Guests of this issue: Li Dongsheng, founder and chairman of TCL

Produced | Sohu Think Tank

Edit | Liu Shijiao

Chief Editor | Wang Demin

Since the third quarter of 2020, the panel industry has ushered in the strongest price increase cycle in history. From the end of May 2020 to April 2021, the growth rates of 32/43/55/65-inch TV panels were 141%/91%/100%/56% respectively. At the same time, the problem of upstream chip shortages continues, and to a certain extent, the increase in panel growth has also intensified.

According to a recent study by Goldman Sachs, there are as many as 169 industries in the world that are affected to some extent by the shortage of chips, ranging from automobiles, steel products, concrete production to air-conditioning manufacturing, and even soap production.

How do you view the trend of the panel industry this year? How to solve the problem of chip shortage? How should companies travel through the cyclical fluctuations of the industry? Sohu think tank “To Know 100 People” talked with TCL founder and chairman Li Dongsheng.

Li Dongsheng said that this round of panel price increases was mainly caused by the strong growth in demand for display products since the epidemic and the cyclical fluctuations in the industry. The current shortage of supply and demand is mainly concentrated on large-size products, and the supply of small and medium-sized products is relatively sufficient. It is expected that a basic balance of supply and demand can be achieved within this year. Li Dongsheng pointed out that in the past ten years, the entire display industry has experienced two cyclical fluctuations, and now it is the third time. For enterprises, it is necessary to have the ability to operate and manage through industry cycle fluctuations. In the management through this cycle, one aspect of the company must have strategic control capabilities, and the other must rely on improving its own core capabilities, especially product technical capabilities. “The development of the semiconductor display industry is not just driven by market demand, but also driven by innovation. So for TCL, we are constantly expanding our production capacity, but every increase in production capacity is not simple. The expansion of scale must make progress in the iterative upgrade of products.” Li Dongsheng said. Talking about the shortage of chips, Li Dongsheng believes that there are two main reasons. One is the rapid growth of the demand side, especially the rapid development of the electric vehicle market, and the other is the insufficient new investment on the supply side. Although the investment has increased rapidly in the past two years , But it still takes time to form an effective production capacity. Li Dongsheng predicts that the current chip shortage will continue for 9 to 12 months. In Li Dongsheng’s view, the development of the chip industry is not just about having funds, but also related to technical capabilities. The lack of domestic high-end chip manufacturing capabilities and the lack of core equipment are currently the bottleneck restricting the development of the chip industry. Facing the technological blockade, China is increasing its investment in equipment, technology, and materials to accelerate the development of China’s chip integrated circuit manufacturing industry. “But everyone should not have too optimistic expectations about this process. I believe it will take at least 3 to 5 years.” Finally, Li Dongsheng pointed out, In the long run, the science and technology industry must have a global division of labor. It is not the most competitive method for a country to fully complete its industrial chain behind closed doors. In the future, we must be more open and win-win cooperation to better promote the healthy development of the industry. TCL founder and chairman Li Dongsheng The following is a compilation of interviews: Sohu Finance: You once said that globalization is a sustainable way for companies to cope with changes in the global economic landscape and the new challenges of trade protectionism. What is the current progress of TCL’s global layout? Can you share a few successful experiences of TCL in expanding the international market? Li Dongsheng: TCL has initially formed a complete global industrial layout. We have established eight industrial bases in major overseas countries and regions. In the near future, our ninth industrial base in India will also be built. We have established industrial supply chains around the world so that our industrial supply chains can penetrate into major countries and regional markets. One is that tariffs and trade protectionism can be avoided, and this new business model can also be recognized and recognized by the host country. stand by. We do not simply sell products to relevant countries and regions, but set up our industrial parks locally and establish corresponding supply chains. In this way, while developing our own global business, we can also contribute to the local social and economic development. So this kind of business model has been developing smoothly in all countries and regions so far. Sohu Finance: Starting from the third quarter of 2020, the panel industry has ushered in the strongest price increase cycle in history. How do you see the trend of the panel industry this year? Li Dongsheng: China is now the world’s leading producer of semiconductor display products. Taking the LCD industry as an example, we have accounted for more than half of the global production capacity. In other emerging display technology areas, we are also catching up quickly. This round of panel price increases is affected by the cyclical effects of the industry on the one hand, and during the epidemic, the demand for display products has grown very strongly. The current cycle of relatively tight supply may continue for a while, but in the end it will tend to balance supply and demand. The current supply and demand shortage of semiconductor display products is mainly concentrated in large-size products, and the supply of small and medium-sized products is still sufficient. China’s semiconductor display production capacity has been relatively large in investment in the past few years, so to alleviate this gap in supply and demand, it should be possible to achieve a basic balance between supply and demand within this year. Sohu Finance: How do you think companies should travel through the cyclical fluctuations of the industry? Li Dongsheng: For enterprises, we need to have a long-term business plan, and have the ability to operate and manage through industry cycle fluctuations. In the past ten years, the entire display industry has experienced two cyclical fluctuations, and now it is the third time. In the management through this cycle, one aspect of the company must have strategic control capabilities, and the other must rely on improving its own core capabilities, especially product technical capabilities. The development of the semiconductor display industry is not just driven by a force of market demand, another very important driving force comes from Driven by innovation . The development of some new display technologies and display products will create a new market demand. So for TCL, we are constantly expanding our production capacity, but Every increase in production capacity is not a simple scale expansion, it must be progress in the iterative upgrade of products. The two projects we started building in Guangzhou recently are a new attempt. We want to make a breakthrough in new display technology and open up a new market demand. Sohu Finance: How do you view the problem of chip shortage and how much impact will it have on TCL? Li Dongsheng: Chip supply has indeed been in short supply since last year, I think It is mainly caused by the rapid growth on the demand side and the insufficient growth on the supply side. On the demand side, especially with the development of electric vehicles, the demand for related chips is growing very fast. On the supply side, due to insufficient investment in the entire chip industry in the past few years, although domestic investment has increased relatively rapidly in the past two years, it will take some time to form effective production capacity. I think, The current chip shortage may continue for 9 to 12 months, but in the end it will be faster to balance. . The chip industry is actually divided into two parts, one is chip design, and the other is chip manufacturing. TCL will focus on chip design. At this stage, we will not consider investing in large-scale wafer manufacturing plants for the time being. As a terminal product manufacturer, we have an advantage in chip design. In fact, in the development of many smart technologies, it will integrate this technology into the chip, so if we have the capability of this chip, we will be even more powerful in the development of related smart product technologies. Sohu Finance: What do you think is the biggest dilemma in the development of the chip industry? Li Dongsheng: The bottleneck in the development of the chip industry, I think one is the accumulation of capabilities, and the other is the lack of core equipment. At present, the manufacturing process capability, technology and team capability of domestic chips are still far behind compared with Taiwan, South Korea, the United States, and Japan. Therefore, the construction of this project is not only about funds, but also related to technical capabilities. The second is limited by equipment. At present, some core equipment for chips cannot be produced in China. Everyone may have paid attention to many reports on the Internet. For example, SMIC’s current production process is 28 nanometers. If you go forward, the equipment will not be sold to us abroad, and the domestic development of this equipment, I believe It takes a relatively long time, so the manufacturing capacity of this higher-end chip is also a constraint. However, this round of technological blockade of China will promote China’s equipment, technology, or materials, we will increase investment in this area, and will accelerate the development of China’s chip integrated circuit manufacturing industry. But this process should not be too optimistic. I believe it will be a process of at least 3 to 5 years. Therefore, in the long run, the science and technology industry must have a global division of labor. It is not the most competitive method for a country to completely complete its industrial chain behind closed doors. Some of the current practices are also forced by the situation. Therefore, in the future development, we still need to have a more open mind and a win-win mentality to better promote the healthy development of the industry

Compile | High song

Edit | Heart edge

News on June 19th, according to Reuters, the state of Bavaria in southern Germany is negotiating with the American chip manufacturer Intel on the establishment of a chip factory.

Currently, Intel has a chip factory in Ireland. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger once said that he hopes to receive 8 billion euros (about 9.5 billion US dollars) of financial subsidies from the European Union to build a new chip factory in Europe.

▲The construction process of Intel’s chip factory in Ireland

For Intel’s construction of a chip factory in Bavaria, Bavarian Minister of Economy Hubert Aiwanger (Hubert Aiwanger) strongly supports this.

He mentioned that Intel’s construction of a large-scale semiconductor factory in the local area is a good business opportunity for Bavaria.

Evanger said that Bavaria proposed to use an abandoned air force base between the two cities of Penzing-Landsberg in the west of Munich as a possible location for the chip factory. It is reported that this plan is supported by the Penzing and Landsberg councils. ▲Hubert Evanger, Minister of Economy of Bavaria Bavaria is located in the southeastern part of Germany and is a relatively developed area in Germany. The headquarters of many companies such as BMW, Audi, Siemens and Infineon are located there. In addition, the Leibniz Supercomputing Center is also located in Bavaria. Its SuperMUC-NG supercomputer uses Intel’s Xeon scalable processor and ranks 15th in the global supercomputing rankings. Conclusion: The subsidy policy may determine whether the chip factory will land in Bavaria Bavaria is a relatively developed region in Germany, and its infrastructure is relatively complete, which is conducive to the operation of Intel’s chip factory. Intel previously stated that it will open its existing factories to automotive chip companies and has already contacted some component manufacturers. If Intel builds a factory locally, it may strengthen its ties with automakers such as BMW and Audi. But on the other hand, chip factories cost a lot of money, so Intel has been seeking financial subsidies from the European government. Ultimately, whether the Intel factory will land in Bavaria is largely determined by what policy conditions Germany and Bavaria provide to Intel. Source: Reuters, SwordsToday.ie

This range is quite large for a processor. You must know that the performance of the A15 has increased by 30% on the basis of not much improvement in the process, which can be said to meet the expectations of all fruit fans. Therefore, it is not difficult to predict that after the release of A15, it will become the strongest mobile phone chip in the same period. Huawei and Qualcomm can only admit the gap. Some people may think that the A-series processors are indeed very powerful, but Apple mobile phones can’t exert real performance, and there are often some difficult to solve problems, such as heat generation and frequency reduction. It is true that these problems do exist, and fruit fans are aware of it, but this year Apple will definitely improve it and will not repeat the same mistakes. The reason for saying this is because Apple CEO Cook publicly stated when he attended a meeting recently that the iPhone 13 series models will be more perfect than the iPhone 12, and all aspects of performance will bring certain improvements. In other words, not only the A15 chip, but also other aspects of the iPhone 13 have obvious upgrades, which will not disappoint the fans. Is iPhone 13 stable? In this regard, many fruit fans have said that iPhone13 is stable? With Cook’s guarantee, I believe that Apple’s polishing of iPhone 13 will definitely make people shine. So what kind of phone is the iPhone 13 based on what the major media broke? Is it worth looking forward to for fruit fans? First of all, the entire iPhone 13 series will be equipped with the A15 processor, which is already an ironclad fact, and its overall performance is better than that of the iPhone 12 series. In addition, the iPhone 13 will also launch the iOS15 system for the first time. This new system is currently in the testing phase. When it arrives in September this year, the iPhone 13 will make its debut with iOS15. Secondly, the signal, battery, and screen quality of the iPhone 13 have been significantly upgraded. One of the most worth mentioning is the battery life. The battery parameters of the iPhone 13 have been exposed before. The battery capacity of the four models is larger than that of the iPhone 12. Coupled with the reduced energy consumption of the new screen material, the battery life of the iPhone 13 will be qualitative. The leap. Finally, the price of the iPhone 13 is also a bright spot. According to some people familiar with the matter, although the iPhone 13 has increased greatly, the starting price is still at the same level as the iPhone 12, or even lower. This is undoubtedly very good news for the majority of fruit fans, and I hope that Apple can really consider their interests. Write at the end In summary, the official production of the A15 chip indicates that the iPhone 13 series will soon be launched. The new news from Apple this time can be said to have been long awaited by fans. I believe that Apple’s polishing of iPhone13 is better than iPhone12, this new machine is worthy of all fruit fans’ expectations!

Since the comprehensive sanctions imposed by the United States on China’s chip industry in 2019, domestic semiconductor stocks have always been tepid and flat. After the United States issued sanctions orders, chip stocks are even more difficult to describe. Many people have already given up. And now semiconductor stocks suddenly soared beyond everyone’s expectations. The reason why chip stocks have risen across the board is just because of a hype in foreign media. Some foreign media said that China will focus on increasing support for semiconductors, especially the chip industry, and will arrange dedicated personnel to lead chip research and development projects in response to chip sanctions initiated by the United States. The way to support the development of the chip industry is mainly through increasing capital investment, cultivating special talents and other related strategies, to the greatest extent, catching up with foreign semiconductor technology in a short period of time. Foreign media: China’s vigorous development of the chip industry is disrupting the market? In addition, according to national media excerpts from some securities reports, several semiconductor manufacturers have recently issued successive price increases notices, including TSMC, Qualcomm and other chip foundries that have been unable to keep up with market demand. Despite the tight chip production capacity, the semiconductor stock market has risen all the way. Judging from the news published by domestic and foreign stock market institutions in the past two days, the attention of semiconductors will continue for some time to come. From 2020 to the first half of this year, due to the epidemic, many corporate schools require home office work, resulting in a surge in demand for electronic products such as mobile phones and computers, which has led to an increase in the demand for semiconductor products such as chips. According to the prediction of relevant departments, the world-wide core shortage will continue until 2023, and the current good weather in the semiconductor stock market will also continue. The price increase of the upstream semiconductor industry chain in foreign countries has seriously affected the price of the downstream industry chain. As early as last year, the price increase of foreign semiconductors has seriously affected the domestic semiconductor price. Among them, Anshi Semiconductor and Silan Microelectronics all issued price increase notices at the beginning of this month. Raw materials and auxiliary materials including product prices, packaging prices, etc. all have different price increases. And some companies have also notified that power semiconductors may increase prices due to the impact of semiconductor raw material prices in the near future. There are also foreign media reports that although the semiconductor field is not an emerging field, there is no single company or country in the world that completely monopolizes the semiconductor industry, and even some countries have a very weak semiconductor industry foundation. Since the epidemic, many semiconductor companies have been affected to reduce production, and Western countries led by the United States and the United States have imposed sanctions on Chinese chips. They not only imposed comprehensive restrictions on HiSilicon, but also affected the development of chip companies such as SMIC and seriously threatened Chinese chip technology. If China strives to break the technological barriers of the West, it is now the best opportunity. No matter now or in the future, China will be the country with the largest demand for chips in the world. Therefore, it has very high requirements for the stability of the supply chain. The need for self-research and self-production is becoming more and more urgent. In the eighteenth meeting held by the relevant departmental group in the middle of last month, it was clearly pointed out that the research and development progress and support of the semiconductor, especially the chip industry, should be strengthened, and the current chip technology should be innovatively advanced. Foreign media also took out of context, and hyped semiconductors, leading to carnivals. Foreign media took this opportunity to speculate and boost the semiconductor stock market to make huge profits. At the same time, professionals from China Semiconductor Lab also pointed out that this foreign media report is out of context and has ulterior motives. The person refuted the report that China’s “third-generation semiconductor” plan is already underway, and it is expected to invest US$1 trillion in funds for research and development. First of all, it is completely nonsense to invest one trillion US dollars, and the global semiconductor market investment is only more than 10 billion US dollars. At present, the reports of many media are vague and without any basis. They are deliberately speculating on the chip market to profit from it. The so-called “third-generation semiconductor” is not the more advanced generation that everyone imagines. In the international chip industry, there is no generation difference for chips, but there are differences in nanometer numbers of different specifications. The so-called “third-generation semiconductor” is just a difference in chip application scenarios. The first generation in our country is used in products such as mobile phones and computers, and the second generation is used in satellite, mobile and other communications fields. It is applied in fields such as new energy electric vehicles and subways. Under the situation that the global core shortage will continue for a long time, semiconductors are a good direction for investment, but in the face of opportunities, we also hope that everyone will be alert to the threats brought by hype.

