Baidu and Samsung Electronics Ready for Production of Leading-Edge AI Chip for Early Next Year
December 17 2019 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
Designed based on Samsung’s 14nm process and
I-CubeTM package technology, Baidu KUNLUN chip to expand AI
ecosystem and transform the user experience
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), a leading Chinese-language internet
search provider, and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader
in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that Baidu’s
first cloud-to-edge AI accelerator, Baidu KUNLUN, has completed its
development and will be mass-produced early next year.
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Baidu's new Kunlun chip manufactured on
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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-CubeTM (Interposer-Cube) package solution.
The chip offers 512 gigabytes per seconds (GBps) memory
bandwidth and supplies up to 260 Tera operations per second (TOPS)
at 150 watts. In addition, the new chip allows Ernie, a
pre-training model for natural language processing, to inference at
three times faster than that of conventional GPU/FPGA-accelerating
model.
Leveraging the chip’s limit-pushing computing power and power
efficiency, Baidu can effectively support a wide variety of
functions including large-scale AI workloads, such as search
ranking, speech recognition, image processing, natural language
processing, autonomous driving, and deep learning platforms like
PaddlePaddle.
Through the first foundry cooperation between the two companies,
Baidu will provide advanced AI platforms for maximizing AI
performance, and Samsung will expand its foundry business into High
performance computing (HPC) chips that are dedicated for cloud and
edge computing.
“We are excited to lead the HPC industry together with Samsung
Foundry,” said OuYang Jian, Distinguished Architect of Baidu.
“Baidu KUNLUN is a very challenging project since it requires not
only high level of reliability and performance at the same time,
but is also a compilation of the most advanced technologies in the
semiconductor industry. 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.”
“We are excited to start a new foundry service for Baidu using
our 14nm process technology,” said Ryan Lee, vice president of
Foundry Marketing at Samsung Electronics. “Baidu KUNLUN is an
important milestone for Samsung Foundry as we’re expanding our
business area beyond mobile to datacenter applications by
developing and mass-producing AI chips. Samsung will provide
comprehensive foundry solutions from design support to cutting-edge
manufacturing technologies, such as 5LPE, 4LPE, as well as 2.5D
packaging.”
As higher performance is required in diverse applications such
as AI and HPC, chip integration technology is becoming more and
more important. Samsung’s I-CubeTM technology, which connects a
logic chip and high bandwidth memory (HBM) 2 with an interposer,
provides higher density/ bandwidth on minimum size by utilizing
Samsung’s differentiated solutions.
Compared to previous technology, these solutions maximize
product performance with more than 50% improved power/signal
integrity. It is anticipated that I-CubeTM technology will mark a
new epoch in the heterogeneous computing market. Samsung is also
developing more advanced packaging technologies, such as
redistribution layers (RDL) interposer and 4x, 8x HBM integrated
package.
About Samsung Electronics Co.,
Ltd.
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About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider. Baidu aims to make the complicated world simpler through
technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
under the symbol "BIDU." Currently, ten ADSs represent one Class A
ordinary share.
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Lisa Warren-Plungy Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
Lisa.plungy@samsung.com
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