Bitmain BM1680 ASIC for AI
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https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332501
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Beijing-based company that got its start designing ASICs for bitcoin mining announced it is sampling its first machine-learning accelerator. Bitmain Technologies’ BM1680 is optimized for both training and inference on deep neural networks.
The chip is sold in a fan-cooled module called the SC1. Bitman said it has been trained for Alexnet, Googlenet, VGG and Resnet neural networks and is compatible with Caffe, Darknet, Yolo and Yoto2 models as well.
Bitmain counts China’s big data center operators — Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent — among its top targets. It said it will also consider building its own machine-learning service.
The company plans to release technical details of the chip in a talk by its chief executive, Micree Zhan, at a Beijing event on November 8. It targets a wide range of use including image and speech recognition, autonomous vehicles and enhanced security cameras.
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Mining Big Data with Deep Learning capacity ( AI ) and a Bitmain SC1 ... I'm very excited to know more about this.