Qualcomm Samples First AI Chip

摘要

Qualcomm's first standalone AI accelerator is making its way to the market, and its performance is impressive. The company's estimated ResNet-50 inference throughput for its Cloud AI 100 design is similar to that of Nvidia's new Ampere chip, but Qualcomm's chip consumes only one-fifth the power. Other accelerators, though, offer performance and power efficiency closer to Qualcomm's. The company has been sampling its new chip since March and expects to reach production in 1H21. Although cloud data centers can use the product, most initial customers plan to deploy it at the network edge.