# Inside the’Pixel’ smartphone made by Google, there will be a special artificial intelligence chip’Google Silicon’. ‘Amazon Silicon’ and’MS Silicon’ will also be released. All software companies are now semiconductor companies.
# A Tesla electric car under $30,000 will be announced. ‘Shall we buy gasoline car?’ Will tilt to the side.
# When you open Facebook, your friends sell things. When I see what I like, I pay my friend in cryptocurrency. I think this will happen within this year.
# Open the video conference chat window, listen to the lecture, and say that you have a job to do calculations with Excel. It’s too hard to calculate the window and open it, right? Even if you open the video conferencing window, you will start to open up a world where you can write documents at once.
Good morning. I am a reporter and a data scientist who are using the premium e-mail’Miraclelter’ that Maeil Business Daily gives three times a week. In the meantime, we have directly covered and delivered stories related to digital innovation taking place in Silicon Valley and in Korea through an e-mail newsletter called’Miracleter’. (If you want to subscribe, find’Miracleter’ in the search box and subscribe.) This time, we have compiled the technologies expected to be released in 2021 to guide you into the future.
◆ Robo Taxi is commercialized in downtown San Francisco
As the first prediction, the self-driving car (Robo Taxi) service for paying for money will be realized in San Francisco, USA within this year. San Francisco is a very complex city. Running commercial self-driving cars in places like these other than straight cities has been seen as a distant future. This is because there are so many sudden variables. There was also a saying,’If you become self-driving in San Francisco, it’s all done anywhere!’ Miraclutter dares to predict that Google Waymo will take on this incredible challenge within the year. Why? In November of last year, the state of California gave Google Waymo a license to operate a commercial autonomous vehicle. And the Google Robo Taxi piloting San Francisco was spotted on site.
◆ Announced Tesla Electric Vehicle, which is cheaper than $30,000
Tesla is likely to release a model priced below $30,000 this year. Through Battery Day in September and the performance announcement in October, Tesla CEO Elon Musk also revealed his goal of building a $25,000 vehicle. As it is cheap, more people will choose electric vehicles instead of gasoline vehicles, right? In addition to Tesla, more than 20 new electric vehicle models are announced this year, including the electric truck of’Libian’ that Amazon invested. There were rumors that Apple also announced an electric car model in the second half of this year.
◆ Smartphones with Google Silicon also come out
Are there any predictions related to artificial intelligence? There is one interesting thing. It is a self-made artificial intelligence semiconductor such as’Google Silicon’,’Amazon Silicon’ and’MS Silicon’. Apple already attached a self-designed semiconductor called’Apple Silicon’ to the MacBook last year. We were able to cut costs and increase the performance of our MacBooks. We expect that both Google, Amazon and Microsoft will release specialized semiconductors for their respective purposes. All software companies will turn into semiconductor companies. And the semiconductor competition that awakens powerful artificial intelligence will be even hotter this year.
◆ Social commerce with Facebook cryptocurrency
New innovations are likely to emerge in the fintech area as well. Facebook is hoping that the cryptocurrency project (Libra), which has been preparing for many years, will soon bear fruit and release a coin called’DM’. Unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum, it is characterized by being a’stable coin’ with a stable value. The U.S. financial authorities have recently expressed their opinion that it is’good to do’ about allowing this. I think the fintech industry will be a very exciting year as some of the best private fintech companies in the United States are pushing for or considering listing, such as appellation, stripe, chime, etc.
◆ Secure service with distributed cloud
A new trend is also coming in the cloud computing market, which has been enjoying tremendous growth. There are prospects that a new market called’decentralized cloud’ could be opened. Recently, software such as YouTube, Slack, and Notion suffered a’temporary’ failure. So, complaints from users hit the sky. It is said that using a distributed cloud can reduce that risk.
◆ Video conferencing-document tool integration tool coming out
Do you use a lot of video conferencing products such as Zoom, Gourumi, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet, etc. due to Corona? In 2021, many new features are expected to be incorporated into these video conferencing products. Aaron Levy, CEO of a company called BOX, which provides web storage space, said in an interview with us, “In the new year, we plan to announce a large-scale new product that attaches content creation tools (to the storage space provision service).” There is a strong expectation that M&A will also be active in related industries.
◆ Apple Facebook augmented reality device release, etc.
In addition, Facebook and Apple are likely to release augmented reality glasses that have been prepared for a long time. Various innovations using drones are likely to be noticeable, and 2021 is likely to be a year when 5G devices are fully released worldwide, including the United States. Artificial intelligence software will continue to be released to help small businessmen who are suffering from coronavirus digital transformation.
◆And, one more! -In Miraclutter
And one more last! Here’s a prediction I didn’t mention on the paper. Please refer to’Miracletter’, which will go to your e-mail box around 10 am on the 7th! If you type’Miracleter’ in the search box, a page where you can subscribe will pop up. Anyone can receive it by entering your email address there.
[팀미라클레터 = 실리콘밸리 = 신현규 특파원 / 서울 = 이상덕 기자 / 강민경 연구원]
[ⓒ 매일경제 & mk.co.kr, 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]