Lenovo's future door is about to open, and three megatrends converge to trigger the singularity effect.

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(Opening of Xi ' an summit of Lenovo Innovation and Technology Conference)

In January 2016, IBM lost revenue for 14 consecutive quarters, and shares fell to record lows. However, IBM shares in the overall rally in 2016, to the end of the year has rebounded to the midpoint of nearly three years, it can be said that IBM's comprehensive recovery and the new wave of artificial intelligence is closely related.

In this round of artificial intelligence and cloud computing, the development of traditional PC manufacturers also face a big test. December 28, 2016, Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker, held the Lenovo Innovation and Technology conference in XI ' an. The Xi ' an summit, which is a 15-year period after Lenovo held a large-scale technology summit in China.

In Lenovo's many innovative technologies, a smart TV that can talk to people has sparked the author's thinking that AI cloud services are ultimately going to be landed through hardware products, and that Amazon and Google's smart speakers are examples, and IBM is bringing Watson to a variety of objects, and Lenovo to provide users with nearly 150 million sets of intelligent terminal equipment, which is a huge hardware ecological platform, but also the age of artificial intelligence tickets.

In addition to artificial intelligence, there are two major trends in the rapid landing of consumer upgrades and new technology systems. It can be said that the convergence of the three major trends will lead to singularity effect, not only open the door of the future of Lenovo, will also open the whole social and economic future.

The trend of soft and hard integration of artificial intelligence

First, Lenovo will be launched in 2017 Spring festival Lenovo Smart TV 65-inch i3. Lenovo for this smart TV embedded in natural language understanding, intelligent chat robot, far-field speech recognition, intelligent content and service orchestration and scheduling, a series of security technology and so on.

Jia Chaohui, president of Lenovo's PC and smart Devices Group, has a conversation with this "chat TV", which not only communicates with people fluently, but also automatically brings together relevant content and services, such as weather conditions. The more users chat with this smart TV, the more they will understand the user, Jia Chaohui said. In addition to the integrated chat function, Lenovo will gradually integrate the "look-and-feel" and "watch-side buy" and other functions, to fully meet the user's social and immersive TV experience shopping.

Some might say, it's not uncommon. 2016 is the 60 anniversary of artificial intelligence, experienced 60 years of ups and downs of artificial intelligence technology in 2016 ushered in human history for the first comprehensive large-scale commercial first wave. IBM, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Iflytek and a number of domestic and foreign manufacturers have launched sophisticated AI technology and cloud services, as well as today's headlines such as the successful use of artificial intelligence technology to build new business model of the company.

On December 17, 2016, the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, China Academy of Engineering, the Strategic Advisory Center, sponsored by today's headlines, IEEE "Computational Science Review" in collaboration with the 2016 Machine Intelligent Frontier Forum, the Chinese Information Association of China's vice chairman, Tsinghua University professor Maosong Sun said, Now is the time to extract artificial intelligence, the use of domestic and foreign mature research and technical achievements, can do a lot of creative and innovative things. "To the harvest season", "to Hurry Peaches!"

AI technology manufacturers at home and abroad are also actively seeking to combine artificial intelligence technology with various types of hardware to complete the last kilometer of artificial intelligence landing. In October 2016, when IBM academician and WATSON/M chief scientist Grady Booch visited Beijing, he emphasized that the work he was doing was called "body recognition (embodied cognition)", which is the IBM Watson's ability to be embedded in all things in an engineered way.

In the next few years, artificial intelligence engineering will be one of the biggest trends, soft and hard integrated, soft and hard integration of artificial intelligence hardware products will become a new generation of equipment, or even the entrance of mobile internet. The success of the iphone and ipad is an excellent user experience with soft and hard integration. Artificial intelligence soft and hard integration, is precisely Lenovo's greatest opportunity.

