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Malaysia is becoming an overseas packaging hub for Chinese chip design companies
According to Reuters, more and more Chinese semiconductor design companies are working with Malaysian companies to package some high-end chips, including GPUs, locally, to avoid the risk of the United States expanding sanctions on China's semiconductor industry. However, the manufacturing process is only packaging, and does not involve the production and manufacturing of chips and wafers. According to sources, some contracts have already been reached.
In 2023, 10 new unicorns will be born in the artificial intelligence industry, and AIGC accounts for nearly half
From the perspective of city distribution, in 2023, financing in the field of artificial intelligence will occur in a total of 31 cities across the country, of which the top 10 most active cities are Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, Xi'an, and Hefei. In 2023, Beijing will continue to be an active highland for financing in the field of artificial intelligence. Beijing-based AI companies accounted for 29 percent of the country's financing4%, far ahead of other regions, about equal to 3 Hangzhou, 7 Guangzhou, 13 Chengdu;Shanghai and Shenzhen each accounted for %. In 2023, in the artificial intelligence track, the most active matchmaking transaction service provider (FA) is Huaxing Capital, which has counseled 6 public financing transactions in the AI field, including right-brain technology, Zhipu AI, UISEE technology, Meijia technology, Xiaodu technology and other enterprises.
In 2023, the total revenue of China's cold chain logistics is expected to reach 517 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 52%
According to the statistics of the Cold Chain Logistics Committee of the China Federation of Things, the total demand for cold chain in China is expected to reach 3500 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 61%；The total revenue of cold chain logistics is expected to reach 517 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 52%。Driven by the gradual stabilization and recovery of cold chain demand, the development of cold chain-related logistics infrastructure is also accelerating. The number of refrigerated trucks is expected to reach 43 in 202310,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 128%；The total amount of cold storage is expected to reach 22.8 billion cubic meters, a year-on-year increase of 83%。
Corporate Information
The Chinese factory of the American RF chip giant **, Luxshare Precision took over
On December 19, it was reported that Qorvo, a major RF chip manufacturer in the United States, announced on the 18th local time that it had reached a definitive agreement with the world's advanced contract manufacturer Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Luxshare Precision"). Under the agreement, Luxshare Precision will acquire Qorvo's assembly operations and test plants in Beijing and Dezhou, Shandong, China.
Ali's senior management was readjusted, and Taotian Group changed its leadership
On December 20, Alibaba announced that Wu Yongming, CEO of Alibaba Group and chairman of Taotian Group, will also serve as CEO of Taotian Group, which means that Wu Yongming will also be the CEO of Alibaba Group, Taotian Group, and Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group. Dai Shan, former CEO of Taotian Group, will assist in the establishment of the newly established Alibaba Group Asset Management Company, which aims to optimize return on capital and enhance shareholder value. Tsai Chongxin said that Wu Yongming's concurrently serving as the No. 1 position in Alibaba Cloud and Taotian will help lead Taotian's transformation with technological innovation, and help ensure the group's unified command and high-intensity continuous investment in the two strategic priorities of e-commerce and cloud.
Geely established Jidian Intelligent Company for 1.5 billion yuan
Recently, Zhejiang Geely Jidian Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. was established, the legal representative is Xie Shibin, with a registered capital of 1.5 billion yuan, and its business scope includes intelligent control system integration, Internet data services, big data services, holding company services, enterprise management, etc. The equity panorama penetration chart shows that the company is jointly held by Zhejiang Geely Industrial Investment Holdings, a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, and Hangzhou Geely Intelligent Innovation Enterprise Management.
Amazon Web Services' self-developed chip Amazon GR**iton3 instance has landed in China
Recently, Amazon Web Services announced that through close cooperation with Sinnet and NWCD, Amazon Web Services has launched three Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7G general-purpose, C7G compute-optimized and R7G memory-optimized instances based on self-developed chips Amazon GR**ITON3 processors in the Amazon Web Services Beijing Region and Ningxia Region.
