1. Realize the epoch-making leap in the flash memory industry! Changjiang Storage will announce the new 3D NAND architecture for the first time;
According to the official website of Changjiang Storage, the new 3D NAND architecture Xtacking will be announced for the first time in the US in August. It is said that this technology can raise the NAND transmission rate to the level of DRAM DDR4 and make the storage density reach the industry leading level. , to achieve a epoch-making leap forward in the flash memory industry.
According to Changjiang Storage, Xtacking technology will bring NAND flash memory unprecedented ultra-high transfer rate, which will bring the performance of NAND flash applications such as UFS, consumer and enterprise SSD to a new level. In customers, industry partners and With the help of standards bodies, Xtacking will open a new chapter for high-performance smartphones, personal computing, data centers and enterprise applications.
Xtacking technology enables parallel processing of NAND matrices and peripheral circuits. This modular flash development and manufacturing process will significantly reduce the time-to-market of next-generation 3D NAND flash memories and enable customization of NAND flash memory products.
The company said that Yangtze River Storage CEO Dr. Yang Shining will announce Xtacking technology for the first time at the Flash Summit (FMS) in the US in August. However, it is not revealed when the technology will be put into production.
Changjiang Storage has successfully developed the first 3D NAND flash memory chip in mainland China in 2017, and strives to become a world-class 3D NAND flash memory product supplier with innovative strength.
On May 19 this year, Jiwei.com reported that the first lithography machine stored in the Yangtze River had arrived at Wuhan Tianhe Airport. After the relevant customs, commodity inspection and border checkpoint procedures were completed, it could be transported to the Yangtze River storage. Factory. According to the exclusive news of micro-network, this lithography machine is ASML's 193nm immersion lithography machine, priced at 72 million US dollars, used in 14nm ~ 20nm process. This also reveals the Yangtze River storage 3D NAND flash memory chip from the side Process process. This is the first lithography machine stored in the Yangtze River, and there will be more arrivals in succession.
At the same time, Zhao Weiguo, Chairman of Ziguang Group and Chairman of Changjiang Storage, stressed that on the basis of a major breakthrough in the independent production and development of 32-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips in September last year, we have realized the chip 20 days ahead of schedule. The production machine will move in. In the next ten years, Ziguang plans to invest at least 100 billion US dollars, equivalent to an average annual investment of 10 billion US dollars.
Gao Qiquan, executive vice president of Ziguang Group and chairman of Changjiang Storage Executive, revealed that the 3D NAND flash memory of Changjiang Storage has received the first order, a total of 10,776 chips, which will be used for 8GB USD memory card products.
At the end of this year, the base will realize small-scale mass production of domestic 3D flash memory. It will take a long time to see smart phones based on domestic flash memory and SSD solid state drives. Next year, Yangtze River Storage will also start 64-layer stacked flash memory with a single capacity of 128Gb. (16GB). (Proofreading / Jimmy)
2. Ziguang Group 刁 Shijing: Integrated circuit development needs prevention projects;
Recently, Zhe Shijing, the co-president of Ziguang Group, accepted an interview with China Securities Journal reporter. At present, the IC projects in various parts of China have been launched. The mentality of robbing professionals needs to be calm, otherwise the whole industry will be injured. Since joining the Ziguang Group in May this year, Yan Shijing In charge of Ziguang Group's chip business. Ziguang Guowei (46.96 -0.13%, diagnostic stock), a listed company of Ziguang Group, previously announced that Yanshijing has been nominated as a non-independent director of the sixth board of directors of listed companies.
Grasping 'manufacturing' and 'designing'
China Securities Journal reporter: From the linkage of the industrial chain, what is the most important part of the development of integrated circuits?
Yan Shijing: Throughout all industries, only integrated circuits may be the most complex, most systematic, and most involved in an industry. Roughly, the integrated circuit industry chain can be divided into 'design', 'manufacturing', 'packaging test' And the 'equipment' and 'material' that support each link. The most important thing is to grasp 'manufacturing' and 'design' because it is faster to serve the market.
