Gathering micro-network news. Recently, Beijing Probing Technology Co., Ltd. ("Kienjing Technology") completed approximately 195 million yuan in Series A round of financing. This round of financing was led by SCM's Juyuan Capital, Hongtai, Xianfeng, and Qidihui. , Beijing Dao, Panda, etc. and investment. Exploration Technology is an embedded artificial intelligence technology research and development company, focusing on the development of AI chips, mainly engaged in face recognition, voice control, driverless, machine vision and other artificial intelligence technology applications , is committed to providing a full range of solutions for artificial intelligence products.
Previously, the exploration technology has been obtained from the Beijing Mali Angel Investment Center, Ningbo Dayi Peng Chuang Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership), Jinyun venture capital investment angel round of financing.
Exploration Technology was established in early 2017 and was founded by Lu Yong, a former executive of Silicon Valley's well-known semiconductor company Marvell China's chip research and development department. At the beginning of the company's establishment, it set a grand vision of 'exploring the future and boundlessness' to provide terminal artificial intelligence chips. And the overall program is practiced. The exploration technology has brought together a group of top talents with an average of more than 15 years in the chip industry with world-class design experience. It has production chips for Apple, Samsung, Seagate, Western Digital, Tesla and other top international companies. The experience of goods, which accounted for 30% of doctorates and 50% of masters, is determined to strive for the rise of China's chip industry and strive to achieve China's 'core'.
At present, the biggest challenge in the field of artificial intelligence chips is the balance between performance and power consumption. Probing Technology has proposed an efficient chip architecture and storage solution that can significantly reduce chip power consumption and significantly increase hardware resource utilization. Rate applicable to embedded AI chip solutions for various terminal devices. This technology effectively solves the shortcomings of artificial intelligence applications.
Moreover, as artificial intelligence technology is gradually being developed from technology-driven to scene-driven, optimizing for scene applications becomes the focus of the development of artificial intelligence technologies. Probing Technology always believes that end-point AI will be a hot spot in the future, and is therefore dedicated to artificial intelligence technologies. Apply to security monitoring, industrial intelligence, automatic driving and human-computer interaction in four scenarios.
Lu Yong, founder and CEO of Exploration Technology, once worked as a technology executive at Marvell. In the first year of artificial intelligence outbreak in 2017, domestically produced AI chips emerged. He also joined the entrepreneurial army. Lu Yong once said in an interview: 'In fact, the whole The difficulty in the AI chip industry is not to solve the problem of computing power, but to solve the problem of 'storage', how to better manage these data, and schedule these data to improve performance and reduce power consumption. This is the crux that most people have not solved. In addition, many people do embedded AI algorithms and do a lot of simplifications at the algorithm level. However, this does not achieve the level of optimal industrialization and practicality. In the future, all information processing and operations of terminals need to be run on AI chips. Companies that do not solve these problems are playing games. '
Exploration and Technology believes that traditional security monitoring systems can only possess human-like intelligence when coupled with AI chips and neural networks. Therefore, the company provides powerful AI cores for terminal equipment and tailor-made neural networks.
At present, the core modules of AI chips have been designed. The next step is productization. It is expected that there will be a specific chip production plan in the second half of this year. According to official sources, the indicators of the current chip IP are in the industry and similar AI. The chip comparison is very advanced, and specific test data will be disclosed externally when it is formally released. Next, the company will develop markets around the security market, industrial intelligence, consumer markets, and automatic driving. Currently, the company has established the next three years. The product plan, it is expected that by the end of this year, will be the form of industry division, the rhythm of the introduction of products and overall solutions, the implementation of the company's positioning and vision.