Algorithms, data and hardware computing constitute the three elements of the rapid development of artificial intelligence.As one of the mainstream artificial intelligence algorithms, the rapid growth of deep learning has led to a sharp increase in computation and higher computational power.GPU, FPGA, ASIC And other processors are used to accelerate the algorithm to speed up the application and development of artificial intelligence in cloud servers and end products 2017 can be described as the AI chip year, NVIDIA and Google in the cloud set off a new round of artificial intelligence contest, Intel Not to be outdone; and in the terminal side, not only Apple, Qualcomm, Huawei and other giants have layout, AI special chip innovation and entrepreneurship is showing a flourishing situation, the prospects for the period.Previewing the international authoritative fund rating agencies Morningstar forecast 2021 Global Artificial Intelligence chip The market size may exceed 200 billion US dollars.
The artificial intelligence chip industry is in the ascendant and it has also become an opportunity for China to regain the dominance of the semiconductor industry. The Ministry of Science and Technology released the project guide for transformative technology projects in October 2017 to solicit proposals in 13 research directions. One of them is to develop a new type Deep Neural Network Processor Chip.
However, in the era of group competition, the bubble will inevitably lead to birth.Therefore, in addition to technical trends, the industrial application of AI chips has become increasingly important.For example, many AI chip startup team in 2017 in addition to have announced financing news, but also Are rushing to announce or stream or mass production progress.Benefit from the capital boost, AI chip will accelerate in 2018 to the industry, and security, driverless, home and consumer electronics and other fields will be the first to apply the four Big area.
In order to better understand the technical trends of AI chips in 2018 and its industry prospects, the Great Eastcompeace Global Good Things Consumer Recommended Platform and China Consumer Electronics Show AWE, on March 9 in Shanghai Jumeirah Himalayas The hotel hosts the GTIC 2018 Global AI Chip Innovation Summit, the first AI chip industry summit in China that will invite the big brother from global chip giants, AI chip pioneer, new The security forces of the old coffee, driverless and smart car industry heavyweights, as well as well-known scholars and top venture capitalists, to discuss this era of group competition.
GTIC 2018 is divided into the morning field and the afternoon field, will be divided into five sections, the morning as a 'artificial intelligence into the outbreak, the group competition opened the era'; the afternoon of the three sections are 'autopilot what kind of calculation Platform ',' AI chip drives a new round of household appliances and consumer electronics revolution 'and' AI chip accelerates security and intelligent change '. The last section is GTIC AWARDS 2018 awards ceremony, revealing the' intelligent transformation forces' that will affect the future of the industry.
At present, some VIPs from GTIC 2018 have already confirmed their attendance one by one. They are respectively Academic Leader Wei Shaojun, Director of Microelectronics Institute of Tsinghua University, Professor Simon See, Chief Technology Officer of NVIDIA Asia Pacific AI Technology Center, At the helm, MediaTek vice president and general manager of home entertainment products business group tourist Jie. In addition, the deep science and technology co-founder and CEO Yao Song, Kai-Tailun founder and chairman He Yunpeng, Bit Wei mainland product strategy director Wei Wei, etc. Three well-known three AI chip entrepreneurs have also confirmed the participants. UOB vice president and general manager of R & D Center Zhang Xingming, vice president and chief architect Yushui Yaohua, unlimited touch CEO Xiaohong Bo, Shang Tang Technology Yang Fan, Co-Founder & Vice President Yun Yun, Senior Cloud Security Vice President Sun Qingkai, and other five new and old security forces will attend the summit Bosch Chassis Control System China Driver Assistants Division R & D Director Cai Jing, Texas Instrument China Embedded Systems and Applications Director Jiang Hong, founder and CEO of Chi Walker Zhang Dezhao, co-founder and vice president of Xiaopeng Automotive Tao, executive director Chen Yu Yun Kai capital, five automatic driving executives giants, entrepreneurs and investors will attend.