Reading Global (2021.05.24) Chip shortage spreads to Taiwan’s IT industry Recently, Taiwanese companies that are responsible for the production of a large number of global digital products such as personal computers and smartphones have shown signs of slowing performance growth. The already obvious shortage of semiconductors and other parts in the automotive industry has also spread to the IT industry, production has stalled, and about 80% of major companies’ sales in April were lower than in March. In the context of the expansion of the new crown epidemic, there is a strong demand for laptops used at home. Taiwan’s largest PC foundry company Compal Computer’s sales for January-March 2021 increased by 48% year-on-year. However, sales in April fell by 5% year-on-year. Industry stakeholders pointed out, “In response to rapidly expanding demand, we have tried every means to maintain global supply since the spring of 2020. However, there is a shortage of parts and components, and the production of personal computers and smartphones has begun to stagnate.” As of January-March, there has been a shortage of components such as semiconductors, but the performance of Taiwanese companies has continued to improve. However, by April, related companies in Taiwan, whose sales also decreased, increased rapidly, and the “digital economy” showed signs of change. Nihon Keizai Shimbun analyzed the sales of 19 well-known listed companies in Taiwan whose main customers are Apple and other companies. The number of companies in April was lower than March. Judging from the growth rate of the total sales of 19 companies (approximately 4.5 trillion yen), in April it increased by 18% year-on-year, still maintaining a double-digit growth, but compared with the 20-50% growth rate in the last five months Lower level. Among the 19 companies, the decrease in sales reached 6, which is also a major symbol. Pegatron, which ranks second in the iPhone production field in the world, cut its revenue by 10%, and Largan, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phone optical lenses, also dropped by 27%. The future performance of Taiwanese companies will stall, which may have a huge impact on the global digital climate. For example, the production of Apple’s iPhone is entirely undertaken by Taiwanese companies. 90% of servers worldwide are also produced by Taiwanese companies such as Hon Hai Precision Industry, personal computers account for more than 80%, and semiconductors account for more than 60%. If the production of Taiwanese companies that are fully involved from parts to finished products stagnates, they will not be able to supply products to the world, which will inevitably affect the digital economy. In addition, the epidemic in Taiwan has rebounded, and the future impact on production is also worrying. A small number of young people in the U.S. develop myocarditis after being vaccinated with the new crown vaccine Lianhe Zaobao reported on the 24th that a small number of young people or adolescents in the United States developed myocarditis after being vaccinated with the new crown vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating this issue. So far, there is no clear correlation between the two. Agence France-Presse reported that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out that there are currently “relatively few” reports of myocarditis in young people after being vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech or Modena, which uses messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology. It is mild and may not be related to the new crown vaccine. It is known that the vaccinators who have this situation are mainly young or adolescents. They develop symptoms four days after receiving the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or Modena vaccine, and more men have symptoms than women. The CDC added that in its safety monitoring system, there is no difference between the reported rate of myocarditis after vaccination with the new crown vaccine and the expected baseline rate. The CDC did not release detailed information on the number of people with myocarditis or their specific age. The United Kingdom will initiate an assessment of tariffs on imports from the United States. The steel and aluminum trade dispute between the two sides continues The United Kingdom said on the 24th that it has initiated an assessment of tariffs on imported goods from the United States and responded to the dispute between the two sides on steel and aluminum trade. Previously, the Trump administration imposed tariffs of 25% and 10% on imported steel and aluminum products, prompting the European Union to take retaliatory measures, which the UK has retained after Brexit this year. “The UK will do everything possible to protect our steel industry from unlawful tariffs, which may damage British industry and harm our business,” Liz Truss, the British Secretary of State for International Trade, said in a statement. Said it wanted to cool the controversy. (This article is compiled from Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Lianhe Zaobao, Reuters) Compiled by Zhou Yuqing, an intern reporter of Economic Observation Network

Compile | Jian Teng Edit | Yunpeng Wisdom News reported on May 24 that the US media HC (Huawei Central) recently revealed that Huawei will develop a 3nm chip, which is expected to be released in 2022. The rumored 3nm chip is temporarily named “Kirin 9010”, and it will be used in Huawei’s high-end mobile phones and tablets. 1. How high is the level of 3-nanometer chips? At present, Apple, Qualcomm, and Intel have mastered the most advanced chip research and development technology, while TSMC and Samsung represent the highest level of chip manufacturing. At present, the highest level of chips has crossed from 7nm to 5nm, and is moving towards 3nm. The chips using 7nm process are Apple A13, Snapdragon 865, Kirin 990, while A14, Kirin 9000 (including Kirin 9000E), and Snapdragon 888 are 5nm chips. According to rumors, the 3nm Kirin 9010 currently being developed by Huawei represents the highest level of the chip industry. 2. Kirin processor, application for registration Tracing the sources of HC and other media, you will find that the source of this information comes from the country. The picture shows that Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. applied for trademark registration of the Kirin processor on April 22. Kylin processor belongs to “9 scientific instruments” in the international classification, and its registration number is 55457549. This shows that Huawei mobile phones have not lost hope of returning to the market, HC commented on this. There is news in China that Kirin 9010 does not adopt the latest ARM V9 architecture, but instead adopts the ARM V8 architecture. Huawei’s familiarity with the V8 architecture allows it to further ensure the stability of the chip, while increasing the core and independent NPU will strengthen the performance of the Kirin chip. In addition, the Kirin 9010, like the current Kirin 9000, adopts a built-in 5G communication baseband. 3. R&D, not mass production It is believed that the rumored 3nm Kirin 9010 chip will be completed by the end of this year. In terms of manufacturing, currently only TSMC can manufacture 3nm chips in the world, and this manufacturing capacity has not yet reached the level of commercial use. In view of the sanctions imposed on Huawei by Western countries led by the United States, Huawei was unable to place chip orders to TSMC. HC said that repairing the relationship with the United States will be the key to Huawei’s mobile phone promotion work. Although the production of the Kirin 9010 is rumored to be difficult, its research and development is still necessary. Huawei’s rotating chairman Xu Zhijun once said that Huawei currently has no profitability requirements for HiSilicon. Although there is no place to process HiSilicon chips, Huawei will always keep this chip team and keep it moving forward. Concluding remarks: Where is the way forward for Huawei, which is “lack of cores” Since the United States announced sanctions on Huawei, Huawei has been ill-fated. Huawei’s mobile phones quickly fell to the altar, with an annual shipment of over 240 million units during its peak period and a brilliant domestic market share of over 39%. No one knows the suffering of “core shortage” better than Huawei. Where is the future development of Huawei’s mobile phones? In addition to independent research and development of chips, it is also vital that all industrial chains in the United Nations jointly overcome the difficulties of chip manufacturing. Source: Huawei Central

Photo: The Verge The above information was shared by the developers of the graphic and design application Artstudio Pro on the Procreare forum. Accordingly, the application can only use up to 5 GB of RAM on the latest iPad. According to the developers, trying to use more than this amount of space causes the application to crash. Photo: The Verge “There was a big problem with the iPad Pro running the M1 chip. After testing the pressure tests on an iPad Pro M1 with 16 GB of RAM, it turned out that the application could only use 5 GB of RAM or less. If used more, the application will crash. This limit is only 0.5 GB more RAM than the old iPads that only had 6 GB of RAM,” the programmer shared. Photo: The Verge Thus, with single applications, as is the case with Artstudio Pro, users do not seem to benefit too much even though the new iPad Pro has an increased RAM capacity. However, overall, with the increased amount of RAM, you can still open more applications to run in the background at the same time because iPadOS itself is not limited to the amount of RAM used. Photo: The Verge The iPad has long been criticized that iPadOS doesn’t allow users to take advantage of the device’s full hardware potential. Apple will hold this year’s WWDC event on June 7. Here, iPadOS 15 will certainly be introduced as well. Bloomberg previously said that iPadOS 15 will bring a completely redesigned Home screen.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 2021. Thanks to the nano coating, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 2021 is slightly water resistant. 4,000 mAh battery capacity, integrated fast charging with 18W output. According to the manufacturer, Redmi Note 8 2021 takes 2 hours to fully charge. Redmi Note 8 2021 is equipped with a 6.3-inch IPS LCD screen, Full HD Plus resolution (2,340×1,080 pixels) for a pixel density of 409 ppi. This screen splits in a ratio of 19.5: 9, occupies 90% of the front area, maximum brightness of 500 nit. Powering the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 2021 is an octa-core MediaTek Helio G85 (12nm) processor with a maximum speed of 2GHz, Mali-G52 MC2 GPU. 4 GB RAM comes with 64 or 128 GB internal memory, has a microSD card tray with a maximum capacity of 256 GB. Android 11 operating system, customized on MIUI 12.5 interface. Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 2021 has 4 rear cameras with 48 MP main sensor, f / 1.8 aperture for phase detection focus. The second 8 MP, f/2.2 lens offers a 120-degree wide angle. The depth sensor and macro lens both have a resolution of 2 MP, f/2.4. Redmi Note 8 2021 can only record Full HD videos. Selfie camera 13 MP, f/2.0. Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 2021 gives customers 3 color options including Neptune Blue, Moonlight White and Space Black. Price and release date have not been revealed yet.

Vivo iQOO Neo5 Lite 5G. Vivo iQOO Neo5 Lite 5G has dimensions of 164×75.5×8.9 mm, respectively, and weighs 198.3 g. One-touch fingerprint sensor integrated where the power button is on the right. In addition to 5G, the device also has some advanced wireless technologies such as Bluetooth 5.1, Wi-Fi 6. The battery capacity of iQOO Neo5 Lite 5G has a capacity of 4,500 mAh, integrated with Super FlashCharge 2.0 fast charging technology with 44W output. Thanks to that, it only takes 5 minutes to charge from 0-15% or 0-70% in 33 minutes. This smartphone still retains the 3.5mm headphone jack. iQOO Neo5 Lite 5G is equipped by Vivo with a 6.57-inch IPS LCD screen, Full HD Plus resolution (2,408×1,080 pixels) for a pixel density of 402 ppi. This screen is protected by tempered glass, integrated DCI-P3 color range, HDR10+ technology, 144 Hz refresh rate, occupying 90.4% of the front area. Powering Vivo iQOO Neo5 Lite 5G is an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G (7 nm) processor with a maximum speed of 3.2 GHz, Adreno 650 GPU. LPDDR5 RAM comes with UFS 3.1 internal memory but no memory. microSD card slot. Android 11 operating system, customized on OriginOS 1.0 interface. Vivo iQOO Neo5 Lite 5G has 3 rear cameras with 48 MP main sensor, f / 1.8 aperture. The second 8 MP, f/2.2 lens offers a 120-degree wide angle and the 2 MP, f/2.4 macro sensor. iQOO Neo5 Lite 5G is capable of recording 4K videos at 30 frames per second. Selfie camera 16 MP, f/2.0.

Major Korean corporations including: Sumsung, Hyundai Motor, SK and LG announced plans to invest nearly 40 billion USD in the US. (Source: Business Korea) Specifically, at the Korea-US Business Roundtable held at the headquarters of the US Department of Commerce with the attendance of South Korean President Moon Jae-in on May 21 (local time), Samsung Electronics announced announced that it will invest 17 billion USD to build a new semiconductor chip factory in the US. Two battery manufacturers LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation also decided to proceed with an investment plan of 14 billion USD, including both private investment and joint venture with the US company. Hyundai Motor Company announced an investment of $7.4 billion to expand production and charging infrastructure for electric cars in the US. Meanwhile, semiconductor chip maker SK Hynix will spend $1 billion to set up a large-scale Research and Development (R&D) Center to innovate new growth areas such as artificial intelligence (AI). ), the NAND memory chip solution in Silicon Valley. At the conference, businesses emphasized the importance of the North American market in the key business segments of the future, such as the information and communication technology industry (including semiconductor chips), batteries, and batteries. electric bowl. Korean companies claim to expand the market through cooperation with American businesses that have demand and have advanced technology. Also at this event, the leading US chemical company DuPont announced plans to build a Research and Development Center in Korea, to develop original technologies for semiconductor chip materials. Attending the Korea-US Business Roundtable, the Korean side included Minister of Industry, Trade and Resources Moon Seung-wook and leaders of major corporations SK, Samsung electronics, Hyundai automobiles, LG Energy Solution. , Samsung Biologics, SK Bioscience. The US side includes Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, along with leaders of Qualcomm, GM International, Novavax, DuPont, and Ampere Computing. (according to Business Korea)

On each microprocessor there are billions of transistors and nm (nanometer) – the unit of measurement of transistor size. The smaller the size, the more transistors the processor can hold, making it faster and more efficient. TSMC’s most advanced chip today uses a 5 nm process with about 173 million transistors per square millimeter. Silicon chip wafers in TSMC’s production line. Photo: TSMC. This breakthrough was discovered by the MIT team, with components optimized by TSMC and improved by NTU. The core component uses semi-metallic bismuth as the electrode of a two-dimensional material to replace silicon, allowing for reduced resistance and increased amperage. Energy efficiency will thus rise to unprecedented heights in the semiconductor industry. Chipmakers have been trying to stuff more and more transistors into increasingly smaller chips, but are nearing the limits of silicon-based technology. That prompted scientists to look for two-dimensional materials to replace silicon to produce chips on the 1 nm process or smaller. More transistors on a chip gives manufacturers more options to deliver core innovations to improve performance for leading tasks like AI and cloud computing, and pave the way for better security. Encryption and encryption are performed by hardware. The need to increase performance and save energy in each processor has never cooled down, especially in the era of the cloud, AI, and IoT. Most of today’s chip-integrated devices use 10 nm or 7 nm process technology. The two largest chip manufacturers in the world, TSMC and Samsung, are launching chips with the 5 nm process, while Intel is still at the 7 nm stage. TSMC also only plans to start moving to the 4mm process later this year before mass production in 2022.

Apple will use its own 5G chip for iPhones in 2023. Photo: Macrumors TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple’s first 5G iPhone 12s reached consumers last year. Apple’s entire iPhone model is dependent on Qualcomm chips, and now Apple is designing its own 5G chip for use in its latest iPhones in 2023. Apple currently uses Qualcomm modems, including the Snapdragon X55 modem in iPhone 12 models. In 2019, a legal agreement between Apple and Qualcomm revealed that Apple will likely use the Snapdragon X60 modem on iPhone models. 2021, followed by the Snapdragon X65 modem for the iPhone 2022. Apple’s roadmap is that by 2023, it is likely that the iPhone will use the Snapdragon X70 modem with Apple working to make its own 5G chip, it is unlikely that Snapdragon will be available on the iPhone model in the next years according to the. A deal between Apple and Intel worth $1 billion brought Apple the 5G modem business in 2019. This is an opportunity for Apple to ditch the Qualcomm chip to use its own 5G modem. In recent years, Apple has continued to expand around internal chips for its other product lines. Most recently, the Apple-designed M1 Chip is available on select Mac models and is currently on the iPad Pro. Apple will also gradually phase out Intel chips in its latest product lines. It is known that Apple’s Modem will probably be manufactured by longtime chip manufacturing partner TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor company.

