Build an eco-circle based on Intel on the basis of guaranteed financial returns

Intel holds nearly 70 investment technology days a year, and the continuous hosting of the 13 CEO summit is a classic retention of Intel's investments. Every time, in 56 countries and regions, 300 invested companies, 400 corporate executives, 46 new investment projects, 2,300 investors and investors, large and small companies, industry experts and entrepreneurs together to share entrepreneurial experience, create and set up more opportunities for cooperation.

For a VC agency, a simple financial investor might see the partnership between the companies as "not that heavy". And as a parent-driven Intel investment, these relationships become important--and when they get financial rewards, they want to build an ecological circle between their business and their investment projects, and create a mutual solidarity.

Investment can be worn

If you look for a bright spot in Intel's investment logic this year, there is no doubt that it will fall on wearable devices. In the "prime time" of the opening day of the Intel Global CEO Summit, 3 Intel's companies were moved to the podium, all from the wearable equipment sector.

Basis is a smart watch maker that has been investing in Intel this year. According to its CEO, the watch has 6 sensor points behind it, and the heartbeat, blood pressure, respiration rate, calorie consumption, etc. can be quantified as data. In addition, the wearer can take steps at different times and measure body temperature at any time. The data computing power of a watch can help the wearer design a personal plan by collecting data. For example, "to sleep a little more later", "also need to exercise for at least 20 minutes" and so on.

"In fact wearable devices, hardware products are not the core, the real core is from the mobile device behind the data driven, through personal data and data, you can analyze the status quo, and provide solutions." The process of network, Wifi, cloud computing, security in which is to help our entire ecological chain development. "Arvind Sodhani, Intel Investment President and Intel Corporation executive vice president, Sodhani the logic behind the preference for wearable devices.

In the domestic market, many companies have similar attempts. In the area of wearable equipment, Intel's investment in the health sector has become more and more popular in addition to the sport-smart products mentioned above.

Sotera is the wearable project in the field of medical equipment. For more than 10 or even decades, medical equipment has always been reminiscent of a large machine, to see the daily detection equipment in the hospital to know. And the company wants to make these instruments smaller to be "portable and free to move."

For example, you used to have high blood pressure, often go to the hospital to check, can have a product at any time at home to complete the test? The Sotera, which is worn on the wrist and has only a piece of soap in the meter area, achieves the full effect of the hospital's instrument. As long as the patient first goes to the hospital, communicates with the doctor and completes the setting, the daily personal data is automatically transferred to the hospital, and the doctor can then know the patient's status.

The product was applied a year ago and was approved by the United States two weeks ago. Good news for the United States, which has a large number of hypertensive patients. According to the CEO, the instrument can be sent to the hospital daily amount of data up to 1G.

If you think the above two wearable cases are familiar and innovative, then Recon limited the device the company has developed looks pretty cool. Prior to its launch of the Jet series of head-wearing screen equipment, and in 2013, Google I/O conference and other activities exposed.

It is not like Google Glass sports glasses, is exactly a ski sunglasses. Wear it, in addition to the shape plus points, but also in the process of the movement of skiing in real time to determine the direction, measurement speed, as well as the mountain, jump height. The data will be displayed on the glasses screen, and even more so, the product can not only measure its own motion, but also find and crawl data from other moving people, such as speed, altitude, and so on. After exercise, the social properties behind it can allow users to share data. At present, Recon Limited's Android-based head-and-wear screen device Jet series, and the oakly with the launch of the ski mirror products MoD live as a major feature products launched.

In addition to investment, Intel will also help these companies with "manufacturing, operations and expertise", Sodhani said. It is worth noting, however, that the companies at the moment have only announced a funding partnership with Intel, but have not used Intel chips, and it is likely that future products will use Intel's latest IDF2013 mobile chip quark, which is what Intel is investing in to build the biosphere.

Building the Biosphere

In fact, it's not surprising that wearable devices are the highlight of Intel's CEO summit. The pattern and trends of the Internet and technology are changing, and in the face of such an external environment, Intel investment has just made an adjustment to the investment line: Intel Corporation's global Investment and acquisition agency, announcing the creation of 4 new investment sectors, to launch and manage investments in new technology areas. These new departments include:

Data Center Software Department: Will focus on cloud software, large data and business analysis; second, new equipment and wearable equipment department: To find the investment opportunities in wearable computing; III. Security Department: Focus on software and hardware-based safety solutions; Iv. ultra-polar and Perceptual Computing Dept.: Responsible for managing "Intel Investment Ultra-Extreme TM Fund" and Intel investment experience and Perception Computing Fund.

The emergence of a new department is not difficult to understand, in the PC end of the day, the original performance of the rapid growth of Intel also showed signs of slowing down. Intel's revenues and profits have fallen markedly in the first 9 months of this fiscal year, and it has become a top priority for Intel to find new growth points.

In Intel's decision to invest, the PC is evolving, and there will be more binary products in the future, with the new investment sector, "perceptual computing", for example, face recognition, gesture recognition, eye tracking, all products that will become the next generation. and including wearable, smart phones, tablets, including mobile areas, is one of the key investment.

Intel Investment China managing director Xusheng told reporters that the current Intel investment has 4 main logic:

The first is ecosystem construction to support the final product with Intel technology. This type of company complements Intel products, help drive market demand for Intel products; The second is market development, for companies that can help accelerate technology applications in emerging markets, which typically provide local voice content or services via the Internet, or help improve or optimize Internet infrastructure in specific areas Third, bridging the technological divide, targeting companies that promote Intel platform based technologies or help Intel promote their products, and, finally, to cutting-edge technologies, mainly emerging technologies that may have technology prospects for the next 3-5 years, even if they are not related to Intel's business.

These are reflected in the company's communications: Intel decided to return to the mobile phone market, and they needed to match Android to x86 as soon as possible, but how does Intel, who specializes in hardware, make a breakthrough in software?

Intel has made up for its missing parts by investing long ago to start x86 on Android development. At the same time, after being injected with Intel, it also began to try a soft and hard solution, using the x86 chip plus its own software development capabilities, to create a one-stop Android tablet solution, similar to the MTK turnkey, Qualcomm QDR such a packaged solution. In the recent market to see a large number of x86 tablets, the broadcast of the communication are in it.

The only Chinese project to invest this year is csdn. CSDN and Intel have been working together before investing, the two sides have built a isn community to help intel strengthen the ecosystem, and Intel can use the CSDN platform and rely on their large number of users to extend Intel's software tools and development kits to developers and businesses to achieve ecological prosperity.