Lenovo's biggest advantage is the engineering of large-scale manufacturing and soft and hard integration, and Lenovo also provides consumers with nearly 150 million smart devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, etc., every year. These 150 million smart devices are the tools and portals for hundreds of millions of users to enter the smart Internet. In addition to the continued introduction of soft and hard integration of artificial intelligence products, Lenovo can also be the existing intelligent terminal Equipment users to push AI services, the 150 million smart devices connected together. Once the connection is formed, the imaginary space will have no upper limit.

The trend of hardware quality in consumption upgrade

At the Lenovo Innovation and Technology conference, Xi ' an summit, in addition to personalization, intelligence and service of the three key words, there is also a key word, which is the quality of. The "quality" of the key words, but also coincided with the trend of consumer upgrading is coming.

At the beginning of November 2016, the Economist Intelligence Bank issued a forecast for China's consumer market for the next 15 years, and it is expected that by 2030 China will have nearly 35% of its population (480 million people) in line with the definition of middle-and high-income groups, which have an annual disposable income of more than $10,000, This is a total of up to 30 trillion trillion yuan in the consumer market, and today the proportion of the population is only 10%.

With the increase of income and the popularization of life style in middle stage, the consumption preference will be changed. The rising middle class will upgrade consumption and turn to higher-quality, high-end branded products. For such a coming consumer market, "fine" is undoubtedly the most correct direction.

In addition to the trend of consumer upgrading, there is a surge of consumer groups rushing. Almost all of them came from wealthy families, or at least a well-fed generation, compared to the one who picked up Xiaomi's cock and silk generation. The concept of consumption is no longer a dick silk-type functional products, but the real brand has a taste of the boutique family, but also in the consumption of the time can be "regardless of the cost" of the purchase of their favorite products and services.

"In the era of intelligent interconnection, the user's work and life and end products more closely related, this also on the reliability of products, fault tolerance, security and manageability, and other series of quality indicators put forward more stringent requirements." "Quality is Lenovo's consistent terminal equipment research and development guidelines, ThinkPad family of generations of products are in line with the design concept, active protection system, small red Hat full-function backlit keyboard and splash-proof technology and so on.

Of course, Lenovo also encountered a new challenge in boutique design: In light fashion design trends and higher integration of system design premise, how to continuously improve product quality, so as to ensure the user's intelligent connected experience? ThinkPad X1 series of Eagle Wing fans, aerospace equipment, the same level of carbon fiber material applications and intelligent cooling system design, all support the "very light, very thin, very delicate" concept of the new era of quality. This range of products can also meet more than 200 Lenovo internal product tests and 12 demanding military-grade equipment tests.

Another Lenovo boutique is just released six months of Moto Z Modular mobile phone. At the Lenovo Technology Innovation conference in San Francisco in June 2016, he said, Moto Z debuted. Media evaluation It is the mobile phone market "long-awaited innovation products", "redefined the modular mobile phone", after July in the global market in succession, the start price of more than 3500 yuan in mobile phones, less than half a year, the global sales reached 1.75 million units.

Lenovo Group Vice President Zhang Hua demonstrated Lenovo Tango AR smartphone Phab2 Pro, as well as applications based on Google Tango augmented reality technology on mobile phones. The Phab 2 Pro is equipped with a Super camera module consisting of 4 cameras, supported by intelligent cloud and big data, with the powerful features offered by AR Service platform, such as object recognition, voice assistant, 3D modeling and remote expert, can be widely used in telemedicine, engineering maintenance, AR Education, gaming, e-commerce and other fields , to create a new type of boutique services.

All of this is based on Lenovo's years of experience in hardware engineering. Lenovo's boutique design is based on Lenovo's research and development team, 53 top labs, thousands of engineers over 25 years of computer development experience and more than 26,000 global patents, Jia Chaohui said.

Rapid integration trend of new technology system

In 2016, Lenovo officially released the bi-state it white paper and the dual-state IT Solution family. The so-called dual-state it is the "steady state" it for the traditional business architecture and the "sensitive state" it for the Internet business and application. Among them, the micro-service racks, distributed deployment and devops operations involved in sensitive it have been developed rapidly in recent years, and are now moving towards a more stable and mature phase of commercial technology integration.

