On April 1st local time, Intel Capital announced at the Intel Capital Global Summit that it had newly invested a total of 117 million US dollars in 14 technology startups. The invested companies include two Chinese companies, Yunna Technology and Yizhi Electronics, as well as Landing AI founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in California, USA.

Intel said that the 14 newly added companies to its investment portfolio are building powerful artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. Through innovative approaches, research and analyze the materials that constitute the world and human science; Use more efficient and environmentally friendly manufacturing technologies; And adopt disruptive new methods for chip design.

Two companies from China have drawn much attention.

Yunna Technology (Shanghai, China) is a provider of intelligent retail technology. With its proprietary computer vision, deep learning, sensor fusion and edge computing technologies, Cloudpick has achieved a highly digitalized intelligent contactless payment store and provided the free and convenient shopping pleasure of picking up and leaving goods immediately.

According to the reporter's understanding, the 100-square-meter unmanned convenience store of Yunna Technology can accommodate more than 30 people shopping simultaneously. Unlike other system providers, customers wearing glasses, hats or masks entering the store will not cause the system to fail. On the other hand, unlike other unmanned convenience stores experienced, in the process of entering the store to select goods, Yunna Technology does not force the goods to be placed in their original positions, thus avoiding the phenomenon of wrong settlement due to this.

Zhuhai Yizhi Electronic Technology Co., LTD. (Zhuhai, China) is an artificial intelligence system-on-chip (SoC) design company and an overall solution provider. The company's products include artificial intelligence acceleration, image and graphic processing, video encoding and decoding, as well as mixed-signal ULSI design functions. Its artificial intelligence SoC for video, automobiles and smart devices will start mass production by the end of 2019.

The reporter from Yicai.com saw on the official website of Yizhi Company that the company was registered in Zhuhai in early 2016. Currently, it has office locations in Zhuhai, Beijing and Shenzhen. It has over 100 employees. The core team has experienced multiple successful mass production of SOC chips, and the average seniority of the chip and algorithm R&D team is over 10 years.

Over the past 50 years, Intel has been driving disruptive innovation, making computing ubiquitous and thereby transforming our way of life. Through these investments, Intel Capital will continue to carry forward its disruptive innovations. These companies are changing our way of thinking about artificial intelligence, communications, manufacturing and healthcare. These fields will become increasingly important in the coming years and will be key to building a data-centric, smarter and more connected world. Wendell Brooks, senior vice president of Intel and president of Intel Capital, said.

At this summit, Intel Investment's new strategy is to hold a larger and more strategically significant investment stake in the invested companies. Intel Capital continuously invests between 300 million and 500 million US dollars annually in various emerging technology innovation companies, dedicated to driving disruptive innovation that turns the impossible into the possible. The total amount of this investment has also reached a new historical high.

The following are brief introductions of other newly announced innovative companies by Intel Investment:

Disruptive artificial intelligence

SambaNova Systems* (Palo Alto, California, USA) is a rapidly growing and developing company. The company, headquartered in Silicon Valley, is building the industry's most advanced system platform to support the operation of AI applications from data centers to the edge. The company was jointly founded by industry pioneers and experts specializing in system software and hardware design from Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Stanford University. Its mission is to bring the AI innovation achievements generated from in-depth research to enterprises and organizations in all industries around the world, thereby creating AI technologies that serve the public and benefit the world.

(www.sambanovasystems.com)

Untether AI* (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is engaged in the development of ultra-efficient and high-performance AI chips. These chips will form the foundation of the next wave of AI innovation. Untether AI has invented an unprecedented new chip architecture, breaking the bottleneck of data movement and specifically designed for neural network inference. This unique architecture can move data at a speed a thousand times that of traditional architectures, thus achieving extremely high performance and efficiency. The company was co-founded by a group of scientists, engineers and experienced entrepreneurs, who have now successfully brought over one billion chips to the market.

(www.untether.ai)

Disruptive transmission and dissemination

Mighty Networks* (Palo Alto, California, USA) integrates community, content, online courses and subscription business services, enabling brands and enterprises to gather popularity and reach a wide audience. The 'experiential commerce' it offers is a distinctive new type of digital service, aiming to help the 'goal-oriented' new generation of digital native 'creators' promote various experiences, connection channels and expertise to their fan bases.

(www.mightynetworks.com)

Pixeom* (Santa Clara, California, USA) has redefined the way enterprises manage hybrid cloud resources, with its edge computing software platform capable of rebuilding and coordinating on-premises cloud platforms. It enables customers to easily deploy and manage large-scale, geographically dispersed infrastructure and workloads.

(www.pixeom.com)

Polystream* (Guildford, UK) is a deep-tech startup that has fundamentally transformed the way video games and demanding 3D applications are transmitted through the cloud. Polystream's software-defined imaging technology enables interactive graphic content to be streamed on an unprecedented scale, truly reaching the world.

(www.polystream.com)

Tibit Communications* (Petaluma, California, USA) is committed to developing a new generation of devices to provide broadband access ramps for homes, offices or cellular sites. These devices can achieve full virtual management from the cloud to the user. Tibit replaces dedicated hardware boxes in operator and enterprise networks with small modules that connect to standard Ethernet switches, thereby significantly saving costs, energy consumption and space.

(www.tibitcom.com)

Disruptive healthcare

Medical Informatics Corp.*

(Houston, Texas, USA) is a software-based monitoring and analysis company. Its revolutionary Sickbay platform can archive, aggregate and convert unrecorded high-resolution waveform data across different devices, enabling remote monitoring of the entire process anytime and anywhere. In addition, this platform can also utilize machine learning and artificial intelligence to deploy real-time predictive critical care analysis technologies, prevent disease deterioration in advance, guard against various risks, and achieve data-driven medicine and patient-centered care.

(www.medicalinformaticscorp.com)

Reveal Biosciences, Inc.* (San Diego, California, USA) is creating a new generation of data-driven pathology dedicated to improving global healthcare. ImageDx is its proprietary deep learning platform, which provides pathologists and scientists with a brand-new class of actionable quantitative data to accelerate research and enhance patient care.以上翻译结果来自有道神经网络翻译（YNMT）· 通用场景

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