1. The first overseas top R&D center, Xinsi’s ambition in China!
Abstract: On August 2, 2018, Xinsi Technology Wuhan Global R&D Center was successfully capped. This is also the first overseas global top R&D center. It is expected to be completed and put into use in 2019. Why does Xinsi choose to build a top R&D center in Wuhan? ?
Wuhan, China (Reporter/Aki), August 2, 2018, the world's largest provider of chip automation design solutions and the world's largest chip interface IP provider, the world leader in information security and software quality Si Technology announced that Xinsi Technology Wuhan Global R&D Center has been successfully capped.
It is understood that Synopsys Wuhan Global R&D Center is also the first R&D center invested by Synopsys in overseas construction. It is expected to be completed and put into use in 2019. The Wuhan Municipal Government, the global executives of Synopsys and the relevant leaders of Wuhan Global R&D Center attended the meeting. The capping ceremony.
Why choose China, choose Wuhan?
Dr. Chen Zhikuan, President and Co-CEO of Synopsys, said, 'The topping of Xinsi Technology Wuhan Global R&D Center is an important milestone in the development of Synopsys in China.'
As for why China was chosen and chose to build a global R&D center in Wuhan, Dr. Chen Zhikuan said in an interview that since entering China in 1995, Synopsys has been rooted in China for more than 20 years. As one of the semiconductor companies that know the Chinese market best, Xinsi Technology I hope to go further in the process of global R&D.
From the current development of the global semiconductor market, China, as the largest semiconductor consumer market and the most innovative market, has unlimited potential for development. This is one of the reasons why Xinsi has been rooted in China.
'While choosing Wuhan is because of the development of Xinsi in Wuhan, and found many advantages of Wuhan.' Dr. Chen Zhikuan stressed.
Among them, Dr. Chen Zhikuan believes that the most important point is that Wuhan has great advantages in terms of personnel training and reserves.
In the six years of rooting in Wuhan, Synopsys has more than 200 employees in Wuhan, mainly engaged in IP and software security markets. 'Wuhan has trained a lot of software talents, and Xinsi can get the talents needed from Wuhan. It is not available in many places. After all, Wuhan has the world's largest reserve of college students. 'Xinsi Technology China Chairman and Global Vice President Ge Qun told the micro-network reporter.
For the establishment of the Xinsi Wuhan Global R&D Center, Chen Ping, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone and executive deputy director of the Management Committee, said, “Xinsi Technology is the leader and vane of the global high-tech industry, setting up global R&D in Wuhan. The center can attract upstream and downstream ICs at home and abroad to settle in, strengthen industrial collaboration and promote the next wave of hardware and software technology development.
Positioning the world's top R&D centers
On the other hand, six years ago, when Synopsys entered Wuhan, Wuhan had not yet established a complete semiconductor industry chain, nor did it attract many factories.
'But now the situation is different. Today, Wuhan has gathered a large number of large enterprises such as Yangtze River Storage, and countless small and medium-sized enterprises. Synoptic has the possibility of unlimited cooperation between them. 'Dr. Chen Zhikuan is talking about today Today, the development of Wuhan said.
Therefore, Ge Qun told the micro-grid reporter that the Wuhan Global R&D Center is committed to becoming the world's top R&D center since its inception. Its goal is not only to serve the Chinese market, but also to be a project in the Chinese market. An important part of global R&D, doing new and most advanced projects in the future.
Therefore, it is not difficult to find that as a global research and development staff with 5,000 to 6,000 R&D personnel, in addition to having a research and development center in the United States, China is the first overseas R&D center. Its number is second only to Silicon Valley, India, among them. India mainly does technical support, not research and development. The importance of Wuhan Global R&D Center is self-evident.
In terms of research and development, Dr. Chen Zhikuan explained to Jiji.com that the main research directions of Synopsys are divided into three: traditional EDA business, IP market and software security.
