This chip makes any product smart

Thinker is designed to understand, support neural networks and consume little energy

    China has set a goal and is to make any device smart. The project is from Tsinghua University in Beijing that has developed a chip to support neural networks, according to MIT Technology Review.

Thinker, as its name is, is able to satisfy the needs of the software to which it is coupled and stands out for its low energy expenditure . With this tiny device you can get recognition of objects in images or understanding of human speech.

This is one of the projects in which the Asian giant has gone to work to lead a technology called, according to experts, to lead the development in the coming years.

     Big brands such as Samsung or China Huawei have already allocated resources to the development of artificial intelligence chips . Although, the real research is taking place in the laboratories of the universities of the Asian giant.

A research team from the Institute of Information Technology (ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that by the beginning of this month it will start working with a local semiconductor manufacturer to produce a small batch of chips that can be used in robots.

The device, called Dadu, will have two cores: one to execute neural networks and another to control movement. The neuronal core executes the vision algorithms, but it also allows the movement core to plan the optimal path to reach a destination or the best movement to grab an object.