Extra, extra read all bout the SM-R365?

What's that you ask?

You know it, and maybe have been wondering....does it really exist?

This was incremental info on May 9....


For casual readers.... This IS THE First time any Model numbers of this device have been published...incremental info even if the Timing is OFF.

model number SM-R365

prior to this it was a concept, now it has a model number ;-)

The face in the crowd is

model number SM-R365


Samsung Wristband device SM-R365 certified


https://www.sogi.com.tw/articles/samsung_gear_fit_pro/6249425

a translation?

Yes, for the casual reader THIS item is NOT based on the old false rumor of Tizen Dev conference.

It is NOT sourced from the Jan European trademark source.

A different tidbit of info...
Samsung Gear Fit Pro coming soon? Wristband device SM-R365 certified
New machine newsletter

Author: Zhang Leo
Date: 2017/06/23

Communication
Earlier rumors that SAMSUNG Gear Fit 2 smart hand ring will be launched in May follow-up Gear Fit Pro, but the final die a natural death. A few days ago (6/21), a Samsung Wristband device SM-R365 through the Taiwan NCC certification, the model is not officially published outside the Gear Fit Pro.From the SM-R365 certification, coupled with SAMSUNG Gear Fit 2 in July last year, listed on sale in Taiwan, speculation Gear Fit Pro is expected to launch in the near future, but the exact time is still unknown.


Other matters?

timing...IFA already has what it needs, Note, and Gear S4 smartwatch.

Apple has the health geeks talking.( more on that maybe)


Incremental info is HUGE. It was SM-R365 that passed...without that we would not know its the Gear Fit Pro. Every tidbit needs to be gathered so they can together tell you something! 

cc material up for review....

No, the unit outlook has not changed at all. And as I said in the prepared remarks, I’m actually optimistic about – understanding a little bit more how they are planning to bring this to market because I think there will be some good news associated with that. And I also think that contributes to them maintaining their idea about the unit forecast.

I think there will be some good news associated with that.

Consider not just a nice PR and bundle, but maybe some other platform folks; Health insurance, corps who buy them for all/ etc.?

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   Because of recent things relating to China I am going to learn some things;
   
   My homework?
   
   Noise in China....
   
   Noise pollution at night riles restless residents
   By ZHENG JINRAN (chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2016-09-02 19:12
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   Residents in 308 major cities last year experienced increased noise levels at night compared with daytime, with those living by major roads suffering the most, an annual report on noise pollution found.
   
   The Ministry of Environmental Protection released the report on Wednesday, saying that among the 308 cities with monitoring stations, 92.4 percent of daytime readings met national standards.
   
   However, that percentage fell to 74.3 percent at night, according to the report on the prevention and control of environmental noise pollution.
   
   The 31 capital cities recorded a poorer performance at night, with only 61.8 percent of readings meeting national standards, the report said.
   
   Among the 31 capitals, Guiyang in Southwest China’s Guizhou province topped the readings with 58.9 decibels, followed by Harbin in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province.
   
   A large number of buildings under construction is the reason for noise pollution in Guiyang, while in Harbin, people’s living habits are to blame, said Wen Xiangcai, a researcher from the China National Environmental Monitoring Center, the People’s Daily reported.
   
   The ministry’s report said Beijing ranked 24th and Shanghai ranked 29th among the 31 capitals last year.
   
   Noise monitoring stations by major roads recorded an increase in the number of readings failing to meet national standards, it added.
   
   A report by the World Health Organization showed that noise pollution can affect people’s mental health and increase the risk of suffering cardiovascular diseases, thus making it a growing concern for people.
   
   Residents voiced their concerns about noise pollution last year, with environmental protection bureaus nationwide receiving more than 354,000 complaints, accounting for 35.3 percent of the total complaints related to environmental pollution in China.
   
   Out of the total number of complaints, 50.1 percent were related to building construction and 21 percent were related to social activities, followed by protests about industrial production and traffic noise, the report said.
   
   
   
   The ministry approved environmental impact assessments of 159 construction projects, of which 131 were responsible for noise pollution, the report said.
   
