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• Company profile:
Shenzhen Zhongke Chuangda Electronics Co., Ltd. was founded on October 17, 2013, with a registered capital of RMB 2 million yuan, and its legal representative is Qiao Chuanliang. Its address is 11n, Liyuan building, No. 9, Liyuan Road, Qiaotou community, Fuhai street, Bao'an District, Shenzhen city. Its unified social credit code and tax code are 914403000807916228, and its instry is wholesale and retail, The registration authority is Shenzhen market supervision and Administration Bureau, and its business scope is the technical development and sales of electronic procts, electronic components, electronic materials, electronic accessories, circuit boards, circuit boards, plastic procts, hardware procts, SMT steel mesh, PCBA semi-finished component patches, and photo film; Circuit design; Circuit board design; Electronic proct design and testing; Software design and development testing and sales of related procts; Internet technology development and technical services; Ecation and training; Economic information consultation (excluding trust, securities, futures, insurance and other financial services); Enterprise management consulting (excluding talent agency services); Operating e-commerce (if it involves pre administrative license, it can only be operated after obtaining pre administrative license documents); Domestic trade, import and export of goods and technology General business items: assembly of electronic procts; and; PCB engineering data processing; PCB proction training; Cam training; Genesis training; PCB technology training; PCB proction process training., The instrial and commercial registration number of Shenzhen Zhongke Chuangda Electronics Co., Ltd. is 440306108138703
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Zhang Kun, 75.00% of the capital contribution, 150.00% of the subscribed capital contribution, 25.00% of the capital contribution, 50.00% of the subscribed capital contribution; Senior executives:
Qiao Chuanliang is the executive director of the company
Qiao Chuanliang is the general manager of the company
Zhao Jun is the supervisor of the company
well, let's get back to business<
Huawei has really put a lot of efforts into seizing the "world No.1". As an enterprise proud of "self research", this time, Qilin 970 not only uses other (Cambrian) neural network processing units (npus), but also Zhidong has learned that, Kirin 970's complete set of embedded AI solutions (from algorithm + camera tuning) for object recognition are all from China Science and technology innovation
in addition, according to people in the instry, the sorting of Cambrian AI architecture on Qilin 970 is not entirely the technology developed by Huawei Hisilicon
how many months has this chip been built? Just adding an NPU mole can be called "Ai chip"? Why should Huawei rush to be the first? What do instry insiders like MediaTek and Shenjian think of Kirin 970 The above questions will be revealed one by one
first, parameter bombing
you must have been brushing the screen again and again, but for the sake of the integrity of the article, you still need to list a column of data. Readers can skip this paragraph directly:
as we all know, 90% of mobile phone chips use arm architecture, and Kirin 970 is no exception. Kirin 970 adopts arm cortex-a73 four core + cortex-a53 four core architecture, adopts TSMC 10nm manufacturing process, carries 12 core high-efficiency GPU, 8-core high-performance CPU, 4.5g high-speed LTE modem, supports LTE cat.18, and the maximum download speed can reach 1.2gbps, which is equivalent to the strongest X20 LTE baseband released by Qualcomm
it is particularly worth mentioning that the GPU of Kirin 970 uses the latest mali-g72 MP12 architecture of arm, which is the first commercial use of mali-g72 MP12 GPU. This architecture is very powerful. Compared with the previous generation of mali-g71, it has 40% performance improvement and 25% energy efficiency improvement
however, if you throw away the data, a small detail can make you understand it more intuitively: in the process of chatting with a mobile tycoon, Zhidong only nods and smiles at NPU and 10nm, only to be surprised when he sees MP12 GPU
at the same time, Qilin 970 has two ISPs for processing image information, which can process images more quickly and optimize noise rection in low illumination environment
the intelligent photography technology provided by Zhongke Chuangda will automatically identify the object in the lens (such as a still flower or a running human), and the system will adjust the camera parameters or take the initiative to de paste according to the attributes of the object
Kirin 970 will be carried on Huawei mate 10 mobile phone to be released in Munich on October 16< (2) Cambrian? Where is sacred
since we have been talking about the "Cambrian" NPU, what is the sacred Cambrian
