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Domestic news
Central Bank: WeChat Alipay and digital RMB do not have a competitive relationship
On October 25, at the 2nd Bund Finance Summit, Mu Changchun, director of the Central Bank’s Digital Currency Research Institute, gave a sub-forum with the theme “Digital Currency, Fintech and Inclusive Finance” on “Shenzhen second-hand housing traders are forced to charge The news of "digital renminbi" refuted rumors. Mu Changchun also said: "WeChat and Alipay and digital renminbi are not in the same dimension. WeChat and Alipay are financial infrastructures and wallets, while digital renminbi is a payment tool and the content of the wallet. In the electronic payment scenario, WeChat and Alipay This wallet contains commercial bank deposit currency. After the digital renminbi is issued, everyone can still use WeChat Alipay to pay, but the content of the wallet adds the central bank currency; at the same time, Tencent and Ant’s respective commercial banks are also operating Institutions, so there is no competition with the digital RMB."
Supply chain professionals: Huawei Mate 40 Pro may be priced from 6,499 yuan, which is still far cheaper than the overseas version
Huawei held a global online new product launch conference on the 22nd of this month and officially launched the new generation of flagship mobile phones Mate 40 series. Huawei has announced that it will release the Mate 40 National Bank version in Shanghai next Friday (October 30). Supply chain sources said that Mate 40 Pro will exceed 6000 yuan, the final price is 6299 or 6499 yuan, while the price of Mate40 Pro + is expected to be around 8000 yuan, the starting price of the Porsche version is 12999 yuan, of course, this does not rule out Huawei It is possible to further increase the price, after all, the number of Kirin 9000 is scarce. The overseas price of the new machine has been announced before. Mate40 is priced at 899 euros (8GB+256GB), which is about RMB 7109; Mate40 Pro is priced at 1,199 euros (8GB+128GB), which is about RMB 9481; Mate40 Pro + is priced at 1,399 Euro (8GB+256GB) is about RMB 11062. After comparison, it can be found that Huawei will continue the pricing strategy of the Bank of China that is far cheaper than the overseas version.
TSMC is rumored to help Huawei stock a large number of 5G base station chips, enough for 2021
According to reports, before the US ban took effect, Huawei had already purchased from a number of chip suppliers. At the request of Huawei, TSMC began to expand the production of 7-nanometer process "Tiangang" communication chips at the end of last year, mostly for 5G base station parts. Tiangang chips have made breakthroughs in integration, computing power, and spectrum bandwidth. They are more practical than previous chips and can improve computing power to a greater extent. Before the US ban took effect, more than 2 million chips had been shipped. This batch of chips can supply the three major operators in the 5G network laying market involving a total value of 170 billion US dollars. According to people familiar with the matter, thanks to TSMC’s rush to work, Huawei has successfully prepared more than one year of 5G base station chip inventory, which can be used at least until 2021.
Pinduoduo shows that the pre-sale of Apple iPhone 12 will be opened at 23 o'clock on Sunday, limited to 2 pieces
On October 24, according to netizens, Pinduoduo advertised in WeChat Moments that it will start the iPhone 12 pre-sale spike at 23:00 on Sunday night, but only 2 units will be released per spike, each time or every Sunday. There will be a spike event, and it is not clear whether it is a tens of billions of subsidized products.
Source: The quotation submitted by the major investor of Ant Group's Shanghai IPO is 68 to 69 yuan
According to people familiar with the matter, some large Chinese fund management companies have submitted quotations of RMB 68-69 per share to bid for the listing of the financial technology giant Ant Group in Shanghai. Ant Group's fundraising scale may reach 35 billion US dollars. According to sources, many of them have bid for domestic listed Ant stocks on the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Board at a price of close to 69 yuan. With the support of e-commerce giant Alibaba, Ant Financial is expected to be listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai, raising US$35 billion. Calculated at a price of 69 yuan per share, this part of Ant Financial's financing in Shanghai can reach up to 115.3 billion yuan, with a valuation of up to 2.1 trillion yuan, and then exercise 15% of the "green shoes" or over-allotment rights .
International news
Following Google, Facebook may face antitrust lawsuits in November
On October 24, according to the Washington Post, four people familiar with the matter said that Facebook may face antitrust lawsuits from the US Department of Justice and some states in November. According to reports, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) met on Thursday local time to discuss related investigations. The report pointed out that the New York State Attorney's Office has been deliberating on Facebook's possible threat of competition for a long time and is now in the final stage of preparing for prosecution, but the timetable for prosecution may still change. Prior to this, another technology giant, Google, was jointly sued by the US Department of Justice and 11 states on Tuesday.
Samsung President Lee Kin-hee passed away, heirs may face $7.6 billion estate tax
On October 25, according to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s Samsung Chairman Lee Jianxi passed away at the age of 78. In the Forbes 2020 list of the richest in South Korea released on July 9, Samsung's chairman Lee Kin-hee ranked first with a fortune of $17.3 billion; his son, Samsung's vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, had a fortune of $6.7 billion, ranking fourth. According to a report issued by Ernst & Young, South Korea’s inheritance tax ranks among the top in the world. The highest tax rate is higher than 45% in France and 40% in the United Kingdom and the United States, which is the same as Germany and Switzerland. The minimum tax rate is 18%, and the maximum tax rate of more than US$25 million is 50%. Based on this calculation, after Li Jianxi's death, his heirs may face an estate tax of $7.6 billion. Previously, foreign media speculated that paying huge inheritance taxes might complicate the Lee family's control of Samsung Group.
Amazon deletes Apple credit card number in account due to "technical error"
On Friday, local time in the United States, many Amazon users discovered that the Apple Card number stored in their Amazon account has been deleted and cannot be added again. Amazon said that the company did not deliberately remove the Apple Card payment option and blamed the issue on the vulnerability. An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement: "We are aware of this technical problem and are actively working to resolve it as soon as possible." But they did not give a timetable for repair.
Apple responds to iPhone12 using 5G fast power consumption: cooperate with operators to optimize battery
Recently, some media reported that testing the Apple iPhone12 with 5G mode enabled increased power consumption. In response, Kaiann Drance, vice president of Apple iPhone marketing, responded that Apple is improving battery life through software systems and cooperation with operators. The test results of browsing the web on a variety of mobile phones that support 5G networks show that the battery life of iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro is 8 hours and 25 minutes and 9 hours and 6 minutes, respectively; while Samsung S20+ 5G and OnePlus 8T 5G have battery life. The time is 10 hours and 31 minutes and 10 hours and 49 minutes respectively, and the battery life of Google Pixel 5 is 9 hours and 56 minutes. In other words, in the same 5G mode, the battery life of Apple phones lags behind the above-mentioned several Android phones.
Programmer area
Win10X will sign RTM at the end of the year: Win32 applications are not supported
The Win10X system will sign the official version of RTM in December of this year, first for single-screen device adaptation and optimization. If you regard Win10X as an iteration of Win10, you are wrong, because Microsoft deleted the "VAIL" that supports virtualized running Win32 programs, which means that Win10X (at least in the early days) will only be able to run UWP and PWA locally program. It is hard to imagine the prospect of Win10X when Win32 programs are missing.
Microsoft fixes the bug that the processor displays 0.00Ghz after Win10 update
According to foreign media Windows Latest reports, Microsoft is testing the new Windows 10 cumulative update, which will fix some bugs in the latest October update (20H2) and the 2004 version. Sometimes, I noticed that the CPU frequency displayed by Task Manager is 0.00 GHz, but as the load increases, the computer will display the correct value. Microsoft only said: We have solved the problem of incorrect display of the CPU frequency of some processors.