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1. Take the lead in breaking the bureau AI start Pain Point, June is the first generation of machine vision chip scale landed;
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The artificial intelligence tide attacks, the market dividend starts in the artificial intelligence vision and the intelligent voice two aspects launches, has one set performance, the power consumption and the cost optimal artificial intelligence chip will become the AI "to be able" the application key, also is builds the AI explosive product core. Today, in addition to intelligent speakers, machine vision applications are emerging in the security industry, the commercialization of machine vision has begun to come, a batch of machines based on the vision of the human face recognition products are being launched.
In the 16 session of the International Public Safety Expo in China (the "Safety Fair"), for human face applications of machine vision products become the theme of the exhibition, face grabbing and recognition technology and products are unusually hot, including the sea and Kang Fluorite exhibited fluorite c5s wall-mounted internet camera, love the eyes and ears exhibited Yun Zhi AI camera, As well as the fresh interconnection, Van Jiayan, Control Wang, micro-krypton and other new products such as face recognition cameras have been concerned about the depth of the ability to learn, which can achieve multiple target detection, 1080P resolution, 30-frame real-time video. The artificial intelligence chip for these products is the first generation machine vision chip T01.
T01, June is the beginning of Machine vision ' from 0 to 1 '
Based on the development and application of the camera, the resolution is more and more large, the linkage speed requirements are more and more high, while the front-end chip computing ability is obviously insufficient, in this application bottleneck, although after years of development precipitation, but has not seen the low-cost landing front-end real-time face recognition camera applications
However, love the eyes and ears and fluorite in the recent release of the front-end real-time face recognition camera products, and in the official debut, the product broke the front-end chip computing ability and linkage speed requirements of the development of the application bottlenecks, has attracted the attention of industry people.
A face-recognition camera on display at the 16 session of the security Fair.
This brings breakthrough technology innovation is derived from June is T01 machine vision chip.
To drive industrial change with technological innovation, or to say ' from 0 to 1 ', is an important part of the vision of the company, so there is the origin of T01 naming.
First look at the basic specifications of T01:
★xburst CPU
★CV Engine V1.0
★multi Input/output Interface Type support
★host interface
★typical 700mW
For core performance, the T01 inspection specifications are as follows:
★ multi-object simultaneous detection, supports simultaneous detection of up to 16 kinds of objects
★ multiple target simultaneous checkout to support more than 30 targets
★ Multi-resolution configuration support to support 1080p resolution real-time monitoring
★ common type data input and output interface support
★30 frame full real-time detection rate
It is not difficult to find that in the T01 specifications, there is neither ISP, nor h.264/h.265, but also a lot of redundant external interfaces. Yes, T01 's only task is to achieve high quality target detection.
As June is launching the first generation of machine vision ASIC, Xburst CPU and CV engine is one of the core modules. Xburst CPU Natural Inheritance Yu Jun is traditional CPU technology, and for the depth of neural network to optimize the instruction; CV engine is the first generation machine vision ASIC engine.
T01 and the usual AP Soc or MCU is very different, this is the machine vision in the direction from 0 to 1 of the first step, but also June chip roadmap on a new beginning.
Excellent performance, clear positioning, with a large amount of conditions
T01 object detection is not limited, can be targeted to all industries, not just security. If you want to choose a landing direction, it should be from the beginning, focus on human attributes, expand the application of industry.
And for human face, bust humanoid and whole body humanoid these three kinds of attribute target, at present the single attribute of the T01 check out the accuracy rate surpasses 97%, the detection speed achieves 30 people per second 30 frames simultaneously detection. In the detection distance, with different lenses measured normal face detection of the farthest distance can reach 30 meters, body-shape detection can reach more than 100 meters.
' Support for multiple-object hybrid cross detection, which is the first advantage of T01. ' Single object detection, there is nothing to be done if there is an undetected. Multi-object Cross detection, the different objects to compensate each other cover, greatly reducing the probability of overall missing.