Cambrian Technology (cambricon) is an AI chip start-up company hatched by the Institute of computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Institute of computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences has not only concted Angel round financing for Cambrian, but also provided long-term support and investment. At the end of August, Cambrian announced the completion of a round of financing of US $100 million, and the investors were SDIC venture, Alibaba, Lenovo, etc., which made it a well deserved unicorn in the domestic AI chip instry
not only that, but also the two founders of Cambrian are amazing - a pair of brothers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His brother Chen Yunji is still a researcher in the Institute of computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, engaged in basic science and technology research and development, while his brother Chen Tianshi has become the CEO of the company
however, for a long time, Cambrian company has been known by the instry as a "Research-oriented" enterprise. To put it bluntly, there are no procts. It was not until the world Internet Conference in April last year that it announced that its first AI chip proct, Cambrian 1a, had been streamed, which was constantly endorsed. News network and people's daily all said this; However, there is no official statement on whether the procts will be commercialized or mass proced. According to Chen Tianshi, Cambrian CEO at the end of 2016, "the development, mass proction and commercialization of chips is a cycle of years, so next year, you will see chip procts using Cambrian technology on the market, such as mobile phones, mobile phones, mobile phones, mobile phones, mobile phones, etc Security monitoring and other intelligent terminals and cloud servers. "< However, according to the congratulatory letter issued by the Institute of computing technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the NPU on Qilin 970 integrates Cambrian 1A processor as its core AI processing unit, realizing local, real-time and efficient intelligent processing on mobile phones. This is also a real proct application of Cambrian 1a
however, I'm afraid that only tuhao of Huawei's magnitude can make Cambrian 1A a real proct. From this point of view, Cambrian 1A has a good leg
3. What is "Ai chip"
as mentioned above, the main reason why Qilin 970 dares to call itself "Ai chip" is that it integrates the neural network processing unit (NPU) of Cambrian
the so-called mobile phone processors, such as the 835 of Qualcomm, the a11 of apple, and the Qilin 970, actually refer to a "processor package", which is called SOC (system-on-a-chip) in a professional way, and "computing platform" in a tall way; According to the division of labor, many processing units with special functions are added. For example, GPU is the most familiar one. Now the number of independent units in this package is increasing, such as ISP (image processing), modem (communication mole), DSP (digital signal processing), etc. different data come in and are processed by computing moles with different specialties, This NPU is a new unit that is good at neural network computing. Which applications will use neural network computing? That is, some of the most representative applications of AI computing, such as voice and image (face) recognition in pattern recognition, and other AI applications that will use deep learning
in order to make this deep neural network connect faster, "Cambrian 1A" also designed a special storage structure and instruction set completely different from general-purpose processor“ It can process 16 billion neurons and more than 2 trillion synapses per second, which is very powerful, but its power consumption is only 1 / 10 of the original
sometimes, some computing units will be independent and not packaged in SOC. For example, observing the structure of Apple iPhone's motherboard, its modem mole has always been independent of its A-Series processor mole; The Cambrian NPU unit was also an independent processor unit before, but this time it was integrated and packaged into the Qilin 970 SOC
although CPU, GPU and DSP in the chip can be used for computing, NPU is specially used for neural network architecture computing. It is claimed that NPU is 25 times faster than CPU and its efficiency will be increased by 50 times. It's a bit like you want to cut something. I'll give you a pair of scissors
as for why the Cambrian NPU is used? The main reason is that there are only a few companies that can make AI chips in China. Cambrian was born in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so it's natural to cooperate with Huawei. CAS computing itself also said that since 2011, CAS Computing Institute has cooperated with Huawei to set up a "CAS Computing Institute Huawei Joint Laboratory"
however, it is not said that the effect of CPU + GPU + DSP architecture of other chips in AI application is poor. On the contrary, many mobile phone manufacturers optimize AI functions on this architecture. From Qualcomm snapdragon to MediaTek Helio, all of them have made great efforts to optimize the chip application of artificial intelligence. For example, Qualcomm has built a software neural processing engine on snapdragon 800 and 600 series chips, and it also promises that in the future, it will proce a core specially used for neural network computing, such as NPU
