technology weekly | apple and huawei product releases collide, spacex completes first private spacewalk
2024-09-15
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apple releases the first ai phone in history
on monday local time, apple held a new product launch conference and officially released the company's first ever iphone 16 series mobile phone equipped with multiple ai functions, announcing that the smartphone giant has officially entered the "apple intelligence" era. apple is expected to launch a chinese version of the ai function next year.
comment: so far, apple has not revealed how it plans to offer its ai-enabled iphones in china. canalys analyst zhong xiaolei said this could put apple at a disadvantage as smartphone companies race to integrate ai.
over 4 million people booked huawei's 70% off mobile phone, and the price reached 90,000 yuan
on the afternoon of september 10, 13 hours after apple released the new iphone 16 series, huawei officially launched the world's first three-fold screen mobile phone mate xt extraordinary master, priced from 19,999 yuan. on the online huawei mall, the number of reservations for this phone exceeded 4 million. on the second-hand platform xianyu, the price of the three-fold screen mobile phone mate xt has been hyped up to at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, as much as 80,000 to 90,000 yuan, hundreds of thousands of yuan, and even priced at 9.9999 million yuan.
comment: huawei was the first in the industry to release a tri-fold mobile phone. based on the current yield rate and supply chain inventory situation, it is estimated that the global sales of tri-fold mobile phones will be about 200,000 units in 2024. however, the popularity of tri-fold folding screens still needs to be improved due to the initial limitations of cost, technology, yield rate and other factors.
spacex completes first private spacewalk
at 6:52 a.m. est on september 12, the crew on the spacex capsule began the world's first private spacewalk. during the five-day space trip, the four crew members ventured into the earth's van allen radiation belt and orbited the earth at least six times. after five days, they will return to the ground and land in florida.
comment: in the past, only government-funded astronauts who had undergone years of training had performed spacewalks. this is the latest adventure by spacex to break through the boundaries of commercial aerospace. it is also the farthest from the earth since the apollo mission, creating another milestone in human space history.
my country's commercial aerospace company achieves 10-kilometer-class rocket recovery for the first time
at 12:00 on september 11, the suzaku-3 vtvl-1 reusable vertical take-off and landing recovery test rocket independently developed by blue arrow space technology co., ltd. was successfully launched at the blue arrow liquid oxygen and methane rocket launch station at the jiuquan satellite launch center in my country, achieving the first ten-kilometer-level vertical take-off and landing return flight test by a commercial aerospace company.
comment: the success of this flight test mission marks a major breakthrough in china's commercial space industry in reusable launch vehicle technology. blue arrow aerospace said that in the next three years, it is expected to achieve large-capacity, low-cost, high-frequency, reusable space launches.
the 2024 top science and technology awards were announced, and two winners each received a prize of us$10 million
on the morning of september 12, the shanghai world top scientists development foundation held a press conference in shanghai to announce the list of winners of the 2024 world top scientists association award (hereinafter referred to as the "top science association award"). jon kleinberg, a professor of computer science and information science at cornell university, won the "intelligent science or mathematics award", and jeremy nathans, a professor of molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience and ophthalmology at the johns hopkins university school of medicine and a researcher at the howard hughes medical institute, won the "life science or medicine award". the two winners will each receive a single prize of 10 million yuan.
comment: kleinberg and nathans were awarded for "pioneering contributions at the intersection of computer science and social science, including intellectual leadership in social networks and algorithmic fairness," and "for their contributions to the discovery of the genes, regulation, and plasticity of human color vision, and to the elucidation of disease mechanisms that lead to blindness," respectively.
hengqin launches pilot project for commercialization of intelligent connected vehicles
on september 10, hengqin held a launching ceremony for the commercialization pilot of intelligent connected vehicles, and four companies received the first batch of commercialization pilot notices. hengqin has opened up a 330-kilometer full-area network, and has introduced kirin driverless eco-friendly vehicles and self-driving minibuses from coolwa technology, as well as robotaxi from ruqi travel. the service scope and area will be gradually expanded in the future.
comment: hengqin is building a "robo-city" city with full-scenario intelligent networked unmanned driving. the first batch of participants in the intelligent networked unmanned driving car test in the hengqin guangdong-macao deep cooperation zone have laid out the implementation of full-scenario urban applications such as smart sanitation and future travel, injecting strong impetus into the intelligent transformation of hengqin's urban operations. in the future, smart travel is expected to radiate the entire greater bay area.
venture capital trends
according to qichacha data, there were 6 financing events in the semiconductor sector this week (9.7-9.13), which was 2 fewer than last week (8.31-9.6). for example, jiangsu hengcheng semiconductor materials co., ltd. completed angel round financing with participation from dongfang jiafu, hunpu investment, and penghui investment, and suzhou yixin semiconductor co., ltd. completed angel round financing with participation from yizhan capital and changshu guofa venture capital.
there were 3 financing events in the biopharmaceutical sector, one more than last week. junhemeng biopharmaceuticals (hangzhou) co., ltd. completed a 100 million yuan b+ round of financing with the participation of sdic chuanghe, oriza holdings, and hongsheng capital, and shanghai yingjiexin medical technology co., ltd. completed a 10 million yuan a round of financing with the participation of yinman fund, jiayuan capital, moutai fund, and lightspeed photosynthesis.
there were 3 financing events in the artificial intelligence track, one more than last week. beijing fengping technology co., ltd. completed a rmb 100 million series a financing round with participation from brilliant capital, tsinghua university outstanding alumni fund, cicc capital, and huakun capital.
(this article comes from china business network)
