On December 22, the 2021 Annual Conference of China INTEGRATED Circuit Design Industry and the Wuxi IC Industry Innovation and Development Summit Forum (ICCAD 2021) kicked off in Wuxi, and Wu Xiongang, Executive Chairman and CEO of Anmou Technology, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Core Power XPU: Defining a New Converged Computing Architecture". In his speech, Wu Xiongang introduced the two-wheel drive strategy and core power new business of Anmou Technology, as well as the achievements made in the fields of R&D personnel investment, core technology research and development, open source NPU ISA ecological construction and super computing power NPU research and development for applications such as automatic driving, and stressed that as an independently operated and Chinese-controlled joint venture company, the core mission of Anmou Technology is to serve China's technology industry, build China's local research and development capabilities, and empower China's local semiconductor ecology.
Wu Xiongang, Executive Chairman and CEO of Anmou Technology
Wu Xiongang said.
Solving the Challenge of 100X Computing Power Define a new converged computing architecture
In the PC era, the evolution of CPU plus process has increased computing power by nearly a hundred times; in the era of mobile Internet, CPU, GPU and process evolution, from the first generation of iPhone to iPhone 13, the computing power has increased by more than 300 times. In the future, such an improvement will need to increase tenfold and a hundredfold.
Wu Xiongang said that the evolution of computing power based on CPU architecture and process improvement has become increasingly slow, and the future world is a digital, all-connected world, where devices are interconnected with each other, and each device has the need for autonomous decision-making, real-time data generation, and real-time processing of data. Therefore, the era of full digitalization requires a large number of new computing, and the new computing architecture is a necessary foundation for increasing the computing power of 100 times.
Wu Xiongang stressed.
New business brand "Core Power"
In August this year, Anmou Technology officially released the "two-wheel drive" strategy, on the one hand, continue to promote the localization and ecological development of Arm CPU architecture; on the other hand, launch the new business brand of "Core Power", focus on independent research and development, create independently architected XPU products and diversified ecology, and cooperate with cpu IP with the innovative development of independent architecture XPU to provide diversified, customized, and computing units that meet the needs of China's industry and market. Anmou Technology defines XPUs as an "open intelligent data flow fusion computing platform". XPU based on Hyper Domain Architecture (xDSA) can compose different solutions for different applications and integrate computing units that process AI, video, image and other functions to solve the processing efficiency and power consumption problems of massive intelligent data streams and meet the diversified needs of customers.
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Anmou Technology won the 2021 World Internet Leading Scientific and Technological Achievement Award
In terms of XPU ecological construction, in July this year, Anmou Technology and leading enterprises in the industry launched the "Intelligent Computing Industry Technology Innovation Consortium" (ONIA), and jointly released the world's first open source neural network processor instruction set architecture (NPU ISA). This "China's first, global open source" NPU ISA will gather global industry chain resources, through an open model, jointly build an ecology, share results, and promote the construction of NPU ecology. ONIA includes representative forces of China's integrated circuit industry, learning, research and other aspects, and the total number of member units has exceeded 100. At this year's Wuzhen World Internet Conference, the NPU ISA won the "World Internet Leading Scientific and Technological Achievements" award.
Since its establishment more than three years ago, the number of local innovation teams has doubled to 800 in three years, including more than 600 R&D personnel, more than 100 independent core technology research and development patents, and successfully released 5 fully self-developed product lines, which have been widely recognized by the industry. In today's era of global computing power demand, Anmou Technology has witnessed the further in-depth development of China's chip design industry. For example, its self-developed products such as NPU have been achieved in a number of excellent local automotive chip manufacturers to achieve tapeout and mass production; the planned 300-1000TOPS hashrate automatic driving chip design will serve major domestic host manufacturers.
Looking forward to the future, Wu Xiongang said that these will be the core elements of the sustainable development of Anmou Technology in the future, and the company will continue to consolidate its research and development capabilities, contribute more technology dividends to the industry, and create core value for the take-off of China's technology industry.