Huawei Engineers AI Into Heart ( Brain) Of Mobile Strategy

Every piece of IT hardware runs on software, make no mistake. For the new era of mobile handheld devices to become truly smart smartphones, they will need to exhibit new software processing powers over and above the ability to'simply' take photos, play games and surf the web. To be clear, the next era of smart smartphones will feature an increasing amount of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This assertion (or is it almost a truism?) is at the heart of Chinese telecommunications giant's strategy. The firm has (literally) etched AI into the DNA of the'chipset' of its new line of Mate Series devices running on the new Kirin 970, a product described as the first AI processor for smartphones with a dedicated Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) i.e. neural being'like a brain'.