As mentioned before, Wuhan has cultivated a large number of software talents. Therefore, Xinsi is selected as the main battlefield for IP and software security R&D, and hopes to enhance the new thinking through Wuhan's huge talent reserve. The strength of research and development in IP and software. Because in Dr. Chen Zhikuan's view, there are very large development areas in the future.
Ge Qun emphasized that the smooth capping of the Xinsi Technology Wuhan Global R&D Center marks the new stage of Synopsys' service to the Chinese market. The research results of the Wuhan Global R&D Center are not only applied in the local market, but also provide solutions that support the whole world. Synopsys will continue to increase investment in research and development, develop together with the industry, and make unremitting efforts to become an excellent partner and solid support for the rapid development of China's semiconductor industry and electronic information industry.
As an advanced and comprehensive R&D technology platform, management system and talent training system, Wuhan Global R&D Center will focus on developing cutting-edge technologies and products required by the global semiconductor industry and electronic information industry, and provide an excellent local talent training. Platform! (Proofreading / Yuechuan)
2. From the chip to the system to achieve 'National Production', Shenwei E-class prototype officially launched;
Science and Technology Daily Jinan August 5th (Reporter Wang Yanbin correspondent Li Lijun) Processor, network chipset and other core devices are all made in China; computing system using independent Shenwei 26010+ many nuclear processor construction; high-speed interconnect network system independent Shenwei network Switch chip, Shenwei message processing chip construction; storage and management system is built with independent Shenwei multi-core processor... August 5th, Shenwei E-class prototype with the label of 'completely autonomous control' in the national super-computing Jinan Center Officially launched. The Science and Technology Daily reporter learned that in addition to the above-mentioned 'completely autonomous' point of view, the Shenwei E-class prototype computer built the artificial intelligence software ecological chain on the domestic supercomputer for the first time. Based on the Shenwei deep learning library and framework, the game system was launched. , medical image recognition, machine translation of multiple large-scale artificial intelligence applications, of which machine translation application data size, parallel scale and training speed world leader.
E-class computers are recognized as 'the next crown in the super-computer world', and the United States, Japan, the European Union, and Russia have all proposed the development of a multi-billion-dollar computer program to strengthen the R&D layout and application development of high-performance computing. Under the support of the National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Research Center, the United Nations Supercomputing Jinan Center and other teams after more than two years of key technical research and breakthroughs, successfully developed Shenwei E-class prototype system, and completed deployment and put into use in the National Supercomputing Jinan Center.
It is understood that for the development requirements of E-class computers, the development team has achieved a multi-state fusion computing architecture, a new generation of Shenwei many-core processors, interconnection networks, software-defined mass storage, efficient power supply and enhanced phase change cooling. Major technological breakthroughs. The main body of the National Supercomputing Jinan Center is the Shandong Academy of Sciences. Since the launch of the Shenwei Blu-ray supercomputer in 2011, the center has insisted on cultivating the ecological concept of domestic processors, in the smart ocean, climate meteorology, information security, aerospace, modern Agriculture, new energy and new materials, advanced manufacturing and other fields have emerged, forming a 'scientific computing public service + industrial computing cloud platform' service model, which has become an important means to promote basic scientific research and major technological research.
Up to now, the E-class prototype computer has completed 35 major computing tasks in 12 fields including global climate change, ocean numerical simulation, biomedical simulation, big data processing and brain-like intelligence. Among them, 22 applications have extended to E The ability of the full-scale computer scale, six applications have been successfully selected as the 'Gordon Bell Prize' called the Nobel Prize in the field of supercomputing applications.
Yang Meihong, director of the Shandong Computing Center (National Supercomputer Jinan Center), told reporters that Shenwei E-class computer will be completed and deployed in 2020, and will take the lead in crossing the multi-billion-dollar step. The new generation of multi-core processors is expected to become the world. The fastest processor, the node scale can be extended to hundreds of thousands of orders, supporting system performance from 1E to 10E.
3. Global second-quarter chip sales revenue rose 20.5% year-on-year. China's growth rate dominated the world in June;
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that global second-quarter chip sales revenue rose 20.5% year-on-year to $117.9 billion. In June alone, chip sales revenue also rose 20.5% to $39.3 billion.