   These projects have invested 4.22 billion yuan ($632 million) in reducing and controlling noise pollution, the report added.
   
   “Different from air and water pollution, noise pollution usually lasts for a shorter period of time, making it difficult to investigate after a public complaint,” Liang Yunping, an official with the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center, told China Daily.
   
   Beijing has issued strict regulations targeting noise produced by industrial production, social activities and other sources to control noise pollution, she said.
   

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   quick said
   
   
   to recognize a voice trigger and the ensuing user commands in noisy environments. This is an enabling technology for always-on voice in a number of common use cases....
   
   
   So those slots in China, the AEC is MORE important than the quiet of the USA?
   
   
   
   Noise Pollution in Chinese Cities May Lead to Hearing Loss, Study Finds 
   
   
   
   By Jocelyn Richards, March 6, 2017
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   • ranking of 50 cities released last Friday, China's southern metropolis of Guangzhou suffers from the worst noise pollution in the world (number one), and fares little better in rates of hearing loss, where it ranks fifth after Delhi, Mumbai, Istanbul and Cairo.
     
     Beijing is close behind as the sixth most noise-polluted city in the world, followed by Shanghai at No. 12, Taipei at No. 14 and Hong Kong at No. 17. Of the four, only Taipei ranks in the top 10 for hearing loss – Beijing ranks 13th and Shanghai 21st.
     
     The rankings show a correlation between hearing loss and noise pollution in 64 percent of cases. Though the results have yet to be submitted for peer-reviewed publication, the findings are significant, and should be a wake-up call for those dwelling in cacophonous urban centers.
     
     The list is based on statistics collected by the World Health Organization and a report from Norwegian-based technology research group SINTEF on noise pollution in cities around the world.
     
     To measure hearing loss in different cities, German company Mimi Hearing Technologies collected information from more than 200,000 people who participated in a hearing test administered via the Mimi smartphone app. Geolocation technology then helped to pinpoint participants' city of residence.
     
     As longtime expats regularly exposed to China's noisy environment, we tried the Mimi hearing test (download it here) out of curiosity and were shocked to discover that while we don't yet suffer from hearing loss, we do hear worse than 91 percent of those in our age group.
     
     Coincidental or not, it’s safe to say smog may not be the only kind of pollution affecting our health here in China.

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   map the noise...
   
   
   Mapping Urban Environmental Noise Using Smartphones
   
   Jinbo Zuo, Hao Xia *, Shuo Liu and Yanyou Qiao
   
   The Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, No. 20 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China; zuojb@radi.ac.cn (J.Z.); liushuo@radi.ac.cn (S.L.); y56yqiao@irsa.ac.cn (Y.Q.)* Correspondence: xiahao@radi.ac.cn; Tel.: +86-10-6486-2913
   
   Academic Editor: Yu Wang
   Received: 27 June 2016; Accepted: 8 October 2016; Published: 13 October 2016
   
   Abstract: Noise mapping is an effective method of visualizing and accessing noise pollution. In this paper, a noise-mapping method based on smartphones to effectively and easily measure environmental noise is proposed.

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   Wow....
   
