Taiwan will quickly arrange an “AI on chip” alliance to develop AI bionic chips for a wide range of purposes, with the primary such chip anticipated to be launched by the top of 2019 for facial recognition, based on CI Wu, basic director of the Electronics Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories beneath the government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the initiator of the alliance.
Wu mentioned that greater than 20 IC design and fabrication corporations will be part of forces with tutorial and analysis items to hold out a four-year growth challenge after the alliance is formally inaugurated in June-July 2019.
Wu disclosed that the challenge will incorporate 28 or 20 nm course of or beneath to develop numerous AI chips in numerous phases, with the first-stage chips to combine AI and edge computing capabilities and to be utilized for face recognition.
Wu continued that although Taiwan’s IC provide chains can hardly vie with internet giants together with Google and Facebook within the cloud sector, they’ll carry out nicely within the sector of terminal units. He burdened that the alliance’s efforts in creating AI bionic chips will repay within the subsequent 2-Three years.
AI chips for terminal units will be capable of be recomposed to swimsuit sensors incorporating numerous algorithms and requiring heterogeneous integration, Wu mentioned, including that frequent interfaces should be established to entry chips provided by totally different makers and mix a number of AI chips to strengthen computing capabilities.
