On April 1, the three-day 19th Intel Investment Global Summit was held in Phoenix, the United States. More than 600 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and technology industry leaders from around the world gathered together to enjoy cutting-edge technologies, inspire innovation and build the future of technology. As an AI algorithm company invested in China by Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, Smartchip was invited to attend the summit and give a keynote speech.
At the conference, Intel Capital announced that it will invest a total of $117 million in 14 technology startups around the world. From disruptive artificial intelligence, to disruptive transmission and communication, to disruptive healthcare, to disruptive manufacturing, Intel-invested portfolio companies are disrupting innovation across a wide range of technology sectors. This investment is not only the highest investment in the history of Intel Capital, but also reflects Intel's commitment to the inheritance of disruptive innovation and its determination to build a data-centric, intelligent and connected world.
As a premier communication platform for the venture Capital industry, Intel Capital has invested a total of more than $2.13 billion in more than 140 Chinese technology innovation companies since it entered China in 1998, and more than 40 of them have successfully gone public or been acquired. Intel Capital's key investment areas in China include artificial intelligence, autonomous driving technology, virtual and augmented reality technology, 5G technology, cloud computing and big data analytics, Internet of Things, intelligent robots and drones.
"Intel's long-term goal has always been to leverage Intel's global resources and expertise, as well as its ecosystem of customers and partners, to help these startups accelerate growth and innovation," concluded Wendell Brooks, senior vice president at Intel and president of Intel Capital.
As an AI+ enterprise that has successfully received strategic investment from Intel, Kang Yi, Senior Vice President (SVP) of Smartchip, said, "Thanks to Intel Capital and industrial chain partners for their strong support to SmartChip. As a leading AI + solution provider in China, Zhixin Primover has firmly grasped the historical development opportunities of AI industry after obtaining strategic investment from Intel Capital, and deeply rooted in the research work of AI algorithm and algorithm chip technology. Based on AI+IOT double engine drive, it has completed industrial deep cultivation, incubation and landing of six application scenarios, namely intelligent transportation, intelligent community, intelligent parking, intelligent business, intelligent security and intelligent safety supervision, accelerating the landing and popularization of artificial intelligence industry."
At the meeting, Kang Yi shared the innovation and practice of Zhixinyuan's "Edge + cloud AI solution" in the two vertical subdivisions of smart community and smart transportation. Kang Yi said, "Zhixin is an AI+ enterprise specializing in the research and development of artificial intelligence algorithms and chip technology, the development and delivery of intelligent products and solutions, and the integration of intelligent cloud services. Over the years, the company has continued to focus on the AI circuit, taking edge computing as the technical means, from the basic layer, the technology layer to the application layer to create a complete artificial intelligence industry chain featuring "narrow bandwidth, low delay, security, reliability and low cost". We have completed the construction of "IP-chip - technology-algorithms-product-cloud platform" full-stack AI solution and a full series of self-developed product systems. We have launched serialized products and industry solutions with "face recognition" and "vehicle recognition" as the core development path, and started to land in many cities at home and abroad, forming a commercial closed loop.
It is true that a qualitative leap must be accompanied by a constant accumulation of quantity. "" In addition to pioneering progress in technology, Zhixin Yuan has also made remarkable achievements in algorithms, chips and products in recent years." " Kang Yi introduced. "At the chip level, our AI chip coprocessor IP licenses have exceeded 600 million, accounting for about 70% of the global total monitoring chip shipments; At the algorithm level, we have not only completed the research and development of various algorithms in the fields of detection and tracking of target objects, personnel behavior, video structuring, face detection, face recognition, vehicle behavior analysis, vehicle recognition, vehicle model recognition, vehicle model recognition, vehicle detection, personnel characteristics detection for the two directions of people and vehicles, but also rely on rich industrial accumulation. Cumulative coverage of Chile, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Israel, Singapore, Vietnam, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Australia, the United States - California, India, Turkey, Angola, Hong Kong, Macao, South Africa and other more than 20 countries or regions overseas license plate research and development work; In terms of products, it has completed the incubation and landing of products in the field of smart community and transportation, and realized the optimization of dual-growth engine of "people + vehicles" identification. The accumulated products cover high-definition entrance and exit cameras, video parking cameras, mobile bayonet cameras, intelligent parking robots, parking guidance and reverse car finding system (Know location), roadside parking solutions, intelligent cloud unattended terminal solutions, face recognition terminal solutions.... Leading technology solutions and rapid deployment capabilities not only enhance our customers' ability to globalize solutions, but also drive the development and pervasive adoption of AI."
As Wendell Brooks puts it: "For the past 50 years, Intel has been driving disruptive innovation, making computing ubiquitous and changing the way we live." Focusing on the intelligent connected world, whether it is the Internet, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other applications, "disruptive innovation and challenge" will be the key to build the era of intelligent interconnection, and "algorithm" as the core tool of "disruptive innovation", especially the edge computing capability at the advent of 5G+AI commercial era, will surely become the strategic thrust of a new round of technological upgrading. As a typical AI enterprise with "intelligent algorithm + application technology + hardware productization capability", we will continue to innovate based on our own advantages in the algorithm field, strengthen our capabilities, and continue to deepen the smart community, transportation and other key application fields, so that AI will truly come to the ground and build a better future together.
