DEEPX will be the first AI semiconductor development company to commercialize AI smart home appliance that can install inference functions in general home appliances for the first time to optimize performance.
DEEPX announced on the 30th, with 'Commercialization support platform construction project for fostering AI home appliance business' supported by Gwangju Metropolitan City and Gwangju Technopark, they were finally selected as an AI semiconductor and board development support company. DEEPX provides their independently developed Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU)-based System-on-Chip (SoC) to about 400 home appliance companies in Gwangju to support the production of prototypes.
DEEPX NPU is a system semiconductor that provides low power consumption and high AI processing performance. The original hardware and software technology developed by DEEPX was applied. They support operation processing of cutting-edge AI algorithms (EfficientNet, Yolov7, PIDNet, etc.) and provides the world's highest effective AI inference operation performance (FPS/TOPS). The accuracy of AI, which is the result of the latest AI algorithm, has been secured at the level of the graphic processing unit (GPU), and it has competitiveness and technology in the global edge NPU market.
DEEPX NPU is capable of combining AI computational performance and various functions by different classes, from ultra-small sensors with low data throughput to autonomous vehicles that require the highest performance AI algorithm computation, and inference-type AI servers. From the second half of this year, DEEPX will produce four types of high-efficiency, high-performance, and high-quality AI processor products at Samsung Foundry's 5-nano, 14-nano, and 28-nano processes.
Lok-won Kim, CEO of DEEPX, said, “In order to support AI companies in Gwangju as an AI innovation base, the public sector is serving as a driving force to build a demonstration test bed for server and edge NPU-based applications and launch products to the market. With the cooperation between DEEPX and Gwangju City this time, we will not only launch various AI semiconductor innovative products such as smart home appliances but also lay the foundation for competitiveness in the market with other edge application fields and data center servers in the future. With this AI smart home appliance commercialization project, we are able to lay the foundation for the ubiquitous AI era. DEEPX will secure the world’s best technology competitiveness in NPU market and challenge every AI semiconductor application field.”
By Staff Reporter Dong-jun Kwon (djkwon@etnews.com)