Aixin Yuanzhi CEO Qiu Xiaoxin attended CICES: AI empowers traditional technologies and accelerates intelligent transformation

Recently, the two-day China International semiconductor Summit (CISES) was successfully held in Shanghai. As one of the world’s largest annual conferences for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, the summit focused on new developments, new trends, and new products in the industry, and was committed to serving the industry’s high-end Decision makers and important individuals provide an international cooperation and exchange platform to enable them to quickly understand the major markets and the government’s future plans for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, and to expand a broader business platform.

At the 2021 CISES Artificial Intelligence Forum, Dr. Xiaoxin Qiu, the founder and CEO of Aixin Yuanzhi, delivered a keynote speech on “The Road to Differentiated Development of Artificial Intelligence Vision Chips”, explaining Aixin Yuanzhi’s high-performance, low-power artificial intelligence processor chips. , And share the important role of 5G, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, augmented reality/virtual reality and other technologies in the development of the semiconductor industry.

“The application of artificial intelligence on the edge and end sides has become more and more, and the application of artificial intelligence algorithms has also begun to become very common.” Qiu Xiaoxin said that the capabilities of AI are gradually shifting from the cloud to the edge and end sides. AI algorithms It has gradually become lighter, and some intelligent processing can be done by using the limited computing power on the edge and end sides. Therefore, as the end-side AI demand increases, how to maximize the AI ​​capability under the condition of fully controllable cost and power consumption has become a common issue in the smart chip industry.

The all-round application of AI technology explores more possibilities for artificial intelligence chips

Founded in May 2019, Aixin Yuanzhi focuses on the research and development of AI SOC chips in the field of image and video processing, mainly applied to the end and edge sides. At present, Aixin Yuanzhi has developed two artificial intelligence vision processing chips. Among them, the first self-developed chip AX630A has been officially shipped, and the second chip AX620A has been successfully lit in July 2021, and the market promotion work is currently underway.

At this conference, Dr. Xiaoxin Qiu introduced to the guests in detail how Aixin Yuanzhi intelligently upgrades traditional ISPs and the specific application of AI on traditional ISP hardware during the chip development and manufacturing process, and shared love Other achievements that Xinyuanzhi has made in technology research and development.

According to Qiu Xiaoxin, on the mobile phone, the ISP is “responsible” for converting the Electronic signal input by the transmitter into a concrete image. Therefore, the quality of the image is closely related to the quality of the ISP. In order to obtain the best imaging effect, Aixin YuanZhi has made the four most influential HDR, 3D noise reduction, RLTM, and Demosaic Modules into AI, so that ISP can achieve the best processing and provide better promotion for subsequent applications.

“But in fact, in order to achieve the best results expected, only through AI ISP is not enough, but also requires effective high NPU utilization.” Qiu Xiaoxin said, “Aixin Yuanzhi has the industry’s leading hybrid precision NPU, Relying on the industry’s leading advantages of high computing power, low power consumption, and high computing power utilization, in addition to the disruptive design of AI ISP, our technical concept also supports AI ISP to achieve better image quality effects. A brand-new design for NPU.” Under the joint architecture of its own ISP and NPU, Aixin Yuanzhi’s products can greatly improve the image quality of multiple key modules in the traditional ISP, reduce the demand for DDR, and at the same time allow NPU’s The performance is improved to more than 50%.

Empower thousands of industries to help accelerate industrial intelligence

In addition to constantly seeking breakthroughs in technology, Aixin Yuanzhi also quickly landed in product development. At present, its two products, AX630A and AX620A, maintain a leading edge in the industry. Through the advantages of high computing power, low power consumption, and high computing power utilization, they can provide partners with full-stack solutions to meet the needs of customers in different scenarios. product demand.

Not only that, based on the vertical integration of algorithms, chips, and products, Aixin Yuanzhi’s products can be widely used in different fields such as smart cities, smart retail, smart communities, smart homes, and Internet of Things devices to help customers achieve the rapid implementation of the latest technology. . As Qiu Xiaoxin said: “AI is not limited to face recognition and object detection…We believe that AI can subvert traditional technology to a large extent. For example, ISP can undergo unexpected changes under the transformation of AI technology, and this is just the beginning. , We will continue to explore the differences that AI brings to traditional technologies.”

In the future, with the popularity of the artificial intelligence market and the acceleration of application landing, more and more deployments will be transferred to the edge and end sides. With its leading advantage in the field of artificial intelligence vision processor chips, Aixin Yuanzhi It is the development goal to become a leader in edge-side artificial intelligence chips, through independent innovation, to provide users with a powerful AI basic computing platform, and to provide edge-side and end-side support for the world’s digital and intelligent new infrastructure.