Through Master Lu's AI test, it can be clearly seen that Huawei's Mate10 with the Unicorn 970 chip score is much higher than the Samsung S9/S9+ equipped with the Qualcomm Xiaolong 845. It is clear that the AI performance of the Unicorn 970 is significantly better than that of the Xiaolong. 845, but how is this done?
As the flagship chip, Huawei Unicorn 970 integrated the NPU specially designed for AI computing in the mobile phone chip for the first time, and adopted the HiAI mobile computing architecture. Its AI performance density is much better than CPU and GPU. When dealing with the same AI application tasks, Kirin 970's new heterogeneous computing architecture has approximately 50 times energy efficiency and a 25-fold performance advantage. This means that the Unicorn 970 chip can perform AI calculation tasks with a higher energy efficiency ratio. For example, approximately 2,000 sheets can be achieved in image recognition speed. /minute.
In contrast, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, although it has also achieved AI on the side, it can only use the NPE (Neural Processing Engine) to schedule the existing CPU, GPU and DSP resources in the existing SOC to achieve AI performance. These existing chips are not Designed specifically for AI calculations, so the efficiency will be very low. Let CPU / GUP / DSP to do part-time AI, in any case can not be to achieve the level of the main business is to do AI computing NPU. This is also Xiaolong 845 and Kirin The key reason for the wide disparity in the AI performance of the 970.
Moreover, similar to the alternative approach, there is the problem of insufficient allocation of computing resources. Imagine that the mobile phone is already in a high-load operation, and adding an AI operation requirement will only impede the overall performance, resulting in limited overall performance.
Of course, with AI strength, there is a usage scenario to be able to display this strength. In this regard, Qilin 970 has already begun to layout more than half a year after Xiaolong 845. Open ports are for developers to match the AI interface that calls Qilin 970. Kirin 970's AI eye-catching camera, AI voice, AI accompanying translation has been able to experience on mobile phones, and is still growing. At the same time it has its own mobile phone brand advantages, the use of AI performance will also be more flexible.
Through open cooperation, many developers have already joined the Huawei Developers Alliance to provide a continuous stream of vitality for the application of Unicorn's AI chips. At the same time, Huawei has reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation with Baidu, and both parties will serve on the Internet. Ecology, AI platform technology and other aspects of the depth of cooperation, and jointly promote the development and progress of AI ecology.
The Xiaolong 845 is already late in solving the high-tech threshold of AI from the cloud side to the end side. Kirin has more than 970 months. There is no mobile phone under its own brand. It is not only difficult to make up for the weaknesses in time, but also in the future. The gap will only increase.
AI, this subversive force is sweeping the world, many industries will change, the smart phone industry will be the first line. It can be expected that the gap between mobile phone products will be a large part of the AI technology strength Definitions. From now on, Kirin 970 has not only achieved the flagship chip of the mobile phone with the strongest current AI strength, but also has taken the lead in technological innovation and integration of industry resources.