1. Qualcomm must revolutionize PC's life, endurance and speed into 'killer';
Set Micronet reported on June 23 (reporter Zhang Yiqun) Recently, Qualcomm held in Beijing, "This should be a long-term enjoyment - Xiaolong mobile PC platform Windows notebook tasting," demonstrated its innovation in the field of mobile PC, China Telecom, Microsoft, Asus, Lenovo, JD, 360 and iQIYI and other ecosystem partners have all come to the platform.
Today, Qualcomm is accelerating its business development in the field of mobile computing. With more than 30 years of accumulation in the communications industry, it is expanding into the PC industry. While expanding its business scope, it also addresses the development pains of the PC industry and brings brand new to consumers. Experience.
Life and speed become the driving force for the change PC
If we say that the mission of communications in the past 30 years is to achieve people-to-people connections and communication, then in the future, especially with the advent of 5G and the Internet of Things, the Internet of Things will become a vision. This will not only bring significant development opportunities to China. , will also promote the transformation of the global industry.
Qualcomm has been expanding its business areas beyond chip design and patent licensing, including access to car networking, Internet of Things and mobile computing, and changing its model of relying on a single industry of smart phones to achieve multiple development.
In terms of PC connectivity, Qualcomm is not a new player. Over the past 10 years, more than 1,000 PC SKUs have been shipped using Qualcomm 3G/4G technology. Currently there are more than 100 PC products on the market with built-in Opteron X5/X7 LTE modems. Including Microsoft's Surface Pro, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga, HP Elite x2 and Dell Latitude 7000 Series combo notebook and more.
The new era has spawned new changes. Despite the maturity of the mobile phone industry and the growing popularity of the PC industry, PC development has encountered a ceiling, but in essence, its function and experience cannot bring revolutionary upgrades, especially in recent years. The PC consumer's mentality has changed, and it is beginning to look forward to a more mobile PC form and terminal. This also proposes a refined, lightweight product form, connectivity and excellent battery life requirements.
According to Wu Shangjie, senior vice president of Qualcomm and president of QCT China, a Qualcomm survey showed that the battery life experience and high-speed connection are the main driving forces for consumers to purchase PCs. If the PC can achieve more than 20 hours of battery life, and Gigabit LTE The connection speed, then there are 83% and 60% of users tend to change the existing PC products in hand.
The endurance and speed have become the main driving force for the transformation of the PC industry. These are the advantages that Qualcomm has accumulated in the mobile communications industry over the past 30 years. Based on this, Qualcomm will launch a brand new category of PCs one year ago to introduce the experience of smartphones to PCs. Emphasis is always online, always connected and over a day of battery life, slim and innovative design and more.
On the other hand, the mobile industry is leading the development of chip process technology. With the rapid development of the mobile field, mobile SoC processes have caught up with and surpassed PC SoCs in recent years, significantly improving the performance in terms of power consumption, which is also injected into PCs. The experience of smart phones brings possibilities.
Compared to traditional laptops, the Windows Mobile PC based on Snapdragon's mobile PC platform can support always-on, always-connected features, enabling longer battery life than the entire day, allowing users to enjoy the same instant-on ', 'Always updated' features, continuous, convenient, up to gigabit-rate connectivity, and even GPS-based location awareness. In addition, Snapdragon's mobile PC platform can support thin, elegant and innovative fanless PC designs for users. Provides a more portable and easy-to-use experience. Based on this, users can still have the strong productivity of the familiar Windows 10 operating system and run thousands of applications in the Windows App Store.
In the technical exhibition area of the event, the first commercial PC products carrying the Snapdragon mobile PC platform were presented for the first time - the ASUS 370 and Lenovo Miix 630 combo notebooks launched by Asus and Lenovo respectively. In the scene, the features of the Windows laptop supported by the Nine Dragons mobile PC platform are fully connected, long life, thermal performance and Windows 10 experience.
Build a PC ecosystem to create more innovation possible
The development of any industry is inseparable from the systematic and complete industrial ecology. In the PC field promoted by Qualcomm, more partners are gathering today.
