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Delivery companies in China deliver 5,400 packages per second. Your solution to master this logistics: the ‘robofurgos’

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Shenzhen’s train stations are bustling with passengers coming and going during the day, but when night falls they fill up with another type of traffic: robovans. They are small autonomous vehicles that are dedicated to delivering packages and are increasingly common in China. Robovans. If we call autonomous taxis robotaxis, it is fair to call ‘robovans’ that way. They count in Nikkei Asia These small vans have a capacity of 3 cubic meters and their maximum load is 500kg. They move slowly and emit an audible signal to avoid colliding with pedestrians. If they detect anyone closer than two meters, they stop. Its objective is to transport packages to the platforms, where operators load them onto trains and then deliver them to a logistics center. Neolix. It is the company that has deployed the most robovans to date. It is headquartered in Beijing and on your website They boast that they have already deployed 10,000 units in 300 cities, across fifteen countries. According to its president, Will Zhao, they expect the number to increase to 10 million robovans in the next ten years. Challenges. Despite Neolix’s enthusiasm, the reality is that autonomous delivery has quite a few limitations. The most notable is that the robovans are much slower than human delivery drivers. Furthermore, at the moment they are quite limited to closed spaces such as stations or airports and involve quite a high expense. According to Zhao, they hope to increase the speed as they become safer, until they reach the point where they are more effective than traditional delivery. Leaders. It makes sense that China is leading autonomous delivery because it is also a leader in online shopping. According to data from the China State Post Office, In 2024, 5,400 packages were distributed per second and the average was 100 packages per person per year. To put it in context, in 2024 in the United States the average was 66 packages per year per person. Price war. Competing in the largest online commerce market in the world causes price wars between different companies to be fierce. The market continues to grow and the volume of packages is enormous, but profit margins are very small. Some of these companies are JD Logistics, ZTO Express, SF Holding, ZTO Express and Meituan. Immediate delivery. Overnight shipping may seem fast to us, but in China it is unacceptable for most consumers. Companies are investing a lot of resources in same day deliveriessome even in just half an hour. This pressure especially affects food delivery, where there is a price war that is causing losses for companies like Meituan or JD.com and also for the restaurants themselves, who are forced to carry out very aggressive online promotions with ridiculous margins. They count on Bloombergthat there are cafes that need to send eight orders to equal the profit they would obtain from a single in-person sale. Image | Neolix In Xataka | Amazon has been stuck for years in a project that promised to revolutionize deliveries: the use of drones

Huawei is about to deliver to China the ingredient he needs to dispute his leadership in AI

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China has a very serious problem in the field of hardware development for applications of artificial intelligence (AI). At the moment the Chinese chips manufacturers They are not producing solutions capable of competing with The most advanced memories that manufacture the South Korean companies Samsung and SK Hynix, or the American Micron Technology. GPUs for Ia work side by side with HBM memory chips (High Bandwidth Memory). In fact, its performance is largely conditioned by these memories. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron are manufacturing on a large scale, although with different success12 -layer HBM3E memories. The two South Korean firms will produce large -scale HBM4 chips during the second semester of 2025, and Micron will do so in 2026. However, CXMT (Changxin Memory Technologies), one of the Chinese companies specialized in the production of memoirs, will launch Your first HBM3E chips in 2027. At the current competence with the US, China cannot afford to go two years behind the West in the production of HBM memories. And it seems that this lag is about to disappear. Last week the Chinese state media Securities Times revealed that Huawei was about to present A technological advance that pursued China dependence on HBM memory chips from abroad. And today Digitimes Asia He has collected very important news: this company is already testing the first HBM3 chips manufactured entirely in China. As we have just seen, this milestone is crucial to this Asian country because presumably allows you to access a technology that is not currently within your reach. Huawei does not rest Huawei invests more than $ 25,000 million annually in The development of your hardware for AIso presumably it will not take long to match the benefits of the GPUs produced by NVIDIA or AMD. So far he had two Achilles heels: his inability to manufacture his chips using the equipment extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE) produced by the Dutch company ASML and its difficulty accessing the Integrated HBM memory circuits manufactured abroad. The latter will cease to be a problem. Huawei invests more than 25,000 million dollars annually in the development of its hardware for AI And, as we explained last week, during the celebration in Shanghai (China) of the Applications Forum and Development of Reasoning of Financial 2025 Huawei released an algorithm called UCM (Unified Cache Manager) that, according to this company, it is capable of drastically accelerate inference In the great AI models. A relevant note: inference is broadly the computational process carried out by language models with the purpose of generating the responses that correspond to the requests they receive. To achieve its purpose, the UCM algorithm displays a very ingenious strategy: decide in what type of memory it is necessary to store each data taking as a fundamental indicator the latency requirements. In practice, this algorithm behaves as a gigantic cache that guarantees that each data will go to the right memory, including HBM3, with the purpose of minimizing latency during inference. If it is a very often used data, it will be stored in a very fast memory, such as HBM3. According to Huaweithis technology is able to reduce the latency of inference by 90%. Interestingly, this company plans to do the UCM Source Open Algorithm in September. More information | Digitimes Asia In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

