As early as 2016, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei gave an internal speech at the Huawei Noah's Ark Lab Symposium. In the speech, he systematically talked about Huawei's strategy in the field of artificial intelligence for the first time. In this speech, he mentioned that Huawei did not regard Apple and Cisco as rivals. He also said at the meeting that service is the company's largest stock business and also the most difficult business. Artificial intelligence can first play a role in the service field.

In terms of artificial intelligence chips, Nvidia is probably already in a leading position. By chance, Nvidia discovered that its own GPU graphics processor technology can magically be used by deep learning, a current research hotspot in the field of artificial intelligence. Since then, NVIDIA has been out of control and released a number of chips based on deep learning. In May, Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun released an AI chip that claims to spend $3 billion to build: Tesla V100. Thanks to this, Nvidia's stock price has soared by 300% in the past year! Nvidia's revenue has skyrocketed continuously. And it continues to lead the way. Data shows that Nvidia has now participated in research on neural network applications by more than 40,000 companies and 500,000 developers.

As a former chip giant, Intel is now working hard to transform into the field of artificial intelligence. In recent years, Intel has strengthened its strength in the field of artificial intelligence chips through several large acquisitions, such as the acquisition of Altera for US$16.7 billion, and the acquisition of Mobileye for US$15.3 billion. Last year, it launched its own AI processor Nervana. Its final form may be available at the end of this year. It is said that its performance can be increased by 10 times compared to GPU.

The fact that Apple is developing a chip dedicated to artificial intelligence is an open secret in the circle, and they internally call it the "Apple Neural Engine" (Apple Neural Engine). It is said that this chip will be able to improve the performance of Apple devices in processing tasks that require artificial intelligence, such as facial recognition and voice recognition. Never underestimate Apple.

The joint hardware manufacturer's launch of the DuerOS smart chip can be regarded as Baidu's new exploration in the integration of artificial intelligence and hardware equipment. DuerOS smart chips have low-cost chips and modules, which can be placed in any hardware in the form of chip embedded, and can be applied to more scenarios more quickly and widely.

Just yesterday, the third HUAWEI CONNECT 2018 (Huawei Connected Conference) grandly opened on October 10, 2018 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Hall and World Expo Center. Huawei's rotating chairman Xu Zhijun delivered a keynote speech at the conference, and systematically announced Huawei's AI development strategy and full-stack full-scenario AI solutions, including the world's first Ascend series chips covering full-scenario artificial intelligence.

From Huawei's rotation, we can see its strong determination and ability to compete for the future of AI. I believe that in the future, Huawei will definitely bring us more surprises.