Baidu presents the high-performance ai chip called 'kunlun'

Baidu, one of China's largest companies, is unveiling a specially crafted AI chip called KunLun.

Baidu 'Kunlun' is the first AI chip made in China

Baidu today announced KunLun, the first cloud AI chip created in China, built to meet the high-performance requirements of a wide variety of scenarios that implement Artificial Intelligence. The announcement includes the "818-300" training chip and the "818-100" inference chip. Kunlun can be applied both in cloud scenarios and in data centers or autonomous vehicles.

KunLun is a high-performance and cost-effective solution to the high demands of AI processing. Take advantage of Baidu's AI ecosystem, which includes search ranking scenarios and deep learning frameworks like PaddlePaddle . Baidu's years of experience optimizing the performance of these services and frameworks involving AI provided the company with the necessary experience to build a world-class AI chip.

Development of an AI processor by Baidu began in 2011 based on FPGA for deep learning and GPUs began to be used in data centers since then. KunLun, which is made up of thousands of small cores, has a computational capacity that is almost 30 times faster than the original FPGA-based accelerator. Other key specs include: 14nm Samsung engineering, 512GB / second of memory bandwidth, as well as 260TOPS while consuming 100 watts of power.