Directly hit CES2018: a whole year of technology hotspots are here

Before the official start of the 2018CES exhibition, many companies had pre-emptively held a new product launch conference to carry out the “warm-up”. Please take a look at the "fast food" for you.

On January 10th, Beijing time, the 2018 CES exhibition will kick off. As an exhibition that represents the trend of global consumer electronics, CES has long been a big stage for all parties to compete.

Before the official start of the exhibition, many companies had pre-emptively held a new product launch conference to carry out the "warm-up". Please take a look at the "fast food" that OFweek artificial intelligence network provides for you.

直击CES2018:一整年的科技热点都在这里

Smart home

Smart homes dominated last year's CES show, and this trend has not shown signs of slowing this year. Smart devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home are already the focus of home automation, which means that we can expect more smart home products to emerge.

Samsung ice wash all-line attack

As a giant in the consumer electronics industry, Samsung Electronics will bring consumers a smarter life experience vision, and bring a variety of 2018 home appliances such as smart refrigerators, smart washing machines and smart dryers to CES.

Samsung will continue the innovation advantage of last year's Family-hub2.0 refrigerator, and launch Samsung's Family-hub3.0 refrigerator with superior advantages in smart preservation and smart interconnection.

In addition, Samsung will also showcase the new QuickDriveTM technology, the Samsung Quick Drive series of washing machines, and together with Samsung's new dryers, creating a more convenient and intelligent era of care.

Sony 4K OLED TV

This time, Sony released a series of new products including 4K OLED TV and LCD TV products, noise canceling headphones, mobile phones and entertainment robots based on artificial intelligence technology.

It is understood that the newly released A8F series 4K OLED BRAVIA TV, equipped with 4K HDR image processing chip X1 advanced version (X1Extreme), and Sony's unique screen sound field AcousTIc Surface technology through the display vibration directly output sound. Available in 65" and 55" sizes, the A8F series features a new design that minimizes footprint.

In addition, Sony has also updated more 4K HDR product series, these products are equipped with Sony 4K HDR image processing chip X1 (X85F series only), 4K Xun Rui image processing engine Pro and other Sony technology, the whole line of new products is expected to be 2018 Officially released.

Haier one-stop smart home solution

Last year, Haier launched the world's first smart home system UHomeOS and application scenarios at CES. According to official sources, Haier's smart home strategy will be upgraded again this year, and a one-stop smart home solution will be exhibited.

Not only that, Haier's series of innovative products will also land in CES, F + refrigerator, the world's first "air and air" air conditioner, the world's first IoT fiber-grade washing machine and so on.

Smart speaker

Recently, market analysis company Canalys released a smart speaker report test, which showed that global smart speaker sales exceeded 30 million units in 2017. In addition, it predicts that by the end of this year, the global shipment of smart speakers will reach 56.3 million units, and that 2018 will be the "decisive year" for the popularity of smart speakers.

Google Home Mini

This year is the first time that Google has participated in the CES show. It is reported that the reason for this decision is that Google wants to promote its own voice assistant Google Assistant.

According to Google's official blog, Google Assistant has been used on more than 400 million devices, and now Google Assistant is available in 8 languages ​​worldwide.

Google said that since the Home Mini began shipping in 2017, at least one Google home device has been sold once per second. In 2017, there were about 6.3 million home smart speakers sold.

Amazon Echo

As a big winner at CES last year, Amazon Alexa sold tens of millions of Alexa-based Echo smart speaker devices during the holiday season last month (December 2017), and market research firm Strategy AnalyTIcs expects support voices sold last year. 68% of the controlled smart speakers are based on Alexa.

According to CIRP estimates, Amazon's Echo products have a 76% market share in the US smart speaker market, while Google's Google Home market share is only 24%.

LG ThinQ

At this year's CES show, LG will launch a smart speaker based on Google Assistant. It is part of the ThinQ brand, which is LG's newly announced brand of assisted artificial intelligence appliances. This speaker supports Meridian Audio audio technology to provide "more natural and gentle sound."

The ThinQ Smart Speaker is LG's first product to support Google Assistant (except for smartphones), which allows users to control SmartThinQ smart appliances via voice. LG will post more information about the product on CES 2018 and expect it to be more competitive than Google Home.

Baidu small fish at home VS1

As one of China's largest Internet giants, Baidu is trying to break into the field of smart speakers. At the CES conference, Baidu will launch a product that is empowered by DuerOS in conjunction with a number of vendors, including a smart video speaker with a small fish at home, at home VS1.

The small fish at home VS1 is a smart speaker with a screen. It is reported that the VS1 upgrades from 2 microphones to 6 microphones compared to the previous products, adopts its own design of Fish UI 4.0, and integrates the capabilities of DuerOS 2.0.

Through voice interaction + screen interaction, this product can use the instructions on the screen to educate and guide users. When released domestically in March 2018, it will have 30 to 40 skills around the family scene, then release a new skill every week, while the joint developer will launch more new skills.

Intelligent driving

The Consumer Electronics Show Auto Show is said to be the most intuitive experience of many viewers at the CES show last year. Since 2017, major auto giants and Internet giants have been committed to the development of driverless cars, and related technologies such as smart driving have become the highlight of this year's CES.

Mercedes-Benz car entertainment information system

At last year's CES show, Mercedes-Benz announced its focus on the next-generation A-class sedan and the new in-vehicle infotainment system, and said that all new-generation compact cars in 2018 will be equipped with MBUX in-vehicle systems. The new A-Class sedan replaces the traditional dashboard with a large touch screen, while the split screen layout allows the user to customize the settings page.

