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Undoubtedly, artificial intelligence is the hottest area for the information industry in the past two years.According to PricewaterhouseCoopers data, artificial intelligence will contribute 15.7 trillion U.S. dollars to the world economic GDP by 2030, surpassing the current economy of China and India The sum of the total; by 2035, artificial intelligence is expected to promote the world's labor productivity increase of 40%, prompting a 14% increase in global GDP.
At present, our country has been at the forefront of the world in the field of artificial intelligence algorithm research, application and promotion, and even the design of dedicated accelerating chips, but these elements alone can not really support the operating system, multi-dimensional perception, human-computer interaction, Security, etc. Huge artificial intelligence industry chain from the current shipment of the largest embedded applications point of view, with the latest AI-enabled smart phones, for example, a mobile phone chip contains not only high performance, low power Consuming cores such as CPUs, DSPs and GPUs, as well as specialized computational units such as NPUs (often referred to as NPUs) or ASIC accelerators for deep learning, etc. Therefore, a good and sustainable artificial intelligence Ecosystem must be based on the platform of combining independent innovation, common and dedicated! However, when China's CPU, GPU, DSP and other general-purpose computing cores are still lacking in their own design and innovation capability, China's future artificial intelligence The industry may be the same as today's smart phone industry, even if some of the special chip to achieve a partial breakthrough, but still face The core processor technology had to rely on foreign manufacturers authorized dilemma.
At the same time, the hardware and software design platform that combines advanced computing power and computing power with state-of-the-art programming and debugging advantages, such as CPU / DSP / GPU and other specialized computing units, is being phased in Therefore, if China's high-end core chip should seize the historic development opportunities brought by artificial intelligence, it should take the initiative to attack, pay close attention to the layout and improve our country from high-performance, low power consumption General-purpose processor to a dedicated processor in the field of complete innovation, so as to copy our country in the field of 3G, 4G, 5G from follow and run to lead the successful experience and accelerate the formation of China in the global new generation of heterogeneous computing architecture synthesis Competitive strength.
China's first high-end processor IP and Huaxia core AI dedicated processor IP
On December 28, 2017, Huaxiaxin (Beijing) General Processor Co., Ltd. announced its first 64-bit high in China, the world's leading manufacturer of high-end processors and AI chips at Huaxiaxin, held in Shanghai. , Embedded CPU / DSP unified processor IP core, to fill the gap, breaking the foreign high-end embedded processor IP in the field of long-term monopoly.At the same time, Huaxia core also released a distinctive embedded artificial intelligence Dedicated processor IP core, making the field of artificial intelligence fully autonomous IP ecosystem of industrial chains for the first time possible.
It is understood that this release of the 64-bit high-end embedded CPU / DSP unified processor IP is the second generation of Huaxia core products, adding many new features.First, it achieved one or more superscalar CPU core; , An increase of variable-length vector unit, providing a strong parallel computing power; Third, each CPU core to achieve 2D DMA engine, allowing users to use virtual addresses for editing, to achieve higher efficiency; Finally, the CPU core to achieve high-speed Storage and high accelerator interface, which is PXI, to achieve high-speed data transfer with the outside.
This conference, Huaxia core artificial intelligence dedicated processor IP is also one of the highlights.It has many features: the integration of CPU features, without external master control; for high-speed mass space acceleration; good at multitasking, multi-data Parallel computing; High performance, low power consumption, low cost design; Integrated programming, debugging, optimization; Easy to expand application software to create ecology.
China's first multicore SoC chip based on fully autonomous CPU / DSP / AI
Huaxiaxin also released a multi-core SoC chip platform based on the above independent IP at the conference on December 28 - 'Polaris' This is the first platform-based artificial intelligence chip with independent intellectual property rights of CPU, DSP and AI released in China .
Lee Kwan Yi, chairman of Huaxia Semiconductor, said before the domestic release of artificial intelligence chips are basically AI ASICs, and 'Polaris' is a SoC for a variety of applications (that is, the so-called system-on-chip) chips, not only The AI-dedicated processor for neural networks and deep learning also integrates high-performance CPUs / DSPs with the ability to extend into multiple product areas. Overall, no matter whether it is security, reliability, availability or even area , Power consumption, cost are more suitable for large-scale, commercial applications. 'Polaris' in a single chip programming extensions can be used to achieve high complexity of field control and decision-making, digital signal processing, image signal processing, Network depth learning and feature extraction, multi-threaded parallel computing and other functions.
According to Huaxiaxin introduction, Polaris adopts TSMC's 28nm process technology and will be mass-produced in the first half of 2018. In order to efficiently meet such embedded applications as smart assisted driving, intelligent security monitoring, robotics, computer vision, vehicle and commercial radar detection, voice recognition and other embedded Type artificial intelligence applications, but also extends to many other fields such as Industry 4.0, field control, edge computing, intelligent hardware, smart home, etc., and is a highly adaptable heterogeneous computing platform and an artificial intelligence platform Chip.
China's first intelligent driving solution that integrates binocular stereo vision and radar sensing
Last year, a serious accident in Tesla resulted in casualties. It made people aware that intelligent driving must be based on safe driving. "Polaris' high-performance computing unit with different features aimed at safe driving can So that safety performance to a new level.In this conference, Huaxia core also launched based on North Star chip China's first binocular stereo vision and radar sensing intelligent driving solution.
According to Huaxiaxin introduction, this Polaris based multi-sensor fusion intelligent driving program has a number of technical features: support for stereo vision 'special engine'; simultaneous calculation of Motion and Stereo; multi-focal length (near focus + far focus) stereoscopic vision With the model; multiple radar (including 24G millimeter-wave radar, 77G millimeter-wave radar, laser radar); different sensing methods of the final analysis of information in the system layer comprehensive judgment and so on.
The Huaxia core product launch has been highly recognized and positive response from industry experts and peers.Zhou Hongren, director of National Informatization Advisory Committee, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dean of School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University Mao Junfa, More than 300 experts, leaders of Yu Zonguang and other experts as well as deputy director of 58 branches of China Electronics Branch, as well as more than 300 representatives from upstream and downstream production, study and research institutes attended the conference.
Li Ke Yi said: 'If artificial intelligence is for humankind to open a door to realize the dream of the future, Huaxia core positioning is what? Our full range of IP, hope that the chip design and customization easier, make the software compiled more Convenience allows system vendors to get better solutions and we are the key to designing artificial intelligence and helping partners open the door to the future. '