When it comes to high-performance AI chips, most people will immediately think of NVIDIA and AMD, but in fact,Qualcomm is also trying, releasing an AI chip "AI100" and "AI80" in 2019.AI100 focuses on AI reasoning, and its energy efficiency is very good. However, after so many years, AI has developed too fast, and it is obviously not good enough.
especiallyThe video memory capacity is small, and the Ultra version is only 128GB, so it can only support a maximum of 32 billion parameter models. Today's mainstream inference model parameters are dozens of times that.
Now, Saudi Arabia’s Humain Company has announced that it will purchase 1,024 Qualcomm AI100 chips!
In fact, Qualcomm AI100 has been delayed until 2023.Now this is its first important order and its first large-scale implementation.
Humain's willingness to purchase shows that it still has merit.At least it is enough for basic image completion and generation tasks., and the price-performance ratio should be very high.
It is worth mentioning that Humain announced in May last year that it had reached cooperation with NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm to purchase 18,000 NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell chips and purchase the equivalent of 500 megawatts of computing power from AMD. The specific model was not disclosed.
Looking to the future, Qualcomm plans to launch the second-generation AI200 chip at the end of 2026 and the upgraded AI250 in 2027.
