What else is the high -end domestic AI chip?｜ The frontline

The emerging power of domestic large computing chips.

Wen ｜ Wei Shiwei

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On September 1, news that some overseas large computing AI chips restricted sales once again aroused the market's attention to domestic AI chips.

With the accelerated development of data centers, autonomous driving and other industries, these scenarios that require high computing power and performance, urgently require greater and sufficient computing power to meet complicated computing tasks. The key to mature development.

In fact, since the outbreak of artificial intelligence air outlets, my country has gradually emerged as a group of large computing AI chip startups. These players have further promoted the autonomy of the domestic chip industry, and it is also a representative of my country's hard power.

The following is a representative domestic large computing AI chip startup (sorted by the establishment time):

01. Horizon

Established in 2015, Horizon is currently the only company in China that realizes the production of MI and mass -produced in front of the car -level AI chip. Through the self -developed AI special computing architecture BPU (Brain Processing Unit), the horizon has built a series of chips for the field of autonomous driving. And the two major product lines for the Royal series chips in the field of AIOT. Among them, the company released the entire scene of the whole car intelligent central computing chip journey 5 in July 2021, and the single -chip AI computing power reached 128TOPS.

As of the end of last year, the Horizon's Capital Chip has accumulated a total of 1 million shipments. At the same time, Changan UNI-T, Chery Ant, Zhi Ho Hedo, Changan UNI-K, GAC Ean Aion Y, Dongfeng Lan Tu, Jianghuai Auto Sihao QX and other models have been announced.

In February 2021, Horizon announced the completion of the C -round financing, with a financing amount of $ 900 million.

02, Tian Digital Zhixin

The Sky Digital Zhixin was established in 2015 and officially launched in 2018. The 7 -nanometer parallel cloud computing chip design is an GPGPU high -end chip and super computing system provider. Drive technology market.

In December 2020, Tian Digital Zhixin successfully lit the first domestic 7nm cloud training universal GPU product "Sky 100", and was officially released in March 2021. As of the end of March this year, it has achieved sales orders nearly 200 million yuan. At the same time, the company's second product 7nm cloud -side reasoning chip "Zhi Kai 100" has also been successfully lit in May this year.

In July of this year, Tian Duzhi announced the completion of the C+round and C ++ round of financing of over 1 billion yuan. The C+round was led by the financial street capital, and the C ++ round was led by Hou Pu investment and its Hou'an Innovation Fund.

03. Cambrian

Founded in 2016, Cambrian is mainly developed by the cloud edge end, software and hardware collaboration, training and reasoning integration, and a series of intelligent chip products and platform -based basic system software with a unified ecosystem. It is widely used in server manufacturers and industry companies. , Financial, Transportation, Energy, Electricity, and Manufacturing have complicated AI application scenarios to provide computing power.

At present, the company has launched the radiation terminal (1A processor, 1H processor, 1M processor), edge end (Siyuan 220 chip), cloud (Siyuan 100 chip, Siyuan 270 chip, Siyuan 290 chip, Siyuan 370 ) Waiting for smart chips and accelerated card products, keep the rhythm of 1-2 core products each year.

In July 2020, Cambrian successfully landed on A shares, becoming the first share of the science and technology board AI chip.

04, black sesame intelligence

Black Sesame Intelligent was established in 2016. It is a car -level autonomous driving computing chip and platform R & D enterprise. Perceived autonomous driving perceptual computing chip and autonomous driving computing platform.

Black Sesame Intelligence takes the two major research core IP as the starting point, and has launched the Huashan A500, as well as the four autonomous driving chip products of Huashan No. 2 A1000, A1000 L and A1000 Pro. Among them, the Huashan No. 2 A1000 chip has completed all auto regulations for certification, and invested in large -scale production in April this year, and began to continue to ship from industry customers. It will be mass -produced in 2022.

In August of this year, Black Sesame Intelligence announced the completion of C+round of financing, which was invested by Wuyuefeng Science and Technology Innovation. At this point, the company has completed all the C rounds and C+rounds of financing, and the total fundraising scale exceeds 500 million US dollars.

05, ink core artificial intelligence

Founded in 2018, Mohe is a chip design company that provides cloud and terminal AI chip acceleration solutions. By optimizing the computing model, the company supports the development of comprehensive and sparse neural networks, and provides a universal AI computing platform with ultra -high computing power and ultra -low power consumption.

The first dual diluted chip of ink core Antour is a high -performance universal programming chip. It supports the cloud artificial intelligence reasoning scene, supports up to 32 times the sparse rate, and widely supports CNN, RNN, LSTM, Transformer, Bert and other floating -point and floating -point Fixed -point data type.

In January of this year, the core of Mohe completed hundreds of millions of yuan A financing, led by the Cornerstone Capital and the Common Home Development Fund of the Greater Bay Area. Tongwei Capital, Huasheng Capital, and Shenzhen Angel Mother Fund followed. A chip mass production and the expansion of the sparse ecosystem. 06. 科 科 0 0

Established in March 2018, Mizuhara Technology mainly focuses on the field of computing power in the cloud cloud, providing universal AI training and reasoning products with independent innovation, self -research, and full independent intellectual property rights. The center, pan -network, traditional industry and smart cities such as artificial intelligence.

