AI chips continue to fall behind in the hot carnival?

Artificial intelligence, an emerging technology, has undergone technological accumulation, upgrading, and fermentation in recent years. It is now taking full advantage of the AI ​​chip as a carrier. The AI ​​chip is subverting the four major areas led by security, mobile phones, driverless cars, and cloud computing at an unprecedented speed, and extending them from there, further contributing to traditional fields such as industry, manufacturing, medical care, and education. The huge impact reshaped the world pattern.

Looking back at the Chinese market, artificial intelligence and AI chip technology have opened a new door for the Chinese chip industry, which has been pursuing for decades, and made China the first time to have a forest of cutting-edge technology and even lead the global technological trend. Opportunity window.

AI chip market broke out

At present, the raging artificial intelligence market has attracted the attention of many tech giants. For example, Baidu, the domestic search engine giant, has devoted a lot of effort to pushing the new artificial intelligence technology. Currently, Baidu has already been at the forefront of the industry. From so many tech giant hair artificial intelligence can be seen, artificial intelligence will certainly become the trend of the future. As a key part of the field of artificial intelligence, AI chips have become the technological commanding point and the core of the entire artificial intelligence industry. Traditional chip manufacturers have also fought for the AI ​​chip artificial intelligence admission ticket.

A powerful artificial intelligence system requires thousands of servers and 10,000 server resources. Customizing the chips for artificial intelligence thus becomes the key to implementing artificial intelligence, making data center resources more efficient. The battle for AI chips among giants is particularly fierce. Especially as the Internet giant Google joins, it has created a fierce competition for artificial intelligence. In addition, technology giants such as ARM and Apple are chasing and using their artificial intelligence technology. Breakthrough is expected to become an important player in this field. The involvement of these giants makes AI technology powerfully promote the intelligent transformation of terminal enterprises. The AI ​​chip will define the artificial intelligence industry chain and ecosystem as the core basic computing unit. The chip is the commanding height in the artificial intelligence era and will certainly promote the upgrading of downstream manufacturers.

According to statistics, there are at least 45 various technology companies worldwide that are developing chips for voice interaction and autonomous driving, and the number is still increasing. The rapid development of artificial intelligence has directly driven the wave of the AI ​​chip industry. AI chips can now be said to be surging, which is both an opportunity and a challenge for industry participants.

According to a report released by CCID Consulting, the global artificial intelligence market reached US$29.3 billion in 2016. Artificial intelligence chips are an important part of the artificial intelligence market. According to data from companies such as Nvidia, AMD, Xilinx, and Google, we estimate that the market size of artificial intelligence chips will reach US$ 2.388 billion in 2016, accounting for approximately 8.15 million in the global artificial intelligence market. %, by 2020, the market size of artificial intelligence chips will reach 14.616 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 12.18% of the global artificial intelligence market. It can be seen that the artificial intelligence chip market is extremely vast.

In this context, with the emergence of intelligent robot voice interaction, a number of new voice chip industries have been born. Dozens of IC design original company companies are involved. The importance of intelligent voice chips for artificial development is easy to see. The spring of smart voice chips is coming! In the smart speaker market, MediaTek, Texas Instruments, Conexant, Torchcore, Hangzhou Guoxin, Jingchen Technology, Chengdu Qiyin Tailun and other chip makers have introduced relevant voice chips. It is expected that voice chip sales will reach 2018. More than 50 million pieces.

Thinking after carnival

However, behind the collective carnival, there is always a calm voice, and many people in the industry once expressed their concerns to the AI ​​chip industry with intellectual things:

1) The chip competition is very fierce. It is a "one of best" industries. The advantage of the chip lies in its size. The sales volume of a common chip needs to reach a million levels to achieve a break-even. Once the market begins to mature, the giants can carry out market harvest through ten times and hundred times of production, and these large-scale emerging AI chip startups may eventually run out of one or two.

2) There are many propaganda of artificial intelligence technology, and the industry is less in the ground. Almost all AI chip startup companies have set their main targets in security and autopilot markets. For security, although AI is a market demand for many years, AI applications in large-scale long-distance scenarios have occurred. There are still many engineering issues that need to be addressed; for autopilot, this technology is still a long time away from mass commercialization, and the two major depots regard the safety attributes as the highest, the current “black box” for artificial intelligence. "The situation is more difficult to accept. In addition to mobile phones, there is no AI chip sales volume of more than 1 million.

3) The artificial intelligence algorithm is still in the process of rapid development, and the calculation model is changing every six months to one year. The chip's design and development cycle is generally long, and only very mature algorithms are suitable for curing on the chip. The current artificial intelligence algorithm is not mature enough.