SIA pointed out that the global chip industry has achieved a year-on-year increase of more than 20% for 15 consecutive months; each category also showed year-on-year growth.
In June, China remained the fastest growing region for the chip industry, up 30.7% year-on-year; followed by the Americas, with an increase of 26.7%.
After the ZTE ban, the domestic self-developed chip boom has reached an unprecedented height. Huawei recently brought a good news. Its vice president He Gang revealed to the media in the past few days that Huawei's self-developed Kirin 980 using 7nm process has been completed. The most basic R&D design, only the final stage is left. It is understood that in addition to the regular performance and process upgrades, Kirin 980 is Huawei's second-generation artificial intelligence chip with independent NPU neural unit, which is surprising in artificial intelligence. Progress, if there is no accident, I will be mass-produced by TSMC in August this year. I will meet with you in September, which means that Huawei will take the lead and launch the 7nm process chip earlier than Qualcomm. Zhitong Finance
4. The year-on-year growth was 16.43%, and the output value of high-tech industry in the first half of Taizhou was 225.03 billion yuan;
In the first half of this year, the output value of high-tech industry in Taizhou reached 225.03 billion yuan, an increase of 16.43% year-on-year. The output value of high-tech industries accounted for 45.92% of the total industrial output value. The output value of high-tech industries in various cities (regions) also achieved steady growth. The high-tech industry's output value accounts for the highest proportion of the total industrial output value of Gaogang District, reaching 59.85%; the highest output value of high-tech industry is Taixing City, reaching 60.92 billion yuan; the highest growth rate of high-tech industry output is the high-tech zone, the increase Up to 38.62%. Taizhou Science and Technology Bureau
5. Apple with a market value of tens of billions of dollars has made some new moves in AI in recent years;
In 2007, CNPC's market value on the first day of listing in China's A-share market reached 1.1 trillion US dollars.
11 years later, on August 2, local time, Apple's intraday market capitalization also exceeded 1 trillion US dollars, becoming the second broken trillion company after PetroChina.
Apple's share price closed at $207.39, an increase of 2.92%. During the trading period, its market value once increased to $1.006 trillion. On the 1st of this month, Apple announced the latest earnings report with higher-than-expected results, and announced that it will repurchase 20 billion US dollars of stock. Since then, its share price has risen by about 9%, achieving the best two-day gain since April 2014.
The current market capitalization is higher than the market capitalization of Exxon Mobil, P&G and AT&T (TN), and accounts for 4% of the total market value of the S&P 500. The more obvious metaphor is: It is equivalent to 2 Ali, 3.5 ICBC, 175 Sina.
Moreover, it has become the most profitable US listed company with a net profit of $48.4 billion.
On such an enviable day, let's talk about Apple's artificial intelligence business and see what new moves and layouts it has.
Integration and establishment of AI/ML team Layout artificial intelligence strategy
In April of this year, Apple dug John Giannandrea from Google, responsible for Apple's machine learning and artificial intelligence strategy, reporting directly to Tim Cook.
John graduated from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and an Honorary Doctorate. Prior to joining Apple, John worked at Google for 8 years, leading machine intelligence, research and Search team. Prior to this, he founded two technology companies, Tellme Networks and Metaweb Technologies. In his early career, John was a senior engineer at General Magic.
According to TechCrunch, the internal structure of Apple's Siri and Core ML teams will remain unchanged.
Core ML is Apple's high-performance machine learning framework that integrates a trained machine learning model into an application. Apple believes that a well-trained model is the result of a machine learning algorithm that trains data sets. For example, With the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, the model of regional historical housing training can predict the price of the house. The core ML supports visual image analysis, natural language processing, etc. It is worth mentioning that this year WWDC2018, Apple launched the upgraded Core ML 2.
Netease has a CEO Zhou Feng once commented that this new framework can solve a series of problems in the past cloud data processing, and is relatively mature compared to Android's TensorflowLite, worthy of attention of developers of artificial intelligence.
