Will terminal AI voice chips grow rapidly in the coming year

Among the landing applications of many voice chips, the voice track has been very lively. The strategic investment of Internet companies has quickly ripened the market applications, making intelligent voice interaction penetrate into various devices. In 2020, what are the "killer" applications of AI voice chip? How can the voice chip make a breakthrough in all aspects in terms of architecture and design concept?
In 2020, in addition to smart home and smart car, wearable markets such as TWS are expected to continue to be hot. How to realize various AI algorithms in scenarios with very sensitive power consumption is a great technical challenge. SMIC is about to launch ultra-low power AI voice chip for wearable markets such as TWS headphones to solve the problems of low-power wake-up, instruction recognition and noise reduction.
Smart payment, smart home and smart wearable devices will bring more end-to-side AI demand. We are optimistic about the high-speed growth trend of wearable devices in 2020 and the new AI functions. Wearable devices have three requirements for AI voice chips: AI algorithms that can run to improve product experience, usually algorithms with great computing power; Small chip area and low power consumption; AI chips are compatible with existing systems.
After several years of cultivation, the smart home market has entered the promotion stage. The functions and quality of various end products are steadily improving, the application is more humanized, and the habits of users are gradually formed. However, generally speaking, the volume is still relatively small, the overall market demand has not been fully opened, and there is a lot of room for development. Over the past few years, most practitioners in the smart home industry no longer fantasize about the outbreak of the C-end market. In order to survive better, they place more hopes on the b-end market. However, they are all based on their own unique business demands, which are not what users really need, resulting in the mismatch between demand and products. The demand of end users cannot maintain a high growth trend continuously, and even is still in the market state of "being educated".
Compared with traditional chips, AI voice chips can run more efficiently, experience better AI algorithms, improve battery life and reduce cost. The chip built by Zhicun technology has two goals: first, let electronic products be implanted with better AI algorithms to improve product competitiveness; The second is to help more AI algorithms land. Therefore, a memory computing integrated architecture is developed to improve the computing power of the chip. At the same time, an architecture that can run a variety of AI algorithms is designed to improve universality and help do the above two points well.
With the further maturity and popularization of voice chip technology, AI voice will be landing in more scenes and devices. For the fragmented and scene oriented market, SMIC will launch voice customization technology and supporting tool chain, which is an indispensable "catalyst" for rapid landing in various scenes, enabling partners and customers to easily and quickly customize voice solutions that meet specific scenes.
The deep integration of AI and IOT is also a key "catalyst" to promote the landing of AI scenes. Of course, in the process of landing, the overall solution of "algorithm + chip" combining software and hardware is the most grounded way for AI enterprises. At present, voice interaction is one of the most clear AI landing applications, and the AI voice chip of the terminal is about to usher in rapid growth, which is also the "catalyst" to promote the faster landing of AI.
The future evolution of AI chip mainly has three directions: first, the scheme of AI chip + WiFi / BT / memory will move towards integration; Second, special AI chips will be more specialized; Third, the way of voice + vision + screen will realize more powerful human-computer interaction. In terms of SMIC, the evolution of AI voice chip first realizes the end-to-end model breakthrough. Next, it will further expand the territory of deep learning and integrate signal processing into the deep learning network.
From the general trend of voice chip development, it is still in the primary stage of AI chip development. There is huge innovation space in both scientific research and industrial application. The landing ability for specific scenes will be a more severe challenge to AI chips. AI chips seem to be gaining popularity, but in fact there is a long way to go. Veterans and recruits carry out near-field fighting in the scene landing, which will become a major attraction in 2020.

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