Bitmain’s newest product, the
Sophon, may or may not take over deep learning.
"The Sophon unit will include Bitmain’s first piece of bespoke silicon for a revolutionary AI technology. If things go to plan, thousands of Bitmain Sophon units soon could be training neural networks in vast data centers around the world.
Bitmain is committed to providing the most cost effective and least power consuming AI computing power based on its strong ASIC design experience, agility, and complete system design capability.
The Sophon SS1 server solution , is a complete integrated system with many AI algorithms. Customers can simply plug it in and launch the video analytics demo; furthermore, the applications can be easily integrated into large video analytics systems by calling algorithm APIs. Customers may also choose the Sophon SC1 accelerator card based on the Sophon BM1680 tensor processing unit.
Sophon SS1, a specific server system for intelligent video and image analytics, is powered by BM1680 and SC1, aiming to provide a holistic solution for multiple AI application scenarios.
Based on Sophon BM1680, Bitmain provides Sophon SC1 and SC1+ cards. The SC1 card has one high performance BM1680 chip and the SC1+ card has dual BM1680 chips which are connected through the high speed SerDes Chiplink, introducing a new level of acceleration for deep-learning."
