Baidu AI Developers Conference was held in Beijing, and Robin Li officially released the AI chip Kunlun. According to the official news, Kunlun is China's first cloud based full function AI chip. This chip is based on the development of Baidu CPU, GPU and FPGA AI accelerator, and has gone through more than 20 iterations before its launch. According to the theoretical performance of Kunlun, it can provide 260 trillion operations per second at power consumption of more than 100W. It is the AI chip with the highest computing power in the industry at present. In terms of parameters, Kunlun chips will be manufactured by Samsung Semiconductor, using a 14nm process. Unlike traditional desktop processors, Kunlun AI chips are composed of a large number of small cores, with a memory bandwidth of 512GB/s.

In addition to Baidu Kunlun chip, the domestic AI chip and the Cambrian NPU on HiSilicon Qilin 970, however, the two take different routes. They also represent two directions of AI processor research and development. Baidu Kunlun has strong computing power and high power consumption. It provides users with services through the Internet, which is more suitable for manufacturers who need AI and in-depth learning Institutions, etc.; The Cambrian NPU is oriented to the micro device market. It can be directly integrated into the mobile phone chip to directly improve the local AI computing capability of the terminal device. It can process AI tasks without relying on the network, and can independently complete tasks when the device has offline needs.

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