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The Fuzhou City Brain and Northeast Fujian Informationization Strategic Cooperation Conference was successfully concluded on September 17. The conference was attended by many guests and was brilliant. People from all walks of life from the government, academia, and industry gathered together to present an AI feast to the audience through keynote speeches, roundtable discussions, and major releases.
At the scene, the most important things were two latest releases: one was the top-level design outline of Fuzhou City Brain, and the other was Bitmain’s third-generation AI chip. The release of the top-level design outline of Fuzhou City Brain marks the start of construction of the country's first autonomous and open city brain, which is fully committed to building an intelligent hub for " Digital Fuzhou " and a new engine for the development of the digital economy, and exploring the " Fuzhou model " of urban governance, public services and industrial development in the era of intelligent computing power. Bitmain's BM1684 chip focuses on artificial intelligence reasoning for cloud and edge applications. With a typical power consumption of only 16 watts, its FP32 precision computing power reaches 2.2 TFlops and its INT8 computing power can reach up to 17.6Tops , which has received unanimous praise from experts and customers.
This press conference attracted many experts from the academic community, including Chen Guoliang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of the University of Science and Technology of China, Professor Wang Zhihua, former deputy director of the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University, Zhang Yunquan, a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Liu Jinjun, director of the Zhongguancun Smart City Research Institute and Fuzhou City Brain Research Institute . They all expressed their wonderful views on the spot.
(Chen Guoliang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of the University of Science and Technology of China) Academician Chen Guoliang said in his speech, "In the intelligent era, new infrastructure is the new driving force for urban development in the intelligent era." AI chips, as the core of new infrastructure, will also provide new driving force for urban development in the intelligent era.
( Professor Wang Zhihua, former deputy director of the Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University ) Professor Wang Zhihua of Tsinghua University commented on the three popular pillars of artificial intelligence in the industry: data, algorithms, and computing power. He said, “In fact, artificial intelligence is determined by four aspects. The first is algorithms, the second is computing power, the third is data, and the fourth is application scenarios. China has so many application scenarios. Under the premise that the pace of process improvement slows down, Chinese companies are quite confident that they will lead or even surpass foreign companies (in competition).”
(Zhang Yunquan, researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Professor Zhang Yunquan, a domestic supercomputing expert, shared the relationship between supercomputing and artificial intelligence. He said, "Supercomputing has developed high-performance chips and promoted the advancement of computing power. At present, the development of artificial intelligence is also helpful to supercomputing. Now artificial intelligence is also used in the field of supercomputing to further enhance our capabilities and accuracy."
(Liu Jinjun, Director of Zhongguancun Smart City Research Institute and Fuzhou City Brain Research Institute) Dean Liu Jinjun explained the significance of the institute to the implementation of the city brain from the perspective of the institute. He said, "As a new species in the city brain construction system, the institute will explore a new concept, new mechanism and new method based on Fuzhou's actual situation, form Fuzhou's understanding and plan for the construction of the city brain, and promote the accelerated development of Fuzhou's city brain." At the same time, he also believes that Bitmain's latest generation of AI chips will play an important role in the construction of Fuzhou's city brain. In addition to academic experts, many entrepreneurs from the industry also attended the conference to discuss the latest progress of artificial intelligence and the concept of smart city construction. They included Chen Zongnian, Chairman of Hikvision, Wen Hao, Co-founder of CloudWalk, Yang Jianquan, Executive Committee Member and Deputy General Manager of Ping An Smart City, Zhang Zhiqi, Deputy General Manager of Baidu Smart Cloud, Hao Jianguo, Chief Expert of Huawei Technology Smart City, Fu Changqing, Chief Engineer of Peking University TransInfo, Chen Wenjun, Business Director of TSMC China, Li Shenguo, Deputy General Manager of China Ocean Era, Li Min, Chairman of Rockchip, Chen Ruijun, Chairman of Shenmei Technology, Li Zhiqian, Founder and CEO of Qianshitong, and Wang Yongchuan, Executive Vice President of Issa Technology. An application scenario display area for Bitmain and Fuzhou City Brain Industry Alliance companies was also set up at the press conference, attracting nearly a thousand spectators including Fuzhou government leaders and conference delegates.
(Fuzhou city leaders visited the Bitmain booth)
The grand occasion of the press conference also attracted the attention of authoritative media such as Southeast TV, Fuzhou TV, Fuzhou Daily, Fuzhou Evening News, China News Service, Guangming Online, NetEase, Tencent, 36kr, Leifeng.com, Titanium Media, and Synced, triggering hundreds of special reports and spreading the news of Fuzhou City Brain and Bitmain's latest AI chip across the country.
The closing of the press conference is not the end, but a brand new beginning. In the future, Bitmain will continue to focus on computing chips, increase R&D investment, and promote the application of high-performance, low-power AI chips in the fields of city brain, smart security, etc., so that artificial intelligence can be truly implemented and play its value.
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