Seeing Luo Sheng's question, Meng Qiu immediately said: "At the beginning of this year, we had a direct collision with Intel in the field of artificial intelligence, and we both fell in love with a North American artificial intelligence technology start-up called Nervana-Systems, and finally Intel acquired the company for $350 million. ”

In fact, this company was first contacted by Shengfeng Capital, which happened in mid-December last year, and Meng Qiu personally went to talk to the founder, intending to invest $80 million in the company.

It had already been negotiated, the contract was initialed, and the formal contract would be signed in three days.

As a result, Intel jumped out at this time and directly launched a wholly-owned acquisition offer for Nervana-Systems, and offered a high price of $350 million.

Meng Qiu directly said that he would not play, because Shengfeng Capital has invested in several start-ups related to Nervana-Systems, and the development momentum is not bad, so it is not necessary.

Shengfeng Capital is indeed very rich, very rich, but this money is not blowing in the wind.

Meng Qiu can't accept the offer of more than 350 million US dollars, so it's okay, just pat his ass and leave, you Intel will play with him, and he won't play with you.

Meng Qiu continued: "Recently, I compiled an information report on Intel's development layout, and I found that since the beginning of 2012, Intel has also responded to the rapid development of the global technology community, whether it is artificial intelligence, or Internet of Things devices have significantly accelerated the pace of acquisitions. Since 2012, Intel has only invested in 3 companies, but has acquired 22 companies, many of which are worth paying attention to. ”

Luo Sheng cocked the sitting posture of the big guy with Erlang's legs, and asked concisely, "Which ones?" ”

"First of all, Nervana-Systems, founded last year in San Diego, California, is a technology company with expertise in machine learning, neuroscience, processor architecture, and chip design. The company has released an open-source deep learning framework called Neon, which our research believes is Intel's hope to improve the performance of its own processors in artificial intelligence with the company's technology. ”

Luo Sheng nodded slowly, lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "No wonder he will spend $350 million on mergers and acquisitions." ”

Meng Qiu continued: "According to a benchmark test by an internal researcher at Shengfeng Capital, the company's deep learning technology is more performant than other well-known deep learning tools in the industry......

Seeing Luo Sheng suddenly look up, Meng Qiu added with a smile: "Mr. Luo, I haven't finished talking yet, except for the Cote d'Azur." ”

Luo Sheng smiled and said: "I'll just say, you scared me, and I'll settle accounts with you when I turn back." ”

I was really shocked just now, in the field of machine deep learning and artificial intelligence, this is Luo Sheng's absolute housekeeping ability, and it is his most confident field.

The existence of Xiao Na is destined to make it impossible for this world to give birth to a second artificial intelligence in the true sense, because whenever there is a sign of it, Xiao Na, who monitors the whole network, will strangle it, which is authorized by Luo Sheng.

Of course, the current Cortana has not yet reached the level of strong artificial intelligence in the real sense, and the AI technology displayed through the Cote d'Azur is also a level lower than Cortana, but even so, it is enough for the industry to look up to.

Suddenly there is a competitor who can go hand in hand, no wonder Luo Sheng has such a reaction.

After the episode, Meng Qiu continued: "Oh yes, in the field of machine deep learning, Google also revealed at last year's I/O conference that they are developing a chip TPU with deep learning function, and IBM also announced a chip based on the concept of human brain nervous system in February this year. ”

Although Lens Semiconductor's FinFET technology has stabilized Moore's Law and continues to hold on, today's technology giants know that Moore's Law will fail sooner or later, so they are actively planning for the future.

At the same time, taking a step back, because FinFET is in the hands of Luo Sheng, this is a headache for these technology giants, and they dare not tear their faces too much, so they hope to bypass the patent barriers built by Luo Sheng in a new direction.

Deep learning technology is a major trend in the future, which can be seen that it will be applied to the chip of any product in the future.

Meng Qiu followed the content organized in his mind and said: "Replay-Technologies, founded in Tel Aviv in 2011, Earlier this month, it was said to have been acquired by Intel for $185 million, the company's 3D reconstruction technology can allow users to experience a variety of video entertainment content from a 360-degree perspective, and now a technology called FreeD has been applied to the North American Super Bowl, users can perform 360-degree real-time playback of any of these videos, which is refreshing to watch, and the company is also actively exploring the development potential of applying the technology to virtual reality VR and augmented reality AR. ”

It is worth mentioning that Luo Sheng has not yet made efforts in the field of virtual reality VR and augmented reality AR, and many entrepreneurs in this area have come to tell this story, but they have not impressed Luo Sheng.

