Krypton Evening News | Musk says the second-generation Starlink satellites will provide space internet services at 5G speeds; Kyoto, Japan, expects to increase revenue by 13.2 billion yen by adjusting the accommodation tax; Lu Weibing: Xiaomi will launch a new robot product this year.
Large Companies:
ZhiYuan Robotics and Others Establish a New Company, Anhui Huazhi Tiancheng Technology Co., Ltd.
36Kr learned that according to the Aiqicha App, recently, Anhui Huazhi Tiancheng Technology Co., Ltd. was established. The legal representative is Xiao Zhicheng, and the registered capital is approximately 11.76 million yuan. Its business scope includes the retail and wholesale of computer software and hardware and auxiliary equipment, software sales, and the sales of communication equipment. Shareholder information shows that the company is jointly held by Zhiyuan Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliated company of ZhiYuan Robotics, and Tianshui Huatian Electronics Group Co., Ltd.
Conch New Building Materials Co., Ltd. Established in Feidong
36Kr learned that according to the Aiqicha App, recently, Feidong Conch New Building Materials Co., Ltd. was established. The legal representative is Cheng Xiaobing, and the registered capital is 30 million yuan. Its business scope includes the manufacturing of cement products, concrete structural components, lightweight building materials, and the sales of lightweight building materials, cement products, building materials, non - metallic minerals and products, and building decoration materials. Shareholder information shows that the company is jointly held by Conch Cement and its subsidiary Conch (Hefei) Holding Co., Ltd.
Vodafone, a mobile communication operator, announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement with Amazon Leo, a low - Earth - orbit satellite network of Amazon in the United States, to provide internet connectivity for 4G and 5G mobile communication base stations in remote areas of Europe and Africa.
Elon Musk reposted a post from the Starlink official account, saying, "The next - generation satellites of Starlink Mobile will provide services at 5G speeds from space, with a data density 100 times that of the current V1 satellites. The V2 satellites will seamlessly support streaming, web browsing, high - speed applications, and voice calls, just like being connected to a terrestrial network."
Honor Reaches a Strategic Technical Cooperation with ARRI
36Kr learned that at the 2026 Mobile World Congress, Honor and ARRI, a world - renowned imaging equipment brand, announced a strategic technical cooperation. The two parties will work together to bring a movie - level narrative experience to global creators and jointly create new standards for future mobile imaging. It is understood that a series of cooperation results between Honor and ARRI in the imaging field will be first implemented on Honor's Robot Phone.
New Products:
Honor Magic V6 Globally Launched at MWC 2026
36Kr learned that Honor officially launched its new folding flagship, the Honor Magic V6, at the Mobile World Congress. With a folding thickness of 8.75mm, it has once again refreshed the record for the thinness of folding screens. At the same time, it has also brought the battery capacity of folding screens into the 7000mAh+ era for the first time.
Investment and Financing:
"Shuli Innovation" Completes Hundreds of Millions of Yuan in Series C Financing
Recently, "Shuli Innovation", a brain - computer interface technology company, completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series C financing. This round of financing was jointly invested by multiple institutions such as Daohe Investment, Orient Hengxin, and Xinding Capital, as well as old shareholders. Shuli Innovation will continue to promote the generational leap of brain - computer interface technology, deepen multi - industry applications, and build a full - chain innovation ecosystem for brain - computer interfaces covering multiple scenarios.
Singapore to Invest an Additional S$800 Million in Semiconductor Research and Innovation
Chen Shilong, Singapore's Minister of Manpower in charge of energy and technology affairs, said on March 2 that Singapore will invest an additional S$800 million (approximately US$628 million) to establish a Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) Flagship program focusing on semiconductor research. The program will focus on areas such as advanced packaging and advanced photonics to improve chip performance and reduce energy consumption.
Today's Views:
Lu Weibing: Xiaomi to Launch New Robot Products This Year
36Kr learned that Lu Weibing said that two Xiaomi humanoid robots worked continuously on the automobile production line for three hours, achieving a work accuracy rate of 90%. Lu Weibing revealed that Xiaomi will launch new robot products this year, realizing the integration of self - developed chips, self - developed operating systems, and self - developed large AI models. According to his judgment, within the next five years, humanoid robots will enter Xiaomi's production lines on a large scale.
ARK: Don't Just Focus on Nvidia, Custom Chips Are the "Big Players" of the Future
ARK Invest, an investment management company under "Cathie Wood", recently predicted that Nvidia will face increasingly fierce competition in the next few years. By 2030, custom artificial intelligence chips will account for more than one - third of the computing market. At the same time, Google is also continuing to position its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as an alternative to Nvidia's GPUs, and there are reports that Meta has agreed to lease TPUs for advanced artificial intelligence development.
Other Noteworthy News:
It was learned from the industrial chain that recently, multiple paper companies have collectively raised the prices of white kraft paper products. Among them, Sun Paper and Wuzhou Special Paper both plan to uniformly raise the prices of their white kraft paper products by 300 yuan per ton on the basis of the current execution price starting from March 5. Data shows that the white kraft paper market has been relatively stable this year. Currently, the market price of white kraft paper in Shandong is approximately 7,200 - 7,400 yuan per ton. Some industry insiders believe that after the Lantern Festival, the supply - demand situation in the kraft paper market will gradually recover, and the market price of kraft paper is expected to rise steadily.
Rice Prices Rise, South Korean Government to Urgently Release 150,000 Tons of Reserve Rice
South Korean media reported on March 1 that due to the continuous rise in rice prices in South Korea recently, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs decided to urgently release 150,000 tons of government - reserved rice to ease the supply shortage and stabilize rice prices. Since the beginning of this year, rice prices in South Korea have been rising. Government statistics show that at the end of February, the average retail price of a 20 - kilogram bag of rice in South Korea was 63,000 won (approximately 301 yuan), more than 15% higher than the same period in previous years. This release of reserve rice will be in the form of "loans". Relevant dealers need to submit applications before the 5th of this month. After being approved to sell the reserve rice, they will return an equal amount of rice to the government when the new rice is harvested this year.
By Adjusting the Accommodation Tax, Kyoto, Japan, Expects to Increase Revenue by 13.2 Billion Yen
Kyoto, Japan, officially raised the accommodation tax on March 1. The new accommodation tax regulations are divided into five levels according to hotel charges, with the highest tax amount being 10,000 yen per person per night (approximately 440 yuan). According to Kyodo News, under the new regulations, the accommodation tax is levied in five levels according to the accommodation fee. The lowest tax amount is 200 yen per person per night for accommodation fees below 6,000 yen, and the highest tax amount of 10,000 yen is levied for accommodation fees of 100,000 yen and above. Kyoto introduced the accommodation tax in 2018, and previously the tax amount was divided into three levels: 200 yen, 500 yen, and 1,000 yen.