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1. Golden Flower together Jinli release face recognition AI chip, crack the fingerprint problem under the screen;
Set micro-grid comprehensive report, recently Golden Flower released the latest research and development of face recognition artificial intelligence chip - 'Chang An-core' the same time, in Xi'an City Government, Shenzhen Municipal Government and other strong support and contributed to the scene with the Jinli Telecommunications Cooperation contract, the two sides will start in-depth cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence, the joint layout of the future market of artificial intelligence.
According to reports, 'Changan core' is the world's first face recognition, object recognition, motion recognition, thinking feedback and other functions in one of the artificial intelligence neural network and depth learning chip DNPU, is the world's only facial recognition chip, The volume is only 2mmX2mm, power consumption is less than 1 milliwatts, even in the face darkness, hair and color and facial micro-facial expressions can also accurately identify the face under the conditions of the test 'Changan' accuracy rate of up to 97% , But the power consumption is 5000 times lower than that of the conventional smart chip.Many mobile phone companies now show great concern and interest in Chang An Xin, both hope to be applied to the next generation of smart phones and smart hardware.
'Changan core' based on artificial intelligence facial recognition, the deep neural network as a semiconductor chip, with technical originality. Can be applied to a variety of applications, and smart manufacturing, home and other related industries for close cooperation for the future of the entire Production and life are a disruptive development.
Golden Flower together Jinli: a total push artificial intelligence industry
Golden Flower Group plowed the land in western China, with two listed companies with assets of nearly 40 billion yuan. The Group's Golden Flower Technology fully deployed artificial intelligence and augmented reality industry. AWEAsia World Augmented Reality Asia Expo and ARI China augmented reality innovation were held for three consecutive years The competition led to the permanent establishment of AWE Asia Asia Headquarters in Xi'an, the establishment of China's Augmented Reality Industry Alliance, the pioneering pioneering of the 'Wuzhen World Internet Conference' in the south and the new pattern of 'Xi'an International Augmented Reality Exposition' in the north.
In the field of artificial intelligence, Jinhua Science and Technology is working with top foreign industry experts and research institutions jointly developed the next generation of artificial intelligence chips, the future will be smart phones, robots, drones, unmanned vehicles, smart home and other fields widely used. The second release of 'Changan core', Golden Flower R & D full-screen fingerprint recognition chip, black night vision chip, etc., are very front-end and representative of the hard science and technology the next phase, Golden Flower will focus on promoting these Industrialization of products landing, the formation of large-scale mass production, for our smart manufacturing and industrial upgrading to provide more hard-tech products.
Jinli Communication is a well-known mobile phone manufacturer in China. Jinli Mobile Phone has launched more than 100,000 cooperative sites, more than 70,000 special areas, over 300,000 counters in over 40 countries and regions and has entered 8 National carrier system.
The cooperation between the two parties will create a brand-new era for the research and development of artificial intelligence equipment and jointly promote the development of the industry and leveraging the market of trillions of artificial intelligence. Wu Yijian, Chairman and President of Golden Flower Investment Holding Group, said that in the next two years, China will have two Million smart phones equipped with 'Changan core', Jinhua Group confidence, with innovative spirit and drive, will 'Changan core' into a benchmark for the hard-time technology in Xi'an.
2. Government take the lead in China to create a powerful AI chip challenge NVIDIA status;
According to foreign media reports, in July this year, the Chinese government promulgated a new strategy with the clear goal of catching up and surpassing the United States in terms of artificial intelligence technology development within three years and becoming a world leader in 2030. Last month, the Ministry of Science and Technology clarified some details of the government plan, and as a leading supplier of machine learning chips, NVIDIA in Silicon Valley has become China's surpassing goal in the field of artificial intelligence.
The document released by the Ministry of Science and Technology lists 13 'transition' technology projects, plans to invest more government funds in the coming months and complete the project handover by 2021. One of them is the development of new chips that run on artificial intelligence neural networks, Its software development and Google and other large technology companies in the area of artificial intelligence coincides with the planning.
On the hardware side, a standard for the project is dedicated to NVIDIA: the Ministry of Science and Technology said it hopes to develop chips 20 times more powerful than the NVIDIA M40 chip in terms of chip performance and energy efficiency. Such chips are called neural networks' Accelerator. "M40 chips have been on the market for two years and are not the latest NVIDIA chips that are the most powerful, but are still used in a variety of artificial intelligence projects.
