Baidu Kunlun 昆仑

A few days ago, Baidu joined the ranks of vertically integrated companies to produce Kunlun,  their own machine learning accelerator. Announcing two versions of the Kunlun processor, while giving few details outside of their 260 TeraOPS raw performance and 100w power dissipation, Baidu signaled its intention to own all the machine learning components of its datacenters as well as expanding its reach to edge inferencing devices. Baidu’s Kunlun AI processor    The two Kunlun chips so far announced: the 818-300 for training and 818-100 for inferencing, are described as cloud-to-edge devices, suitable for datacenter training and inferencing as well as