therefore, this NPU is important, but not so important. Take deep learning as an example. Deep learning is divided into two parts: training and inference / application. In the training stage, it really needs very high computing power, but in the application level, it doesn't need a huge amount of computation - I believe no pure user is good at training
on the other hand, AI is not AI, but it depends on the application in the end... It needs the ecology of the whole mobile AI application to reflect the advantages of hardware
as a mobile phone chip manufacturer, a proct technical director of MediaTek also believes that it is relatively easy to integrate hardware on the chip, and the key is the upper application. Users will not care whether it is AI or not, but only about experience
although Huawei has demonstrated three common application directions (AR, computer vision and natural language processing), it has also used developer web pages, developer kits and application stores to attract developers. Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, also promised at the press conference that Huawei will create an open AI environment in which developers can directly access Huawei's NPU functions, It can also be accessed through the third-party AI framework (currently supports tensorflow and cafe)
however, at present, the development of mobile AI applications is still very few, and the AI functions displayed by Huawei also focus on noise rection, photo taking and beautification, etc., which are faster than before. In the absence of applications, Kirin 970, snapdragon 835, and even chips with weaker performance will make users feel the same< 4. I don't know if you still remember that on December 16 last year, glory, Huawei's mobile phone brand, launched its last flagship mobile phone of 2016, glory magic
Zhao Ming, President of glory, did not mention the hardware configuration in the whole process of talking about this special new proct for the third anniversary of glory. He only talked about the eight curved surface shape design of this mobile phone and carrying the artificial intelligence engine magic live developed by Huawei 2012 Laboratory for four years
in addition to the 2012 lab, Huawei also owns Noah Ark lab, Gauss lab and Shannon lab. Huawei did not disclose whether the artificial intelligence technology used by Kirin 970 this time came from these labs, but at present, it seems that these departments are mainly in the research and development< However, in terms of deep learning, Huawei's technology is not leading. That's why, although Huawei Hisilicon is eager to develop its own "Ai chip", in order to seize the title of "No.1 in the world", it finally chose to cooperate with Cambrian and China Science and technology Chuangda
a person in the instry commented on this: "from the hasty signing of the IP core contract to the separation from mate 10 and the release of this chip before Apple, I feel a bit rushed to the market."
is Huawei really in such a hurry
really
it is said that the project of Qilin 970 took about 4-5 months, including the technical integration of Cambrian, Zhongke Chuangda, and film streaming. In terms of speed, it's really fast. On the one hand, it reflects Huawei's straightforward and decisive style of doing things. On the other hand, it also proves that Huawei is "the first in the world"
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According to Morgan Stanley's forecast for the future automotive instry, "the current value of automotive hardware accounts for 90%, which will graally decline to 40% in the future, and the remaining 60% will be dominated by software." In other words, the car will enter the era of "software definition"
on March 4, GAC Research Institute signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Zhongke Chuangda, a supplier of intelligent operating system procts and technologies, to establish GAC Research Institute Zhongke Chuangda intelligent vehicle software technology joint innovation center. The two sides will jointly research and develop an intelligent connected vehicle platform to create a smart connected vehicle ecosystem. The two sides will carry out innovative technology research around the intelligent vehicle operating system, and carry out joint research and development in the fields of information entertainment, intelligent cockpit, intelligent interaction and safe driving. In addition, the two sides will conct in-depth cooperation in R & D capacity building and other aspects to jointly develop a new generation of intelligent vehicle platform
as early as 2016, the two sides began to jointly build the Internet information and entertainment terminal and ecosystem, which can realize OTA upgrade, integrated Internet of vehicles service and other functions. At present, GAC motor GS4, gs8 and GAC new energy aions have been equipped with the system
this article comes from the author of car home, which does not represent the standpoint of car home