Previously, the Chinese government had targeted the catch-up with Nvidia, and the research proposal put forward by the National Development and Reform Commission in NDRC in October also included the development of another highly-effective artificial intelligence chip, which was launched in August by China Development & Investment Corp. Led Cambrian investment in Cambria, a Beijing-based artificial intelligence chip startup that raised $ 100 million earlier this month, announced the launch of two server chips, or Will replace some of the artificial intelligence projects used in the NVIDIA chip.
'Cambrian' is only one of China's large enterprises and start-ups that test artificial intelligence for water chip business in the United States, there are many artificial intelligence start-ups or large companies such as Google challenge the status of NVIDIA in October, Horizon Robotics, a company founded by Baidu, raised $ 100 million and obtained $ 40 million from Deephi's deep learning platform. In addition, Huawei is working with the Cambrian development and application Artificial intelligence chips for mobile phones and other devices.
Both Chinese officials and tech companies have plenty of reasons to benchmark the company, which has so far provided hardware primarily for artificial intelligence projects and has established a large and profitable market as more and more companies start investing Artificial Intelligence, NVIDIA's stock market value has tripled over the past three years, with Nvidia offering chips for robots, drones and self-driving cars and has contracted partners such as Toyota and Volvo.
Elsa Kania, vice-president of the U.S. Security Center think tank, said that from a government perspective, China is supporting a strong domestic supplier in part because of the security aspects of the use of foreign chips for military and other applications Worries.
Of course, China still faces many challenges in realizing the dreams of artificial intelligence hardware and software.China has published more computer science and machine learning research papers over the years than the United States, but Karnia pointed out that China's expertise in advanced AI programs Accumulation is still inferior to the United States.
Over the years, China has been working hard to catch up with the United States, South Korea and Japan in the chip industry, and China has developed world-class supercomputer chips to make its own Intel and other U.S. processor chip alternatives, but not on servers and PCs For example, as China's largest cloud service provider, Alibaba is still dependent on chips from Intel and NVIDIA, said Paul Triolo, who tracks China's technology and related policies. Chinese are very ambitious, but the Chinese are still lagging behind in the design and development of chips, fabs and chip production.
China's chip industry initiatives make the US government more vigilant, the acquisition of the United States often censorship of semiconductor technology set the barrier.US semiconductor technology has become more strategic.Obama in December 2016 had blocked the China Fund to buy the United States Chip maker; President Trump canceled a similar takeover bid in September, and a legislative committee of bipartisan lawmakers filed a law this month to strengthen the powers of the committee involved in advising on similar decisions, in part because China The ambition shown in the chip industry and artificial intelligence.
However, for now, despite the apparent interest of the government, China's AI chipmakers are not intent on competing for NVIDIA's core chip providers, and start-ups Horizon Robotics, Deep Vision Technologies and Huawei all focus on chip applications On - the integration of computer vision technology such as cars and cameras on the device.
Chris Rowen, an investor in Silicon Valley chip maker, said one of the drivers of this trend is the growth of the security surveillance market: Putting an artificial intelligence chip in the camera allows it to automatically recognize people, objects, or movements. Clips cameras Google recently touted have image recognition.
Rowan said that Chinese chip start-ups are also focusing on the application of artificial intelligence to home appliances, automotive components and other equipment and pointed out that "the best way to get the technology to work is to cut costs."
Although China and the United States have already started to compete in the field of artificial intelligence, there is no clear front line between the two companies, and state-backed Cambrian companies are getting designs from Silicon Valley chip maker Arteris to license chips Data on the interconnect to the 'backbone.' Intel has also invested $ 100 million in Horizon Robotics, which is developing artificial intelligence chips for autonomous vehicles and Google has its own products in the field, In September, Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, announced a new deal with Chinese Internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, saying that "China's AI applications will run on US-based hardware for a while, This is an indisputable fact. '(Translation: Han Bing, revision: Wang Huachun)
3. Start-up crazy AI chip company, MIT said the application is too narrow risk too high;
In the past, it was almost impossible for start-up companies to enter the semiconductor industry, but with the increasing demand for computing power from artificial intelligence, this gave an opportunity for start-up companies interested in breaking the rules of the industry. In recent years, a large number of venture capital funds have entered the market. Semiconductors Seems to be a new ecology, but the founding chip company in the face of Intel and NVIDIA and other giants with deep industry knowledge and funding in the past, it is difficult to come to a forefront.
