Alibaba established Daruma House and CTO Zhang Jianfeng made a speech
Sina Technology News April 21 evening news, Alibaba Group's wholly-owned acquisition of Zhongtian Micro-company, Alibaba Group Chief Technology Officer Zhang Jianfeng first detailed disclosure of the company's long-term layout and planning in the chip strategy. Zhang Jianfeng said the company as early as four Year ago, it began to lay out the chip strategy. 'In 2014, Ali invested in Zhongtianwei for the first time. In 2017, he pursued another investment, and this year's wholly-owned acquisition is already a matter of course.
Zhang Jianfeng stated that in addition to the embedded chip's Zhongtian Micro, in terms of network chips, mobile phone chips, IOT chips, etc., Alibaba also has a series of investment and deployment. As of now, Ali has also invested in the Cambrian, Barefoot Networks, , Kneron, ASR, and other five chip companies. At the same time, as an important part of Alibaba's IOT strategy, Alibaba Dharma has established a senior professional team to conduct independent research and development of AI chips.
'Alibaba's IOT strategy must be controlled by resources, technology is controllable, and it has core competitiveness. The bottom line is the chip,' said Zhang Jianfeng. 'This is also the most important breakthrough in research since the establishment of Alibaba. one' .
Zhang Jianfeng pointed out that it is very difficult for China to achieve a breakthrough in the chip industry, but it is not without opportunities, not to mention being unattainable. Especially in certain areas facing the future, China and the United States are on the same starting line, such as artificial intelligence. He said For example, the Internet of Things represented by urban brains and smart cities brings demand for new types of chips. At present, there are no mature chips in the global industry. This brings the opportunity for renewed competition. Fields have the opportunity to master core competencies.
'We expect a couple of years later, there will be two to three billion devices connected to the chip, and the core of the chip will be handled. The scope and scale of the chip's demand today are not at an order of magnitude compared to the future. It will be several hundred. Thousands of times of growth, the opportunity for China to achieve a breakthrough is in it,” Zhang Jianfeng analyzed. “This is equivalent to the appearance of another track. If there is a breakthrough in the above areas, it means that Chinese enterprises have achieved a change of course. Overtaking. This is why Alibaba started to lay out its chip strategy four years ago.'
Zhang Jianfeng believes that all industries, universities, research institutes, and universities in China must work together to achieve breakthroughs. Because the chip strategy is not an overnight task, enterprises including Alibaba are determined to invest for a long time, and they must also have a vision for the future and be able to withstand loneliness. Persistence'. In the field of chips, as in any other field of the era of globalization, there is global competition and global cooperation. It is also the basis of reality in the global market. It is also a common ground for all industries in China. The direction of effort.