Superstar, a provider of edge-side artificial intelligence chips, announced the completion of a multi-million-yuan Pre-B round of financing on May 9, with investors including China’an Capital, Liangxi Kechuang, Longding Investment, Tianzhi Investment, Shaanxi Auto Intelligent Automobile Fund and iFLYTEK Venture Capital.
Super Star Future was founded in April 2019 by Professor Wang Yu, head of the Electronics Department of Tsinghua University, and Professor Yang Diange, the first dean of the vehicle Institute.
Core members have complete R & D and landing experience in the field of high-performance digital chips.
The company mainly provides energy-efficient computing solutions with AI computing chip as the core and hardware and software cooperation for all kinds of edge intelligent scenarios.
At present, its products have been extended to smart driving, smart electricity, smart mines and other fields, and achieved tens of millions of revenue in 2023.
Edge-side artificial intelligence is in a golden period of development.
With the continuous progress of artificial intelligence and edge computing technology, the technical maturity of edge AI is increasing, and the application scenarios of edge AI are becoming more and more extensive, from surveillance camera analysis in intelligent factories and real-time decision processing of self-driving cars to electric power, coal mining and other industries.
Compared with traditional cloud AI, edge AI has significant advantages such as faster response speed, lower bandwidth requirements, higher data security and so on, which makes edge AI have a tendency to replace traditional cloud computing models in many fields.
In the future, Superstar is based on the edge side AI computing chip-Jing R1 launched by Pinghu, a self-developed NPU.
Using TSMC 12nm technology, it can provide up to 16 TOPS@INT8 AI computing power and 30 KDMIPS general computing power.
Image source: Super Star Future, stinging R1 can provide rich multi-sensor access and flexible connectivity.
Users can freely design the access of multi-camera, lidar and millimeter wave radar according to the usage scenario.
Create different industry solutions.
According to Superstar in the future, compared with the same level of competitors, using alarm R1 to achieve the same level of industry solutions can reduce the overall cost by 30% and 50%.
In the field of intelligent driving, Superstar will be able to provide a mature lidar sensing algorithm SDK in the future, and has adapted to a number of mainstream SoC.
Its binocular intelligent driving reference scheme realizes road elevation detection through binocular stereo vision algorithm based on a single R1 chip, supports magic carpet suspension function, and supports the deployment of forward ADAS perception algorithm to achieve L2 basic ADAS function.
It also has lightweight integrated line and berth reference solutions based on single R1 and double R1 chips respectively, which support customers to deploy integrated travel and berth mass production algorithm, while Superstar can provide reference perception algorithm in the future.
provide complete environmental information for positioning, planning, control and other modules.
Superstar future lightweight travel and berthing integrated reference scheme.
picture source: superstar future, superstar future high-order integrated reference scheme.
image source: superstar future, in addition, large model will bring new subversive opportunities for artificial intelligence.
With the emergence of more and more AI models with multimodal capabilities, AI reasoning chips have become the focus of the market.
These chips can support the efficient production and application landing of large models, especially in the field of edge computing.
Edge computing is very important for the application of large models, and the reasoning chip specially designed for edge computing is the key to the application of large models in the future.
Liang Shuang, CEO of Superstar Future, said that Superstar will add a large model reasoning chip on the edge side in the future.
It is reported that Superstar’s future round of funds will also be used to develop a new generation of large model reasoning chips, expand the scale of existing revenue business, and further expand industrial cooperation.
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