Alibaba To Launch Ain Ai Fleck Adjacent Twelvemonth (Baba; Fb; Goog; Nvda; Amd)

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From ZDnet, Sept. 19:
Chinese meshing giant sets upward a semiconductor companionship in addition to unveils plans to unloose its ain artificial tidings processor, every bit it looks to boost back upward for its cloud in addition to Internet of Things businesses.

HANGZHOU, CHINA--Alibaba Group has formally established a semiconductor job organization to hit its ain artificial tidings (AI) chip every bit good every bit unveiled plans to develop quantum processors.

Driven past times the Chinese vendor's question in addition to evolution (R&D) arm Damo Academy, these efforts would run into the launch of Alibaba's outset in-house developed AI chip inward the mo one-half of side past times side year. Called AliNPU, the novel AI chip had the potential to back upward technologies used inward autonomous driving, smart cities, in addition to smart logistics, said Alibaba at its annual flagship computing conference held hither Wednesday.

It too gear upward a novel semiconductor subsidiary, called Pingtouge, which it said would focus on customised AI chips in addition to embedded processors. These efforts would back upward Alibaba's plans to expand its cloud in addition to Internet of Things (IoT) businesses every bit good every bit displace the evolution of industry-specific applications, it said.

Alibaba inward Apr acquired integrated circuit pattern vendor, Hangzhou C-Sky Microsystems, describing the displace every bit "an of import step" inward boosting its chip-making capabilities. The displace too would conjoin both companies' R&D strengths in addition to was inward trace amongst China's urging for the province to snuff it self-reliance inward the evolution of fundamental technologies.

It hence had revealed initial plans for AliNPU, which it said would live on designed to procedure AI tasks such every bit picture in addition to video analysis.

Alibaba CTO Jeff Zhang said at the conference: "Moving ahead, nosotros are confident our advantages inward algorithm, information intelligence, computing power, in addition to domain cognition on the dorsum of Alibaba's various ecosystem volition set us at a unique seat to Pb existent applied scientific discipline breakthroughs inward disruptive areas, such every bit quantum in addition to chip technology."

In laying out its five-year roadmap for Damo Academy, Alibaba said the R&D arm too would live on developing "high-precision, multiple-qubit superconducting quantum processors" in addition to would proceed to force evolution inward the sector. These would include quantum-classical systems to offering utility-based quantum compute ability that could live on delivered over the cloud.

The university too would await to expand its partner ecosystem to seat potential quantum-powered applications for various manufacture verticals, including logistics, e-commerce, materials, in addition to pharmaceuticals.

Zhang said the evolution of both software every bit good every bit hardware was necessary to render the computing necessary to to a greater extent than speedily analyse information in addition to at a depression cost.

"Computing begins amongst chip. We established a squad final calendar week [and] past times mid-2019, nosotros volition accept the outset neuro network chip," he said, adding that the AliNPU had shown--in electrical flow tests--to increase picture processing functioning past times four-times.

Google too offers its ain AI chip, outset announced inward 2016 and currently inward its third generation. The Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) 3.0 is touted to live on eight-times to a greater extent than powerful than its predecessor....
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