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Today to talk to you about: the new news about ARM came, it is really not credible, Huawei began to cut into a new starting point!
"Technology knows no borders, but scientists have it!" This sentence in the current special situation, has been mentioned many times, want to achieve the beautiful vision of the "global village", it seems that it is basically impossible, since March, a number of science and technology companies have suspended cooperation in the Russian market, stopped system services, stopped product supply, has directly affected the people's lives, which has violated the original intention of "scientific and technological development"!
After Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, etc. have been cut off, the Russian market has also launched countermeasures, Russian enterprises and people do not renew, can continue to use software services, while nationalizing the local assets of these enterprises to ensure that more people are not unemployed, but the field of electronic products is more tricky, can only seek cooperation with Chinese companies, obviously this is a lose-lose situation!
New news came from ARM
Although ARM is controlled by Son Zhengyi's SoftBank Group, it is actually a British company, coupled with the complete autonomy of technology, has always maintained a neutral attitude in today's market, but on March 21, ARM publicly stated that it would stop cooperating with the Russian market.
ARM as the world's only mobile chip architecture in use, its status and Intel's X86 is not bad at all, although the market has also been born RISC-V architecture, there are chips equipped with the architecture was born, but after all, it is still in the research and development stage, can not be well commercialized, so in a short period of time, the status of ARM architecture is still quite stable.
Huawei began to cut into a new starting point
In the recent news about Huawei chips, the content of which is very clear, that is, Huawei wants to launch a new Kirin chip, and this time it is likely that the use of ARM architecture, in Huawei's 2021 financial report conference, Guo Ping said that the follow-up will be stacked, area for performance to solve the chip problem, the implication is to abandon the original way of core building.
Although the original Kirin chip process reached 5nm, but it is currently impossible to achieve manufacturing, so in order to make the Kirin chip come back to the market, as long as the relevant restrictions are not lifted, it is impossible to achieve in the short term, and Huawei's self-developed "Taishan" architecture has been mentioned many times recently, and there has been news that Huawei will develop Kirin 990A vehicle specification chip based on the architecture.
If the research and development of the car specification chip is really realized, the Taishan architecture is not impossible, and it is used in the research and development of mobile chips, which means that Huawei has one more choice, which can continue to develop the RISC-V architecture, and also be able to reserve the final retreat for itself, after all, Huawei has applied for a patent in chip stacking technology last year, and Huawei also has corresponding experience in advanced packaging and testing technology.
ARM is indeed not credible
For whether Huawei will develop chips based on the Taishan architecture, it has not yet been officially confirmed, but presumably such news will not come out of nowhere, there is certainly a certain possibility, although ARM has not been successfully acquired by Nvidia, but it does not mean that there is no risk of supply interruption, after all, Huawei has not yet been authorized by the latest architecture.
Huawei began to cut into a new starting point of the news, is after arm companies cut off supply and Cooperation with Russia, widely circulated in the network, the final reason is the distrust of ARM companies, although they monopolize 98% of the global market, but the actual operating situation is not optimistic, the parent company SoftBank Group is heavily indebted, there is no energy to take care of ARM, can only rush to push it to the IPO listing, in order to seek the entry of external capital.
As a neutral company, as early as 2019, the attitude has changed, the latest architecture is authorized to Qualcomm, once wanted to interrupt cooperation with Huawei, but under the pressure of public opinion in the end, there is not so much, but its credibility has been affected to a certain extent, especially the attitude to the Russian market, but also once again let the outside world question the company's open attitude.
At present, what Huawei has to do is to develop its own available instruction set architecture, if the Taishan architecture can not meet the corresponding requirements, then the RISC-V architecture is definitely a very good choice, it really does the same as the Linux system, there is no restriction on the complete open source, any enterprise wants to use it, but it is free, but it needs to carry out in-depth customization, but also to have a certain strength of the enterprise to be able to do.
At present, the domestic research and development of desktop-level operating systems, are based on Linux for in-depth research and development, and also in the development process of autonomous chips, are also the use of RISC-V architecture, these two completely open source technologies, can be used as a temporary breakthrough, but in order to completely solve the problem of related restrictions, it is necessary to develop an independent and controllable instruction set architecture, what do you think about this?