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Baidu unveiled an artificial intelligence chip called Kunlun during its annual Baidu Create event on Tuesday. The company joins a raft of other Chinese firms in designing hardware tailored for machine-learning.
Seven years: Kunlun is optimized for various AI tasks including voice recognition, natural language processing, image recognition, and autonomous driving. Baidu first started making customized AI processors using FPGAs (a kind of chip that can be reconfigured on the fly) in 2011. The new design is 30 times faster than the original FPGA-based processor, but the company says it’s not ready to begin mass producing it yet. -
The Real Reason Why Baidu Released Its New Kunlun AI Chip
According to a Nanalyze report, AI hardware is a relatively budding industry in China. So far no company, big or small, has made any serious breakthroughs in the hardware market. The report further indicates that NVIDIA is the gold standard for AI computing since Chinese startups and leading companies lack the expertise and talent. Another key point is that Chinese supercomputers will likely continue to use NVIDIA hardware and new smartphones will host Chinese chips.
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