Professor Wei Shaojun, Chairman of the IC Design Branch of the Semiconductor Industry Association of China and Director of the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University believes that from the point of view of industrial development, AI chips will continue to be hot in the next two years and everyone will get together; but by 2020 Before and after, there will be a group of outbound players, and the industry will start shuffling.

Power Meter Socket

Power Meter is a monitoring and testing instrument which determines the power consumption of a connected appliance and the cost of the electricity consumed.
Built-in 3.6V rechargeable Batteries ( . The purpose of the batteries is to store the total electricity and memory setting
Resetting
If an abnormal display appears or the buttons produce no response, the instrument must be reset. To do this,
press the RESET button.
Display Mode
Entire LCD can be displayed for about 1 minute and then it automatically gets into Model. To transfer from
one mode to the other, press the FUNCTION button.
Mode 1: Time/Watt/Cost Display Display duration(how long) this device connect to power source.LCD on first line shows 0:00 with first two figures mean minutes(2 figures will occur while occur at 10 min) and the rest shows seconds. After 60mins, it displays 0:00 again with first two numbers meas hour(2 figures will occur at 10hours)and the rest shows minutes. The rest can be done in the same manner which means after 24 hours, it will re-caculate. LCD on second line displays current power which ranges in 0.0W 〜 9999W. LCD on third line displays the current electricity costs which ranges in O.Ocost 〜 9999cost. It will keep on O.OOcost before setting rate without other figures.
Mode 2: Time/Cumulative electrical quantity Display Display duration(how long) this device connect to power source.
LCD on first line shows 0:00 with first two figures mean minutes(2 figures will occur while occur at 10 min) and the rest shows seconds. After 60mins, it displays 0:00 again with first two numbers meas hour(2 figures will occur at 10hours)and the rest shows minutes. The rest can be done in the same manner which
means after 24 hours, it will re-caculate. LCD on second line displays current cumulative electrical quantity which ranges in 0.000KWH 〜 9999KWH without other figures. LCD on third line displays"DAY"- "1 'Will be showed on numerical part(the other three figures will be showed at carry) which means it has cumulated electrical quantity for 24hours(one day). The rest can be done in the same manner untill the maximal cumulative time of 9999 days.
Mode 3: TimeA^bltage/Frequency Display LCD on first line displays the same as Mode 1 dones. LCD on second line displays current voltage supply (v) which ranges in 0.0V 〜 9999V .LCD on third line displays current frequency (HZ) which ranges in 0.0HZ 〜 9999Hz without other figures.
Mode 4: Time/Current/Power Factor Display LCD on first line displays the same as Mode 1 dones.LCD on second line displays load current which ranges in 0.0000A 〜 9999A. LCD on third line displays current power factor which ranges in 0.00PF 〜 LOOPF without other figures.
Mode 5:Time/Minimum Power Display LCD on first line displays the same as Mode 1 dones. LCD on
second line displays the minimum power which ranges in 0.0W 〜 9999W. LCD on third line displays character of "Lo" without other figures.
Mode 6: Time/Maximal Power Display LCD on first line displays the same as Mode 1 dones. LCD on second line displays the maximal power which ranges in 0.0W 〜 9999W. LCD on third line displays character of "Hi" without other figures.
Mode 7: Time/Price Display LCD on first line displays the same as Mode 1 dones. LCD on third line displays the cost which ranges in O.OOCOST/KWH 〜 99.99COST/KWH without other figures.
Overload Display: When the power socket connects the load over 3680W, LCD on second line displays the''OVERLOAD[ with booming noise to warn the users, (selectable choice)
Supplemental informations:
1: Except [OVERLOAD[ interface, LCD on first line display time in repitition within 24hours.
2: LCD on first line, second line or third line described in this intruction take section according to two black lines on LCD screen. Here it added for clarified purpose.
3. Mode 7 will directly occur while press down button "cost".
4. [UP"&"Down" are in no function under un-setting mode.
Setting Mode
1. Electricity price setting
After keeping COST button pressed lasting more than 3 seconds(LCD on third line display system defaults price, eg O.OOCOST/KWH ),the rendered content begins moving up and down which means that the device
has entered the setting mode. After that, press FUNCTION for swithing , then press "UP"and "DOWN" button again to set value which ranges in OO.OOCOST/KWH 〜 99.99COST/KWH. After setting all above, press COST to return to Mode7 or it will automatically return to Mode7 without any pressing after setting with data storage.

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