October 31 that the "Navigator's Journey" 2024 High-quality Overseas Forum for Chinese Enterprises was held at Zhongguancun International Innovation Center on October 30. Wu Dan, CEO of Hero Games, the first investor and co-producer of "Black Myth: Wukong", was interviewed.

When asked how long it took to make the decision to invest in "Black Myth: Wukong", Wu Dan said: "At that time, the team talked with us about making "Black Myth: Wukong", maybe only two or three minutes of chatting, and they had already decided to give you another 100 million to do this, and the rest of the time was talking about how to do it, which was a quick decision. ”
Wu Dan also revealed that he met this team as early as 2018, and first invested in the company (Game Science), and Game Science made 2 unsuccessful products in a row (IT House Note: "Hundred Generals" and "Art of War: Red Tide"), and then the money burned out, so he invested again.
Wu Dan said: "Because I was also in the VC industry, many people in China are impatient to invest and look at the current ROI. But to make game investment, it needs to spiral, it needs to iterate, and often a lot of things can be found in failure. ”

When asked how he would choose if "Black Myth: Wukong" and a certain game in the West were linked, Wu Dan responded that "I won't choose anything". He added, "Journey to the West is all-encompassing, but it is Chinese culture, and it is difficult to compare with anything else in the world."
According to a previous report by IT House, the Xbox version of "Black Myth: Wukong" has successfully passed the Xbox Series S|Grading review for the X platform, and at the same time, the physical version of PS5 is also ready. With sales of more than 20 million copies in its first month, it is a veritable world-class bestseller.

October 7 that Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman published the latest issue of the "Power On" newsletter last night, mentioning that Apple is gradually abandoning the "annual update" product release strategy.

"Apple is phasing out its annual product upgrade cycle, a move that could make product launches more frequent and less troubling delays." Gurman said.

Traditionally, Apple usually releases a preview of the latest system in June every year, and a new generation of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other products in September and October every year. This has the following advantages:

It helps motivate employees to move towards the same goal. Employees won't be confused about when certain products need to be ready.

Analysts and investors know "what to expect". The company sees reliable sales growth at the same time each year, helping to drive the all-important holiday season (note from IT House: "Holiday season" in overseas often refers to the time of year when merchants and retailers have the highest sales, including Christmas, New Year, and other holidays such as Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, etc.).

If Apple holds a big launch event in the fall, it will be easier to plan its marketing and public relations. This is because it ensures that the media can get back to work and attention after the holidays (usually the iPhone launch event is on the Tuesday or Wednesday of the week after the first Monday in September).

But even so, Gurman believes that this strategy is beginning to "crack". Because Apple's product range is increasing day by day, it is not practical to pursue iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods and other products every year. In addition, products such as the Apple Watch Ultra or iPhone SE do not need to be updated frequently.

Based on this analysis, Gurman said that Apple is gradually deviating from its plan to "release new products in the fall". However, Apple "may have to" take a more flexible approach, releasing a product when it's ready, and not releasing it if it's not.

The current iPad OS 18 also shows the downside of Apple's previous approach: the system has few new features and even contains a bug that has resulted in some iPad Pros with M4 processors It doesn't work, and the hardware must be replaced to fix the problem. As a result, the operating system was unusable for two weeks and was not restored until Thursday. The day before that, Apple was forced to withdraw the third beta of watchOS 11.1 because it caused a similar glitch. In September, the same issue occurred with the HomePod beta update.

Gurman said Apple is "clearly aware" of the problem. The pursuit of releasing most new hardware and software products in the fall has put undue pressure. At present, the company is gradually moving away from this path. For example, Apple officially announced Apple Intelligence in June, but has already announced in advance that the launch will be completed step by step.

October 29 that Apple's 2024 Mac mini was officially released, with a small volume of only 12.7 cm square, equipped with M4 / M4 Pro chip, memory starting at 16GB, up to 64GB, which will be available for pre-order from October 31 and officially on sale from November 8.

Mac mini with M4 starts at $4,499 and Education starts at $3,749.

Mac mini with M4 Pro starts at $10,999 and Education starts at $10,249.

The new Mac mini with the M4 chip delivers up to 1.8x faster CPUs and up to 2.2x faster GPUs than M1 models.

