APPLE
Current capitalization: $ 800 billion.
Field manipulation: Smartphone, Tablet, Smartwatch, TV Player.Regardless of how you think about Apple, the fact is that Tim Cook's company is still the No. 1 company in the world in terms of capitalization. But that's not all: everyone is still watching Apple's every move, even in tedious markets like tablets and PCs. Apple products are still playing a pivotal role in the world, from virtual assistants to 64-bit processors, from the standard "standard" smartwatch design to headsets that redefine the role of ... headphone.
While Apple has spent 7 years but still can not really create a new revolution, Apple's power is undeniable. Remember that smartphones are still the center of the tech world, and Apple is the brand that accounts for more than 80% of the global smartphone market.
Current capitalization: $ 670 billion.
Areas of manipulation: Search, Web mail, Online maps, Video services.If Apple overwhelms the high-end hardware segment, then Google owns the most popular operating system in the world. The company of Larry Page and Sergey Brin is also now crushing all competitors in the field of search, web mail and maps. While YouTube is competing vigorously, Google's video service remains the world's number one user. In all areas of advancing technology such as AI, Big Data, natural language processing, Google has an important part.
In terms of online advertising revenue, no company can compete with Google. And that was a tremendous power of the Internet age.
Current capitalization: $ 430 billion.
Admin area: Social network, Messaging.Facebook's revenue and profits are only a fraction of Apple's and Google's, but in terms of the future, Facebook is probably the "most certain." With over 1.5 billion users, Facebook has the power to know where you are going, who you are close friends with, what drinks you drink ... All Mark Zuckerberg needs to do is think of measures to make. The new money from this extremely useful information store, whether through virtual assistants, is growing or through the niche market.
More importantly, with Instagram and WhatsApp deals, Facebook is promising to become the permanent power of the social marketplace. That would be a terrible advantage to all the other giants: keep in mind that part of the reason Windows Phone dies is that Facebook is not supporting the platform. What happens if a Facebook decides to take iOS or Android?
AMAZON
Current capitalization: 470 billion USD.
Field manipulation: Ecommerce, Virtual Assistant, Smarthome, CloudThe age of Amazon is not much worse than Google, but over the past decade the e-commerce giant has always fallen into a state of ups and downs. That is not a surprise: e-commerce is the area with low interest rate and also often subject to extremely harsh competition.
But Amazon is not just an online seller: In February, when the AWS service in North America crashed, thousands of web services in the world fell into paralysis. Although this incident will cause Amazon to suffer no small damage, it is clear that the world is living thanks to the cloud of Jeff Bezos.
Not to stop here, Amazon also launch a battle that neither Apple nor Google can think of: virtual assistant set "static". While the big guys are busy with their smartphones, the Echo speakers are very affordable, making Amazon Echo the new home of the smart home.
MICROSOFT
Current capitalization: $ 530 billion.
Field manipulation: PC, Enterprise, Cloud, AIPC is no longer the center of the technological world, but the world still needs a PC. In other words, our world still depends on Windows and Office. In the fictitious scenario that Microsoft suddenly ceases to operate tomorrow, the world economy will surely collapse as hackers attack hundreds of millions of computers or thousands of enterprise systems using solutions. of the software giant.
Looking to the future, Microsoft is also the only company that can be rivals Amazon in the cloud. During the Build 2015 event, the company also surprised the world with the launch of the world's best-quality artificial intelligence APIs as well as platform-independent chatbot technology.
Do you think any giants if they fall will fall face like Nokia, Sony or BlackBerry? Microsoft is proof that you have thought wrong.
NVIDIA
Current capitalization: $ 80 billion.
Field manipulation: GPU, AI processor.NVIDIA has been (and is) the dominant force in computer graphics worlds, but lost out to Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung in the mobile war. Fortunately, while Tegra chips have yet to find a foothold, NVIDIA has looked at an important use of video cards: the hundreds of core GPU processing models are well suited for use with the Network neural network, creating AI machines that have the ability to learn "deep" superior to conventional CPUs.
As a result, from 2012 until now, NVIDIA chips are available on all of the world's most notable AI systems. From Tesla's autopilot to the "Google Brain" supercomputer, from Microsoft's Azure cloud intelligence services to the smarter bootstrap of a small startup called Focal Systems, NVIDIA is behind. In other words, despite the fact that the market capitalization and revenue is far from comparable in the list, the GPU is the literal "brain" of the revolution promising to be. Push people into an extremely potential, extremely scary era: AI.
