Today, Huawei held the Ascend 910 AI processor and MindSpore computing framework conference in Shenzhen. In addition to the Huawei Ascend 910 AI processor, the company also officially launched the full scene AI computing framework, MindSpore, at the press conference. Huawei Ascend 910 AI chip is designed for servers. The company wants to grow its share of the ever-increasing cloud services market. The Ascend 910 can achieve 256 TeraFLOPS for half-precision floating-point (FP16) operations. In addition, it can deliver 512 TeraOPS for integer precision calculations (INT8). Its maximum power consumption is about 310W.
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According to Huawei, the AI framework is development-friendly. Its operation is very efficient and it adapts to every scenario including endpoints, edges, and clouds. Furthermore, there are reports that MindSpore has made significant progress in all three aspects. The MindSpore architecture supports large and small cores and adapts a full deployment of the entire scene. MindSpore achieves cross-scenario collaboration under the premise of ensuring data protection.
MindSpore support processors such as GPUs other than “up” processors. In addition, in order to promote AI applications, Huawei’s full-site AI computing framework (MindSpore) will be open-source in the first quarter of 2020. At the press conference, Xu Zhijun, the chairman of Huawei’s rotating company, said that in the opening of the Huawei full-connect conference 2019, more new AI products will become available. Talking about the company’s AI strategy last year, Xu said: “Huawei’s AI strategy is to invest in basic research and talent development, build a full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio, and foster an open global ecosystem”.