   
   领导介绍 （Leadership introduction） 
   高始兴
   思必驰董事长兼CEO
   Shixing Gao
   CEO and Chairman of AISpeech
   曾以distinction的优异成绩毕业于剑桥大学商学院，拥有计算机和管理双硕士；
   国内最早的互联网创业者之一，拥有多年IT和互联网公司创业和管理经验；
   曾担任东软、AI Speech等公司副总、CEO等管理职位，取得了优异的业绩；
   与剑桥大学等英伦校友在剑桥高新区创立AISpeech，后归国创业。创业六年多，高始兴带领团队，打造了国内教育领域最大的语音技术提供商（现驰声信息科技，后被网龙集团并购）；
   带领思必驰成为智能硬件、物联网行业领先的语音人工智能公司，并获得多轮、数亿元的融资；思必驰语音智能已经服务于阿里、小米、联想、魅族、京东等众多知名企业，实现了每月近十亿次访问的大数据；思必驰也成为国际少数拥有全部、自主语音技术，极少数拥有人机对话技术的公司，已拥有各类专利等知识产权100余项；
   Previously graduated from Cambridge University Business School with distinguished performance, with dual master degree of computer and management;
   one of the earliest Internet entrepreneurs, with many years of IT and Internet companies entrepreneurial and management experience;
   served Neusoft, AI Speech and other company as vice president, CEO and other management positions, and achieved excellent results;
   Founded AI Speech in Cambridge Hi-Tech Zone with Cambridge University alumni, and later backed to China in 2008. More than six years entrepreneurship , Shixing Gao led the team to become the largest domestic education provider of voice speech technology (now Chisheng information technology, later it was purchased by NetDragon Group);
   Led AISpeech to become a leading speech AI company in intelligent hardware and internet of things industry, and access to several financing of hundreds of millions dollars; AISpeech has served Alibaba Group, Mi, Lenovo, Meizu, Jingdong and many other well-know enterprises, and achieved nearly a billion monthly visits of big data; AISpeech has become a minority with full, independent speech technology in world-wide, the very few company in China possesses man-machine interactive technology, has more than 100 intellectual property rights
   
   
   俞凯
   思必驰联合创始人、首席科学家
   上海交大教授、思必驰-上海交大语音实验室负责人
   Kai Yu
   AISpeech cofounder, Chief Artificial Intelligent Officer
   Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Head of AISpeech-SJTU Speech Lab
   剑桥大学工程系博士，IEEE高级会员，国家“青年千人计划”、NSFC优秀青年科学基金获得者，上海市“东方学者”特聘教授，国家自然科学基金委优秀青年科学基金获得者，中国语音产业联盟技术工作组副组长。2017年IEEE speech and language technology committee的唯一亚洲成员。
   在国际一流期刊和会议上发表论文 90 余篇，获得ISCA颁发的2008-2012 Computer Speech Language 最优论文奖等多个国际期刊和会议优秀论文奖。
   多次担任InterSpeech等国际会议的对话或语音处理领域主席，多次在美国国防部、美国国家标准局组织的大规模语音识别评测，国际研究机构组织的对话系统挑战赛等国际评测和竞赛中获得冠军，2014年获得 “吴文俊人工智能科学技术奖”进步奖。
   曾受邀担任 InterSpeech2009语音识别领域主席、EUSIPCO2011/EUSIPCO2014语音处理领域主席、InterSpeech 2014口语对话系统领域主席，ChinaSIP 2015语音领域主席，任多个一流国际会议任组委会成员和多个一流国际会议和期刊的审稿人。
   曾参与美国国防部高级计划研究署（DARPA）资助的EARS和GALE计划，负责搭建剑桥大学的大规模连续语音识别系统，获得美国国家标准局评测冠军；
   参与欧盟第7框架重点项目Computational Learning in Adaptive Systems for Spoken Conversation（CLASSiC），负责设计并实现了剑桥大学的认知型英文对话系统原型，并在CMU组织的2010年对话系统国际挑战赛上获得了可控测试的冠军。
   Cambridge University Ph.D. in Engineering, IEEE Senior Member, National Young People's Plan, NSFC Excellent Young Science Foundation winner, Shanghai "Oriental Scholar" Distinguished Professor, National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Science Fund winner, China Voice Industry Union technical working group deputy leader. The only Asian member of the IEEE speech and language technology committee in 2017
   Published more than 90 papers in international first class journals and confereces, won the Computer Speech Language Best Paper Award from ISCA in 2008-2012 and Excellent Papers Award from other international journals and conferences.
   Preside over InterSpeech and other international conferences in dialog and speech processing area. Won the speech recognition and dialog system challenge competition championships organized respectively by US Department of Defense, US National Bureau of Standards and other international research institution. In 2014 won the "Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award" Progress Award.
   Was invited to preside over the InterSpeech 2009 speech recognition area, EUSIPCO2011/EUSIPCO2014 speech processing area, InterSpeech 2014 natural language dialog system area, ChinaSIP 2015 speech area. As a member of the organizing committee of first-class international conferences and reviewer of first-class international journals
   Participated in EARS and GALE project which funded by US Defense Advance Research Project Agency, responsible for constructing Cambridge University large-scale continuous speech recognition system, and won the US National Bureau of Standards evaluation championship.
   Participated in Computational Learning in Adaptive Systems for Spoken Conversation（CLASSiC）, responsible for designing and implementing the prototype of the Cambridge University Cognitive English Dialog system, and won the controllable test champion of international dialog system challenge match organized by CMU 2010.
   