' The ability to do real-time detection and to support accurate angle detection is another major advantage of T01. For face recognition, the ability to grab a good face is a decisive influence on the face recognition experience. T01 provides full real-time face-catching ability, and can synchronously analyze the angle of the detection object, so that products can be filtered from the coherent video flow in a quality of the best face, and then call the cloud identification, to obtain the best results. Based on the advantages of T01 speed detection, with human-like angle detection, with tracking technology, but also greatly deepen and expand the application scenarios, such as the number of statistics, behavioral analysis and so on.
It is because of these unique capabilities of T01, but also for the love of the eyes and ears and fluorite and other partners to provide a basis for innovation. So how do partners make innovations based on T01? We know that in the electronic product design application, wants to build a brand-new product must invest the massive human resources and the time, but based on the past mature product unceasing improvement, the small step runs is the more practical practice. And T01 is the combination of this approach, to the form of coprocessor, easy to do addition, easy to integrate, greatly reducing the function of innovation on the product development of engineering complexity and a variety of burdens.
T01 quickly forms products by pairing up with other common camera master chips. In the system construction, the transparency of the T01 is higher, only simple hardware circuit can be reformed, so that the T01 is conveniently integrated into other main chip systems.
Like the eyes and ears of the product, the typical T01 with June T20, the product structure is as follows:
The scheme uses the T20 + T01 two chip combination, in which T20 as the Master Intelligent video chip, with professional-level imaging ISP, low-light night vision; smarth.264 coding engine, ultra low stream control; High Performance computing platform, visual intelligence analysis; Leading low-power technology. In addition, T01 is mainly aimed at video intelligent High-performance Analysis and application to enhance the processing ability of video, this chip can be paired with June is the research of the T series products can also be paired with other manufacturers of the main control chip, at present in the market is a unique product.
Thanks to T01 's performance and positioning advantages, T01 can easily be combined with existing products in a modular way. Only through local transformation, increase the T01 data path, neither affect the original product mature and stable effect, but also obtain the high quality target detection function. In addition, the T01 periphery only needs a very simple circuit, can work. From the perspective of technical engineering and application cases, T01 parties have matured and have a large quantity of conditions, with the June is T01 volume production, the current domestic including the eyes and ears and fluorite, fresh interconnection, Van Jiayan, micro-Krypton, Hai video, etc. have been released by the use of the T01 face recognition camera, and already have products listed in the sale. At the same time in overseas markets, there are also some well-known overseas manufacturers have been large-scale production or are developing T01 intelligent IoT cameras, robotics, intelligent conferencing systems and other products.
Open Blue Sea Strategy, T01 or achievement 2018-year facial recognition explosive
Today, the commercialization of machine vision is accelerating the landing, driving the wisdom of the city, intelligent store, smart home, intelligent community, intelligent Office, the new generation of intelligent robots and other industries toward AI specialization. As the ' Eye of all things ' smart cameras these are important interfaces in the commercialization process and have wide application prospects. In Silicon Valley, the godfather of Peter Thille's book, ' Tao One ' is the key to open up the emerging blue Sea market, June is launched T01 chip is also the machine Vision Blue sea Market application of an important step, very competitive advantage.
Why does the T01 machine vision chip have a competitive advantage in front-end chip of face recognition? Because T01 uses a direct algorithm embedded in the processor, in the way of ASIC, in reducing costs, power consumption also achieves the best balance point, and has sufficient performance.
Outside the algorithm, the depth of learning is also the focus of AI landing applications, T01 different from the GPU and FPGA, but also with the depth of learning neural network various XPU chip has a certain difference. The typical operating power of the T01, including the built-in DDR, is approximately 700mW. Far less than the GPU and FPGA, also significantly lower than the number of data published by some XPU.