Beyond Core ML, Siri, who has been criticized and delayed, has also been placed under John Giannandrea. At the Apple WWDC 2017 conference, Cook released a smart speaker with built-in Siri, named HomePod, and the NetEase phone was evaluated. The comments given later are: Siri is still at the elementary level, the competitors are already in high school, the sound quality is first class, but Siri is too weak chicken.
This also illustrates the urgent need for Apple Siri from the side door, and gives a strong shot to Siri, who has a bad reputation. After all, the house leaks and the night rain, Apple voice assistant Siri co-founder Tom Gruber is one of the three co-founders of Siri. I chose to leave Apple after the department integration.
Continue to invest in self-developed AI chip A12
At the beginning of this year, the market research report released by market research institute Counterpoint Research showed that the mobile phone chip market is the first in Qualcomm, Apple is the second, and MediaTek is the third. Apple relies on a single product online list, which is not easy, and its strength is obvious.
At present, Apple has launched 13 A series processors. The current flagship model is A11, which is mounted on the iPhone X. Apple calls the CPU, GPU, performance controller, neural network unit, ISP, etc. of the A11 biochip. Independent design and development.
In terms of parameters, A11 uses TSMC's 10nm FinFET process and integrates 4.3 billion transistors. It is equipped with a 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture with 6-core CPUs, including two performance cores called 'Monsoon' and four The high-eggiciency core named 'Mistral' has a performance core that is 25% faster than the previous generation A10, and the energy efficiency core is 70% faster.
It is said that A11 will allocate tasks reasonably between the performance core and the energy efficiency core, intelligently manage tasks appropriately, and hand over lightweight tasks or background tasks to the energy-efficient core for processing, such as texting or browsing the web, many daily Most of the things that are done can be done by an energy-efficient kernel, which consumes less power.
Moreover, this is a neural engine chip that can be used to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks such as face recognition, expression generation, augmented reality, etc. This engine recognizes people, places, objects, and processes machine learning at 600 billion times per second. Mission, at present, augmented reality and one of the main features of Apple's mobile phone.
The latest news is that Apple's A12 chip has entered the final stage, and will be unveiled with the new machine in September this year. The A11 can already match the performance of the notebook chip, which makes the A12 more full of expectations.
Plan to invest $14 billion in research and development in the next 2018
Apple expects R&D costs to reach $14 billion in 2018, nearly double the amount in four years, and the highest percentage of revenue in 14 years, highlighting Apple's growing product ambitions.
Although autonomous driving is an important driver of Apple's R&D spending growth a few years ago, there are now two new projects that have driven the surge in recent R&D spending, and you may not imagine.
The first is smart glasses. Given Apple's M&A records and patents, we see that Apple is building its smart glasses R&D team, and the team working on this effort can be huge.
This is followed by content distribution. Apple seems to have developed a broader strategy for content. Apple is providing music, video, applications, news and written content to more than 850 million users, and has invested heavily in this area.
Of course, this may be the engine that causes R&D expenses to rise, but research and development in mobile phones and chips must continue and be heavily invested. They certainly hope to continue to lead the way in new technologies in the future.
Apple spent $150 million around 2005 to build the first iPhone. At the time, it was a very substantial cash for Apple. In addition, there was competition for Apple to move forward. It was not enough to control hardware and software. Apple The company has opened a series of R&D centers around the world (China, Japan, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Canada, France, Italy, Israel, Sweden and the UK). Many of the R&D centers are tasked with developing hardware, while some R&D outposts are Apple. The result of the acquisition of the talent team.
Written at the end
According to research firm Ned Davis Research, Apple, Amazon, Google's parent company Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook accounted for 15% of the total value of the S&P 500 index as of June 2018, 澎湃 commented that the technology industry has reached the market A historic dominance.
And Apple, as a trillion-dollar tycoon, needs to secure their lead.
After all, the sound of sing is now coming once a year.