As soon as the news came out, various media outlets followed suit. However, ten minutes later, the founder and CEO of Cambrian Technology, Mr. Chen Tianshi, spoke in the WeChat group of friends and said that the company’s 'valued more than US$2 billion in national team funds’ admission is Fake news, and said 'for this unauthorized false news, our company has complained'.
Netease Intelligence immediately asked the Cambrian Technology Company, but as of press time has not been a positive reply.
According to analysts in the industry, Cambrian Technology may be undertaking a new round of financing, but the investor, amount and valuation have not been finally confirmed. The company’s CEO Chen Tianshi has denied the friendship circle, and may also be a form of confidentiality for financing. reaction.
According to statistics, Cambrian Technology was founded in March 2016 and was co-founded by brothers Chen Tianshi and Chen Yunxi. It is the world's first smart chip company with successful outflows and mature products. It has two product lines: terminal and server. A research group born out of the Computer Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences can be traced back to the 10-person research team established by the Computer Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. The Cambrian team members not only have the technical elites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but also have the core participation of China's first general-purpose CPU Godson One. personnel.
The task force applied artificial intelligence to processor design verification in 2009. In 2011, the team worked with Zhou Zhihua of Nanjing University to apply AI to processor architecture optimization to improve processor performance. In 2013, DianNao, the world’s first deep learning processor architecture, was developed. Received the best paper of ASPLOS 2014; In 2014, the team launched DaDianNao, the world's first multi-core deep learning processor architecture, and won the best paper of MICRO 2014 again; In 2015, the team successfully developed the world's first deep learning processor chip. Ji'' Cambrian Technology was incorporated in Beijing, Shanghai in 2016.
In August 2017, Cambrian Technology announced the completion of Round A financing, Lenovo Ventures, Alibaba Ventures, SDIC Ventures, Guoke Investment, Zhongke Turing, Yuanyu Origin (Angel Wheel Collar Investment), Chung铧 Investment (Angel Wheel Investor) Co-investment. Series A financing makes Cambrian the first unicorn enterprise in the AI chip field.
In 2016, the Cambrian released the world's first commercially available deep learning processor 'Cambrian 1A', which includes the world's first manual dedicated instruction set for workforce Cambricon ISA. It has completely independent intellectual property rights, theoretical peak performance of 1GHz, and support for vision. , Speech, natural language processing and other smart tasks. In 2017, the Cambrian authorizes Huawei Hass to use the Cambrian 1A processor, which is equipped with the Kirin 970 chip and the Mate 10 series mobile phone. In November 2017, the Cambrian It also released three smart processors. The first is an upgraded version of the 1A processor, which has a higher performance Cambrian 1H16 processor. The second product is a 1H8 processor for the visual field, with 4 configurations available. The main camera assistant, picture processing, security monitoring, performance and power ratio is 2.3 times that of the 1A processor. The third product is the Cambrian 1M processor for the smart driving field, performance is more than 10 times that of the 1A processor. There is also the Phantaron Phantaron server for artificial intelligence reasoning tasks with a Cambrian principle sample, with a theoretical peak of 120 TFlops.
As the founder and CEO of Cambrian Technology, Chen Tianshi received a bachelor's degree in science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2005 and a PhD degree in engineering from the Computer College of the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010. He has served as an assistant researcher of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and an associate researcher. , Researcher (professor). Deeply cultivated for more than ten years in the field of processor architecture and artificial intelligence. Published in IEEE/ACM Transactions, Theoretical Computer Science, ISCA, HPCA, IJCAI, AAAI, SPAA, DATE, and other important journals and conferences. 40 More than one article.
Chen Tianshi once said that what the Cambrian really needs to do is the Machine Learning Processor (MLU). It also revealed that it will launch two MLU chips with main reasoning and training this year. One is the MLU100 for data centers and small and medium servers. The high-performance chips emphasize reasoning; the other is the MLU200 high-performance chip for enterprise-level artificial intelligence research and development centers, which emphasizes training. In the next three years, the Cambrian will occupy 30% of China's high-performance chip market share and make the world 10 More than one billion smart terminals integrate Cambrian processors to build China's leading new high-performance chip ecosystem.