Unlike other machine vision chip stack flops performance, T01 more attention to the results of practical functions. From the actual test of T01, the effect of target detection is very close to the depth learning, and it has the characteristics of angle analysis, real-time detection and so on. Deep Neural network is undoubtedly the future of the industry, but the depth of learning to reach a large resolution and high frame speed, there is still a long way to go, especially in the power control. T01 with very low power consumption, lower costs, as well as good program practicality, is currently comparable to the depth of learning products landing First choice.
In today's fast-growing AI, pure cloud computing and separate front-end computing seem to be unable to meet the needs of development. The future of the product, must be more in balance between experience and cost, so the terminal and cloud joint computing architecture emerged. ' T01 will perform real-time demanding target detection at the front end, and will be based on large data recognition running in the cloud, to achieve terminal and cloud computing. ' Through the terminal and cloud respective function focus, will be very advantageous to the AI industry chain Unity. At the same time, the two-terminal joint computing architecture, technology to facilitate cutting algorithms, cloud services and hardware products, commercially conducive to bridge the data contention, promote integration. So far, T01 has been with a number of cloud services companies (such as Baidu, Artofus, etc.) in-depth cooperation to provide a variety of data processing cloud services; At the same time, T01 also introduced a number of equipment product development partners, can be quickly based on a variety of scenarios to create different products, with the corresponding cloud services to provide different scenarios under the overall solution.
In addition to the current including the eyes and ears and fluorite, fresh interconnection, Van Jiayan, Han Hui, micro-krypton, Hai video, British Gas, SBR, such as the introduction of the use of T01 Artificial intelligence chip products, T01 still exist a lot of potential application space and customers, such as: With multiple camera linkage, you can achieve the positioning of personnel control, Trajectory backtracking, human face search; With ecological electrical linkage, you can achieve home appliances control, lighting switch, natural gas energy-saving, door lock doorbell, etc. With posture analysis and health data, can realize the guardianship of the elderly, fall detection, SOS alarm, etc. With the application of shops, we can realize the passenger flow statistics, store hot Spot Analysis and guide the VIP service; With the application of public safety, electronic face policemen can be widely deployed in sensitive areas; With large medical data, you can significantly prevent medical care, medical and other applications such as traffickers.
Overall, June is launching the first generation of machine vision Chip T01 has a human-oriented high-performance multiple object detection capabilities, and low operating power consumption, the cost of civilian, good integration, has been in the field of video cameras first landed. With the wave of AI, T01 is expected to expand the scope of application next year, there will be more use of T01 products landed in more areas.
2. Mobile phone factory independent research and development chip war intensified millet to add battle;
Millet announced that the former MediaTek co-operation Zhu Shangzu will serve as a partner of Millet Industry Investment department, for the mobile phone industry threw shock bombs, the mainland mobile phone manufacturers continue to take chicken chickens strategy, attempt to win the terminal mobile phone market and upstream 0 components, with the mobile phone brand manufacturers to lift vertical integration war, independent research and development chip war more fierce, Not only the impact of existing mobile phone chip manufacturers, second-tier mobile phone factory is also facing the plight of marginalization. Following Apple (AAPL), Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics), Huawei, Millet has also published a high level of independent research and development chip ' surging S1 ', as the world's production of mobile phones and chips, the fourth handset brand manufacturers, showing the integration of millet upstream of the strong intention of the heart, Also set off a new wave of mobile phone brand factory self-developed chip war. Supply chain manufacturers pointed out that, in addition to Huawei has already wide-ranging talent, in recent years, Millet also embraced the world-renowned semiconductor companies related talent, millet this invitation to Zhu Shangzu as investment partner, causing the industry's high concern. Because Huawei, Millet and other mobile phone brand manufacturers have developed chip capabilities, can pull up the supply chain management, 0 component costs, shipments and other control degree, will not be third-party chip supplier progress, supply status, etc., for Qualcomm, MediaTek