Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to show its application potential in various vertical applications, and the trend of moving towards the edge nodes is becoming more and more obvious. For the past more than 10 years, the GPU operation has been vigorously pushed forward, and it is imperative to push the edge operations in the supercomputer, efficient computing, AI and other areas of excellence, but the company will be very strategically focused on some applications.

This afternoon, Intel announced in Beijing that it will set up a cooperative research center of the Intel intelligent network auto University, which will carry out an in-depth study on automatic driving with the top universities and scientific research institutions in China. The first batch of institutions to sign cooperation agreements is the Tsinghua University and the Institute of automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The cooperation lasted for 5 years.

IC, the IC design service provider, held a shareholder meeting on the 30 day of -KY, the general manager said the second quarter revenue would be better than the first quarter, but because of the higher base period last year, the single season profit was not easy to grow over the same period last year; the year's operation benefited from the high speed operation products and the AI application receipt. It is expected to be better than last year.

In the collection of micronet news, the Qingdao Dingxin and Zhongtian micro recently signed a series of CPU authorization licenses. This authorization surpasses the routine and is unlimited for a long time. It has fully consolidated the deep strategic cooperation relationship between the two sides.

In recent years, Hongkong has gradually become the place where new entrepreneurs choose to create a company, and the key to promoting the new ecological development in the region is to discover scientific and technological talents and potential new start-ups. The mainland artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups will be with the Alibaba group and the Hongkong Science Park Corporation (the statutory agencies for the Hongkong Science Park, innovation center and 3 industrial parks) to announce the establishment of the Hongkong Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (HKAI Lab) and the new venture accelerator program.

In May 23, 2018, United Technology announced the launch of a smartphone platform for the mainstream market - MediaTek Helio P22 (P22 P22) for the first time to bring 12NM advanced technology and AI applications to mass - priced phones for the first time. Xi Li P22 will further expand the P technology product portfolio to meet the growing demand for the super middle end market.

Under the force of AMD sharp dragon, the whole line of Intel is speeding up. The mainstream platform has been upgraded from 4 core 8 threads to 6 core 12 threads. However, facing the 8 core 16 threads of the sharp dragon 7 series, the Intel still appears to be a little less in the performance of multithreading.

China Network Finance and Finance (May 21st) Limited by Share Ltd (Shanghai) Limited by Share Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "Bo Tong integration") recently disclosed a prospectus on the SFC's website. The company plans to issue 34 million 678 thousand and 400 shares in the Shanghai Stock Exchange and 139 million shares after the issuance of the total equity. The sponsor is CITIC Certificate (19.810, 0.08, 0.41%).

Set micronet news, IC Insights published the first quarter of 2018 semiconductor industry revenue profile. Overall, the first 15 semiconductor companies grew 26% compared with the first quarter of 2017, and the overall semiconductor industry grew by about 20%. Surprisingly, Samsung, SK Hynix and micron three memory suppliers grew more than 40% in the first quarter compared with the same period last year. With the strong growth of DRAM and NAND Flash for a whole year, Samsung's first quarter sales figures were still lagging behind Intel 5% in the first quarter of 2017, but revenue in the first quarter of 2018 was much more than Intel's 23%. Intel also took the lead in the first quarter of 2017, but lost its 20 year advantage since 1993 in the second quarter of 2017 and throughout the year.

According to foreign media reports, China's ASIC chip maker Bitmain, which has previously sold 80% of the world's mining industry, is now considering entering a challenging field of artificial intelligence, hoping to develop a bitcoin AI chip.