Four years ago, the United States suppressed Huawei under the pretext of "information security". After several rounds of suppression, Huawei's self-developed Kirin chips are unmanned foundry, and the chips purchased by Huawei from Qualcomm are also non-5G versions, which has led to a sharp drop in Huawei's mobile phone sales, which is less than a fraction of its peak.
For this reason, many international institutions and individuals are not optimistic about the development prospects of Huawei's chips, believing that Huawei's independent chips will disappear and have to rely on chips from foreign companies such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Intel.
Recently, a number of news came from Huawei chips, and some foreign media said: Huawei chips have begun to accelerate their "breakthrough"!
First of all, Huawei's first overseas factory officially landed in France, recently, Huawei France branch executives said: Huawei's first overseas factory will be completed in France, the factory is expected to start production in 2025, and the factory's goal is to "produce 1 billion devices per year", which will be supplied to the entire European factory.
It is reported that Huawei plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan to build a factory in France as early as 2020. If all goes well, the plant will be officially launched by the end of 2021. However, because Huawei has been suppressed by the United States in recent years, France can only suspend the construction of this factory under the pressure of the United States, and finally new progress has been made recently.
It is worth noting that this factory is used to produce 4G and 5G chipsets and motherboards, which will improve the supply of components for Huawei's 4G and 5G communication equipment. It can be seen that in 4G and 5G chipsets, Huawei will achieve breakthroughs in overseas factories.
Recently, some media exposed Huawei's two trademarks, one is the Chinese trademark "Lingxi Instruction Set", and the other is the English trademark "LinxiSA". It is reported that the two trademarks were registered in April 2019 and October 2022 respectively, indicating that Huawei has long been prepared for the autonomy of the instruction set.
Many people may not understand what an instruction set is? Generally speaking, an instruction set is a command that performs operations and processes functions on a chip. The research and development of chips is realized on the basis of the instruction set, so the instruction set is the "foundation" of chip research and development, which is very important.
At present, the chip research and development of Apple, Qualcomm, and Huawei are all based on the ARM instruction set, and Huawei has obtained a permanent license for the ARM V8 architecture, but the latest architecture of the ARM instruction set has been upgraded to the V9 version.
At present, ARM has not licensed the V9 version to Huawei, so the performance of Huawei's chip based on the V8 version is not as good as that of the chip developed based on the V9 version, and Huawei will lag behind its competitors in the field of chip research and development.
Now Huawei has registered the "Lingxi Instruction Set" trademark, which shows that Huawei has achieved a technological breakthrough in the field of instruction set. Once ARM cuts off Huawei's supply, then the Lingxi instruction set will be listed like the HarmonyOS system. At that time, on the basis of the HarmonyOS system ecology, the Lingxi instruction set will also be as widely praised as the ARM instruction set X86 instruction set.
Finally, the emergence of Huawei's Kirin 9000S chip shows that Huawei's chip industry chain has tended to improve, and at the end of August 2023, Huawei officially launched the Huawei Mate60Pro mobile phone, which is equipped with a Kirin 9000S chip. Huawei has not revealed any information about this chip, so we don't know what kind of process the Kirin 9000S chip uses, what GPU architecture, what CPU architecture, and even the overall score of the Kirin 9000S is also unknown.
Major foreign institutions dismantled and analyzed the Kirin 9000S chip, and finally concluded that the Kirin 9000S chip does not use foreign technology, it is an independent chip produced in the mainland, and the process of the Kirin 9000S chip is likely to be between 7nm and 14nm.
Based on the emergence of the Kirin 9000S chip, the outside world generally believes that Huawei's Kirin chip foundry industry chain has achieved a breakthrough and is no longer controlled by others.
Write at the end
Huawei's factory in France has been officially inaugurated, and Huawei will produce a large number of chipsets in France to supply communication equipment for the European market. In addition, Huawei has registered the Lingxi instruction set, which indicates that Huawei has begun to lay out in the field of instruction sets. The advent of the Kirin 9000S chip has made global organizations realize the strength of Huawei's chip autonomy. Because of this, foreign media said: Huawei chips have begun to accelerate their "breakthrough".
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