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) factory in Wuhan, China. (Source: Nikkei Asian) Rise of the chip manufacturing business Once a month, senior executives from Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) fly to Beijing for a series of meetings with China’s top economic regulators. They focused on the company’s efforts in developing some of the world’s most advanced computer memory chips. Headquartered in downtown Wuhan, YMTC is considered a pioneer in efforts to create the domestic semiconductor industry. YMTC has mass-produced state-of-the-art 64-layer and 128-layer NAND flash memory chips, which are used in almost every electronic device from smartphones to servers to cars. These things help YMTC compete with big players in the industry such as Micron Technology of the US or Samsung Electronics of Korea. Equipment used to make high-end computer chips is mostly imported in the US. Some chip design and manufacturing processes such as etching, ion implantation, electrochemical deposition, design software… are all in the hands of American companies. To manufacture without using American technology is a big challenge for a new company that has been operating since 2016 like YMTC and also represents China’s great ambition in the field of semiconductor industry development. especially after the economic sanctions that the US imposed on China. However, the dizzying rise of YMTC has shown China’s strength in the chip industry. The business started in 2016 and within four years has mass-produced some of the most advanced 3D NAND flash memory chips in the world. The Beijing government also recognizes the importance of developing the semiconductor industry and makes efforts to support these companies. “Competition for chips is increasing as all major economies, not just China, have realized the importance of chips,” said Roger Sheng, a chip analyst at consulting firm Gartner. Semiconductors”. Currently, YMTC, is still in the “target” of the US government. But under the guidance of the Beijing government, they have conducted a review of the supply chain, looking for local component suppliers, or non-US suppliers, to gradually eliminate the country’s dependence on technology. Based in the city of Wuhan, YMTC’s efforts did not stop even when the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc last spring. According to sources familiar with the matter, after Wuhan reopened in April 2021, YMTC mobilized hundreds of engineers stationed inside the production campus, working three shifts a day with the aim of overhauling all production processes and replace as many foreign imported components as possible. Efforts to localize production The effort to localize chip production is an opportunity for a new generation of Chinese chipmakers like YMTC. Chinese President Xi Jinping said in remarks published in January 2021: “We must strengthen self-innovation and make breakthroughs in some core technologies as soon as possible.” According to the Nikkei Asian , plans to end dependence on the US have long been carried out by China and massively invested by the state, but progress is still very slow. For example, the plan to self-produce semiconductors has a target of 70% by 2025. But of the total revenue in 2020, China’s semiconductor manufacturing enterprises account for only 5.9% of sales. domestic products, while foreign companies with headquarters in China account for the rest of sales in the country. According to the Magazine China Stocks , while the threat of sanctions from the US has always lingered, the source of state aid, with subsidies and investments from local governments and the private sector has amounted to at least 170 billion USD since Since 2014 has helped chip manufacturing enterprises to localize production efforts. In addition, orders from domestic technology giants such as Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Lenovo are also the reason their production is guaranteed. The US sanctions are a wake-up call for China’s semiconductor industry. (Source: Nikkei Asian) In fact, the trade war with the US and its sanctions against technology giant Huawei have given the Chinese government an opportunity to decouple from the world’s largest economy. – something they’ve always wanted. The US sanctions seem to have removed the main obstacle for domestic consumers, who always prefer to use chips from foreign suppliers. The manager of a chip maker in China told the site Nikkei Asian : “In the past, domestic chipmakers used only the manufacturing equipment that all the world’s leading chipmakers such as Samsung and Intel use in their production lines. Who wants to use and try new products without being sure of the quality of the production?” However, when sanctions from the US appeared, Chinese manufacturers considered alternatives, and domestically produced chip products were a reasonable choice. The manager emphasized: “It also means that domestic enterprises have really had the opportunity to test and upgrade their products – the goal that the whole country is aiming for.” Roger Sheng, a semiconductor analyst at Research Gartner, found that the US-China tensions confirmed the view that it was necessary to localize production. Now, the whole country agrees that building a semiconductor industry is possible and increasing self-reliance is a top priority. Unbreakable bond? Despite China’s considerable efforts, not many experts believe that the country’s chip sector will be completely separate from the US. The world’s two largest economies are still linked, dependent on each other and also two large semiconductor markets. According to a January report by the Brookings Institution, Chinese businesses account for at least 25% of the sales of most US chip businesses, and not everyone wants to break out of the market altogether. Chad Bown, an expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said the US President Joe Biden’s approach to China was still unclear. On the one hand, the US expects China to buy more chips as promised in recent trade talks but also continues to restrict China’s use of US technologies. Since 2018 to date, a total of 162 Chinese entities have been sanctioned by the Trump Administration. In April 2021, the US Department of Commerce also added seven Chinese “supercomputer” entities to the economic blacklist, to restrict these businesses from using US technology. In reality, it is still difficult to completely decouple the supply of semiconductors, which involve thousands of suppliers from around the world and have been closely intertwined for decades. China may try to reduce its dependence on the United States, but without American sources of technology, it is unlikely to accelerate its technological progress. But Miin Wu, founder and president of Macronix International, a leading memory chip maker in Taiwan (China) that serves Apple, Sony and Nintendo, stressed: “In the short term, due to geopolitical uncertainties China’s technological development may be slowed down. However, in the long run, China will certainly hope to build a competitive semiconductor industry.” (according to Nikkei Asia)

Machines like the Predator Triton 300, Predator Helios 300, and Nitro 5 will now come in upgraded configurations with the latest 11th Gen Intel Core H series processors and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX GPUs, including the GeForce RTX 3050 and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX GPUs. The latest RTX 3050 Ti that the company has just announced. In addition to the deep upgrades inside, Acer also updated the screens of the above products to help gamers not miss any movement. The new display panels will take advantage of the enhanced performance that Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000 discrete graphics provide, the option of ultra-fast FHD 360Hz or 165Hz QHD panels on the Predator series. The Nitro 5 series will have a 165Hz QHD screen. Along with Intel’s H-series processors, Acer claims that the CPU’s clock speed can reach frequencies up to 5GHz. The Predator Triton can be configured with a 32 GB RTX 3080 DDR4 GPU for extreme performance in a 1.9cm thin machine. To keep the blow molding machine cool, Acer features exclusive 5th generation AeroBlade 3D fans with metal blades and bionic blade tip design for 55% better airflow than comparable plastic fan designs. The Predator Triton will be available in July with prices starting at $1,699. The Predator Helios uses the same 5th generation AeroBlade 3D cooling system and Intel’s H-series processors with the RTX 3070 GPU. The Helios 17 model also has similar thermal performance and comes with a dedicated Turbo key for overclocking. out of the box and supports Thunderbolt 4 and USB-C. The price of the Helios 17 is yet to be announced. Finally, the Nitro 5, the machine is equipped with Intel’s Core H processor along with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 GPU with 2 sizes of 5.6 inches or 17.3 inches. The screen-to-body ratio is 80%, the key travel is 1.6mm deep, the touchpad is completely black, and the RGB keyboard. The Nitro will be available in June. The 15-inch version starts at $1,099, while the 17-inch version costs $100 less. According to Digitaltrends

The global chip shortage has hit automakers hard, especially Ford, as it said it would have to cut production in half in the second quarter. In the latest move, auto industry groups have pressed the Biden administration to secure chip supplies for manufacturing plants. The new alliance will include a number of large chip companies such as AT&T, Cisco Systems, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Verizon Communications. The group announced that it will resist government actions to support the industry, which is struggling in production because of the chip shortage problem. Tech companies like Apple or Microsoft are also affected by the situation, but much less severely than automakers. Last month, the iPhone maker said it could lose $3 to $4 billion in sales in the current quarter because of chip shortages. According to Reuters

Today, chips are in everything from PlayStation 5s and toothbrushes to washing machines and alarm clocks, and chip shortages have led some to call the current crisis “chipageddon” — chip shortages computers globally. Glenn O’Donnell, vice president of research at consulting firm Forrester, believes chip shortages could last until 2023. “As demand will remain high and supply will remain constrained, we anticipate this shortfall to last through 2022 and into 2023,” he wrote on a blog. O’Donnell expects PC demand to “slightly drop” next year, but “not much.” “Combine that with the desire to digitize everything with the continued growth in cloud computing and crypto mining, and we see nothing but a short burst of chip demand,” O. ‘ said Donnell. Meanwhile, Patrick Armstrong, CEO of Plurimi Investment Managers, said last week that the chip shortage will last 18 months. “It’s not just cars. That’s the phone. It is the internet of things (IoT). There are more chip-based gadgets now than ever before. All of them are internet enabled.” The car industry has been affected by the global chip shortage more than any other sector. The world’s largest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said earlier this month that it thinks its production will be able to catch up with auto demand by June. , Armstrong believed it was an ambitious plan. “Ford, BMW, Volkswagen all emphasized that there were capacity bottlenecks and they couldn’t get the chips needed to make the new cars,” O’Donell said. In a separate development, global research and consulting firm Gartner said last week that chip shortages will persist through 2021 and that the shortage affects all chip types and chip prices. growing. Gartner analyst Alan Priestley said the situation could improve for some sectors over the next six months, but there could be a “side effect” in 2022. In March, Intel announced plans to spend $20 billion on two new chip factories in Arizona. Intel also said it could build a factory in Europe if funding is arranged. “Those plans will take two or three years before we start to see that. But that’s really looking forward to meeting future demand,” said analyst Priestley. Wenzhe Zhao, director of global economics and strategy at Credit Suisse said in a note last week that recent chip shortages have encouraged inventory hoarding along the chip production chain, widening the gap. between expanding demand and stagnant supply. Mr. Zhao said that new semiconductor production capacity will not take place until 2022 or later, and the problem of solving the current shortage besides adjusting the order book, production schedule and price is very difficult.

Product of the 4th generation V-NAND memory chip of Samsung Electronics. Photo: Yonhap/VNA Specifically, Samsung – the world’s largest memory chip manufacturer and Hyundai – South Korea’s leading automobile manufacturing group have signed a cooperation agreement with the Institute of Automotive Technology and the Institute of Electronic Technology under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Korea Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) to strengthen cooperation in the automotive chip manufacturing industry. Details of the contract between Samsung and Hyundai were not disclosed. However, an unnamed government official said: “We do not rule out the possibility that Hyundai will receive automotive chips from Samsung.” South Korea boasts a world leader in memory chip production, but is relatively weak in the logic chip business. According to data from the Korea International Trade Association, the country accounts for only 2.3% of the automotive chip manufacturing market. Leading in this field are the US (31.4%), Japan (22.4%), and Germany (17.7%) respectively. Major Korean chipmakers such as Samsung and SK hynix Inc. focuses on manufacturing high-performance memory semiconductors because automotive chips are seen as less profitable, while requiring complex testing processes and strict quality requirements. Korean automakers are being hit hard by a global shortage of automotive chips, especially electronic control chips in cars, leading to production halts. output many times. The move comes as the Korean government aims to establish an automotive chip supply chain to solve the global shortage of semiconductors. The government plans to roll out tax incentives and subsidies worth a total of 510 trillion won ($453 billion) to semiconductor companies between now and 2030. The Korean government hopes that the agreement between Samsung and Hyundai can strengthen the country’s autonomy in the field of automotive chip production and enhance Korea’s competitiveness in the production of world cars. next generation in the future. While chipmakers will be at the forefront of research and development of core semiconductor technology, auto manufacturers will focus on providing platforms for testing new automotive chips and components. related department.

Recently, the team upgraded the technique to power and program the multipoint biostimulator from a single transmitter. Thanks to new research, electrical and computer engineer Kaiyuan Yang and colleagues at the George R. Brown School of Engineering (Rice University) won an award at the Society of Electrical and Electrical Engineers’ Custom Integrated Circuits Conference death (IEEE). The researchers performed experiments showing that an alternating magnetic field can be controlled by a battery-powered generator outside the body. The transmitter can be mounted on a belt or harness, powering and programming two or more implants at least 60 millimeters away. The implant can be programmed with a delay measured in microseconds. That could allow them to coordinate the activation of multiple wireless pacemakers in individual heart chambers, says engineer Yang. “Our study shows that it is possible to program the implants to stimulate in a coordinated pattern. We sync every device, like a symphony. That gives us a lot of scope in stimulant treatments, whether it’s for the heart rhythm or the spinal cord.” The scientists also experimented using small implants. Each tissue is about the size and weight of a vitamin. Experiments performed on hydra vulgaris rodents have demonstrated that, for at least a short distance, such devices can stimulate two separate hydras to contract. Then, activate a fluorescent tag to respond to electrical signals and respond at controlled amplitudes along the rodent’s sciatic nerve. “A study on spinal cord regeneration showed that multipoint stimulation in a certain pattern helps restore the nervous system. Several clinical studies are underway, but all are using desktop devices. There is no implantable tool that can do this,” said engineer Yang. Lab devices, called MagNI (for electromagnetic nerve implantation). MagNI was introduced early last year as a cordless spinal cord stimulator for power and programming. That means the wire does not need to be passed through the patient’s skin. Because, putting the wire through the skin is a method that can cause infection.