Xiaomi Auto recruits sales personnel in many places to accelerate the layout of terminal channels
Recently, according to the recruitment software, in the past two weeks, Xiaomi Auto has intensively released a number of positions such as retail store manager, retail supervisor, training supervisor, sales operation, and retail experience engineer, which involve Suzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Wuhan, Chengdu and other cities. In the search item of Xiaomi Auto in the recruitment software, there are 31 new positions in the past week, of which 5 positions are R&D-related positions, and the rest are related to sales and delivery, and the total number of people recently recruited by Xiaomi Auto headquarters and stores has reached hundreds.
Industry trends
Eight trends in the development of intelligent manufacturing in China
Monthly salary of major domestic Internet companies: More than 50% of Huawei's employees have a monthly salary of 3-50,000 yuan
In 2023, the recruitment of China's Internet industry will continue to shrink as a whole, and the very important reason is that the development of major Internet companies has entered a stable period and will no longer continue the trend of expansion in the past. Some companies that are in a period of rapid growth, with strong business momentum and more talent reserves, are able to maintain a stable recruitment volume while also willing to compete for excellent talents in the market with excess returns.
In fact, in addition to Huawei's high salary, there are many companies with low salaries.
Statistically, more than 60% of the employees of Shell, Alibaba, Didi, Pinduoduo, Kuaishou and Tencent have a monthly salary in the range of 3-50,000 yuan, while Pinduoduo and ByteDance have more than 5% of employees with a monthly salary of more than 50,000.
In comparison, 51% of the employees of Huawei are familiar with the monthly salary of 3-50,000 yuan (3.).4% of employees earn more than 50,000 per month), while Xiaomi's figure is 475%。
Investment Financing
"Hoshisawen" finished 6500 million yuan in pre-A round financing
Chengdu Xingzesen Communication Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of 6500 million yuan in the pre-A round of financing, the investor is China Television Cloud Digital Technology (Anhui)** This round of financing funds will be used for a scientific and technological innovation service platform in the field of edge computing applications.
"Real Intelligence" completed nearly 200 million yuan in Series C financing
Real Intelligence announced the completion of nearly 200 million yuan in Series C financing. This round was co-led by Jintaifu Capital and Anji Wisdom Valley, and followed by Anji Liangshan Guochuang. In early 2024, Real Intelligence plans to conduct a public beta test on the agent. For individual users, Real Intelligence will launch a PC assistant to solve the needs of long-tail and low-frequency automation, and for ** enterprises, the company plans to launch an employee office assistant. Developed from the field of AI+RPA (machine automation), Real Intelligence has so far deployed various "digital employees" for more than 2,000 large customers in the fields of digital government, operators, finance, energy, and transportation.
Jixiang Technology completed nearly 200 million yuan in Series C financing to accelerate the commercialization of domestic Internet of Things communication systems
Guangzhou Jixiang Technology Co., Ltd. recently completed nearly 200 million yuan in Series C financing, led by the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry of China Development Bank, and followed by the equity investment in the core technology research and development of CETC. The funds from this round of financing will be used for the continuous development and iteration of core technologies and the commercialization of existing TPUNB (TechPhant Ultra Narrow Band) core products.
Shenzhen data service provider "Digital Big Data" completed 100 million yuan in Series D financing
Shenzhen Digital Big Data Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Digital Big Data") completed a Series D financing of 100 million yuan, led by Shenqi Capital (58 Industries**), with follow-up investment. Founded in 2015, "Digital Big Data" has established an underlying database and independently built a complete set of technical systems covering data collection, data verification, data cleaning, data storage, and data mining, and provides customers with model services through AI technology, which can automatically generate reports such as network planning, capacity measurement, point recommendation, and location evaluation based on various parameters such as the customer's industry, scale, category, and brand positioning.
Industry reports
2023 China AIGC Industry Panorama Report
The popularity of ChatGPT has set off an AIGC craze around the world. In just a few months, all sectors of industry, academia and research have followed in the footsteps of OpenAI to release pre-trained large models, and thousands of AIGC applications have also broken ground. In this regard, iResearch released the "2023 China AIGC Industry Panorama Report", based on the "change" and "new" of AIGC in the entire digital industry, and has insight into the development status and key issues of each link of the AIGC industry chain.