In early this month, Apple and Samsung have announced that they will stop selling products in Russia; after qualcomm also announced on Wednesday that it will stop providing chips to Russia, Qualcomm is one of the world's largest chip manufacturers, its Snapdragon 8 series, Snapdragon 7 series chips are used in mainstream high-end Android smartphones, Apple's iPhone also has Qualcomm's 5G baseband built-in.
Qualcomm is a chip developer, and does not have chip manufacturing capabilities, but most of the chips for Qualcomm in recent years are Samsung FOUNDRies, so in the case that Samsung stops selling products to Russia, Qualcomm's chips are naturally difficult to continue to sell in Russia; of course, the domestic mobile phones currently sold in Russia may also be affected by Qualcomm and Samsung.
The world's two largest computer chip manufacturers - Intel, AMD has announced the cessation of sales in Russia, desktop, notebook computers on the chip are mostly provided by these two manufacturers, most of the chips on the server are also from Intel; these two computer chip manufacturers on Russia after the "cut off" of Supply, Koyake believes that the impact is relatively large - because there are almost no alternatives.
Recently, ARM, the world's leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property rights, announced that it will stop providing products and support to Russian customers and partners, but interestingly, this ban is confirmed by email; of course, email can be used as evidence on many occasions, and some companies also recognize the validity of email.
Intel and AMD are the world's two largest X86 architecture chip manufacturers, and ARM is the owner of arm architecture, Qualcomm, MediaTek, HiSilicon and even Apple's chips are also based on ARM architecture; ARM's influence in the global market is extremely strong, of course, mainly focused on technology patents, which means that Russia needs to develop a new architecture independently.
Of course, the open source RISC-V may become the only choice in Russia, in fact, many domestic manufacturers such as Huawei have also launched products based on the RISC-V architecture, but most of them are used in the Internet of Things, and are not used in computers or mobile phones; at this stage, RISC-V is not very strong in computers and mobile phones, and it takes a period of development.
RISC-V belongs to the simplified instruction set, the consumption of hardware and system resources is relatively low, more suitable for some low-performance equipment, such as the Internet of Things terminal equipment, etc.; in addition, Russia does not have too strong computer or mobile phone manufacturers, so it is relatively difficult to promote the development of new architectures, after all, let foreign brands help them develop the system, which is almost impossible.