While the standard version uses a perforated screen with dual cameras on the back, the Flip version inherits the design of the previous generation with a 4-sided overflow screen, flip camera. Zenfone 8 is equipped with a dual camera system with a 64-megapixel main sensor Sony IMX686 and an ultra-wide-angle camera, 12-megapixel Sony IMX363 sensor. The camera is equipped with familiar features such as phase detection and dual pixel focus, optical image stabilization, macro photography… The front camera of the device has a resolution of 12 megapixels. Zenfone 8 Flip has a 180-degree rotating module with the rear camera cluster as two main cameras and an ultra-wide-angle lens similar to Zenfone 8, but with an additional telephoto camera using an 8MP Ommi Vision sensor. Both devices use AMOLED screens with a maximum brightness of 1,000nit, support for HDR10+ and DC Dimming technology to prevent flicker at low brightness. The standard Zenfone 8 has a 5.9-inch screen, 120Hz frequency, and the Zenfone 8 Flip has a 6.67-inch screen, but the frequency is only 90Hz. Asus equips the most advanced processor chip today for its product duo – Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, supports 5G and even Wi-Fi 6e. Zenfone 8 has 3 RAM levels of 6/8 and 16GB with 128GB and 256GB internal memory options, while Zenfone 8 Flip is 8GB and 256GB of internal memory. In terms of software, both models come with ZenUI8 pre-installed on the Android 11 platform with a user interface close to stock Android. Zenfone 8 has a 4,000mAh battery and Zenfone 8 Flip has a 5,000mAh battery, both supporting 30W fast charging. In terms of price, Zenfone 8 has a suggested price of 599 euros and Zenfone 8 Flip starts at 799 euros in Europe. according to Gizmochina

Today, chips are in everything from game consoles and toothbrushes to washing machines and alarm clocks. However, the world is facing a serious chip crisis, showing no signs of stopping. Glenn O’Donnell, vice president of research at consulting firm Forrester, believes the situation will last until 2023 due to high demand and continued supply stress. He forecast personal computer demand will decline slightly next year, while data centers will buy more chips. According to him, combined with the growth in cloud computing and mining, the demand for chips is going to explode. According to Patrick Armstrong, IT director of Plurimi Investment Managers, the chip crisis could last 18 months. There are too many products that require chips such as cars, phones, IoT… All connected to the Internet. The car industry is affected more than any other sector. Earlier this month, the world’s largest chipmaker TSMC said it could catch up with car demand in June. But Mr. Armstrong said that was too ambitious. Ford, BMW, and Volkswagen all stressed they had production bottlenecks and couldn’t buy enough chips needed to build cars. Research firm Gartner predicts the chip crisis will continue until 2021, not to mention chip prices also increase. Analyst Alan Priestley said the situation could improve for some sectors in the next six months, but there could also be a “chain effect” into 2022. The semiconductor industry is doing everything to increase productivity but need time. In fact, Intel announced to spend $ 20 billion for two new chip factories in Arizona, USA. According to Mr. Priestley, it will take two to three years for these plants to operate but it will meet future demand. Reinhard Ploss, CEO of German chip maker Infineon, said last week that it “clearly takes time” until supply and demand balance. According to Wenzhe Zhao, Credit Suisse’s director of global economics and strategy, the recent chip crisis has encouraged inventory stockpiling in the supply chain, leading to a widening supply-demand gap. Not much can be done to solve the current situation, he said, except to adjust orders, production schedules and prices. Du Lam (According to CNBC)

Previously, Galaxy A52 and Galaxy A72 were expected to launch globally at the end of April. However, it has only appeared in Europe and some other markets, fortunately Vietnam. The Galaxy A series, which is Samsung’s flagship product line, brings huge revenue, but a global chip shortage could have a big impact on this model in the coming quarters. It is currently not clear whether other Samsung product lines or smartphones will be affected. Samsung will soon release a bunch of new devices, including the Galaxy S21 FE and Galaxy Z Fold 3, which will most likely also be affected by their launch dates or production. Qualcomm’s CEO recently stated that in the best-case scenario, the chip shortage will only last until the end of the year, but some say it could continue until 2023. According to Phonearena

Industry “commanders” in the US have voiced the warning of serious consequences caused by the global shortage of chips. Photo: AFP Semiconductor chip supplies have been in short supply for months and the situation shows no sign of abating, prompting insiders to visualize it into the chipageddon crisis. It is a combination of ‘microchip’ (semiconductor chip) and ‘armageddon’ (which excessively means war of destruction). Mr. Glenn O’Donnell, deputy research director at consulting firm Forrester believes that the thirst for semiconductor chips could last until 2023. “As demand will continue to increase while supply will remain limited, We expect this shortfall to continue into 2022 and into 2023, “commented Glenn O’Donnell on his blog. According to the expert’s argument, demand for computers – products using the most advanced chips – will slightly decrease next year but not by much, but data centers, where the machines are located. will be the chip-eaters next year. Mr. Glenn O’Donnell explained: “The deviceization of things is an irresistible trend, coupled with the continued growth of cloud computing and cryptocurrency mining, we see nothing but a boom. short-term explosion on chip demand “. Meanwhile, Mr. Patrick Armstrong, Information Technology Director of Plurimi Investment Managers Fund commented on CNBC that the global shortage of chips will last 18 months. “Not just the auto industry. It’s the phone. It’s also the IoE [một khái niệm kết nối rộng hơn Internet vạn vật (IoT), xoay quanh 4 yếu tố chính: Con người (People), sự vật (Things), dữ liệu (Data) và quá trình (Process)]. There are a lot more products that use chips now than before. “” All of them are connected to the internet, “said Patrick Armstrong. The auto industry has been most adversely affected by the global thirst for chips. Earlier this month, the world’s largest chip maker TSMC (Taiwan) said it could meet the chip demand of the auto industry next June. However, Mr. Armstrong said that this statement by TSMC is too ambitious. “If you listen to Ford, BMW, and Volkswagen, they all claim that there are bottlenecks in capacity and they can’t get the chips needed to build new cars,” Armstrong argued. Meanwhile, Gartner Consulting and Information Technology Research is more optimistic that chip shortages will last throughout 2021, affecting all chip lines and pushing chip prices higher. Gartner analyst Alan Priestley said that chip shortages could improve in some sectors / areas over the next six months, but could continue into 2022. “It (chip shortage – Editor)) will not last any longer, “said Alan Priestley. “The semiconductor industry is increasing capacity, but it still takes time,” he said. In fact, in March Intel announced plans to spend $ 20 billion on two new chip factories in the state of Arizona. The group also said it could build a factory in Europe if it could raise funds for public investment. “Those things will take two or three years before we start realizing their effect,” said Alan Priestley, who said that the investment plans could actually meet demand for semiconductors in future. Mr. Reinhard Ploss, CEO of chip maker Infineon (Germany) last week said that the semiconductor industry is in the region without privileges; at the same time warned to rebalance the demand and supply of semiconductors “obviously will take time”. “I think two years is too long, but we are sure that the current situation will extend into 2022,” said Ploss. “I think the additional capacity will be realized… Hopefully the situation will be more balanced in the next calendar year,” added the German CEO. Wenzhe Zhao, director of the global strategy and economics division at Credit Suisse, said that the shortage in chip supply led to speculation on chip-making hoarding and widening the gap. amid increasing chip demand and supply remains stagnant. According to Wenzhe Zhao, the new semiconductor manufacturing capacity will not be effective until 2022 or later. Wenzhe Zhao noted that there is little action he can do to address the shortage of semiconductors, aside from adjusting orders, production schedules and prices.

The 11th-generation Intel Core H-Series is the first laptop processor designed on a 10 nm process with a maximum clock speed of up to 5.0 GHz thanks to Turbo Boost Max technology. According to Intel, these new CPUs promise a speed improvement of up to 19% over the previous generation. Core i9 11980HK processor in many different computer segments. Photo: Intel. In particular, the Core i9 11980HK model delivers top-notch performance on a laptop for gamers, content creators and office professionals. Additionally, the new platform also includes dual-digit and multi-core performance improvements, DDR4-3200 direct-mounted memory, and 20-lane PCIe 4.0 lanes with Intel fast storage technology, 3X faster than other microprocessors on the market. 11th Gen Intel Core H-series consumer mobile processor. Photo: Intel. The new chips will support Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6 / 6E (Gig +), Thunderbolt 4 at 3x faster speeds (40 GB per second) and up to 75% less latency compared to previous Wi-Fi 5 chips. . These commercial chips will support Intel’s vPro platform that includes security features and enterprise-specific management tools. Gaming performance comparison between new chip from Intel and AMD Ryzen. Photo: Intel. In terms of gaming performance, the Core i9-11980HK model offers better frame rates than the predecessor Core i9 in titles like Far Cry New Dawn, Grid 2019, Hitman 3, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege … In addition, the 11980HK model also beat rivals AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX and Ryzen 9 5900HS on these titles. It is expected that 80 new laptop and chip-based workstations will be launched in the market by 2021.

The shortage of semiconductor chips globally has a heavy impact on many industries. Artwork: Reuters Some of the world’s top semiconductor buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc (Google’s parent company), are working with leading chip makers in the world, such as Intel Corp. , to set up a new lobbying group to promote the US Government to support semiconductor chip manufacturing. The Semiconductors in America Alliance, which includes Amazon Web Services’s Amazon Web Services division, said on May 11 that it urged US lawmakers to provide support for the CHIPS Act for the country. The United States (CHIPS for America Act), which President Joe Biden asked Congress to provide finances worth $ 50 billion. In a letter to congressional bicameral Democrats and Republicans, the coalition said funding for the CHIPS Act would help the United States build the necessary capacity for a more flexible supply chain. to ensure important technologies will be available in the US when needed. Global semiconductor chip shortages hit the auto industry heavily, with Ford Motor Co saying it may have to halve its car production in the second quarter. Automotive industry groups are pressing the Biden administration to secure chip supplies for car factories. However, government officials have been reluctant to use national security laws to divert the supply of computer chips to automakers because they fear it could harm other industries. The new alliance involves companies from other industries using semiconductors, including AT&T, Cisco Systems, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Verizon Communications Inc. However, they warn that the government only supports one industry like the automobile industry. Tech giants, like Apple, are also hit hard by a shortage of semiconductors, but are less severe than automakers. Last month, the iPhone maker said it would lose about $ 3-4 billion in revenue in the second quarter (ending June 2021) due to a shortage of chips. According to Refinitiv estimates, Apple’s second quarter revenue is forecast to reach $ 72.9 billion./.

According to Digital Chat Station, the PEPM00 phone will be released in China as the Reno 6 Pro, while the PENM00 will launch as the Reno 6 Pro +. The TENAA listing only reveals the size, screen size, and battery capacity. The Reno6 Pro will measure 160 x 73.1 x 7.6mm and a 6.55 inch screen. The device runs on Android 11 operating system and is supported by a 2,200mAh dual battery with Dimensity 1200 chipset. Meanwhile, the Reno 6 Pro + measures 160.8 x 72.5 x 7.99mm and has a 6.55 inch screen. The phone also runs on Android 11 and has a 2,200mAh dual battery. According to leaked sources, the phone will be equipped with Snapdragon 870 chipset. Additionally, both phones will use FHD + OLED panels with a punch-hole design and curved edges, a 4,500mAh battery, and support for 65W fast charging. The TENAA listings of both phones are expected to be updated with full specifications over the next few days. The model number of the Reno 6 standard version is still unknown. A recent report has claimed that an upcoming OPPO phone with model number PEQM00 will come with a new Dimensity MT6877 chip, which will likely be the Reno 6. According to Gizmochina

Galaxy M12 is Samsung’s new low-cost smartphone. The product is on shelves in Vietnam from May 5, priced at 3.5 million VND for the 3 GB RAM version, while the 4 GB RAM version is priced at 3.9 million VND. Machine with 6.5 inch screen, HD +. The plus point on the product comes from the 90 Hz refresh rate monitor. This feature usually only appears on mid-range and high-end smartphones. Apple’s iPhone 12 line also only has a 60 Hz display. Image: GSMArena . The configuration of the product includes Exynos 850 chip, 3, 4 GB RAM option corresponding to 32 or 64 GB of internal memory. This model has a 5,000 mAh battery, fast charging capacity of 15 W. According to Samsung, the battery on the device can meet a day of surfing the web or listening to music continuously for 3 days. Photo: GSMArena. iPhone 12, 12 mini purple version Genuine sales in Vietnam on 10/5 with prices from 21 million and 17.2 million respectively. Thus, this product duo will have a total of 6 colors including black, white, blue, green, red and purple. The configuration of the purple iPhone 12 remains the same as the other colors. Vivo V21 5G Genuine will be on shelves in Vietnam from May 14, price 10 million. The product has a large 44 MP selfie camera, integrating many interesting photography features such as dual moonlight effects (combining screen light and 2 flash units on the side of the phone), night portrait AI or double exposure. The device uses MediaTek Dimensity 800U chip, 8 GB RAM and 128 GB internal memory. The product owns a 4,000 mAh capacity battery, fast charging 33 W capacity. The minus point on this model comes from the pretty old U-shaped top-notch screen. Expected, Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G genuine will reach users from May 15, price 10.5 million. The device has many youthful color options such as yellow, blue or black. Products with slim and light top design today. Accordingly, the thinness of the device is only 6.8 mm and the weight is 159 grams. Image: Xiaomi . Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G is equipped with Snapdragon 780G chip, 8 GB RAM and 128 GB internal memory. This model has a 6.55 inch screen, Full HD + resolution, AMOLED panels and a refresh rate of 90 Hz. Photo: GSMArena. Oppo A74 5G genuine shelves in Vietnam in early May, priced at 8 million. This is Oppo’s cheapest 5G smartphone. Machine with 6.5 inch screen, Full HD +, refresh rate 90 Hz. The configuration of the product includes Snapdragon 480 chip, 6 GB RAM and 128 GB internal memory. Image: Oppo .

Liquid crystal display (LCM) production area at Samsung Electronics Ho Chi Minh Complex in Ho Chi Minh City Hi-Tech Park. Reported at the online conference on the socio-economic situation in April and the first 4 months of the year by the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on the afternoon of May 11, the representative of the Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City said, the total retail sales and Consumer service revenue in the month was estimated at VND 90,153 billion, up 22.3% over the same period (down 34.2% in the same period). Generally for the first 4 months of the year, the total retail sales of goods and service revenue were estimated at 366,234 billion dong. 7.9% increase (11.2% decrease in the same period). In particular, the export value of high-tech products of the City High-Tech Park (SHTP) reached US $ 6.47 billion, up 27.1% over the same period. Moreover, the index of industrial production (IIP) of the city in the first four months of the year was estimated to increase by 9.7% over the same period (down 2.6% in the same period). There were 5,588 enterprises operating again, an increase of 95.18% over the same period. According to forecasts of many experts, during the 4G and 5G technology transfer period, the 4th industrial revolution and the need for digital transformation is happening around the world, the demand for chip production in the coming time will higher. Not only chips and microchips, but also the demand for electronic equipment components tends to increase compared to previous years. In addition, many enterprises producing electronic equipment and technology in Vietnam admitted that they were affected by the global chip crisis. More than ever, chips, electronic components, microchips have appeared in most electronic devices such as new citizenship cards, non-stop automatic fee collection, bank ATM cards to other Popular household electronic devices such as televisions, refrigerators, electric cookers, electronic rice cookers … In the current context, Vietnam does not have a chip manufacturing factory, but just design and manufacture overseas. Therefore, domestic electronics and technology producers will certainly be affected by the global chip crisis.

