Ministry of Education: Support universities to lay out majors such as integrated circuits and artificial intelligence
2024-07-31
Recently, the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education stated its support for universities to lay out majors such as integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and AI. The Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education recently released a notice on the establishment of undergraduate majors in ordinary higher education institutions in 2024, which proposes to increase the adjustment of undergraduate majors and focus on optimizing the professional structure and talent training structure that are compatible with the new development pattern.
The Notice clearly supports universities to lay out relevant majors in key fields such as integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, life and health, energy, green and low-carbon, foreign-related rule of law, international communication, international organizations, and financial technology, and to cultivate national strategic talents and urgently needed talents in a targeted manner. Support universities to deepen the construction of new engineering, new medicine, new agriculture, and new humanities, transform existing majors, cultivate emerging interdisciplinary majors, and create characteristic and advantageous professional clusters.
Integrated circuits are the cornerstone of the development of the electronic information industry, and have extremely important strategic significance for enhancing national comprehensive strength and ensuring national security. Artificial intelligence (AI), as an important driving force for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, has already exploded in popularity worldwide.
In order to further promote the development of integrated circuits and artificial intelligence industries, major universities have established new colleges to provide advanced talents for the country.
In terms of integrated circuits, Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng has previously stated that the Ministry of Education will cultivate a number of major scientific and technological projects around strategic, fundamental, and leading industries such as integrated circuits, industrial mother machines, instruments, and biomedicine, concentrate efforts on scientific research and further solve the problem of core technology bottlenecks.
In order to cultivate high-precision talents in the industry and solve the bottleneck problem of core technology, many well-known universities in China have successively established integrated circuit colleges in recent years, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Sun Yat sen University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Guangdong University of Technology, Shandong University, Anhui University, Jiangsu University, Zhejiang University, South China University of Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, and Hunan University Semiconductor College (Integrated Circuit College).
In terms of artificial intelligence, more than 10 artificial intelligence colleges have been established in China since the beginning of this year, such as the School of Artificial Intelligence at Hunan University of Science and Technology, the School of Artificial Intelligence at Guangzhou University, the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the University of Science and Technology of China, the School of Artificial Intelligence at Harbin Institute of Technology, the School of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University, the School of Artificial Intelligence at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the School of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, the School of Artificial Intelligence at Beijing Forestry University, and the School of Artificial Intelligence at Shandong University. Among them, Yao Qizhi, a world famous computer scientist, Turing Prize winner and academician of the CAS Member, served as the first president of the School of Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University.
In fact, in recent years, many colleges and universities in China have established AI colleges, research institutes or cross research centers, such as the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University, Peking University, etc. It is worth mentioning that strong universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have also established artificial intelligence colleges.
Huawei Shanghai Qingpu Park has been fully completed
2024-07-17
According to the official website of the Shanghai Municipal Government, on July 9th, the Huawei Shanghai Qingpu project was fully completed and officially named the "Huawei Lianqiu Lake R&D Center". At present, the R&D center is divided into multiple areas, with internal roads, small train tracks, elevated overpasses, etc. all connected. The bridge project spanning Lianqiu Lake is undergoing final work.
According to Liberation Daily, in September 2020, the Shanghai Municipal Government signed a deepening strategic cooperation framework agreement with Huawei and held the groundbreaking ceremony for the Huawei Qingpu R&D Center project. According to the framework agreement, the two sides will strengthen cooperation in technology research and development, demonstration applications, integrated innovation, etc. in the fields of integrated circuit, software and information service industry, Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, industrial Internet, smart city demonstration applications, expand Huawei's business scope in Shanghai, promote the innovative development of Shanghai's information industry, and promote the construction of new infrastructure and smart city.
According to previous reports, Huawei's Shanghai Qingpu R&D Center covers an area of 2400 acres with a total construction area of 2.06 million square meters. The R&D center will be built into a composite industrial community that integrates enterprise office, R&D pilot, technology incubation, production services, and supporting residential areas. It will combine modern workplaces with high-tech elements and green ecology to create Huawei's global innovation base.