Because, at present, these so-called AR and VR immersive experiences are all with the word "pseudo", and the gimmick is better than the reality.

Brain-computer interface devices are products that can bring immersive virtual reality experience in the true sense, and proper black technology products.

The Cte d'Azur laboratory has been researching for a long time, and so far, more than $3 billion has been invested in related projects, and the results are limited, but Luo Sheng has not reduced the investment in funds.

Once it's out there and commercialized, it's a game-changer that can be more impactful than the impact of Azure in 2006.

Meng Qiu continued: "Ascending-Technologies, founded in 2007 in Byrne, Germany, was acquired by Intel Corporation at the beginning of this year, the company is currently the world's leading drone production, research and development company, can provide both professional and consumer drone products, with the acquisition of the company, Intel can quickly enter the current rapid development of the drone market, but this part of us has been laid out two or three years ago, At the beginning, Mr. Qin personally invested heavily in the domestic DJI, and reports in recent years show that the competitiveness of DJI drones is very potential. ”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile and said: "Pengcheng DJI, I remembered what you said, which is also very optimistic about me, and it is very promising to become a leading company in the drone market in time." ”

Meng Qiu nodded and added, "Intel has also applied its own RS RealSense technology to Ascending's drone products to improve the drone's recognition performance of the surrounding environment, and then create more powerful drone products." ”

Luo Sheng said succinctly: "Just let DJI fight with this company for bayonets." ”

"Recon-Instruments, a Canadian technology company founded in 2008 and a company dedicated to the development of wearables for outdoor sports, has expanded its reach into wearables and continues to expand the scope of its RS Real-Sense technology."

"Yogitech was founded in 2000 in Pisa, Italy, and Pisa seems to be a city that has nothing to do with technology...... Acquired by Intel earlier this year, the company has achieved remarkable results in the research and development of robot chips and driverless car chips, and it is clear that Intel wants to integrate Yogitech's technology into the chips developed by driverless cars. ”

"Iteez, a technology company founded in Russia in 2005 focusing on the research and development of computer vision technology, was acquired by Intel this year, and the technology developed by the company is mainly for automotive driver and driver assistance system software, Intel said at the time of the acquisition that the company's technology will be applied to Intel's security systems in the field of the Internet of Things in the future, and the acquisition of the company has also strengthened Intel's technical capabilities in computer perception and image recognition.

"Basically, I think the above companies are worth paying attention to."

After the brief report, Meng Qiu also felt that his mouth was dry, so he went to fetch two glasses of water, handed over a cup to Luo Sheng, and drank most of the cup directly with a glass of water in his hand.

"You're right, it seems that it is indeed the tragic loss of the mobile chip market that makes him feel anxious, so he started the momentum of buying, buying, buying." Luo Sheng stared at the water cup in his hand, but after a moment, he added:

"Judging from the companies you said that were acquired by Intel, in addition to enhancing the computer deep learning performance of artificial intelligence in their existing chips, they are also actively expanding into the field of wearable devices, drones and unmanned vehicles.

Obviously, the world's major technology giants are actively deploying, after 2013, the competition between giants will only be more fierce than ever, the rapid development of science and technology so that the major technology giants are afraid to relax their vigilance, a little careless miss the wind may be silent.

As everyone knows, looking back at Nokia, Motorola, BlackBerry and other international manufacturers, I can only look desperately at the current Cote d'Azur, Apple, Samsung, which dominate the current smartphone market, and these old international manufacturers are powerless in the face of continuous loss of market share.

Nokia, the old giants, now only rely on communication technology and patents to maintain the dignity of this giant, aside from this fig leaf is already a complete failure.

Even in the field of communication technology, these old giants are restless, because Huawei has now risen to become a generation of communication giants, and as an emerging challenger to fight with them in this field, the core hinterland also has to face the situation of soldiers coming to the city.

Today's era no longer belongs to them.

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Chinese Net