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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Windelight for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com March 28 news, Amou Technology (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Amou Technology") today officially released the self-developed new generation of artificial intelligence processor "Zhouyi" X2 NPU. As another product of the self-developed IP of Amou Technology, the X2 NPU of the Book of changes is not only greatly improved in computing power, accuracy and flexibility, but also specially optimized for on-board, edge computing and other application scenarios.

With the launch of the "Book of changes" X2 NPU, Amou Technology released the "Book of changes" NPU software open source plan to meet customers' more independent and flexible algorithm migration needs through open source.

Nowadays, with the rapid development of intelligent car industry and edge computing, whether the resolution is from 720p to 4K, or from single-channel image to multi-channel image fusion analysis, the demand for AI computing power in various scenarios increases exponentially.

As a new generation of artificial intelligence processor, Zhouyi X2 NPU adopts the third-generation Zhouyi architecture and supports multi-core Cluster, up to 320TOPS subsystem. Real-time hardware task management enables the Zhouyi X2 NPU to achieve task scheduling of up to 10 million times per second, which optimizes the performance of each computing unit. While the computing power is greatly improved, the X2 NPU of the Book of changes also has higher accuracy and flexibility. In terms of accuracy, the X2 NPU of the Book of changes supports int4 / int8 / int12 / int16 / int32,fp16 / bf16 / fp32 multi-precision fusion calculation, and the computational efficiency and density are significantly improved. In terms of flexibility, Zhouyi X2 NPU not only supports custom operators and meets various model deployment requirements, but also provides customized AI solutions for various application scenarios to further meet customers' differentiated needs in smart driving, mobile phone image AI processing, human-computer interaction and other scenarios.

Zhouyi X2 NPU main function upgrade Zhouyi X2 NPU has made a large number of performance optimizations for subdivided application scenarios such as ADAS (Advanced driving Assistance system), intelligent cockpit, tablet computers, desktops and mobile phones, which can greatly improve the ability of high-resolution image processing in mobile phone photography and video recording. And the performance of applications such as Transformer, which are commonly used in vehicles (CTOnews.com Note: Transformer is a conversion model that completely depends on the self-attention mechanism to calculate the representation of its inputs and outputs). At the same time, i-Tiling technology is used to greatly reduce bandwidth requirements and further improve computing efficiency, so that customers can more easily cope with the diverse computing needs of continuous iteration.

In order to help developers transplant and debug algorithms more conveniently and quickly, Zhouyi X2 NPU also provides a set of perfect artificial intelligence software platform, which can better meet the needs of developers for performance tuning and system deployment. At present, the "Book of changes" X2 NPU has been officially delivered to customers, and this year there will be a number of chip products equipped with "Book of changes" X2 NPU.

Under the NPU software open source program of the Book of changes, Amou Technology has taken the lead in opening up NPU intermediate presentation layer specifications, model parsers, model optimizers, drivers, etc., and has provided the Zhouyi Compass software platform to relevant partners, including software simulators, debuggers, C compilers and other software tools. It not only meets the needs of partners' more independent and flexible algorithm migration, but also further improves the efficiency of software development and avoids repeated wheel building. It is reported that the above is only the "Book of changes" NPU software open source plan of the first step, Amou Technology will gradually open up more resources, such as model quantification, operator implementation and other source code.

The "Book of changes" NPU software open source project has been the first batch of partners to join, some of them are from AIoT, smart cars, intelligent operating systems and other fields of enterprises.

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