- This is the first such collaboration between the South Korean tech giant and the Chinese search giant
- Baidu Kunlun chip is built on the company’s advanced XPU, a home-grown neural processor architecture for cloud, edge, and AI
- The chipset offers 512 gigabytes per second (GBps) memory bandwidth
According to a report by IANS, Samsung has teamed up with Chinese-language Internet search company Baidu to produce Cloud-to-edge artificial intelligence (AI) chipset — Kunlun.
The mass production is scheduled for early next year. This is first such collaboration between the South Korean tech giant and the Chinese search giant.
Samsung informed that Baidu Kunlun chip is built on the company’s advanced XPU, a home-grown neural processor architecture for cloud, edge, and AI, as well as Samsung’s 14-nanometer (nm) process technology with its I-Cube (Interposer-Cube) package solution.
The chipset
The report stated that the chipset offers 512 gigabytes per second (GBps) memory bandwidth and supplies up to 260 Tera operations per second (TOPS) at 150 watts.
The company claims that the new chip allows Ernie — a pre-training model for natural language processing, to infer three times faster than the conventional GPU/FPGA-accelerating model.
“We are excited to lead the HPC industry together with Samsung Foundry. Baidu Kunlun is a very challenging project since it requires not only a high level of reliability and performance at the same time but is also a compilation of the most advanced technologies in the semiconductor industry,” said OuYang Jian, Architect of Baidu.
He added, “Thanks to Samsung’s state of the art process technologies and competent foundry services, we were able to meet and surpass our goal to offer superior AI user experience.”
