It's time to sort out the AI industry chain.

Xilinx: Xilinx is the largest manufacturer of FPGA in the world. Its products occupy nearly 50% of the market share in the communications market. It is the dominant player in the wireless semiconductor devices and wires market. After the acquisition of Auviz Systems, Xilinx can take advantage of the latter's technical advantages in data centers and convolutional neural networks to make the FPGA play an important role in the field of artificial intelligence.


Zhongxing Micro: Zhongxing Micro pioneered the first embedded neural network processor (NPU) chip in China, "Starlight Intelligence 1", which is also the first embedded video acquisition and compression coding system-level chip with in-depth learning artificial intelligence in the world. The chip adopts a "data-driven" parallel computing architecture. The energy consumption of a single NPU (28nm) is only 400 mW, which greatly improves the ratio of computing power to power consumption. It can be widely used in intelligent driving assistance, UAV, robots and other embedded machine vision fields.

Deep Learning Technology: Artificial intelligence is now the hottest technology. Deep Learning Technology, which has been valued at $1 billion, launched a convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerator named Aristotle at the Hot Chip Conference in 2016, which is based on Xilinx Zynq All Programmable SoC devices.

CAMBRIAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: CAMBRIAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY is known as "the first unicorn in the world AI chip industry". CAMBRIAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY originated from the Computing Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the first national academic institution specializing in the comprehensive research of computer science and technology in China. It is known as "the cradle of computer industry in China". It has independently developed the first digital computer and the first general CP The computer industry and academia have trained a large number of high-tech talents and set up a number of high-tech enterprises such as Lenovo and Dawn. The Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is also an important shareholder of Cambrian science and technology and a long-term partner of industry, University and research.

Jing Jiawei: Jing Jiawei has the first independently developed GPU chip JM5400, which is dedicated to the company's graphics display and control field. The graphics chip represented by JM5400 breaks the monopoly of foreign chips in the field of military GPU in China and takes the lead in realizing the localization of military GPU. The company's GPUJM5400 mainly replaces AMD's GPUM9, and the performance comparison between the two is as follows. Comparatively speaking, the company's JM5400 has the advantages of low power consumption and excellent performance.

Horizon Robot: The business model of Horizon is not to sell chips, but to provide embedded AI solutions based on "algorithm + chip" to downstream manufacturers. Horizon solutions can integrate many embedded computing platforms, including ARM, CPU, GPU, FPGA and Horizon authorized integrated BPU core SOC. Horizon will initially introduce self-developed processors, but its purpose is to achieve a complete end-to-end solution, directly in the typical application scenario to show the effect, enhance the industry chip manufacturers'awareness of the Horizon BPU.

Nishii Science and Technology: is a technology company that develops "brain-like artificial intelligence chip + algorithm". Its chip simulates nerve with circuit, and the finished product has 10 billion scale simulated neurons. Because of the special architecture, these chips have strong computing power and can be used in gene sequencing, simulated brain discharge and other medical fields. The particularity of brain-like chip is that it abandons von Neumann structure and no longer separates memory and arithmetic. Analog neurons are processors as well as memory, and can be operated concurrently. In addition, simulating the connection of neurons is similar to that of human brain, and the discharge process can be used to study abnormal discharge diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Main Applications of Artificial Intelligence

1. Machine Vision

Ignorance Technology: Ignorance Technology Face++ is an AI enterprise with in-depth learning and computer vision as its core. It has the world's leading intelligent algorithms, hardware technology and industry solutions. Intelligent cloud service and intelligent interconnection are two core products, ignoring the core of in-depth learning and physical sensing technology, based on the original deep learning algorithm engine Brain++, deep farming financial security, urban security, mobile phone AR, Commercial Association of things, industrial robots five core industries, committed to providing enterprise users with the world-leading artificial intelligence products and industry solutions. Program.

Hanwang Science and Technology: Hanwang Science and Technology was founded in 1998. It has been deeply cultivating the core basic technology of AI - image recognition for nearly 20 years. At present, it has formed a core independent intellectual property system including face recognition, OCR recognition, handwriting recognition, touch control technology and so on. The semi-annual report of Hanwang Science and Technology in 2017 shows that the company has abundant technical reserves, with 705 valid patents, 458 of which are invention patents. In addition, Hanwang's R&D investment has also increased year by year. In the first half of 2017, the company's R&D investment accounted for more than 12% of its revenue.

Shenzhen Kehuo: Shenzhen Kehuo is a high-tech enterprise focusing on face recognition technology and product development and application, with independent intellectual property algorithm of face recognition and many patents of face recognition technology products. Face recognition access control system, attendance system and monitoring system have been introduced, which is dedicated to the full application of face recognition technology in social and economic life. Ke Huan has devoted himself to the research of face recognition technology for 10 years. He has sharpened his sword for 10 years and has always adhered to the development road of "deep research and development, independent innovation". The company's main technical team comes from Wuhan Huazhong University of Science and Technology. After more than ten years'accumulation of technology, talent and intellectual property rights, the company has a deep technical foundation.

Grinding Deep Pupil: Grinding Deep Pupil is a computer vision and artificial focus.

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