For example, 'design', because China is the world's largest consumer electronics market, the design of the product, you can immediately face your own market, the growth space will be very large.
Similarly, doing 'manufacturing' is just a central link that can serve production design and can also drive the growth of Chinese materials and equipment.
But it doesn't mean that 'equipment' is not important. 'Equipment' is very important, but its problems are more complicated. 'Equipment' involves many sectors such as machinery, chemicals, optics, electronics, etc., and the market of 'equipment' is mainly overseas, China's Enterprises will be more difficult to enter, so it is difficult to support themselves.
Relatively speaking, the 'package' link of the domestic integrated circuit industry has developed better, but the future of packaging still needs to be vigorously innovated. For example, the integration of chips is getting higher and higher, and many problems that are not solved by the 'manufacturing' link can be 'Package' link solution.
China Securities Journal reporter: How do you view the gap in the level of development of integrated circuits at home and abroad? How to understand the autonomy of the chip and the globalization of the industry?
Yan Shijing: The technological change of integrated circuits actually reflects the development trend and demand of the whole industry. Foreign development is fast, and the integration is high because foreign countries do develop earlier and have their own industrial base. With economic globalization, Technological progress, industrial transformation and upgrading, China has also developed to this stage, the industry itself has generated the need for innovation and upgrading of integrated circuits. For example, Huawei, Haier and other large-scale machine manufacturers have gradually entered the integrated circuit from the original machine manufacturing. Design field.
In fact, in today's information society, I don't think any country can do anything to make an information product, and the trend of technology globalization is irreversible. Moreover, in order to speed up the process of product upgrading, accelerate the progress of product development, meet Market demand, using a global approach is economically sound. Independent innovation is not about closing the door to innovation, but taking the initiative to innovate.
Grab the talent injury industry
China Securities Journal: The enthusiasm for the development of integrated circuits is very high. SEMI statistics Many new wafer manufacturing lines in the world are in mainland China.
Yan Shijing: I think it can encourage market competition, but it should not be rushed. Otherwise, it will harm the whole industry. Because the investment in integrated circuits is very large, the required technology accumulation, and the accumulation of talents are also very numerous. There may be vicious competition.
The most typical phenomenon now is that the country has also begun to dig each other, resulting in the company's talent cost even higher than abroad. So, which company can grow steadily? Many companies have been so hard to accumulate talent team for so many years, by others 1. I dig, everything goes to waste.
Objectively speaking, it is still necessary to follow the laws of the market and the laws of the industry. The integrated circuit industry in the world is concentrated in integration, which contributes to the sharing of research and development, and can generate economies of scale. However, the domestic industry is now more dispersed and mentally I don't feel calm, I feel that I can do it. I still need to do some control and guidance on the policy side, and try to minimize speculation.
China Securities Journal reporter: Enterprises such as Gree and Foxconn have come up with their own chips, which is a reflection of the development trend of the industry?
Yan Shijing: Of course, I don’t mean to raise a cow if I want to drink milk. I still need the company to consider it according to its own development needs and its own ability.
From an industry perspective, the past innovations may be innovations in supply chain management, innovation in business models. Nowadays, due to the increasing complexity of users' needs, the complexity of product design is increasing, and the innovations required are not just for certain components. Simple improvement, but the need to re-create the value of the entire industry chain, the realization of the function of each component, interaction with each other, the core of which is the internal integrated circuit and operating system.
'Big fund' is not 'Tang Yu meat'
China Securities Journal reporter: In addition to the Yangtze River storage, Ziguang has also laid out Chengdu and Nanjing production bases in the future, but some voices believe that after all, the first base has no mass production, and there will be supply chain risks in such a large layout in the future. How is the rhythm of the scale on the scale controlled?