News from Titanium Media on April 23, Recently, Ziguang Zhanrui CEO Chu Qing stated at a press conference that in 2020, Ziguang Zhanrui’s smartphone business will grow by more than 50% year-on-year, and 5G commercial terminals have exceeded 50 models; shipments in the tablet business have increased year-on-year. 100%; the market share of smart children’s watches exceeds 60%; the shipment of 4G feature phones has increased by 1.5 times, and the global feature phone market share has reached 76.92%, setting a new record of the world’s number one. At this meeting, Ziguang Zhanrui launched a new 5G brand “Tangula”. Under the new brand system, Ziguang Zhanrui has carried out a new product plan for the 5G mobile platform, which is divided into 6, 7, 8, and 9 series: 6 series for the general public, 7 series emphasizes product experience upgrade, 8 series main performance pioneer, 9 The department represents cutting-edge technology. The original T7510 was renamed Zhanrui Tanggula T740, and the T7520 was renamed T770. T770 is the world’s first 6nm 5G chip, which has been successfully returned to the film at the beginning of this year. The 5G terminal equipped with T770 is expected to be mass-produced and launched in July this year. “Last year, our smart phone business has grown in an all-round way, especially in the second half of last year.” Zhou Chen, Executive Vice President of Ziguang Zhanrui and General Manager of the Consumer Electronics Division, said in an interview with Titanium Media and others. The shipments of low-end smartphones have increased substantially compared to the past, which may be related to the epidemic and economic environment. The domestic fourth quarter increased slightly year-on-year.” Ziguang Zhanrui CEO Chu Qing In Chu Qing’s view, Ziguang Zhanrui has now achieved breakthrough progress in various fields, mainly due to a profound self-change since the end of 2018. It is reported that Ziguang Zhanrui was merged by mobile phone chip design companies Spreadtrum and RDA Microelectronics in May 2018. Spreadtrum was established in Shanghai in 2001, mainly designing mobile phone chips. In 2013, Ziguang Group was privatized and delisted from Nasdaq for US$1.78 billion. RDA was founded in 2004 and is also headquartered in Shanghai. In 2013, Ziguang Group was privatized and delisted from Nasdaq for US$907 million. In September 2018, Chu Qing, who served as the chief strategy officer of HiSilicon, left Huawei and joined Ziguang Group, and was appointed as the CEO of Ziguang Zhanrui in November. At that time, Zhanrui performed poorly, lagging far behind rivals Qualcomm and MediaTek in the mobile phone chip market, and was not as technically as HiSilicon, which specializes in Huawei mobile phones. After Chu Qing took office, he cut down about 90% of the company’s projects and reduced the previous nine business units to three, focusing on consumer electronics, industrial electronics and pan-connectivity, corresponding to mobile phones, industrial Internet of Things and emerging The three major areas of the Internet of Things: consumer electronics serve the needs of personal intelligence; industrial electronics prepare for the future intelligent society; ubiquitous connectivity is a collection of innovative businesses that are difficult to sort out logic. In consumer electronics, In 2019, Ziguang Zhanrui released the first 5G baseband chip V510, and in 2020, it has successively launched two 5G smartphone chips T7510 and T7520. Up to now, more than 50 terminal brands equipped with Zhanrui 5G chips have been launched. Zhou Chen believes that in the development process of 5G, Ziguang Zhanrui will change the situation of 2G/3G/4G era that is greatly backward, and achieve multiple leaping developments and process leaps. For example, its first-generation 5G chip has a 12-nanometer process, and it has evolved to an advanced 6-nanometer EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) process on the T7520, skipping the 10-nanometer and 7-nanometer process nodes, and ranks first in the world. From the perspective of the industry, manufacturers that can develop 5G chips and deliver them on a large scale mainly include: Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, Huawei, and Unigroup Zhanrui. Relatively speaking, Huawei and Samsung’s mobile phone chips are not sold externally. Currently, the only chips available for mobile phone manufacturers in the open market are Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Unigroup Zhanrui. In terms of mobile phone brand customers, Ziguang Zhanrui is trying to get rid of the low-end impression and enter the middle and high-end markets. Recently, Zhanrui also announced a cooperation with Liangfengtai to jointly develop 5G AR smart glasses. In the field of industrial electronics, Ziguang Zhanrui also continues to expand the market. At the end of 2018, Zhan Rui established an industrial electronics business department. Since 2019, its revenue has continued to double, and it will achieve a 130% growth in 2020. There are more than 100 industry application cases in the To B field using chips, including logistics, power, mining, transportation, Enabling the intelligent transformation of manufacturing and other industries. In October 2020, Zhan Rui won the lead of Cat.1bis standard. Cat.1 is a user equipment level with an uplink peak rate of only 5Mbit/s. Based on the existing 4G LTE network, it completely reuses the existing LTE resources and does not require software and hardware upgrades for the base station. Networking industry. At present, Unigroup Zhanrui, the world’s first LTE Cat.1bis IoT chip platform 8910DM, has achieved tens of millions of shipments since its release, with a 70%+ market share of Cat.1 IoT chips, ranking first in the country. Moreover, according to the company’s data, in 2020, Unigroup Zhanrui’s financial payment business will grow by nearly 400% year-on-year, and LTE Cat.1 has a market share of 70%+, ranking first in the country; low-speed Internet of Things (GSM+NB-IoT) The market share exceeds 50%, ranking first in the world; the market share of NB-IoT exceeds 30%; the market share of smart POS reaches 80%. Huang Yuning, senior vice president of Ziguang Zhanrui and general manager of the industrial electronics division, said that 5G ToB and To C have different development logic. “ToB is the application of a communication protocol to different industries. People in the industry may not understand 5G in the end. What is it? And communication companies may not understand some of the needs of the industry, so from last year to this year, including next year, there will be such a process of familiarizing each other, understanding, developing solutions, and then applying them.” Chu Qing said that ecology is the core of Ziguang Zhanrui’s strategy. Unlike traditional industries, the key to the information industry lies in its industrial form. The industrial relationship of traditional industries has only one entry and one exit. In addition to suppliers, customers are customers. The information industry is a new business format. This industry has two characteristics: one is that there are many types of enterprises, and the other is that the relationship is extremely complex. It is difficult to understand with simple logic, and can only be described by a biological vocabulary-ecology. Chu Qing further explained that this ecology can be divided into two parts, one is the carrier that provides the basic platform, and the other is the software, application and terminal companies that prosper on the carrier’s platform. Only companies with main chip platform capabilities can become ecological bearers. Such enterprises are scarce and cannot be copied. Zhanrui is the only company in mainland China that can bear large-scale ecological bearer responsibilities and hopes to be the bearer of digital ecology. Chu Qing emphasized that after the quality salvation in 2019, the market salvation in 2019, and the business improvement in 2020, Ziguang Zhanrui will start the “Technology Improvement Year” in 2021. At present, Ziguang Zhanrui has established an Advanced Technology Research Institute, and will invest 5% of the R&D team to carry out pioneering innovation and R&D in important areas facing the future. “The new’Zhan Rui’ hopes that 5G will take this as a new starting point and make a breakthrough.” Zhou Chen said that in the future, Ziguang Zhan Rui will implement LTE Cat.4 downlink 150M and LTE Cat.7 uplink 100M capability levels at the protocol level. Make more improvements and enhancements, and continue to develop new technologies and implement new applications in the fields of AIoT, IWN, smart display, and automotive electronics. In response to insufficient chip production capacity, Zhou Chen told Titanium Media App and others that the scale of cooperation between Unigroup Zhanrui and its partners (suppliers) has grown, which means that with the rapid growth in the past few years, it has obtained more support for production capacity, but it does not rule out future demand. The high-speed increment of China may indeed encounter tensions in capacity supply. On April 16, 2021, Ziguang Zhanrui announced the completion of a new round of financing before listing, with an amount of 5.35 billion yuan, which was jointly invested by the four original shareholders of Shanghai Guosheng Capital, Country Garden Ventures, Haier Financial Holdings, and Sail Capital. Currently, Ziguang Zhanrui is optimizing its equity and organizational structure before listing, and is actively preparing for the Science and Technology Innovation Board. According to data from Tianyancha and other data, after multiple rounds of financing, Ziguang Zhanrui’s shareholding structure is more diverse and complex. Beijing Ziguang Spreadtrum Investment Management Co., Ltd. is the company’s largest shareholder, holding 35.22%, followed by the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd., holding 13.95%, Intel (China) Co., Ltd. holding 11.86%, Shenzhen Country Garden Chuangxin Investment Co., Ltd. holds 5.52% of the shares, and Shanghai Shengyingying Exhibition Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) holds 4.98%. (This article first published Titanium Media App, author｜Lin Zhijia)

IBM’s 2 nm chip had a density of 333 million transistors per square millimeter. By comparison, TSMC’s most advanced chip with a 5 nm process has about 173 million transistors, while Samsung’s 5 nm chip is 127 transistors per square millimeter. Billions of transistors are found on each microprocessor, and the size of the transistor is measured in nanometers. The smaller the size, the more transistors the processor can hold, making it faster and more energy efficient. IBM successfully built a chip with a size of only 2 nm but the most powerful in the world. Most of the processor chips found on personal computers or smartphones today are manufactured using a 7 nm or 10 nm process. For example, the 7-nm Apple A13 Bionic chip has 8.5 billion transistors. Meanwhile, the A14 Bionic microprocessor manufactured on a 5 nm process is integrated with 11.8 billion transistors. More transistors on a chip give manufacturers more options to deliver core innovations, to improve performance for leading tasks like AI and cloud computing, and pave the way for security. Cryptography and encryption are hardware-enforced. The need to increase performance and save energy in every processor has never cooled, especially in the era of the cloud, AI and IoT. The 2 nm chip technology is estimated to achieve 45% higher efficiency, 75% lower energy use than the advanced 7nm chips currently on the market.

Although the Lightning cable was once rumored to be bundled with the iPhone 12, that didn’t happen. On the iPhone 12, Apple still comes with a normal Lightning cable, which is easily damaged and easily broken. The Lightning cable and power cord included with the iMac 2021 are covered with an umbrella. Photo: 9to5mac. Half a year after the launch of the iPhone 12, an umbrella-covered Lightning cable was included with the iMac 2021, used to charge the mouse, keyboard and trackpad. Of course, you can still use this cable to charge your iPhone or iPad. Besides the Lightning cable, the power cord connected to the iMac 2021 is also covered with fabric to match the camera color. For example, if you buy a red iMac, the Lightning cable and the power cord are covered with red umbrellas, increasing the aesthetics of the product. The iMac 2021 comes with a Lightning cable that covers many people. On Twitter, accounts Brad Fogle comment “Good” upon seeing the new cable. Some comments expressed surprise when the shielded cable was included with the iMac, not the iPhone. This cable is currently only included with the iMac 2021, not sold separately by Apple. Because the body is too thin, the Ethernet port of the iMac 2021 is brought to the power supply by Apple. Photo: Apple. “This is the cable I wanted to include with the iPhone, but it got a surprise in another product,” says author Chris Smith from BGR share. In 2019, Apple once donated a Lightning cable braided to the Mac Pro, but this is a high-end product, intended for professional users. In addition to the two fabric-covered cables, the new feature of the iMac 2021 lies in the power supply. On this generation, the power supply is placed separately from the outside and integrated with the Ethernet network port. The power port on the machine is magnet, not 3 pin as before. Launched by Apple at the event on April 20, iMac 2021 has 7 colors, 4.5K 24-inch screen, M1 processor, webcam and upgraded microphone. The device is expected to sell from the end of April with a starting price of 1,299 USD. Apple launches new purple iPhone and improved iPad Pro M1 During the Spring Loaded event taking place at 0:00 on April 21 (Vietnam time), Apple introduced a series of products including iPhone 12 purple version, new design iMac, AirTag card, iPad Pro M1.

Intel is pushing partners to sell Intel Evo laptops using Tiger Lake chips. In 2020, Intel launched the 11th generation Intel Core mobile processors collectively known as Tiger Lake. This new chip is introduced with outstanding performance, real-world battery life of 9 hours or more using FHD screen, fast charging and stable response. The Intel Evo concept is a standard set for all high-end laptops equipped with this new line of Intel chips. Continuing from 2020, this year Intel has a plan to develop and boost sales for the Intel Evo brand. Intel’s partners will also be part of the plan, and Intel wants to give them promotional tools to sell more devices. Reply CRN Steve Long, Intel’s global vice president of computer sales, said that this year will be the year of investing in customers’ businesses. In addition to investments in Intel partners and products or programs, but also in market access. The tools Intel says will be the most advanced tools that give partners access to schools or educational institutions. These are the places that will need a lot of laptop devices to organize teaching for students. According to statistics, with 1.6 billion students in the world, only 5 out of 100 students have laptops to use. Alder Lake will be Intel’s next generation of chips to appear next year. The business segment also has room for growth in laptop sales as the need to work remotely from home is increasing and becoming a trend for many companies. As for the next generation of Intel chips, at the end of Q2, the Intel Lake H45 laptop will be released. For desktops, Intel will also introduce the first 10 nanometer technology Alder Lake processors. Demand for a laptop or Chromebook is growing, especially in the second half of 2021 and into 2022, as well as in the following years. Intel is expanding its policy to reach customers in different segments and deliver high quality products.

A solar power plant in Maryland, USA. (Photo: AFP / VNA) A unit of the company Samsung C&T is considering investing $ 673 million in the construction of solar power plants in Texas (USA), to start commercial production in December 2023. The solar facilities above will be located in Milam County, Texas, less than two hours ‘drive from Samsung Electronics’ chip factory in Austin. Austin is where Samsung is considering building a new $ 17 billion chip factory. With a capacity of about 700 MW, solar power plants will begin construction in June 2022. A Samsung C&T official said the company is doing the approval procedures with the authorities. The attractiveness of solar and wind power is increasing rapidly as nations around the world switch from fossil fuels to cleaner renewable sources to prevent global warming. The administration of US President Joe Biden aims to generate electricity from non-carbon sources such as nuclear and renewable energy by 2035. Recently, South Korean President Moon Jae-in also pledged to end all new funding for overseas coal projects and will soon come up with a more ambitious plan to cut carbon emissions. . In October, Samsung C&T Corp announced its decision to suspend any new projects or investments related to coal. While chip makers like Samsung Electronics, Intel and TSMC are also committed to increasing the use of renewable energy to reduce carbon emissions.

The semiconductor shortage is due to the growing demand for technology products as consumers globally continue to work from home. This makes the need to own a computer essential for home work applications as well as the need for the latest game consoles (such as Sony’s PlayStation 5) and hardware. The semiconductor shortage not only disrupted production but even affected vehicle design and production, Peugeot announced it would stop installing the digital instrument cluster on the 308 instead. use analog clock. The decommissioning will affect both Land Rover and Jaguar models as the XE, XF and F-Type are all produced at the Castle Bromwich plant. Along with that, both the Land Rover Discovery Sport and the Range Rover Evoque currently produced at the Halewood factory will be discontinued. Land Rover’s Solihull plant will continue to produce normally, while its other factories in Slovakia, Brazil and China will continue unaffected. “Like the other manufacturers, we are currently experiencing some supply chain disruption of Covid-19. This includes the globally available supply, which is currently in effect,” said JLR spokesperson. our production schedule and our ability to meet global demand for some models We are working closely with the affected suppliers to solve problems and minimize effects on customer orders if possible “./.

In early March, ZTE partnered with Tencent to launch Red Magic Pro . This is the first smartphone with 18 GB RAM. In addition, the device is also equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chip, 512 GB of internal memory. Products aimed at gamers should have aggressive designs. The back of the device has a strong angular pattern. Image: infnews . This model uses 6.8 inch screen, Full HD + resolution, OLED panel. This is the first smartphone on the market with a screen refresh rate of 165 Hz, touch sampling speed on the machine reaches 500 Hz with the touch of a finger, while multi-touch reaches 360 Hz. Red Magic Pro costs $ 1,020. The product is not genuine in Vietnam. Photo: infnews. ROG Phone 5 As a gaming smartphone, it is not too surprising that the product is equipped with today’s most powerful hardware. It uses Snapdragon 888 chip, RAM capacity from 12-18 GB and internal memory 128 – 256 GB depending on version. This configuration perfectly satisfies the heaviest games like Genshin Impact or Mortal Kombat. It has 6.78 inch screen, Full HD +, AMOLED panel, refresh rate 144 Hz. The product is equipped with 2 touch buttons located on the side, like the trigger buttons on a normal gaming hand. Game Genie application on this model helps users customize these 2 touch buttons into more than 10 touch points or swipes in the game. ROG Phone 5 comes in three versions, with prices ranging from $ 965 to $ 1,500. Expected, the product will be opened for sale in Vietnam in the second quarter. Legion Phone Duel 2 is Lenovo’s new gaming smartphone. The machine has 2 radiator fans operating independently. One exhaust fan has 29 blades and reaches 12,500 rpm, while the other is responsible for pushing hot air out to spin at a higher rate of 15,000 rpm. Device use screen overflow, camera slide. Image: Geek . The device is equipped with 6.92 inch screen, OLED panel, Full HD +, 144 Hz refresh rate. Product configuration includes Snapdragon 888 chip, 18 GB RAM and 512 GB internal memory. This model has 4 ultrasonic trigger keys at 4 corners, 4 noise-canceling microphone and 2 force touch sensors for a better gaming experience. The product is priced at 923 USD. Photo: Lenovo. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G There are 2 versions using Exynos 2100 and Snapdragon 888. The Snapdragon 888 version has 16GB of RAM and 512GB of internal memory, priced at $ 1,450. However, this product is not genuine in Vietnam. Machine with 6.8 inch screen, 2K + resolution and 120 Hz refresh rate.

