ARM makes a decision
Since the end of February, some technology giants in the Western market have launched a series of actions against the Russian market, and these actions have mainly focused on two aspects, one is to stop serving, and the other is to stop shipping. The manufacturers involved in these two waves of operations are mainly Intel, Apple, Google, Oracle, Dell, etc., which has brought great impact to local enterprises and users.
And in this state, according to the news on March 21, arm has been neutral chip instruction set supply company ARM has also made a decision, ARM said that it will also stop cooperation with the Russian market, this wave of operations, the impact on local semiconductor companies is huge, because the global mainstream chip instruction set architecture has three categories, namely Intel's X86, ARM's ARM architecture, and open source RISC-V architecture, and now the RISC-V architecture is still in its infancy. The real industry-leading is the X86 and ARM, so the impact of the ARM architecture can be imagined.
After ARM made a decision, on April 1, there was a new news about Huawei on the domestic social platform, according to the content of the message, Huawei seems to be about to launch a new Kirin series of chips, which is understandable, after all, at the 2021 annual performance conference held on March 28, Huawei's rotating chairman Guo Ping said that it will use stacking, area for performance to solve the chip problem, so the re-emergence of Kirin chips does not seem to be impossible.
However, the real point of attention is that according to the new news that came, the new Kirin chip will use the Taishan architecture, which caused a lot of controversy, because the last time there was news about the Taishan architecture was in April 2021, when it was revealed that Huawei would launch the Kirin 990A car specification chip based on the Taishan architecture, and now suddenly jumped to the Kirin chip based on the Taishan architecture to develop the Kirin chip for mobile applications.
Sure enough, it wasn't credible
The release of this news, whether it will come true, is temporarily unexamined, can only wait for time to reveal the answer, but on the other hand, this news can quickly catch fire in the market, in essence, it should be the public's distrust of the ARM architecture, so I hope that Huawei can quickly promote the development of alternative self-developed chip instruction set architecture.
In fact, this can really be understood, because ARM company really achieved two sides and three knives, in 2019 is obviously to maintain an open and cooperative attitude to the public ARM has changed its attitude towards Huawei, although the cooperation has been resumed in the later stage, but the credibility has been reduced a lot, and this time the attitude to the Russian market has once again made the outside world question the open attitude of ARM.
Even on overseas social platforms, some foreign media also commented on ARM companies, "Sure enough, ARM is not credible, and the only estimate that can really remain open is the RISC-V architecture, after all, the RISC-V architecture has achieved complete open source like the Linux system, and only a completely open source operating system can truly remain absolutely open."
This is completely faultless, which is why when developing their own operating systems, most of the regions around the world directly use Linux as the core, because only Linux systems can achieve independent control, so in the semiconductor industry, in recent years, domestic and foreign countries have begun to promote the development of RISC-V architecture.
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In fact, the development of alternative ARM architecture as a mainstream architecture is bound to become the mainstream, even if the ARM architecture is becoming the largest chip instruction set architecture in the world at this stage, but its privatization attribute is doomed to its future, perhaps in the attitude towards Huawei and the attitude of the Russian market before the attitude is made public, the global market also recognizes the open attitude of the ARM architecture in the semiconductor market, but now this trust has become a long way in the eyes of many regional enterprises.