Apple officially announced the Mac conference next Tuesday; Tucki released mass-produced flying cars; Hurun Report released, Zhong Shanshan is still the richest man in China, and Ma Huateng returned t

On October 25th, Beijing time, Apple officially announced that it would hold a Mac conference at 8: 00 a.m. on October 31st, Beijing time, with the theme of "Fierce Coming".

It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that Apple has chosen to hold a press conference at 5 pm western time and in the morning of Beijing time. For domestic users, it means that it is not necessary to stay up late to watch the press conference for the first time.

Regarding the specific content of this conference, according to previous rumors, it is possible to see the new 24-inch iMac, but according to Mark Gurman, Apple will not update the MacBook Air, but 13-inch MacBook Pro, 14-inch MacBook Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro may adopt new chips. (Source: Geek Park)

On October 24th, Beijing time, a regulatory document submitted by NVIDIA to the US SEC revealed that the US government informed the company that the relevant export controls for products with total processing performance greater than or equal to 4,800 and designed or sold for data centers took effect immediately, affecting the company’s A100, A800, H100, H800 and L40S products. (Source: science and technology innovation board Daily)

　

After the US stock market closed on Tuesday, October 24th, Alphabet, the digital advertising and search giant and Google’s parent company, released its financial report for the third quarter of 2023. Although the revenue and profit of the third quarterly report were better than expected, Google Cloud’s revenue was worse than expected, and its share price fell more than 6% after hours. Google A closed up 1.7% on Tuesday, nearly erasing the decline since last Tuesday.

Excluding Tuesday’s after-hours decline, the stock has risen by about 12% since the announcement of the second quarterly report at the end of July, outperforming the 7.5% decline of the S&P 500 index in the same period. Google, which has risen 57%, is also one of the best-performing large-scale technology stocks this year, while S&P has risen more than 10% and Nasdaq has risen more than 25%. (Source: Wall Street)

　

On October 25th, local time on Tuesday, Microsoft announced its financial report for the first fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2024 as of September 30th, 2023. The financial report shows that Microsoft’s revenue in the quarter was $56.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 13%, while analysts expected it to be $54.5 billion; The net profit was $22.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27%; Earnings per share were $2.99, while analysts expected an average of $2.65.

Microsoft’s first-quarter results exceeded analysts’ expectations, and the company’s share price rose 5% in after-hours trading on Tuesday. (Source: Netease Technology)

　

On October 24th, Beijing time, Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, and Huang Renxun, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said at Lenovo Tech World 23 that Lenovo will cooperate with NVIDIA to launch a new hybrid artificial intelligence program to bring the next generation of cloud artificial intelligence technology to enterprise users all over the world. This means that Lenovo will provide new enterprise-level AI solutions based on NVIDIA MGX architecture, Lenovo hybrid artificial intelligence services and more. Lenovo will provide a fully integrated system, introducing the computing power driven by artificial intelligence into all places where data is generated. These solutions enable enterprises to adopt a hybrid cloud approach — — Custom artificial intelligence models are built through NVIDIA AI Foundation cloud service, and then they are run by NVIDIA’s latest hardware devices designed by generative artificial intelligence and software-driven Lenovo local system. (Source: Wall Street)

　

On October 24th, Beijing time, Tianfeng International analyst Guo Ming said that it is estimated that Apple will purchase 2,000-3,000 AI servers in 2023, accounting for 1.3% of the global AI server shipments. However, this number will greatly increase next year. In 2024, Apple will purchase 18,000-20,000 AI servers, accounting for 5%.

Guo Ming thinks that the AI server purchased by Apple is mainly NVIDIA HGX H100 8-GPU, which is the most common one for training generative AI, and the chips purchased in the fourth quarter of next year will be added with B100. H100 is calculated at a price of $250,000. It is estimated that Apple’s procurement cost on AI servers in 2023 will be $620 million, and it is estimated that it will reach $4.75 billion next year. (Source: Cailian)

Beijing time on October 24th news, according to Sammobile report, Samsung plans to fully invest in artificial intelligence technology on its next-generation flagship mobile phone Galaxy S24 series. Samsung hopes that the Galaxy S24 series will become the smartest AI mobile phone ever, even surpassing the functions provided by Google on the Pixel series.

This is an ambitious goal, but unfortunately there is not much information about how Samsung achieves this goal. I only know that Galaxy S24 series will have some functions from ChatGPT and Google Bard, such as generating content based on some keywords provided by users.

There are also some functions designed by Samsung itself, such as the text-to-image generation AI mentioned when the Exynos 2400 chip was released, and many functions can be used offline. (Source: Digital Tail)

　

On October 24th, Beijing time, the Science and Technology Strategy Consulting Institute of China Academy of Sciences released the "Report on Typical Science and Technology Innovation in China" (hereinafter referred to as "Report"), and OPPO folding screen mobile phone was selected as "China Branch Innovation Business Card" together with patent-intensive science and technology products such as Fuxing of China high-speed rail, Beidou satellite navigation system, C919 aircraft of Comac China, Baidu AI model, Ant Financial Alipay and BOE HD display. (Source: Geek Park)

　

On October 24th, Weibo recently launched the visitor record function quietly. At present, this function is still being tested, and only SVIP and VVIP can experience it. Relevant information shows that Weibo will update yesterday’s homepage visitor information at 8: 00 every day, and the content is only visible to himself. No matter whether visitors pay attention to bloggers or not, bloggers can see these visitors, and they can also view them according to all, attention, fans, non-fans and certified users.

