AI and 5G are becoming the content that everyone is keen to discuss. Recently, the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference was held in Shanghai, and once again, AI, 5G and other cutting-edge technologies were concentrated. During the conference, the business of Zhitang Technology was held. On the theme of the AI's Artificial Intelligence Platform, Keith Kressin, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm, was invited to give a speech at the forum.
Keith Kressin, Senior Vice President, Qualcomm Worldwide
At the meeting, Keith Kressin shared his understanding of AI technology and industry development with the theme of 'Qualcomm helps build the future of artificial intelligence', and introduced Qualcomm's AI capabilities for terminals such as smartphones. He said, building AI ecosystem The key to system and AI scale is to distribute intelligence from the cloud to the edge of the wireless network.
It is reported that Qualcomm has continued to promote the development of AI technology for more than 10 years. In 2007, Qualcomm Research launched the first AI project, and achieved many milestones in this decade.
Between 2012 and 2013, the ImageNet competition was in the ascendant. Qualcomm also began research on the AI processing architecture during that period, accelerating the development of AI on the processor platform.
In 2016, Qualcomm launched the first generation of AI mobile platform Snapdragon 820, and continuously enhanced its AI performance in each subsequent generation of mobile platforms.
By 2018, Qualcomm introduced the latest third-generation AI mobile platform, the Opteron 845, and provided outstanding AI performance on more high-end Opteron platforms.
Gartner data shows that by 2025, the commercial value of artificial intelligence will reach 5 trillion US dollars. The importance of artificial intelligence to drive economic growth and industry change is self-evident. As a strength in the industry, Qualcomm is in the field of artificial intelligence. The investment and achievements have always been at the forefront of the industry, and empowered partners to expand applications in AI.
According to Keith Kressin, 'The foundation of AI is connectivity and computing'. Currently, Qualcomm's artificial intelligence engine AI Engine is integrated into the Snapdragon chip trusted by consumers, and actively seeks cooperation with upstream and downstream partners to support Diversified artificial intelligence applications, including Xiaomi, vivo's intelligent voice assistant, Shangtang's online beauty slimming and other terminal-side artificial intelligence experience, are inseparable from the computing power provided by Qualcomm.
The data shows that there are more than 3 billion smartphone users worldwide, and the annual mobile phone shipments reach 2 billion, including 1.5 billion smartphones. Nearly half of these smartphones use Qualcomm Technologies chips. Qualcomm last year's chips Shipments exceeded 800 million pieces.
Smartphones can collect large amounts of data, mobile phones can recognize fingerprints and faces, know where we are, pay information, the environment, and play music for us. More than 3 billion active smartphones worldwide generate massive amounts of data. Smartphones are undoubtedly the most popular AI terminals. In addition to massive data management, edge intelligence, ie, terminal-side artificial intelligence, has many significant advantages such as privacy, personalization, high reliability and low latency.
Qualcomm believes that to establish an AI ecosystem and achieve scale, intelligence must be distributed to the edge of the network. Qualcomm announced in February this year that Qualcomm wireless edge services (Qualcomm wireless edge services) can promote the integration of wireless edge terminal information, processing , analysis, learning and trusted exchange, and opening up new use cases, services, ecosystems and business models to create added value across multiple industries. Counts of trillions of terminals and objects are on the edge of the network, connecting these trillions of terminals The need to optimize edge processing and connectivity requires first to maximize the processing power of the wireless edge. At the same time, edge terminals are subject to many limitations, including form factor, battery life and cost, which determine the network edge processing. Secondly, after maximizing the computing power of the edge terminal above the system limit, it is necessary to maximize its connection capability. To connect all terminals to each other through a high-speed network and optimize the connection performance, the network speed is a big test.
'We need to connect all terminals to each other through high-speed networks and optimize connection performance. After maximizing the wireless edge terminal computing power within the limited mobile system design requirements, we need strong connectivity. To connect, you need to use 5G networks. ' Keith Kressin believes that 5G's gigabit data transmission speed, global coverage, robustness and high reliability will help drive wireless edge innovation and lead users to new The AI era.
Indeed, as far as the current trend is concerned, the integration of AI and 5G will be a major attraction in the future, and it is also a must.
Last week, when the US group went public, Wang Xing specially thanked Jobs for the mobile Internet era brought by Apple's iPhone. In fact, in addition to the hardware revolution, the rapid improvement of computing power brought about by the development of communication technology is also indispensable. The outbreak of mobile applications such as Tuan, Didi, WeChat, etc. cannot be separated from the development and popularization of 4G networks, and the arrival of 5G communication is also expected to promote the development of related industries.
In this respect, Qualcomm, as a leader in the 5G industry, is actively deploying for 5G, promoting the integration of 5G and AI, IoT, and promoting the connection of a wide range of terminals in the automotive, smart home and Internet of Things sectors. It is understood that Qualcomm Qualcomm The meaning of QUALITY COMMunication, a technology company with more than 30 years of history, has been leading the development of global wireless communication technology. In communication, Qualcomm has been leading communication technology since the 3G era. The development, with the upcoming 5G era, Qualcomm still maintains a good competitive edge.
Keith Kressin said that 5G not only connects people like the 3G/4G in the past, but also connects 5G to connect homes, cars and the whole city. Everything can communicate with each other. 'We are about to enter a new one. The era will transform the way we connect, calculate and communicate. 'He believes that promoting the development of AI is inseparable from the close collaboration of the entire ecosystem. Qualcomm's chips, drivers and frameworks provide the basis for industry promotion, for which Qualcomm and many Leading AI software developers, cloud service providers and OEMs have established partnerships. For example, in cooperation with Tencent, the use of artificial intelligence engines to accelerate the frame rate of the 'high-energy dance room' interactive features on the Android mobile QQ social platform; PaddlePaddle framework and terminal side speech recognition cooperation; cooperation with Alibaba on payment and so on.
'AI and 5G will be able to collaborate well and become the technical foundation for our next decade or beyond.' Keith Kressin added that Qualcomm is leveraging its leadership in AI and 5G to create greater computing power. It also supports high-bandwidth, high-density and low-latency terminals, and through the extensive cooperation with the ecosystem, leads the proponents into the new era of AI.
