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2019.10

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Tadahiro Kuroda

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2019.10.05

The knowledge-driven society is here. How is the manufacturing industry going to adapt? Finding the answer is our mission at d.lab.
To realize Society 5.0 - a human-centric, ultra-smart society, it is necessary to bring about a paradigm shift from a capital-intensive to a knowledge-intensive society. While value-added in a capital-intensive society is primarily found in products, in a knowledge-intensive society it is delivered by services.
The key to creating services with high value-added is the innovative use of data that seamlessly connects between the physical world and cyberspace (virtual space). In other words, what is desirable is a system that utilizes IoT devices to collect information from the physical world and convert it into digital data, then performs sophisticated AI analysis on the data, and finally delivers valuable services through the internet based on the analysis results.

Such data-driven systems will require specialized semiconductor devices, both on the edge and in the cloud. There are tasks which are better suited for distributed processing at the edge near local sensors and memory, and tasks which are more efficiently performed through batch processing in the cloud. It is therefore necessary to utilize specialized chips that are optimized based on the required processing of the particular application.

As a result, the conventional capital-intensive chip development paradigm must transform into one that is knowledge-driven to deliver devices optimized for specific applications.