FPGA chip Manufacturers Xilinx 18th announced the completion of the mainland AI chip new enterprise deep technology acquisition, the specific amount of the two sides did not disclose; Industry participants assessed that the amount of the purchase should be around 300 million U.S. dollars, some people said: for the pioneering team for the deep, is a good exit price. It is reported that the Shenzhen Science and technology is acquired after the acquisition will continue to operate in its Beijing office, become Xilinx Greater China (already more than 200 employees) part. Shenzhen Science and Technology CEO Yiu Songzeng said, deep technology is more focused on the vertical scene, before the security, finance and mobile phone as the main direction, the future will be the force of automatic driving and auxiliary driving two major areas. As one of the mainland AI chip factory, Shenzhen Science and Technology since its inception in 2016, has been based on Xilinx FPGA technology platform for the development of machine learning solutions, and in the previous Xilinx has published their own in-depth learning of the new method of the processor, and in this set of methods, most of them from the deep technology. Xilinx is an inventor of FPGA, hardware programmable Soc and acap, and is also actively laying out AI acceleration hardware. In 2017, Xilinx began to become a major investor in science and technology with other well-known investment institutions. The disclosure of financing information revealed that, May 17, 2017, the company completed a tens of millions of dollar a round of financing, investors, including Xilinx (Xilinx), MediaTek, Tsinghua Holdings, Fang and capital, The original investment of Jinsha River Venture, Gao Capital and investment. And the acquisition of the news, but also in the unexpected understandable. According to Xilinx 2018 (April 1, 2017-March 31, 2018) earnings, the company's 2018 annual revenue of 2.539 billion U.S. dollars, which from the mainland revenue of 664 million U.S. dollars, accounting for 26.15%, it can be said that the mainland is Xilinx important market. Prior to this, Xilinx's FPGA chip is mainly sold to the communications industry, through the deep insight, Xilinx is expected to further the mainland's vast number of artificial intelligence market. Deep-core depth compression algorithm plays a very high potential in FPGA chip, which is one of the few ways to make FPGA superior to GPU in performance. In recent years, the mainland AI field is everywhere. Last December, the skyline launched the first embedded artificial intelligence vision chip, designed for autopilot and the Sunrise processor for intelligent photography; This May, the intelligent chip design company Cambrian Technology released Cambricon MLU100 Cloud Intelligent chip and board products, the Cambrian 1M Terminal Intelligent processor IP products; Go out to ask also in May released the mainland's first volume production of AI voice chip module asked the core; Subsequently, the cloud known the sound of the introduction of the research of the internet AI chip swift; Rokid and other companies have also expressed their AI chip plans. However, with the increasingly fierce AI competition, the leading manufacturers continue to the technical changes in the new areas of expansion, the obvious advantages of contrast, start-up companies are difficult to contend with. As a result, new ventures and manufacturers to borrow each other. November 2017, Qualcomm strategy investment in Business Tang technology, the purpose is to use the Shang Tang technology of artificial Intelligence and machine learning algorithm to achieve algorithm and chip fusion to promote terminal intelligence. At the end of last year, the horizon also gained strategic investment from Intel. Alibaba in April this year acquired the mainland's only autonomous embedded CPU IP core company Zhongtian Micro. Shenzhen Science and Technology by Xilinx acquisition, for the mainland technology companies is also an indicator event. In addition to equity investment and strategic investment, AI chip field or will emerge more mergers and acquisitions events, AI chip area of the integration of the road, may also be open to this. According to relevant data, up to January 2018, the mainland AI-type enterprises have more than 500, with its fiery degree of deepening, the industry more and more people began to worry about whether it is a bubble industry. In this respect, Professor Wei Shaojun, director of the Microelectronics Institute of Tsinghua University, has said that this is the result of capital Booster, once the money burned, it is likely to have problems; And in the nature of capital-driven, it is also unsustainable. He thinks that although AI is very hot, it does not really fall into the ground. In fact, not all of the technology must be AI, in many cases the AI is an enhanced role;
