Alibaba Cloud, the cloud business of Chinese giant Alibaba, has launched a development platform for edge AI chips based on the RISC-V open standard instruction set and IP from Imagination Technolgies in the UK.
The Wujian 600 platform was custom-built by Alibaba’s chip designer T-Head and is tailored specifically for developing edge SoCs that mix AI accelerators and CPUs in embedded applications from home robots and medical imaging to video conferencing. It also includes an optimized software stack to help speed up the roll-out of products.
T-Head licensed the IMG B-Series GPU and PowerVR Series3NX NNA cores for the Wujian SoC Platform Alliance created in 2019 and used in the Xuantie C910 system on chip (SoC).