Luxin Venture Capital: Dig deep into "Moments" and introduce "hard technology"

  The ecosystem built by technology and products of technology enterprises is profoundly changing life scenes and industrial patterns. In the current era of accelerating towards intelligence, innovative technology ecology has increasingly become a key element for the transformation of old and new kinetic energy and the high-quality development of industries.

  Technology ecosystem refreshes smart experience

  What kind of intelligent experience can a technology ecosystem bring?

  Driving a smart car, encountering complex traffic scenarios such as road construction obstacles, pedestrians crossing the road, and suddenly appearing electric vehicles, can identify dangers earlier and faster, easily change lanes to avoid obstacles, actively avoid risks, and actively stop.

  Using a smart PC, you can quickly and accurately extract key information from text, audio, and video content without time and effort;

  Open the smart screen and point to the remote control to make the control as convenient as playing with a mobile phone;

  Wearing smart earphones, you can automatically switch the noise reduction mode according to the environment without hands, and smart watches and smart bracelets can detect health indicators and generate micro-physical examination reports;

  Install the smart door lock, no matter the light is bright or dark, the angle and distance change can be accurately and securely unlocked by facial recognition…

  The most important thing is that all these products can achieve synergy, such as mobile phones can be remotely parked, watches can be used as car keys, mobile phone applications can be "touched" to the car screen, smart screen, and even smart door locks can be linked with mobile phones, smart screens, and other multi-screens.

  This is the full scenario of the Internet of Everything showcased at Huawei Hongmeng Ecological Spring Communication Conference on April 11. The underlying distributed capabilities of Hongmeng Ecological can achieve full-scene device collaboration, allowing smart experiences to pervade all aspects of people’s lives.

  "Since January 18 this year, Huawei announced that the first batch of more than 200 application manufacturers are accelerating the development of Hongmeng native applications. By the end of March, there will be more than 4,000 applications, and the growth rate will be as high as 20 times in just two months, covering more vertical applications." Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei, CEO of end point BG, and chairperson of smart car solutions BU, revealed at the communication meeting that Hongmeng ecology has achieved a complete vertical industry coverage, including convenient life, travel and tourism, financial management, social information, productivity tools, corporate office, audio and video entertainment. Applications in various fields are competing to start Hongmeng native application development, constantly injecting new vitality into Hongmeng ecology.

  Among them, it is particularly worthy of attention that Huawei, which "does not build cars", is helping more car companies to "build good cars": with more than 30 years of technical accumulation in the ICT field, it has shown obvious advantages through Hongmeng Zhixing ecology to help the commercial success of automotive industry partners. Taking the Q Jie jointly built by Huawei and Sailis as an example, the number of phenomenon-level explosive models Q Jie’s new M7 is set to reach 174,000 in 7 months; the full-scene smart flagship SUV Q Jie M9 has been listed in just three months. A total of 70,000 vehicles have been set to break through, breaking the domestic 500,000 yuan level luxury car sales speed record. In the first quarter of this year, the cumulative sales of the new M7 reached 74,400 units, winning the first place in the sales of single models of new forces in China.

  "If China wants to build a good car, it cannot do without Huawei. If China wants to go from an automobile power to an automobile power, it needs the empowerment of Huawei Hongmeng System." Yin Tongyue, secretary of the party committee and chairperson of Chery Holding Group Co., Ltd., said at the communication meeting. When talking about the S7 smart car of Hongmeng Zhixing, which Chery has cooperated with Huawei, Yin Tongyue said that the smart world is Chery’s most important project. Chery has become an independent business unit of the Lizhijie brand, led by the R & D leader and the manufacturing leader, and the exclusive manufacturing industrial production line and special project resources are guaranteed.

  This is Huawei’s booth at the 4th China International Consumer Goods Expo, where Hongmeng ecological products, including Hongmeng Zhixing, are on display. Photo by Yang Guanyu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency

  Full scene artificial intelligence deeply empowered

  From smart travel to smart home, from smart office to smart wear, Hongmeng’s new products are packed with various innovative technologies, among which AI (artificial intelligence) is undoubtedly a high-frequency word.

  One of the biggest highlights of the new Huawei MateBook X Pro laptop released at the Hongmeng Ecological Spring Communication Conference is its thinness, with a thickness of only 13.5 mm and a weight of only 980 grams. According to Yu Chengdong, the MateBook X Pro is the only notebook equipped with Intel Core Ultra 9 high-performance processor within 1kg, and it is also the world’s first 14.2-inch flexible OLED notebook. More notably, this is the first time that Huawei PC has applied Huawei Pangu model. Its AI summary function can quickly and accurately extract key information from text, audio and video content. In addition, the MateBook X Pro is also equipped with Huawei AI space function for the first time. Through this one-stop AI ability aggregation entrance, it can make code programming, PPT production, paper reading and typesetting, collection of learning materials, video picture creation, travel planning and other scenes more efficient and convenient. On this heavyweight AI PC, Huawei also jointly tuned with Wanxing Meow Shadow to call NPU for AI special effects creation, bringing users a smarter and more efficient experience; in cooperation with WPS, it brings a series of AI functions including text intelligent typesetting, dialogue operation tables, and brain map-to-PPT.

