Global Monopoly of Technology

Seeing Luo Sheng's question, Meng Qiu immediately said: "At the beginning of this year, we had a head-to-head collision with Intel in the field of artificial intelligence. We both fell in love with a North American artificial intelligence technology start-up called Nervana-Systems. I thought it was too expensive to buy the company for $100 million, so I didn’t follow it and just withdrew it.”

In fact, this company was first contacted by Shengfeng Capital. The incident happened in mid-December last year, and Meng Qiu personally went to discuss with the founder, intending to plan an investment of 80 million US dollars in the company.

It had already been negotiated, the contract was initialed, and the official contract would be signed three days later.

As a result, Intel jumped out at this time and directly launched a wholly-owned acquisition invitation to Nervana-Systems, and offered a high price of 350 million US dollars.

Meng Qiu directly stated that he would not play, because Shengfeng Capital has already invested in several start-ups related to Nervana-Systems, and the development momentum is not bad, so it is not necessary.

Shengfeng Capital is indeed very rich, very rich, but this money is not brought by the wind.

Mengqiu can't accept the offer of more than 350 million US dollars, then he's okay, just pat his butt and leave, you Intel can play with him, I won't play with you anymore.

Meng Qiu continued: "Recently, I compiled an information report on Intel's development and layout. I found that since the beginning of 2012, Intel has also responded to the rapid development speed of the global technology industry, whether in artificial intelligence or Internet of Things devices. They have obviously accelerated the pace of acquisitions. For the companies that they value, it can be said to be acquisitions that do not agree with one another. Since 2012, Intel has only invested in 3 companies, but it has acquired 22 companies, many of which are technology companies. Businesses deserve attention.”

Luo Sheng raised Erlang's legs and asked in a succinct manner, "What are there?"

Meng Qiu replied: "The first is Nervana-Systems, which was established in San Diego, California last year. It is a technology company involved in machine learning, neuroscience, processor architecture and chip design. Especially in machine deep learning The results are remarkable, and the company has now released an open source deep learning framework called Neon, which our research analysis believes is Intel's hope to use the company's technology to improve the performance of its own processors in artificial intelligence."

Luo Sheng nodded slowly, lowered his head and said solemnly, "No wonder they spend 350 million US dollars on mergers and acquisitions."

Meng Qiu continued: "According to a benchmark test conducted by a researcher within my Shengfeng Capital, the company's deep learning technology has higher performance than other well-known deep learning tools in the industry..."

Seeing Luo Sheng suddenly looked up,

Meng Qiu added with a smile: "Mr. Luo, I haven't finished yet, except for the Cote d'Azur."

Luo Sheng laughed and said, "I'll just say, you startled me, and I'll settle the account with you later."

I was really shocked just now. In the field of machine deep learning and artificial intelligence, this is Luo Sheng's absolute housekeeping skills, and it is his most confident field.

The existence of Xiaona is doomed that this world will not be able to give birth to a second artificial intelligence in the true sense, because whenever there is a sign, Xiaona, who monitors the whole network, will kill it. This is authorized by Luo Sheng.

Of course, the current Xiaona has not yet reached the level of strong artificial intelligence in the true sense, and the AI ​​technology displayed through the Cote d'Azur is also a level lower than Xiaona, but even so, it is an existence that the industry can look up to.

Suddenly there is a competitor who can keep pace with each other, no wonder Luo Sheng has such a reaction.

After the episode, Meng Qiu continued: "Oh yes, in the field of machine deep learning, Google also revealed at last year's I/O conference that they were developing a chip TPU with deep learning functions, and IBM was in the In February of this year, it also announced a chip developed based on the concept of the human brain nervous system, this field is very lively."

Although Lens Semiconductor's FinFET technology has stabilized Moore's Law and continued to stand firm, the current technology giants all know that Moore's Law will fail sooner or later, so they are actively planning for the future.

At the same time, take a step back and say that because FinFET is in Luo Sheng's hands, this is a headache for these technology giants. They dare not tear their faces too much, so they hope to bypass the patent barriers built by Luo Sheng in new directions .

Deep learning technology is a major technology trend in the future. It can be seen that it will be applied to the chips of any product in the future. Regarding the research and development and competition of deep learning technology, the major technology giants will definitely continue for a long time.