At present, Qualcomm is building a compact ecosystem built on the PC side. The Xiaolong mobile PC platform Windows notebook has been supported by many ecosystem partners, including online and offline channels including Jingdong and China Telecom, including Lenovo and ASUS. , Hewlett-Packard, including the machine manufacturers, Microsoft, 360 and other software vendors and iQIYI and other content vendors.
For example, Microsoft released Visual Studio 15.8 at the recent Build 2018 Global Developer Conference. This new software development kit helps developers create 64-bit ARM for Windows PCs supported by the Snapdragon mobile PC platform. Applications that are more fully played online, always connected to the PC's powerful performance and long battery life.
360 APP and other APP developers optimized the APP adaptation for the Windows laptops supported by Xiaolong mobile PC platform to achieve a consistent experience. 360 technology has also developed a fast editing application that can fully exploit the features of the Xiaolong mobile PC platform.
As a retail channel provider, JD.com can help consumers purchase brand-new PC products through a one-stop shopping service. Carriers such as China Telecom can provide unique traffic packages.
In terms of OEMs, Qualcomm chose to collaborate with Lenovo, Asus, etc. On the one hand, these vendors had a good accumulation in the PC field. On the other hand, these manufacturers also have mobile phone services, which cooperate with Qualcomm for further mobile The experience injected into the PC brings advantages.
At the recently held 2018 COMPUTEX 2018, Qualcomm announced that it will continue to face the always-on, always-connected PC field with the launch of the next-generation Xiaolong 850 mobile computing platform, including the latest X20 LTE modem. And artificial intelligence engine. At the same time announced cooperation with Samsung will be integrated in the future Samsung PC products, 850 mobile computing platform.
According to Kang Rong, vice president and general manager of marketing and operations at Microsoft Greater China, “The collaboration between Microsoft and Qualcomm has been around for a long time. The Windows 10 PC with Qualcomm's Opteron platform brings light, thin, energy-efficient and always-on, always The connected user experience allows them to enjoy the innovative features of Windows 10 anywhere and anytime. Microsoft and Qualcomm, Lenovo, Asustek and other partners are working together to create more innovations for our vast ecosystem of partners through the expansion of software and hardware platforms. Possible. '
2. The explosion of workers in Japan. Japanese semiconductor companies prefer Taiwanese people;
In the graduation season, many young people are eager to go abroad. In the last two years, Japanese companies have also begun to actively recruit Taiwanese to work in Japan. IT talent is the most sought-after. Large-scale companies even make money for employees who do not understand Japanese. What kind of specialties do you need to work in Japan? How about local salary and vacations? How do you deal with the people most troubled by the local Taiwanese?
"I will go to Taiwan on business next month to talk about the snow season at the end of the year." This year is the third year of He Yangxuan's work in Japan. After introducing the teacher, He Yangxuan graduated from the Japanese Department of Kaohsiung Baptist University and Work in a tourist hotel group in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He did not have full-time experience, started with basic housekeeping, and started to take care of the Taiwanese traveler's housing business last year during the snow season. Due to his good performance, he officially took over the Taiwan travel agency this year.
There is a growing number of young people working in Japan like He Yangxuan. In recent years, Japan’s labor force has continued to decline, and manpower demand has created a magnetic effect on Taiwan. In addition to the number of working holiday places that have grown from 2000 to 5,000 in a single year in 2014, Japanese companies also began to actively recruit Taiwanese people to Japan in the past two years, and even started to accept IT talents who do not understand Japanese.
According to the statistics of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, from December 2012 to June last year, the number of Taiwanese who stayed in Japan increased from 23,000 to 54,000, growing by nearly 140%. More than half of the more than 50,000 people are 21 Young and middle-aged people between the ages of 40 and over. In terms of visas, the largest increase is in addition to the permitted permanent residents, followed by professionals in Japan who are engaged in “Technology, Humanities, International Business”.
As the Japanese job market has begun to open to the outside world, what are the benefits of social freshmen working in Japan? What professional skills are required? How do you deal with the most distressing interpersonal problems in Taiwan?
