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Domestic news
Tmall and JD Double Eleven have a total transaction volume of 769.7 billion yuan
From 0:00 on November 1, 2020 to 23:59 on November 11, 2020, the total transaction volume of Tmall and JD Double Eleven is 769.7 billion yuan. At midnight on Double Eleven 2020, the final transaction rating for the 2020 Tmall Double 11 global carnival season is 498.2 billion yuan. JD.com announced that the cumulative order value of JD.com's double 11 global love season reached 271.5 billion yuan. (Sina Technology)
ByteDance lists e-commerce as the number one incubation project next year and will further integrate
A few days ago, ByteDance is considering further adjustments to its e-commerce business: the "e-commerce diversion" business that originally belonged to the commercialization department, and the e-commerce advertising business "Luban e-commerce" will be planned to be established in June with the first level The e-commerce sector is further integrated. (LatePost late)
After Glory becomes independent, Huawei's consumer business COO Wan Biao may become chairman
After Honor’s independent financing, Huawei will have several senior executives join Honor as its core executives. Among them, Huawei's consumer business COO Wan Biao may serve as chairman, and Honor president Zhao Ming may serve as CEO. In addition, the Minister of Legal Affairs, the Minister of Audit, and the Minister of IT and Quality Operations of Huawei Consumer Business have also confirmed that they will join the post-independence glory. People familiar with the matter also said that Honor employees will move out of Huawei's Bantian headquarters in Shenzhen and move into a new office space: Building 4, Shangmeilin New Generation Industrial Park, Futian District, Shenzhen.
Ziguang Zhanrui: Mobile phones based on Zhanrui’s 6nm 5G chip will be mass-produced next year
On November 12, it was reported that Zhou Chen, Executive Vice President of Unigroup Zhanrui, stated in an interview that next year, mobile phones equipped with Zhanrui’s 6-nanometer 5G chip will be mass-produced. In February this year, Ziguang Zhanrui released a new generation of 5G SoC mobile platform Huben T7520. Huben T7520 is the second generation 5G smartphone platform of Unigroup Zhanrui, which uses 6nm EUV process. In addition, Huben T7520 is based on Unigroup Zhanrui's 5G technology platform Makalu development, integrates a 5G modem that supports full-scene coverage enhancement technology, and optimizes technology for high-speed rail scenarios with speeds up to 500KM/h.
International news
Google terminates unlimited free photo storage service, effective June 2021
According to reports, Google announced to the outside world on Wednesday that it will terminate the provision of unlimited free photo storage space. In the past, through this free storage space, you could store your photos online. From June 1, 2021, the "Google Photos" on the Google account will only have 15GB of free storage capacity. When Google Photos was released in 2015, Google promised to provide unlimited free storage space for high-quality photos and videos. Google may want to push people to pay for its Google One plan through this latest change in album capacity. Google One’s 100GB storage space starts at $1.99 per month.
IBM and AMD reached a joint development agreement for artificial intelligence and cyber security
According to reports, IBM and AMD today announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and expand the security and artificial intelligence (AI) products of the two companies. It is reported that the two companies will expand this vision on the basis of open source software, open standards and open system architecture, promote Confidential Computing in a hybrid cloud environment, and support high-performance computing (HPC) and key enterprise functions ( Virtualization and encryption, etc.) and a wide range of accelerators.
TSMC’s board of directors approved a US$15.1 billion allocation plan for capacity expansion, etc.
According to media reports, the chip foundry TSMC’s 5nm process has been put into large-scale production in the first quarter of this year, but the current capacity is still relatively tight, mainly for Apple foundry related processors, many manufacturers are still waiting in line. But TSMC is also working to expand its production capacity. The TSMC board of directors has now approved a total of 15.1 billion U.S. dollars in funding plans to expand the production capacity of advanced process technology. Judging from the information published on TSMC’s official website, TSMC’s board of directors approved the $15.1 billion appropriation plan on Tuesday, and the TSMC’s board of directors held a meeting that day. (TechWeb)
Apple tests the foldable iPhone display, or it will come out in 2022
Israeli media reported that Apple may launch a foldable iPhone as early as November 2022. Earlier news said that Apple is testing foldable screens. The company may have purchased foldable screens from Samsung. After purchasing these screens, Apple did not rush to release foldable phones, but first conducted quality tests on them.
Intel released the first server GPU
Intel officially released its first server GPU (Server GPU) yesterday, which is an independent display product for data centers. The chip is based on the Xe LP micro-architecture and is designed for high-density, low-latency Android cloud gaming and streaming services. It has a low-power, independent system-on-chip (SoC) design, and is equipped with a 128-bit pipeline and 8GB dedicated onboard low-power DDR4 video memory. In addition, if the Intel server GPU is combined with the Intel Xeon Scalable processor, the service provider can independently expand the graphics card capacity without changing the number of servers, so as to support more streams and subscribers on each system, and At the same time achieve a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
Programmer area
Microsoft releases new Office for Mac beta, compatible with Apple Silicon processors
Microsoft announced today that it will launch a new universal version of the Mac Office 2019 beta, supporting Apple's new M1 Mac mini, MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. Although M1-based Macs will be able to run x86 code written for Intel Macs, the process will involve software Rosetta to translate it into arm code (compatible with M1). Although Apple said that in some cases, the effect of x86 applications running on Apple silicon via Rosetta is better than running natively on Intel Macs, but it remains to be confirmed.
.NET 5.0 released
.NET 5.0 is released. The new version includes ASP.NET Core, EF Core, C# 9 and F# 5. The .NET library enhances the performance of Json serialization, regular expressions and HTTP (HTTP 1.1, HTTP/2). Visual Studio users need Visual Studio 16.8 or above to use .NET 5.0. .NET 5.0 is the first version of Microsoft to unify the .NET stack and ecosystem. It plans to release a new version every November, which means that .NET 6.0 will be released in November 2021. .NET 5.0 is not a long-term support version. It will be supported until mid-February 2022, three months after the release of .NET 6.0. .NET 6.0 is a long-term support version and will be supported for three years.