The US-China technology war The US and China are currently engaged in a full-blown technology war. The war began under the Trump administration and is continuing under President Joe Biden. In fact, Mr. Biden viewed US competition with China as an important front since he took office. The tech war began as a trade dispute, but quickly turned into a war for leadership in core technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), and semiconductors. With a long history of development, the US remains the global technology leader for decades, but that position is currently being challenged by China. After Washington began blocking Chinese access to core US-controlled technologies such as semiconductors, Beijing doubled down on its efforts to “de-America” ​​in its supply chain. The global pandemic contributed to tensions between the two countries, prompting President Biden to issue an executive order to review the US supply chain for core products such as chips, batteries, rare earths and supplies. medical. Proposed bills to significantly increase US investment and R&D spending in core technology have also received bipartisan support in Washington. The US-China technology war – a conflict that does not seem to have ended so far. What caused the tech war? On May 19, 2015, the Chinese government announced the “Made in China 2025” plan to promote the country’s manufacturing industry within the next 10 years. Analysts point to the “Made in China 2025” strategy, Beijing’s 10-year plan to transform the country from a “manufacturing giant to a world manufacturing power” that sparked the technological war. . After taking power in the White House, Donald Trump focused his efforts to prevent China from becoming the global technology leader. A series of events from sanctions imposed on Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE for disguising its role in selling US technology to Iran, accusing China of stealing American intellectual property and Concerns about Huawei’s dominance in 5G have turned into an extensive tech war that has won bipartisan support in the US. What is the difference between trade war and technology war? The US-China trade war began on July 6, 2018, when US President Donald Trump imposed 25% tariffs on $ 34 billion of Chinese imports, citing the need to “rebalance. equals “America’s growing trade deficit with China. Other taxes have been applied in 2018 and 2019. However, the trade war was soon overshadowed by the tech war that the U.S. fears that China is using unfair means, including state power and stealing intellectual property, to gain is targeted to become a global leader in core technologies such as AI, semiconductors and 5G. Did the US really separate factories from China? In the decades after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, the US and Chinese economies became intertwined. China is a factory that manufactures low-cost American goods, from computers to stuffed toys. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy and the US-China trade war have sparked calls for the US to reduce its dependence on China-based supply chains. Initially, withdrawing from China was rejected as impractical because of the cheap labor force and the large Chinese market that American companies could not ignore. However, a form of seclusion has received the support of the US administration, even from technology leaders such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying that “splitting” will benefit the United States. . The concept of “split” existed in the internet space when Facebook and Google were not allowed to operate social networks and search engines in China, while the US also banned or restricted the presence of media. Chinese social media like TikTok and WeChat in the US. The global pandemic highlights the world’s reliance on China for important medical supplies such as masks and also spurs calls to bring supply chains back to the United States. In February, President Joe Biden signed an executive order calling for a review of product supply chains critical to chips, batteries, pharmaceutical ingredients and rare earth minerals. What is China doing to improve the influence of US actions? China attaches special importance to its own technology development, especially the chip. Although China initially imposed tariffs in retaliation, the top leaders’ call to action was technology self-sufficiency. In 2018, President Xi Jinping said “China must persist in the path of self-reliance in the context of increasing unilateralism and protectionism in the current world”. After Huawei was blocked from buying US chips and China’s largest semiconductor maker SMIC was restricted from buying U.S. technology for alleged association with the Chinese military, Beijing has intensified its focus on achieves semiconductor self-sufficiency. The Chinese government has supported the domestic chip industry with favorable policies, from tax breaks to state subsidies to promote the rapid development of the semiconductor industry. Technology is also a major focus for China in its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) announced in March, calling for the promotion of new digital industries, including AI, data. large, blockchain and cloud computing, along with expanding the use of 5G to many other industries such as smart transportation and logistics. Why is the US specifically targeting Huawei with trade sanctions? Washington’s interest in Huawei dates back to the early 2000s on suspicions that the Chinese company has close ties with the Beijing government. Years later, Huawei’s rise as the global leader in 5G technology rang alarm bells in Washington. One of the first public moves against the Chinese company came in January 2018 when US lawmakers pressured US telecom giant AT&T to withdraw from the phone distribution agreement. smart Huawei for US consumers. Seven months after AT&T’s decision, Washington barred government agencies from buying equipment and services from the Chinese company. When Huawei was placed on the US Commerce Department’s Blacklist in 2019, Google suspended some of its business with Huawei that involved transferring hardware or software products, except for protected products. by open source license. This is another “slap” on the Chinese technology corporation. For the Chinese government, Huawei is pride and a testament to the strength and potential of the Chinese people. Within three decades, since being founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, Huawei has made some “miraculous” developments. From a company focusing on manufacturing phone switches, Huawei has become one of the largest private companies in the world, a leader in areas such as telecommunications equipment, smartphones, and electricity. cloud computing. What impact do the sanctions have on Huawei? Initially, the sanctions didn’t seem to affect Huawei much, which reported record sales of 858.8 billion yuan in 2019, up 19.1 percent year-on-year. Huawei also quickly revealed a self-developed operating system called HarmonyOS to replace Google Android. However, after Washington expanded the scope of sanctions in May 2020, requiring foreign chipmakers to use US technology, including TSMC and Taiwan’s MediaTek, to apply for a license to sell chips. for Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant appears to be in a slump again. The biggest impact is on Huawei’s smartphone operations. Due to a lack of high-end semiconductors, Huawei had to sell its Honor smartphone business to a newly formed conglomerate comprising more than 30 dealers and carriers. In the first quarter of 2021, Huawei was “kicked” out of the top 5 largest smartphone companies in the world in terms of sales. As stockpiles of smartphone components are declining and Honor’s business is over, Huawei will face even more pressure in the smartphone business. Many Chinese tech companies have caught up with the US Popular Chinese applications run the risk of being banned in the US. Image: The Economic Times. In October 2019, the US Commerce Department added 28 other Chinese companies to the trade blacklist about Beijing’s alleged human rights violations of the Uighurs. In May 2020, more than 20 Chinese government organizations and companies, including software technology giant Qihoo 360, were sanctioned for “assisting with procurement of items for military purposes in China. China”. The most recent US sanctions involve seven Chinese supercomputing entities blacklisted for national security concerns. Francis Lau, professor of computer science at the University of Hong Kong, said China’s supercomputers mainly use Intel, AMD and IBM CPUs. “The sanctions will certainly have a significant effect on China’s ability to stay at the top of supercomputers, since most of the components in its supercomputers today are US-made. Although it will be.” There are alternatives from other countries like Japan and South Korea, but the American component is still the best, ”said Professor Lau. Will the tech war be any different under the Biden administration? US President Joe Biden holds a semiconductor chip when he speaks before signing the executive order to address the global shortage of semiconductor chips in the White House. Photo: REUTERS In short, no. After Donald Trump’s tenure, President Biden continued to put pressure on Chinese technology and especially on Huawei’s case. In March, the US Commerce Department further restricted the products US companies can sell to Huawei, with clearer bans on the export of components such as semiconductors, antennas, and batteries. can be used in Huawei 5G equipment. A day later, the US Federal Communications Commission designated five Chinese technology companies, including Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hikvision and Dahua, as “unacceptable risks” to security. America. As for Huawei, analysts believe that President Biden can offer a more effective policy than his predecessor in curbing Huawei’s global 5G ambitions by taking a more friendly approach to international partners in Europe and elsewhere. That could be more effective in isolating the Chinese company. In addition to sanctions on individual Chinese tech companies, President Biden has also pledged to more than double his investment in science and technology, focusing on areas like AI. and quantum computing. President Biden’s ambitious $ 2 trillion plan to improve US infrastructure includes an estimated $ 50 billion investment to help the country less reliant on chips manufactured abroad.

The shortage of chips is the biggest challenge that this business is facing, Griffiths said. Volkswagen logo at a dealership of this company in Hamm, Germany. (Photo: AFP / VNA) Seat’s Martorell factory, located on the outskirts of Barcelona, ​​only makes models that receive chips from suppliers, Griffiths said. Volkswagen expects chip supplies to remain tight in the coming months. Last month, Volkswagen Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess said it was unable to produce 100,000 cars due to a shortage of chips and it would be difficult to make up for the shortage in 2021. According to Volkswagen, the shortage of chips is exacerbated by a snowstorm in Texas (USA), and major chip manufacturers based in the region have to stop production or reduce production. Therefore, this company cannot rule out the possibility of further adjustments to production activities.

Volkswagen logo at a dealership of this company in Hamm, Germany. Photo: AFP / VNA In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr. Wayne Griffiths, President of Seat brand in Spain, Volkswagen said he had received notification from suppliers as well as from Volkswagen Group about the significant challenges in the second quarter. could be even more difficult than the first quarter. Mr. Griffiths said that the shortage of chips is the biggest challenge that this business is facing. Seat’s Martorell factory, located on the outskirts of Barcelona, ​​only makes models that have received chips from suppliers, Griffiths said. Volkswagen expects chip supplies to remain tight in the coming months. Last month, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess said the company was unable to produce 100,000 vehicles due to chip shortages and it would be difficult to make up for the shortage in 2021. According to Volkswagen, the shortage of chips is exacerbated by a snowstorm in Texas (USA), and major chip manufacturers based in the region have to stop production or reduce production. Therefore, the firm cannot rule out the possibility of having to make further adjustments to production activities.

Semiconductor chips are an important component of modern electronics that can be found in thousands of products used every day, including cars, computers, smartphones and medical devices … These chips are the brains of all electronic devices, performing functions ranging from repetitive tasks like memory and microprocessors, to complex tasks like intelligence. artificial and high-end graphics. Semiconductor chips, which have a relatively low price, have suddenly become a scarce commodity. Jordan Wu, co-founder and CEO of Himax Technologies Co., told Bloomberg: “I’ve never seen anything like this in the past 20 years, since the company was founded. Every industry lacks chips ”. President Joe Biden with the chip model in a press conference at the White House, before signing an executive order to prevent a shortage of semiconductor supplies with the US economy, on 24/2. Photo: REUTERS The global chip crisis is believed to have been rooted in a miscalculation when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out last year. With the epidemic spreading from China to the globe, many companies predict that consumers will reduce the time spent using technology equipment. However, when “stuck” in the home, consumers begin to buy more technology devices: Add laptops so their children can learn from afar; buy a handheld game machine, an oil-free fryer, a blender … to make life less boring. There has been a comparison to call the Covid-19 epidemic “a prolonged Black Friday event”.
Meanwhile, car manufacturers were also affected by the pandemic. They were forced to shut down factories during a period of social isolation, when demand declined because customers were unable to visit stores. They ask suppliers to stop shipping components, including chips, which are increasingly essential to cars. By the end of last year, consumers started going out but restricted the use of public transport. Automakers reopened and turned to chipmakers like TSMC (Taiwan), Samsung (South Korea), and of course had to wait in line. Chip makers have been unable to accommodate soaring demand for their very loyal customers.
The shortages are aggravated this year, due to a series of disruptions. For example, the Japanese Renesas Electronics chip factory caught fire, the drought in the “country of the chip” Taiwan (China), and the cold spell in Texas (USA) caused the factories of Samsung, NXP Semiconductors and Infineon there to temporarily stopped working. “Everything right now is no different from hell,” said Frank McKay, CPO of Jabil – a company that buys billions of dollars of chips each year to assemble products for customers including Apple, Amazon, Cisco Systems and Tesla – to speak. Every day, Frank said, his company faced a shortage of about 100 components and had to negotiate as hard as possible to get it.
The difficulty of manufacturers
Limited supply of semiconductor chips is not a new issue, but what has happened is often related to specific chips. Consumers around the globe now compete fiercely for a cheaper chip made in old factories, when it is a fact that these factories are difficult to upgrade.
For example, the supply of integrated microchips for automotive systems is particularly in short supply as they are typically manufactured on 8-inch wide silicon (wafer) discs, instead of more high-end 12-inch panels. But no company builds more production lines because they are not profitable. Sumco Corp – one of the leading wafer manufacturers, has reported production capacity of an 8-inch equipment line to be around 5,000 panels a month by 2020 – less than in 2017. The purchase of new equipment and Starting with lower productivity means producers’ costs go up.
Meanwhile, the US, Japan and Germany – the world’s largest car makers – are making moves to put pressure on major chipmakers in Asia, forcing them to prioritize chip lines. In-car use up above the needs of other customers, which include smartphone and computer makers. The governments of these three countries fear that the car industry will slow down, or even cut production due to lack of chips, threatening domestic jobs and economic recovery after the pandemic. However, according to insiders, the political pressure to force chipmakers to prioritize demand from carmakers only exacerbates the realities of the supply chain.
“We have to renegotiate with a number of customers and at the same time have to respond to requests from the government to prioritize the production of chips used in the car manufacturing industry, which plays an important role. “This is in contrast to before, when chip manufacturing on a first come first served basis”, said Mark Liu – Chairman of TSMC.
Just a bubble?
The technology war between the US and China, which took place before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, is also believed to have had negative effects on the supply chain. As Washington imposed restrictions on China’s Huawei Group’s access to key US technologies, it increased stockpiling of components as much as possible. Many other Chinese companies, which fear they will fall into the same situation, do the same way Huawei has. The result has spiked demand for chips and components.
On April 12, Huawei directly blamed the United States for indirectly causing a global crisis, arguing that Washington’s sanctions on Chinese technology companies have caused love. “panic procurement” of components and chips, causing supply chain disruptions. “Apparently unreasonable US sanctions against Huawei and other Chinese companies have created a component shortage across the industry, and this could completely cause a crisis. global ”- said Eric Xu – Huawei’s rotating chairman.
However, companies are still uncertain about the current “thirst” for chips. For them, great demand comes from a series of hedge orders, stockpiling efforts or even the determination to take market share from competitors, thereby creating the “semiconductor chip bubble” on market. TSMC President Liu acknowledged that most customers want to order more than twice as much as they need to minimize the risk of supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical tensions.
“The current strong demand won’t last forever, because buyers won’t buy five phones or five cars at a time. I worry that there will be adjustments when one of the big players in the industry takes action, and orders will start to decline, ”a leader in the chip supply chain told Nikkei Asia. “I’ve never seen anything like this in the last 20 years since the company was founded. Every industry lacks chips.” – Co-Founder and CEO of Himax Technologies J ordan Wu