Shishijing: The Yangtze River storage is the first development base of the Ziguang Memory, which is equivalent to the 'Whampoa Military Academy' of the entire Ziguang Group's chip manufacturing sector. The integrated circuit industry emphasizes the scale effect, only to achieve a certain volume, research and development, talent gathering In order to be cost-effective in scale, the future will lay out three bases, and they will also have their own positioning and tasks. The rhythm of scale will definitely be determined according to the progress of technology and the needs of the market.
China Securities Journal reporter: When is the Yangtze River Storage expected to break even?
Shi Shijing: Breakeven is not easy to say now, investment is still going on, and it needs to be predicted according to the demand situation of the follow-up market. In fact, from the first day of the establishment of the Yangtze River storage, Ziguang is considering how it can have the ability to develop itself. The Yangtze River stores its own benign development, may need a process, but I think the time will not be too long.
Although the 'big fund' (National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd.) is a shareholder of Changjiang Storage, don't simply think of 'big fund' as government investment, like the subsidy in the past. 'Big fund' is asking for withdrawal. The company must also abide by the relevant commitments of the 'big fund'. Therefore, companies should not treat the 'big fund' funds as 'tang 僧 meat', which is very dangerous. China Securities Journal
3. Megacore: Domestic CPU performance is close to Intel i3 processor;
Science and Technology Daily News (Reporter Shen Ming) 'The overall performance of the SMIC processor has been able to benchmark the international mainstream standards. Take the ZX-C series CPU and KX-5000 as examples. It has been able to benchmark Intel's sixth-generation i3 processor, host. The frequency can reach 2GHz. For daily office applications, 4K decoding, and even running Call of Duty, Tomb Raider and other mainstream 3D games have no pressure. ' Recently, Dr. Luo Yong, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Zhaoxin Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd., was interviewed by reporters. Said.
High-end general-purpose CPU is the core of computers and servers. It is also one of the most technically-rich products in the IC industry, and is closely related to network information security.
Luo Yong said that on the road of developing domestic x86 solutions, Zhaoxin always adheres to the development goal of 'autonomous controllable, compatible with mainstream and industry-complete'. Zhaoxin is the only domestically mastered central processor, graphics processor and chip. With three core technology companies, in terms of independent control, Zhaoxin has a complete R&D team consisting of mainland Chinese talents, fully grasping the whole platform implementation technology of x86 solutions, and independently constructing a full process design specification. Design standards, and the entire environment of the processor chip implementation. The R&D team not only masters the complete code of x86 processor development, but also has completely independent IP development capabilities.
In addition, Zhaoxin's domestically-controlled and controllable general-purpose processor is fully compatible with x86 commands, and supports CPU virtualization technology. It can stably and smoothly run a full range of Windows operating systems, as well as Chinese-funded German, German-winning Kirin, PwC and other domestic desktops/servers. Operating system, and excellent compatibility with mainstream office and entertainment software at home and abroad, providing strong support for daily office applications, high-definition video entertainment and other needs.
In terms of chip performance, the ZX-C series processor has a main frequency of 2.0GHz, and the performance can fully meet the needs of desktop office applications. Previously, the domestic machine based on the ZX-C series processor was not only professional media. Positive evaluation, and successfully completed the conference security work during the 19th National Congress, which was highly recognized by the leaders and representatives. In addition, the overall performance of the new generation of KX-5000 series processors is up to the first ZX-C series. 140%, basically equivalent to Intel i3 processor, supports dual 4K ultra HD video decoding, which can better meet mainstream desktop applications.
Luo Yong revealed that the next-generation KX-6000 series processor has been successfully streamed. It is based on the more advanced 16nm process, clocked at up to 3.0GHz, compatible with x86 instruction set and extended instruction set such as SSE4.2 and AVX2. First KX-6000 series processor integrates 4/8 CPU cores, memory controller, PCIe controller, SATA controller and USB controller. It has 4MB/8MB cache, supports DDR4-3200 speed memory, and is compatible with PCIe. 3.0 and support SATA Gen3 and USB 3.1 and other standards, performance and Intel i5 processor in line with the realization of the international advanced level of accelerated catch-up.
