The Chinese startup now plans to conquer the AI market with a new deep learning chip called Sophon. The company will use the expertise it gained in designing Bitcoin ASICs to take on the Googles and NVIDIAs of the world.
Bitmain’s newest product, the Sophon, may or may not take over deep learning. But by giving it such a name Zhan and his Bitmain co-founder, Jihan Wu, have signaled to the world their intentions. The Sophon unit will include Bitmain’s first piece of bespoke silicon for a revolutionary AI technology. If things go to plan, thousands of Bitmain Sophon units soon could be training neural networks in vast data centers around the world.Full details over here.