The founder and CEO of the Cambrian Chen Tianshi said that the core idea of the DianNao series is the constant pursuit of intelligent processing of the most extreme performance. But to enable ordinary people outside of academia to benefit from such innovative ideas, it also needs more. Efforts and collaboration.
He emphasized that the MLU100 cloud chip released this time not only can efficiently accomplish multi-tasking, multi-mode, low-latency, high-throughput complex intelligent processing tasks, but also can be used with the Cambrian 1A/1H/1M series terminals. The processor is perfectly adapted to provide our customers with an unprecedented intelligent application experience in an end-to-cloud collaboration approach.
The open letter is as follows:
As the founder and CEO of the Cambrian era, I am very proud to share with you a message: On May 3, 2018, the Cambrian released the first cloud-based smart chip MLU100 and corresponding board products in Shanghai, China. MLU100 The chip is mainly used for cloud machine learning inference tasks, and can support various types of cloud application scenarios such as visual, speech, and natural language processing. The equivalent theory in balanced mode reaches a peak of 128 trillion fixed-point operations per second. The equivalent theoretical peak value 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. The MLU100 chip is a brand-new milestone in the Cambrian history. It indicates that the Cambrian era has become China's first (and a few in the world) commercial companies that also have terminals and cloud-based smart processor products. The founding team of the Cambrian period came from academia, and I am also a professor at the Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences. And doctoral tutors. In the past decade of basic academic research, we have worked closely with international counterparts to dedicate a range of artificial intelligence and intelligence to international academic and industrial colleagues. New ideas for the crossover study of computer architecture. Around 2013, as a major player, I joined the colleagues of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the French Institute of Information and Automation (Inria) to witness the DianNao series of deep learning processor architectures in the international academic community. The sensational effect caused. Now we are very proud to see that the DianNao series of academic papers have spread the innovative ideas of smart processors to the world and received from top international organizations such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Intel, and Google. The high-frequency academic citation has become an important material for many international top universities in processor architecture teaching. It has become a reference that every smart chip design company in the world can't ignore. Glory belongs to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Inria, and belongs to my long-term academic collaborator Chen Yunxi. Prof. Olivier Temam also belongs to my outstanding students. Knowledge belongs to all human beings. The core idea of the DianNao series lies in the constant pursuit of intelligent processing of the most extreme performance. However, the general public outside the academic community can benefit from it. This innovative thinking requires more effort and collaboration. The purpose of establishing the Cambrian out of the laboratory was to allow the world to use smart processors instead of allowing ideas to remain on the papers of papers and fall into the dust of history. 'One flower alone is not a spring, colorful spring. “Manyuan”, the Cambrian era was founded at the beginning of the continuation of the spirit of openness and collaboration in the academic community, sharing the company’s latest technological achievements with its counterparts in the world in the form of processor IP licensing, helping our global customers to quickly design and produce A chip product with artificial intelligence processing capabilities. The Cambricon-1A developed by the company is the world's first commercial terminal intelligent processor IP product. The Huawei unicorn 970 chip has become the world's first artificial smart phone chip. Huawei Mate10, P20 and other four mobile phones are plugged into Wisdom Wing. In the future, more domestic and foreign customers will also release their integrated Cambrian processor chip products. This press conference, I introduced the Cambrian era to everyone. More details of the third generation processor IP product Cambrian 1M, look forward to working with customers worldwide, spreading intelligence to every terminal and making the entire earth smart. Ji also implements the concept of "end-cloud collaboration" in technology. While developing and promoting terminal processor IP products, it also attaches great importance to the research and development of cloud-based smart chips. This release of the MLU100 cloud-based chip not only can efficiently accomplish multi-tasks in itself. , Multi-modal, low-latency, high-throughput complex intelligent processing tasks, can also be perfectly adapted to the Cambrian 1A/1H/1M series terminal processors, providing customers with unprecedented intelligence in an end-cloud collaborative way Application Experience. The MLU100 cloud chip is a milestone in the Cambrian era. It is a new starting point for this great startup company and a new benchmark in the field of smart chips. We look forward to working with upstream and downstream peers of artificial intelligence and integrated circuits worldwide. , From the 'core' to the intelligent era of casting human society, to a common future for all mankind.