Leaks indicate that both the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 chip, and will be equipped with this display later this year. Basically, this is still a display technology with the same way LCD works but using much smaller LEDs so they are called mini-LED backlight and there will be many more LEDs in it. among them. The number of small LEDs that Apple claims is up to 10000. In the 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2021, this technology offers a full-screen brightness of 1,000 nits, a maximum brightness of 1,600 nits and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000. : first. Meanwhile, the MacBook Pro M1 has the best screen but also “only” reached 485 nits of full screen brightness and a contrast ratio of 1,470: 1. This number is leading the industry but not losing anything compared to the screen. iPad Pro image. Although it is not certain that the Liquid Retina XDR display when brought to the MacBook will be as effective as the iPad Pro because tablets and laptops serve the purpose of entertainment as well as different usage. But it does show a big difference the mini LED technology can make. If the rumors are true, the Liquid Retina XDR display could be just one of the cool new features coming to the MacBook Pro in late 2021. The 14-inch MacBook Pro is expected to be a complete upgrade over the original. The current 13 inch with thinner bezels, more ports, MagSafe ports, square design like the new iMac, … but leaving the Touch Bar. According to Digitaltrends

Recently, the company launched new iMac line with multiple color options and iPad Pro 2021. Both product lines are equipped with M1 chip. However, during the recent Spring Loaded event, SEA Mashable found “defective apples” imitating products of several other companies. AirTag works like Tile, a device that tracks things by Bluetooth. An AirTag is a Bluetooth sensor that can be attached to objects such as keys or controls. Users can find objects using the FindMy app or the sound coming from them. According to the SEA Mashable AirTag works in a similar way to the Tile, a Bluetooth tracking device made by the company of the same name. Tile has partnered with many other companies, including FitBit. The advantage of AirTag is that it connects well with Apple products. Like AirPods, they can automatically connect to a phone. AirTag also works on all devices with the FindMy app, so you can keep track of them at the same time. The iPad Pro introduced during the Spring Loaded event has a similar feature to Facebook’s video chat device, Portal. The device launched in 2018, enhanced by the camera, has the ability to zoom automatically and track people’s movements. Similar to Portal, the feature on the iPad Pro 2021 is called the Center Stage with its ultra-wide lens and motion sensor technology. The camera recognizes the user and keeps them in central view. When the user moves around during a video call, the camera automatically rotates to keep the user in view. According to Apple, this feature makes video, Zoom or video calls more quality. Before that, Amazon used to bring this feature to Echo Show 10 2020. The Center Stage feature on the iPad Pro 2021 is similar to Facebook’s Portal device. Photo: Apple. Patreon is a pioneering role model that allows fans or supporters to regularly sponsor creators, artists, or anyone they admire. In response, creators sometimes give their sponsors special access to content or other perks. Thanks to that, Patreon has been successful in the field of podcasts. It can be said that Patreon’s success inspired Apple to introduce “Apple Podcast Subscriptions”. Now, instead of using Patreon’s service, fans can directly “subscribe” to the Apple Podcasts app, where podcasters can publish content exclusively for their fans. During the April 20 event, CEO Tim Cook talked a lot about Ted Lasso when introducing Apple TV + because this clumsy but warm American football coach will return in Season 2 this summer. However, Ted Lasso was a promoter of NBC before. In 2013-2014, NBC released extensive commercial spinoffs starring Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso to promote the upcoming Premier League online.

Photo: Bloomberg Recently, Apple marketing director Greg Joswiak and chief hardware officer John Ternus did an interview with The Independent to talk about the new array computers. The M1 equipping iPad has sparked speculation that Apple will soon merge the iPad and Mac into one product. However, Mr. Greg Joswiak insists this is not a target for Apple. Photo: Apple Instead of merging two product lines, Mr. Greg Joswiak asserted that Apple is creating the best products in each segment. Meanwhile, Mr. John Ternus said that Apple has no goal of limiting the capabilities of one device just to avoid tampering with another. “We strive to make the Mac the best we can, we strive to make the best iPad possible,” he said. Photo: Apple The new iPad Pro has more performance than what a tablet needs. However, two Apple bosses refused to share about the features that iPadOS will support in the near future. Instead, Mr. Joswiak says that adding more performance will give developers more space to act. “Our developers take advantage of this opportunity very quickly,” he said. Photo: Apple Users will also enjoy buying a device that’s ahead of time, he said.

Illustration. Bkav Technology Group Chairman, in the information just shared on his personal page, said that before the “chip crisis” taking place around the world, Bkav had to collect and only collect a batch of 8,000 parts for AI View camera. Mr. Quang said that the world is having a dual-chip semiconductor crisis – Bkav Chairman acknowledges that he is an electronics manufacturer and an insider. According to Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang, the reason for saying that the double crisis is for two reasons at the same time leading to the scarcity. First, due to the trade war between the US and China, Huawei was punished. To survive, they (Huawei – PV) had to buy enough chips to use for two years, sources from Bkav’s partners said such data. Also because of the trade war, other Chinese companies such as Xiaomi and Oppo reserve the possibility of being punished as with Huawei, so they also try to collect chips. Other Chinese companies such as Xiaomi, Oppo have been able to be punished like with Huawei, so they also try to collect chips. The second reason, according to Mr. Quang, the Covid-19 epidemic caused a social stagnation. Therefore, at the beginning of service manufacturers forecast low yields. They failed to anticipate the worldwide trends in work, study, distance conferencing, and home electronic entertainment. This led to a sudden increase in demand for computers and game consoles. The supply chain of the technology industry is very specialized in specialized assignment, emphasized Bkav Chairman. Accordingly, in terms of chips, almost all major chip design companies such as Qualcomm, MTK, and more recently Intel have hired TSMC or Samsung to mint chips for them. These two companies account for 81% of the world chip casting market and cannot increase production capacity immediately. Mr. Quang also said that Bkav is an original manufacturer, working directly with chip suppliers such as Qualcomm, Intel, Samsung, SKHynix. The Bkav leader shared that, with the most recent quotation from chip manufacturers to Bkav, many components have Standard Lead time, also known as standard delivery time, up to an unreasonable level of 10 months. Therefore, in order to overcome this situation, technology product manufacturers such as Bkav have had to gather products, make efforts to find around the world for partners to change their business plans and thus they have redundant lots. Event link is not used anymore “This purchase and sale is very bustling and there is a phenomenon of buying and selling”, said Bkav Chairman Nguyen Tu Quang. Specifically, last week, according to Mr. Quang, Bkav’s international purchasing team collected a batch of 8,000 components for AI View cameras. Mr. Quang said that this will take place every day and for a long time, possibly until next year, with all manufacturers of technology products around the world.

Author: boat, Chen Ping The world’s largest chip has the second generation! WSE 2 will be listed in the third quarter of this year. WSE 2 uses a 7-nanometer process technology with 2.6 trillion transistors. A large number of chips have entered the market in recent years, aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. Based on different machine learning algorithms, these chips usually focus on several key areas, but most of them have a common limitation-chip size. Two years ago, Cerebras unveiled a revolution in the field of chip design: They developed a chip called Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) with 1.2 trillion transistors, 57 times the size of Nvidia’s GPU Titan V. The size of WSE is bigger than an iPad. Cerebras’ “violent aesthetics” once caused people to exclaim: “WSE has more transistors than neurons in the human brain!” Cerebras is also well-known in the industry. Today, the company announced that its next-generation chip, Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE 2), will be available in the third quarter of this year. Using a 7nm process technology, the number of transistors has doubled to 2.6 trillion and contains 850,000 AI cores. WSE-2: 46225 square millimeters, 2.6 trillion transistors. Image source: https://cerebras.net/ Cerebras has been committed to maximizing the role of logical solutions to machine learning problems. When Andrew Feldman founded the company in 2015, training neural networks took a lot of time, while large networks took several weeks. The biggest bottleneck is that data must be transferred multiple times between the processor and the external DRAM memory, which wastes time and consumes energy. The WSE R&D team pointed out: We can expand the chip so that it can accommodate all the data needed together with the AI ​​processor core. With the development of natural language processing, image recognition and other fields, neural networks have also become very large, and the AI ​​field needs a very large chip. How old is it? As large as possible, this means a whole wafer, 46225 square millimeters. CEO Feldman said: “When you want to make changes, you always encounter physical design challenges. Everything is related to geometry. It’s really difficult, but TSMC is our extraordinary partner.” 7 The development of nanotechnology means huge progress, but according to Feldman, the company has also improved the micro-architecture of its AI core. He declined to give details, but said that after working with customers for more than a year, Cerebras has learned some lessons and integrated them into the new core. WSE 2: 7nm process technology, 2.6 trillion transistors WSE 2 uses TSMC’s 7nm process technology. This allows it to be scaled down, and to a certain extent, the SRAM can be reduced. WSE 2 has 850,000 AI cores. The chip size of WSE 2 is the same as that of WSE, but almost all functions have been doubled, as shown in the following table: Like the first generation of WSE, WSE 2 has hundreds of thousands of AI cores on a silicon chip measuring 46,225 square millimeters. WSE 2 has 850,000 cores and 2.6 trillion transistors-by comparison, the second largest AI CPU on the market is about 826 square millimeters and has 0.054 trillion transistors. Compared to the 40MB memory of Ampere A100, Cerebras introduced 40GB of SRAM onboard memory, which is 1000 times the former. The picture shows WSE 1. WSE 2 has the same appearance but doubled the number of cores. Its core is connected by a 2D Mesh with FMAC data path. The goal of Cerebras and WSE is to provide a single platform designed through an innovative patent that allows larger processors for AI computing and has now been extended to a wider range of HPC workloads. WSE 2 is based on the first generation The first-generation WSE chip has 1.2 trillion transistors, which is 57 times the number of NVIDIA’s flagship GPU Titan V. It is built using TSMC’s 16-nanometer process technology. It covers an area of ​​46,225 square millimeters and contains 400,000 cores. On-chip storage is up to 18G and power consumption is 1.5. Ten thousand watts (approximately equal to the power of 6 induction cookers), memory bandwidth 9PB/sec, communication structure bandwidth 100PB/sec. In addition, the first generation of WSE also achieved a speed increase of 3000 times and a storage bandwidth expansion of 10000 times. The key to the WSE-2 design is a custom graphics compiler, which uses PyTorch or TensorFlow, and maps each layer to the physical part of the chip, and allows data flow to be calculated asynchronously. Having such a large processor means no waste energy. Compilers and processors are also designed with sparsity in mind, allowing high utilization regardless of the batch size, or allowing parameter search algorithms to run at the same time. How does WSE 2 compare to the first generation? Compared with the two, the size of the chip itself has not changed. 300 mm is still the largest wafer size in mass production. Therefore, the overall size of the WSE 2 chip has not changed, but the AI ​​core has doubled. WSE 2 is still divided into a 7×12 rectangular array. Comparison of WSE 2 (left) and WSE 1 (right). In addition, the computer system CS-2 that hosts WSE 2 has not changed much. CS-2 is designed to achieve fast, flexible training and low-latency data center inference. Currently, CS-2 is powered by WSE-2. Compared with other data center AI solutions, CS-2 has higher computing density, faster memory and higher bandwidth interconnection, and uses a leading ML framework Perform programming. Cerebras, a fast-growing startup Cerebras Systems was established in California in 2015. Co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman previously founded server chip company SeaMicro. Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras After several years of rapid development, the company’s size has basically doubled, with about 300 engineers in Silicon Valley, San Diego, Toronto and Tokyo. Reference link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-scale-engine-two-wse2-26-trillion-transistors-100-yield https://www.chinaventure.com.cn/news/114-20190820-347306.html https://cerebras.net/product/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/processors/cerebras-giant-ai-chip-now-has-a-trillions-more-transistors Amazon Cloud Technology Online Hackathon 2021 This is a like-minded training, this is a team competition where masters gather. Show your mind and play with creativity. From March 26th to May 31st, the stage of actual combat will open for you. The “Amazon Cloud Technology Online Hackathon 2021” is waiting for you! In order to encourage the participation and innovation of developers, this competition has prepared generous prizes for participants. In addition to the first, second, and third prizes, there are also special prActIcal awards, creAtIve awards, Koi Geek Awards, and Sunshine Awards. , The team that successfully submits works can receive prizes.

iMac G3 was one of the first Apple devices after Steve Jobs returned to the CEO position. This was an all-in-one product with a transparent shell, and a design that was different from most computers at the time. When released in 1998, the iMac G3 was only available in blue. Subsequent updates bring the iMac G3’s color total to 13, not counting the textured case options. Image: 512 Pixels . The iMac G3’s multicolored design language is also brought to the line by Apple iBook G3 Clamshell released in 1999. There are a total of 5 colors released for the device: light blue, dark blue, orange, green and gray. Image: MacRumors . iMac 2021 was launched at the Spring Loaded event on April 20 with 7 colors: green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue and silver. This is the first iMac with a new design after 10 years, besides highlights such as M1 processor, upgraded microphone and webcam, Magic Keyboard keyboard supports Touch ID. The price of the iMac 2021 starts from $ 1,299. Image: Apple . iPhone 12 is also Apple’s multi-color product line. With the purple version introduced last night, the iPhone 12 series is now available in six colors: black, white, blue, green, red, and purple. It has a 5.4-inch OLED (iPhone 12 mini) and 6.1-inch (iPhone 12), A14 Bionic processor, two rear cameras and MagSafe wireless charging. Image: Apple . iPad Air 2020 was released late last year in five colors: black, silver, pink, green and blue. The product has a 10.9 inch Liquid Retina screen, thin bezels similar to the iPad Pro. The configuration includes A14 Bionic processor, USB-C port, 12 MP rear camera and fingerprint sensor in the power button. Image: Apple . Also released late last year, Apple Watch Series 6 includes a variety of material options with different colors. The aluminum version has 5 colors: gray, silver, gold, blue and red. Stainless steel has 2 colors: graphite and gold. The titanium version consists of natural titanium color and titanium painted black. There is no difference between the hardware products with the S6 processor, the OLED screen and the function of measuring oxygen concentration in the blood. Image: Apple . In 2019, Apple launched the line iPhone 11 Standard with 6 colors: black, green, yellow, white, red and purple. It is equipped with 6.1 inch Liquid Retina screen, A13 Bionic processor and 2 rear cameras. Although it has been released for almost 2 years, iPhone 11 is still regularly on the list of the world’s best-selling smartphones. Image: Apple . iPhone XR The iPhone 11’s predecessor, which is also available in colorful colors. Launched in 2018, Apple brought six colors to the iPhone XR: white, black, blue, yellow, orange, and red. With a reasonable price, thin screen bezels and strong configuration, iPhone XR is also Apple’s best selling smartphone for many months. Image: Apple . 12-inch MacBook is a rare model of Apple laptop with many colors. The 3rd generation of the product, launched in 2017, includes 4 colors: gray, silver, gold and pink. Despite its thin and light size, the 12-inch MacBook line is not appreciated because of the limited port, the keyboard for a poor experience and the weak configuration. Image: DetroitBORG . iPhone 7 and 7 Plus was launched in 2016 with 5 colors: pink, gold, silver, matte black and glossy black. In March 2017, Apple added red to the product. This is the first iPhone to remove the 3.5mm port, while the Plus version adds a back-facing telephoto camera for portrait photography. Over the years, the gray color of the iPhone and iPad has also changed. Image: Apple . Launched in 2015, iPhone 5c is considered the first multi-color iPhone of Apple. As an iPhone 5 version with a plastic back, iPhone 5c includes 5 colors: white, blue, green, pink and yellow. Due to outdated configuration but expensive price, the product is not paid as much attention as iPhone 5s. Image: New York Times . The iPod music player is also a product line with many distinctive colors. With lines iPod touch , 6th and 7th generation (released in 2015 and 2019) with 5 colors: red, gray, gold, silver, pink and blue. Generation 5 (launched in 2012) includes 5 colors: blue, lemon yellow, pink, silver and gray. Image: 9to5mac . iPod nano Generation 7 (launched in 2012) also has 7 colors: black, gray, gold, silver, pink, blue and red. Meanwhile, the 6th generation (launched in 2010) with a smartwatch-like square design has 7 colors: red, pink, yellow, green, blue, gray and silver. Image: Apple . The 5th generation of the iPod nano line (launched in 2009) comes in 9 colors: silver, black, purple, blue, yellow, orange, red, green and pink. 4th Generation (released in 2008) also has 6 colors: silver, black, green, blue, red and pink. Photo: Wikipedia. Apple launches new purple iPhone and improved iPad Pro M1 During the Spring Loaded event taking place at 0:00 on April 21 (Vietnam time), Apple introduced a series of products including iPhone 12 purple version, new design iMac, AirTag card, iPad Pro M1.

