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RKDC!2025 (Rockchip Developer Conference) 개최

• 2025년 제9회 ROCKCHIP 개발자 회의 (RKDC!2025)
• 일정: 2025년 7월 17~18일
• 장소: 중국 푸저우(Fuzhou) 해협 국제 컨벤션&전시센터
• 참가자: 글로벌 솔루션 업체, 임베디드 및 AIoT 개발자, 산업 파트너 등

주요 행사 내용

• 신제품 및 신기술 공개
• 최신 칩셋 발표: 2025년은 12코어 Arm Cortex-A730/A530 코어와 32TOPS NPU를 탑재한 RK3688 SoC, 대용량 LLM/비전-언어 모델을 위한 RK182X RISC-V 코프로세서 등 첨단 칩셋이 공개됨
• AI 및 Edge 컴퓨팅, 머신비전, 자동차 전자, 컨슈머, 산업, 사물인터넷, 스마트홈 분야 최신 응용 사례와 기술 발전 방향 소개.
• 기술 세미나 및 실습 워크숍
• AI, 산업제어, 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어 아키텍처, 자동차, 소비자 전자 등 다양한 분야의 전문가 세미나, 심층 기술 워크숍 개최
• 개발자 대상 실습: RKNN 툴킷, 딥러닝, 이미지 처리 등 실제 개발 능력 향상을 위한 핸즈온 세션 운영.
• 업계 파트너 및 생태계 교류
• 전시부스 및 생태계 파트너관 운영: Rockchip 솔루션 기반의 다양한 파트너사 제품 및 응용사례 전시
• 30개 이상의 파트너사가 참여해 최신 시스템, 하드웨어, 알고리즘 등 협업현장을 소개.

ROCKCHIP 개발자 회의의 의의

• 기술 혁신 플랫폼: Rockchip의 플랫폼과 생태계를 중심으로 전세계 개발자 및 업계 파트너가 교류하며, AIoT 산업 최신 트렌드와 표준을 제시
• 실질적 네트워킹 및 협력 기회: 실전 기술 워크숍, 공동 사업 개발, 인재발굴, 개발자 교육 등 다양한 실무 협력의 장 제공.
• 신제품/기술 동향 파악: Rockchip 최신 기술, 레퍼런스 설계, 산업별 응용사례 등 실질적 정보 획득이 가능.

2025-01-23

Let's GET CONNECTED @ Rockchip RKDC!2023 in Fuzhou China!  Feb.23 - 24! Hope to meet you here!Focusing on Intelligent IoT,  Electric Vehicles, Industrial Applications, Machine Vision, Smart Office&Education, Medical Care, Consumer Electronics, Smart Hardware, etc.

RKDC!2023

[the 7th Rockchip Developer Conference]

//Intelligent IoT, covering Operator Applications, EV, Industrial Applications, Machine Vision, Smart Office & Education, Medical Care, Consumer Electronics, Smart Hardware…//

February 23-24, 2023Sheraton Hotel, Fuzhou, China

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Rockchip collaborates with Microsoft to accelerate Internet of Things solutions

2020-03-30

Rockchip , announced it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring customers get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services. Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT allows businesses to reach customers where they are, working with an ecosystem of devices and platforms, allowing for faster time to production.

Rockchip, a fabless semiconductor company in China, provides powerful and innovative SoC solutions for high-end intelligent hardware, AI computing, AIoT applications. Rockchip Toybrick RK3399Pro AI development platform, AI high performance solutions RK3399 and RK1808 have substantially enhanced AI computing power and been widely applied in smart home, security, education, and many other applications. Toybrick TB-RK3399ProD high performance AI development board is our latest certified device by Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT (Certified information please refer to: https://dwz.cn/6rSrT95a; detail information of the board please refer to: https://dwz.cn/P1XOG8QX）. By joining the program, Rockchip will enable developers and partners to greatly reduce the time and cost of developing and building IoT applications.

“Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT validates our ability to jumpstart customers’ IoT projects with pre-tested device and operating system combinations,” said Rockchip Vice Chief Engineer Colin Chen, “Decreasing the usual customization and work required for compatibility ensures Rockchip helps customers get started quickly on their IoT solution.”

“Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT extends our promise to bring IoT to business scale, starting with interoperable solutions from leading technology companies around the world,” said Jerry Lee, Director of Marketing for Azure Internet of Things, Microsoft Corp. “With trusted offerings and verified partners, Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT accelerates the deployment of IoT even further.”

IoT projects are complex and take a long time to implement. Customers find that choosing and connecting the right set of devices, assets or sensors to the cloud can be time-consuming. To jumpstart their IoT projects with confidence, customers are looking for certified devices and platforms that are tested for readiness, compatibility and usability with the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. By choosing a partner from the Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT program, customers can save time and effort on project specs and RFP processes by knowing in advance what devices and offerings will work with the Azure IoT Suite.

Learn more about this collaboration at Azure Certified for IoT and explore the Azure IoT Suite. 

Rockchip Solutions Supports Diversified Education Products

2020-03-18

1.All-in-one Learning Machine Solution

Solution Features:

lSupport large screen and wide view eye protection display, focusing on children's vision protection

lSupport AI intelligent voice assistant, 360 degree omnidirectional pickup, dynamic background noise reduction and stereo surround sound to simulate classroom scene

lSupport intelligent AI camera, monitoring children’s learning

lSupport face recognition technology, multiple ID independent login, which helps to customize growth routes for different children

lRich content, support mainstream education apps

2.Cloud Conference Terminal Solution

Solution Features:

lSupport two-way input and dual display output: teaching scene and the teaching materials can be both shared to the students, improving teaching efficiency

lSupport multi-channel decoding and display multi-people learning scenarios

lSupport 1 channel of 1080p encoding + 2 channels of 1080p decoding, and capture teaching scene in multiple directions

lSupport intelligent AI camera to automatically track and focus on the speaker to improve the live teaching effect

lSupport TSVC4 hierarchical coding and hierarchical rate control to ensure the fluency of live teaching

lIt can adapt to a variety of voice algorithms and mic combination solutions to help teaching interaction

3.Education Tablet Solution

 Solution Features:

lSupport large IPS HD screen, support anti-blue mode for eye protection

lSupport various OS: in addition to Android and Linux, it can deeply adapt to Kirin desktop and mobile OS, as well as Yuanxin, Jide and other domestic OS

lSupport external devices including keyboard, mouse and stylus

4.Intelligent Learning Box Solution

Solution Features:

lHigh performance processor and deep optimization of the system to ensure the device to operate at high-speed and smoothly and improve learning efficiency

lSupport display at 4K HD large screen to enhance the watch experience and protect students' eyesight

lSupport AI HD camera to intelligently capture students' learning status

lSupport AI voice interaction, intelligent voice correction to improve oral expression,

lRich peripheral high-speed interfaces, which can connect various interactive devices

5.Education Dongle Solution

Solution Features:

lSupport 4K high-definition projection

lEasy to connect the dongle with TV

lStrong compatibility and low latency

6.e-book Solution

Solution Features:

lSupport e-ink screen without converting chip, similar with paper reading experience

lSupport 2GB + 32GB super capacity storage, for more e-books and learning materials

lSupport capacitive touch, electromagnetic handwriting, 10fps video playback

lCustomized multi-level power management. Standby power consumption is as low as 1.8Ma @ 4V

7.Tutor Tablet Solution

Solution Features:

lSupport large IPS HD screen, support anti-blue mode for eye protection

lSupport intelligent voice interaction, Bluetooth voice and microphone array to achieve high fidelity voice quality, assist learning and interactive explanation

lAI intelligent finger reading system: support intelligent image recognition and fingertip positioning

8.Picture Book Robot Solution

Solution Features:

lSupport full vision and anti-blue-ray screen for eye protection

lSupport intelligent AI voice assistant and accurately voice pick-up, to assist learning and interactive explanation

lSupport intelligent identification and reading of picture books

lInfrared distance sensor monitors the distance between children and the device

9.Dictionary Pen Solution

Solution Features:

lBuilt in AI voice assistant for voice search

lSupport scanning translation, high recognition accuracy and greatly improving the efficiency of word search

lSupport off-line translation and word search

lSupport translating mainstream picture books and graded books

Rockchip at CES2020: Technology Highlights of Tablet/Vision/Audio/OTT/IoT

2020-01-08

1. Rockchip tablet solutions support Android10.0!

Rockchip's tablet solutions fully support the latest Android 10.0 OS, and it is widely deployed in government and enterprise office equipment, education, finance, entertainment, medical equipment, and other tablet applications.