and other chip factory is not good news, with Huawei, Millet, etc. to obtain favorable competition conditions, unavoidably to Qualcomm, MediaTek and other impact. Supply chain manufacturers believe that mobile phone manufacturers leading the group of Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Millet and other running in the former, and continue to consolidate the market, the global mobile phone market is the eldest brother eat meat, second drink soup situation, mobile phone manufacturers actively to upstream supply chain vertical integration to accumulate long-term competitive advantage, play a greater influence, from the global mobile phone auction to observe, For the second-tier handset factory HTC, Asus and other more unfavorable. To Samsung Electronics as an example, because of the group resources as backing, strong vertical integration, the upstream supply chain to deepen the layout, through their own smart mobile phone to sea, the arch of their own processors, AMOLED panels, memory, etc., in each other pull up, play water to help fish, fish to help water effect. Huawei has already implemented multiple chip supplier strategy, by its own sea-thinking chip, so that Huawei high-end models to expand the diversity of space, the supply chain manufacturers bargaining power is also enhanced. With the development of the mobile phone market, Huawei has also led the Heiss high-end and midrange chip solutions shipments, in the case of the effect of the Huawei Hen chicks, Heiss prospects continue to look Qiao. In the past, the handset brand factory for the cost of austerity, the chip factory is expected to allow, release a better discount, but the chip factory to allow space is difficult to meet the needs of the handset factory, so that the handset factory decided to develop the chip independently. For the resources, the ability of the mobile phone factory, all hope to borrow by the production of their own chips, the expansion of their smartphone competitiveness, or to increase the price and chip factory bargaining chips, no longer subject to Qualcomm, MediaTek, exhibition and other suppliers. As early as 2014, Millet had accumulated enough users and began to consider investing in chips. Millet company chairman, founder and CEO Lei recently stressed that the chip is the commanding point of the mobile phone industry technology, is the pyramid tip technology, if you want to become a great company in this industry, or in the core technology has autonomy, the company can go far. Digitimes
3. Zhu Shangzu to the millet MediaTek prior knowledge, the consultant is still
MediaTek's predecessor, Zhu Shangzu moved to the Millet industry investment partner's action, it is understood that MediaTek beforehand, Zhu Shangzu also have with the company's senior report, and so far Zhu Shangzu still serve as a consultant to MediaTek, formerly MediaTek colleagues to give more blessings. It is also the case that MediaTek has continued to glow in the mainland market after the 3rd Mobile-phone chip division director left work in the past year. But, compared to Xu Zhi, Ching Wen, Zhu Shangzu hold a line in life, the principle of good meet in the future, choose to maintain a good relationship with the old club, and continue to be a consultant of MediaTek, and even the attitude of the prior report, seems most let MediaTek and the industry recognized, and in fact, millet for MediaTek has always been a unique feeling, MediaTek's predecessor, Ming, also served as the finance minister for Millet in 2013. Although millet these years have homemade mobile phone chip processor planning, let the market Lenovo Zhu Shangzu moved to Millet, seems to have the opportunity to let the cone Intelligent mobile phone chip solution, can successfully avoid some of the need to learn the curve of the inference, but to Zhu Shangzu the new post is Millet industry investment partner's point of view, Zhu Shangzu Cross-border Guidance mobile phone chip product line, and even the opportunity to be in fact not high; Millet want to draw on, should or Zhu Shangzu over the past few years good customer relationship and industrial chain of acquaintances, as for the success of product planning record and rich experience in the market, the original is millet actively to the global recruit the basic threshold of talents, and Giushangzu moved to millet behavior, It also seems to mean that the mainland semiconductor industry actively looking for Taiwan to borrow the action, the future will still be only big. In fact, MediaTek founded 20 years ago, high-level supervisor whether it is Rong retreat, or personal career planning of the transfer behavior, most people in fact, and the company still regularly party, dinner, maintain a good revolutionary emotion, but why and Ching text to court, mainly the two sides of the idea of malicious digging angle is not the same, after all, Originally Ching Wengang quit want to start a business, MediaTek Investment department also went to assess, visible at that time the relationship is not bad, but later involved in the red line of talent, each other before the formal fall. However, because the lesson of this precedent is too vivid, so, after the resignation of the senior staff of MediaTek, or after the transfer, most of them take the attitude of cleansing out of the household, and go solo to the mainland market to continue to seek the opportunity of glowing fever, and from Zhu Shangzu's latest investment partner position to observe Taiwan's excellent semiconductor talent in the mainland market is still high. Digitimes
