Chapter 589 Absolute Overlord

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 the social software invested by Google. In the end, Google+ played itself to death. Google was completely in social software. The field is cool.

So when Tim took the initiative to sell Fengxin's business to Google, Google was naturally happy, and quickly started to negotiate the price.

With the addition of Google, Microsoft had to compete with Google. The news that Fengxin’s American business was about to be acquired began to spread more and more widely. Most importantly, the market began to understand that this Fengxin incident was due to Microsoft’s competition. But the Dafeng Group used this method.

After the Olympic Games, Fengxin’s global users increased again. Recently, it caught up with the Kaiyun incident and Meng Qian’s becoming the second richest man in the world. It happened at this time, and Microsoft made a move at this time. It’s hard not to let everyone think in this direction.

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

At 6 o'clock in the morning, a bunch of media gathered outside the future town to grab 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 advantage of making the place big enough to accommodate more people from the very beginning of planning.

Many participants who participated in the first Gale Global Developers Conference feel that this place is more lively now. This year, Future Town has specially used it to hold some large-scale technological activities, including seminars, technological competitions, etc. So more supporting facilities were built.

The first day's itinerary in everyone's hands shows that the focus of the first day is on terminal products and hardware.

The protagonists of the morning are the latest ancient computers and digital cameras and other products.

In the afternoon, the Hongmeng 3 press conference, which has attracted much attention, came, and the speaker was still Meng Qian, which also shows that the company attaches great importance to the mobile phone product.

At the start of the press conference, Meng Qian first showed everyone the report card of Hongmeng mobile phone.

As of April 10, 2009, compared with January, the new sales of Hongmeng mobile phones increased by 3 million units, and the sales volume of Hongmeng mobile phones is far ahead of other brands.

After posting the report card, it is time to post the ecology. Hongmeng Mall currently has 1 million+ apps. Although there are many junk apps, there are also many high-quality apps. Hongmeng mobile phones have basically realized an ecology that can meet the daily needs of users. In this ecosystem, apps from China account for nearly half of the high-quality apps.

That is to say, with the help of the development of Hongmeng mobile phones, many Chinese apps have gone international, because app vendors in other countries are a bit slow to respond, and some even don’t believe in Hongmeng mobile phones. This gives Huaxia app vendors an advantage, such as mobile phones DingTalk's overseas market share is getting higher and higher.

When it comes to applications, Meng Qian told everyone a piece of good news, "During the Olympic Games, our word-of-mouth life APP and our mobile payment function have received unanimous praise from the market, so we have increased our support for word-of-mouth life and mobile payment. promotion efforts.

Up to now, Koubei Life has entered more than 100 cities, providing daily services to more than 100 million users, and Tenpay’s mobile payment coverage has also been 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 subway stations through Tenpay, without having to queue up to buy tickets. "

"Papa papa." There was applause from the audience.

"Okay, now let's unveil the mystery of Hongmeng 3." Meng Qian said and picked up a Hongmeng on the table, "Let's take a look at the changes in Hongmeng 3 from the hardware side. What you have shown is that Hongmeng 3 has a breakthrough choice of OLED LCD screen, which is the world's first smartphone using OLED LCD screen.

The most essential difference between OLED and LCD is that LCD needs backlight support, while OLED can achieve self-illumination. 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 bright colors.

At the same time, with the help of the material properties of the OLED screen, we have made Hongmeng 3 thinner and lighter. "

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

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

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 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 battery life, Hongmeng 3 uses BYD's newly developed battery, which can increase battery life by 50%.

At the same time, starting from Hongmeng 3, charging treasures will be presented as official accessories. "

In just one year, the power bank market has been flooded with thousands of miscellaneous brands. All kinds of shoddy products have messed up the market. Dafeng Group sued with patents, and other small workshops don’t care at all. If you sue, it’s a big deal. If you sell it, you will get a fortune.

So in the end, the company thought about it and simply put the power bank in the accessories and gave it away. When users get used to the power bank of Dafeng Group, some people will be more willing to spend money to buy the original factory.

"When it comes to hardware, the core is naturally our processor. Hongmeng 3 uses a new self-developed M3 processor, and from the test data, the performance of M3 has reached twice that of M2."

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

Facing everyone's astonishment, Meng Qian turned sideways calmly, "The substantial performance improvement this time is due to a revolutionary change in the M3 processor."

A line of words appeared on the screen: M3 processor, the world's first AI chip for mobile phones.

"What is an AI chip, and why do we launch an AI chip? With the continuous development of Cloud Zhilian, we are more and more sure that the algorithm with the highest accuracy is based on deep learning. Compared with the calculation accuracy and calculation amount of traditional machine learning , Deep learning spans multiple orders of magnitude, which makes us realize that the development speed of chips under Moore's Law can never keep up with the development speed of algorithms.

The explosion of artificial intelligence since 2007 has shown us the speed of development of artificial intelligence in many fields, and in just two years, multiple application directions have emerged, so in the foreseeable future, if the processor is still According to the past speed of development, hardware will limit the development of artificial intelligence.

Out of this technical demand and technical prediction, we started researching AI chips 3 years ago and successfully created the M3 mobile phone AI processor.

The M3 processor is an FPGA chip, which can achieve more than 10 times the efficiency in the operation of deep learning algorithms. "

Seeing the 10-fold efficiency, anyone who came from the funeral must know that the algorithm processing capability of the M3 still has a lot of room for improvement, but in 2009, this was a huge technological breakthrough.

At the press conference, Meng Qian did not discuss the technical principle of the AI ​​processor in depth, or the same principle, and users would not understand it if he talked too much. For users, the hands-on experience is the most direct, and they are not interested in understanding so many esoteric technologies.

In fact, there are four major directions for AI chips, namely GPU for parallel accelerated computing, semi-customized FPGA, fully customized ASIC, and the brain-like chip proposed by IBM in 2010.

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

As for the brain-inspired chip, only IBM is seriously investing in it. No one can say how much room for development there will be in the future. Anyway, many people have great expectations for the brain-inspired chip. The magic weapon, but IBM is a company that likes to brag too much, and Meng Qian is not very optimistic.

There are two reasons why M3 uses FPGA. On the one hand, ASICs are often looked down upon by some people for some reason, but the development of ASICs is not easy at all, especially before 2009, everyone basically I have little experience, so in fact, Dafeng Group's ASIC research and development is still in progress and has not been successful.

On the other hand, when artificial intelligence technology and applications are still in the early stages of development, it is not appropriate to rush to adopt ASICs. In the past few years, the algorithm has been rapidly developed and upgraded. ASICs are designed for specific algorithms. Solidification, unable to adapt to various algorithms, obviously not suitable for use in the period of technological explosion.

With the maturity and stability of software and algorithms, relevant manufacturers will inevitably further pursue the optimization of performance and energy efficiency, and it will be the time for ASICs to enter the market.

In the field of artificial intelligence chips, Dafeng Group's GPU has already taken the lead, and now FPGA is also ahead, ASIC Meng Qian is also confident to go ahead, 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 development opportunities and application opportunities brought by the Prophet, Meng Qian wants to make Dafeng Group the absolute overlord of the artificial intelligence chip market.