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   AISpeech—Artificial Intelligent Speech, founded in Cambridge U.K., is the only one focusing on end-to-end spoken dialogue system technology in China. AISpeech has become a leading speech technology provider in China, specializing in providing solutions for all kinds of intelligent hardware, such as in-car devices, smart home, robots etc. AISpeech has four branches in China. The headquater and R&D center is located in Suzhou, JiangSu Province. The business development branch of Northern China is in Beijing. The hardware team and the BD branch of Southern China is in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. The research lab responsible for fundamental research and innovation is located in Shanghai. Since 2012, AISpeech has got substantial investments from renowned VC in China, such as Legend Holdings and TUS Holdings. It also obtained many business awards in the area of speech technology or intelligent hardware in China, as well as strong support from the Chinese National Electronic Development Funding and National Science and Technology Foundation.
   Specialties
   Speech Recognition, ASR, Speech Synthesis, TTS, Human-Machine Interaction, Intelligent Hardware Solution
   

   • Website

   
   Very impressive, what they have done. 
   

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   with that background lets look at the item
   SOURCE: QuickLogic Corporation
   
   June 23, 2017 07:30 ET
   QuickLogic Collaborates with AISpeech Company, Ltd. to Enable Cloud-Based Artificial Intelligence 
   SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 23, 2017) - QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK)
   

   • AISpeech is a leading enterprise of AI-based speech technology in China
   • Supports QuickLogic vision to enable any battery-powered IoT device to connect to cloud-based digital AI assistants via voice commands
   • First application will be Bluetooth headsets from IoT hardware company, Qiwo

   QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, display bridge and programmable logic solutions, today announced that it is collaborating with AISpeech, a leading enterprise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) speech technology that is currently focusing on the Chinese market. This collaboration leverages the ultra-low-power integrated voice capabilities of the QuickLogic EOS™ S3 multi-core System on a Chip (SoC) to enable mobile, wearable and IoT devices to access the AISpeech cloud-based digital assistant. The first product utilizing the QuickLogic EOS S3 platform to enable AISpeech technology is the Qiwo "hearable" Bluetooth headset (see corresponding QuickLogic Qiwo press release for more information).
   "Voice-controlled interfaces are the key technology driver for the next generation of mobile, wearable and IoT devices," said Brian Faith, QuickLogic's president and CEO. "Our unique implementation of Sensory, Inc. voice technology, and our ability to include multiple voice trigger words in a single design, places us on the forefront of this trend. Our collaboration with companies, such as AISpeech, reflects our commitment to establishing a strong global ecosystem of partners."
   "We were pleased to work closely with Qiwo and QuickLogic in the development of Qiwo's new smart-hearable device that will leverage the power of our speech technology," said Xiongguo Lei, VP of AISpeech Company, Ltd. "The highly integrated QuickLogic EOS S3 SoC is an ideal solution for voice enabled wearable and IoT devices and is particularly well-suited for applications that require the lowest possible power consumption."
   
   This may be the start of a great platform for QUIK/AIS.
   The phrasing suggests that we can expect more going forward.
   
   S Johnson's discription of the adjacent possilbe still holds, the very real adjacenecy from this one item....will take a while to explore.
   
   Note that this is the 2nd hearable for us....and mybe we can be the go to guys for this segment of the IoT.?
   
   
   This company is far more capable than most will realize in the USA.
   

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   I put this here just to get a feel for 55...
   
