CES 2020 Foresight: 8K TV, SONY'S Entry Into The Game

The CES 2020 (International Consumer Electronics Exhibition), known as the Spring Festival Gala of science and technology, will be held in Las Vegas on from January 7 to 10, 2020.

Despite the growing controversy over "money can go to CES" in recent years, the attraction of this scientific and technological gathering has not diminished. According to official data from CES, the number of exhibitors has reached a record high this year, reaching 5187.

After the "VR first year" of CES 2016, the quantum dot wars OLED of CES 2017, the auto technology exhibition of CES 2018 and the 5G+AIoT of CES 2019, what is the focus of CES in 2020?

Twenty-first Century economic report reporter noted that this year's CES has not officially started, the exhibitors have long been ready to fight, all kinds of fancy muscles, ahead of time display 5G terminal, 8K TV, automatic driving and other new products. Many people in the industry have told reporters that this CES is still full of technology.

5G that can not be wound

5G is one of the CES 2019 technology trends presented by CES, and is also one of the hot spots of big manufacturers last year. Before the CES exhibition, many manufacturers released new 5G products.

At the CES 2020 Qualcomm media conference, Qualcomm and Lenovo jointly released the world's first 5G PC, Yoga 5G, the first time to expand the 5G connection function from the field of smart phone to the computer field.

Yoga 5G is a super portable two in one notebook computer. It is the first personal computer equipped with Qualcomm, Xiaolong 8cx 8cx 5G computing platform. It uses 64 bit Kryo 495, 7Nm process, and the core +4 small core. Each core has two levels of caching. All cores share three level caching and system caching, totaling 10MB.

It is worth mentioning that the memory interface of Xiaolong 8cx mobile platform has been widened from 64 bits to 128 bits. It also supports Quick charge 4+ fast charging, and supports two 4K HDR display outputs.

Yoga 5G will be listed in the spring of 2020, starting at a price of 1499 US dollars (about 10450 yuan).

TCL launched three TCL 10 series smartphones on the eve of the launch of CES, including the first 5G mobile TCL 105G of TCL brand, and announced that it will enter the US and Canadian markets this year.

TCL 105G mobile confirmed that Qualcomm has just released the Xiaolong 7 series 5G SoC, which is a dual mode 5G mobile phone supporting SA/NSA.

In addition, TCL also showed its first folding screen phone, which is very high in pattern and color recognition, but it looks a little thick.

In fact, TCL showed the folding screen products statically at last year's MWC exhibition. This year, CES viewers will have the chance to experience the folding products of TCL.

8K TV fairy fight

Household appliances have always been one of the key contents of CES. On TV products, from 4K TV in 2015 to QDOT war OLED in 2017, as in last year, the major manufacturers this year seem to be competing for 8K.

Samsung released 3 new TV products in January 6th, the latest MicroLED, QLED 8K and lifestyle TV series, including the new 8K flagship new Q950TS QLED.

The product starts with Infinity Screen technology, also known as "frameless" technology. The TV screen occupies an alarming 99%. The 8K quantum dot processor is internally configured to optimize and deep learning through the built-in 8K artificial intelligence, and the content of non 8K can be optimized to become the content of 8K resolution.

Samsung said it is Samsung's first 8K TV product that combines ultra-thin form, surround sound and audio and 8K quality.

SONY showed the new 8K TV Z8H at the scene, which was equipped with image processing chip X1 X1 ultimate and SONY's new "Frame Tweeter" technology, while achieving "audio and video accompanying" while maintaining a slender product appearance.

Local time on January 5th, SKYWORTH held the "surprise SEE THE WONDER" new product launch, launched its first mass production 8K TV Q91 series TV.

Q91 series 8K TV uses 75 inch 8K IPS LED hard screen, 576 LED luminous area, can accurately control the area's light and dark level, IPS hard screen also brings a wider viewing angle, can achieve 8K 120Hz high refresh rate smooth play.

TCL released X98K QLED TV in January 6th. The TV uses dual screen quantum dot technology and lift panoramic AI lens, which currently has the most comprehensive 8K solution of TCL.

In addition, the price of the TCL product is 19999 yuan, compared with other brands of 8K TV, it has a price advantage in the consumer market.

Automotive technology still attracts attention

Automobile technology is attracting more and more attention in the CES stage. Even the media has called the 2018 CES Exhibition "Automobile Technology Exhibition". At that time, there were as many as more than 500 auto technology enterprises, and the exhibition area occupied nearly 30 thousand square meters.

Before this year's CES exhibition, auto products also made a profit.

Qualcomm announced in January 6th local time the introduction of a new automatic driving platform Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride, to expand the company's extensive automotive product mix.

The product includes Snapdragon Ride security system level chip, Snapdragon Ride safety accelerator and Snapdragon Ride autopilot stack.

According to the information of Qualcomm, Snapdragon Ride can provide a cost-effective system level solution to meet the complex needs of autopilot and ADAS.

Snapdragon Ride combines the unique SoC, accelerator and automatic driving software stack to support three sub domains of the automatic driving system: L1/L2 level active safety ADAS, L2+ level "convenience" ADAS and L4/L5 level fully automatic driving.

Qualcomm revealed at the scene that the Snapdragon Ride will be delivered to auto manufacturers and first class suppliers in the first half of 2020 for pre development. It is estimated that the Snapdragon Ride will be put into production in 2023.

In addition, on the eve of the CES exhibition, Livox technology and announced the launch of two lidar products for L3 / L4 automatic driving, has now achieved mass production.

Livox technology is the internal hatching subsidiary of the UAV leader Dajiang company. The release of these two laser radar products also means the layout of automatic driving in Dajiang.

The two products are "Horizon" and "Tele-15" respectively. The former is used for close range detection of about 260 meters, and the latter is for remote detection.

The two products are to B products, rather than consumer electronics products commonly used by consumers, which are mainly provided to robots or automobile manufacturers. The prices of both products are relatively low, which are 1000 US dollars and 1500 US dollars respectively. Dajiang said that similar products on the same market at present can not achieve such performance.

It is worth mentioning that the Livox system does not use the laser to scan traditional scenes in real scenes, but scans in a pattern similar to flowers to create a 360 degree scene. As a result, the company said the two products could create a more detailed area than lidar with the same line density.

However, to say that this year's CES is even more pleasantly surprised by the "auto manufacturers", SONY will definitely be on the list.

In addition to the release of conventional TV products and more details of PS 5, SONY announced its entry into the electric vehicle field at the CES exhibition, and showed the Vision-S prototype car.

According to the introduction, SONY's vehicle combines SONY imaging and pleasure, AI, communications and cloud technology, equipped with 33 sensors. The interior part is equipped with 360 Reality Audio sound field technology and widescreen display. Meanwhile, SONY also announced a series of partners including Ben teller and NVIDIA.

In addition, Intel subsidiary Mobileye showed the latest business progress at Intel's January 6th press conference.

In one demonstration, Mobileye implemented the RoboCar in a more natural way. The demonstration demonstrates the unique and innovative way to make cars safer and safer by using independent sensor systems, integrating artificial intelligence, computer vision, law and science, and real redundancy technology based on responsible and sensitive safety model (RSS). Mobileye demonstrates the unique and innovative way to make cars safer.