  It is understood that the AI capabilities of the Pangu model have been mainly used in the industry before. This move on the PC track will be an important step in the exploration of the Pangu model on the consumer side, and the on-board smart assistant Xiaoyi will also be connected to the Huawei Pangu model in May.

  In fact, not only is there a big model blessing, but the new products of Hongmeng Ecological all scenes are deeply empowered by AI technology. For example, behind the staggering smart driving capabilities of the Smart World S7 is Huawei’s rich scene library built on the AI training cluster, in which more than 12 million kilometers of simulation tests are carried out every day, and the learning and training computing power reaches 3.3E FLOPS (tens of billions of floating-point operations per second). The model update speed is iterated every 5 days, and the intelligent driving ability is continuously iterated and upgraded with massive data; the AI camera equipped with Huawei’s smart screen has powerful intelligent perception capabilities, which can realize 3D bone recognition, sitting posture or distance reminders, portrait tracking, etc.; Huawei Smart Door Lock Plus applies self-developed AI technology to 3D facial recognition, which not only independently learns subtle changes in the face and environment, but also has powerful AI 3D anti-counterfeiting detection, and can resist photos, videos, masks Five attack methods, such as headgear and 3D headmold, ensure that facial recognition is more convenient, safer and smarter from the bottom of the technology.

  Accumulate new potential energy to open up more space

  With this year’s "artificial intelligence +" being written into the government work report for the first time, artificial intelligence is expected to deeply empower the development of the real economy and become an important engine for the development of new quality productivity. At the application level, artificial intelligence is deeply integrated with all walks of life, and is expected to build a data-driven, man-machine collaboration, cross-border integration, and co-creation and sharing of intelligent economic forms, giving birth to new economic growth points.

  Take the PC industry as an example. The industry generally believes that AI PCs will reshape users’ PC experience, profoundly change people’s work patterns and lifestyles, improve the efficiency of the whole scene, and set off a new round of PC replacement.

  IDC, a market research firm, reports that the proportion of AI PCs installed in China’s PC market will only be 8.1% in 2023, and the proportion will increase significantly to 54.7% in 2024. It is expected to rise rapidly in the next few years, reaching 85% in 2027 and becoming the mainstream of the PC market.

  Huaxin Securities Research Report said that the AI PC usage scenarios are highly overlapping with the application scenarios currently covered by the AI big model, and are called "the best carrier of the big model." Chip processor manufacturers such as Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel have launched processors for AI PCs.

  Industry insiders believe that the launch of AI PC products by the top end point brand marks the arrival of the AI PC era. At present, Apple, Microsoft and other tech giants have released AI PCs. As the top three manufacturers in the domestic PC market and the only one growing against the trend, Huawei’s entry into the new AI PC track will help the recovery of the PC industry chain and is expected to add new vitality to the PC industry.

BYD’s Qi Tang seat is hard goods, nearly 4.9 meters long, and the whole department is 2.0T

As a car model, it naturally has a better handling experience and dynamic performance, but now consumers generally pay more attention to SUV models, mainly because it has better passing ability and vision performance. For medium-sized SUVs, it is necessary not only to have the above advantages, but also to show the advantages in the number of seats. For example, as a benchmark in joint venture models, it attracts many consumers with a spacious space of 7 seats. However, there are actually many very strong players moving to domestic brands, such as Tang.

People’s impression of Tang may still be in the era of breaking 100 in 5 seconds, but it was the first generation of plug-in hybrid vehicles, and the price reached more than 200 thousand. At present, the 2019 Tang is already a second-generation model. Although the acceleration ability of the fuel version is not as good as that of the plug-in hybrid first-generation model, the product strength has also made great progress in other aspects, and the guide price is only 129,900-169,900 yuan, which is much more affordable than that of the joint venture brand at the same level.

As an old car company in China, it also borrowed the shape design of some mature models at the beginning of its establishment, so it was controversial at that time. However, this is the only way for small and weak car companies to develop and grow. Today, from the second generation of Tang, there is no trace of imitation, but it has formed its own unique style. These styles have been borrowed by some joint venture car companies, which is enough to show that the design level has made great progress.

