"Rapidly rising and inventory" AI chip "four dragons" of Chinese mainland in 2018
Bitland: steady
In the first quarter of 2018, bitland launched the second generation cloud AI chip bm1682, with a significant improvement in performance over the previous generation. In the test of the head Internet company, the performance of some models exceeded that of mainstream products by two to four times. In July 2018, bitland's first generation terminal AI chip focusing on edge applications came out. Recently, bitland signed contracts with youbida, the largest game cloud platform in East Asia, and China Mobile Hangzhou research, a subsidiary of China Mobile. In security, Internet, smart Park and other industries, bitmainland has been steady, and its products have been launched one after another.
Cambrian: marching into the clouds
In May 2018, the Cambrian officially released a number of the latest generation of terminal IP products - the terminal chip cambricon 1m with 7Nm process, the first cloud intelligent chip mlu100 and the cloud intelligent processing computing card equipped with mlu100.
Recently, the Cambrian official website released a company news entitled "Cambrian 1H blessing Huawei Kirin 980 brings stronger end-to-side AI computing power", which officially confirmed that the dual core NPU of Huawei Kirin 980 comes from the IP of Cambrian 1H, breaking the previous rumors of "breaking up" between Cambrian and Huawei mobile phones.
Huawei: full coverage
On October 10, 2018, the third Huawei connect 2018 (Huawei connect 2018) was opened at the Shanghai World Expo exhibition hall and Expo Center. Xu Zhijun, chairman in office of Huawei, delivered a keynote speech at the conference and systematically announced Huawei's AI development strategy and full stack and full scene AI solutions. At the same time, Xu Zhijun announced for the first time the world's first ascend series chips covering all scene artificial intelligence independently developed by Huawei: shengteng 910 and shengteng 310.
It is reported that shengteng ascend chips will have five series: Max, mini, Lite, tiny and nano. In addition to dealing with distributed systems, they can also cover various types of artificial intelligence devices such as smart phones and Internet of things devices.
Horizon: stepping up financing
During the Expo on October 23, 2018, horizon also demonstrated its technical achievements in autopilot and chips, including xforce edge AI computing platform based on Xuri 2.0 processor architecture, horizon matrix autopilot computing platform based on journey 2.0 architecture, core board Xuri x1600, and intelligent camera solutions.
Meanwhile, Yu Kai, founder and CEO of horizon, once told the media that horizon would complete a new round of financing at the end of 2018, with an amount of $500-1 billion. The investors included a chip company equivalent to Intel and a top automobile manufacturer（ News source: Choi Yun bit, read the full text, the original title: [mainland] rapidly rising inventory of Chinese mainland AI chip "four dragons" in 2018
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