To fill this gap, in July 2020, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council voted to establish a first-level discipline of “Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering”. As one of the most important training bases for integrated circuit talents in my country, Tsinghua University voted to establish a doctoral and master degree authorization point for first-level disciplines in integrated circuit science and engineering in October 2020. In April 2021, on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Tsinghua University, after discussion and approval by the 158th Standing Committee of the 14th Party Committee of Tsinghua University, it was decided to establish Tsinghua University School of Integrated Circuits.

Since the establishment of the semiconductor major in 1956, Tsinghua University has always played a main role in the training of integrated circuit talents in my country. According to statistics, the school has so far cultivated more than 4,000 undergraduates, 3,000 masters, and 500 doctoral students in the field of integrated circuits. In the past five years, more than 70% of the graduates have entered the integrated circuit industry and scientific research.

According to media statistics, there are as many as 27 well-known chip companies founded by alumni who graduated from Tsinghua University. Among the top ten companies in China’s semiconductor integrated circuit market by market value in 2020, companies founded by Tsinghua alumni or serving as CEOs occupy 6 seats, and take the top 3. These companies have raised more than 100 billion yuan from national funds and A shares, creating a Tsinghua chip circle with a market value of more than 600 billion yuan.

Ten years of trees and a hundred years of cultivation of people, the cultivation of talents has never been achieved overnight, especially for integrated talents such as integrated circuits that require the cultivation of scientific systems. Integrated circuit disciplines are based on physics, chemistry, materials science and other disciplines, involving in-depth integration of electronic information, instrument science and technology, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering and other related engineering disciplines. It has a deep theoretical background and distinctive engineering characteristics. It requires not only solid and systematic basic knowledge and theoretical training of interdisciplinary knowledge, but also engineering training that integrates production and education, practical training and practice, and more importantly requires the shaping of excellent humanistic literacy and comprehensive and balanced ability.

With the establishment of the School of Integrated Circuits of Tsinghua University, it is foreseeable that this world-class university will further integrate relevant superior disciplines, focus on the core technology of integrated circuits, and accelerate the cultivation of high-level talents in the field of integrated circuits. In order to fill the gap in my country’s chip talents, Help China’s “chips” make greater contributions to breakthroughs. (Proofreading/Aihe)

‘Mission impossible’ by Tim Cook The video introduces the M1 Pro 2021’s M1 processor, impressing with the Mission Impossible movie-like action scene. The thief revealed at the end of the video is CEO Tim Cook. In the video of the iPad Pro 2021 launch, CEO Tim Cook (or stuntman) wears long hair running from the roof of the Apple Park building, cuts the glass door to break in, opens the ventilation door, and then swings down to the secret cellar MacBook filled with honey. After going into the basement, the character in the video deftly crossed the laser fence, picked up the M1 chip from the MacBook and then attached it to the iPad Pro. At the end of the video, the character takes off his wig, reveals his identity as CEO Tim Cook, and then smiles at the new iPad. According to the The Verge , the video posted by Apple titled “Mission Implausible” to introduce M1 chip on the new iPad Pro. The action scene in the video makes many people think of Tom Cruise in the famous movie Mission Impossible . The iPad Pro 2021 introductory video received much attention. According to the Mashable The image of CEO Tim Cook smiling quickly became the subject of meme photos on the Internet. CEO Tim Cook’s smile at the end of the video became the subject of a series of photoshoots. Photo: The Verge. “Tim is looking at my wallet,” says YouTuber tech DeVante Chisolm happily commenting on Twitter. Reporter Alex Heath’s The Information “This is the look on Tim’s face when Apple forces all apps to comply with App Tracking Transperancy on iOS”. iPad Pro 2021 is the product to be expected in last night’s event. This is the first iPad equipped with M1, processor chip developed by Apple on ARM architecture. The 12.9-inch version uses a Mini LED display, called the Liquid Retina XDR, with more than 10,000 small LEDs placed below the screen, helping to create independent bright areas similar to the OLED display. For the first time an iPad has an option of 2 TB storage, allowing more photos, videos and apps to be saved than ever before. This is also the first Apple iPad to support 5G network. In Vietnam, the 12.9-inch 128 GB iPad Pro M1 regular version, the 5G version, is priced at 30 and 34 million dong, respectively. The most advanced version of the iPad Pro M1 with 2 TB of internal memory costs 64 million VND. This is the highest price for an iPad ever. In addition to iPad Pro 2021, Spring Loaded event taking place at 0:00, 21/4 (Vietnam time) also has the appearance of iMac M1, Apple TV 4K upgraded, AirTag accessories, purple iPhone 12 and translation Podcast subscription service. Apple launches new purple iPhone and improved iPad Pro M1 During the Spring Loaded event taking place at 0:00 on April 21 (Vietnam time), Apple introduced a series of products including iPhone 12 purple version, new design iMac, AirTag card, iPad Pro M1.

At this event, Apple unveiled the iPad Pro 2o21 duo with a design that is not different from the potential versions, but the hardware inside the device has an extremely strong upgrade when equipped. Apple M1 chip. iPad Pro 2021 will be available in 11-inch and 12.9-inch versions. The machine still retains the square design, aluminum material. To protect the environment, the aluminum material of the machine is made from 100% recycled material. The 11-inch version uses a 120 Hz ProMotion LCD panel that has been in use since late 2018. In the 12.9-inch version, the new display is called Liquid Retina XDR. This is an upgraded display technology from LCD, using more than 10,000 micro LEDs placed below the screen, creating independent areas of light similar to OLED screens, increasing contrast and brightness. For the first time, the iPad Pro comes with 2TB of storage and up to 16GB of RAM; 5G connection support for super fast data transfer speeds. The second most notable upgrade on the iPad Pro 2021 is the Apple M1 chip. This is the latest chip from Apple used in the iMac and MacBook Pro models. Compared to the iPad Pro 2020, the new iPad Pro offers 50% higher performance. 5G versions of the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro support networks below 6 GHz as standard. In the US, users can also access faster 5G mmWave networks. The USB-C port on iPad Pro 2021 is upgraded to the Thunderbolt standard for faster and more convenient data synchronization. This change allows the new iPad to be able to connect to external displays up to 6K resolution. The new iPad Pro will start at $ 799 for the 11-inch version, and $ 1099 for the 12.9-inch version. The top-end 11-inch iPad Pro version with 16GB RAM and 2TB storage will cost up to $ 2,099, while the top-end 12.9-inch iPad Pro model costs up to $ 2,399 – more expensive than the MacBook Pro M1 the most advanced version and of course the MacBook Air M1. However, neither of these prices include an Apple Pencil or Magic Keyboard accessory. If you want users to spend more money to buy more products. Apple for pre-order iPad Pro 2021 from 30/4, expected to ship in May. Users can choose from two colors: gray or silver. HA iPad 2022 equipped with an OLED screen?

At this event, Apple unveiled the new iPad Pro duo with a constant design, but the hardware inside the device has an extremely strong upgrade when equipped with an Apple M1 chip. (Photo: Apple) With the 12.9-inch iPad Pro version, the product has been upgraded to a new mini-LED screen, which Apple calls the Liquid Retina XDR display technology. For the first time, the iPad Pro comes with 2TB of storage and up to 16GB of RAM; 5G connection support for super fast data transfer speeds. (Photo: Apple) Until now, Apple’s iOS and iPadOS operating systems did not take up too much RAM. So, with such a large amount of RAM, this shows that Apple is really serious about making the iPad Pro a powerful device and more features than a regular tablet. (Photo: Apple) Users can use iPad Pro to work efficiently such as editing photos, editing videos, rendering videos or even rendering heavy 3D graphics smoothly. The new iPad Pro will start at $ 799 for the 11-inch version, and $ 1099 for the 12.9-inch version. (Photo: Apple) The top-end 11-inch iPad Pro version with 16GB RAM and 2TB storage will cost up to $ 2,099, while the top-end 12.9-inch iPad Pro model costs up to $ 2,399 – more expensive than the MacBook Pro M1 the most advanced version and of course the MacBook Air M1. Notably, neither of these prices include the Apple Pencil or Magic Keyboard accessory. If you want users to spend more money to buy more products. (Photo: Apple) Users can order iPad Pro from April 30 and the device will officially be on shelves in the second half of May.

At the Spring Loaded event, Apple unexpectedly announced a new Purple color for two devices, the iPhone 12 mini and the standard iPhone 12. Customers will be able to order from April 23, and Apple will begin shipping on April 30. So, after 5 colors: Black, White, (Product) Red, Green and Blue, Apple has announced a new Purple color for the two iPhone 12 mini as well as iPhone 12 models. Unfortunately, Apple does not announce the Purple color for the other two models, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. The Purple version brings a fresh look to the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini. You should wait for this color version to appear directly in Vietnam to be able to make the final choices, do not forget that Apple products outside see above website it also takes practice on hand to have the most accurate experience. IPad Pro 2021 series with powerful Apple M1 chip, 5G network support At the end of the event, Apple introduced the 2021 iPad Pro line (11 and 12.9 inches) with Apple M1 chip, Thunderbolt standard support, 5G connectivity with mmWave band in the US. In terms of design, the new iPad Pro is almost identical to the 2020 generation, albeit the new devices are a bit thicker. The new iPad Pro features a Liquid Retina XDR display, delivering darker contrast, higher brightness levels up to 1,600 nits. It’s a new mini-LED panel with 10,000 lights, an extremely high contrast ratio of 1,000,000: 1. All the highlights of the new iPad Pro 2021 line at the event. The iPad Pro line has been around and has been upgraded for many years, but perhaps never has the iPad Pro been as attractive as this year. For the first time, the iPad Pro no longer uses the A-Series processor CPU but completely switches to the Apple M1, which previously only appeared on laptops (Macbook), this change brings extreme processing capabilities. powerful and parallel is a series of impressive upgrades. No need to worry about losing your belongings with AirTag AirTag is an object tracking tool and can be attached to many things, such as bags, wallets, keys … The device will assist users in tracking in the Find My app on iPhone. AirTag connects to iPhone via Bluetooth and uses UWB (ultra-wide bandwidth) chip to locate attached objects. AirTag itself does not have any adhesive to attach to objects, instead, AirTag needs to be used in combination with straps, hooks to attach to objects. To own an Apple AirTag, at the international market price we need to spend about 29 USD (equivalent to 670,000 VND), Apple for customers to order from today (April 21), catch First delivery from April 27, when buying at the Apple Store we will be engraved with free icons. There is currently no selling price and time to sell in Vietnam, but an interesting product like AirTag will probably soon appear in the Vietnamese market. Apple TV 4K (2021) appears with Apple A12 chip, which plays 4K 60FPS video During the event, Apple also announced a new generation Apple TV model, replacing the Apple TV 4K launched in 2017. The new version retains the name but brings more upgrades, especially in terms of performance. with A12 Bionic chip. This allows the product to play 4K HDR content as well as Dolby Vision video up to 60 FPS via AirPlay from the iPhone. 120 Hz refresh rate is also one of the important highlights of the device. In particular, the Apple TV 4K (2021) remote control is also redesigned, thicker than the previous version. It also features a new five-way touch controller that replaces the old generation’s swipe keyboard and a power button to turn off your TV. The Siri search button has been moved to the side of the control, below the user’s right thumb for quick action. As for Apple TV, the device retains the same design but is upgraded in terms of hardware and software inside. Apple TV 4K (2021) will optimize the colors on your TV screen using the light sensor on your iPhone. The new Apple TV 4K will start at $ 179 for the 32GB memory version, which will be available on April 30. The 64GB version will cost $ 199 higher. IMac computer with many colors and runs on the Apple M1 chip Apple at the Spring Loaded event announced the iMac 2021 computer with a completely new look. The device comes in a total of seven colors: Green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver. The front of the iMac has a 24-inch Retina display with 4.5K resolution with relatively thin bezels. In particular, the 2021 iMac is equipped with an Apple M1 chip. Apple says the CPU on the new iMac is 85% faster than the previous 21.5-inch iMac, GPU performance is also 2x faster than the first model. Ceiling paint According to S-forum

This year’s iPad Pro line has integrated the M1 chip instead of the A series chip models as before. The M1 chip has been integrated in the Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptop models, providing more powerful performance than Intel chips. The M1 chip was included in the iPad Pro to replace the already very powerful A12Z chip. In addition to the new chip, the iPad Pro 2021 also has built-in Thunderbolt on the existing USB port, as well as eSIM and 5G technology for users to transfer data faster. The 12.9-inch iPad Pro version is equipped with a mini-LED display with a contrast of 1,000,000: 1 and a maximum brightness of 1600 nits, which is better than the brightness of 600 nits on the 11-inch. Both 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models come with up to 2TB of storage options. The 1TB and 2TB iPad Pro models will be equipped with 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB of RAM in the lower-end versions. The front camera of the device is upgraded with an ultra-wide 122-degree angle with the Center Stage feature that automatically aligns the frame according to the user’s movement. The starting price for the 11-inch iPad Pro version is $ 799 and the 12.9-inch version will be $ 1099. AirTag This is a device that helps users locate lost items in the Apple product ecosystem. This device has been rumored and expected for a long time and now it is officially released. AirTag is integrated with a speaker, accelerometer and a CR2032 battery that can be used continuously for 1 year. It will broadcast the Bluetooth signal to nearby Apple devices. The location of the devices it detects will be sent to iCloud and the owner of the device can find the lost item through the Find My app. For iPhone 11 or 12 series users, due to the built-in U1 chip, they can use the Precision Finding feature to locate the AirTag while nearby. Apple pledges that all devices that send their location to AirTag are secure and anonymous. The selling price of AirTag is 25 USD. If you buy a combo of 4, the price is 99 USD. New iMac It couldn’t be helped, after putting the M1 chip into laptops and iPads, now the Apple desktops are also equipped with this powerful chip. The new iMac has a thinner, sleeker, and more stylish design. The screen size has been increased from 21.5 inches to 24 inches with 4.5K resolution. The resolution of the front camera is also increased to Full HD 1080p. Included with the machine is the new Magic Keyboard keyboard. This keyboard is integrated Touch ID sensor to help unlock the device faster and switch users on the device easily. In particular, both the iMac and the accompanying accessories include Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard with 7 colors for users to choose from, including gold, silver, orange, purple, pink, green, and blue. The new iMac will be available in the second half of May and will be priced at $ 1299 for the 8GB storage and 256GB version. The yellow, orange, and purple iMac models with higher configurations will only cost $ 1499 or more.