A number of tablet products powered by high-performance flagship solution RK3399, including education tablets, 2in1 PCs, and IoT industrial control tablets, were displayed onsite; cost-effective solutions RK3326 and RK3126C supporting Android 10.0 Go version were also displayed.

From entry-level to high-performance, Rockchip tablet solutions meet the diverse needs of the tablet market.

2. AI Smart Vision Solution Appling in Security and New Retailing

In the intelligent vision exhibition area, Rockchip showed a cascading edge computing solution based on RK3399 + RK1808, in which the super powerful AI platform can be flexibly superimposed to achieve fast, timely and secure edge data processing.

Structured light module based on RK1608 can support high-precision 3D modeling of people or objects, applied in payment, medical beauty, industrial control and other scenes. Rockchip also exhibited wide dynamic recognition based on RK180X series solutions, DMS(Driving Monitoring System), as well as security and new retailing solutions and end products including 3D human perception new retail device and 3D identification smart door lock.

3. Diversified Products Forms Powered by Rockchip Smart Assistant Solutions

Based on Rockchip RK3308 and RK3326, Baidu smart speaker products, WeChat smart photo frames, Youdao translation pen, Alibaba smart home voice control center were all exhibited.

The Obexx intelligent AI robot, based on RK3399, is extremely creative. Users can design a  customized voice assistant to experience a different voice-controlled intelligent life.

4. In the streaming media exhbition area

ATV, OPS commercial boxes, projectors and other products based on RK3128H / RK3328 / RK3368 / RK3399 chips were displayed.

5. IoT Modules and AI Solutions

In the IoT area, Rockchip showed the latest Toybrick series AI development board based on RK3399Pro and RK1808, which are more powerful in performance and covers more development applications.

The industrial control AI core board based on RK1808 supports -40 ~ 85 ° working temperature  and can be applied to various industrial control level industrial products, DMS device, etc.

Rockchip showed mature application solutions in five exhibition areas during CES2020, covering personal consumer electronics and commercial markets in many industries.

The brand-new AI interactive experience of face detection, voice control, and human perception will be a new round upgrade of Rockchip solutions and products, and it also surprises the industry and developers in the beginning of the year. 

RockChip Releases RK2108 Smart Dock Solution, Turing an Android Tablet into a Smart Display

2019-10-12

RockChip releases RK2108 smart dock solution, which adapts to Android tablets and make tablets become smart display products. A Tablet with smart dock can be voice-controlled by users for apps, music, videos, searching and other functions, which will greatly expand the application scenarios of traditional tablets.

(Product Sample Design)

Rockchip RK2108 is a new  and high cost-effective solution for audio applications, with MCU+DSP architecture and supports A/D audio interface, MIPI DSI/MCU LCD interface and USB2.0 interface.

The solution features: 

1. It is built-in high-performance audio DSP, providing powerful voice signal processing capability

2. It supports audio pre-processing, active noise reduction, AEC, etc. for accurate sound recognition

3. It supports customized wake-up words and offline instructions by third parties

4. It is ultra-low power consumption both in standby and operation mode 

Android tablets can be equipped with RK2108 smart dock easily via USB interface or Bluetooth, to turn into smart display products.Traditional tablets will become intelligent enough to accurately receive and display voice commands, and user experience in education, business, smart home and other scenarios is greatly optimized.  

Powered by Rockchip Toybrick, Linaro launched two 96Boards SOM

2019-04-01

 [Cambridge UK, 1 April 2019] Linaro Ltd, the open source collaborative engineering organization developing software for the Arm® ecosystem, today launched two 96Boards Compute SOM designs with Rockchip Toybrick and Beiqicloud - TB-96AI and TB-96AIoT - and a 96Boards SOM Carrier Board. Also, Linaro announced the publication of version 1.0 of 96Boards System-on-Module (SOM) specifications. 96Boards is Linaro’s initiative to build a single software and hardware community across low-cost development boards based on Arm technology.

