Samsung plans to invest about $22 billion in artificial intelligence by 2020; meanwhile, AMD has introduced its new graphics processors using seven-nanometer technology. Samsung aims to invest around $22 billion in AI development by 2020. The South Korean company intends to hire over a thousand specialists from various fields for this purpose. The first step in AI development is finding new algorithms and enhancing machine learning capabilities. The company has previously worked in this area but has decided to make this massive investment to accelerate its AI project. Samsung is lagging behind Google in AI, and with the entry of its Chinese competitor Huawei in AI and the development of processors based on this technology, it aims to catch up in this technological field. Many analysts describe AI as the future of technology.
The Chinese are making rapid advancements in AI, and at the same time, the Chinese state news agency introduced a virtual anchor that operates based on AI. This virtual anchor resembles a human and attempts to mimic human-like speech. However, with a little attention to the text read by this anchor, one can notice its mechanical nature. Nevertheless, this anchor has a significant advantage: it has a very high efficiency and can work 24 hours a day without fatigue. Additionally, there is no need for a studio and internal filming cameras; only the report text and necessary images need to be prepared. However, this is not good news for human anchors and workers. The Xinhua news agency has created an English version and a Chinese version of these virtual anchors. An AI-based system has been used for lip movements, speech delivery methods, and voice production of this virtual anchor. However, this anchor still has flaws that need to be addressed, such as not emphasizing key words and lacking human emotions in its delivery.
The new iPad Pro has achieved a score of 557,000 in the AnTuTu benchmark. Apple claims that its new iPad Pro is faster than most laptops, but this is more of a marketing gimmick since the device's processor still uses an architecture that cannot compete with Intel's i7 series processors. Nonetheless, the AnTuTu benchmark results show that this tablet, using the strongest processor found in a mobile system, is 50% faster than the iPhone XS. The new iPad Pro uses the seven-nanometer A12X Bionic processor, which has 10 billion transistors and eight cores for data processing and seven cores for graphics processing, with Apple claiming it can perform five trillion calculations.
AMD has introduced its MI60 and MI50 processors, which utilize seven-nanometer technology. These products are developed based on the Vega architecture of the company, which can be used in AI and machine learning. These processors use 64 processing cores. In these chips, speed has increased, energy consumption has decreased, and the size of the processor has also been reduced. The previous version had an area of about 484 square millimeters, but this new processor, while using 13 billion transistors, has an area of 331 square millimeters.