Domestic GPUs take another step forward: Moore Threads releases new meta-computing architecture MUSA and GPU products

As one of the biggest beneficiaries driven by the heterogeneous era and emerging applications, with the increasing demand for computing power and AI performance in fields such as servers, automobiles, artificial intelligence, and edge computing, GPUs are making rapid progress with their advantages in parallel processing and general computing, allowing the market to continue to grow at a high speed.

According to data from Verified Market Research, the global GPU market was valued at US$25.41 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach US$185.31 billion in 2027, with an average annual growth rate of 32.82%.

In recent years, a large number of GPU startups have been born in China, and almost all first-tier investment institutions have participated in the fundraising of these companies. Since the entrepreneurial teams of these companies are mostly from internationally renowned GPU companies and have rich development experience, they have developed rapidly.

Moore Threads is undoubtedly one of the most dazzling companies. At the spring conference held today with the theme of "Meta-Power to Create Infinity", Moore Threads founder and CEO Zhang Jianzhong interpreted the industry trend of "meta-computing" and released a new architecture and a series of blockbuster new products, including: MUSA (Moore Threads Unified System Architecture) unified system architecture; Sudi, the first generation of multi-function GPU chip built on the MUSA architecture; MTT S60 desktop graphics card for PCs and workstations and MTT S2000 graphics rendering and computing card designed for data centers; GPU physics engine AlphaCore; DIGITALME digital human solution; and multiple meta-computing application solutions to help the development of the digital economy.

At the press conference, Moore's Thread also demonstrated the rich applications of its MUSA architecture multi-function GPU, covering digital office, audio and video entertainment, industrial and architectural design, geographic information system, cloud desktop, cloud gaming and other scenarios, fully demonstrating the wide applicability of Moore's Thread products and the strong driving force for the acceleration of the digital economy. Many guests from the government, universities, developers, ecological partners, industry customers and the media witnessed this important moment of Moore's Thread.

“Meta-computing” empowers the next generation of the Internet

Moore's Threads first proposed the concept of "meta-computing". Meta-computing is a general computing platform that supports the next generation of Internet applications, including the metaverse. It is based on graphics computing and AI computing. It is the underlying computing power support for the digitization of the physical world and the physicalization of the digital world, and will open up a broader development space for the digital economy.

Zhang Jianzhong, founder and CEO of Moore Threads, said: "The era of meta-computing has begun. Multi-function GPUs are the computing infrastructure for meta-computing and the origin of our innovation. Moore Threads is committed to innovating a new generation of GPUs for meta-computing applications, building a general computing platform that integrates visual computing, 3D graphics computing, scientific computing, and artificial intelligence computing, and establishing an ecosystem based on cloud-native GPU computing to help the development of the digital economy."

Zhang Jianzhong further pointed out that the launch of this series of new products is a major milestone in the company's development, and it is also a concentrated reflection of our R&D strength, ecological cohesion and innovative execution capabilities. "

MUSA unified system architecture and the first generation chip "Sudi"

In order to break through the barriers of foreign giants in GPU, we must not only focus on optimizing chip performance, but also closely couple the software and hardware architecture.

MUSA is the unified system architecture used by the Moore's Threads product series, including a unified programming model, software runtime, driver framework, instruction set architecture, and chip architecture. Applications developed by developers based on MUSA will have broad portability and can run on a variety of computing platforms in the cloud and at the edge, including various product lines for graphics, computing, multimedia, and artificial intelligence.

At the same time, the first generation of Moore Threads multi-functional GPU chip, Sudi, built on the MUSA unified system architecture, was officially unveiled. It is reported that the chip has built-in modern graphics rendering engine, intelligent multimedia engine, AI computing acceleration engine, physical simulation and scientific computing engines. It aims to fully meet the diversified computing power needs of the digital economy cloud edge with advanced modern GPU architecture, wide platform versatility and full-stack computing capabilities. So far, with its deep insight into the GPU market, proven successful GPU design experience, rigorous and mature technical routes and strong execution, Moore Threads has become one of the companies that has taken the lead in the R&D and design of multi-functional GPUs in the Chinese market and can achieve mass production and delivery of GPUs at an extremely fast speed.

