Ali named the chip Pingtou Ge, a honeypot that lives in Africa and is known as the fattest animal in the world. His personality? Do it if you don't agree? It has also become synonymous with Ali chips.
Excalibur with light is one of the three ancient Excalibur in China's legend. The sword contains light but does not show, and does not shine. You can imagine the power of this sword just by listening to its name. Hanguang is the younger brother of Pingtou, and there will be more chip products in the future. The appearance of Hanguang 800 truly embodies the characteristics of Pingtou Ge: short, flat and fast. Coupled with the ancient Excalibur, the world is invincible, and listening to this name is quite domineering.
With the advent of the 5G era, more and more information files such as pictures and videos will take up a lot of space, and the increasing amount of data needs more powerful chip processing to complete. Everyone in Aribi is eager for chips, so it is necessary to develop the most powerful chips to bring changes to the present situation of Ali. This is a strategic chip. Let's take a look at the professional data of Guang 800:
The 12 nanometer process including optical 800 has more than 1.7 million transistors, and its superior reasoning performance can reach 78563 IPS, which is four times higher than that of the most powerful AI chip in the world. The chip energy efficiency ratio is 500 IPS/W, which is 3.3 times that of the second place. The chip is used for cloud image processing and can process 78,000 pictures per second. Imagine the image data of Tmall Taobao, which is huge and increasing every day. The computing power of 1 optical 800 is equivalent to 10 GPU. The development of intelligent Internet of Things in the future 5G era requires such a powerful power chip.
The appearance of Black 800 will make China's chip development enter a new historical stage.
First, different from the traditional general-purpose chip, the goal is more clear and specific.
The algorithm of Ali's chip is somewhat different from the traditional general-purpose processors (such as X86, CPU, GPU), and belongs to a specific algorithm in a specific scene, which we can understand as: customizing the chip. With the light 800, the goal is single-minded, and the software and hardware are brought into full play. Just like Brother Flat Head, aim at the target until you are afraid.
Second, relying on a strong foundation, the chip development speed is faster.
Ali's five major support institutions? ABCDE means algorithm organization, big data organization, stable computing ability organization, domain knowledge organization and ecosystem organization. Ali with ABCDE is developing faster.
If the traditional GPU is used, the number of GPUs needed to process a city traffic video in real time is about 40, with a delay of 300ms；; If you use Ali's Gloss 800, you only need four, and the delay is reduced to150 ms.
The number of pictures in the commodity library of Ali e-commerce system is increasing by 654.38+0 billion every day. The traditional GPU technology has low recognition efficiency and takes 654.38+0 hours. It only takes 5 minutes to use up 800, and the efficiency can be improved by 12 times.
In the future era of the 5G Internet of Things, the super computing power of Guang 800 can also be applied to smart medical care, autonomous driving technology, smart cities and other industries.
Third, export inclusive computing power for enterprises, so that more enterprises can use good things.
Ali product iron triangle: AI+ chip+cloud computing, there is no problem in technology and hardware. Ali started as a service enterprise, and the target of these applications in the future is the vast number of enterprise users. Relying on Alibaba? Let the world have no difficulties in doing business? Vision will create a brand-new business model? The flat-headed brother model provides enterprises with more cost-effective inclusive computing power, so that more enterprises can enjoy the value brought by technology.