At 13 o'clock on May 3rd, AI Ventures Cambrian Technology will hold a press conference in Shanghai to announce the company's first epoch-making AI artificial intelligence processor, open cloud strategy, and build an end-to-cloud integrated AI system.
Cambrian Technology was only founded in 2016. Founded by Prof. Chen Tianshi, who has been working in the processor architecture and AI field for more than ten years, he quickly became the first unicorn company in the field of AI chips with a valuation of more than ten billion yuan. In 2017, it completed A round of 100 million U.S. dollar financing.
Among them, HKUST News is an angel wheel investor in the Cambrian Technology, China Academy of Sciences, and China Science and Technology are all strategic partners.
In 2016, the Cambrian era launched the world’s first terminal AI processor, the first commercially available deep learning processor, Cambricon-1A, for smart phones, security monitoring, and wearable devices. With various types of terminal equipment such as drones and smart driving, the mainstream intelligent algorithms consume more energy than traditional CPUs and GPUs.
Since then, the Cambrian has successively introduced a number of new products, such as the deep learning processor 'Cambrian 1H8' for the visual field, with lower power consumption and smaller volume, such as the Cambrian 1A upgraded version of the Cambrian Period. 1H16', energy efficiency is improved several times, more versatile, such as 'Cambrian 1M' for smart driving, performance ten times that of the Cambrian 1A, and the software development environment is becoming more and more mature.
About this release of the first cloud AI processor, seen from the invitation letter 'MLU100''s words -This is one of the cloud-based high-performance intelligent processors announced by Cambrian Technology at the end of 2017. It supports server-side reasoning and training requirements, and is especially focused on reasoning. There is also a MLU200 training.
It is worth noting that In order to distinguish the previous neural network processor (NPU), Cambrian specifically named the cloud chip as a machine learning processor (MLU)., It is intended to emphasize that its cloud processor is no longer limited to deep learning acceleration, but extends to the entire machine learning acceleration, while building a whole set of ecology.
At present, the wave of AI technology is unprecedentedly hot. Giants such as BATJ follow suit. For example, Alibaba Dharma is developing the neural network chip Ali-NPU. Its cost performance is 40 times that of similar products.
Smartphones are also constantly integrating AI concepts. For example, Huawei's first integrated neural network unit, the Unicorn 970, is based on the Cambrian technology.
