In the world of cryptocurrency mining, Bitmain, headquartered in Beijing, is perhaps the most influential player in the blockchain ecosystem. Bitmain remains rather mysterious, and rarely comments in media reports, especially where cryptocurrency is banned in ...

Baidu is to China as Google is to the US. Not only did both originate as search engines and become the most popular ones in the world (Baidu is second to Google in popularity, and takes up 80% market share in China), but both also saw the potential of Artifici...

Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA), also known as Intelligent Digital Agents or Conversational (or Dialog) Systems, are playing a significant role in both personal lives and increasingly also in the business world. The fundamental technologies of VPA have been ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to reshape the world in a similar way that the Internet did two decades ago and this will have a major impact on the semiconductor industry. AI’s influence coupled with the rapid rise of cloud computing and the slowing...

In this PowerPoint-style report, Counterpoint profiles one of the leading players in artificial intelligence in China, iFLYTECH. The company has been a leader in voice processing for many years but is now developing a broader set of competences in artificial i...

Overview: Face Recognition is one of the important biometrics techniques, along with fingerprint, Retina scan, and Iris scan, etc. It has been a perennial popular research challenge in personal identification and human machine interaction since its inceptio...

Overview: This report starts with exploring the five tribes of machine learning, the “big bang” of modern deep learning algorithms and the progress made over the years trained either by supervised or unsupervised learning. Post that, i...

While 2015 and 2016 were, in many ways, breakthrough years for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine/Deep Learning in particular, most of the focus has been on developing better algorithms. AI, however, can also benefit greatly from better hardware which is...