Cambrian Technology, the industry-leading smart chip design company, today announced the Cambricon MLU100 cloud-based smart chip and board product in Shanghai, and the Cambrian 1M terminal smart processor IP product. Lenovo, Dawning and HKUST have cooperated as the Cambrian. Partners also released applications based on the Cambrian chip.
From the Cambrian Period to the Cloud, Setting a New Benchmark for AI Chips
At the press conference, Dr. Chen Tianshi, founder and CEO of Cambrian, delivered a keynote speech. Dr. Chen Tianshi reviewed the original intention of the Cambrian venture and introduced the Cambrian opening, collaboration, and win-win business philosophy: The downstream partners worked closely together to build a core material carrier for humans towards the smart age. In the speech, Dr. Chen Tianshi officially released two new products of the Cambrian era: Terminal Intelligent Processor IP Products Cambrian 1M, Cloud Intelligence Chip Cambricon MLU100 and its board.
The Cambrian 1A, the first generation of intelligent terminal IP products introduced in the Cambrian era in 2016, is the world's first commercial terminal intelligent processor IP product and has been used in tens of millions of intelligent terminals (including Huawei Mate10, P20 and Glory 10 and other mobile phones. The newly released Cambrian 1M is the company's third-generation IP product, with an 8-bit performance ratio of 5 Tops/watt (5 trillion operations per watt) in the TSMC 7nm process. Three sizes of processor cores (2Tops/4Tops/8Tops) to meet the needs of different levels of intelligent processing in different application scenarios, and can further improve performance through multi-core interconnection. Cambrian 1M processor continued the pre-Cambrian two generations of IP Products (Cambrian 1H/1A) Excellent completeness, a single processor core can support diverse deep learning models such as CNN, RNN, and SOM, and further support for SVM, k-NN, k-Means, decision trees Classical machine learning algorithms, support for local training, flexible and efficient computing platforms for visual, speech, natural language processing and various classic machine learning tasks, will be widely used in smart phones, smart speakers, smart cameras, smart driving, etc. different In the field.
The focus of this conference was the first official Cambricon MLU100 cloud smart chip. The MLU100 uses the Cambrian's latest MLUv01 architecture and TSMC's advanced 16nm technology, and works in a balanced mode (1GHz frequency) and high performance mode (1.3GHz In the main frequency, the equivalent theoretical peak speed in balanced mode reaches 128 trillion fixed-point operations per second, and the equivalent theoretical peak speed in high-performance mode is 166.4 trillion fixed-point operations per second, but the typical board level The power consumption is only 80 watts, and the peak power consumption does not exceed 110 watts. Like the Cambrian series terminal processors, the MLU100 cloud chip still continues the outstanding versatility of the Cambrian products and can support various types of deep learning and classic machines. The learning algorithm fully meets the requirements of intelligent cloud processing such as vision, speech, natural language processing, classical data mining and other fields (such as large data volume, multitasking, multi-modality, low latency, high throughput). MLU100 The board uses a PCIe interface. Its exterior design is inspired by ancient marine life trilobites in the Cambrian geological era. It is mainly black and blue. It is concise and scientific.
The Cambrian terminal and cloud products natively support the Cambrian NeuWare software tool chain, which facilitates the development, migration, and fine tuning of smart applications. Chen Tianshi stated that the original purpose of the Cambrian era was to enable the world to use it. Intelligent Processors. Cambrian will inherit the spirit of openness and collaboration in the academic world and share the latest Cambrian technological achievements with its counterparts in the world in the form of processor IP licensing, enabling global customers to quickly design and produce artificial intelligence processing capabilities. The chip products; Cambrian technology in the implementation of the concept of 'end-cloud collaboration', this release of the MLU100 cloud chip, not only can complete a variety of complex cloud intelligence tasks, but also with the Cambrian 1A/1H/1M The series terminal processor is perfectly adapted so that the terminal and the cloud can perform complex intelligent processing tasks collaboratively on the basis of a unified intelligent ecology.
Cambrian Ecology Eruption, Industry Partners Demonstrate Cambrian Chip Applications
After Dr. Chen Tianshi’s keynote speech, some Cambrian industry partners publicly demonstrated the application program based on the Cambrian chip. Lenovo Group launched the ThinkSystem SR650 based on the Cambricon MLU100 smart processing card at today’s press conference, breaking 37 World record for server benchmarking. This product is a 2U, 2-way rackmount specification and supports 2 MLU100 intelligent processing cards. The availability of this cloud-based smart server will fully support Lenovo's customers in machine learning/VDI/virtualization/cloud/ Business requirements such as database/analysis/SAP.
China Academy of Sciences also announced the launch of the PHAIRRON series of server products based on the Cambricon MLU100 intelligent processing card at today's press conference. The PHANERON series was launched in November 2017 and is based on a prototype test chip previously released in the Cambrian. The newly released 'PHANERON' new product has been upgraded synchronously with the release of the MLU100 Smart Acceleration Card. The performance is even stronger. It can support 2 to 10 Cambrian MLU processing cards and can flexibly respond to different intelligent application loads. With an upgraded version PHANERON-10 as an example, a single server can integrate 10 Cambrian artificial intelligence processing units, can provide 832T half-precision floating-point computing capabilities for artificial intelligence training applications, providing 1.66P integer computing capabilities for reasoning applications, under typical scenarios Energy efficiency has improved by more than 30 times. In addition, China Scientific Dawning also disclosed the artificial intelligence management platform SothisAI, which can seamlessly integrate with the Cambrian chip and its development environment.
Leader of smart voice applications HKUST News also disclosed a deep cooperation and development project with the Cambrian chip. According to the introduction, one hour of voice data is processed on a traditional processor for intelligent application processing. Ten thousand hours to complete, so HKUST has been tracking the development of artificial intelligence chips. As early as 2014, HKUST began to communicate with the early Cambrian research team to implement related speech algorithms on the processor. , And in 2016 the Angels wheeled into the Cambrian, and began to apply tests on the Cambrian chip in 2017. The test results disclosed by the University of Science and Technology at the conference revealed that the Cambrian intelligent processor is in the intelligent processing of speech. The excellent answering paper was delivered, and the energy consumption efficiency was more than five times that of the competitor's cloud GPU solution. The powerful processing capabilities of the Cambrian smart processor enabled the mobile phone's local end to handle more sophisticated machine learning algorithms, making local speech recognition possible. The accuracy rate is 9.8% higher than traditional processors, which significantly improves the user experience.