In recent years, local companies in Japan have begun to actively beckon young people in Taiwan. It is the feeling of recruiting first-tier human consultants. Liu Yuhan, marketing director of the company’s management consultants, said that Bao Shengna has been in Taiwan for six consecutive years. In the past, there was a large number of employees in Japan and Taiwan, but for the first time this year, there were more “vacancies for Japan” than for “minorities in Taiwan,” and there were as many as 60% of the vacancies that were needed. When Japan took office, it also started to seek participation from companies engaged in scientific and technological talents such as machinery and semiconductors. “It used to be a one-on-one recommendation, but the exhibitors wanted to do it all at once.”
In addition to the Conquest Expo, Japanese companies have begun to recruit outstanding talents from university campuses. The director of the Japanese personnel consulting firm NeoCareer Taiwan branch Legogao Park, said that in the first half of this year, a Japanese local leading IT semiconductor company was recruited. In the four universities of Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Jiaotong University, and Chengda University, they held a seminar and an interview. 20 people from 200 fresh graduates were interviewed for personal interviews. The final admission was less than 10 people. Month entered the Japanese head office work.
In order to compete for outstanding IT talents, Japanese companies are even willing to spend money for engineers to go to Japanese classes. At the end of the day, Uchiharu said that the company had established an overseas business unit two years ago and started recruiting local people in Japan. There have been IT jobs that do not require Japanese language skills. , Companies that usually have a size will pay for employees to go to Japanese courses. As Japan still needs many IT staff, this trend is likely to continue.
In spite of this, most jobs still need to have certain Japanese or English capabilities. Liu Yuhan said that for the service industry, at least daily N1 should be checked, and whether or not it is flexible is the key point. If the N3 level is practical in the manufacturing industry, The beginning of the information industry is not so demanding for Japanese, but it needs to be able to communicate in English. In a highly internationalized company, internal communication may be entirely in English.
As far as the situation is concerned, Taiwanese have to work in the workplace in Japan. Language and personality traits are advantages. At the age of 27, Yu Ruiyun, who works in Osaka, said that he speaks Chinese and his personalities are easy to get along with. This is the advantage of Taiwanese people. At the same time, if you have a good degree of English, you will be strong. After Yu Ruiyun graduated from the Japanese Department of National Taiwan University, he went to Japan to study modern literature. After graduating from the Institute, he decided to move to the business community. Currently, a large manufacturer is responsible for Taiwan, China, and Malaysia. Overseas marketing, she hopes that she will be able to improve her English ability in the future and deal with all countries.
When employment in Japan becomes a career option, what is the treatment of fresh people in the workplace in Japan? Liu Yuhan said that the monthly salary for services is about 200,000 yen (about NT$5,500) in the metropolitan area, and the non-urban areas are usually slightly lower. 16 million yen (approximately NT$4,400). In addition to manufacturing, a large trading company in the technology industry, the starting salary for college graduates is approximately 260,000 yen (approximately 70,000 yen in Taiwan). She also reminded that there are many Japanese companies. The company will provide dormitories or transportation allowances. When considering the treatment, fresh people should take into consideration the benefits other than their own.
Yu Ruiyun is an example of the company’s housing subsidy. She lives in the company’s rented apartment. Although her rent is approximately 70,000 yen, she only needs to pay 10,000 yuan. Her basic monthly salary plus overtime pay is total 27 yen. 10,000 (Taiwan Dollar 70,000), withholding health insurance, annuities, income tax and resident tax totaling 50,000 yuan, can save 50,000 to 100,000 yen (Taiwan dollar 14 to 20,000) per month. However, housing subsidies Commonly seen in large Japanese companies, SMEs may not have or have a lower limit.
On vacation, the annual leave of fresh people in large companies is relatively more than in Taiwan. At the age of 29, Wu Jianrong, who once worked in two large manufacturing companies, said that regardless of the seniority, the annual leave is 24 days, and the current company is 17 days. Take off, up to more than 20 days, but most of my Japanese colleagues will not finish the annual leave. He will take a week or so during the Lunar New Year, "I'll be a lot more."
Although working in Japan has become a career option for young people, it is still necessary to make mental adjustments to get into local employment. Shi Xuewen, director of education and housing operations at a manpower consultancy company in Tokyo, said that the Japanese workplace is very particular about it. Rules, young people who are newly arrived should not hold a casual attitude. For the principles of interviewing, such as wearing suits, punctuality, etc., must be taken seriously.
