Rewrite the Technological Landscape

It is not a day or two for Google to want to engage in social software. In 2011, Google launched Google+. In order to promote the development of Google+, Google did not hesitate to suppress all social software that Google invested. In the end, Google+ played itself to death, and Google was completely in social software. The field is cool.

So when Tim took the initiative to find Google to sell Fengxin’s business in the United States, Google was naturally unhappy and quickly began to negotiate prices.

With the addition of Google, Microsoft had to compete with Google. News of the acquisition of Fengxin's business in the United States began to spread more and more widely. Most importantly, the market began to understand that the reason why the United States wanted to suppress Fengxin was because Microsoft can't compete with the Dafeng Group, and the United States has mobilized government forces to help Microsoft compete.

After the Olympics, Fengxin’s global users have increased again. Recently, it has caught up with the Kering incident and Meng Qian’s becoming the second richest person in the world. At this time, the United States suppressed Fengxin, and it was difficult for Microsoft to propose an acquisition as soon as the United States suppressed Fengxin. Don't let everyone think in this direction.

This kind of argument is slowly brewing now. Under such a general environment, on April 10th, the second Gale Global Developers Conference opened.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, a bunch of media gathered outside the future town to seize good seats.

This year's conference will have more than 26,000 participants, which is still far larger than the global developer conferences of companies such as Google and Apple.

This is the benefit of making the place large enough from the beginning of planning to accommodate more people.

Many participants who participated in the first Gale Global Developers Conference felt that this place now has a more life-like atmosphere. This year, the future town will be dedicated to hosting some large-scale technology activities, including seminars, technology competitions, etc. Therefore, more supporting facilities have been set up.

The first day's itinerary in everyone's hands shows that the key content of the first day is the end product and hardware direction.

The protagonist of the morning is the latest products such as ancient computers and digital cameras.

In the afternoon, the much-watched Hongmeng 3 press conference came. The speaker was still Meng Qian. This also shows that the company attaches great importance to the mobile phone product.

At the beginning of the conference, Meng Qian first showed everyone the transcript of Hongmeng mobile phone.

As of April 10, 2009, compared with January, Hongmeng mobile phone sales have increased by 3 million units. Hongmeng mobile phone sales are far ahead of other brands.

The completion of the performance report is to expose the ecology. Hongmeng Mall currently has 1 million+ apps. Although there are a lot of garbage applications, there are also many boutique applications. Hongmeng mobile phones have basically realized an ecology that can meet the daily needs of users. In this ecosystem, apps from China accounted for nearly half of the boutique apps.

In other words, thanks to the development of Hongmeng mobile phones, many Huaxia apps have moved internationally, because the application providers in other countries have been slow to respond, and some even don’t believe in Hongmeng mobile phones. This allows Huaxia app vendors to take the lead, such as mobile phones. The market share of DingTalk version is getting higher and higher overseas.

Speaking of applications, Meng Qian told everyone the good news, “During the Olympic Games, our word-of-mouth life app and our mobile payment function have received unanimous praise from the market. Therefore, we have increased our commitment to word-of-mouth life and mobile payment. Promotion efforts.

Up to now, Word of Mouth Life has entered more than 100 cities, providing daily services to more than 100 million users, and Tenpay’s mobile payment coverage has also effectively expanded.

In addition, in addition to Yanjing, Shanghai and Jinling have also completed the construction of mobile phone scanning code entry services. Users in Shanghai and Jinling can also enter and exit the subway station through Tenpay without having to queue for tickets. "

"Papa, papa." There was applause at the scene.

"Okay, let us uncover the mystery of Hongmeng 3." Meng Qian said and picked up a Hongmeng on the table. "Let's take a look at the changes of Hongmeng 3 from the hardware aspect. First of all, I want to What everyone showed was that Hongmeng 3 made a breakthrough choice of OLED LCD screen, which is the world's first smart phone using OLED LCD screen.

The most essential difference between OLED and LCD is that LCD needs backlight support, while OLED can be self-luminous. This is the biggest difference between the two, and it also determines the completely different display effects and screen thickness of the two screens.

Through the most direct comparison, we can see that OLED screens have obvious color advantages, with high brightness and vivid colors.

At the same time, with the help of the material characteristics of the OLED screen, we will make Hongmeng 3 thinner and lighter. "

Meng Qian played a video and briefly played the game. The difference between the OLED screen and the LCD screen is still very obvious.

After introducing the screen, Meng Qian turned the camera back, "I believe many people have noticed that Hongmeng 3 has two cameras.

Indeed, Hongmeng 3 uses a dual-camera lens with the latest large-size CMOS sensor to successfully create a 10-megapixel mobile phone.

