Chinese semiconductor industry

Using SMIC 7nm N+1 process?

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Baidu AI chip Kunlun 1 has been mass-produced more than 20,000 pieces
2020-12-17 10:16:00 GMT+8 | cnTechPost
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Chinese search giant Baidu's AI chip Kunlun 1 has been mass-produced more than 20,000 pieces and has achieved application deployment, Baidu Chief Technology Officer Wang Haifeng revealed at the 2020 Baidu Cloud Summit held today, adding Kunlun 2 is expected to be mass-produced in the first half of next year.
"Baidu Kunlun" is China's first cloud-based full-featured AI chip developed by Baidu.
Since 2011, Baidu has been developing AI gas pedals based on FPGAs for deep learning computing and started using GPUs at the same time.
In 2018, Baidu announced the launch of its cloud-based full-featured AI chip, "Baidu Kunlun".
Baidu Kunlun 2 uses a 7nm process and offers a 3x performance improvement over Baidu Kunlun 1.

It was previously reported that the Baidu Kunlun chip can achieve actual performance of over 200 TOPS. In comparison, the industry's most advanced Intel T4 GPU can achieve real-world TOPS of around 70.
In the image segmentation YOLOV3 algorithm, Baidu Kunlun's performance is about twice that of T4.
As of today, the Baidu Kunlun chip fully supports speech, image, and NLP models, flexible support for user-defined models, and support for traditional machine learning models.
The chip can achieve complete adaptation with China-made processors, operating systems, and domestic frameworks.

ansy1968 said:

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Sorry you may misunderstood ,I'm referring to Jim Keller not Mr Liang.

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About Jim Keller, it's a bit off-topic, but he usually stays around until a project is complete and then leaves ever since he left Apple.
He's done Zen at AMD, then it was the AI chip in Tesla's latest driving modules, now it was a small highly efficient CPU core at Intel.
I think he's gone elsewhere now that he is finished. I wonder what he'll work on next.

ansy1968 said:

Using SMIC 7nm N+1 process?

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Baidu AI chip Kunlun 1 has been mass-produced more than 20,000 pieces
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Chinese search giant Baidu's AI chip Kunlun 1 has been mass-produced more than 20,000 pieces and has achieved application deployment, Baidu Chief Technology Officer Wang Haifeng revealed at the 2020 Baidu Cloud Summit held today, adding Kunlun 2 is expected to be mass-produced in the first half of next year.
"Baidu Kunlun" is China's first cloud-based full-featured AI chip developed by Baidu.
Since 2011, Baidu has been developing AI gas pedals based on FPGAs for deep learning computing and started using GPUs at the same time.
In 2018, Baidu announced the launch of its cloud-based full-featured AI chip, "Baidu Kunlun".
Baidu Kunlun 2 uses a 7nm process and offers a 3x performance improvement over Baidu Kunlun 1.

It was previously reported that the Baidu Kunlun chip can achieve actual performance of over 200 TOPS. In comparison, the industry's most advanced Intel T4 GPU can achieve real-world TOPS of around 70.
In the image segmentation YOLOV3 algorithm, Baidu Kunlun's performance is about twice that of T4.
As of today, the Baidu Kunlun chip fully supports speech, image, and NLP models, flexible support for user-defined models, and support for traditional machine learning models.
The chip can achieve complete adaptation with China-made processors, operating systems, and domestic frameworks.

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Probably Samsung.

Xi Jinping should personally intervene to keep Liang inside China, either stay at SMIC or another mainland Chinese company. God forbid he goes to a foreign company in Japan or Korea or US.

Phead128 said:

Xi Jinping should personally intervene to keep Liang inside China, either stay at SMIC or another mainland Chinese company. God forbid he goes to a foreign company in Japan or Korea or US.

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Nah he’s been feeling “disrespected” for a long time now.

You cant force a toxic environment at the workplace and expect good results.

gelgoog said:

Apple was almost bankrupt by the time Steve Jobs came back in. The company was mostly irrelevant.
He came back in and in a quick succession they launched MacOS X, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad.
Now that he's dead Apple hasn't done anything major just like you said.
Just look at the bio of the current CEO. He used to be the COO. He is a beancounter with some experience in squeezing suppliers and trimming the logistics chain. He's not a visionary by any means like Jobs was. He's perfectly fine as COO material but not as CEO.

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The Apple Watch is selling well. The upcoming Apple 3D Glasses and Apple Car will be interesting.

Peter2018 said:

The Apple Watch is selling well. The upcoming Apple 3D Glasses and Apple Car will be interesting.

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And look at how many Chinese have airpods

siegecrossbow said:

True, Apple didn't die with Steve Jobs and in fact got a lot richer over the years. However, what revolutionary product comparable to the IPhone or IPad have they released since Jobs' death?

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A company maker create an organisation that can live without him/her, and growing like his child.


An employee other hand sell his/her time for money, and doesn't care about the fate of the company after his/her(so annoying this gender in the English) departure .

To see a successful apple after the pass away of the creator is something that Job could be proud off, to see a long lasting impression after the departure of an employee is a rare thing.

Anlsvrthng said:

A company maker create an organisation that can live without him/her, and growing like his child.


An employee other hand sell his/her time for money, and doesn't care about the fate of the company after his/her(so annoying this gender in the English) departure .

To see a successful apple after the pass away of the creator is something that Job could be proud off, to see a long lasting impression after the departure of an employee is a rare thing.

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My original point is that you need visionary people at high up position to foster innovative breakthroughs. Imagine if Jobs didn’t die in 2011. Maybe we could have successful and popular VR glasses or projectable computer screens by now. Instead we are getting rehashes of the smartphone concept.

Phead128 said:

Xi Jinping should personally intervene to keep Liang inside China, either stay at SMIC or another mainland Chinese company. God forbid he goes to a foreign company in Japan or Korea or US.

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I saw a detailed reflection by a Chinese YouTuber who specialize in semiconductors and technology, there is an alternative.....

There is a non public company in China that focuses on tech, with both the drive, influence and money that aligns with Liangs propensities; Huawei.