ByteDance's response to the massive layoffs and withdrawal from the city is true

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1. ByteDance's commercialization team laid off employees

According to The Paper on October 19, some media reported that ByteDance has made a series of organizational structure and business scope adjustments to its commercialization team. Recently, some ByteDance employees posted on the workplace APP platform that the company's commercialization team is being adjusted, and said that "all layoffs in Wenzhou have been completed." Some ByteDance employees said that "all major direct-sale centers and call (centers) will be laid off by 30%-70%."

In this regard, the relevant person in charge of ByteDance HR told the reporter of The Paper that the layoff information was true and was a normal business adjustment of the company . According to employee feedback on the workplace APP, a large number of employees, including fresh graduates, were laid off. According to reports , since the end of last year, ByteDance has made a series of organizational structure and business scope adjustments to the commercialization team. Among them , the most profitable e-commerce business of the Wenzhou local direct-sale center was removed and handed over to the mass consumption business line, resulting in the decline of the performance of the local direct-sale center, and finally the first to withdraw from the city and lay off employees .

It is understood that the commercialization department of ByteDance is a comprehensive digital marketing service platform under ByteDance, which is mainly responsible for traffic expansion and monetization, covering multiple cities. According to inquiries by The Paper, on the workplace platform APP, not only the ByteDance commercialization team was exposed to layoffs, but also employees in business lines such as ByteDance Education and ByteDance Games said there were layoffs.

5G/ Cloud Computing /Communication Network

2. Ericsson is the first to complete high and low frequency NR-DC technology verification

PR Newswire reported on October 19 that Ericsson and MediaTek successfully completed the laboratory test of high and low frequency NR-DC technology. Ericsson used commercial millimeter wave base station products in the n258/26GHz frequency band, with MediaTek M80 5G modem, adopted the carrier bandwidth set by the IMT2020 (5G) Promotion Group, and used NR-DC and carrier aggregation technology to conduct a comprehensive test of the millimeter wave physical layer key technologies and NR-DC independent networking functions on the working bandwidth of 800MHz downlink and 400MHz uplink.

Source: PR Newswire

The Ericsson millimeter wave base station AIR5322 used in this test has been widely deployed in multiple millimeter wave commercial networks around the world. It has 768 antenna arrays, supports 800MHz operating bandwidth, and supports flexible aggregation of any non-continuous carriers in the n258 frequency band. In addition, it is also the industry's lightest and smallest commercial millimeter wave outdoor base station product.

3. The country's first 5G industry service platform is officially launched

According to the Fuzhou Daily on October 19, the country's first "5G Industry Service Platform" jointly built by Fuzhou Internet of Things Open Laboratory and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. was launched in Mawei District. The platform relies on the Fuzhou Internet of Things Open Laboratory to build a one-stop industry technology service platform for 5G industry applications, providing industry partners with industry standards, 5G converged application testing and verification, common technology research and development, project joint creation, talent training and other industry services.

The 5G core network and base station system room of Fuzhou IoT Open Laboratory is equipped with Huawei's 5GC core network, MEC edge computing server and 5G base station, forming a complete 5G terminal test system. According to reports, the Mawei Vehicle-Road Collaboration (M1 Line) project is the first industrial demonstration case of the platform. It was jointly developed by Fuzhou IoT Open Laboratory, Mawei Public Transport and King Long Bus, and is the first 5G-V2X intelligent networked bus line in actual operation in the province.

new product release

4. Alibaba releases self-developed CPU chip Yitian 710

According to Phoenix Technology on October 19, today, Alibaba's semiconductor company Pingtou Ge released its self-developed cloud chip Yitian 710. It is reported that this chip is the industry's most powerful ARM server chip, with performance exceeding the industry benchmark by 20% and energy efficiency improved by more than 50%.

It uses the industry's most advanced 5nm process, with a single chip containing up to 60 billion transistors; in terms of chip architecture, it is based on the latest ARMv9 architecture, contains a 128-core CPU, and has a maximum main frequency of 3.2GHz. It is understood that Yitian 710 is an important step for Alibaba Cloud to promote the "one cloud, multiple cores" strategy, and is also Alibaba's first CPU chip designed for the cloud, which will be deployed in Alibaba Cloud data centers.

Source: Phoenix Technology

5. Apple releases two processors, M1 Pro and M1 Max

Zhongguancun Online reported on October 19 that at a new product launch conference this morning, Apple launched two processors, the M1 Pro and the M1 Max. According to reports, both processors use a 5nm process, of which the M1 Pro has as many as 33.7 billion transistors and ten CPU cores, including eight large cores and two small cores.

The M1 Max has 57 billion transistors and a 10-core CPU, consisting of 8 high-performance cores and 2 high-efficiency cores. In addition, it also has a 32-core GPU core. Apple said that the performance of the M1 Max processor is 1.7 times that of the M1 Pro chip and 3.5 times that of the M1 processor.

Internet of Vehicles

6. Lei Jun announced the mass production time of Xiaomi Automobile

According to The Paper on October 19, Lei Jun, chairman of Xiaomi Group, announced at the Investor Day that the progress of Xiaomi's car manufacturing and the team's various work has far exceeded his expectations, and Xiaomi Auto is expected to be officially mass-produced in the first half of 2024. In addition, Lei Jun also announced that Xiaomi Auto had completed registration in Beijing on September 1, and the first factory will be located in Beijing Yizhuang .

Lei Jun reportedly said at the investor conference that the car business is not for "showing off". Electric cars have now transformed from a mechanical industry to an information industry. In addition, other peers are already doing it. If Xiaomi does not do it, it will be eliminated. Xiaomi has a full smart ecosystem from smartphones to smart homes and smart offices. If it is well integrated with electric cars, it will have strong expansion potential.

