Finally, we believe that more powerful AI-designed hardware will fuel advances in AI, creating a symbiotic relationship between the two fields. Our method was used to design the next generation of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators, and has the potential to save thousands of hours of human effort for each new generation. As a result, our method utilizes past experience to become better and faster at solving new instances of the problem, allowing chip design to be performed by artificial agents with more experience than any human designer. To achieve this, we pose chip floorplanning as a reinforcement learning problem, and develop an edge-based graph convolutional neural network architecture capable of learning rich and transferable representations of the chip.
In under six hours, our method automatically generates chip floorplans that are superior or comparable to those produced by humans in all key metrics, including power consumption, performance and chip area. Here we present a deep reinforcement learning approach to chip floorplanning. Despite five decades of research1, chip floorplanning has defied automation, requiring months of intense effort by physical design engineers to produce manufacturable layouts.
Most of China’s 1.4 billion people use either Alipay or WeChat Pay to make mobile payments, and the Peoples Bank of China has previously said the digital yuan could be the backup to the established payments juggernauts.Chip floorplanning is the engineering task of designing the physical layout of a computer chip. You may also enjoy: China Widens Mobile Payments Antitrust Probe China started cracking down earlier this year on alleged monopolistic practices by tech companies. However, Alipay is currently still the only payment choice on Taobao and Tmall.Ĭhinese regulators hit Alibaba with the highest penalty on record - $2.8 billion - for violating the country’s antitrust laws. Read more: Uncertainty Surrounds PBOC Targeting of Alipay, WeChat Business Use of Personal CodesĪlibaba has several apps that have opened payment options to include WeChat Pay. The practice had previously not been an option. 29) that people now have the capability to share links from external sites, even Alibaba’s Taobao. He added that WeChat announced on Monday (Nov. It’s also a show of fairness,” Lei Maofeng, vice-general manager of WeChat Pay, said at CNBC’s annual East Tech West conference in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, China. “As for payment, we also hope in the near future, in all places, users can freely choose. With the ongoing crackdown by Chinese regulators and numerous changes on the table, the payment gates are expected to be swung open. See also: China Imposes More Supervision Over Payments Ecosystem Intense competition between the two payments firms meant that shoppers were locked into using the method associated with the eCommerce marketplace. 2).Īs mobile pay became the primary payment method in mainland China over the past 10 years, Tencent’s WeChat Pay and Alibaba’s Alipay, run by Ant Group, took over as the most popular ways to buy goods and services. China’s crackdown on technology companies that offer payment services had the unintended side effect of opening the lines of communication between competitors like Alibaba and Tencent, CNBC reported on Thursday (Dec.
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