Investment industry (WeChat ID:pedaily2012) May 7th news, focused on the wafer level optical chip company Kun tour optoelectronic announced the completion of the A2 round of financing, the current round by the yuan capital, warden international and the Chinese Academy of Sciences under the foundation of the fund co investment. Kun Yu has been awarded several rounds of financing such as Shun Yu optics, Kun Chung capital, Chen Hui venture capital and China Star.

TechCrunch reported that Google CEO Sundar Pichai 8 released the third generation TPU (Tensor Processor Unit, Tensor) at the 2018 Google I/O conference. He said that the efficiency of TPU 3 rack cluster (Pod) was 8 times higher than that of TPU 2 Pod last year, up to 100petaFLOPS.

In February 2016, Qualcomm released Xiaolong Wear 2100 SoC for wearable devices. But two years later, the market performance of Android Wear (later renamed Wear OS) has been unsatisfactory. Fortunately, in an interview with foreign media Wearable in the near future, highpass wearable director Pankaj Kedia said, "the company has realized this problem and will launch an upgrade chip for flagship smart watches this fall, and many partners will also launch a Wear OS based on the new chip on the day of the festival. Wear equipment.

As AMD relied on the sharp dragon processor to rebuild its heel in the CPU market, and Intel launched a new eighth generation of smart processors last year, it looks like the two have come back, and now as the Taipei computer exhibition in June approaches, there are more and more news about AMD and the new generation of Intel CPU.

According to foreign media reports, artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most popular areas today. Over the past three years, the global investment in artificial intelligence has exceeded $60 billion, and artificial intelligence start-ups more than 1700.

Sina Technology News May 3rd afternoon news, today Google in its office in its China office on Google AI technology sharing, Google chief scientist Greg Corrado at the meeting on the chip issue of their own views.

Automobile technology is in the center of industry growth trend, electric car, self driving and so on, car electronic is taking the potential of multiplier growth to bring the growth of the semiconductor industry for the next ten years, and the current car chips are mostly international big world, IC design manufacturers are also gradually seeking business opportunities in the blue sea, including the CO, Yu, Lingyang and Li Wang. Wei, Dian Jie, Lian Jie, relying on strength, accumulation and so on have cut into the new blue sea. With the increasing number of vehicle chips, the benefits are gradually emerging.

Samsung Electronics Co. (Co.) pointed out in April 26th that the memory industry is expected to maintain a strong performance in the second quarter of 2018, but the company's overall surplus is more difficult to show growth, and the owners fear that the DP sector will be tired of continued fatigue and the intensification of high-end mobile phone competition will lead to a decline in the profit of the mobile communications sector.

The relationship between apple and Qualcomm is getting worse and worse, although apple is going to break with Qualcomm, but the latest news is that the new iPhone, published later this year, is still unable to completely break through high Qualcomm chips, as Intel Modem chips are not as good as expected.

AMD recently announced their 2018 quarter earnings report, which has increased significantly over the same period last year. Revenue rose from $1 billion 180 million to $1 billion 650 million, an increase of 40%; profits soared from 11 million to $120 million, an increase of 990%. AMD has three business divisions: computing and graphics, enterprise / embedded / semi custom, and others. There is no suspense that the growth of performance has benefited from the strong pull of Ryzen and EPYC product lines, and the surge in demand for video cards by encrypting money for mining.