Powered by Rockchip solutions, TB-96AI features the latest high-performance AI processing chip RK3399Pro while the TB-96AIoT is equipped with the RK1808 AIoT chip with ultra low power consumption. The 96Boards Compute SOM designs are available for purchase today from t.rock-chips.com and Beiqicloud.com.

【TB-96AI】

The TB-96AI , equipped with RK3399Pro, has an integrated neural network processor NPU, computing power of up to 3.0 Tops, and offers compatibility across a variety of AI architectures. It can be combined with the backplane to form a complete industry application motherboard, and be applied to various embedded artificial intelligence fields. The SOM design has the following characteristics:

● Super Performance Processor

The architecture of Arm dual-core Cortex-A72+quad-core Cortex-A53 is adopted. The main frequency is up to 1.8 GHz and it integrates Mali-T860 MP4 quad-core graphics processor.

● Ultra-high AI power NPU

Integrating AI Neural Network Processor NPU, supporting 8Bit/16Bit operation, and with computing power of up to 3.0Tops, it can meet various AI application needs such as vision, audio and so on.

● Powerful Hard Decoding Ability

Supports DP1.2, HDMI 2.0, MIPI-DSI, eDP multiple display output interfaces, dual-screen co-display/dual-screen heterodyne, 4K VP9, 4K 10bits H265/H264 and 1080P multi-format (VC-1, MPEG-1/2/4, VP8) video decoding, 1080P (H.264, VP8 format) video coding.

● Supports multiple AI frameworks

Compatible with multiple AI frameworks, the design supports TensorFlow Lite/Android NN API, AI software tools support import, mapping and optimization of Caffe / TensorFlow models, allowing developers to easily use AI technology.

● Rich Interfaces

【TB-96AIoT】

Equipped with the RK1808 AIoT chip, 22nm process, ultra low power consumption with Independent NPU and AI computing power of up to 3.0Tops, the TB-96AIoT also provides rich interfaces and strong scalability:

【96Boards SOM Carrier Board】

The 96Boards SOM Carrier Board is compatible with both the TB-96AI and TB-96AIoT. It is designed to suit different markets and demonstrates how easy it is to support multiple different SOMs.

>>> The publication of version 1.0 of 96Boards SOM specifications

Today two 96Boards SOM specifications have been launched - the Compute Module Specification and the Wireless Specification. Both specifications encourage the development of reliable and cost-effective embedded platforms for building end-products. The specifications have been proposed, created and reviewed by the current 96Boards Steering Committee Members.

● The Compute Module Specification, which defines a SOM with generic module-to-carrier board interface, independent of the specific SoC choice on the module. The Compute module addresses the application requirements of segments including industrial automation, smart devices, gateway systems, automotive, medical, robotics and retail POS systems.

● The Wireless specification designs a SOM for interchangeable wireless module applications, supporting standard and/or proprietary wireless standards such as 802.15.4, BLE, WiFi, LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE-M etc. The specification is designed to enable evolution that will support multiple products and future wireless standards.

The launch of the new 96Boards specifications means that developers now have a SOM solution which is compatible across SoCs. SOM solutions today use a variety of different connector solutions including SO-DIMM connectors used in DRAM and Mini Module Plus (MMP) connectors for certain specialist boards. Up until now, there has been no solution offering flexible IO and a robust mounting mechanism, nor a standard form factor. The new 96Boards SOM specifications aim to address this lack of choice by producing a general purpose SOM platform that will enable plug and play compatibility between a whole range of different SOM solutions.
 

About Rockchip Toybrick

Toybrick, Rockchip’s AI development platform, integrates software and hardware development into one platform. In terms of hardware, Toybrick provides various series of development platforms and reference designs to satisfy different user groups. For software, it offers stable system, rich development tools, and series of AI cases and open source communities.