4. The large-scale silicon material scale base project in Texas signed a total investment of 8 billion yuan;
On July 26th, Dezhou City held a signing ceremony for the investment cooperation cooperation of large-scale silicon material scale base project in Jinan Shandong Building. Zhang Shaoming, Chairman of the Research Institute Group Co., Ltd., Zhao Xiaochen, General Manager, Dezhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary Chen Yong , Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Mayor Chen Fei, Standing Committee Member of the Municipal Party Committee, Executive Deputy Mayor Zhang Chuanzhong, Standing Committee Member of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary General Liu Changmin, Member of the Party Committee of the Municipal Government, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Texas Economic and Technological Development Zone, Director of the Management Committee E Hongda, Government Secretary-General Wang Zhenxiu attended.
Zhang Shaoming and Chen Yong gave speeches at the ceremony respectively. Fang Yongyi, chairman of Aes Semiconductor, introduced the project. Chen Fei presided over the signing ceremony.
Chen Yong said in his speech that in recent years, Dezhou has firmly established a new development concept, seized the province's construction of new and old kinetic energy conversion comprehensive experimental zone, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development and other major opportunities, emancipated the mind, determined to innovate, and strictly enforced As a result, the comprehensive strength has been significantly enhanced, the business environment has become more excellent, and the entrepreneurial passion has been fully released. In particular, it has taken the lead in breaking through the breakthroughs in the major new and old kinetic energy conversion projects in the province, closely connecting the top ten industries in the province, and accelerating the advantageous industries. Ascension, emerging industries have sprung up everywhere, leading the reform trend, the concept of opening up the wave of the tide is stimulating us to make great strides toward high-quality development goals. Dedicated and innovative, Texas has provided good cooperation opportunities for many people of insight. And a broad entrepreneurial platform. This cooperation is a mutually beneficial complementarity, mutual benefit and win-win results, and the fruitful results of the joint development, will also become a successful example of our 'double strokes and double lead' to promote high-quality development, to Texas and even the province Developing a new generation of information technology industry, creating a strategic emerging industrial cluster, meeting the needs of domestic silicon wafers for integrated circuits is significant and deep Far-reaching significance. Dezhou will continue to uphold the concept of 'the government creates the environment, the enterprise creates the wealth', and fully promote the 'one-time-good' reform, increase the effective system supply in all directions, and truly serve as the 'shopper two' in the new era of service enterprise development. Provide the most favorable policies for the project, the best environment, and achieve mutual complementarity, resource integration, and mutual benefit.
E Hongda and General Manager of the Research Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd. Zhang Guohu signed a contract for the investment project of large-scale silicon material scale base for integrated circuits.
The total investment of the project is 8 billion yuan, including 1.8 billion yuan for the first phase and 6.2 billion yuan for the second phase. The first phase of the project aims to build a new 8-inch wafer production line with an annual production capacity of 1.8 million 8-inch wafers. The second phase of the project aims to produce an annual output. 3.6 million pieces of 12-inch silicon.
Founded in November 1952, Beijing Nonferrous Metals Research Institute is the largest comprehensive research and development institution in China's nonferrous metal industry. It is now a central enterprise managed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (Yanyan Technology Group) and the first batch of 100 innovative national enterprises. Enterprise. It has 12 national research centers and laboratories in the fields of semiconductor materials, non-ferrous metal composite materials, etc. It is the only national semiconductor material engineering research center, national enterprise technology center, and national technology innovation demonstration enterprise.
Founded in June 2001, Yanyan Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd. is directly managed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Central Enterprise Research and Technology Group. It has 11 national engineering centers and laboratories, and 7 holding subsidiaries. Domestic leading enterprises in the fields of semiconductor materials, rare metals, powder metallurgy, etc.