   
   
   55nm LPx RF-enabled platform, with SST’s highly reliable embedded SuperFlash®, provides low power and cost for IoT and “Connected” Health and Wellness Devices
   
   Singapore and Santa Clara, Calif., June 19, 2017 – GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON) today announced the availability of a System-on-Chip (SoC) family of devices, on GF’s 55nm Low Power Extended (55LPx), RF-enabled process technology platform. ON Semiconductor’s new RSL10 products are based on a multi-protocol Bluetooth 5 certified radio SoCcapable of supporting the advanced wireless functionalities in IoT and “Connected” Health and Wellness markets.
   
   “Bluetooth low energy technology continues to advance as the key enabler for connecting IoT devices, especially with low power consumption requirements," said Robert Tong, vice president of ON Semiconductor’s Medical and Wireless Products Division. “GF’s 55LPx platform - with its low power logic and highly reliable embedded SuperFlash® memory combined with proven RF IP - was an ideal match. The RSL10 family offers the industry’s lowest power consumption in Deep Sleep Mode and Peak Receiving Mode, enabling ultra-long battery life, and supporting functionalities like Firmware Over the Air updates. ON Semiconductor’s new RSL10 SoCs use these advanced features to address a wide range of applications including wearables and IoT edge-node devices such as smart locks and appliances.”
   
   “GF’s 55LPx platform, combined with ON Semiconductor’s design, has delivered wearable SoC technology at 55nm, with industry leading energy efficiency,” said David Eggleston, vice president of embedded memory at GF. “This is another proof point that 55LPx is becoming the preferred choice for SoC designers that are seeking cost effective performance, low power consumption, and superior reliability in extreme environments.”
   
   GF’s 55nm LPx RF-enabled platform provides a fast path-to-product solution that includes silicon qualified RF IP and Silicon Storage Technology’s (SST) highly reliable embedded SuperFlash® memory featuring:
   
   

   • Very fast read speed (<10ns)
   • Small bitcell size
   • Superior data retention (> 20 years)
   • Superior endurance (> 200K cycles)
   • Fully qualified for Auto Grade 1 operation (AEC-Q100)

   GF’s 55LPx eFlash platform has been in volume production at the foundry’s 300mm line in Singapore since 2015. The 55LPx eFlash platform is a cost effective solution for a broad range of products, ranging from wearable devices to automotive MCUs.
   
   Customers can start optimizing their chip designs with GF’s process design kits, enabling designers to develop differentiated eFlash solutions that require cost effective performance, low power consumption, and superior reliability in extreme environments.
   
   
   
   
   So what did I learn....the item does confirm this snip from BF on the cc
   
   I’ll call it workhorse node it's good for RF or IoT type devices ones that need embedded flash like microcontrollers and that's really well matched with what the FPGA capability we have today.
   
   
   
   55 also is for IoT.
   Glo FO has it as well a TSCM
   I will b happy when its done..... as it does seem a workhorse node.....
   
   ON as a mental model of a semi company who might want eFPGA at 55? Or someone just about like them.
   
   For the casual reader...there is nothing that says ON is a customer of eFPGA at 55, its just a mental model. 

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China's app companies

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   I want to learn some stuff on this. Can be skipped for now as it has NO ties to QUIK at this time beyond its
   an adjacent possibility.
   
   Why?
   
   US App companies ( numerous) are speaking to QUIK on Voice UX, and some on wearables.
   China should be NO different should they?
   
   Tencent increases its focus on artificial intelligence
   
   
   
   When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and Chinese tech companies, thoughts often begin and end with Baidu. But Tencent, Asia’s second highest-valued tech company behind Alibaba, has reminded the world that it too is investing in the field.
   
   Search giant Baidu was one of the first to make a major commitment to deep learning. It spent over $2.9 billion on R&D over a 2.5 year period, according to Bloomberg, and currently has more than 1,300 specialists working on a variety of technologies that include AI and augmented reality. Baidu, however, suffered a blow when its chief scientist Andrew Ng, who heads up its U.S.-based research team, announced his departure last week.
   
   There’s one more exit to add to that list after Tencent announced today that it poached machine learning researcher Tong Zhang, who heads up Baidu’s Big Data Lab, to lead its own AI Lab. The Shenzhen-based lab is focused on computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing.
   
