Chinese search company Baidu announced new Kunlun chip for artificial intelligence applications, cloud computing, and autonomous transportation

Briefing

Chinese search company Baidu announced new Kunlun chip for artificial intelligence applications, cloud computing, and autonomous transportation

July 6, 2018

Briefing

  • AI Chip – Chinese search giant Baidu developed Kunlun, new fast artificial intelligence (AI) chip for cloud to edge computing, first of its kind in China
  • Components – Made up of thousands of small cores, and includes AI training chip “818-300” and AI inference chip “818-100”
  • High Performance – Nearly 30 times faster than Baidu’s first field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chip in 2011, has 512 gigabytes per second memory bandwidth, and capable of 260 tera operations per second, while consuming 100 watts of power
  • Potential Applications – Can be used in data centers, public clouds, and autonomous vehicles, as well as artificial intelligence applications, including voice recognition, search ranking, natural language processing, and large-scale recommendations

Accelerator

Sector

Information Technology, Transportation and Logistics

Organization

Baidu

Source

Original Publication Date

July 3, 2018

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