of application.
Taiwan University, National Taiwan University Hospital and MediaTek's cross-border research team will continue to collaborate to optimize and validate the algorithm as a goal, and simultaneously develop clinical research. Future device manufacturers will be able to use MediaTek Sensio smart health solutions to develop medication reminders, including blood pressure Warnings, emergency calls, and other personal health management applications and physiological monitoring patches and other peripheral accessories to help more consumers effectively manage their personal health, and bring about comprehensive innovative application of future blood pressure management and treatment.
According to foreign media reports, a few days ago, Qualcomm's artificial intelligence researcher Chris Lott showed his team's progress in speech recognition programs.
Their speech recognition system can run on smartphones or other portable devices and contains two neural networks: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Recurrent neural networks use their memory to process input information, while volumes The product neural network mimics the connection between neurons in the human brain. Lott claims that this speech recognition system achieves 95% accuracy in recognizing words and phrases.
According to reports, this system can learn the habit of using your device, and then personalize it according to your habits.
Lott said that most of the speech recognition systems now operate in the cloud. Microphones and chips in mobile phones, smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon Echo, and Windows computers with Microsoft Cortana Voice Assistant can allow voice recognition systems to listen Popular vocabulary to accept a series of voice instructions. However, they do not analyze these instructions, but simply transmit these instructions to powerful remote servers running complex machine learning algorithms.
Lott said Qualcomm’s speech recognition system processes data directly on the device. In addition to protecting user privacy, it also has many benefits. Since it does not have to upload data to the cloud, it responds to instructions. It's faster. Because it doesn't need to connect to the internet, it becomes more stable.
Not long ago, Qualcomm's Qualcomm Technologies just announced the establishment of Qualcomm AI Research, which will carry out all frontier artificial intelligence research carried out within the company and carry out collaborative and enhanced integration across various functions. CTI Forum
5. Intel's layoffs, tens of thousands of people accused of age discrimination, older scrutiny;
In 2016, Intel announced that it would substantially eliminate 12,000 employees. It was then accused by employees that Intel eliminated senior employees and left behind young employees. The US Fair Employment Opportunity Commission is preparing to investigate whether the layoffs involve age discrimination.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the United States is investigating whether the massive layoffs Intel executives implemented two years ago involved age discrimination.
As the global PC sales volume plunged, Intel announced in 2016 that it would reorganize and abolish 12,000 employees, accounting for 11% of the total number of Intel employees worldwide. The implementation period will be from April 2016 to mid-2017. .
However, there are dozens of employees who have been sent to the EEOC to complain that Intel tried to get rid of the older employees while leaving behind young employees.
This may be a good policy for the company, because older employees usually have higher salaries and know more about their rights, because they have more family benefits, but the age discrimination is in the United States. Not allowed. According to the report, Intel countered that the company's layoffs and age, no association with race or nationality.
However, Intel's internal documents show that among the 2,300 employees who were abolished, the median age was 49. At that time, the median age of Intel employees was only 42 years.
At present, EEOC is still investigating whether the complaint has enough evidence. If the evidence is sufficient, Intel will face a class action lawsuit from the old employee.
6. Strong demand for GPON, Huaxing Guangtong shipped back from last year;
Huaxing Guangtong's first quarter shipments of 10G PON products, 2.5G PON and datacenter 100G module shipments increased compared to the same period of last year, driving single-quarter revenue to 483 million yuan, an increase of 20% year-on-year, but due to 2.5G PON products The price is still unsatisfactory. It still suppresses the performance of Huaxingguang's gross margin. The single-quarter gross margin is -7%, the net after-tax loss is 113 million yuan, and the EPS is -1.23 yuan. In the second quarter, Hua Xingguang pointed out that the current product shipments still remain. Compared with the same period of last year, we saw a recovery, but there are still many uncertainties in the market conditions. Future operations still need to be observed continuously. The industry is assessing that the proportion of China Star Optical 2.5G PON is still high, and the first half of the year will see a turnaround in operations.
Huaxingguang mainly produces optical communication active components, including optical communication active component sub-modules (TO-CAN, OSA), optical communication active component chips and die, and optical communication optical transceiver modules. As for the proportion of revenue, EPON with 1.25G as main accounted for 16~22%; GPON products accounted for more than 40%; other modules accounted for about 30%.
Reviewing the operation of China Star in the first quarter, shipments of a number of products, including 10G PON, 2.5G PON, and datacenter 100G modules, both increased compared to the same period of last year, which also led to Huaxing's single-quarter revenue performance reaching 483 million yuan, an increase of 2 years. Cheng, However, the price of 2.5G PON was not satisfactory. Although shipments saw a significant recovery, they also correspondingly depressed the performance of China Star's gross margin. The single-quarter gross margin was -7%, and the post-tax net loss was 113 million yuan. EPS -1.23 Yuan, single-quarter operation is still losing money.
In the second quarter of operations, China Starstar’s revenue remained stable at the previous month level in April. The single-month revenue was 194 million yuan. Due to optical communications, shipments of cloud products increased significantly compared to the same period last year, and revenue increased by approximately 94% year-on-year. However, Hua Xingguang's views on performance growth are still relatively conservative. The main reason for growth is that the market is relatively better than last year's trough. However, there are still many uncertainties in assessing the follow-up market conditions, including whether the Sino-US trade war will continue to have an impact. However, in terms of shipments, Hua Xingguang pointed out that the shipment of datacenter 100G products has gradually increased since the second half of last year. Although shipments have not been significantly increased, shipments have seen a steady increase, and 10G PON shipments also increased compared with the previous quarter.
According to industry assessments, in the first half of the year, although China Star Optronics saw improved operations, under the influence of poor 2.5G PON prices, the revenue share of products such as 10G PON and datacenter 100G is still not high enough, and there is still pressure to turn around. For half a year, the customer's order performance must be observed continuously.
China Star’s performance continued to be affected by the cooling of demand from China's FTTH in major markets. Product shipments decreased. Although the shipments were lifted by 2.5G PON at the end of the year, the camp recovered, but the product’s gross profit margin was not good, leading to a loss for the fourth quarter in a single season. Further expansion, the net after-tax loss for the year was 659 million yuan, EPS -8.05 yuan, which was further enlarged from the loss of the previous year.