4. Semiconductor in the flexible self-driven gas sensing and display system research progress;
The rapid development and commercialization of flexible wearable electronic devices have accelerated the transformation and upgrading of energy storage devices. For good matching wearable electronic devices, the energy memory used must have high security, small size, long life, easy integration and high power density. In view of the above requirements, the planar micro-capacitor is the best choice for the energy supply device. But the individual capacitor voltage window is small, the energy density is low, it is difficult to continuously uninterrupted for the wearable device to be able to supply. The most convenient way to solve this problem is to supply multiple micro-capacitors in series as functional units of wearable integrated systems. At present, many different types of capacitor array-driven integrated detection systems have been developed, such as integrated optical detection systems, integrated pressure sensor systems. In addition to pressure, light, heat and other sensors, organic gas sensors in recent years in environmental monitoring, industrial field and security areas play a more and more important role, but compared with light detection, pressure sensors, gas sensors on the target gas response time is long, the corresponding energy consumption is greater, the demand for energy devices higher, increasing the difficulty of integration. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the integrated system of self driven gas sensor.
Recently, a new type of wearable gas sensor and real-time display system driven by micro-capacitor array has been developed in the Shenguo of the National Key Laboratory of the superlattice of the CAS Institute of Semiconductors. The integrated system consists of a circular capacitor array based on electrodeposited polypyrrole electrode material, and a temperature ethanol gas sensor based on carbon nanotube/polyaniline material and an in-situ gas analysis and display system. The capacitance of the assembled capacitor is 47.42mf/cm2, and the response time of the gas sensor to ethanol gas at ambient temperature is 13s and 4.5s respectively. When there is gas into the sensor, the gas sensor on both sides of the current will change, the circuit board components will collect this change and calculate, compared with the standard stored in advance to obtain the gas concentration value, and then through the Bluetooth signal transmission to the cell phone, Then the mobile phone app will show the corresponding gas concentration and draw a real-time i-t curve, in the personalized wine driving test and other fields have a wide range of application prospects.
Research results are published on Nano Energy. The research work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation and the Frontier Science research project of CAs.
Semiconductor in the research of flexible self-actuated gas sensing and display system The Chinese Academy of Sciences website
5. Sheng Austria in Zhangjiagang to start a new production line for the Asia-Pacific market production of pure ABS resin
Sheng, a global manufacturer of plastic, latex adhesives and synthetic rubber materials, announced today that it will launch the MAGNUMTM ABS production line in Zhangjiagang, China. For customers in different sectors of the Asia-Pacific region, including automotive, home appliances, electronics, lighting and consumer goods, to meet their specific needs of Mai Chun ™abs resin.
Sheng Omaichun ™abs with the bulk polymerization process, the product has high stability and excellent performance. It can be used for injection molding, sheet and profile extrusion applications, as well as the process of self coloring to reduce costs, while providing terminal products with lasting excellent aesthetic effect.
"The production of ™abs in China is an important milestone in the Asia-Pacific market for Sheng," said Tim Stedman, Sheng senior vice president and chief executive of basic plastics and raw materials. We practice our commitment to customers and provide customers with better products than other ABS resins produced in China. '
November 21, 2017, Sheng Austria at the Zhangjiagang plant will hold a start-up ceremony, and invited the local government, neighboring companies, related business management personnel and Sheng Austrian employees to participate.
Mai Chun ™abs This brand has been known for a long time, this time in China to invest in production, is a further manifestation of Sheng Austria dedicated to serve the Asia-Pacific customer commitment. Sheng will start selling ™abs in the fourth quarter of 2017.