Recently, according to foreign media reports, the Korean Industry Minister said that the South Korean government will increase support for large-scale research and development projects to develop cutting-edge (memory) chips to cope with the rapid rise of competitor China. The chip is currently Korea's largest export product, and China is the world's largest chip market. As China plans to invest huge sums of money to stimulate the development of its chip industry, the industry's concerns about the prospects of the Korean chip industry are beginning to heat up.
However, the competition for memory chips may be just the tip of the iceberg in the competition in the chip field. In fact, in addition to the traditional chip level, AI chips as an important underlying architecture in the intelligent era have greatly increased their importance and have entered many countries. In the strategic development plan, China is also rapidly emerging in this field. As Bai Yan founder, chairman and CEO Li Yanhong said, China has been relying on imported high-end chips during the development of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. This is the pain of a generation of IT people forever. He believes that in the era of artificial intelligence, the situation is changing.
Because China has been catching up in the traditional chip industry, it is still difficult to narrow the gap with international giants in a short period of time. On the new track of AI chips, China has a chance to take the lead. At present, Baidu, The Chinese technology giants represented by Ali, Tencent, Gree, etc. are constantly increasing their weight to narrow the gap between China and other advantageous countries in the chip field. In April this year, Aridama announced the self-developed neural network chip Ali-NPU. Previously, Ma Huateng had It is revealed that Tencent wants to use capital and the power of the industrial chain to intervene in chip research and development. Gree chairman Dong Mingzhu also said that he intends to invest 50 billion yuan for chip research and development. In early July, Baidu announced the self-developed AI chip for the first time. ' This is China's first cloud full-featured AI chip. It is understood that 'Kunlun''s 'full-featured cloud' value is reflected in the cloud full-scenario coverage of data center, public cloud and unmanned vehicle test and development scenarios. Also included for common open source deep learning algorithms, large-scale speech recognition, search sorting, natural language
As the earliest company to deploy artificial intelligence in China, Baidu has formed a complete AI technology layout including chips, deep learning framework, platform and ecology. Baidu Apollo open platform has been upgraded from 1.0 to 3.0, which has been unanimously recognized by domestic and foreign car companies. In the past year, Apollo open platform iterative 4 times, open source 220,000 lines of code, more than 10,000 developers recommended, Apollo developers spread across five continents, partners reached 116, and reached more than 90 product development cooperation. Another open platform of Baidu, DuerOS's innovation ability in technology and platform has also been recognized by upstream and downstream partners of the intelligent voice industry. Currently, DuerOS has reached partnerships with more than 200 companies such as Skyworth, Haier and TCL. Published more than 100 hardware products enabled by DuerOS, and applied DuerOS's dialogue capabilities to smart homes such as mobile phones, TVs, speakers, smart wearables and car scenes. Although the Korean Minister of Industry announced that it will increase support for chip development. But in fact, the pattern of the chip field is welcoming new changes. From the current development trend