In fact, this round of global technological system changes, represented by cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, has completed the first stage of technology accumulation, incubation and trial. Among them, cloud computing and big data have been 10 years of history, and now has entered a more mature commercial phase. Not to mention, even Microsoft's HoloLens has been launched for two years, 2017 is about to be fully popularized.

More importantly, after the impact of the new technology system over the past 10 years, the market education process has been completed. Now it's time to quickly integrate and rapidly launch commercial solutions to this round of technological change. Lenovo Research Institute has carried out a great deal of basic research and development on the new technology system, focusing on the fields of device intelligence, software-defined data center and intelligent Cloud brain. In April 2016, Lenovo Venture Group was further formed to invest in Lenovo's internal innovation projects, as well as to invest in external entrepreneurial teams to quickly access social and innovative resources to form an intelligent and interconnected ecosystem.

Yang said that at present Lenovo has formed a three-legged research and development innovation system: Lenovo division responsible for the last two years of product and technology innovation, Lenovo Institute for the next 3-5 years of product and technology innovation, and Lenovo VC Group investment in the next 5-10 years. In particular, Lenovo VC Group to invest to promote the future layout, to meet the outbreak of intelligent Internet, so far has invested about 50 enterprises, many of which have become the industry leader.

Around the intelligent Internet, Lenovo in smart devices, intelligent cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, the focus of the three major areas of research and development innovation. Lenovo Venture Group President Foshan introduced the key direction: in the field of intelligent equipment, Lenovo focused on the layout of five types of technology, namely smart home, smart Office, Smart Travel, AR\VR technology and 5G technology; in the field of intelligent cloud infrastructure, Lenovo focuses on software-defined data center direction Lenovo is also building its own artificial intelligence platform, focusing on three aspects of computer vision, natural language understanding and situational awareness.

An example of Lenovo's research and innovation is the wearable watch-type mobile phone. In June 2016, Lenovo made its first presentation at the Global Conference on Science and Technology. Today, Lenovo is working with screen manufacturers to solve engineering problems such as the ability to bend the phone's screen tens of thousands of times, install 2000 mah batteries in space between 5 and 6 millimeters, and the functionality of a curved screen.

In the field of artificial intelligence, Lenovo's voice assistant has been able to realize knowledge inference, intelligent error correction, and pleasant and natural chatting with users through situational and contextual perception. In November 2016, Microsoft Research Asia Executive vice President Ruiyong joined Lenovo Group and served as Senior vice President and CTO. Ruiyong is also a fellow of the American Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), with more than 60 U.S. and international patents, and the advent of Ruiyong will undoubtedly strengthen Lenovo's rapid product in the field of AI.

In the area of smart cloud infrastructure, the most fundamental change in cloud infrastructure is the software-defined data center, which is investigating how to transform a fixed data center into a sensitive, manageable, scalable, and efficient data center, and will launch a software data center solution Thinkcloud across different cloud platforms in 2017.

For the commercialization of the new technology system, Lenovo itself is the best experimental platform. Lenovo Group senior vice president, China president Dongfuyau said, Lenovo itself is based on three architectures, a very typical "dual-state It" architecture. Lenovo's core business is deployed on the ERP, and Lenovo has developed more than 120 applications over the years, interacting very closely with employees and customers, and these applications are being updated weekly. It is Lenovo's vast business, staff and customer ecosystem that gives Lenovo the opportunity to quickly integrate, test, and optimize the new technology system to market quickly.

Lenovo restarted the national Science and Technology Innovation exhibition, coincided with the soft and hard integration of artificial intelligence, the hardware quality of consumer upgrading and the rapid integration of new technology system to the beginning of the convergence of three major trends. This may be a coincidence, but the underlying implication is that Lenovo insists on an uninterrupted 32-year effort. History always favors those who are prepared, who says not? (Wen/Ningchuang)

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Lenovo's future door is about to open, and three megatrends converge to trigger the singularity effect.