Before the outbreak of 5G, the smartphone market is in the dark before dawn

Wei Shaojun, Director of the Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University, Chief Technical Engineer of the National Key Scientific and Technological Project of "Core High-tech Basics", and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is committed to the research of VLSI design methodology, embedded system design technology and reconfigurable computing chip technology. He has dozens of invention patents in China and the United States, and has won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award.

Jiwei comment: Teacher Wei has become the spokesperson for popular science of integrated circuits in China.

Control the volume of headphones with your mind? This company tells you it's not a fantasy

According to foreign media Geekwire, Canadian startup Orbityl hopes to create a brain-computer interface that looks like ordinary headphones, allowing users to control devices through thoughts.

Jiwei comment: It will probably take some time before we can realize the human-computer interface through thoughts.

Skyworks expects Q2 revenue to drop 11.3% year-on-year! Hope 5G popularization will reverse the situation

RF module supplier Skyworks Solutions Inc. announced its second quarter 2019 financial report (ending March 29, 2019) after the U.S. stock market closed on May 2: revenue decreased by 11.3% year-on-year to US$810.4 million; non-GAAP diluted earnings per share decreased by 10.4% year-on-year to US$1.47. Yahoo Finance website shows that analysts originally expected Skyworks' second quarter revenue and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share to be US$810 million and US$1.43, respectively.

Jiwei Comment: Before the outbreak of 5G, the smartphone market is experiencing the darkness before dawn.

Terry Gou: Foxconn will do better without me

Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou flew from Washington to Wisconsin on the 3rd. Regarding his retirement from the "jianghu", Gou said that he believed that the new generation will always replace the old generation, and that Foxconn without Terry Gou will do better than before.

Jiwei Comment: It is a good guess. If Guo Taiming can pass the primary election, he will become the leader of Taiwan. However, the probability of this is not high. The most likely possibility is that Han Kuo-yu will win the primary election and Guo Taiming will become his partner in the election for Taiwan's vice president.

Having just received a $4.5 billion settlement from Apple, the 5G chip giant is preparing to cause trouble for Huawei again

Qualcomm said in its latest financial report that it received $150 million in patent fees from Huawei this quarter, and negotiations with Huawei are still ongoing. Qualcomm Executive Vice President Alex Rogers said that negotiations with Huawei are ongoing, and we believe that the settlement with Apple has enhanced our ability to resolve issues with Huawei, which I think is a good thing.