At the 2017 IFA Berlin International Consumer Electronics Show, Huawei announced its latest Kirin 970 chip, the world's first mobile phone chip with a dedicated artificial intelligence element.
10 nanometer architecture
This chip uses TSMC's 10nm process, ARM's big.LITTLE size multi-core architecture, eight core chips, four A73 large cores (2.4Ghz) + four A53 small cores (1.8Ghz).
Kirin 970 integrates 5.5 billion crystal tubes in a small volume of less than 100 square millimeters, and the integration is very high. Compared with rivals: Qualcomm's current flagship chip Snapdragon 835 is 3.1 billion, and Apple A10 is 3.3 billion. .
In addition, Kirin 970 also integrated 12 core GPU graphics display chip, ARM Mali-G72 MP12 12-core GPU, which improved the performance of the past Kirin chip graphics performance.
It is also the world's first 4.5G (quasi 5G) baseband mobile chip, supporting LTE Cat.18, the highest downlink 1.2Gbps, mobile network theoretical transmission speed is twice that of Qualcomm chips.
At present, 5G networks are not yet commercially available, but Huawei, which is a communication device, seems to have begun to deploy.
Intelligent AI chip
If the above parameters are relatively conventional, the AI ​​part is the feature of the Kirin 970: the intelligent AI chip.
The Kirin 970 has a built-in neural network unit (NPU) with a computing power of 1.92 TFP 16 OPS. Through the deep learning of artificial intelligence, the hardware of the mobile phone is all co-ordinated, so that the mobile phone can increase the speed when dealing with tasks in certain specific scenarios.
For example, under the NPU bonus, taking 1000 photos consumes only 0.19% of the phone's power; also in the shooting scene, the Kirin 970 is shooting much faster than the normal CPU call.
In addition, Kirin 970 also has built-in dual ISP, dynamic monitoring function and camera low light imaging enhancement; support HDR10, can achieve 4K resolution 60 frame photography, while supporting LPDDR4X memory, UFS2.1 flash memory.
Huawei's artificial intelligence chip is not just a mobile phone but a cloud business.
In the keynote speech, Yu Bingdong, the consumer BG CEO, put forward "Mobile AI=On-Device AI + Cloud AI". The implementation of artificial intelligence in the future terminal must be coordinated by the end cloud. Recently, there is news that Huawei may separate the cloud business. Became the fourth largest business after the three major BGs (operator BG, enterprise BG, and consumer BG).
Huawei is known as "wolf" in the industry. Some people think that if it wants to do an industry, then it will not be successful. It will become the world's number one in the communications equipment industry and the first in the smart phone industry. First, the third in the world, the third in the server industry (in terms of shipments in the first quarter of this year), and Huawei Cloud is part of Huawei’s corporate business, but because of its huge prospects for seeing cloud business It is also possible to be independent.
In the domestic market, BAT's cloud business is in a leading position because they have accumulated huge amounts of data based on search, e-commerce, social users, video and other services, and built their cloud business foundation with these data, thus winning the lead. The advantages.
For Huawei, how to obtain huge data is obviously a problem. As the world's third-largest smartphone company, the huge number of mobile phone users accumulated can obviously bring huge amounts of data resources. Recently, it and Tencent on WeChat users. The dispute over the data may be a sign, and the introduction of artificial intelligence chips can be used for initial data processing and provide more useful basic data for cloud services.
For Huawei's mobile phone users, the artificial intelligence brought by the chips with artificial intelligence is obviously limited. For Google, which is in the leading position of artificial intelligence, we just see the great ability of AlphaGo to show up with Li Shishi. Behind it, Google's powerful cloud data computing center provides powerful computing power as a support. Huawei's mobile phone needs to provide users with amazing artificial intelligence and of course requires Huawei Cloud to provide support.
If Huawei's smartphones have stronger artificial intelligence, it will help it win the advantage of its competitors. Samsung and Apple, which they hope to challenge, are also constantly enhancing their artificial intelligence on their smartphones. Samsung has Bixby artificial intelligence. Assistant, Apple has already launched Siri with artificial intelligence. Huawei mobile phones certainly need to introduce artificial intelligence for their mobile phones to compete with these two powerful competitors.
However, Huawei obviously has a more ambitious strategy. At the beginning of this year, Huawei Enterprise Cloud was upgraded to Huawei Cloud, and its staff expanded to 2,000, and its business expanded further to the public cloud. Just for now, BAT has a clearer strategy, and Huawei Cloud seems to have not yet found its cloud business development direction since it started out as a hardware business. However, Huawei has always started to seize the opportunity, lay a solid foundation, and then After finding the direction of development, it will focus resources on the storm, and the introduction of artificial intelligence on the smartphone chip may be to provide food for its cloud business to strengthen the cloud business.
Of course, Huawei introduces artificial intelligence on smart phone chips, and does not rule out the introduction of artificial intelligence into its server chips in the future. Huawei released a self-service server architecture based on ARM license development last year, while artificial intelligence chips only have TPU developed by Google. And has proved the strong performance advantages of this dedicated chip, Google developed TPU has caused some pressure on NVIDIA and Intel chip companies.
Comments:
Huawei put the NPU into the mobile phone processor. Although this may not be able to distinguish the GT from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 or the Samsung Exynos 8895, in the long-term trend, the power of the NPU will gradually play out. Huawei has made a pioneer, and it is in the field of chips with high thresholds.
It is now certain that the Mate 10 mobile phone, which will be released in mid-October, will adopt the Kirin 970, and the flagship mobile phone battle at the end of the year has another strong competitor. Huawei's introduction of artificial intelligence on smartphone chips may be a small step, but it involves the grand strategy of the entire company, only to see the day when it is truly unveiled. Huawei's artificial intelligence chip targets are not just mobile phones but cloud services.
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