A group of Chinese researchers in a Beinjing-based tech firm, YUSUR Technology Co. Ltd, has been said to have recorded a huge milestone in the domestic chip industry of China following its development of the country’s first Data Processing Unit (DPU) chip which has been described as an integral part of the homogeneous computing that will shape the future generation of intelligent computing.
The DPU named “K2” was developed using a 28 nanometres process and has also been tagged the “third main chip” suggesting an incremental innovation on previous chips such as the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).
“Heterogeneous computing based on the combination of DPU, CPU and GPU has become the mainstream technology of the next-generation intelligent computing centers” a news article by the CGTN reads.
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Chinese researchers have developed the country’s first Data Processing Unit (DPU) chip, known as the “third main chip” after Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), marking a milestone in the domestic chip industry.
Heterogeneous computing based on the combination of DPU, CPU and GPU has become the mainstream technology of the next-generation intelligent computing centers.
China’ first domestically-developed DPU chip was developed by Beijing-based YUSUR Technology Co., Ltd. using 28 nm process.
According to the CGTN article, the DPU chip has many advantages including; low cost, excellent performance and low power consumption as well as the capacity to achieve ultra-low latency of 1.2 microseconds and support up to 200G network bandwidth.
“The DPU chip will be used in data centers, financial computing and high-performance computing, according to technicians of YUSUR, whose founding members come from a key state laboratory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences” the article further highlights.
YUSUR has the backing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and has been certified as one of China’s “little giant” companies by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
“The term “little giant” refers to companies that specialise in niche sectors, command a high market share, and have a strong innovative capacity and core technologies. Yusur has all of these characteristics” a newstory by Joseph Chacko published in Frontier India claims, adding “there have yet to be third-party reviews on the Chinese DPU”.