This year, the 6-nanometer 5G chip developed by Shanghai integrated circuit enterprise Zhan Rui will be used in domestic mobile phones such as Tianyi No. 1, allowing users to get a smooth 5G experience and a richer enjoyment of intelligent life. Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter recently learned from Zhan Rui that the company's second-generation 5G chip platform - Tanggula T770, Tanggula T760 has achieved mass production of customer products, and will provide advanced 5G chips for China Telecom, ZTE, Hisense and other partners.
Chu Qing, CEO of Zhan Rui, introduced that the company's second-generation 5G chip platform is the world's first successful chip-back 6-nanometer chip platform, which has a maximum performance increase of more than 100% and an increase of more than 100% in integration compared with the first-generation platform. "It also supports the most cutting-edge communication technologies such as 5G R16 and 5G slicing, leading us into a truly 5G intelligent society."
The second-generation platform has a 5G main platform set and an optional 5G RF front-end set, with more than ten chips, each chip has reached the mass production standard. Among them, the 5G main platform kit includes 7 chips such as the main chip, the radio transceiver and receiver dual-purpose machine, and the power management chip; the 5G RF front-end chip contains multiple chips such as PA.
In terms of product maturity, compared with the mass production of the chip itself, the chip platform realizes the mass production of customer products and has higher requirements. The mass production of customer products means that the product maturity and quality of the chip platform have reached the state of being able to directly face the end user such as consumers, which proves that the chip platform has fully achieved the design goal.
For the application prospects of the domestic 6nm 5G chip platform, Chen Li, deputy general manager of China Telecom Terminal Operation Center and Tianyi Telecom Terminal Co., Ltd., said: "The new generation of cloud mobile phone Tianyi No. 1 2022 is about to be listed and will be equipped with the Tanggula T770 platform. The phone uses a new cloud and local operating system, the industry's first 5G slicing-enabled acceleration application, users can accelerate the cloud business class experience. ”
It is understood that the 5G slicing supported by domestic 5G chips is a network slicing technology, which can divide the operator's physical network into multiple virtual end-to-end networks, and each virtual network will flexibly respond to different network application scenarios according to different service needs to ensure network reliability and throughput. Through 5G slicing, it can also combine local computing power with cloud computing power to reduce transmission delay, combat jitter, interference and frame loss, ensure high-definition content rendering, and achieve the perfect combination of performance and power consumption.
"ZTE, as an Alpha customer of Zhanrui, will release a number of 5G terminal products equipped with Tanggula T760 this year." Luo Wei, vice president of ZTE and director of the Terminal Division Product Center, said, "We believe that the mass production of the T760 and the new generation of 5G terminals will add new vitality to the 5G diversified ecosystem. ”
In addition to consumer electronics such as smartphones and car-mounted tablets, domestic 6nm 5G chips will also be used in industries such as the Industrial Internet of Things. The second-generation 5G chip platform can not only provide full-scenario connectivity, but also provide surging intelligent computing capabilities, so based on the chip platform, it is very suitable for creating an AIoT (artificial intelligence + Internet of Things) platform that integrates connection and computing. After superimposing a variety of operating systems and service components, it can carry intelligent applications in multiple industries, and can also become the core components of intelligent terminals such as drones and intelligent robots.
It is reported that 6 nanometers is the beginning of Zhanrui in the advanced process of chips, the company has enough technology accumulation, plans to let the next generation of products use 5 nanometers and other more advanced semiconductor technology.