MIT Technology Review (MIT Technology Review) reported that venture capitalists in 2017 artificial intelligence chip venture capital investment of 113 million US dollars, more than three times 2015 full year, of which British semiconductor startup Graphcore just from Silicon Valley venture Sequoia Capital raised 50 million US dollars to develop new artificial intelligence chip Mythic, Wave Computing, Cerebras, China Deep Kam Technology (Cambex), Cambricon Technology (Cambricon), Cambrian Technology recently Get a $ 100 million investment from the Chinese government.
Why startups have a chance to report that many businesses now invest heavily in hardware that runs deep-learning systems that highlight existing chip limitations such as NVIDIA's graphics chips that render pixels in parallel with thousands of microcomputers running through After some adjustments, it has been possible to run deep learning algorithms, but also involves a lot of parallel computing, the biggest drawback is too power.
Carnegie Mellon also requires researchers to cut chip usage time as it puts pressure on the school's power system and they are looking for alternative sources of energy to ease the problem. Startups plan to produce more efficient chips, but they're real Think of a custom chip that makes artificial intelligence applications.
Now new-generation chips combine multiple processing functions into one step, whereas the graphics chip lets multiple steps produce the same result. The former's functions are often tied together to optimize specific use cases, such as training algorithms that help detect potential obstacles by themselves .
Graphcore expects to ship in the first quarter of next year, claiming that its chips perform 10 to 100 times faster than other products. "Cambrian customer Huawei also said that for deep learning applications such as training algorithms and identification images, the Cambrian chip Six times faster than graphics chips, and many in the industry who focus on advanced applications such as robotics or computer vision, the chips provided by startups do contribute to the research in this area.
Of course, the chip giant will not be sitting dead, Intel is about to announce a series of new processors by a previously acquired machine learning startup Nervana Systems design, NVIDIA also step by step to upgrade their own chips.Another challenge is the newly created main design highly specialized hardware , Take several years to go public, and it is hard to predict when the industry will change.
But if startups design chips that are too broad to cover, they could sacrifice performance levels, compete with big companies and some may eventually be bought and sold. It has not always been easy for shrimp to fight big sharks.
4. The first issue of 100 million US dollars! Synopsys announced the establishment of strategic investment funds in China
Synopsys, the global leader in software quality and security solutions, announced that it will establish a new strategic investment fund in China, the first of its kind in China, and the third largest chip design automation provider of EDA software and the world's No. 1 chip interface IP provider. The first fund is $ 100 million, which is the first time Synopsys has set up an investment fund in China.
Synopsys China Strategic Investment Fund will be managed and operated by Synopsys China Based on a deep understanding of the global IC industry development and technology evolution, combined with the accumulation of industries in China, the investment fund will work together with Chinese local enterprises and investment institutions, Extensive frontier technologies in chip design, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and big data, Internet of Things, software security, EDA tools and IP.
The investment fund will focus on accelerating the growth of innovative enterprises, providing entrepreneurs with rich resources and networks, playing a potential market value together and extending broader development prospects.
Dr. Synopsys Global President and Co-CEO Dr Chan Chi-kwong said: "We are very pleased to announce the establishment of Synopsys China Strategic Investment Fund." The Chinese market is a dazzling star in the global layout of Synopsys. The establishment of China Strategic Investment Fund is an important milestone in our China strategy and Synopsys Confidence in the Chinese market and commitment.
Mr. Ge Qun, Chairman of Synopsys China, said: "China has become a hot spot for global technological innovation. Investment funds focused on start-up, strategic orientation, localized operation and specialized management will help foster a group of high-quality, potential and unique values Innovate their businesses and further promote the sustainable growth of China's emerging technology industries. "
Synopsys, the world's # 1 chip design automation leader and # 1 provider of integrated circuit interface IP in the world, is a world leader in software quality and network security and is a leading component of the US S & P 500 Index.
Founded 31 years ago, Synopsys relies on its own technology research and development at the same time, capital operation, strategic acquisition and acquisition of more than 80 technology companies, expand the technology roadmap and product mix, always maintain the innovative vitality in the field of high technology, profound impact and Driving the many applications including mobile computing, smart cars, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and information security Synopsys has been in China for 22 years and has been making the Chinese market its global strategic priority. Currently, Synopsys has been operating in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Wuhan, Nanjing and other nine cities set up agencies, the number of employees has more than 1,000 people, the establishment of a sound technology research and development and support service system, and many Chinese domestic IC companies grow side by side, and actively promote China's IC industry and electronic information industry autonomy Innovative and thriving.