Earlier, it was reported that Weibo will implement a front desk real-name registration system for self-media accounts with more than a certain number of fans, that is, show their real names and professional information on the account homepage. In this regard, Weibo CEO Wang Gaofei recently said in his Weibo account that this policy is not aimed at all self-media accounts, but at specific types of accounts, and will not be enforced. Specifically, it is aimed at the self-media accounts of 1 million fans, and will be reduced to 500,000 fans at most in the future. (Source: IT House)

　

On the evening of October 24th, at the Tech World Conference held by Lenovo Group, lisa su, chairman and CEO of AMD, said that in the next few months, AMD will launch many new technologies, including the latest AMD Athlon chips and related solutions, which will become part of the world’s largest high-performance computing artificial intelligence supercomputer.

Lisa su said, "We have a strong software ecosystem. Today, many artificial intelligence developers are developing higher-level software. They are gathered together because of some open source communities. Our goal is only to make our joint development super easy. Customers really deploy this technology as soon as possible, and really rely on the benefits of open source methods to attract developers from all over the world to innovate and accelerate artificial intelligence learning. (Source: Sina Technology)

On October 24th, a brand-new MPV model, Tucki X9, was unveiled at the 1024 Xpeng Motors Science and Technology Day. It is the world’s first MPV with rear-wheel steering. It adopts the SEPA structure of Tucki and provides four-wheel drive/two-wheel drive versions, which will be officially released at the Guangzhou Auto Show.

Tucki X9 has a length, width and height of 5293/1988/1785mm and a wheelbase of 3160mm respectively. The front face is equipped with split light sets and penetrating daytime running lights, and the lower part has a grid-like grille. The side adopts the design of hidden door handle and side sliding door, the exterior rearview mirror is located on the door, the side window adopts flat design, and the wheel hub adopts large-size low wind resistance shape.

Tucki X9 is equipped with a front permanent magnet synchronous motor with a maximum power of 235kW and a rear induction asynchronous motor with a maximum power of 135kW, which supports rear wheel steering. Built-in 84.5kWh and 101.5kWh battery packs, CLTC’s pure electric cruising range is 610km, 640km and 702km respectively.

The car adopts Tucki’s fifth generation intelligent cockpit system "XOS Tianji System", with Snapdragon 8295 chip for the first time. (Source: IT House)

　

On the 2024 Tucki Science and Technology Day, Tucki launched a mass-produced air-ground integrated flying car with super-running shape, the flight system can be automatically folded and fully stored, and the steering wheel can be telescopically folded. It is reported that the split flying car adopts extended-range hybrid power, which can continuously recharge the aircraft; 6X6 all-wheel drive, rear wheel steering; The land-based body is equipped with a flying body, which can be automatically separated/combined, and the land-based body can replenish energy for the flying body.

And in the key safety technology, the first ultra-low altitude multi-parachute lifesaving system is created, which can still fly safely after the "double rotors fail" and is the first ultra-low altitude multi-parachute lifesaving system in the world. (Source: Futu)

　

On October 24th, Beijing time, Qualcomm launched Snapdragon X Elite, a PC chip specially developed for AI. The platform adopts customized integrated Qualcomm Oryon CPU, which makes the performance of this mobile computing CPU twice as high as that of competing products; When the same peak performance is achieved, the power consumption is only 30% of that of competing products.

Snapdragon X Elite is specially built for AI, which supports a generative AI model with more than 13 billion parameters running on the terminal side. With the AI processing speed of 4.5 times that of competing products, it will continue to expand Qualcomm’s advantages in the AI field. OEMs are expected to launch PCs equipped with Snapdragon X Elite in mid-2024. (Source: Netease Technology)

　

On October 25th, Beijing time, Qualcomm just announced the launch of a new flagship mobile platform — — The third generation Snapdragon 8, which is a product with terminal intelligence, top performance and energy efficiency, adopts TSMC 4nm process technology.

Chris Patrick, senior vice president and general manager of mobile phone business of Qualcomm Technology Company, said: "The third generation Snapdragon 8 will inject high-performance AI into the whole platform system, which will open a new era of generative AI — — Empower users to create unique content, help improve productivity and achieve other breakthrough use cases. (Source: Fast Technology)

On October 24th, Hurun Research Institute released the 2023 Hurun Report. 1,241 entrepreneurs with personal wealth of more than RMB 5 billion were listed on this year’s Hurun Report, a decrease of 5%(64 people) compared with last year. The total wealth of entrepreneurs on the list decreased by 4%(1 trillion yuan) compared with last year to 23.5 trillion yuan. The number of 100 billion entrepreneurs decreased by 4 to 30 compared with last year. The number of billion-dollar entrepreneurs decreased by 51 from last year to 895.

The wealth of 69-year-old Zhong Shanshan in Nongfu Spring is basically the same as last year, becoming the richest man in China for the third time with 450 billion yuan. Tencent’s 52-year-old Ma Huateng’s wealth increased by 65 billion (30%) compared with last year, reaching 280 billion yuan. After 2020, he returned to the second place, up three places from last year, mainly due to the growth of game business and the shares of Meituan distributed by Tencent. Pinduoduo’s 43-year-old Huang Zheng’s wealth increased by 100 billion (59%) compared with last year, and he was the entrepreneur with the largest increase in wealth on this year’s list. He entered the top three for the first time with 270 billion yuan, up seven places from last year, mainly due to his rapid growth in performance and his success in going to sea. The overseas version of Pinduoduo Temu has become one of the most downloaded applications in the United States. (Source: Interface)