In addition to the workplace culture, Taiwanese people most often encounter work in Japan that is “incorporating local issues.” According to a 2017 survey conducted by the Taiwanese working life community WorkLife in Japan, the most troublesome issues in life in Japan are number one. It is the interpersonal relationship with the Japanese, and more than half of the respondents are suffering from it.
In fact, the co-founder of WorkLife in Japan, Zhixin Xian, said that some Taiwanese have suffered setbacks because they want to become Japanese. He explained that when a foreigner speaks Japanese well and wants to integrate into Japanese, The other party judges him with the criteria of "my own person". "If it is a professional foreigner, the other person's request will not be so high."
After ten years of work at the company, he is currently responsible for the development of overseas businesses at the American Business Technology Corporation. His observations are that it is quite difficult to integrate into Japanese culture, but not because of ethnic discrimination but because of the strong collective consciousness in Japanese culture. "Even when the Japanese do not follow the mainstream, they will be questioned why they are not like the average Japanese." After studying in the second country, he studied in Canada. According to Zhixin Xian, even Japanese who grew up in foreign countries will encounter similar problems in Japan. .
For those who are interested in long-term development in Japan, moderate integration but outstanding ability is the path to survival. Zhixin Xian suggests learning about the local culture and letting friends, colleagues, and bosses know that they can live in Japanese culture but live together. You don't need to overshadow your personality. "Let the other person know that you are such a person and be comfortable with it." In the workplace, as a foreign employee, you must be able to show your strengths without fear of showing your superiority.
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3. The University of Michigan built a smaller computer than Mijian: only 1/10 of the IBM version;
Michigan State University engineers have created a 'world smallest computer' that can stand on the tip of a meter, the size of IBM's previously announced 1 / 10. Professor David Blaauw, who led the research team together in an e-mail statement Says: 'IBM's computer is not only small and we are not aware of the environment it is in - even if it can send a code that represents itself. ' For the challenge of Michigan State University, IBM did not immediately respond to the media. Requests for comment.
Its size is 0.3 × 0.3 mm, while IBM is 1 × 1 mm.
Following the Micro Mote built in 2015, the school engineers once again broke the record - in March of this year, IBM had just said that they created a "world's smallest computer" smaller than a grain of salt.
Smaller means that they must try new methods. Blaauw said: 'We basically have to invent a new way to realize circuit design, which not only has low power consumption but also tolerates light'.
The study also opened the door for other areas. The University of Michigan said that you can use these devices to conduct pressure sensing in the eye, cancer research, reservoir monitoring, biochemical processes, and even to study snails.
Gary Luker, professor of biomedical engineering who participated in the study with Michigan University engineers, said: 'We use temperature sensors to study temperature changes between tumors and normal tissues, which is expected to be the key to the success or failure of treatment.'
It should be pointed out that a computer smaller than a grain of rice must have a relatively limited function, so it can only be customized according to specific research needs. In addition, when it loses power, it cannot store data (this and IBM are also Communicating) .
Blaauw said: 'We are also not sure whether we should call this computer, but it is important whether they have the minimum functionality required'.
'Compiled from: Cnet, Source: University of Michigan'
4. Japan's 100 billion supercomputer CPU development completed: 3 times power consumption for 100 times performance improvement;
Recently, the news of the United States Summit's supercomputing triggered another super-competitive competition between China and the United States. However, in the new generation of 100 billion supercomputer races, apart from China and the United States, Japan is also an opponent that cannot be ignored. In recent years, Fujitsu has been cooperating with the Japanese Institute of Physics and Chemistry to develop the successor of 'Kyoto' supercomputer. Its performance can reach 100 billion times. It is 100 times that of Beijing Supercomputer, but its energy consumption is only about three times that. Fujitsu announced that it has completed CPU prototyping and has undergone functional testing.
The strongest supercomputer in Japan today is Kyo. Its name is derived from the Japanese numbers. The name of Kyoto K comes from the Japanese word Kei, 1 Beijing represents 10,000 times 1 trillion, because Beijing is the first to reach 100 million. Millions of performance super calculations, thus won two TOP500 championships in 2011, is the first in Japan in 2004 after the Earth Simulator supercomputer was squeezed first after Japan won the TOP500 again.