   
   QUIK, can you get someone over to talk to Tencent in Shenshen? ALready have...thanks 
   
   Tencent, best known for WeChat, China’s top messaging app, announced the lab last April. It said today that it has 50 AI specialists housed there. Aside from that development facility, Zhang — who received a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and has worked at IBM and Yahoo — will lead a team of 200 product engineers that’s tasked with converting AI advances into tangible features and updates for Tencent’s apps and services.
   
   “Tencent is looking at four areas for AI application: content, social, online games and cloud services. At present, over a hundred Tencent products, including Weixin/WeChat, QQ and Tian Tian Kuai Bao, a Tencent news app, use AI technology,” the company added.
   
   That’s a similar goal to Baidu, which got serious on deep learning when it hired Ng, a co-founder of online learning startup Coursera, in 2014.
   
   
   A world-renowned AI expert, Ng previously made his name when it helped found Google’s deep learning team, Google Brain. Ng said in his departure note that Baidu’s AI efforts had been felt across its “existing businesses in search, advertising, maps, take-out delivery, voice search, security, consumer finance and many more” areas.
   
   “The team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish,” he added.
   
   For now, Tencent is talking up its AI prowess in the field of Go, the strategic game that Google made its mark on when its AI (AlphaGo) triumphed over world champion Lee Seedol last year.
   
   Tencent said its ‘Fine Art’ AI, which was developed by 13 Tencent engineers, defeated high-ranking Japanese Go player Ryo Ichiriki last week. All in all, the firm said the AI has taken on 100 “renowned human players,” winning 406 of over 500 rounds that it has competed in.
   
   WHy not a Tencent Wechat wearable, or VR, or other stuff. An always listening rice cooker? More useful than Echo?  
   
   Will track along.
   
   This snip on their research lab...
   
   The Shenzhen-based lab is focused on computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing.
   
   Get a China speech IP...( like CyWee ) partner QUIK.
   
   THanks in advance.
   

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   China’s Q&A voice app Fenda lands millions of dollars funding from Tencent and others
   By Ke Jin -
   November 24, 2016
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   Q&A voice app Fenda announced on Thursday that it has secured its Series A+ round of financing from tech giant Tencent. This financing comes after Fenda secured its Series A financing this June from Sequoia Capital China and Vision Capital.
   
   According to Fenda, the new financing will be used in upgrading product and user experiences, and cultivating web celebs in knowledge-sharing and marketing.
   
   Up until now, Fenda has secured a total of over RMB 200 million (USD 29 million) in financing.
   
   “When we founded this company a year ago, we believed that the age of knowledge-sharing was coming, and that knowledge can also be priced and traded,” said Ji Xiaohua, founder of Fenda. He said that in the future we can expect there will be a large number of web celebs who turn what they know into cash, and distribute their knowledge according to the dynamic needs of the public.
   
   Before establishing Fenda, which in Chinese literally means “one-minute answer”, Ji also founded Guokr.com in 2010 and Zaihang in 2015: while the former is China’s leading online community for science and technology education, the latter offers one-on-one mentoring sessions, with mentors and mentees meeting offline for talks.
   
   “Tencent believes in the potential of knowledge-sharing,” said Xia Yao, the Executive Director at Tencent Investment. “By investing in Fenda, the ecology of Tencent can improve further.”
   
   Fenda now has more than 10 million users. Among these, over one million are paying users, and over 500,000 are experts in their own field who get paid for answering questions.
   
   Its an APP, it voice focused, it got Tencent $$
   
   “By investing in Fenda, the ecology of Tencent can improve further.”
   
   
   Voice UX should be BIGGER/ faster in China than here....
   
   
   Again this is digressive work, NO known anything of meaning to QUIK.
   
   Just adjacent possible for a very good LPSD MCU combo.
   
   In the cloud FPGA = Inference ( 90% of AI?)
   
   IF eFPGA on the edge = local intelligence?
   
   The metric of valuation? Very high, very wild. Note: this is unknown at this time, whether it happens this way, but it is NOT priced in for even 10 cents, tencents..........will track along.
   

