"Living itself is wonderful. If you don't even understand this truth, how can you explore deeper things?"
Liu Cixin's sentence in the science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem" Classical discourse not only points out the beauty and mystery of the known world and the unknown world, but also reveals the significance of human beings pursuing "knowledge without limit" with "life is boundless".
In the same way, this is also the motivation for many technology companies to continue to struggle, and it is also their glory to meet the future with technology.
As the saying goes, “give civilization to time and life to time,” let’s take several futuristic technology companies as examples to explore the “civilization” and “life” technology companies give to the future.
Huawei is doing something but not doing anything
The Huawei Voice Community recently released Ren Zhengfei’s speech at the enterprise business and cloud business report meeting. He mentioned that he will continue to do subtraction. , corporate business must shrink its front line and insist on doing something and not doing something.
Ren Zhengfei said that we are going all out to build an application ecosystem and build a big ecosystem like Amazon. Without applications, Huawei Cloud may die. Mobile Internet applications, enterprise applications, government applications, coal mine applications, airport applications, Ping An applications, GTS applications, and internal company IT applications are all windows of opportunity for our ecological development.
Ren Zhengfei also said that Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and AWS are launching more and more hardware-software integration equipment. Huawei’s advantage lies in hardware. We must strengthen the software and application ecosystem and should not give up hardware to Huawei. Advantages brought by the cloud. Preserve the stability and high efficiency of the underlying architecture, give full play to the comprehensive advantages of "connected computing", continue to iteratively optimize the I (IAAS) layer architecture, and drive further innovation in computing, storage, network and other layers for cloud scenarios.
As a technology-oriented company, Huawei often explores various technologies. Even if technologies that are temporarily unavailable for commercial use cannot bring any revenue, Huawei will still explore and break through them without hesitation.
The Russian Satellite News Agency reported on January 1 that Dutch media recently stated that Huawei has launched research on photonic chips so that photonic chips can serve the future. It is understood that the transmission speed of photonic chips is 1,000 times that of traditional electronic chips, and the power consumption is only one percent of that. It has the advantages of low latency and resistance to electronic interference. In the future, it can be widely used in mobile phones, artificial intelligence, intelligent robots, High-tech products such as drones.
Huawei’s move not only hopes to achieve “overtaking in corners” in the chip field, but also hopes to get rid of its dependence on ASML lithography machines. Since last year, Huawei has also been actively working in the field of photonic chips and is strengthening cooperation with universities to cultivate relevant talents in professional fields and drive the development of the entire industry.
The key to Huawei’s ability to constantly exploit new opportunities is that it knows how to stand higher so that it can see higher and further.
BGI is determined to decipher the secrets of life
The COVID-19 epidemic has brought irreversible negative impacts to the world, but it has also promoted the development of the medical industry to a certain extent. BGI's strong R&D capabilities were quickly demonstrated, and its stable and accurate "BGI speed" was amazing, bringing a "light of hope" to the fight against the epidemic.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, BGI’s COVID-19 detection kits and “FireEye” laboratories have provided strong support for the fight against the epidemic at home and abroad. As of June 30, 2020, BGI's nucleic acid testing kits were sold to 180 countries and regions around the world, with sales exceeding 35 million units. The "Fire Eye" laboratory has been rapidly launched in more than 10 major cities across the country to assist domestic epidemic prevention and control, and has also entered the global market.
Up to now, the "Fire Eye" laboratory integrated comprehensive solution has been implemented in 17 countries and regions including Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Serbia, Australia, and Canada.
It is worth mentioning that in the second battlefield of the fight against the epidemic, the BGI science popularization team and scientific research team also opened up an online "battlefield" for anti-epidemic science popularization and used practical actions to practice "bringing genetic technology to the public" ". In this sense, the development of science and technology needs to be irrigated with humanistic sentiments in order to shine brighter.
BGI has been committed to accelerating scientific and technological innovation. While taking into account the fight against the epidemic, it also continues to develop new products in various fields such as hereditary deafness, pre-pregnancy genetic diseases, non-invasive prenatal testing, tumors, and pathogenic infections. . When talking about the key commercialization layout in the future, BGI CEO Yin Ye said that he will adhere to the principle that genes have the final say, focus on the life and health part of the human health system, and transform "treatment-centered" into "Prevention-centered and health-centered".
BGI, which has always adhered to the vision of "gene technology for the benefit of mankind", uses gene technology to protect "human health and wellness as one body".
Longping Hi-tech sows seeds in a field of special hope
If these rice seeds that reach the sky have given us unlimited reveries, then sowing them on the plateau What a shock the sea rice in the cold area brings to us.
Through independent research and development of technology, optimizing the optimal ratio, and using methods such as rice salt-alkali tolerance test and cold tolerance test, Yuan Longpinghai's rice research team specially cultivated plateau cold sea rice. On June 8, 2020, at the Hexi Farm in Golmud City, Hainan Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province at an altitude of 2,800 meters, after four days of transplanting, the trial planting area of ????sea rice has reached 28 acres. This is the first trial planting of sea rice on the high-altitude Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Regarding seawater rice, Academician Yuan Longping made a calculation for the people across the country: If seawater rice is promoted to 100 million acres per year and the average yield per mu is 300 kilograms, the annual production of 30 billion kilograms of grain will be increased. What is the concept? This is equivalent to the total grain output of Hunan Province for the whole year, which can feed nearly 80 million more people.
In the next two years, Yuan Longpinghai’s rice research team will expand the Golmud saline-alkali land management and planting technology to 1,000 acres by expanding the treatment area, conducting experimental research and practice, and strive to extend it to more than 10,000 acres within five years. .
Grain is the ballast of national security, and it is imperative to carry out technical research on the "stuck neck" of seed sources. To a certain extent, "sea rice" has brought new opportunities to the research and development of China's seed industry. Enlightenment.
The seed industry is regarded as the "chip" of agriculture. The development level of the seed industry is related to the lifeblood of a country's agricultural production and food security. Although Longping High-tech has not yet participated in sea rice research and planting business, Longping High-tech mainly focuses on hybrid rice, especially hybrid indica rice, which is also the rice seed industry market with the highest commercial value in my country.
At the same time, Longping Hi-Tech has also achieved "fruitful results" in terms of research and development in other seed industries. On December 3, 2020, the company announced that a total of 185 varieties cultivated independently or jointly with other parties by Longping Hi-Tech and its subsidiaries have been approved by the state, including 132 new varieties of rice and new corn varieties. There are 52 varieties and 1 new cotton variety.
At this time, we not only see the role model of Longping Hi-Tech, we also see the "power" from seeds, which will help my country's seed industry fight a beautiful "turnaround."
In the same way, all walks of life, including chips, semiconductors, information technology, artificial intelligence, life sciences, industrial manufacturing, etc., will achieve new selves and create new things through continuous "breakdown and establishment". New wonders.
Making the impossible possible is the charm of the future for us!
Conclusion
Technology is the messenger that bridges reality and the future, and technology companies are the pioneers that shorten the distance between the future and the future. The future is always on the road, and only by unremitting efforts can we move towards newness.
Where is the motivation for struggle? This is Liu Cixin's "Living itself is wonderful. If you don't even understand this truth, how can you explore deeper things?" People with missions are on a global scale Maybe it has always been a very small minority, so it has always been a minority that brings unexpected surprises and essential changes to the world.
(Text/Mr. Chu)