Toybrick is aiming at providing efficient, convenient and stable services, enabling developers to quickly develop AI applications, accelerating the process of industry application development, and improving the whole industry ecology. To find out more, please visit http://t.rock-chips.com 

Rockchip RK3399 has passed AI chip evaluation by the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)

2019-03-08

 The international forum “AI in 5G - Leading the New Era Forum” was held in Shenzhen on March 6. At the conference, Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) officially announced the first round of “AIIA DNN benchmark V0.5” evaluation results. As one of the products evaluated in the first round, Rockchip RK3399 passed the evaluation.

Image - Sun Mingjun, the Leader of the General Group of AIIA

announced the first-round evaluation results

Mainly targeting the edge and based on AIIA’s authoritative test platform, AIIA DNN benchmark V0.5 objectively reflects the performance of processors with DNN acceleration capacity in completing inference tasks under four typical application scenarios. According to Sun Mingjun, the Leader of the General Group of AIIA, the first round of evaluation involved four typical application scenarios and two major categories of testing indicators, including speed (fps) and algorithm performance, such as top1, top5, mAP, mIoU, PSNR, etc.. It is the first benchmark in the field of deep learning processor that distinguishes integer and float comparison.

Picture - Evaluation method for the AIIA DNN benchmark V0.5 test

AI solution Rockchip RK3399 ,adoting 28nm process, participated in the first round of evaluation. The results showed that while fixed-point retraining was not required in float models, int8 achieved the performance double that of float computation at the price of a maximum precision loss of 1%.

Picture - Rockchip RK3399 development board evaluation results

Furthermore, in the Interpretation evaluation, AIIA tried to evaluate quantization and float models separately for the first time in the benchmark. The development board based on Rockchip RK3399, showed superior performance in a number of indicators, which were at the leading level in the industry.

Picture- Analysis of v0.5 evaluation results

The powerful performance of Rockchip RK3399 development board is also attributed to Tengine, a lightweight modular high-performance neural network inference engine developed by OPEN AI LAB. It specifically targets the optimization of Arm embedded devices without relying on third-party databases and supports Android and Liunx.
 

Tengine supports different common convolutional neural networks, including SqueezeNet, MobileNet, AlexNet, ResNet, etc. and the optimization strategies such as layered fusion and 8-bit quantization. In addition, it fully develops the performance of Arm CPU by calling the HCL database targeting the optimization of different CPU architectures. For example, it takes merely 111ms to single-threadedly run the MobileNet at mobile devices one time at the RK3399 platform Cortex-A72.
 

In terms of the innovation and development in respect of AI devices such as IoT devices, intelligent interactive devices, personal computers and robots, Rockchip has showed the leading advantages in technology and ranks among the top 20 in the global AI chip list. In addition to RK3399, the flagship AI chip RK3399Pro attracts equal interests and Rockchip uses the hardware structure design of CPU+GPU+NPU for the first time. The chip integrated NPU (neural network processor) integrates the key technologies of machine vision, speech processing and deep learning, and the on-chip NPU algorithm performance reaches 3.0TOPs, possessing the advantages of high performance, low power consumption and easy development. The RK3399Pro-based EAIDK-610Pro development board has been in full swing. It is a brand new embedded AI application development platform and will provide more comprehensive support for AI developers, the multiple scenarios of partners’ products, the development of whole platforms and ecological layout.

In an era of great reforms to AI chips, the launch of “AIIA DNN benchmark V0.5”, the AIIA’s authoritative test platform, and the announcement of the first-round data will accelerate the technical transformation and evolution of AI chips.  

Embeddedworld2019 | Rockchip exhibits various SBC and SOM development boards covering multiple application scenarios

2019-02-26

 The annual event embeddedworld2019 was held in Nuremberg from February 26 to 28. Rockchip participated in the event this year again and exhibited various development boards in the forms of SBC and SOM based on a number of Rockchip solutions, which satisfy the market demands of AI, intelligent vision, smart speaker etc.

Rockchip embedded solution series support Android and Linux OS, provide industrial-level temperature range support and support long-term supply. The high performance and comprehensive solutions help customers to introduce new technologies more quickly and enhance the overall solution efficiency.

