BEIJING, CHINA – Baidu Inc., the search giant often described as Google's Chinese counterpart, has today unveiled a self-developed artificial intelligence chip which promises to be the most powerful in the world. In a move that will see Baidu join the likes of Google, NVIDIA, Intel, and others, the launch of the Kunlun 818-300 model chip at the annual Baidu Create AI developer conference will only accelerate the race for effective edge computing-based AI processing units. Baidu explained that they began working with field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips especially for deep learning in 2011. Kunlun is 30 times faster than their first FPGA chip and is able to achieve 260 tera-operations per second (TOPS) and 512GB/second memory bandwidth, according to VentureBeat. The company say that the chip can be used across a range of AI applications, from natural language processing and voice recognition to search ranking, autonomous driving, and large-scale use cases.