Academy of Intelligent Innovation (AII) of Shandong University is located at the Jinan Campus, and is an international, intelligent, and industrial-oriented applied research institution, and an academic special zone of Shandong University. Its mission is to focus on the research of Intelligent industry technologies and the incubation and cultivation of related industries, to build a high-level science and technology innovation team through the dual engines of university and enterprise innovation with major tasks as traction, to break through the core technologies of Intelligent industry, to cultivate leading talents of Intelligent industry, to promote the development of Intelligent industry, and to seize the high point of global Intelligent industry.

AII has various talents including Chair Professors, Special Professors, Taishan Scholars, Double-Appointed Professors. It has formed a talent structure system of scientific and technological leaders (strategic scientists), scientific and technological talents (professors, researchers) and engineers, practiced organized scientific research, optimized innovation mechanism, collaborative research and committed to promoting the combination of industry, academia, and research.

The research direction of AII is AI+ computing. AII focuses on RISC-V ecology, designs a series of high-performance processors for high-performance computing needs such as data centers and edge processing. The main research contents include CPU high-level modeling and simulation, single-core high-performance architecture design, multi-core high-speed interconnect architecture, CPU efficient verification environment development; in terms of system software, it realizes firmware development and optimization, operating system development and optimization, compiler support and optimization, hardware driver development and optimization, etc., to promote the research and development of high-end CPU chips and industrial development.

AII has innovation platforms such as the Provincial Key Laboratory of New Generation Semiconductor Technology and System, and has built an IC design platform, including a large computing center and a full set of genuine EDA design tools from EDA vendors.

AII closely cooperates with leading companies and research institutions in the industry, and takes the lead in a number of projects such as the RISC-V CPU R&D and Industrialization Major Science and Technology Innovation Project, establishes a cooperative research institute to actively promote industrialization.