Meng Qiu said, following the organized content in his mind: "-Technologies, founded in Tel Aviv in 2011, was reportedly acquired by Intel for $185 million earlier this month. The company's 3D reconstruction technology allows users to experience a 360-degree view. All kinds of video entertainment content. At present, a technology of the company called FreeD has been applied to the North American Super Bowl. Users can play 360-degree real-time playback of any video, which is refreshing to watch. The company is also actively exploring The development potential of this technology in the field of virtual reality VR and augmented reality AR."

It is worth mentioning that Luo Sheng has not yet made efforts in the field of virtual reality VR and augmented reality AR, and many entrepreneurs in this field have come to tell this story, but they have not moved Luo Sheng.

Because, at present, these so-called immersive experiences are all with the word "pseudo", and gimmicks are better than reality.

Brain-computer interface equipment is a product that can truly bring an immersive experience of virtual reality, a proper black technology product.

There are teams working on the research in the Cote d'Azur Lab for a long time. So far, more than 3 billion US dollars of research and development funds have been invested in related projects, and the results are limited, but Luo Sheng has not reduced the investment in funds.

Once this thing comes out and can be commercialized, it can change the world, and its influence is greater than that brought by the advent of e.

Meng Qiu continued: “Asen-Technologies, founded in Bayern, Germany in 2007, was acquired by Intel at the beginning of this year. With the acquisition of this company, Intel can quickly enter the current fast-growing drone market, but we have already laid out this one two or three years ago. At the beginning, President Qin personally made the decision and invested heavily in domestic investment. DJI, and reports in recent years have shown great potential for the competitiveness of DJI drones.”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help laughing: "Pengcheng DJI, I remember you saying that. This is also something I am very optimistic about. In time, it is very hopeful that it will become a leading company in the drone market."

Meng Qiu nodded and added: "Intel also applies its own RealSense technology to Asen's drone products to improve the drone's ability to recognize the surrounding environment and create more powerful drone products."

Luo Sheng said succinctly: "Just let DJI go and fight the bayonet with this company."

"Reon-Instruments, a technology company founded in Canada in 2008, is a company dedicated to the research and development of various outdoor sports wearable devices. Intel has expanded their reach into the wearable device field through the acquisition of the company and continues to expand In fact, the scope of application of sensor technology.”

"It was founded in Pisa, Italy in 2009. Pisa seems to be a city that has nothing to do with technology... It was acquired by Intel at the beginning of this year. The company has quite dazzling achievements in the research and development of robot chips and driverless car chips. Obviously, Intel is the Want to integrate Yogiteh's technology into chips developed for driverless cars."

"Iteez, a technology company founded in Russia in 2005 focusing on the research and development of computer vision technology, was acquired by Intel this year, and the technology developed by the company is mainly for car drivers and driver assistance system software. Said that the company's technology will be used in Intel's security systems for the Internet of Things in the future, and the acquisition of the company also strengthens Intel's technical capabilities in computer perception and image recognition."

"Basically, I think the above-mentioned companies are worthy of attention."

After the brief report, Meng Qiu also felt dry, so he went to get two glasses of water, handed a glass to Luo Sheng, and drank half of the glass directly from the glass of water in his hand.

"You're right, it seems that the tragic loss of the mobile chip market really made him anxious, so he started the momentum of buying, buying and buying." Luo Sheng stared at the water glass in his hand, but after a while he discussed and added. road:

"Judging from the companies you mentioned that were acquired by Intel, in addition to enhancing the computer deep learning performance of artificial intelligence in their existing chips, they are also actively investing in wearable devices, drones and unmanned aerial vehicles. When the field of human-driven vehicles expands, we will have a multi-dimensional and simultaneous competition situation in the future, a matter of time.”

Obviously, the world's major technology giants are actively deploying. After 2013, the technology competition between giants will only become more fierce than before. The rapid development of technology makes the major technology giants dare not relax their vigilance and miss it a little. The vents may be silent.

As everyone knows, now looking back at international giants such as Nokia, Motorola, and Blackberry, we can only hopelessly look at the Riviera, Apple, and Samsung, which dominate the current smartphone market, and these old-fashioned international giants face market share. Constantly lost and sluggish, no matter how hard you struggle, there is nothing you can do.

The old giants such as Nokia, now only rely on communication technology and patents to maintain the decency of the giants. Putting this fig leaf aside is already a complete loser.

Even in the field of communication technology, these old giants are still restless, because Hua Wei has also risen to become a generation of communication giants. If they want to compete with them in this field as an emerging challenger, the core hinterland must face the army. situation.

Today this era no longer belongs to them.

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