5. Wuxi builds a semiconductor and fuel cell equipment production base;
Meeting point on July 27, Pioneer Group Headquarters Building and semiconductor and fuel cell equipment manufacturing base started construction in Wuxi High-tech Zone. After the project is completed, it will fill the blank of domestic equipment in these two fields.
The Pioneer Group Headquarters Building and the semiconductor and fuel cell equipment manufacturing base are located in Wangzhuang Street, Wuxi High-tech Zone. The newly-added land is about 130,000 square meters. It plans to build a new headquarters building with 4 buildings. The total investment of the project is about 5 billion yuan, divided into two. Construction, the first phase is the semiconductor equipment based on atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, the research and development and industrialization of hydrogen fuel cell equipment for new energy vehicles; the second phase is the research and development and industrialization project of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle supporting facilities, cutting into hydrogen production. , Hydrogen storage and other sub-sectors. After the first phase of the project is put into production, it is estimated that the annual sales income will be 2.5 billion yuan, and the total profit and tax will be 700 million yuan.
The semiconductor industry belongs to the 'high-capital-intensive + highly technology-intensive' industry, and is the 'land of struggle' for the world's major powers. Wuxi is the leading city in China's integrated circuit industry, and the high-tech industry represented by semiconductors is rapidly emerging. Pioneer Group is a model of domestic high-end equipment, and will strive to promote Wuxi's 'design-manufacturing-packaging test-materials and supporting equipment'. The semiconductor industry chain is accelerating and sound. Currently the group is developing semiconductor core equipment - ALD atomic layer deposition equipment, which will It is expected to break the monopoly position of imported equipment such as ASM. It is worth mentioning that the Pioneer Group has reached a strategic cooperation with the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the future, it will achieve major breakthroughs in semiconductor core equipment solutions, and develop new customizations. Equipment and complete process solutions.
At present, the industrialization of hydrogen fuel cells is in its infancy. The project is dedicated to the research and development and industrialization of hydrogen fuel cell intelligent equipment, advanced test platforms and hydrogen production facilities, and promotes rapid development of the industry. Pioneer Group will be able to research fuel cells. The institute and related companies provide leading intelligent manufacturing solutions.
It is reported that Wuxi Pilot Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. was established in 2002 and is a key high-tech enterprise of the National Torch Program. The company currently has more than 3,000 employees, including more than 600 R&D engineers.
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6. Yunzhisheng AI chip person in charge: The future will enter the image field
Interpretation of goods: It is certain that Yunzhisheng must not only focus on the voice field, the image field will definitely be involved. Li Xiaohan said: 'Artificial intelligence equipment is to make the machine more human, so it must provide a variety of perception, image It is an indispensable link. '
Founded in six years, Yunzhisheng began to work in the field of AI chips.
First released the UniOne series of the first generation of AI chip 'Yuyan', and then announced the 600 million C + round of financing, recently, Yun Zhisheng co-founder, chip technology leader Li Xiaohan officially announced the open source full stack voice interaction program.
As an artificial intelligence company specializing in the voice field, Yunzhisheng had the idea of building chips as early as 2015, and began to form a team. In 2016, Yunzhisheng officially announced the development of chips, which was released in May this year.
Li Xiaohan also said that a large proportion of the new round of financing of Yunzhisheng will be put on the chip. The chip open source voice interaction program is to expand the scope of partners faster.
What kind of effect does open source bring to Yunzhisheng? Pinway Business Review interviewed Li Xiaohan, bringing his thoughts on the field of AI chips.
UniOne Series AI Chip
Li Xiaohan believes that due to advanced EDA tools, FPGA simulation tools, mature IP business ecosystem, and many excellent design service companies, the digital chip design process is becoming more and more mature; and many open source design frameworks and algorithms make The threshold of the chip is greatly reduced, but the threshold for doing well is still very high.