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   The web firm Tencent (TCEHY, +0.17%) has become the most valuable company in Asia, and one of the top 10 in the world by market capitalization.
   
   It wasn't so long ago that Tencent was racing neck-and-neck with Samsung — their share prices were both up by a third on the year — to overtake state-owned China Mobile and steal the title of the most valuable company in Asia.
   
   Samsung has flagged over the last few days, however, after it had to issue a recall for its flagship Note 7 handset because of reports about battery fires. But stock in Tencent has continued to surge, rising 3.8% in Hong Kong on Monday. That took it to a valuation of HK$1.976 trillion ($255 billion).
   
   Get Data Sheet, Fortun
   

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   Baidu is acquiring xPerception, a U.S. startup focused on computer vision
   Posted 1 hour ago by John Mannes (@JohnMannes)
   
   
   Baidu is acquiring xPerception, a US startup specialized in computer vision, according to Reuters. Details are sparse, but we know the startup has its own module for object recognition and depth perception that can be deployed on robots and drones.
   
   The Chinese tech giant has been active in machine intelligence M&A this year. Back in February it acquired Raven Tech, a Chinese startup developing its own voice assistant. This new acquisition is notable because it involves a US startup. It could also hold the key to Baidu’s future autonomous driving and augmented reality efforts.
   
   xPerception was founded by Dr. Bao Yingze and Dr. Chen Mingyu, two early Magic Leap engineers. The team is expected to continue its work under the wings of Baidu.
   
   In March, Andrew Ng, Baidu’s chief scientist, left the company to the detriment of its internal machine intelligence efforts. Baidu faces additional barriers that its contemporaries like Google don’t have to face for research and development.
   
   
   While the AI talent race plays out on a global scale for all companies, its epicenter rests in the United States. xPerception is another US anchor for the company that has been pouring resources into its Silicon Valley AI Lab.
   
   We reached out to the team over at xPerception and will let you know if we hear any additional context.
   

   jfieb, Apr 13, 2017EditDeleteReport

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   I want to reread this today along with a few other items.....
   
   
   Jun 19, 2017
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   QuickLogic Establishes Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise in China
   Investment Demonstrates Commitment to the China Mobile Market
   
   
   SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ:QUIK), an innovator and developer of ultra-low power programmable sensor processing solutions, display bridges, FPGAs, and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, established a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) in Shanghai, China to accelerate the company's expansion in China and other Asian markets. This complements the company's existing research and development and support center in India and the recently established eFPGA IP support center in Taiwan.
   
   "By using the WFOE structure for our new Chinese venture we are able to maintain 100% control and ownership of the new enterprise, and through that, optimize the focus on our goals and protection of our IP," said Brian Faith, president and CEO of QuickLogic Corporation. "With eight of the top ten smartphone companies and a rapidly expanding market for wearable and voice-enabled IoT products, China represents a huge opportunity for QuickLogic. We believe that having a WFOE in Shanghai will enable us to address these opportunities more effectively and accelerate our numerous EOSTM S3 and eFPGA engagements with major Chinese OEMs."
   
   
   For a tiny company I have always appreciated their global footprint....more so ALL the time. We have DAC this wk and next BF and SC are in Shanghai.....the adjacent possible for QUIK IS in China and now they can be in that coral reef, in that coffee shop, and listen as well as they talk
   
   the "technological collateral" they get will help form their road map that will be spot on....
   

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   One conclusion from the material here....
   
   There is very real reason to expect voice to be BIG sooner than even here?
   DOnt forget the Barge in they have added...Rick said it...China is NOISY ?
   

   jfieb, 19 minutes agoEditDeleteReport

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   Up from the archives...
   
   here’s one more exit to add to that list after Tencent announced today that it poached machine learning researcher Tong Zhang, who heads up Baidu’s Big Data Lab, to lead its own AI Lab. The Shenzhen-based lab is focused on computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing.
   
   
   QUIK, can you get someone over to talk to Tencent in Shenzhen? ALready have...thanks
   
   
   
   Good allocation of finite $$...especially as the Barge in feature is being trialed there..