Future Super Intelligent System

On March 22, Hangzhou ushered in a sunny day that had not been seen for a long time. Liu Fan and Liu Wei sat in the office together to watch the opening of the Apple conference.

After the official talk, Apple's press conference gradually entered the theme. First, it introduced several new APP functions of Apple, which were innocuous.

Then there are the latest iPad and iPad mini, which are very tasteless products.

After introducing these two tasteless products, finally ushered in today's first highlight, Apple's wireless charging technology. Apple's wireless charging technology has been hyped for several years. However, when Air Power appeared in front of consumers, it obviously did not win the hearts of consumers.

The Air Power 2 shown by Apple this time seems to be full of gimmicks, but after all, it can't solve the problem of putting the phone there, and the charging speed has not changed much.

After that, Apple mentioned some functions and hardware that Liu Fan didn’t think were very meaningful. Finally, Cook mentioned the biggest topic of this conference, the new generation of Apple mobile phones, iPhone XM.

The moment the rumor was confirmed, the world's major media immediately became busy.

But in terms of appearance, there is almost no difference between the iPhone XM and the iPhone XS.

"Everyone must be wondering why we suddenly released a brand new mobile phone." Cook looked confident on the stage, "Actually, this decision was made after countless meetings, because we have a major The breakthrough can’t wait to be delivered to our consumers, so that our consumers can feel the charm of technology, which has always been our mission at Apple.”

Cook said, a line of big characters appeared on the big screen, "QA01 chip."

"It's no longer the Apple A-series? This time, it actually named the chip a new one." Liu Wei couldn't help saying, and this is also the doubt in many people's minds at the moment.

But when the words on the top and bottom of the screen appeared, everyone immediately understood, "The world's first 5nm process chip in cooperation between Apple and Qualcomm!"

The explosion at the scene can be seen from the live broadcast. The barrage also instantly scrolled across the screen.

"Aren't Apple and Qualcomm still in a lawsuit some time ago? Sure enough, there are only permanent interests, and there are no permanent friends or enemies."

"The 5nm process is really the well-deserved number one in the world. The cooperation between Apple and Qualcomm is simply terrible."

"Two deadly rivals are actually cooperating to produce chips, how can others play?"

"The Kirin chip has completely lost."

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After Cook waited for a while, he began to show the details of the chip.

Equipped with 8-core CPU, 4-core GPU, and a new neural engine. The next data immediately shows the gap between the 5nm process and the 7nm process. The CPU performance of the QA01 chip has increased by 157%, and the energy efficiency has increased by 87%.

As for AI performance, following Cook’s in-depth introduction, everyone noticed that the optimization of this chip’s neural engine, that is, AI performance, is no less surprising than the 5nm process.

20 trillion operations per second can directly beat any current mobile phone AI chip. Only then did everyone discover that the development of Apple's new neural engine was actually in cooperation with Google!

In other words, the QA01 chip on the iPhone XM this time is actually completed by the cooperation of the three giants of Apple, Qualcomm and Google!

This discovery shocked everyone. What are the three bosses doing? Apple and Qualcomm are rivals in chips, and Apple and Google are rivals in systems. Why did they suddenly join forces to dominate the chip market?

Various speculations appeared on the Internet for a while.

"Apple's mobile phone market has collapsed, so you have to cooperate with others?"

"Didn't Samsung always say that the 5nm process chip will come out soon?

Are you being pushed by Samsung? "

"Qualcomm's 5G is forced by Huawei, and Google AI is suppressed by Mulong Technology. Will this cooperation be to restore dignity with the help of Apple mobile phones? By the way, let's suppress China's rapidly developing mobile phone market in recent years?"

Liu Fan didn't pay much attention to the news on the Internet at this time, but was waiting for Cook's next speech.

Soon, Cook talked about something that Liu Fan was very concerned about, Apple's APP intelligent platform.

At present, there is a common problem with high-end AI chips, that is flashy, just like the current Kirin 980 has been in a state of wasteful performance, because there are actually very few places where AI can be used in mobile phones, mainly face recognition, AI photography, translation, Noise reduction, power saving, voice assistant and so on, that's all.

In terms of APP, there are not many APPs that use AI technology, and more importantly, even APPs that use AI technology have compatibility issues. Even if the APP uses AI technology, Huawei's AI chip will not have any effect on it.

Therefore, the AI ​​chip has invested too much in the development of AI performance. Although the speed of face recognition and the effect of AI photography will definitely be improved, but in terms of overall cost performance, the input-output ratio is not necessarily cost-effective.

If only a few functions and contracted apps can use the AI ​​chip, the advantages of the AI ​​chip will not be fully utilized most of the time.

Moreover, for many APP developers, they may not be able to afford the cost of using AI, not to mention developing a set of adapted programs, how can there be so much money.

This is also a problem that companies like Apple and Huawei that make both AI chips and mobile phones are currently investing a lot of energy in solving the problem, the mobile phone AI ecosystem.

Cook began to explain Apple's breakthroughs in APP intelligence. First, Apple has developed a plug-in that can effectively reduce the cost of program conversion. Second, Apple has developed a large number of AI tools on the platform, which can effectively To assist developers in the development of AI, thirdly, for the cost of program conversion, Apple can have a subsidy policy of about 20%.

"Apple has lost all its money." Liu Fan murmured.

When Cook talked about this, he suddenly smiled mysteriously, "I have said so much, I believe everyone must be curious about how many apps are now intelligent and connected to our platform?"

The big screen flashed, and a number appeared, "2000+"

At the top are all familiar apps: Facebook, YouTube, Google muscle, ebay, Twitter, Chrome, Google photos, etc.

Liu Wei lit a cigarette for himself, "Apple is urging the leeks to grow up quickly, so we can cut the leeks sooner."

Liu Fan smiled and continued to pay attention to the situation at the scene.

After waiting for a while, Cook looked even more excited, "Having said so much, everyone must not have a very intuitive feeling. We will demonstrate more than ten applications later. Before that, I want to Let everyone look at one more thing, the average running score of the iPhone xm equipped with the QA01 chip."

The screen flashed again, and a series of numbers appeared on the screen in huge metal fonts: "420987!"

Absolutely oppressive running score!

The Apple conference is still going on, but at this time it has already made the headlines of almost the global media.

Numerous Apple fans shouted on social media: "The era of Jobs is coming!"