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Domestic news
Huawei: plans to build a chip factory in Shanghai, aiming to produce 20nm-level chips by 2022
According to reports, Huawei is planning to build a chip factory in Shanghai that does not use American technology. According to people familiar with the project, the manufacturing plant is expected to start manufacturing low-end 45nm chips. IT House learned that the 45-nanometer process node was used to produce the A4 chip used on the iPhone 4 in 2010. According to reports, Huawei's goal is to manufacture 28-nanometer chips for "Internet of Things" equipment by the end of 2021, and 20-nanometer chips for 5G telecom equipment by the end of 2022. According to reports, Huawei has no experience in manufacturing chips, and the plant will be operated by Shanghai Integrated Circuit Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. (ICRD) supported by the Shanghai Municipal Government. (IT House)
The seventh national census officially started, and the census registration was carried out electronically for the first time
The standard time for the census is 0:00 on November 1, 2020. The subjects of the census are natural persons who are within the territory of the People's Republic of China at the time of the census, and Chinese citizens who have not settled outside the People's Republic of China, and do not include foreigners who stay in the territory of the People's Republic of China for a short time. The contents of the census include name, citizenship number, gender, age, ethnicity, education level, industry, occupation, migration, marriage, birth, death, housing situation, etc. In order to ensure the high-quality completion of the census registration work within the specified time and ensure that the census registration is not heavy and not missing, it is preliminary estimated that about 7 million census instructors and census enumerators have been selected and hired nationwide.
Ren Zhengfei: At least 8,000 fresh graduates will be recruited next year. Huawei talents will be divided into three categories
Recently, the headlines of the Huawei Xinsheng community released Ren Zhengfei's speech to the students and new employees of Huawei's strategic reserve team. In his speech, it was stated that Huawei's positions would be divided into three categories: staff, experts, and management. The third category is the administrative management team. Chief officials and supervisors are forced to be eliminated from the last 10% every year. Even if they are all excellent, it is hard to have a new blood circulation. Whether it is for survival or development, talent is the most important. 2021-2022 is an important year for our strategic research. The strategic focus should be pushed to the front. Not only to maintain the normal R&D budget, but also to increase the investment of billions of dollars in research funding. The number of new graduates recruited next year will be expanded to at least 8,000, but those who come in must be outstanding.
Tencent terminates operation of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds mobile game in India
Because of the government ban, Tencent Games terminated the operation of the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds mobile game in India. In September of this year, India banned 118 Chinese apps for privacy and national security reasons, including the popular PUBG Mobile game in the region. PUBG Corporation, the developer of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, subsequently announced that it would cut off cooperation with Tencent in India in an attempt to bypass the Indian government's ban. But the move did not seem to have had any effect. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds terminated its operations in India on October 30. The PUBG Corporation also announced the merger to Krafton.
International news
EU Antitrust Director: So far, there is no need to split up tech giants
The EU antitrust chief said on Sunday that so far, it is not necessary to split up large technology companies such as Google and Facebook. European Competition Commissioner Margaret Westage will announce a new draft rule for the digital industry on December 2. Her proposal must then be agreed with the member states and the European Parliament. The European Commissioner of Internal Market Thierry Breton said that the proposed rules include that if the dominant market position of technology giants is deemed to threaten the interests of customers and smaller competitors, they will be forced to split or sell some European businesses. (Sina Finance)
Apple develops alternative to Google search
After the US antitrust investigation against Google may jeopardize the cooperation between Google and Apple’s multi-billion dollar search engine, Apple is stepping up its development of its own search technology. In the latest version of the iPhone operating system iOS 14, Apple began to display its search results and links when users query. Two and a half years ago, Apple dug up John Giannandrea, who is responsible for the search business, from Google. This recruitment is mainly to improve Apple's AI capabilities and improve the Siri voice assistant, but it also brings eight years of operating the world's most popular search engine. experience. If antitrust regulators prevent it from cooperating with Google's search, Apple can use its own search engine as an alternative.
Microsoft: Starting from November 5th, Win10 PC adopts a new automatic driver installation method
Foreign media WMPU reported that Microsoft recently announced that it will change the way that manual drivers are automatically installed on Windows 10 PCs. When you connect a peripheral device to a Windows 10 PC for the first time, and the device has a manual driver (also called an optional driver) on Windows Update, the manual driver will be automatically installed on the user's device.
From now on, Google Play app updates must be adapted to Android 10 or 11
Google officially issued another notice recently that starting from November 2, 2020, application updates must target Android 10 (API level 29) or higher. This means that newly submitted or updated applications and games must be compatible with Android 10 or higher before they can be released on the Google Play store. In addition, before November 1st, apps with subscription features enabled on the Google Play store need to provide support for account retention and recovery functions in the app. In addition, the Google Play console will also enable the suspension and re-subscription functions for all subscriptions by default (unless you explicitly choose to disable it).
Programmer area
KDE.org migrated to Hugo
KDE.org, the main website of the desktop environment project KDE, started using Hugo, a new static website generator. Hugo was developed in Go language, while the old website used PHP. The maintainers of the KDE website claim that the new website has improved loading speed, but it is not significant compared to the PHP website. The biggest improvement is the functionality, you can use markdown files instead of HTML files. The new system can create unique URLs for different languages of the website.
NumPy 1.19.3 released
NumPy 1.19.3 is a small maintenance release with two major improvements: Python 3.9 binary wheels run on all supported platforms; OpenBLAS fixes the bug of Windows 10 2004 version fmod. For details, please check: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.19.3.