The Cambrian, which specializes in AI computing chips, released two AI chips last week, including the Cambricon MLU100 cloud smart chip and board products, and the Cambrian 1M terminal smart processor IP core. Among them, the MLU100 uses the latest Cambrian MLUv01. The architecture and TSMC's 16nm advanced process have been used by Lenovo, China Scientific, and HKUST. The Cambrian also announced 1M terminal intelligent processor IP, using TSMC's most advanced 7nm process, 8-bit. The computational performance ratio reaches 5 mega operations per watt.
HiSilicon launched the Kirin 970 mobile phone chip with TSMC's 10nm process last year. It has been used in Huawei's Mate 10, Honor V10, P20 and other smart phones. The built-in AI computing core of the Kirin 970 is the Cambrian era. Cooperation. As for the various network processors designed by Hass, it also uses TSMC 16nm and more advanced process mass production.
Huawei will introduce its own Kirin mobile phone chip into its own branded smart phones this year. The industry expects that the Kirin 980 mobile phone chip that will be available at the end of this year will be imported into TSMC's most advanced 7nm process mass production. Huawei and HiSilicon will also Continuing the process, TSMC will also join 7+nm of EUV mask lithography technology next year.
As for Bitland, which specializes in crypto-currency mining ASICs, it has already ranked among the top five TSMC customers in the world in the first quarter. Although Bitcoin and Ethereum prices have undergone major fluctuations in recent days, Bitland’s investment in TSMC has been limited. No significant reduction has been seen. Instead, it has accelerated the advancement of advanced processes. The industry pointed out that BitContinent not only included the capacity of the TSMC Nanjing plant, but also introduced a variety of TSMC 10nm and 7nm ASICs in the second half of the year.