We have noticed that more and more users have a high demand for cameras, and users want to record our lives through cameras, so we will also devote ourselves to creating higher standards of camera recording functions for users.

For the controversial endurance, Hongmeng 3 uses BYD's newly developed battery, which can increase the endurance by 50%.

At the same time, starting from Hongmeng 3, the power bank will be given as an official accessory. "

In just one year, the power bank market was flooded with thousands of miscellaneous brands, and various shoddy products have messed up the market. Dafeng Group took the patent to sue, but the small workshops don’t care at all. If you sell it, make a fortune.

So in the end, the company thought about it and just put the power bank directly in the accessories. When users are used to the power bank of Dafeng Group, there will be some people who are more willing to pay for the original factory in the future.

"When it comes to hardware, the core is naturally our processor. Hongmeng 3 uses a brand-new self-developed D3 processor. From the test data, the performance of D3 is twice that of D2."

The performance directly doubled, which surprised many people at the scene.

In the face of everyone's surprise, Meng Qian calmly turned sideways, "This dramatic increase in performance is due to a revolutionary change in the D3 processor."

A line of words appeared on the screen: D3 processor, the world's first mobile phone AI chip.

"What is an AI chip, and why do we have to launch an AI chip? With the continuous development of Yunzhilian, we are increasingly sure that the current most accurate algorithm is based on deep learning, and compared with the calculation accuracy and amount of calculation of traditional machine learning , Deep learning spans multiple orders of magnitude, which makes us realize that the speed of chip development under Moore's Law is absolutely unable to keep up with the speed of algorithm development.

The explosion of artificial intelligence that began in 2007 has allowed us to see the development speed of artificial intelligence in many fields, and multiple application directions have emerged in just two years. Then in the foreseeable future, if the processor is still At the same pace as the past, hardware will limit the development of artificial intelligence.

Out of this technical demand and technical prediction, we have been researching AI chips since 3 years ago, and successfully built the D3 mobile phone AI processor.

The D3 processor is an FPGA chip, which can achieve more than 10 times the efficiency in the calculation of the deep learning algorithm. "

Seeing 10 times the efficiency, anyone from the funeral will definitely know that D3's algorithmic processing power still has a lot of room for improvement, but in 2009, this is a huge technological breakthrough.

At the press conference, Meng Qian did not discuss the technical principle of the AI ​​processor in depth. It is still the same. If you say too much, users will not understand it. After all, this is a product launch conference. It will probably be enough to explain the concept clearly, anyway. For users, it is the most direct experience to get started. They have no interest in understanding so many esoteric technologies.

In fact, AI chips have four major directions, namely GPUs for parallel accelerated computing, semi-customized FPGAs, fully customized ASICs, and brain-like chips proposed by IBM in 2010.

According to past history, from 2007 to 2010 it was the home field of GPU, from 2010 to 2015 it was the home field of FPGA, and from 2015 to 2019 it was the home field of ASIC. Of course, afterwards, everyone found their own more suitable field. Even in 2019, GPU still has its own huge market in the field of artificial intelligence.

As for brain-like chips, only IBM is seriously investing. No one can say how much room for development in the future. Anyway, many people have great expectations for brain-like chips and think that brain-like chips may become IBM's foothold in the field of artificial intelligence. The magic weapon, but the IBM company really likes to brag, Meng Qian is not very optimistic.

There are two reasons why D3 uses FPGA~www.ltnovel.com~. On the one hand, the reason is that ASICs do not know why they are often looked down upon by some people, but the development of ASICs is not easy at all, especially in 2009. Years ago, everyone basically had no experience, so in fact, Dafeng Group's research and development on ASIC is still in progress and has not been successful.

On the other hand, at the moment when artificial intelligence technology and applications are still in the early stages of development, it is not appropriate to rush to adopt ASICs. These years are the time when algorithms are developing and upgrading rapidly. ASICs are designed for specific algorithms. Hardening, unable to adapt to various algorithms, obviously not suitable for use in the technological explosion period.

With the maturity and stability of software and algorithms, relevant manufacturers will inevitably further pursue the optimization of performance and energy efficiency, and then it will be the time for application-specific integrated circuits to appear.

In the entire field of artificial intelligence chips, Dafeng Group’s GPU has taken the lead, and now FPGA has taken the lead. ASIC Meng Qian is also confident to take the lead, and brain-like chip companies will also spend money on research.

After all, Meng Qian's technical reserves in this field can provide a lot of help. Coupled with the research and application opportunities brought by the prophets, Meng Qian wants Dafeng Group to become the absolute hegemon of the artificial intelligence chip market.

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