Written at the beginning of the new year - edge intelligence, enabling the digital future

    In the continuous evolution of technology, it can always create wealth quietly and achieve economic prosperity. Every five or ten years, there are always some hot words that have become the key factors driving market growth and innovation, such as digital media in the early 1990s, mobile internet in about 2000, and later cloud computing; We may find that the emergence of hot words at present is dazzling, more than in any previous era: digital medicine, intelligent industry, metauniverse, automatic driving, new energy... We have reason to believe that even with many uncertain factors, the opportunities in this era are unprecedented.

    The new generation of AI technology gives more and more devices the ability to learn experience, adapt to changes and predict results, and everything becomes more intelligent. We have entered a decade of pervasive intelligence, characterized by situational awareness of intelligent devices. These devices can identify information and interact through visual, sound and other sensing methods, and do not need stable and persistent connection to the cloud, which can provide users with more efficient, agile and safe response. Mobile Internet and cloud computing have brought brilliant applications to the world in the last decade. In this decade, edge intelligence will truly lead us to realize the digital transformation of all walks of life, breaking the boundaries, and bringing people surprises, imagination and influence will be immeasurable. By bringing powerful computing power close to the position where data is generated and consumed, edge intelligence can stimulate greater potential to achieve faster, lower cost, safer and more reliable operation in various fields such as autonomous vehicle, virtual reality, digital medicine and industrial automation. The benefits of edge intelligence: First, reduce latency to improve user experience; The second is to reduce the required bandwidth, thus reducing the cost of network services; Third, improve the security and privacy of data. The importance of data as the soul of edge intelligence is self-evident. In the past five or six decades of its own semiconductor technology, ADI has been deeply rooted in the boundary between the real world and the digital world. We perceive the physical phenomena of the real world, transform them into numbers, and analyze them to form insights and guide decision-making. We have reason to believe in the research of "edge", the place where data was born and applied, It will bring more possibilities to unlock the future.