The country released the "Three-Year Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence" and People's Daily praised Bitmain's AI chip

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of the New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020)", which emphasizes the vigorous development of artificial intelligence chips and large-scale commercial use. People's Daily, a subsidiary of the official media, reported on this with the title "The Three-Year Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence Helps "Chinese Chips" Breakthrough".
The article mentioned that for a long time, traditional chip technology has been in the hands of overseas technology giants such as Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and Nvidia. Whether the "Chinese chip" can make a breakthrough has always been the dream of generations of Chinese companies and researchers. The article takes the BM1680 artificial intelligence chip and the intelligent video analysis server SS1 released and mass-produced by Bitmain as examples, saying that artificial intelligence will continue to promote the intelligent transformation of the industry in the future. The relevant person in charge of Bitmain also said that with the support of the "Plan", related industries will develop rapidly, and the multi-party artificial intelligence cooperation between the government, society and enterprises will also become a key breakthrough direction.

The original text is as follows:

"Three-Year Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence" helps "Chinese Chip" break through

People's Daily Online, Beijing, December 18. On the afternoon of the 14th, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which mentioned that it is necessary to develop high-performance, high-scalability, low-power cloud neural network chips for machine learning training applications, develop low-power, high-performance terminal neural network chips suitable for machine learning calculations for terminal applications, develop compilers, driver software, development environments and other industrial support tools that are compatible with neural network chips; and realize the large-scale commercial use of neural network chips in key areas such as smart terminals, autonomous driving, smart security, and smart homes.

For a long time, traditional chip technology has been in the hands of overseas technology giants such as Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and Nvidia. Whether "Chinese chips" can make breakthroughs has always been the dream of generations of Chinese companies and researchers. The relevant person in charge of the artificial intelligence chip company Bitmain told reporters that with the support of the "Plan", related industries will develop rapidly, and multi-party artificial intelligence cooperation among the government, society and enterprises will also become a key breakthrough direction.

The reporter learned that Bitmain is a technology company that focuses on the design and development of high-speed, low-power custom chips, and has successfully mass-produced billions of chips. In November this year, it launched its AI brand SOPHON (Suanfeng), and launched its first tensor acceleration computing chip BM1680, which is the world's first dedicated tensor computing chip after Google TPU, suitable for CNN/RNN/DNN training and reasoning. At present, products such as the acceleration card SC1/SC1+ and the intelligent video analysis server SS1 based on the BM1680 artificial intelligence chip have begun mass production and shipment, and the face recognition system based on the SS1 server has begun to accept orders.

As AI chips begin to be mass-produced, Bitmain CEO Zhan Ketuan has high hopes for the future of artificial intelligence. He said: "Artificial intelligence has driven another planet-level computing volume and also driven new computing architecture innovation. In terms of perceptual intelligence such as image, video, voice, and natural language recognition and understanding, artificial intelligence applications are becoming more and more in-depth and are constantly driving the intelligent transformation of the industry."