One Article to Understand What "Automotive-Grade" Means
2024-06-07
1. Introduction
"Automotive-grade" refers to specification standards that meet the specific requirements of the automotive industry for electronic components. These standards ensure that automotive electronic control systems can operate stably and reliably in complex and variable operating environments. In the automotive industry, the importance of automotive-grade components is self-evident, as they are directly related to vehicle performance, safety, and passenger driving experience. Due to the complex and variable operating environments of automobiles, such as extreme conditions like high temperature, low temperature, high humidity, vibration, etc.,
RISC-V: The Effort and Destiny of a Spare Tire
2024-06-05
Article Source | Yuanchuan Technology Review
Author | He Luheng
TOB， Still a hot spot in the primary market.
In July 2019, Pingtouge, a semiconductor company under Alibaba, officially released the Xuantie 910, with the slogan of "one of the strongest RISC-V processors in the industry", claiming to have performance comparable to the Arm v8 architecture Cortex A7X series.
The onlookers cheered and asked each other, 'What is RISC-V?'?
The essence of a CPU is a chip that integrates different functional circuits. To use these functional circuits, the CPU needs to call the corresponding instructions, which are binary numbers composed of 0s and 1s. The thing used to specify instruction formats is called instruction set architecture (commonly referred to as architecture), and different architectures reflect designers' different implementation ideas for the same function. RISC-V is one of the top three instruction set architectures in the world.
However, these 'top three in the world' are full of moisture. In the other two instruction sets, the x86 architecture led by Intel is applied to the vast majority of PCs and servers; The Arm architecture of British company Arm is used in over 99% of smartphones worldwide.
In contrast, although RISC-V ranks closely behind, its actual share is still a fraction of the top two.
And these three architectures respectively represent three business models:
The x86 architecture is firmly controlled by Intel and AMD, and other chip companies cannot use it even if they want to;
Although the Arm architecture is owned by Arm Corporation, it is licensed and open, requiring payment for purchase;
RISC-V is the most unique and does not belong to any institution or country. It is open source and free, and can be used whenever you want. The operating costs are all supported by the brothers of the foundation.
In this context, the significance of RISC-V for Chinese companies in 2019 is not difficult to understand.
At that time, the domestic semiconductor industry was experiencing sanctions for the first time, and the RISC-V Foundation happened to relocate its headquarters from the United States to neutral Switzerland, due to concerns about possible geopolitical damage. Its free and open-source nature meant that no one could use "national security" as an excuse to restrict others from using RISC-V.
At the beginning of RISC-V's establishment, the only Chinese members of the Foundation were Alibaba, Huawei and the Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. By 2022, chip enterprises in Chinese Mainland will occupy 12 seats among the 19 senior members of the Foundation.
The spring breeze is like a drum, urging the RISC-V spare tire to turn positive. However, four years have passed, and RISC-V still seems to have not overcome the dilemma of a spare tire.
Ten thousand word long draft of Development of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Computing given by Sun Ninghui, an academician of the CAE Member
2024-06-04
Chairman, Vice Chairmen, Secretary General, and Members:
In recent years, the field of artificial intelligence is experiencing an explosive development led by generative artificial intelligence models. On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched an artificial intelligence chatbot called ChatGPT, which attracted widespread attention worldwide for its excellent natural language generation ability. Within two months, it surpassed 100 million users and immediately sparked a wave of large-scale modeling both domestically and internationally, Gemini、 ERNIE Bot, Copilot, LLaMA, SAM, SORA and other large models have sprung up, and 2022 is also known as the first year of large models. The current information age is accelerating into the development stage of intelligent computing, and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology are emerging one after another, gradually empowering thousands of industries and promoting artificial intelligence and data elements to become typical representatives of new quality productivity. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the new generation of artificial intelligence should be regarded as a driving force to promote technological leapfrog development, industrial optimization and upgrading, and overall productivity leap, and strive to achieve high-quality development.
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