Apple says the Mac mini is 1/20th the size and up to 6x faster than best-selling PC desktop computers in the same price range.

Compared to the Intel Core i7 Mac mini, the M4 Mac mini:

Up to 2.8x more audio plug-ins are supported in Logic Pro projects.

Play World of Warcraft: Battle for the Center of the Depths with up to 13.3x faster performance.

Up to 33x faster upscaling performance with Photomator's image optimization upscaling.

Compared to Mac mini with M1, Mac mini with M4:

Run tabular calculations up to 1.7x faster with Microsoft Excel.

Flatten holograms up to 4.9x faster with Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Apple says that "M4 Pro is the world's fastest and lightning-fast single-threaded performance", with up to 14 cores integrated, including 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, while the graphics processor integrates up to 20 cores, which can deliver up to 2x the performance of the M4 graphics processor.

According to reports, the two chips are also the first time to introduce hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology to Mac mini devices. The built-in Neural Engine on the M4 Pro chip is also more than 3x faster than the M1-powered Mac. Of course, both devices also support Apple Intelligence, but the English version is currently only available in the United States for macOS Sequoia 15.1 users.

In addition, the M4 Pro chip supports up to 64GB of unified memory with a memory bandwidth of 273GB/s, which is equivalent to twice the bandwidth of any AI PC chip, effectively speeding up the processing of AI tasks.

Elsewhere, the M4 Pro chip also supports Thunderbolt 5 ports, so the new Mac mini can transfer data at speeds of up to 120 Gb/s, which is more than twice the throughput of Thunderbolt 4 ports.

Compared to a Mac mini with an i7 chip, a Mac mini with an M4 Pro chip:

Use Microsoft Excel to run spreadsheet calculations up to 4x faster.

Run scene edit detection up to 9.4x faster in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Up to 26x faster base recognition when using Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW for gene sequencing.

Compared to Mac mini with M2 Pro, Mac mini with M4 Pro:

Up to 1.8x more sound plug-ins are supported in Logic Pro projects.

Use Motion to render motion graphics in RAM up to 2x faster.

Render 3D models up to 2.9x faster with Blender.

In terms of connectivity, the new Mac mini offers two USB-C ports with USB 3 support and a 3.5mm audio jack with high-impedance headphones on the front. On the back, there are three Thunderbolt ports, including Thunderbolt 4 for Mac mini with M4 chip and Thunderbolt 5 port for Mac mini with M4 Pro chip.

IT Home noticed that both models of Mac mini are equipped with Gigabit Ethernet ports as standard, and up to 10Gb Ethernet ports can be selected; There's also 1 HDMI port, no adapter required, and direct connection to a TV or HDMI display.

According to reports, Mac mini with M4 chip can drive up to 2 6K displays and 1 5K display at the same time; The M4 Pro model can drive up to three 6K displays simultaneously at a 60Hz refresh rate, outputting a total of more than 60 million pixels.

According to Apple, the new Mac mini also reached an important environmental milestone, becoming Apple's first carbon-neutral Mac device, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from production, transportation and user use by more than 80%.

Apple has launched the M4 Max chip, which is designed for data scientists, 3D artists, composers and other professionals who often face extremely heavy tasks. It is equipped with up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores.

This chip is equipped with up to 16 CPU cores, including up to 12 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores; the graphics processor has up to 40 cores.



各自选 quoted Apple's official press release and attached the relevant data as follows:

CPU performance is up to 2.2 times faster than the central processing unit of the M1 Max chip, and up to 2.5 times faster than the latest AI PC chip;

GPU speed is up to 1.9 times faster than the M1 Max chip, and up to 4 times faster than the latest AI PC chip;

M4 Max chip supports up to 128GB high-speed unified memory and up to 546GB/s memory bandwidth, which is 4 times the memory bandwidth of the latest AI PC chip

M4 Max chip enhanced media processing engine includes 2 video encoding engines and 2 ProRes accelerators, making it the best choice for professional video creators.

Like the M4 Pro chip, the M4 Max chip supports Thunderbolt 5, with data transmission speeds of up to 120Gb/s.



The AI ​​PC chip mentioned above refers to the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V tested on the MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo A2VMG-014US using specific industry standard benchmarks.