Source: The Paper

7. Baidu Apollo and WM Motor jointly released two new cars

According to the Beijing News on October 19, Baidu Apollo and WM Motor officially released two new cars, both based on the WM Motor W6. One is the mass-produced Apollo Moon, a new generation of driverless cars equipped with LiDAR (Apollo Moon WM Motor version); the other is a mass-produced model equipped with Baidu's ANP pilot assisted driving system and AVP autonomous parking system.

According to reports, both models use the "ANP-Robotaxi" architecture, which can achieve data symbiosis and sharing, mutual feedback, and create a data closed loop. Since then, the cooperation between Baidu and WM Motor has completed full coverage from autonomous parking AVP, pilot assistance ANP to fully unmanned Apollo Moon models.

Investment and financing speed

8. Xinkong Intelligent received tens of millions of US dollars in Series A financing

According to 36Kr on October 19, Hangzhou Xinkong Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xinkong Intelligent") announced the completion of a US$10 million Series A financing round. This round of financing was led by Matrix Partners. The funds will be used for team expansion, enrichment of the AI expert database, cloud deployment of software, promotion of the Xinkong brand and demonstration applications in new industries.

At present, Corecontrol Intelligence has combined with the artificial intelligence expert database to design a programming software for automatically generating production lines in smart factories - Factory Steam. Based on Corecontrol Intelligence's AI and modular robot core technologies, it assists automation equipment integrators to complete production line planning, design and optimization, so that robot production lines can be freely assembled and combined like Lego toys, greatly improving the design and implementation efficiency of production lines.

9. 360 Announcement: Investing RMB 2.9 billion in Nezha Auto

On the evening of October 18, 360 issued an announcement stating that as the lead investor in the D round of investment in Hozon New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., it plans to invest 2.9 billion yuan to acquire shares in its automobile brand Nezha Automobile.

After the investment is completed, the company will hold a total of 16.5940% of Nezha Automobile's equity, becoming the largest shareholder excluding the management team, but this transaction will not lead to changes in the scope of the company's consolidated financial statements. The announcement shows that the company's proposed investment in Nezha Automobile is mainly based on the good development opportunities and market prospects of the cybersecurity and intelligent connected vehicle industries.

Industry News

10. Renesas Electronics issues price increase letter

According to a report by Cailianshe on October 19, Renesas Electronics sent a price increase notice to its customers, stating that it is currently facing supply challenges caused by insufficient production capacity, including upstream wafer production capacity limitations, as well as downstream back-end, testing, packaging and raw material capacity limitations, which has caused suppliers to significantly increase costs.

Renesas Electronics said that it has evaluated the impact on its own manufacturing costs and decided to increase the pricing of most of Renesas Electronics' products and newly acquired Dialog products in order to maintain Renesas Electronics' supply and long-term manufacturing continuity. This decision will take effect on January 1, 2022.

11. Huawei spent 298 million to acquire the "giant" industrial site in Longhua, Shenzhen

According to the Shenzhen Business Daily on October 19, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. won a "giant" industrial land in Longhua, Shenzhen, at a base price of 298 million yuan. The land is located at the intersection of Guanlan Furun Road and Longlan Avenue, and the access industries are A06 new generation information technology industry and A02 new energy industry . For industrial land, this land can be said to be "giant". According to the plan, the construction area is 763,000 square meters, including 616,000 square meters of factory buildings, 55,000 square meters of canteens, and 90,000 square meters of dormitories, which is the specifications of a large factory.

It is reported that the land use rights and buildings for project construction are all limited to self-use. During the land transfer period, the land use rights for construction and the buildings and ancillary facilities attached to the land shall not be directly transferred, nor shall they be transferred in disguised form by equity transfer (transfer resulting in changes in the company's controlling rights or actual control) or change, except with the approval of the municipal government.

Source: Shenzhen Business Daily

12. SEMI: Global silicon wafer shipments are expected to achieve strong growth in 2024

Sina Technology reported on October 19 that according to the latest annual silicon wafer shipment forecast report for the semiconductor industry released by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SEMI), global silicon wafer shipments are expected to achieve strong growth in 2024. In 2021, the silicon wafer shipment area will increase by 13.9% year-on-year, setting a historical high of nearly 140 million square inches. The growth is mainly reflected in the fields of logic, foundry and memory.

13. SMIC plans to expand production by 55,000 wafers this year

According to Fast Technology on October 18, SMIC responded to investor inquiries and revealed that it plans to expand the production capacity of 10,000 mature 12-inch (300mm) and 45,000 8-inch (200mm) wafers this year to meet more customer needs. As early as July this year, SMIC revealed that the overall capacity utilization rate in the first quarter was as high as 98.7%. SMIC Shaoxing, located in Shaoxing, has already climbed to 70,000 wafers/month, and mass production has reached 99%.

In terms of FinFET advanced technology, SMIC's first generation has entered the mature mass production stage, and the product yield has reached the industry standard. The development of multiple derivative platforms is proceeding as planned, and NTO is being steadily introduced, and the goal of product diversification is being achieved. The second generation FinFET technology has greatly improved the density of transistors per unit area, and the low-voltage process development has been completed and entered risk mass production.

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The content of this article is compiled from Phoenix Technology, Zhongguancun Online, Shenzhen Business Daily, The Paper, Fuzhou Daily, Sina Technology, Fast Technology, PR Newswire, Beijing News, Cailianshe, 36Kr , etc. It is for communication and learning purposes only. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@gsi24.com.