In addition, Tang’s matrix LED headlights are also standard in the whole department, and the embellishment of LED daytime running lights can be described as sharp eyes, and it also supports the function of headlight delay turn-off and automatic headlights.

Tang’s length, width and height are 4870*1940*1720mm, and its wheelbase is 2820 mm. Except the length is inferior, all other parameters are completely surpassed, and the ratio is even larger. Looking from the side, Tang’s upper waistline is looming, while the lower waistline also has a dynamic design with low front and high back, which is believed to be loved by consumers.

Medium-sized SUV will show its advantages in wheel specifications. This Tang belongs to the middle and high-end model, so it is equipped with 20-inch two-color multi-frame aluminum alloy wheels and 245-width continental tires. After ensuring excellent grip, the visual effect is also very eye-catching, while the low-end model adopts the combination of 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels and 215-width tires, and the effect is slightly worse.

From the tail, the design of the through LED taillights is seamless, and the blackened shape inside is also very fashionable, but the design below the taillights is relatively simple and the layering is average. However, the exhaust pipe with single outlet on one side adopts a hidden structure, which is also relatively low-key in momentum. For young consumers with flamboyant personality, this practice may not be approved by them.

Going down from the rear of the car, Tang adopted the combination of rear multi-link and front McPherson double independent suspension, which is basically the same in structure as many models of the same class, but the chassis is adjusted by the former engineer, which shows a relatively balanced level, which not only ensures comfort, but also provides good lateral support during intense driving, and has a sense of advanced beyond the same class.

Entering the car, we can see that Tang’s interior adopts a simple design style. A large area of soft material is wrapped above the center console, supplemented by stitching technology, while the center is decorated with metal wire-drawing panels, while the air conditioning outlets with vertical shapes on both sides are also more fashionable and personalized. Overall, the interior design does not lose the luxury brand models of the same level.

Tang’s whole system comes standard with a flat multi-function steering wheel with a stronger sports style, and it is wrapped in leather. The full LCD instrument panel with a size of 12.3 inches is mounted on the middle and high models, and the display content and effect are rich and dazzling. In terms of safety configuration, tire pressure display, front double airbags, front side airbags, ESP, front and rear reversing radar, reversing image, uphill assist and steep slope descent are also standard in the whole system.

In addition, the 12.8-inch floating central control touch screen is the standard of Tang’s whole system, and it supports many functions such as Bluetooth phone, navigation, voice recognition control and car networking, but it is a bit puzzling not to support mobile phone interconnection. Comfortable configurations such as automatic anti-glare interior rearview mirror, electric adjustable heating exterior rearview mirror with automatic folding function for locking the car, automatic zoning air conditioning with rear air outlet, keyless entry and start, cruise control and so on are also standard in the whole department. The middle and high models also have full-speed adaptive cruise, openable panoramic sunroof, electric tailgate with induction and memory functions, built-in driving recorder, front seat ventilation and heating and main driving memory, adaptive distance headlights, interior atmosphere lights, rear independent space, and so on.

Tang has three layouts of five, six and seven seats, among which seven seats are 2-3-2. When the first two rows are filled with 1.8-meter passengers, the third row of seats is also practical. For 1.8-meter passengers, the head space in the third row is also 2 fingers away, while the leg space is 1 punch and 3 fingers away, which is much more practical than those pseudo-seven-seat SUV models on the market.

In addition, after putting down the first two rows of seats, Tang can form a space with a depth of 2040mm, a height of 730mm and a width of 1000-1280mm, which actually surpasses most of the same-class models, but is slightly inferior, but the second row of seats cannot form a complete plane after being put down, so the practicality will be discounted.

A 2.0T engine comes standard in the whole system of Tang Dynasty, which supports the latest national six emission standards. The maximum power is 141Kw, which is equivalent to 192 HP, and the maximum torque of 320Nm can be generated in the range of 1,500-4,000 rpm. The parameters are basically close to those of the 2.0T low-power engine of the joint venture model, but the transmission part is still matched with a 6-speed automatic manual transmission, which is not dominant in the number of gears compared with the joint venture competitors, and the acceleration score of 0-100 km is 10.4 seconds, while the comprehensive fuel consumption of 100 km reaches 10 seconds.

In a word, in terms of design, Tang has made great progress compared with the previous generation of models. No matter in appearance or interior design, Tang’s performance has the standard of not losing joint venture or even luxury models, while in configuration, it reflects the advantages of domestic models and has a famous style in chassis. However, in terms of power performance, Tang still has room for improvement. No matter the engine parameters or the gear number of 6AT, there is still a certain gap with the leading level in the industry. However, combined with the starting price of less than 130,000 yuan and the seat layout of 567 seats, the product performance is still worth the money.