At the same time, the understanding of the application scenario will exceed the digital circuit design capability, which will become the decisive factor for the success of the chip. The understanding of the application scenario, including the understanding of the application and the understanding of the business, is also obvious between the chips. Part of the difference.
In Li Hanhan's view, Yunzhisheng has three key elements in algorithms, scenes and chip design, so it is the best AI chip in the IoT scenario.
Swift is designed and developed by Yunzhisheng. It also includes general-purpose CPU, AI accelerator (DeepNet) and digital signal processor (uDSP) architecture. It adopts autonomous AI command and is oriented to voice AI scene, supporting 6 analog/digital microphone access. Li Yuhan specifically mentioned that the performance of deep neural network is 50 times higher than that of the general scheme.
Swift belongs to UniOne's first generation chip. At the previous chip launch conference, Yunzhisheng mentioned that UniOne will also launch the second generation chip 'Snow Leopard' and the third generation 'Sailfish' for smart car and smart city scenes. Upgrade.
From the current point of view, Swift is divided into two options in the direction of smart home, corresponding to smart speakers and smart home.
Providing customers with software and hardware cloud + end integration solutions is the most common way of cooperation with Yunzhisheng. Previously, intelligent hardware modules shipped in large quantities in the white electricity field served many large companies in this way. Such as the United States, Gree and so on.
After the release of Swift, the solution provided by Yunzhisheng is more three-dimensional, from chip to solution to form a complete solution for customers, and not limited to air conditioners, smart speakers and other equipment. All smart home hardware products can try to access Artificial intelligence technology of Yunzhisheng.
In addition, Yun Zhisheng still wants to play differently.
Open source full stack voice interaction solution
In the smart home industry, both brand manufacturers and suppliers will encounter various difficulties.
For example, if a manufacturer wants to build a smart speaker product, the first difficulty encountered is the supplier's choice.
Because it involves all aspects of speech, noise reduction, recognition, synthesis, etc., not to mention the design of the speaker, sound adjustment... A speaker must be tested after a long time to find a number of suppliers '攒' Products, if a supplier does not achieve the best results, then the experience of the speaker will be greatly reduced.
As a smart speaker, it means that it must be closely related to AI. At present, most people don't have much experience with AI products. There are bound to be many uncertain events in the development process, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
'I hope there is a supplier to get all these things done.' This is the conclusion that Yunzhisheng has drawn after investigating many partners.
Correspondingly, due to the complicated customer type and product form, the solution provider cannot support many customers at the same time. Yunzhisheng also thinks of a new solution: Open source.
'A lot of partners outside say that we are special 'independent'. ' Li Xiaohan said. Yunzhisheng provides a one-stop solution for many planners who hope to cooperate with them. They feel that Yunzhi is not willing to play with everyone. But Li Hanhan thinks ' Independent' is responsible for the partners.
Because AI landing for smart homes involves a lot of links, such as the need to accumulate structural experience that can be mass-produced; for example, through engine, hardware platform selection and system optimization, to meet the overall power requirements of home appliance manufacturers; A universal chip selection that adapts to the cloud-aware engine and achieves optimal configuration in terms of price and performance.
These need to go through the daily close cooperation between the teams, and sometimes even need to make corresponding engine code level changes for certain hardware features, in order to achieve the best results.
'If you only provide one engine to your partner, and then provide some SDK level adaptation and support, you are irresponsible to your own partners, including your own team. Because everyone has limited resources. Valuable, the engine factory does not have enough hardware, system and product experience, can not effectively support the partners, and finally everyone has done a lot of cooperation, may just be a lively, and can not mass production shipments.
Yunzhisheng will implement the experience and parameters accumulated in the actual landing scene of IVM into the design of its own AI chip UniOne. It is hoped that through the chip, the key parts of the home scene will be cured as much as possible, and then the chip will be The full-stack voice interaction on the open source, greatly reducing the technical threshold, shortening the time to market, thus ensuring the cooperation between partners and Yunzhisheng.