Next-generation multi-platform GPU physics engine AlphaCore

It is also worth mentioning that AlphaCore is a next-generation multi-platform GPU physics simulation system independently designed and developed by Moore's Law. It is capable of ultra-high-precision physical simulation of complex solids, flexible bodies, fluids and other effects in the physical world. Through computational simulation, the physical interaction effects of cloth, hair and digital character soft muscle tissue can reach movie-level realism.

AlphaCore physics engine can achieve rich dynamic effects of material interaction with its powerful material mechanics module, such as elastic-plastic materials, anisotropic materials, down jackets, leather, silk, nylon, etc. The series of tools developed based on AlphaCore include: cloth and hair production tool - VeraFiber; gas fluid simulation tool - Catalyst; and biomimetic calculation tool - Bionics. Compared with Houdini Vellum's soft hair release material and PyroFX's pyrotechnic fluid, AlphaCore has a 5~10 times performance improvement.

At the same time, AlphaCore also provides a multi-platform compatible version to maximize compatibility with Vulkan, CUDA, DirectX and other Runtime API environments in the existing ecosystem, as well as Houdini, Unreal, Unity and D5 game engines and design software, covering a wide range of actual application scenarios in the fields of film and television post-production, animation, games, architectural representation, etc.

MTT S60 desktop graphics card for PC and workstation

At the press conference, the first generation of Moore's Thread desktop graphics card MTT S60 based on the MUSA unified system architecture was launched and became the focus of the whole event. As the first breakthrough multi-functional smart graphics card of Moore's Thread, the MTT S60 graphics card is mainly aimed at PCs and workstations. With its excellent mainstream graphics capabilities, extensive AI algorithm support, breakthrough video processing capabilities, and unique green energy efficiency technology, it can provide strong computing power support for entertainment needs such as graphics rendering, digital office, audio and video entertainment, intelligent manufacturing CAD/CAE, geographic information GIS, architectural design BIM, video editing, artificial intelligence applications, and mainstream games.

The MTT S60 graphics card is based on the MUSA unified system architecture GPU core chip, using a 12nm process, including 2048 MUSA cores, single-precision floating-point operations up to 6TFLOPS, a pixel fill rate of 192G Pixel/s, 8GB of video memory, and supports 4K/8K high-definition display. The MTT S60 graphics card not only supports the mainstream H.264 and H.265 encoding formats, but also leads the industry in providing hardware encoding support for the AV1 video format; in terms of hardware decoding, it supports hardware decoding of many formats such as AV1, H.264, and H.265. In addition, the MTT S60 graphics card also supports many graphics API interfaces such as DirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL, and OpenGL ES, which can meet the needs of various high-graphics load applications for 2D and 3D graphics rendering.

The launch of MTT S60 makes Moore Thread the first GPU company to support Windows 10 operating system. The excellent graphics performance of MTTS60 graphics card can also meet the e-sports game needs of e-sports users. It can not only provide smooth gaming experience for "League of Legends" e-sports players under Windows 10 operating system, 1080P resolution, and the highest image quality environment, but also complete the smooth operation of many popular games such as "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" and "Dota 2" under the domestic Linux operating system environment.

Currently, Moore Thread MTT S60 supports mainstream CPUs such as Intel, AMD, Loongson, Feiteng, Zhaoxin, and operating systems such as Windows, Kirin, Tongxin, and Ubuntu, and has begun to cooperate with many PC partners, including Lenovo, Inspur, Tsinghua Tongfang, Great Wall Super Cloud, etc. (in no particular order). At the same time, many partners demonstrated industry applications based on MTT S60 graphics cards on site, including: Kingsoft Office, Xiaoyu Easy Link, Taiji Graphics, ZWCAD, Glodon, D5, Cangqiong Digital, SuperMap Software, EasyZhirui, Zhongdi Digital, OSG Community, and Gala Sports.

Ecosystem collaboration has always been the key to promoting industry and experience upgrades. Therefore, Moore Threads initiated and worked with many industry partners to build China's "Perfect Experience System Alliance (PES Alliance)", aiming to create more value for ecological partners and create a perfect experience for end users through collaborative cooperation in product planning, R&D, and final production stages, focusing on unified standards, integrating resources, sharing technology, etc.