Apple ‘Hi, Speed’ Event: 5G, A14 Bionic Chip, and LiDAR for New iPhones
Apple today announces that its new iPhone series will also use the company’s newest A14 Bionic chipset.
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China’s Semiconductor Boom: 72 Chip Companies Receive CN ¥26.7 Billion in 2020
According to Chinese media Zhidongxi, from the second quarter of this year to July 23, public record shows 77 semiconductor-related financing activities in China.
WWDC 2020 | Apple Will Replace Intel CPU With Its Own ‘Apple Silicon’ Chips
Apple CEO Tim Cook made the announcement today during his keynote speech opening the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2020).
Alibaba Open-Sources Its MCU to Boost AI Research
Alibaba’s chip subsidiary Pingtouge (平头哥) has become the first Chinese company to open-source its Microcontroller (MCU) design platform.
ACL 2019 Announces Best Papers; Nature Covers Tianjic Chip; Baidu Releases ERNIE 2.0
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Nature Cover Story | Chinese Team’s ‘Tianjic Chip’ Bridges Machine Learning and Neuroscience in Pursuit of AGI
Today, respected scientific journal Nature boosted the case for AGI with a cover story on a new research paper, Towards artificial general intelligence with hybrid Tianjic chip architecture, which aims to stimulate AGI development by adopting generalized hardware platforms.
The 10 Biggest Semiconductor M&A Deals in 2018
The semiconductor industry took off in the 1960s, when most companies were still IDMs (integrated device manufacturers) who designed, manufactured, packaged, tested and sold ICs (integrated circuits).
A Look at China’s Growing Semiconductor Industry
In February Chinese AI semiconductor maker Horizon Robotics raised US$600 million in Series B funding from SK China, SK Hynix and big auto groups, making it the first in its field to reach the staggering valuation of US$3 billion.
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Preferred Networks Unveils Dedicated DL Processor MN-Core
Japanese AI startup Preferred Networks (PFN) has developed a new processor dedicated to deep learning. The company unveiled the MN-Core chip, board, and server last week at SEMICON Japan 2018 in Tokyo.
Snow Lake AI FPGA Upgrader: 30x More Functional Than GPUs
This summer Chinese beauty cam and photo editor specialist Meitu Inc. announced an FPGA-accelerated neural network computing project with young startup Snow Lake AI. The collaboration aims to boost computing speed on Meitu mobile phones by 30 times.
Can 34-Year-Old Chipmaker Xilinx Challenge the Big Players in AI?
American chip company Xilinx is an industry pioneer, with 34 years of experience and counting. And yet the company remains a niche supplier lacking the star power of chip giants like Intel, whose processors are found in most PCs; or Nvidia, whose GPU are the choice for most AI applications.
Fast Facts on Arm’s New Autonomous Driving Chip
Semiconductor giant Arm today unveiled the Cortex-A76AE, a microarchitecture CPU designed for use in autonomous vehicles. The UK-based Softbank subsidiary hailed the new chip as the world’s first autonomous-class processor with integrated safety features.
Alibaba Launches Chip Company “Ping-Tou-Ge”; Pledges Quantum Chip
Chinese Internet mogul Jack Ma has a flair for naming new businesses: Alibaba originates from a character made famous in the One Thousand and One Nights collection of Arabian folk tales; while the company’s R&D arm Damo Academy derives from the name of a Chinese Buddhist monk instrumental in the creation of Shaolin Kung Fu.
AI Chip Duel: Apple A12 Bionic vs Huawei Kirin 980
Apple has unveiled the latest iteration of its smartphone chip: the A12 Bionic SoC (system-on-a-chip). The company made the announcement yesterday at its annual product showcase event in Cupertino, California, hailing the A12 as the industry’s first ever 7nm chip (the smallest current transistor scale). It will be embedded in Apple’s new XR, XS, and XS Max iPhones.
Huawei Introduces Kirin 980: 7nm & Many World Firsts
At the IFA 2018 in Berlin today Huawei unveiled the new Kirin 980, the world’s first 7nm smartphone SoC (system-on-a-chip) with a dual-core NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit).
Exploring Human-computer Interaction Startup Rokid’s Jungle
Four years after its founding, human-computer interaction and robotics company Rokid held its first major press conference on June 26 in Hangzhou. Dubbed “Rokid Jungle,” Founder and CEO Misa Zhu quipped that the presser was “a combination of Google IO and Apple WWDC.”
FPGA-Maker Xilinx Buys Chinese Chip Startup DeePhi Tech
Xilinx, the world’s leading designer and supplier of programmable logic devices, today announced its acquisition of DeePhi Tech — a Beijing-based chip startup with a focus on machine learning, specializing in deep compression, pruning, and system-level optimization for neural networks.
Cambricon Unveils its First AI Chip for Cloud Computing
Cambricon today unveiled its Cambricon 1M chip for edge computing, and the MLU100, the first in a new chip series for cloud computing.
Chip Guru Jim Keller Leaves Tesla for Intel
The Head of Tesla’s Autopilot Hardware Team Jim Keller, best known for his CPU design at AMD and Apple, was supposed to help the company make that happen. Today, however, Tesla announced Keller had left…
Alibaba Unveils Ali-NPU; Acquires Chipmaker C-Sky Microsystems(Updated)
Alibaba’s R&D arm DAMO Academy announced yesterday that it is developing a new neural network chip called Ali-NPU for AI inferencing in the field of image processing, machine learning, etc.
Huawei Announces Kirin 970: AI In Your Phone
China’s biggest domestic mobile phone maker, Huawei, is now powering its phones with artificial intelligence (AI) engines. The Chinese techContinue Reading