MBUX (Mercedes User Experience) platform is the first in-car user experience system, which combines artificial intelligence technology and intuitive operating system, and is equipped with the latest technology invention, aiming to provide users with a new information entertainment platform experience.

Modern automobile intelligent speech recognition system

Recently, Hyundai Motor revealed in advance on the official website that the "Intelligent Personal Agent" intelligent speech recognition system jointly developed with SoundHound will be launched at CES in 2018. This system not only helps the driver to control the functions of the car but also based on Individual drivers take the initiative to provide practical advice.

According to Hyundai Motor, the driver can use the voice recognition system to say “Hi Modern”, which can operate multiple functions by voice, including door locks, sunroofs, and air conditioning systems. It is worth mentioning that the system can also more accurately identify the owner's voice commands, including the multiple commands that are spoken at the same time.

Baidu second generation autonomous driving platform Apollo 2.0

Baidu officially launched Apollo 2.0, the company's second-generation autonomous driving platform. It is reported that Apollo 2.0 can already drive automatically on simple urban roads. In terms of perception, the Apollo 2.0 system integrates Radar, Camera, Sensor fusion, traffic light detection and obstacle type recognition, and uses centimeter-level point cloud positioning to achieve precise positioning even when the GPS signal is not good.

At the same time, Apollo 2.0 also brings a complete solution and flexible architecture for autonomous driving, and introduces OTA protection upgrade and hardware-level security black box function, which enables the system to have higher strength under network attack.

The largest screen in the history of the history of the pure electric SUV concept car

On January 7th, US Western Time, the first pure electric SUV concept car with the largest comprehensive screen in history, with CES, completed the world's first show. The production model will be officially launched in the second half of 2019, starting at $45,000, or about RMB 300,000.

The biggest highlight of this car is that the center console is equipped with a shared full screen with a length of 125 cm and a height of 25 cm. The interior part also includes two LED screens with adaptive display mode, five human-computer interaction modes, BYTON Life digital cloud platform, and a new face recognition camera installed on the B-pillar to further simplify the vehicle unlocking mechanism.

AI chip

In recent years, artificial intelligence has made breakthroughs, mainly due to the development of the chip computing base. At the same time, under the general trend of artificial intelligence, the cake in the chip market is getting bigger and bigger.

The report released by CCID Consulting shows that by 2020, the artificial intelligence chip market will reach 14.616 billion US dollars, accounting for 12.18% of the global artificial intelligence market. It can be said that the development space of the artificial intelligence chip market is extremely broad.

NVIDIA driverless car processor DRIVEXavier

Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun released the driverless vehicle processor DRIVEXavier at the CES outpost. The chip has an area of ​​350mm2 and a 12nm FFN process with 9 billion transistors.

Xavier features an 8-core CPU and a 512-core Volta GPU, including a new DLA, an image vision accelerator and an 8K HDR video processor that supports 30 trillion operations per second and consumes only 30 watts of power, which will be shipped in Q1.

Intel Movidius Neural Computing Rod

Intel will showcase the world's first independent artificial intelligence accelerator, the Movidius neural computing stick in USB format. It is reported that the new product Movidius Neural Compute STIck is redesigned according to Fathom.

Compared with the old model, the 2017 NCS computing stick will increase the integrated running memory to 1GB, support the acceleration mode and multi-USB co-worker, SoC is MA2455, and join the safe start, TSMC 28nm HPC process.

Samsung Exynos 9810

Samsung said that through deep learning based on neural networks, Exynos 9810 can accurately identify people and objects in pictures and quickly search and classify pictures, and can realize face 3D scanning through depth perception.

The Samsung Exynos 9810 uses Samsung's second-generation 10nm (FinFET) process, featuring a new eight-core CPU in a 4+4 core configuration, four of the 2.9GHz third-generation high-performance custom cores and four efficiency-optimized cores. The new architecture of the Exynos 9810 extends the transmission channel and increases the cache, which is 2x better than the previous generation processor's single core performance, and the multicore performance is increased by about 40%.

In addition, in order to ensure the security of user information, Samsung also embedded a separate security processing unit (Separate security processing unit) in the Exynos 9810 to ensure the user's face, iris and fingerprint information.

5G technology

Compared to 4G, 5G transmission speed is faster. It takes only 10 seconds to download a 120-minute HD movie, which is 100 times that of 4G. The emergence and application of 5G technology will become an important assistant for hot trends such as Internet of Things, virtual reality, and driverless driving.

ZTE 5G Technology and ZTE Tianxing Axon M

ZTE said that it will showcase the industry-leading IoT and 5G technologies at this CES.

In addition, ZTE's heavy product at the show is ZTE Tianxing AxonM, which will be released in China on January 16 after it is listed in the US and Japan. ZTE Tianxun AxonM adopts a folding dual-screen design, which adopts four different operation modes: classic, split screen, large screen and mirror.

Samsung 5G Connected Car Program

At the CES press conference, Samsung announced some of its progress in the 5G field, including "the first 5G vehicle solution in the industry", which is the TelemaTIcs Control Unit (TCU).

This product is the result of a collaboration between Samsung and Harman, which was acquired by Samsung in late 2016. It has been in the field of car navigation systems for a long time and is deployed on some very popular cars.

Thanks to the support of C-V2X technology, Samsung and Harman have developed a 5G solution that allows cars to communicate with each other and learn about traffic lights, external traffic management systems and other vehicles. In short, the TCU will be the access point for a car to connect to the transportation network.

Samsung is committed to a 5G update at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics next month, including a partnership with KT Corporation.

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