According to reports from Russia's TASS and the British Daily Telegraph on October 30, the Russian government's fine on Google has reached about 20000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (IT Home Note: 35 digits) US dollars, which is far more than the annual global GDP (about 110 trillion US dollars in 2023, a 15-digit number).

According to reports, Google lost the case in 2020 because its video platform YouTube blocked multiple Russian media accounts. Since then, Google has been fined 100,000 rubles (IT Home Note: currently about 7,350 yuan) per day.

Legal professionals told TASS that if the fine is not paid within 9 months, the fine will double every day with no upper limit. Only by complying with the court's decision can Google return to the Russian market. This figure far exceeds Google's own market value.

The Daily Telegraph said that after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022, Google closed its Russian division and its subsidiary declared bankruptcy. Russian police had previously seized more than $100 million in assets from bankrupt entities. Despite Russia's astronomical claims against Google, the company said in its last financial report that "we do not believe that these ongoing legal matters will have a substantial adverse impact." TASS quoted experts as saying that Google "obviously will not pay the fine, and the Russian Federation will not be able to recover the money from the company," and all of Google's properties in Russia have been reclaimed or seized. The media said that any claims made by the Russian government are only valid domestically.

At the new product launch conference this afternoon, the OnePlus 13 mobile phone was officially released, with a starting price of 4,499 yuan.

The OnePlus 13 phone will be officially available for sale tomorrow (November 1) at 10 am

12GB + 256GB is priced at 4,499 yuan
12GB + 512GB is priced at 4,899 yuan
16GB + 512GB is priced at 5,299 yuan
24GB + 1TB is priced at 5,999 yuan

OnePlus 13 is available in Silk Glass (White Dew Morning Dawn), BabySkin skin-friendly velvet leather (Blue Moment), and Ebony Grain Glass (Obsidian Secret Realm) colors. The glass version is 8.5mm/213g, and the plain leather version is 8.8mm/210g, supporting IP68/69 protection.

OnePlus 13 is the first to launch the second-generation 2K Oriental screen, equipped with a 6.82-inch 2K BOE X2 highest customized equal-depth four-micro-arc straight screen, supporting 120Hz 8T LTPO display, and "Android's only "Sun Display" technology".

In addition, the OnePlus 13 phone will also be equipped with "Crystal Shield Super Ceramic Glass", and the official claims that "drop resistance is improved by 500% and impact resistance is improved by 70%."
In terms of imaging, the OnePlus 13 is equipped with Hasselblad's ultra-light flagship triple camera:

50 million super flagship main camera, Sony LYT-808 flagship sensor

New generation 50 million LYT-600 periscope telephoto, 50 million multi-prism reflection periscope structure

50 million flagship ultra-wide angle, Samsung S5KJN5, 120° wide field of view

"The only one in the same class" high-precision sensor, 13-channel multi-spectral sensor

New support for the same "shadowless capture" as the Find X8 series

OnePlus 13 is equipped with Super Signal Engineering 2.0, supports 400-meter ultra-long-distance smart Bluetooth, and also uses a new 360° surround antenna.

In terms of other configurations, OnePlus 13 supports multi-function infrared remote control, full-area multi-function NFC, USB 3.2 Gen1, 0916 Turbo motor, single-point ultrasonic fingerprint, 4-microphone call AI noise reduction, ultra-linear stereo dual speakers, and three-stage switch.

OnePlus 13 mobile phone and OPPO Find X8 launched ColorOS 15 together, supporting one-touch transfer with iPhone.

OnePlus 13 has three magnetic cases, namely Polar Wood, Geometric Aramid Fiber, and Classic Sandstone:

Polar Wood Magnetic Case (199 yuan): Two colors, Polar Night Black and Polar Day Brown, original wood texture, half-wrapped design, thin as 1.5mm, built-in N52 thinnest strong magnetic ring, supports magnetic wireless charging.

Geometric Magnetic Case (199 yuan): Woven Night Blue color, aramid fiber full-wrapped design, built-in hidden N48 strong magnetic ring, supports magnetic wireless charging, high-strength material.

Sandstone Magnetic Case (99 yuan): Full-wrapped design, built-in strong magnetic ring, supports magnetic wireless charging.