Huawei has unveiled an AI strategy and a portfolio of supporting products built on two new microchips, which the telecoms giant claims is the world’s first AI IP and chip series designed for a full range of deployment scenarios.
The Ascend 310 is designed for the low-power computing needs of smart devices and the Ascend 910 for cloud computing. Huawei’s rotating chairman Eric Xu said the Ascend 910 has “greatest computing density in a single chip,” but denied that it was designed to provide direct competition for the likes of Qualcomm and Nvidia.
Huawei’s full-stack portfolio of AI products and cloud services. These are designed to adapt to public clouds, private clouds, edge computing, industrial IoT devices, consumer devices, and any other deployments, providing optimal efficiency for any scenario, whether the priority is minimising energy consumption or maximising computing power.
“‘Full stack means that Huawei is able to provide AI application developers with unparalleled computing power and a strong application development platform,”
Huawei’s AI strategy
Huawei has historically focused on building chips for its smartphones but is now developing them to power other enterprise applications.
Huawei’s AI strategy aims to increase adoption by offering faster model training, affordable computing power, AI deployment and user privacy, new algorithms, AI automation, practical applications, a real-time, closed-loop system, multi-tech synergy, platform support and talent availability, according to the company.
The products that will support these objectives include the Ascend chips series, a chip operators library and development toolkit, a training and inference framework, and application enablement for devices, edge and cloud computing through full-pipeline services, hierarchical APIs and pre-integrated solutions.
In September 2017, Huawei released Huawei Cloud EI, an AI service platform for enterprises and governments. In April 2018, Huawei announced HiAI, its AI engine for smart devices. The company’s full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio is designed to provide powerful support for Huawei Cloud EI and HiAI.
-GoITWay
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