[Introduction]: Not long ago, Yunzhisheng announced that it will receive a strategic investment of 300 million yuan, and will release the first generation of AI chips. Today, Yunzhisheng officially released the first ai chip UniOne, which is an AI chip for the Internet of Things. It is reported that the performance will be more than 50 times higher than the general solution.
At the press conference, Huang Wei, founder of Yunzhisheng, pointed out that "In today's accelerated explosion of the AIOT market, the limitations of the cloud solution in terms of network, bandwidth, power consumption, privacy and edge computing make the AI ​​chip for the Internet of Things become inevitable. Before launching the chip product, Yunzhisheng has verified the chip market, products and user scenarios in the market of home, smart speakers, children's robots, etc. based on the product form of the universal chip solution (IVM) million-level shipments. The rationality of the first generation UniOne IoT AI chip Swift will be able to quickly enter the market and meet the demand for cost, stability and integration in more product types and forms."
Huang Wei said that whether it is CPU or GPU, FPGA, the existing chip architecture is not designed for AI, and can not meet the IoT AI computing needs, and considers too much backward compatibility, so far from performance Optimal. "Based on the business side of the repeated verification of chip products and scenarios, and the judgment of the final stage of the AIOT, Yunzhisheng clearly stated in 2014 that it must independently develop AI chips for the Internet of Things."
Compared with traditional chips, customized AI chips are more specialized in hardware design due to the relative determination of application scenarios and AI algorithms. In terms of such tasks, they have absolute advantages in terms of computational density and power consumption compared to general-purpose chips. . Therefore, compared with the general-purpose chip, the AI ​​chip can complete the calculation of the same amount of tasks in machine learning at a lower main frequency and a smaller chip area, so as to achieve a multi-dimensional requirement such as cost, power consumption, and computing power. Perfect balance.
Yunzhisheng's first generation UniOne IoT AI chip and solution - Swift adopts CPU+uDSP+DeepNet architecture, supports 8/16bit vector and matrix operation, and based on deep learning network architecture, it can bring parallel computing performance to speech AI. To the extreme, providing higher computing power at lower cost and power consumption.
In terms of architectural flexibility, Swift connects the main CPU to the internal RAM of the AI ​​accelerator through Scratch-Pad, which provides an efficient data channel between the CPU and the AI ​​accelerator, which facilitates the CPU to reprocess the AI ​​accelerator operation results. In addition, the programmable interconnect matrix architecture that connects the various arithmetic units provides the ability to extend the operational instructions, further enhancing the flexibility and scalability of the hardware architecture. At the same time, the chip uses multi-level multi-mode wake-up, from energy detection, to human voice detection, to wake-up detection, and customized Power Domain technologies for voice devices and usage scenarios to minimize chip power consumption.
Li Zhihan, co-founder of Yunzhisheng, said that Yunzhisheng not only provides Swift chips and terminal engines, but also opens part of the application to customers, while providing customized tools and cloud AI capabilities. Through the combination of cloud cores, Yunzhisheng is based on Turner's Turn-key solution for specific scenarios such as smart homes, smart speakers, and smart cars. Based on the Swift solution, customers can stand at a higher design starting point and create more stable and reliable products in a shorter time at a lower cost. At the same time, the open source solution also ensures that customers can design other types of long tail products based on the provided AI capabilities to build a richer AioT ecosystem.
“UniOne is not a chip, but a series of chips, which represents the overall vision of Yunzhisheng for the development strategy of the IoT AI chip.†Li Xiaohan pointed out that UniOne can provide a complete voice AI application reference for solution providers and developers. Solutions, cloud capabilities, and customization tools help customers explore costs in the most time-consuming IoT hardware products with minimal time, resources, and the like, creating the highest user experience for future applications.
At this conference, in addition to the release of UniOne, Yunzhisheng also announced its strategic cooperation with Jingdong Intelligent and Yijiatong Technology. All parties will share their respective superior resources based on the Internet of Things AI chip and system solutions, and build an AI “core ecology†for new retail, smart home, automotive and other fields.
AIoT has experienced a cold wave, and now it is hot again. It can be regarded as an industry that can withstand the wind and rain. The industry that has been entangled in the trend is not screaming. It is also amazing. I hope that domestic enterprises can truly master the core technology. Only in this way can we go. Farther, Yun Zhisheng has set a good example. There will be more players entering the market in the future. The era of the real rise of AIOT may be really unwilling.
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