After collecting 1M of micro-messages, there was no hard-to-find terminal intelligent processor. 'At today's press conference held in the Cambrian Shanghai, Chen Tianshi excitedly pointed out, 'And the Cambrian does not brag!' 1M is Cambrian latest-generation terminal IP products, also released the latest generation of cloud AI chip - MLU100 and cloud intelligent processing card equipped with MLU100. The Cambrian landmark new products set a new benchmark for global high-performance chips .
Cambrian third-generation intelligent terminal processor IP 1M, establish a new benchmark for AI chip
Dr. Chen Tianshi, founder and CEO of Cambrian, delivered a keynote speech. He reviewed the original intention of the Cambrian venture and introduced the Cambrian open, collaborative, and win-win business philosophy: Close cooperation with the global upstream and downstream partners. Cooperation to build a core material carrier for humans in an intelligent era.
Last year, Huawei released the Mate 10 series of smart phones equipped with the world's first artificial intelligence processor, the Unicorn 970. The chip architecture includes the Cambrian-based Cambricon-1A smart terminal processor. 1A became the world’s first A successful commercial intelligent terminal processor IP product has been used in tens of millions of intelligent terminals.
Today, Chen Tianshi released the Cambrian third-generation IP product 1M. Based on TSMC's 7-nanometer process, the 8-bit computing performance ratio reaches 5 Tops/watt (5 trillion operations per watt), providing three sizes of processor cores ( 2Tops/4Tops/8Tops) to meet different levels of intelligent processing requirements in different application scenarios, and to further improve performance through multi-core interconnection.
Chen Tianshi emphasized that the Cambrian 1M processor continued the remarkable completeness of the pre-Cambrian IP products of the pre-Cambrian era (Cambrian 1H/1A), and a single processor core can support diverse deep learning models such as CNN, RNN, and SOM. It further supports classic machine learning algorithms such as SVM, k-NN, k-Means, and decision tree, supports local training, and provides a flexible and efficient computing platform 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 and other different areas.
End coverage, cloud support, let the world use smart processors
Afterwards, he and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, and doctoral supervisor Chen Guoliang jointly released the Cambricon MLU100 cloud-based smart chip based on TSMC's 16-nanometer process. Chen Tianshi said that the company has developed two test chips for three years and is always ready The MLU100 uses Cambrian's latest MLUv01 architecture, which can work in balanced mode (1GHz main frequency) and high performance mode (1.3GHz main frequency). The equivalent theoretical peak speed in balanced mode is 128 per second. With tera-bit fixed-point operations, the equivalent theoretical peak speed in high-performance mode can reach 166.4 trillion fixed-point operations per second, but the typical board-level 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 Cambrian products, supports various types of deep learning and classic machine learning algorithms, fully meets visual, speech, natural language processing, classic data Mining cloud intelligent processing needs in complex scenarios such as large data volumes, multitasking, multimodality, low latency, and high throughput.
It is worth noting that the MLU100 Cloud Smart Chip is the result of nearly two years of research and development in the Cambrian Period in Shanghai. It is the crystallization of Shanghai's wisdom. The future Cambrian of Shanghai will continue to rely on the concentration of talents in Shanghai's IC and artificial intelligence industries. Advantages, hand in hand with upstream and downstream companies at home and abroad, and strive to build advanced basic chip technology and products for the world's smart industry.
At this point, the Cambrian has already had two product lines, terminal and cloud, which can technically implement the concept of 'end-cloud collaboration'. The MLU100, released this time, can not only accomplish all kinds of complicated cloud intelligence tasks independently, but also be able to communicate with the Cambrian. The 1A/1H/1M series terminal processor is perfectly adapted to allow the terminal and the cloud to perform complex intelligent processing tasks collaboratively based on a unified intelligent ecology.
Industry partners demonstrate applications, cooperation and win-win to create 'core' ecology
MLU100 released has already ushered in a heavyweight partner, Lenovo announced at the conference the first server platform equipped with the Cambrian MLU100 intelligent processing card Thinksystem SR650, breaking the world record of 37 server benchmarks. Implementation server Platform system, smart card, application of three-way cooperation tuning, jointly accelerate the promotion of artificial intelligence market.
China Scientific announced the new PHANERON series, the world's first cloud server based on the Cambrian MLU, and the artificial intelligence management platform SothisAI, which can seamlessly integrate with the Cambrian chip and its development environment.
HKUST has disclosed an in-depth cooperation and development project with the Cambrian chip. According to the introduction, one-hour speech data is processed on a conventional processor for intelligent application processing, which takes 10,000 hours to complete, so HKUST has been tracking. Advances in the development of artificial intelligence dedicated chips. According to the latest test results, the Cambrian intelligent processors delivered excellent answers to voice intelligence processing, and their energy efficiency was more than five times that of their competitors' cloud GPU solutions. The powerful processing power of the Wuji intelligent processor enables the local terminal of the mobile phone to handle more sophisticated machine learning algorithms, resulting in a speech local recognition accuracy rate that is 9.8% faster than traditional processors, significantly improving the user experience.
Chen Tianshi emphasized that 'One flower alone is not spring, colorful spring garden', the Cambrian era began in the beginning of the opening up of the academic community, the spirit of collaboration, sharing the company's latest with the world's counterparts in the form of processor IP licensing. Technical achievements, to help customers around the world quickly design and produce chip products with artificial intelligence processing capabilities. He said that the Cambrian expects to work hand in hand with upstream and downstream counterparts of artificial intelligence and integrated circuits around the world to build humans from 'cores'. The smart age of society is moving towards a common future for all mankind.