Why is the world optimistic about the new AI chip industry?

If the man-machine war of Li Shishi in March 2016 is only affected by the technology circle, then the battle between Alpha Dog and Ke Jie in 2017 will bring artificial intelligence to the people's attention. Alpha dog is the first one. Defeat the human professional Go player, the first artificial intelligence program of the World of War Gods, whose main working principle is "deep learning." After the emergence of deep learning neural network model-based artificial intelligence technology, big data, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and enhanced and virtual reality are integrated into the larger development framework of artificial intelligence.

At present, artificial intelligence technology still needs massive data to train neural network models, so that computers can replace humans for various data processing and judgment. The rapid development of the Internet of Things technology first provides a large number of data sources. The artificial intelligence system designed and trained to provide the most needed intelligent control system for Industry 4.0, and also provides data processing technology for the enhancement and landing of virtual reality scenes. means.

Among them, the chip is the most critical technology of artificial intelligence system. As the core of a product, the chip is like the human brain. The importance is self-evident. In many fields, artificial intelligence chips have entered our lives and will have many high-speed rails. The station enables face recognition to check tickets, voice speakers in smart homes, accompanying robots, etc. The development of artificial intelligence chips determines the direction of the entire industry.

In the field of artificial intelligence chips, foreign chip giants occupy the vast majority of market share, whether in the area of ??talent gathering or company merger, they have absolute advantages, and the gap between China and foreign countries is large. But one of the hallmarks of the artificial intelligence chip is that it faces a new business scenario that has not been fully defined by large companies. Even NVIDIA has a certain monopoly in the field of cloud computing. Therefore, there are huge uncertainties and opportunities in the development of artificial intelligence chips.

In addition to the world-renowned chip giants Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, ARM, etc., the domestic Cambrian Technology, Huawei, Shangtang Technology, Shenjian Technology, Yushi Technology, Horizon Robot, etc. have also joined the fierce artificial intelligence chip industry, domestic companies Presenting a hundred schools of contention and individualism. In the future artificial intelligence industry layout, China's growth chip companies will be positive PK with strong foreign chip companies.

Today, the vast majority of high-mining mining machines are based on customized chips, such as Bitland's ant mining machine. Based on this similar trend, we can expect that 2018 will be a year of application-oriented artificial intelligence chips. In addition, because the scenes of artificial intelligence applications are ever-changing, and the applied algorithms are quite different, it can be expected that various applications will have different customized chips in the future, and there will be a lot of artificial intelligence chips contending.