Jing Chao is a Japanese Fujitsu R&D manu- facturer. It is said to use a SPARC64 processor with a total of 68,544 processors and 548,352 cores. However, it has not been upgraded in recent years. The TOP500 ranking has been pushed to the 10th by China and the United States. In the past few years, Fujitsu has been developing the next generation of Beijing Supercomputing with the support of the government.
Compared with the existing supercomputer, the biggest change in the next generation of Beijing Supercomputer is the processor's comprehensive shift from the SPARC64 architecture to ARM. Fujitsu has announced the launch of its own ARMv8 SVE (Scalable Vector Expansion) chip with 512-bit floating point. The computing unit uses 48 cores + 2 auxiliary cores for each node, and the IO and compute nodes are 48 core + 4 auxiliary cores.
According to the information released by Fujitsu, the performance of the next generation of Beijing Supercomputer will be 100 times that of the current, that is, reaching 100 billion times, while the power consumption is only 30-40MW, compared to the power consumption of Beijing Supercomputer is 12.7MW. That is to say Japan's next-generation supercomputer uses about 3 times the power consumption to achieve a 100-fold performance improvement.
Fujitsu has already completed the prototype of the self-developed ARMv8 processor. At present, the new generation of supercomputer has entered the functional test phase.
5. The photonic chip is smaller and faster than the traditional chip by 100 times;
Israel’s high-tech development is known as the “Middle East Silicon Valley”. Its chip industry and semiconductor technology are particularly eye-catching. The annual export volume is more than 20% of Israel’s total exports. At present, Israel is developing smaller and faster. The traditional chip is 100 times faster than the super chip, and the prospect is full of expectations.
According to reports, Ullir Levy, a physicist at the Hebrew University in Israel, and his research team have been working on developing a brand new chip technology. After more than three years of unremitting efforts, research results have finally come to fruition. Using the MONOS (Mono-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon) structure (MONOS), a new integrated photonic circuit fabrication technology was developed. Based on this, flash memory technology can be used on microchips, which is expected to be smaller and run. The faster photonic chip becomes a reality, and its operating frequency can even reach the terahertz level, which will increase the speed of the calculator and related optical communication equipment by 100 times.
The so-called terahertz (THz) is one of the frequency units. The terahertz wave contains an electromagnetic wave with a frequency of 0.1 THz - 10 THz. It is an electromagnetic spectrum located between the microwave and infrared light bands. Compared with the infrared light on both sides of the terahertz band With the development of microwave technology, people have a limited understanding of the terahertz wave band and formed the so-called terahertz gap. Terahertz waves are penetrating and have less energy than X-rays, so they will not cause damage to human tissues and DNA. , Terahertz technology has become a cross-cutting field of science and technology, and has potential in the field of microchips.
In general, optical communication encompasses all technologies that use light as an information carrier and transmit it over fiber optic cables. Internet, e-mail, SMS, telephony, cloud and data centers, among others, all belong to the category of optical communications. Optical communication is extremely fast. However, in microchips, optical communication becomes unreliable and difficult to repeat and expand. In particular, there are two major technical problems that hinder the development and manufacturing of terahertz microchips. One is that the chip itself is overheated, and the other is that Non-expandability. Scientists pointed out that the ultra-high precision and repeatable fabrication of micro-photonic devices is an important guarantee for the successful development of integrated photonic chips.
Levy’s scientific research team has precisely made breakthroughs in these two difficult problems. They cleverly bypassed the technical problems of low micro-nano processing precision, poor repeatability and poor expandability of photonic devices, and introduced flash memory technology to silicon-based photonic devices. During the processing, the reliable and repeatable preparation of photonic devices was successfully realized. This move has important forward-looking and pioneering features for the future introduction of integrated photonic chips, which is expected to trigger a revolution in the chip industry. According to analysis, This discovery will help fill the terahertz gap and create new, more powerful wireless devices that will enable the chip to transmit data at a much higher speed than it currently is. Technology.
In fact, the change from electronic communication to optical communication is very attractive to chip manufacturers. After technical barriers are broken, optical communication can significantly increase the instruction cycle of the chip and greatly reduce power consumption. People are expecting faster than traditional chips. Thousands of terahertz-level microchips can be launched soon to better benefit humanity. People's Daily