Wei Shaojun is professor and doctoral tutor of Tsinghua University and director of the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University.Wei Shaojun is the director of the Institute of Electronic Systems Integration and ASIC Technology of the Ministry of Education of China, and is a senior member of China Institute of Electronics and a valuable member of the IEEE. Professor Wei Shaojun is devoted to the research of VLSI design methodologies and communication ASIC technology. His main research areas are: deep submicron integrated circuit design methodology, SOC design methodology for design reuse and high level synthesis Technical Research In the field of communications ASICs, he has successively presided over a number of key technology development projects of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications: the development of a subscriber line interface circuit for telephone exchanges in large offices, the development of a full set of chips for optical synchronous digital network SDH terminal group circuits, Charge IC chip development.
Simon See, CTO, Asia Pacific Technology Center, NVIDIA, holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is CTO of the Alvida Asia Pacific AI Technology Center. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Simon See also worked for SGI, IBM, Oracle, etc. He is also a member of SIAM, IEEE and International Emissions Trading (IET), a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, as well as a multinational supercomputing center Consultant, whose research interests include high performance computing, big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational science, applied mathematics, and simulation. He has published more than 200 relevant papers and won numerous awards.
Mr. Jie was awarded a bachelor's degree in automatic control engineering from National Chiao-Tung University and a master's degree from National Taiwan University's Institute of Electrical Engineering. He is currently the deputy general manager of MediaTek and the general manager of home entertainment products business group and is responsible for leading the chips in the fields of digital TV and smart TV Business, global client engagement in the smart home sector with top global customers, and global links to devices, ASICs, OTTs and audio products. He joined MediaTek in 2001 and was promoted to General Manager of Optical Storage Business in 2010, where he is responsible for optical storage Product development and application of global business development in his leadership, MediaTek optical storage business with superior product usher in the world's first technological breakthroughs.
Visitors Mr. Jay also led the acquisition of Wire Communication Unit and set up the data center network business division where he was also responsible for the strategic cooperative investment projects of the Department of Science and Technology, with its keen business insight to enable the exchange of top technology in mainland China in 2016 During the period from 2016 to 2016, Mr. Jie was the general manager of Corporate Strategy Department of the Company responsible for the implementation and management of M & A project evaluation and proposal. In 2015, Mr. Jie was promoted to Corporate Headquarters Deputy General Manager, 2016 Leading the Home Entertainment Products Business Group, Responsible for a Broader Smart Home Product Line.
As one of the four chips of AI chip, Deep Vision Technology performed well from its inception. Currently, Yao Song, co-founder and CEO of Deep Vision Technology, has also confirmed attendance at this GTIC Summit and delivered a speech. After deducting 90, he graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in electronics in 2015. He was the chairman of Tsinghua University's Electronic Science Student Association, published many papers during his undergraduate studies and won the gold medal in the ACM Student Research Contest. In 2016, he co- CEO and founded the deep science and technology, focused on efficient deep learning platform for smart security and data center and other industries to provide algorithms, software, integrated chip artificial intelligence program. Deep Kam Technology in the creation of more than a year, a continuous access to Jinsha River create A $ 5 million round of investment led by Angel Capital and a $ 20 million round A financing led by Xilinx, MediaTek and Tsinghua Holdings, as well as investment led by Ant Financial Services and Samsung Ventures, China Merchants Venture Capital Partners and CRE Capital Partners A $ 40 million round of financing.
Kai Ying Tairun is the first company in the industry to propose and develop the 'Brain Neural Processing Unit' (BNPU) chip logic circuit IP, and successfully released the world's first BNPU artificial intelligence neural network voice recognition chip CI1006 in 2016 In addition, Kai Ying Tailun also won the '2017 China Home Appliances AWE Smart Innovation Award', '2017 IoT Best Artificial Intelligence Chip Solution Award', '2017 electronics industry users Satisfied with the brand 'and many other awards.
As a founder of the company, He Yunpeng has more than 20 years of experience in semiconductor research and has obtained a master's degree in electronics engineering from the Semiconductor Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National University of Singapore. After graduation, He Yunpeng worked successively with Singapore-based MBE Technology Pte Ltd. and Applied Optoelectronics, Inc . Company engaged in far-infrared semiconductor material devices, 1.55um laser semiconductor materials technology research .He later worked for 10 years Hisense, Hisense Shinsei vice minister of R & D vice president, led the development of the first high-definition high-definition painting Quality digital video media processing chip - Hisense 'letter core'. In 2015, Kai Ying Tailun Technology Co., Ltd. was established in Chengdu, and served as chairman and chief technology officer.