As of now, Yayuan Technology has launched cloud AI reasonable acceleration Card Cloud I10, cloud AI reasoning acceleration card cloud 燧 I20, cloud AI training acceleration card cloud 燧 T10, cloud AI training acceleration card cloud 燧 T20, and computing and programming platform " "Calculation" and reasoning acceleration engines and other products.

In January 2021, Tanyuan Technology completed 1.8 billion yuan C round C financing, which was led by CITIC Industrial Fund, CICC Capital Fund, Chunhua Capital, Tencent, Wuyuefeng Capital, Red Dot Venture Capital China Fund and many other new Old shareholders followed.

07. Wall -仞 Technology

Founded in 2019, Wall -于 Technology focuses on developing the original general computing system, establishes efficient software and hardware platforms, and provides integrated solutions in the field of intelligent computing. From the perspective of development paths, Gibi Technology first focuses on universal intelligent computing in the cloud, and gradually sees existing solutions in multiple fields such as artificial intelligence training and reasoning, graphic rendering, etc., to achieve a breakthrough in domestic high -end universal intelligent computing chips.

In March of this year, Graphita Technology light up the maximum GPU chip in China, and released the first general GPU chip BR100 in August. The 16 -bit floating -point computing power reached 1000T or 8 -bit fixed -point computing power of more than 2000T. Single alone The peak computing power of the chip reaches the PFLOPS level.

In March 2021, the Wall -3 Technology announced the completion of the B financing, led by Ping An, New World Group, Country Garden Venture Capital, and the source code capital, Guosheng Group National Reform Fund and other institutions followed up. As of now, its total financing has exceeded 5 billion yuan.

08. Mu Xi integrated circuit

Founded in September 2020, Mu Xi is a safe and reliable high -performance GPU chip and solution provider for heterogeneous computing. The high -performance GPU IP developed independently, and the complete software stack (Macamaca) compatible with the mainstream GPU ecosystem.

At present, Mu Xi has built a full stack of high -performance GPU chip products, including the MXN series GPU (Xi Si) for AI reasoning, the MXC series GPU (Xi Yun) for scientific computing and AI training, and for graphic rendering The MXG series GPU (Xi Cai) can be widely used in cutting -edge fields such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, data centers, cloud computing, autonomous driving, scientific computing, digital twins, and Yuan universe.

In July this year, Mu Xi announced the completion of the 1 billion yuan Pre-B round of financing. It was jointly led by Shanghai Chaos Investment Group and CCTV Media Industry Investment Fund. Essence After the round, Mu Xi has completed a total of billions of yuan in financing.

09. Houmo Smart

Founded at the end of 2020, Houmo Intelligent was the first domestic computing AI chip company focusing on the integrated excess technology technology. It is mainly based on the integrated technology and storage process, and breaks through the performance of the intelligent computing chip performance and power consumption bottleneck. The company provided large computing power, low -power high -energy efficiency chips and solutions, which can be applied to the edge end of intelligent driving, pan -machine robots, as well as cloud reasoning scenarios.

In May of this year, Houmo Smart announced the successful litting its independent industry's first existing computing and computing AI chip, and successfully running the intelligent driving algorithm model. This chip uses SRAM (static random access memory) as the existence integrated medium. Through the deep fusion of the storage unit and the calculation unit, high performance and low power consumption, the sample computing power is 20TOPS, which can be extended to 200TOPS, and the energy efficiency unit energy efficiency Up to 20TOPS/W.

In April 2022, Houmo Smart announced the completion of hundreds of millions of RMB Pre-A+round of financing, which was jointly led by Jingwei Venture Capital and Kinpu Yueda Motor Fund. This is the third financing from the company since its establishment.

10, Yizhu Technology

Yiju Intelligent began to be officially operated in October 2021. It is currently the only domestic computing AI chip company that can independently designed and mass -produced the RERAM full digital deposit. Based on the RERAM existence integration technology, Yizhu Intelligent has achieved national production from IP to process, and has mature and mass -produced supporting processes in SMIC and Xinyuan Semiconductor.

Based on the low -power and high -power chip designed by the integrated design of the RERAM deposit, it can solve the pain points of industry pain points such as "storage wall" and "energy consumption wall" in AI large computing chips to meet the market computing power, low power consumption, easy to ease, easy to ease, easy Deployment, delay determination and other demands. At this stage, Yizhu Technology is developing the first set of software and hardware design tools and application development platforms that compile, resource optimization and deployment of compilation, resource optimization and deployment, and its first generation of chips will be located in 2023.

In December 2021, 100 million yuan of angel round financing was announced by 100 million yuan, which was jointly led by Lenovo Star, China Science and Technology Investment Investment (National 5G Innovation Center).Conclusion:

Computing power is undoubtedly a new productive forces in the digital economy.At the moment when industry demand is increasingly urgent and the market environment is becoming more turbulent, more excellent AI chip startups will emerge to promote the continuous development of the industry.

(The above are some domestic AI chip startups, more information is welcome to communicate)

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Computing power is undoubtedly a new productive forces in the digital economy era

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