Abstract:The breakthrough of artificial intelligence chip technology plays a vital role in the development of artificial intelligence. Through the cluster analysis of AI chip technology innovation, identify the path of China's intelligent chip technology innovation. From the regional level, analyze and compare the distribution of Chinese smart chip technology innovation sectors in Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao + Taiwan, central and western regions and eastern regions. On this basis, this study identifies the key subjects of smart chip technology innovation and draws their R & D cooperation relationship, which can provide reference for the formulation of China's smart chip innovation and development policy. Research findings (1) through the cluster analysis of smart chip technology innovation from 2018 to 2022, it is found that China's smart chip technology innovation path can be divided into three ways: 1 Continue the traditional computing architecture and accelerate the hardware computing power; 2. Follow the laws and properties of quantum computing, from quantum communication to quantum chip; 3. Simulate the structural connection of biological neural network, design based on neural morphological architecture, and create brain like chip. (2) The distribution of important and key sectors of China's AI chip technology innovation shows that the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing Tianjin Hebei regions focus on the whole track of AI chip technology innovation, and the innovation vitality is gradually released, forming a symbiotic innovation ecology of "ICT giant + specialized enterprise + University". Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao focus on AI mainstream tracks and continue the traditional innovation mode dominated by ICT giants. Most of the innovation subjects in the central and western regions are universities and scientific research institutes, focusing on the laboratory research and development of AI chips.