According to foreign media technode, Chinese AI start-ups Rokid will release self research smart voice chips on Rokid Jungle, the first conference held in Hangzhou in June 26th, according to foreign media.

According to the official introduction, the chip has been developed for two years, with high performance and low cost. The price may be 30% cheaper than the same product, and the chip can provide better design for third party suppliers, OEM and small equipment manufacturers.

It is reported that Zhou Jun, the head of China's former Samsung Semiconductor, switched to Rokid in April this year as vice president. He said that, in view of the technical requirements of the intelligent sound box, the general chip that does not carry the neural network processing unit and the digital signal processor is difficult to perform in the calculation force. Even if the power demand is met, the power consumption and cost will be too expensive, which is not conducive to the advance of intelligent voice products such as the intelligent sound box.

After Dr. Zhou's graduation, he first taught in the Department of Electronic Science and engineering at Nanjing University, after which he worked in Nanjing micro League electronics, double electricity science and technology, and Samsung Semiconductor (China). It is a senior semiconductor.

According to Lei Feng, the Lei Feng network reported that the Zhou army once said that the Rokid AI chip focused on the field of voice interaction, and its development route was to improve performance as far as possible in limited capacity, and to reduce price from the angle of reducing supply chain costs, thus forming competitiveness.

Founded in July 2014, Rokid is headquartered in Hangzhou and has R & D centers in Beijing and San Francisco. Its location is an intelligent Hard Suits Inc centered on AI human computer interaction.

Intelligent voice is one of the main directions of Rokid. In October 2017, Rokid and Ali co launched a full - stack voice open platform to provide one-stop voice solutions for the industry. Today, the new product conference in San Francisco, Sonos, announced that Rokid is the only Chinese voice partner in the world. It is reported that Rokid and Amazon have begun to do intelligent hardware for voice interaction. Rokid's big hardware product line is smart speaker Pebble (Yue Shi).
In addition to smart speakers Pebble, Rokid also has intelligent robot Alien (alien) and AR glasses.

Rokid has received multiple round of financing. In August 2014, Rokid won an angel wheel investment of $8 million 300 thousand in IDG, linear capital, Mfund and Yuan capital. In October 2015, we won the A round financing of warden international leadership, angel investment and investment of millions of dollars. In November 1, 2016, we won the capital lead investment, IDG, Mfund, meta capital, warden international and other institutions. B round financing, the amount has not been announced, but Rokid official said that the B round of the company's valuation reached $450 million; in January 2018, the completion of a new round of financing, the leading side is Temasek, Swiss credit, CDIB, IDG and investment, which is reported to be close to $100 million.