Li Xiaohan uses MediaTek mobile phone solution for comparison: MediaTek provides all the solutions based on MTK mobile phone chip. If you do not modify the outer casing, you can ship it directly. If you want to modify it, you only need to make a simple change. 'The best experience, Can be highly customized, and it is our three major advantages to be able to ship quickly. ' He said.
AI chip era guarantees efficiency
The open source of 'Turnkey's solution will definitely promote the development of the whole intelligent hardware products'. When talking about this, Li Xiaohan is full of confidence, mainly due to the following three aspects:
First, the product manager of intelligent hardware is very scarce, especially the product manager who understands the design of voice interaction. The voice interaction (VUI) is very different from the graphical interface interaction (GUI) of the previous screen. The former is a flat structure, a direct sentence Any graphical interface of the system can do any operation. The latter is a tree structure and needs to be clicked step by step.
These two interactions have their own advantages, and VUI currently has few talents on the market, and because of its flat structure, it needs to be considered from the overall level of the system when designing, rather than simply a single App level. , greatly increased the difficulty of VUI design.
'If the product interaction design is not good, the final product development effect can be imagined.' And as the founding team of Yunzhisheng, Li Xiaohan has more than 10 years of human-computer interaction related research experience, from the voice interaction on Motorola mobile phones. To Yunzhisheng car to Gree air-conditioning, Fibonacci speakers, Yunzhisheng team has accumulated rich experience in VUI design and development, the overall voice interaction program with UniOne as the Turnkey solution as a whole open source, all this will greatly reduce the industry threshold.
Second, the voice interaction scheme open source will greatly shorten the development cycle. As a system-level function, the voice interaction scheme will handle audio drivers, handle interactions with other applications of the system, handle individual cases and wake-up events, and must be robust and stable. With the cloud knows the open source solution is solved.
Partners can only do shallow-level customization, such as awakening word modification; can also do deep-level development, can be completely rewritten in the case of understanding the overall solution.
Third, Yunzhisheng's tried and tested implementation team. In the 'core era', this team will provide technical support for the whole open source solution for partners who are willing to adopt Yunzhisheng UniOne, including code training, tool development, etc., to do everything possible. Reduce the steepness of the learning curve that partners are familiar with in the overall open source approach.
According to Yunzhisheng, the Turnkey program is expected to be officially open source on September 15.
When talking about competition, Li Xiaohan also told the product business review that there are many voice open platforms, but most of them are aimed at cloud service functions. Cloud capabilities are not very helpful for developers. The key path lies in the edge side. The relationship belongs to the upstream and downstream, and will not produce competition.
This set of solutions is not only for the partners that have been missed before, but also wants to absorb companies that have not had similar ideas before, let them know how low the threshold for products to become smart hardware.
The release of the AI chip also changed the positioning of Yunzhisheng: It used to be a technology provider, and now it has become an AI cloud service provider, software solution provider and chip manufacturer.
As for the future positioning of Yunzhisheng, no one can predict. Li Xiaohan told the product business review, one thing is certain, Yunzhisheng must not only focus on the voice field, the image field will definitely involve. 'Artificial intelligence equipment is let The machine is more like a human being, so you have to provide a variety of perceptions, and images are an essential part. '
Li Xiaohan said that in the fast-developing stage of the Internet of Things, there are many possibilities for future development. While greatly increasing the investment in chips, the Yunzhisheng team will also look for new opportunities for innovation, regardless of voice or image. From the perspective of the Internet of Things.
At present, Yunzhisheng began to plan the future a few years ago, and can pay for future results or risks. 'As long as you are determined to move forward, this is the guarantee of efficiency. 'In the form, the opportunity is fiercely evolved In the process, efficiency is especially important for Yunzhisheng.
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