(Yicai Global) Oct. 31 -- Tianjin-based supercomputer manufacturer Dawning Information Industry Co. [SHA:603019] and artificial intelligence chip startup Cambricon Technologies Corp. have developed the first AI server with Cambrian chips in the first scientific research achievement since the two firms began cooperating last year.

The server, Phaneron, got its name from the current geological eon, the Phanerozoic Eon, which started with the Cambrian Period, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today. Phaneron mainly promotes an online business environment, and its 20 AI modules can respond to requests in real time and make rapid judgments on data.

Cambricon's AI chips perform better, use less power and take up less space than their traditional counterparts. The 2016 World Internet Conference ranked them as

as one of the 15 leading scientific and technological achievements.

Dawning Information Industry will continue to work with Cambricon Technologies to develop more information infrastructures equipped with chips according users' AI requirements for high-performance computers and cloud servers, Dawning Information Industry President Li Jun said.

Dawning Information Industry is an affiliate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is the largest high-performance computer provider in Asia, and its Nebulae supercomputer became the third machine capable of computing hundreds of billions of times per second.