The Weike Cup · OFweek 2025 (10th) Annual AI Industry Awards, organized by OFweek, a leading portal for China's high-tech industry, and executed by OFweek AI, stands as a prominent branding event within the AI sector. It is recognized as one of the most professional and influential awards in the high-tech industry.

The aim of this event is to establish a platform for brand communication and exhibition of AI industry products, technologies, and enterprises. Through the extensive resources and influence of the OFweek platform, innovative products and solutions are introduced to industry users and the broader market, encouraging technological innovation among enterprises. Additionally, it strives to deliver innovative products and cutting-edge technologies to the industry, fostering a collective vision for the future of AI.

The registration deadline for this award is June 13, followed by an online voting phase from June 18 to June 27, 2025. The grand award ceremony will be held in Shenzhen on July 30. Currently, the event is witnessing an influx of enthusiastic enterprise applications, with positive responses from industry players.

Participating Enterprise

Arm China Technology Co., Ltd. ("Arm China Technology"), a leading domestic chip IP design and service provider, operates as an independent joint venture. Rooted in local innovation, the company integrates self-developed technological innovation with Arm technology licensing to offer a diverse product portfolio and solutions tailored for China's integrated circuit industry, thereby strengthening China's intelligent computing "chip" ecosystem.

Application Information

Award Category: Weike Cup · OFweek 2025 Excellent Innovative Product Award in the AI Industry

Product Name: "Zhouyi" NPU AI Processor

Development Background:

In 2025, Arm China Technology unveiled the latest iteration of its "Zhouyi" NPU series, the "Zhouyi" X3 NPU. With the growing popularity of AIGC-represented new-generation AI applications and their accelerated integration into emerging terminal fields like AI PCs, AI mobile phones, robots, smart cars, and wearable devices, edge AI has emerged as the linchpin for the next wave of technological innovation. Unlike cloud-side high-performance CPU and GPU clusters, edge computing power exhibits distinct characteristics, challenging NPU processors with factors such as a vast and dispersed number of edge devices, uneven computing power levels, and stringent power consumption and cost constraints.

The "Zhouyi" NPU is an AI processor independently developed by Arm China Technology for deep learning, encompassing comprehensive hardware IP and the Compass software platform. Currently, the "Zhouyi" NPU boasts multiple iterations in the Z and X series to cater to diverse computing needs. Specifically, the Z series targets the AIoT market, providing AI computing support for IoT devices, while the X series focuses on high-performance computing applications like automotive, edge computing, and edge AI, further enhancing computational efficiency.

Product Features:

Hardware Level: The new generation of "Zhouyi" NPU processor transcends traditional design limitations by increasing external bandwidth to 256GB/s, effectively addressing the bandwidth bottleneck for large model computations. Fully supporting FP16 computations, this NPU processor ensures efficient and stable model operation through a comprehensive int4 hardware and software quantization acceleration solution, meeting the high-precision requirements of edge large models. Additionally, aiming to meet the low latency demands of edge models, the "Zhouyi" NPU processor achieves efficient multi-core computing power expansion through hardware and software co-optimization. Under the 7nm process technology, a single cluster can reach up to 80 TOPS of computing power, effortlessly handling large models with context lengths exceeding 16K, while fulfilling the high computing power needs of multimodal scenarios and chain-of-thought computing. Furthermore, this NPU processor boasts powerful multi-task parallel processing capabilities, enabling flexible task switching through fine-grained scheduling and priority resource allocation, ensuring seamless collaboration between traditional voice and vision services and large model applications, thereby delivering a smoother user experience.

Software Level: The new generation of "Zhouyi" NPU software stack offers efficient quantization compilation tools that significantly compress model size while maintaining high-performance inference capabilities. It caters to diverse needs through flexible compilation options and has undergone extensive optimization for large models, including dynamic inference optimization and hardware computing power potential exploitation, effectively enhancing inference speed and throughput. Currently, the software stack supports multiple mainstream large models such as Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, ChatGLM, and MiniCPM, and provides a toolchain for interfacing with the Hugging Face model library, facilitating direct mainstream model deployment.

Reasons for Participation

NPU, with its remarkable energy efficiency, is progressively becoming the cornerstone of edge AI computing, particularly suited for handling AI tasks demanding high computing power and extended processing times. Arm China Technology's self-developed new generation of "Zhouyi" NPU adopts an architecture optimized for large model characteristics. Through hardware and software co-optimization, it achieves efficient multi-core computing power expansion, providing a pivotal impetus for the intelligent upgrade of terminal devices.

Award Category: Weike Cup · OFweek 2025 Excellent AI Empowerment Case Award

Case Name: "Zhouyi" NPU Empowers Innovative Upgrades of Domestic Industrial and AI PC Development Boards

Achievements Description

Over the past year, Arm China Technology has collaborated with Realtek Semiconductor and Centaur Technology to launch the "SiRider S1" industrial development board and the "Xingrui O6" AI PC development kit, empowering local developers in efficient innovation. Arm China Technology's self-developed "Zhouyi" NPU provides robust AI computing support for these development boards, fully satisfying the needs of diverse application scenarios.

"SiRider S1" Industrial Development Board: As a single-board computer tailored for the industrial field, this board integrates Xinqeng Technology's industrial-grade "Longying No.1" 7nm AIoT application processor SE1000-I, Arm China Technology's self-developed "Zhouyi" NPU, and Realtek Semiconductor's industrial-grade products, further promoting the widespread adoption of domestically produced high-performance chips in key areas like industrial manufacturing and intelligent robots.

"Xingrui O6" AI PC Development Kit: Targeting emerging scenarios such as AI PCs, edges, and robots, "Xingrui O6" integrates Centaur Technology's first heterogeneous high-efficiency chip product specifically designed for AI PCs, the "Centaur P1". Equipped with the latest Armv9 processor and AI acceleration units like the Arm Immortalis GPU and "Zhouyi" NPU, it empowers edge AI applications across multiple scenarios, providing developers with cutting-edge AI development tools.

Reasons for Participation

Leveraging the "Zhouyi" NPU processor, Arm China Technology actively collaborates with outstanding domestic chip industry partners to accelerate the development of the NPU software and hardware ecosystem. This endeavor provides efficient, convenient, and flexible AI development tools for numerous local developers, enabling them to explore innovative applications of cutting-edge AI technology in diverse edge scenarios.

Welcome to Participate

The current "OFweek 10th AI Awards 2025" event is experiencing a surge in enterprise applications, with the application channel set to close on June 13! This is a prime opportunity to showcase corporate strength and gain industry recognition. Don't delay! Interested companies can click on "Read the Original" at the end of this article or fill out the link below to take immediate action and let your company shine in the realm of artificial intelligence!

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