The Cambrian Deep Learning Processor, a dedicated chip for intelligent cognition and other applications that is expected to be used in various future ARTIFICIAL intelligence devices, has received an 18-month funding support of 10 million yuan from the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2017 for project development and industrialization, according to the Voice of China’s CENTRAL Radio News.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
The Cambrian was the time of the explosion of life on Earth, and since then, the earth has entered a new era of life. The deep learning processor developed by Chen Yunji and Chen Tianshi at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences was named “Cambrian”, hoping that the world’s first deep learning processor that imitates human neurons and synapses could open a new era of artificial intelligence.
According to the Intelligent Processor Research Center of the Institute of Computing Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 10 million yuan special fund will be used for basic research on AI chips, exploring the architecture and algorithms of next-generation AI chips and application development methods in some new scenarios, such as AR/VR. This will lay a scientific and technological foundation for China to compete in the international chip market in the intelligent era
On the other hand, the special fund will be used to promote the current Cambrian chips to various intelligent cloud servers, intelligent terminals and intelligent robots in the market, and strive to initially establish the position of Cambrian chips in the intelligent chip market within 18 months.
According to introduction, the energy efficiency of the Cambrian deep learning processor is two orders of magnitude higher than that of the mainstream CPU and GPU, which has a strong market competitive advantage. In 2016, the World Internet Conference was rated as one of the fifteen “World Internet Leading Scientific and technological Achievements”.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
Chen said that now AlphaGo also needs a huge cloud server with tens of thousands of watts of power consumption for intelligent processing. The Cambrian goal is to make cameras, phones and even watches that consume less than 1 watt of power as smart as The AlphaGo.
Chen said our strengths are focused on artificial intelligence such as face recognition and voice recognition. For example, cameras, mobile phones or personal computers, high-performance servers embedded with “Cambrian ‘IP core or chip, will greatly improve the processing speed.