Weiwei Wei is currently director of artificial intelligence product strategy for bit mainland China and is responsible for marketing strategies and marketing of bit artificial intelligence chip product line in mainland China.Wang Weiwei has experience in high performance computing and artificial intelligence in the semiconductor industry for more than ten years and has obtained Tsinghua University's Electronic Science Holds a bachelor's degree in technology and a master's degree in automatic control and holds two patents in the United States for technology inventions.He has worked in NVIDIA, Zhong Tianlianke, and Lenovo as a system design engineer, pre-sales technology manager, industry program manager, Product manager and so on.
2014 - 2017 Tang Weiwei serves on global sales department of Intel data center, responsible for the marketing of high performance computing and artificial intelligence business in China.
Zhang Xingming is not only the vice president of UOB AG and the general manager of R & D center, but also the president of the Enterprise Research Institute and director of the National Enterprise Technology Center, who has long been engaged in technology research and innovation in security field. Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize of 2015 Zhejiang Science and Technology Progress Award.
In addition, Zhang Xingming also presided over or participated in more than 600 patents, of which 117 have been authorized patents for inventions, participated in the development of a national standard, in the national professional journals published a thesis.He is responsible for research and development of products have also been science and technology Award, LT Innovation Award and many other awards, Zhang Xingming individuals have also won the title of outstanding scientific and technological workers in Hangzhou in 2016.
Another participant who confirmed his attendance and delivered a speech was Yao Hua, Vice President and Chief Architect of YUSHU Yaohua graduated from Zhejiang University in 1995 with a major in Optical Machinery and has worked in the field of security for over 20 years. It is one of China's IP video technologies A pioneer of development, joined UTS Technology in 2005 as IP Monitoring Solution Manager SPDT, Minister of Safety Engineering Development, Minister of Solutions Division, Director of Emergency Command Solutions Development Division, Representative of HD IPC Product Development, Director of Products and Solutions Yao is now the chief architect of UTSYS, leading UTS to explore Visual WIO solutions, and the leading technologies based on video, smart and big data continue to be deployed in actual combat.
Unlimited touch CEO Xiao Hongbo has a master's degree from Tsinghua University, He served as Hewlett-Packard, CA China technical consultant, IBM senior information architect, UIUC higher media research center image group project manager .Xiao Hongbo has worked at the HP Software Division, to participate in Sharp and China Construction Bank, China Mobile, China Telecom, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and other large-scale information projects.He also worked in CA China, successfully helped the company implement PetroChina, Sinopec, mobile, telecommunications and other large-scale information projects, and CA North Asia Golden Star Awards.
Xiao Hongbo also served as Information Architect at IBM in charge of Secure Big Data Services and won the IBM Global Sales Champion and in addition he is the Head of Image Search Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Advanced Media Lab with ITIL and COBIT Professional Certifications. 2010 Xiao Hongbo co-founder Touch Unlimited Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., and served as CTO, incumbent Touch Unlimited CEO.
Computer vision firm Soup Technology, with $ 410 million in Series B financing overnight becoming the world's highest-funded artificial intelligence unicorn enterprise, the development trend is overwhelming.As a business soup co-founder and vice president, Yang Fan is also a In the field of technology and business are very good young talent. Yang Fan graduated from Tsinghua University Department of Electronic Engineering with a master's degree, worked in Microsoft responsible for technology research and development work.
As the general manager of Shang Tang Science and Technology Engineering Center, Yang Fan is responsible for leading Shang Tang Technology to a project development team of over 200 people, responsible for research and development and artificial intelligence solutions in pan-anti-smart video, mobile internet and finance industries, In terms of research, Yang Fan also led Shang Tang Technology to make numerous successes in international competitions. In 2016, Shang Shang won the first three titles in ImageNet's five major competitions and he personally owned 13 patents such as PCT Invention He is also a member of the virtual / augmented reality technology and industry branch of the Chinese Institute of Electronics and was selected as 'Beijing Outstanding Young Talents' in 2016.
