Patent ID: 11954204
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. An artificial intelligence (AI) processing apparatus, comprising:
a hardware layer including a hardware AI processor and a central processing unit (CPU), wherein the hardware AI processor is a neural processing unit (NPU) or a graphics processing unit (GPU), wherein each of the CPU and the hardware AI processor has at least two working modes and can switch between the at least two working modes, and wherein security of the at least two working modes is different,
wherein the CPU is configured to:
receive an AI processing request;
determine a target mode corresponding to the AI processing request, wherein the target mode is one of the at least two working modes, wherein the AI processing request includes information for AI processing, and wherein the target mode of the AI processor is determined based on the information for AI processing corresponding to the target mode; and
execute a security policy corresponding to the target mode, and

wherein the hardware AI processor is configured to:
process the AI processing request in the target mode.