A former SK Hynix employee is suspected to deliver stolen technology to Huawei

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Although not monopolized attention to the same extent that TSMC, Intel or Samsung, the South Korean company SK Hynix is ​​done is One of the main designers and manufacturers of semiconductors of the planet. His specialty is The tuning of memory chipsand it is doing so well that LEADS THE HBM Chips Market so much (High Bandwidth Memory) like that of the DRAM memories. In fact, SK Hynix controls no less than 70% of the integrated HBM memory circuits market, so His leadership in this sector is overwhelming. In addition, it is the NVIDIA supplier if we stick to its GPU to artificial intelligence (AI) Thanks to the high competitiveness of your HBM chips. Samsung has an approximate share of 28%, and Micron touchs 18%. However, the success of SK Hynix is ​​based, as we can intuit, about its capacity for innovation. At the current situation, industrial espionage is the order of the day The Prosecutor of the Central District of Seoul (South Korea) has accused a former SK Hynix employee of illegally transferring technology to the Chinese company Huawei. This person’s identity has not yet transcended, but according to Digitimes Asia He is a name Kim, is South Korean and worked in the subsidiary in China of Sk Hynix until in 2022 he left this South Korean company to join Hysylicon, the Huawei subsidiary specialized in the design of semiconductors. Kim is South Korean and worked at SK Hynix until in 2022 this company left to join Hysilicon Presumably the Prosecutor’s Office is acting at the instances of SK Hynix. And it seems that this last company has discovered that during the negotiation of its hiring Kim gave Hysilicon Secret Information About advanced packaging technology used in the production of 3D NAND and HBM memories, as well as about multiple assembly Chiplets and of the CMOS image sensors. These technologies are protected by the property rights of SK Hynix, and in them largely resides the competitiveness of this company. According to the Kim prosecution he printed and took more than 11,000 photographs of internal SK Hynix files with the purpose of abandoning this last company and using this confidential material to get work in the competition in very advantageous conditions. In fact, according to the researchers of the Kim accusation he presented the material that extracted from SK Hynix at least two Chinese companies. One of them Hysilicon, He finally hired him. An important note: neither this last company nor its matrix, Huawei, asked him to give them commercial secrets, but, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, they accepted them as part of the hiring process. More information | Digitimes Asia In Xataka | China’s future in the chips industry is in the hands of a single company almost unknown: Sicarrier

Pixel 9a with a discount of up to 415 euros if we deliver our old mobile

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The range Pixel 9 A new member added to the family a few weeks ago: the Google Pixel 9a. This device, the most economical of the Pixel 9, comes offering a great value for money if we take a look at its characteristics. Now, if we take advantage of the promotion of the official Google store, it can be very cheap Thanks to a discount of up to 415 euros. We explain how to use this promotion. 10 Google applications that could have triumphed A renewal plan to take the 9a pixel at a very good price This new Google device has reached stores from 549 euros For its 128 GB version of storage. Now, if we acquired it in the official Google store, we have until May 18 to take advantage of a great renewal plan and get a refund of 415 euros Delivering our old phone. The discount in refund form that we will receive will always depend on the phone we deliver. If we decide to take advantage of this promotion, we will have a period of 30 days counting since we received the 9A Pixel to send our old phone. It will be the Google experts who will value it and offer us a refund depending on their status. Eye, because everything doesn’t end there. In addition to this renewal promotion, we will also receive as a gift 25 euros of balance to spend on Google Store. A 9A pixel that has a lot to offer This new device is one of the most prominent of the first bars of 2025. It is a mobile that, despite being a cheaper version than the rest of Pixel 9, comes with the same processor as them: The G4 tensioner. Thanks to him, we are going to have plenty. As usual on Google phones, another very remarkable point of it is on the screen. We will have a 6.3 -inch Poled panelsame diagonal that uses Pixel 9. In addition, it has a 120 Hz soda rate, a maximum shine of 2,700 nits and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. At a photographic level, Pixel 9a comes with A double sensor system at the back: a wide angle of 48 MP (F/1.7, Dual Pixel and OIS) and an ultra wide angle of 13 MP (f/2.2). The front camera, with 13 MP, completes a very interesting photographic system that will allow us to take good photos in any scenario. To all of the above, we must add that this Google phone comes with all the potential that Gemini offers, its artificial intelligence. In addition, it also promises to be very long, since you will receive seven years of guaranteed updates. All of the above makes it a complete phone and that, thanks to the discount that we can take to deliver our old mobile, can stay at a brutal price. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Google In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price (2025). Your analysis and videos are here

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