Yun Qing, vice president of technology from Sun Qingkai, will also attend the GTIC and participate in the in-depth exchange of 'AI Chip Accelerated Security and Intelligent Change'. Sun Qingkai is the founder of Milestone Commerce Technology Service Inc and US Gateway LLC. He is the head of the medical and government department of IBM China and Zoomlion, and devotes himself to the technical exchange and cooperation between China and the United States to promote the cooperation between government and enterprises.Founded in 2015, Yunxian focuses on the computer vision technology that focuses on face recognition, As well as industry solutions in the financial, security and transportation fields. In 2017, Cloud came from science and technology into a major project of 'National Basic Knowledge Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence' under the National Development and Reform Commission.
Cai Jing holds a bachelor's degree from Fudan University, went to Germany as a heavy industrial country and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany in 2006. In 2005, he joined Bosch as R & D Manager of Ultrasonic Radar for Driver Assistance Systems in Automotive Electronics Division In 2012, Cai Jing was transferred to Bosch Automotive Parts (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. and is currently the director of R & D department of driver assistance system in China. He is responsible for establishing Bosch's research and development team and technology research and development in Suzhou. At the same time, R & D center in Germany and Germany bridge of communication.
Mr. Jiang Hong, Director of Embedded Product Systems and Applications, Texas Instruments China, has more than 10 years of product development and system architecture experience in digital video and personal infotainment products and held positions at Eastman Kodak and Philips Consumer Electronics Corp. Then, Joined the semiconductor industry as product business, market development and system development and application work, so far, 9 years of success.Jiang Hong joined TI Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in 2012, has served as the ' OMAP product line China market development director 'and' processor product line China market development director '. His team is responsible for marketing, system application development and on-site technical support. November 2015 Mr. Jiang Hong was appointed as China's embedded Product systems and applications director, led the subordinate team responsible for automotive application processors (infotainment, ADAS and digital dashboards), radar and analytics application processors, general purpose application processors, wireless connectivity solutions (Wireless Connec- tivity Solutions) As well as C2000 DSP application system development and field-oriented country-wide application of technology .
After completing this round of financing, Chevron will also continue to focus on the low-speed areas within the limited area, completing the financing of nearly 100 million yuan in June this year, Cheung Tak-young, founder and CEO of smart car overall solutions provider, Unmanned vertical applications, especially unmanned logistics and unmanned vehicles in both directions as founder and CEO of the company, Zhang Dezhao holds a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University during his PhD in his academic achievements He used to be chief technical officer and general manager of Beijing Zhihua Yuxin Automotive Electronic Technology Development Co., Ltd. and was responsible for the research and development of pre-installed lane departure warning system, the first 360-degree panoramic system development, the development of AEB, ACC and LKS prototypes R & D work with more than 20 patents, and participate in the development of four ADAS national standards, has repeatedly presided over the national key projects, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission project, won the Sichuan Province 'thousands of people plan' expert title.
Xiaopeng Automobile is undoubtedly the most attention by the new car manufacturers this year, the smart car team, not only ushered in the return of Chairman He Xiaopeng, the latter is in an internal letter revealed that the beginning of this year will complete a new round of 5 billion yuan of financing, and the amount Production version 2.0 will be available in the spring of 2018. Currently, He Tao, co-founder and vice president of Xiaopeng Motors, has confirmed his presence at GTIC 2018 and will participate in the depth exchange of this edition of 'Auto-Driving What's Needed' platform.
He Tao is a master's degree in Automotive Engineering Department of Tsinghua University and was the software leader of the new energy embedded platform software and head of the smart car project of Guangzhou Automobile Institute before he co-founded Xiaopeng Motor Co. During his stay at Guangzhou Automobile, He Tao introduced the automotive electronic development platform for the first time Guangzhou Automobile and led the development of the first smart / driverless project at Guangzhou Automobile Research Institute. Currently, Xiaopeng Motor is responsible for the research and development and supply chain construction.
Chen Yu holds a master's degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining Cloud Capital, he spent five years with Google in New York and Shanghai where he led a number of research programs on personalized search And display advertising projects. Since then, Chen Yu Ren LME advertising CTO, and the introduction of China's first professional mobile DSP products. After joining the Kai capital, Chen Yu focused on cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, and led the cloud Kai Invest in the United States ads, write together, TigerGraph, several technology, cloud-British, PingCAP, Roadstar.ai and other projects, Chen Yu personally also won the '2017 Most Popular Eligible Investors' title.
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