The epidemic situation in COVID-19 has accelerated the research and application of artificial intelligence. Products such as face recognition system and intelligent robot have played an important role in the process of epidemic prevention and control. In addition, after the introduction of artificial intelligence technology, the cost reduction and efficiency improvement of streamlined and highly repetitive industries such as e-commerce customer service and logistics sorting have been greatly improved.

With the gradual normalization of epidemic prevention and control, and the orderly resumption of work and production, various novel formats and complex work scenarios have gradually emerged. These rising trends have led to the development of artificial intelligence technology.

Second, 5G: Release production efficiency.

In 20021year, the construction of 5G in China continued to accelerate, and the number of 5G terminal connections ranked first in the world. With the support of increasingly perfect infrastructure, 5G technology is bringing an innovation called "Internet of Everything" to the industrial manufacturing field. With the advantages of high speed, low latency and large capacity of 5G, a more efficient, accurate and secure industrial Internet will be built between people and machines, and between machines.

Third, cloud technology: closer to the cloud

In the technical conception of cloud computing, one of them is the sinking of operation and maintenance, which integrates management functions and operation and maintenance work unrelated to business into infrastructure as much as possible, so that enterprises can focus on the development and operation of business capabilities. Along this line of thinking, more and more enterprises have turned their attention to the cloud native which is closer to the cloud.

Fourth, the meta-universe: making "virtual" more "realistic"

In 2020, the epidemic accelerated social virtualization. Under the epidemic isolation policy in COVID-19, the whole society spent a long time surfing the Internet, and the "residential economy" developed rapidly. Network life has changed from the exceptional state of fragmentation to the normal state, from the supplement of the real world to the virtual world parallel to the real world.

Fifth, autonomous driving: towards large-scale commercialization.

202 1 is a year in which autonomous driving has made great strides. In terms of capital, Baidu, Apple, Xiaomi, Didi, 360 and other technology companies have announced to join the smart car queue, which has introduced strong financial and technical support for autonomous driving. A group of enterprises that have been deeply involved in the field of autonomous driving have also won the favor of capital. On February 14, WeRide, an L4 autonomous driving technology company, announced that it had won a strategic investment from Guangzhou Automobile Group, and both parties would jointly promote the R&D and manufacturing of Robotaxi pre-production vehicles.

6. Blockchain: Focus on digital currency

As a member of the new infrastructure, blockchain has developed rapidly and penetrated into various fields of economy and society. However, due to the natural conflict between the decentralized and decentralized characteristics of blockchain and the modern commercial centralization model, blockchain is difficult to integrate with the existing commercial system.

However, in digital currency, the application of blockchain technology is expanding. According to the data, as of 202 1, 10/0.22, China has opened1000000 personal wallets and1000000 corporate wallets, with the cumulative number of transactions reaching1500000.

Seven. Internet of Things: Iteration to "Zhilian"

202 1, the iteration from the internet of things to Zhilian.com continues. With the development of big data technology, the real-time requirements of the Internet of Things are constantly improving. Once the data processing is delayed, the validity of the data will be greatly reduced. Therefore, intelligent analysis of massive data generated and collected by the Internet of Things through machine learning has become the key technology development direction of the whole industry.

Eight, data center: into the green future

The digital economy is leading the development of the whole economy and society, and the digital transformation of thousands of industries is constantly advancing. This process is accompanied by the explosive growth of data, so more and more data centers are needed to store, call and even analyze data. In the process of construction and operation, data centers usually consume a lot of natural resources. Faced with this situation, many organizations began to call for the green and sustainable development of data centers.

Nine, privacy computing: supervision and application continue to increase.

Various forms of Internet applications have penetrated into all aspects of production and life. At the same time, it brings convenience, but also makes many violations of users' rights and interests, illegal collection and use of personal information surface. As more and more information leakage incidents are exposed, legislation and technology research and development in related fields have also embarked on the fast track.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Personal Information Protection Law has been implemented since 202 1, 1,1,aiming at protecting personal information from disclosure, preventing mass data disclosure through database firewall, anonymizing mass personal data through data desensitization and tracing through digital watermarking. After the implementation, no company or software may excessively collect citizen information, and once verified, it will be severely punished by law.

X. silicon optical chip: breaking Moore's law

1965, Gordon Moore found that the number of transistors on the same chip would double every 18-24 months in chip development. This means that the storage capacity and computing power of the chip increase exponentially with respect to the time period. This law has guided the semiconductor industry to make continuous breakthroughs in more than half a century. But with the development of time, this "law" seems to be vacillating in recent years, and the chip industry seems to have touched the threshold of "physical limit".