15 Leading Technologies, Wuzhen'S "Sword" New Achievements, Chips And Artificial Intelligence

Entrepreneurs gathered at the Wuzhen World Internet Conference. New technologies have become the focus of discussion. This is also an important theme of the Wuzhen summit.

On the afternoon of October 20th, the sixth world internet conference announced 15 latest scientific and technological achievements, including 5G applications, AI chips and platforms, and the underlying computing technology.

Vulnerability radar system (360 security), Tesla fully automatic driving chip (Tesla), flying paddle (Baidu), POLARDB: cloud primary database based on storage computing separation and distributed shared memory architecture (ALI cloud), Siyuan 270 (Cambrian), science and technology to improve - through technological means to help modern smart city comprehensive management practice (Tencent), artificial intelligence algorithm platform Brain++ (Kuang Shi Technology), silicon cubic immersion liquid cooled computer (dawn information), IPv6 super large deployment practice and technology innovation (China Telecom), AI innovation and deep application of smart enterprises (ESPP), Versal adaptive computing acceleration platform (Xilinx Inc), civil aircraft manufacturing 5G innovation and demonstration application (China commercial aviation). The list includes Kun Peng 920 (HUAWEI), universal heterogeneous artificial intelligence (0day), unified natural language pre training model, machine reading comprehension (Microsoft), and 360 omnismic eyes - POLARDB.

Academician Wu He Quan of the Chinese Academy of Engineering said at the scene: "the Internet iteration promotes the human society to enter the intelligent era of comprehensive perception, reliable transmission, intelligent processing and precise decision-making. Foreseeing these changes is the purpose of the world's leading Internet technology publishing activities.

Chip and AI play the leading role.

From the "black technology" released this year, chips, AI, 5G and other fields account for the highest proportion. In addition, cloud computing, digital manufacturing and industrial Internet have also been selected.

The proportion of the chip platform is higher than in previous years, with 5 seats occupying 1/3 of the scientific and technological achievements. They are HUAWEI's server chip Kun Peng 920, universal heterogeneous artificial intelligence fusion chip, Tesla fully automatic driving chip, Cambrian cloud AI chip, Si yuan 270 and Xilinx Versal adaptive computing acceleration platform.

Among them, there are three chips in Chinese enterprises, such as the Kun Peng 920 processor compatible with the Arm architecture. It is the server chip that HUAWEI has been laying for many years. It is regarded as a competitive product of the Intel x86 architecture server chip by the industry. According to HUAWEI's introduction, under the typical main frequency, HUAWEI Kun Peng 920 SPECint _rate_base2006 score is over 930, 25% higher than the mainstream processor in the industry. Kun Peng 920 has the advantage of high throughput. Compared with the mainstream processors in the industry, its memory bandwidth is 60% higher.

Hou Jinlong, President of HUAWEI Cloud & AI products and services, said: "the processor is the foundation of the whole computing industry. HUAWEI has invested in R & D the first embedded processing chip since 2004. After 15 years, it has invested more than 20 thousand engineers, and has formed the core chip family based on" Kun Peng + rising ". HUAWEI will continue to invest in chips according to the rhythm of "mass production, research and development, generation planning".

In an interview with the twenty-first Century economic report, Hou Jinlong said: "in the next 5 years, HUAWEI plans to invest 3 billion to build the entire Kun Peng industry, and plan to launch a generation system in one year."

Tsinghua University's sky chip has the core architecture of computing storage integration and de centralization. It not only supports the independent deployment of computer science oriented machine learning algorithm and neuroscience oriented neural morphological computing model, but also supports the heterogeneous modeling of both, providing a new computing platform for developing AI. In addition, the related papers of sky chip have also been published on the cover of academic magazine "Nature" this year.

Let's look at the Cambrian AI chip, and think yuan 270 uses TSMC 16nm process technology. The peak performance of the dense machine learning model is increased by 4 times that of the 100 generation, reaching 128 trillion times (INT8). Critical breakthroughs have been made in the field of fixed-point training, supporting low precision (INT8, INT16) and hybrid precision training, and supporting a variety of operational accuracy, including INT4, INT8, INT16, INT32, etc., with a theoretical peak of 256 trillion times under INT4.

It is worth noting that chips, both domestic and overseas, are basically related to AI. Tesla's autopilot chip is obviously used in AI's biggest scenario, autopilot. Xilinx's Versal platform provides AI reasoning support for cloud, edge and end. The Cambrian AI chip Si yuan 270 is used in the cloud. So far, the AI layout of the cloud side has been completed in the Cambrian era. The sky chip is also facing the AI scene, providing heterogeneous computing power.

In addition to artificial intelligence on chips, there are AI systems and applications in the awards, such as Baidu's flying paddle, open algorithm platform, AI innovation of intelligent enterprises and Microsoft training model. It can be seen that AI related technologies account for half of the technological achievements, and giant companies and start-ups are competing for it.

Focus on the underlying technology

The world Internet Conference is not only about the Internet, but more and more like the IT technology industry summit. In the past, when we talked about the Internet, we often associate with the innovation of the upper level applications and business models. Nowadays, entrepreneurs talk about technology on the top of Huashan.

In the past two years, such as trade friction and technology blockade, the domestic enthusiasm for technology and the importance of basic science and underlying science have become more and more important.

At the same time, enterprises and consumers are waiting for technological innovation to bring dividends. We expect 5G business to bring new applications of B terminal and C terminal. We expect to accelerate the popularity of AI and become a Pratt & Whitney technology to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

"In the future, the opportunities for enterprises will go upstream. Competition will start from the demographic dividend and move towards technology." Technological innovation is the most solid support for the digital economy. Ding Lei, chairman and chief executive officer of NetEase's board of directors, said at the meeting.

In the face of new technological trends and technological environment, more and more enterprises demonstrated technological strength and disclosed the underlying technology layout last year. The 15 scientific and technological achievements released this year are a summary of this year's technological development. Whether artificial intelligence or intelligent computing capability, domestic enterprises are exploring the core technology step by step.

For example, Baidu's flying paddle platform has been brewing for many years, similar to the underlying operation system of AI application. Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng introduced that the flying paddle is based on Baidu's deep learning technology research and industrial practice for many years. It integrates deep learning core framework, basic model library, end to end development kit, tool components and service platform. It is a comprehensive open source, open technology, advanced technology, and complete industrial level deep learning platform, which can promote transformation and upgrading of all walks of life. At present, the flying paddle has been open and open, and has about 1500000 service developers. It is widely used in industries such as industry, agriculture and service industries.

In the field of AI, neglect is also in the core area. Tang Wenbin, co founder and CTO of open vision, said that the Brain++ developed in 2014 is an end-to-end AI algorithm platform. The goal is to enable R & D personnel to acquire a package of technical capabilities from data to algorithm industrialization. Without repeated wheel making, AI can also accelerate the landing of AI. Brain++ also introduced AutoML technology to enable algorithms to train algorithms and AI to create AI.

Looking at the computing power at the bottom level, according to Li Jun, President of Zhongguang dawning, the Shuguang silicon cubic immersion liquid cooled computer integrates the latest research results of computer architecture, high efficiency refrigeration, high-speed network and mass storage. It breaks through the traditional cooling method, overcomes the bottleneck of energy consumption in the development of the industry, and uses high-density computing power to support AI, big data, cloud computing and other applications, so as to provide scientific power for scientific exploration and industrial upgrading.