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MediaTek joined Open Neural Network Exchange

(ONNX) to advance its edge AI platform

The global fabless semiconductor The MediaTek's NeuroPilot SDK in P60 is compatible
company MediaTek just joined the Open Neural with Google Android Neural Networks API (Android
Network Exchange (ONNX) to drive AI innovation NNAPI), and also supports common AI frameworks,
and support the evolution of its edge AI platform. including TensorFlow, TF Lite, Caffe, and Caffe2. That
makes it easy for developers to quickly bring-to-market
The company is currently enabling around 1.5 billion innovative AI applications. Helio P60 also packs a 4G
connected devices a year and is a market leader in LTE WorldMode modem, dual 4G VoLTE and TAS 2.0
developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile smart antenna technology to provide consumers with
device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT seamless global connectivity and to enable device
products. makers to bring to market smarter, more capable and
more reliable mid-range smartphones.
ONNX was created and launched by Amazon, Facebook
and Microsoft to establish an interoperability standard for Jerry Yu, Corporate Vice President and General
transferring deep learning models between frameworks, Manager of the Home Entertainment Business Group,
which resulted is an open ecosystem that allows AI MediaTek said: "A key to developing AI applications
developers to mix and match the tools and frameworks and capabilities lies within an open ecosystem where
they need during any stage of a project. shared research and interoperability are the true
enablers of innovation. In an effort to evolve our own AI
Existing involvement in the Android Neural Network platform and to ensure that interoperability and choice is
(ANN), combined with its new support of and preserved when developing with MediaTek NeuroPilot,
participation in ONNX, is part of MediaTek's strategic it made sense to widen our support for open AI
imperative to continue integrating AI across its frameworks by joining the Open Neural Network
technology portfolio. Exchange."

MediaTek launch recently its new NeuroPilot AI platform, The MediaTek NeuroPilot AI platform already supports
which encompasses both hardware and software, mainstream AI frameworks, as it operates in concert
including an SDK and an AI processing unit to support with existing neural processing SDKs including Google
the development of AI enabled mobile and smart home TensorFlow, Caffe, Amazon MXNet, Sony NNabla, and
devices as well as autos. Furthermore, the company more. At the OS level, MediaTek offers support for both
unveiled the MediaTek Helio P60 system-on-chip (SoC), Android and Linux.
the first SoC platform featuring a multi-core AI
processing unit (mobile APU). Its Arm Cortex A73 and As a partner of the Open Neural Network Exchange
A53 processor mix delivers up to a 70% CPU (ONNX), MediaTek is working on bringing ONNX
performance boost over the Helio P23 and Helio P30, support to the chipset in Q2 2018 to provide developers
besides delivering incredible energy efficiency to extend with even more flexibility for designing AI-powered
device battery life. MediaTek Helio P60 brings applications. ◊
MediaTek's NeuroPilot AI technology to the heart of your
smartphone. Its AI-compute architecture works By MediaBUZZ
seamlessly across CPU, GPU and Mobile APU within the
SoC to maximize performance and energy efficiency.

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