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CMP

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Honor received a lot of IP after spinning off from Huawei. For example, the Qinghai Lake (SiC) Battery patent was originally filed by Huawei, and Honor has access to Huawei's 3D face unlock technology. They are also majorly overhauling their camera department this year. Luo Wei, the driving force behind the legendary Huawei P30 series, is part of Honor now, where he is helping develop their AIMAGE brand.

Honor was in a precarious position the last year due to the reemergence of Huawei as they are perceived by many in China to be the "little brother" of Huawei. This led to the sacking of many Huawei holdovers like CEO Eric Zhao, who was replaced with James Li. Now they seem to be taking a strategy of sacrificing profit margins for market share, and they are placing more emphasis on marketing as well.

The Honor 400 (mid-range photography) series has been a massive success, especially among women due to the endorsement of Xiao Zhan. Foldables have always been Honor's strong area, and that will continue. Hopefully, they can bring up their flagship sales this fall as they were a distant last in China last year.
Given how much more expensive Huawei is, and that it doesn't support Android apps anymore, I wouldn't consider Honor to be a direct competitor. They're targeting different segments of the market.
 

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Well, I think the important part here is that they are still very committed to R&D. I was thinking for a while that Honor might get swallowed up by someone since their market share has fallen.

But you know if they can also raise the game for China's industries, that is a good thing.
 

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Google translated:
Researchers from Shanghai Jiaotong University, the National Nanoscience Center and other units have successfully developed a new ultrafast electron source based on carbon nanotubes, which emit an abnormally concentrated energy and a very short time. This achievement breaks through the bottleneck of traditional technology and lays the foundation for building ultrafast electron microscopes with femtosecond-level time resolution and atomic-level spatial resolution.

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Summary? Who’s he and why you think he is credible?
Getting pretty tired of the same people posting random nobodies who know nothing and pretending it's a real or credible source of information. As for Robert Bryce, he's a 30-year journo and author. Not an industry or corporate insider. In other words, he's just a professional peanut gallery.
 

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Neurobiologist Wang Jing returns from US to lead institute at China’s Shenzhen Bay Lab​

Wang leaves University of California San Diego after 20 years to become director of the laboratory’s Institute of Molecular Physiology

An eminent neurobiologist has left his tenured professorship in the United States to return to China as the director of the Institute of Molecular Physiology at Shenzhen Bay Laboratory.

Wang Jing resigned as chair and professor of the department of neurobiology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in January to assume the full-time position at the institute in southern China.
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Biomanufactured Yeast protein approved for animal feed. Bioengineered microbes convert industrial CO2 and H2 into protein and fat for animal feed. 1000-fold increase in protein yield compared with soybean.
Soy is the only major staple crop where China is import-dependent (imported 100 M ton last year), and almost all the imports were used as animal feed for meat production. Longer term, vertical farming and lab-grown meat, which rely on cheap energy and biomanufacturing, will hopefully solve this problem
 
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This is really cool. Shenzhen is starting a program to train 40k digital talents per year and 200k over 5 years. This is a pilot project that I guess rest of China can replicate. But takes advantage of presence of Huawei and maybe other firms in knowledge transfer and training new generation of workers.
 
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