Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

Source: The Verge

Announcement

Anker has announced its own custom silicon that the company says will bring local AI to audio devices, mobile accessories, and IoT devices. The Thus processor is the world’s first neural‑net compute‑in‑memory AI audio chip, which is smaller than traditional chips and requires less power to run complex computations. That makes it an attractive solution for smaller devices.

When comparing Thus to existing chips, Anker CEO Steven Yang said:

“Every AI chip built until now stores the model on one side and does the computation on the other. To think, the device has to carry all those parameters across, many times per second, every single inference …”

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