IoT industry megatrend: by 2023, 83% of the world's AI chips are going to be supplied to IoT devices

Artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and 5G technologies are in the pipeline. As an important carrier of these three types of technology in practical application, the future development trend of IoT will be closely related to them.

Some industry insiders believe that in the next 5-10 years, the IoT system will absorb the vast majority of the world's AI chips and be widely deployed in the field of unmanned vehicles and smart cities, while 5G technology will also be directly put into the application of the Internet of Things.

At present, the development of the Internet of Things market is still in the stage of immaturity, in the view of some practitioners, the main reason is that the Internet of Things failed to better integrate with the above technology, and because the Internet of Things can not be separated from the above technology and exist alone, this combination is also the future development trend of the Internet of Things technology in the future.

One of the IoT trends: "eating" the supply of AI chip 83%

The Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are arguably two areas that complement each other.

Financial media outlet The Motley Fool mentioned that there is currently a view in the industry that by 2023, all 83% of the world's AI chips will be supplied to IoT devices (such as cars, smart speakers, smartwatches, and agricultural equipment).

In turn, collaboration with the IoT will significantly drive the growth of the AI market. As of 2030, AI is projected to bring an incremental $15.7 trillion to the global economy - only slightly less than the size of the number one economy.

Without the Internet of Things as a carrier, the application of artificial intelligence will still be limited to boring interactive games; and without artificial intelligence as the "brain" to carry out active thinking, the Internet of Things will just be a chicken ribs "connected for the sake of connection".

One of the most important advantages of artificial intelligence is its ability to learn in depth, and for IoT, the role of artificial intelligence is to upgrade the simple connection of devices to an intelligent connection. With the assistance of AI, the massive amount of data collected by billions of devices in the IoT system can be quickly processed and analyzed.

IoT Trend No. 2: Millions of self-driving cars on the road

Autonomous driving is an important application of AI and IoT in the automotive industry.

Road trials of self-driving cars by companies are currently in full swing. According to IHS Markit's estimates, by 2040, the annual sales of self-driving cars will exceed 33 million.

At this year's GDU Technology Conference, Jensen Huang, CEO of chip major NVIDIA, had revealed that the company's cloud-based simulation platform for self-driving cars, NVIDIA Constellation, had been generally launched. A few days ago, a media report said that NVIDIA is working with AVL Corporation and TüV SüD Group to develop simulation test suites and standardized procedures for self-driving car verification.

In addition, Alphabet's Waymo commercial self-driving car ride-hailing service has already been deployed, and GM's self-driving subsidiary Cruise is planning to deploy additional manpower to fuel a driverless cab service.

IoT Trend No. 3: Full 5G Coverage

Driverless applications can not be separated from the coverage of the 5G network. 5G's biggest advantage is its extremely high data transmission rate, which can greatly enhance the experience of the Internet of Things. In the opinion of many technology practitioners, 5G networks are "built for the Internet of Things".

Li Bin, CEO of Azera Motors, has said that in the field of autonomous driving, 5G and artificial intelligence are two very important pillars, in which 5G is quite favorable to the car networking system, "it will make the reliability as well as the experience of autonomous driving improve by several orders of magnitude" .

The high efficiency of 5G is not only significant in the field of drones, but also for the construction of smart cities, which will greatly help urban transportation and public utilities.

The world's major mobile operators have now begun the final sprint on 5G deployment.

U.S. company Verizon Communication will be one of the first mobile operators to launch an official 5G network in the U.S. next month and plans to cover at least 30 cities with 5G networks by the end of this year. The company expects to invest $17-18 billion this year, most of which will be spent on building the 5G network.

Another U.S. carrier, AT&T, has said it plans to deploy 5G to 21 U.S. cities by the end of this year.

Domestically, the three major operators, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, will all start 5G trial commercialization this year, and it is expected that as of 2020, first-tier cities and some second- and third-tier cities can realize 5G signal coverage.

That said, the world's major chipmakers, including NVIDIA and Qualcomm, will have a major opportunity for the rest of the year as the Internet of Things grows.

(The above post is republished from communicationworld.com) 2019/04/08