On the afternoon of May 3rd, Cambrian Technology, the strongest unicorn in the AI field, held a new product launch conference in Shanghai. At the terminal, the cloud also launched a new AI chip, setting a new benchmark for the industry.
Dr. Chen Tianshi, founder and CEO of Cambrian, personally attended the event and delivered a speech. He reviewed the original intention of the Cambrian technology entrepreneurship and introduced the company's open, collaborative, and win-win business philosophy.
In 2016, Cambrian Technology released the world's first terminal AI processor, Cambricon-1A, the first commercial deep learning processor for smartphones, security monitoring, wearable devices, and no one Various types of terminal equipment such as aircraft and smart driving, the energy consumption ratio of mainstream intelligent algorithms surpasses traditional CPUs and GPUs.
The NPU neural network unit in the Huawei Unicorn 970 processor comes from this Cambrian 1A, which also promotes the concept and application of mobile AI.
Nowadays, Cambrian Technology released the third-generation IP product 'Cambrian 1M'. The world's first product was manufactured using TSMC's 7nm process, with a power consumption ratio of 5 Tops/W, ie 5 trillion operations per watt, and 2 Tops, 4 Tops , 8Tops three kinds of processor cores, to meet different scenarios, different levels of AI processing needs, and support multi-core interconnection.
The Cambrian 1M processor continues the excellent completeness of the first two generations of IP products in the Cambrian 1H/1A A single processor core can support diverse deep learning models such as CNN, RNN, and SOM, and further supports classic machine learning algorithms such as SVM, k-NN, k-Means, and decision tree, and supports local training. , Provides flexible and efficient computing platform for visual, speech, natural language processing and various classic machine learning tasks. It can be widely used in smart phones, smart speakers, smart cameras, smart driving and other fields.
The second heavyweight product released by Cambrian today is "Cambrian MLU100" for cloud-based machine learning inference tasks, using the latest Cambrian MLUv01 architecture, equivalent theoretical peak speed of 128 teraflops per second fixed-point operation in 1GHz frequency balance mode, 1.3 GHz high-performance mode More up to 166.4 trillion fixed-point operations per second.
But at the same time, Typical board-level power consumption is only 80 watts, peak power consumption does not exceed 110 watts.
Like the Cambrian terminal processor, The MLU100 cloud chip continues its outstanding versatility and supports various types of deep learning and classic machine learning algorithms , Fully meet the needs of cloud intelligent processing in complex scenes such as visual, speech, natural language processing, and classic data mining, such as large data volume, multitasking, multi-modality, low latency, high throughput.
At the same time, it can also be perfectly adapted to the Cambrian 1A/1H/1M series terminal processors to provide customers with an unprecedented intelligent application experience in an end-to-cloud collaboration approach.
According to reports, The MLU100 cloud smart chip is the result of research and development in the Cambrian for nearly 2 years. It is also a new milestone in its development history. It indicates that the Cambrian era has become China's first (and a few in the world) and it has terminal and cloud intelligence. Commercial company of processor products.
In addition to the products, Cambrian Technology has made significant progress in its partners.
Lenovo At the press conference, China announced the first ThinkServer SR650 server platform equipped with the Cambrian MLU100 intelligent processing card, breaking the world record of 37 server benchmarks.
Chinese Academy of Sciences Released the world's first PHARMRON 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 News Then disclosed the in-depth cooperation and development projects with the Cambrian chip, especially according to the latest test results. The Cambrian intelligent processor has more than 5 times energy consumption than the leading competitor's cloud GPU solution in voice intelligent processing. Accelerate voice local recognition accuracy by 9.8% over traditional processors.