A number of development boards based on RK3399Pro, RK3399, RK3288 and RK1608 solutions were displayed at the site, including Toybrick series development boards, Lenovo Leez P710 SBC development board, the development kit EAIDK under the cooperation with Arm and Open AI Lab and RK1608 vision modules, which were targeting AI applications; superior-performance single-board computation platforms like ROCKPro64 development board and Asus Thinker board; and the phyCORE®-RK3288 core board targeting the industrial control field. The diverse applications that Rockchip solutions cover have attracted lots of attention from the embedded market in Europe.  

MWC 2019 | Rockchip launched ALL-IN-ONE 3D Development Platform jointly with UNRE

2019-02-25

 The annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the world's famous mobile event of the year. It's also the venue where many of the top phone makers, consumer electronics manufacturers and technology rookies will reveal their flagship products and innovations for the year. Rockchip jointly with UNRE, a 3D AI technical company that is committed to the development and application of 3D vision intelligence technology, launched ALL-IN-ONE 3D Development Platform, UNRE 3DSENZ AIO.

Powered by RK3399 and RK1608, ALL-IN-ONE 3D Development Platform supports 3D sensing of TOF (Main Camera) and Structure light (Front Camera), highly integrated the UNRE 3D SENZ Engine to achieve the high accurate face and object 3D scanning, 3D reconstruction, 3D size and spatial measurement. The ALL-IN-ONE Development Platform, UNRE 3DSENZ AIO, is a turnkey total solution for 3D application development.

3D AI vision technology is widely used in robotic navigation, autopilot, UAV, AR/VR/MR, 3D reconstruction, human-computer interaction, intelligent manufacturing and other fields. At present, TOF technology and 3D structured light are the main directions of 3D AI vision technology. 3D structured light focuses on close-range face unlocking, face recognition, which is suitable for face ID payment, 3D beauty and other functions. TOF is perfect for long-distance 3D information acquisition. It collects more 3D information of environment and objects and displays collected information through AR, holographic image to apply it to larger scenes, like 3D fitting, AR decoration, AR games, Motion Sensing Game etc.

In the future, high bandwidth of 5G network will guarantee the information transmission speed for 3D vision technology. There will be an outbreak of applications like 3D video calls, remote VR of virtual scene + virtual scene, remote AR of virtual scene + real scene, remote JR of real scene + real scene, etc. Powered by RK3399Pro + RK1608, ALL-IN-ONE 3D Vision Development Platform will provide efficient and complete development tools for the 3D vision application industry, and jointly create more breakthrough innovative applications in the 5G era. 

 LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2019 --- CES2019, Rockchip, a leading Chinese semiconductor company, today released the RK1808, an AIoT solution with built-in high performance NPU.

In terms of hardware specifications, Rockchip RK1808 AIoT solution features :

l Dual-core Cortex-A35 CPU architecture

l NPU computing performance up to 3.0TOPs

l VPU supporting 1080P video codec, microphone array with hardware VAD function and camera video signal input with built-in ISP

AIoT is an inevitable trend of the IoT development and also an excellent chance for intelligent upgrades of traditional industries. The four dominant features about functional modules and rich interfaces of Rockchip RK1808 will efficiently energize the AIoT eco-chain and meet developers’ needs to integrate technology into real-life applications.

1. Ultimate low power consumption

l Adopting 22nm FD-SOI process

l Power consumption reduced by about 30%, compared with mainstream 28nm process under the same performance

l DDR-free operation of the always-on device with built-in 2MB system-level SRAM

l With hardware VAD function for low-power monitoring and far-field wake-up 

2. Powerful AI computing

l Built-in NPU, computing performance up to 3TOPs

l Supporting INT8/INT16/FP16 hybrid operation to optimize performance, power consumption and operation accuracy

l Supporting network model conversion with strong compatibility: TensorFlow /  MXNet / PyTorch / Caffe

