Cambrian’s 2021 revenue of 721 million yuan increased by 57.12% year-on-year, and Siyuan 220 smart chips and accelerator cards shipped nearly one million pieces

Jiwei.com reported on April 16 that Cambrian released its annual report saying that in 2021, the company will achieve operating income of 721 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 57.12%, and a comprehensive gross profit margin of 62.39%, which is basically the same as the same period last year. Among them, the smart chip and accelerator card business contributed 215 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 101.01%.

In 2021, Cambricon’s cloud product line has cooperated with customers in the Internet industry, the financial field and various industries, and has been shortlisted for the centralized procurement of artificial intelligence servers of leading domestic communication operators, and has sold products to hundreds of customers.

In the Internet industry, Cambricon has conducted in-depth cooperation with multiple business departments of leading Internet companies such as Alibaba. The company’s cloud product Siyuan 370 chip and accelerator card (MLU370-S4 / X4 / X8) have exceeded customer expectations in terms of adaptation performance in scenarios such as vision, voice, and image recognition, and some scenarios have entered the stage of small batch sales. In the financial field, the company has imported and adapted with a number of leading banks. Among them, the measured performance of MLU370-X4 in multiple business scenarios of China Merchants Bank exceeds that of competing products, which can greatly improve the efficiency of customers.

In addition, the company and server manufacturers were shortlisted for the centralized procurement project of artificial intelligence general computing equipment from 2021 to 2022 by leading communication operators, taking the first step to expand into the communication operator industry. For customers in other industries, the company continued to make efforts to expand, accelerate the implementation of scenarios, and realize AI empowerment in traditional industries. Up to now, it has carried out close cooperation with leading enterprises in the smart rail transit industry, smart animal husbandry industry, scientific research and education industry, and sold products to hundreds of customers.

The Cambrian’s Siyuan 220 smart chip and accelerator card achieved rapid growth in shipments and achieved revenue of 175 million yuan, a significant increase of 741.10% over the same period of the previous year. The company’s Siyuan 220 smart chip and accelerator card are widely used in many The leading company has become the company’s first product with an annual shipment of nearly one million pieces.

In addition, Cambrian actively participated in and successfully won the bid for Kunshan Intelligent Computing Center and other projects, achieving revenue of 456 million yuan, an increase of 39.91% over the same period last year. In recent years, the company has successively expanded its intelligent computing cluster system business in Xi’an Fengdong, Zhuhai Hengqin, Jiangsu Nanjing, and Jiangsu Kunshan. The domestic market share is in the first echelon, and the past project experience will help the company to expand the intelligence of other regions in the future. The computing cluster system business has played a good benchmarking role.

Cambrian said that in 2021, the company will continue to increase product research and development efforts. In terms of hardware, the company released the Push-Training One Siyuan 370 smart chip and accelerator card based on the fourth-generation smart processor micro-architecture (MLUarch03). In terms of software, the company has invested a lot of resources to optimize the basic system software platform, and the unified software platform has been improved day by day. At the same time, the research and development of new-generation products and intelligent driving chips are also being carried out in an orderly manner, and the company’s strategy of coordinated development of “cloud-side end-car” has been comprehensively promoted.

Specifically, Siyuan 370 is the third-generation cloud product of the Cambrian, using TSMC’s 7nm advanced process technology, and is the first artificial intelligence chip in the Cambrian using Chiplet technology. The maximum computing power of Siyuan 370 smart chip is as high as 256TOPS (INT8), which is twice the computing power of Siyuan 270, the second-generation cloud inference product of the Cambrian era. At the same time, the Siyuan 370 chip supports LPDDR5 memory, and the memory bandwidth is 3 times that of the Siyuan 270. It can allocate more energy to the artificial intelligence chip within the limited power consumption range of the board and output higher computing power.

Siyuan 370 smart chip adopts advanced Chiplet chip technology, supports flexible combination between chips, and achieves the commercial use of multiple smart accelerator card products with only a single tape-out. The company has launched 3 accelerator cards: MLU370-S4, MLU370-X4, MLU370-X8, which have carried out in-depth application adaptation with domestic mainstream Internet manufacturers.

With a power consumption of 75W, the MLU370-S4 smart accelerator card is compact and energy efficient, enabling high-density deployment in servers. Specifically, in terms of measured performance, the performance of the MLU370-S4 accelerator card is close to 2 times that of the mainstream 70W GPU in the market on average; in terms of energy efficiency, compared with the mainstream GPU in the market of the same size, the power consumption of the MLU370-S4 to process the same artificial intelligence tasks can be A reduction of more than 50% will effectively help users achieve the “double carbon” goal. In addition, the MLU370-S4 accelerator card has strong competitiveness in video encoding and decoding. Compared with the same size GPU, it can provide 3 times the video decoding ability and 1.5 times the video encoding ability. The MLU370-X4 smart accelerator card is a single-slot 150W full-size accelerator card.

The advantage of this accelerator card is high performance, it can provide 256TOPS (INT8) inference computing power and 24TFLOPS (FP32) training computing power, and also provides FP16, BF16 and other training accuracy, with the new Cambrian basic system software platform, It can fully meet the needs of the push-training integrated artificial intelligence task. MLU370-X8 is positioned as a training accelerator card, which supports MLU-Link interconnection within and between cards, greatly improving the performance of multi-card training. Compared with mainstream GPUs of the same size in the market, Siyuan 370 series accelerator cards have certain advantages in measured performance and energy efficiency, especially in vision, voice and other scenarios.