Recently any breakthrough that can be related to AI chip development technology is exceptionally exciting. Any company labeled with the success of AI chip development will become the center of attention.
Artificial Intelligence can be said to be one of the hottest industries at present, Artificial Intelligence in English for Artificial Intelligence, the acronym for AI. it is the simulation of human consciousness and way of thinking and even can exceed. It is the practical business of applying the human way of thinking to the field of real product systems. Now has more than stay in theory and fantasy, with the development of big data and cloud computing, new industrial technology is about to combine with artificial intelligence to form a new industrial storm.
Looking at the development of smart phones in the past few years, and then imagine the application of intelligent robots in the future, the mind can always be presented with a science fiction blockbuster in the future scene. Intelligent robots, image recognition, voice recognition, intelligent sensing, unmanned and so on as long as you can imagine the smart industry can be associated with artificial intelligence technology. So artificial intelligence will be the future trend of technology development, but also a new science and technology.
Of course, the future of artificial intelligence is not overnight, but also need to be down-to-earth development, it also needs the development of related industrial applications and drive, such as in the application of the module used to specialize in dealing with a large number of computational tasks in the artificial intelligence is also the AI chip, which is the basic cell of the artificial intelligence. the development of the AI chip is the cornerstone of the development of the artificial intelligence industry chain, the AI chip started early means that the AI chip in the artificial intelligence market, the starting point on the The starting point in the artificial intelligence market is higher than others. It is more capable of advancing the development of the whole industry.
According to the United Nations trade statistics, China imported $2,600 in integrated circuit chips in 2017, an import amount that has exceeded crude oil imports that have long dominated the top of China's import list, seriously affecting China's economic security and trade balance. This is only the market for traditional chips, the future if we enter the era of artificial intelligence, AI chip demand will not become a blowout, the answer can be imagined.
AI chips, also known as artificial intelligence gas pedal or computing card, is specifically designed to handle a large number of computing tasks in artificial intelligence applications module (other non-computing tasks are still responsible for by the traditional chip CPU), mainly divided into GPU, FPGA, ASIC. For example, Apple developed the A11 neuromimetic chip, which has a built-in neural network engine, in fact, is the AI chip to realize AI computing running in the terminal.
AI chips compared to traditional chips because of the different computing architecture, data processing faster, more energy efficient, lower power consumption. Secondly, the powerful computation of AI chips makes big data computation run in the terminal. For example, for the recognition of sensing pictures, traditional chips may take a few minutes, so now it can be processed in a few seconds with AI chips. Another example is that automatic driving needs to recognize a large amount of image data, the need to calculate the results in the shortest possible time and make the appropriate judgments, then the time delay will be a fatal bottleneck that can not be bypassed, then the traditional chip can not do anything, you must rely on the AI chip.
For such an important field, such a huge market, foreign traditional chip manufacturers Qualcomm, Intel has occupied a first-mover advantage, we also have well-known domestic enterprises have achieved milestones, in some algorithms and parameters have substantial progress, of course, our country has also invested a huge amount of power in the artificial intelligence industry, I believe that it won't be long before we can see that our country in the The world leader in artificial intelligence industry and chips.