3. Rich AIoT-oriented interfaces for application expansion

l For video, supporting MIPI / CIF/BT1120 video input and MIPI/RGB output

l For audio, supporting microphone array input and audio output

l Sensor input and output interfaces including : PWM/I2C/SPI /UART

l High-speed device interfaces including: USB3.0/USB2.0 /PCIE

l Supporting Gigabit Ethernet and external WiFi/BT modules

4. Easy to develop

l Supporting Linux system

l AI application development SDK: supporting C/C++ and Python

Rockchip RK1808 solution is designed for various AI applications including security, education, automobile, smart wearable devices, home appliances, storage and so on, with a series of functions such as voice wake-up, speech recognition, face detection and attribute analysis, face recognition, posture analysis, target detection and recognition, image processing, etc. RK1808 can not only power technology upgrades and breakthrough for the AIoT eco-chain, but can also help eco-chain partners to explore the AIoT market. 

Rockchip, Arm and OPEN AI LAB Jointly Launch First AI Development Platform

2018-09-18

 SHANGHAI, Sep.14^th, Rockchip, Arm China and OPEN AI LAB jointly released the EAIDK (Embedded AI Development Kit) development platform based on RK3399 solution, for designing and developing embedded AI applications during the AI Developer Global Summit.

RK3399 EAIDK Development Platform has integrated the reference design, chip debugging and testing and chip verification as the hardware development kits. Based on AID (the core software platform of OPEN AI LAB) and the powerful multimedia interface and various peripheral interfaces of Rockchip RK3399, it can provide the developer with high-quality hardware reference design, and allow the developer to complete the hardware development of various AI products by simply changing the reference design modular circuit or without changing the modular circuit.

"As Rockchip has accumulated extensive experience and successful cases in the field of AI chips, we have enabled our industrial chain partners to launch various AI terminal products by integrating RK3399 chip. The launch of RK3399 EAIDK Development Platform has made full use of different resources of Rockchip in order to provide AI Developers and partners with full support for their multi-scenario product and all-platform development and ecological layout, "said Rockchip Global Vice President Chen Feng.

"Rockchip RK3399 EAIDK is the first AI development platform that has applied the Arm architecture and can support SDK development and application software development and operation of RK3399 Chip. As the AI Development Platform features full interface and strong extensibility design, it can be applied to different AI usage scenarios and can support the full-function validation. " said Arm China Vice President Jin Yongbin.

As one of Rockchip high-end products, RK3399 can be applied to various applications including high-end tablets, laptops, intelligent monitors etc., as well as one powerful solution providing 4Kx2K content. In the field of AI, RK3399 has realized the multi-field, multi-industry and multi-scenario commercial application, including Smart Home, AI floor mopping robot, IoT AI smart speaker and OTT etc..

OPEN AI LAB Solution General Manager Xv Haibing ever concluded that RK3399 EAIDK development platform could be applied to different fields: "Rockchip RK3399 EAIDK development platform possesses higher flexibility in the industry-university-research cooperation, can provide corresponding platform support for various AI-related development courses for domestic and global universities and educational institutions, and facilitate the AI industrial chain development.”

For developers, Rockchip RK3399 EAIDK Development Platform is able to facilitate them from three major aspects:

1. Lower the development threshold: Since RK3399 EAIDK has provided all developers with a modular development environment, developers can easily bypass various technical difficulties and focus on the product innovation and the design of different application scenarios.

2. Improve the development efficiency: Rockchip RK3399 has various interface types. Developers can quickly implement the hardware development.

3. Create a much more open environment: RK3399 features an open SDK environment, and developers can make their R&D and matching design in hardware and software much more skillful, and even make their products much more competitive.  

The First Arm AI Developers Global Summit has gathered various top companies of chip, software and hardware, and business leaders covering the upstream and downstream of AI industrial chain. It has attracted about 1000 developers at home and abroad. During this summit, various technical experts in Arm and Arm AI ecosphere and the industry have made an in-depth analysis on the embedded intelligent system for all AI developers.  

Rockchip AI Solutions facilitate Multiform Commercial Applications

2018-08-08

Rockchip is aiming at the booming IoT market, and has launched a series of AI chip products positioned to various fields such as vision, image perception and voice interaction etc. so as to realize the mass production and commercial use in various applications. 

Powerful AI Chip RK3399

The super-performance BIG LITTLE core architecture RK3399 is a featured product of  Rockchip AI chips. In this early July, Rockchip officially released the Android 8.1 Neural Networks API (NNAPI) optimized SDK based on the RK3399 platform to provide the much more universal and powerful AI computing support. As a matter of fact, it can be applied to various applications derived from and developed on the basis of the mainstream model architecture, such as face recognition, ADAS, product identification, fatigue detection etc..

Based on RK3399, Rock960 platform, features powerful performance and diversified expansion interfaces. It takes the lead in supporting Tengine and can be applied in many innovative fields, such as IOT equipment, intelligent interactive devices, personal computers, and robots. 

AI Voice Interaction Solution

The voice interaction solution is an important part of the Rockchip AI chip strategy. At Baidu Create 2018, Baidu announced that they would team up with Rockchip to create a full-chain solution centered on voice interaction by integrating with software and hardware based on RK3308 and RK3326. 

RK3308 and RK3326 are Rockchip's new AI smart voice solutions developed and designed to better meet the market's need for multi-modal voice interactive speaker solutions. Both solutions feature the high-performance and low-power architecture, and they will respectively provide the overall chip solution for audio AI smart speakers and smart display speakers.

As early as 2017 at Google I/O, Rockchip took the lead in releasing the RK3229 Google Voice Assistant solution based on the Andorid system platform to the world. The solution applied a Quad-core Cortex-A7 architecture and in terms of the speech algorithm, it combined Google’s rich experience in the audio field, supporting the sound localization, sound source enhancement, echo cancellation, and the noise suppression etc.. 

RK3229 solution is now applied to various products, including voice speakers, smart sofas, and voice TV boxes. Recently, the Mango TV Milk Box has been released by integrating with the RK3229 solution. It possesses the built-in far-field voice function, and can accurately identify the main sound even in a long distance or a noisy environment. Therefore, AI is now entering people’s home life. 

AI Floor Mopping Robot Solution

Recently, Rockchip has launched four chip-level solutions for AI floor mopping robots, including RK3399, RV1108, RK3326 and RK3308. They all support various functions ranging from AI to VSLAM and laser navigation, covering a wide range of floor mopping robot products (from high-end products to entry-level products). Meanwhile, they have facilitated the definition and upgrade of the standard for the positioning navigation of the 4^th-generation AI floor mopping robots. 

In the ecological environment for floor mopping robots, Rockchip’s algorithm partners and ODM/OEM customers are respectively involved in various industries such as laser, VSLAM, AI and other fields, in which way, the mass production can be realized quickly. 

RK3228 Powers the 4G AI Large-screen Age

RK3228 focuses on a variety of video-based devices with screens, and is designed to present people with a better audio-visual feast. Recently, Iqiyi TV Dongle(Dian Shi Guo) 4G has been released, powered by RK3228A chip. In addition, it supports all 7-mode 16-band networks and supports Bluetooth 4.1 and 2.4GHz/5GHz dual-band WiFi. Meanwhile, 4G/WiFi dual mode is also enabled. By inserting the SIM card and applying the 4G high-quality communication, the 4K ultra-HD video will be transmitted to large-screen devices. In fact, it is the world’s first 4G+AI screen-casting terminal, which will broaden and enhance people’s entertainment scene experience.

High-efficiency Intelligent Vision and Image Perception Solutions

In addition to video, voice and other solutions, Rockchip also attaches great importance to the research and development of visual processing and image recognition products. 

As early as 2016, the “Intelligent Vision Development Platform – RV1108” was officially released, realizing the revolutionized development of the high-efficiency intelligent vision and image perception solutions in various embedded systems. 

The newly released RK1608 vision processing chip demonstrates the powerful 3D vision-related capabilities. For example, the deep color technology can help people free from complex remote controls and buttons that are replaced by natural gestures and body control; besides, the human skeleton tracking technology is also applied to achieve the accurate positioning and tracking of pedestrians by means of the machine learning algorithms and post-tracking detection technology.

Rockchip’s AI chips positioned to different fields have covered almost all current applicationsand product forms of AI, and will also help all terminal partners deploy their AI ecological chains and accelerate the commercialization of AI products.