Huawei's Kirin 9000 chip is outstanding, and domestic chips are rising
Recently, Huawei announced the specific parameters of the flagship mobile phone Mate 50 series, and the Kirin 9000 chip it is equipped with is eye-catching. This chip, which is manufactured using TSMC's 5nm process, is close to the international advanced level such as Apple A15 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+.
The Kirin 9000's CPU single-core performance is excellent, beating the Snapdragon 888 in most benchmark tests. What's even more surprising is that its multi-core performance is not inferior, almost on par with the A15. The Kirin 9000's GPU is just as powerful, and it can run 3D heavy games efficiently.
In addition to its excellent computing power, the Kirin 9000 also excels in power consumption control. It uses TSMC's next-generation Arm v9 instruction set and supports a variety of AI acceleration technologies to achieve better energy efficiency while delivering superior performance.
Industry insiders, the reason why Huawei Kirin 9000 can make such a breakthrough in chip performance stems from Huawei's unremitting efforts in chip design and process over the years. Despite being hit hard by U.S. sanctions, Huawei has made great strides through its own innovation.
Not only that, Huawei is developing the Kirin 9010 chip with a 4nm process, which is expected to further improve performance and energy efficiency. This indicates that China's chip industry is accelerating to catch up with the international advanced level, and the strength of domestic chips should not be underestimated.
China's chip industry is breaking through the bottleneck of development
Although the outstanding performance of Huawei Kirin 9000 is encouraging, the overall strength of China's chip industry is still far from the international advanced level. In recent years, China has made great progress in chip design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, and the industrial chain is becoming more and more complete.
In terms of chip manufacturing, SMIC has already mass-produced 14nm process chips and will achieve 7nm mass production in 2025. The technical level of memory chip companies such as YMTC is also constantly improving. Although there is still a gap compared with international giants such as TSMC, China's chip manufacturing industry is accelerating to catch up.
Chip design is a bright spot in China's chip industry. In addition to Huawei, a number of innovative chip design companies have also emerged in China, such as Cambrian and Horizon. They have made breakthroughs in the fields of AI chips and server chips, and their performance has approached or exceeded that of similar international products.
It is worth noting that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the development of the chip industry and has introduced a number of supportive policies. In 2020 alone, the central government arranged 237 billion yuan of special funds to support the development of integrated circuits. With the strong support of policies and funds, China's chip industry is expected to accelerate the breakthrough of bottlenecks.
The development of China's chip industry has not been smooth. U.S. chip sanctions on Chinese companies such as Huawei have had a severe impact and have exacerbated the global chip shortage. China still has shortcomings in chip design software and high-end talents. However, as long as we insist on independent innovation, these challenges will eventually be overcome.
Domestic chips will have a great future in the future
The development prospects of China's chip industry are very bright. With the rapid development of emerging technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing, the demand for chip performance and computing power will increase exponentially. This has brought a rare development opportunity for domestic chips.
The domestic flagship mobile phone chip represented by Huawei Kirin 9000 has been able to meet the performance needs of most users. With the popularization of 5G mobile phones, higher requirements will be put forward for the AI and multimedia processing capabilities of chips, and domestic chips are expected to achieve new breakthroughs in these fields.
In the field of artificial intelligence, computing power is considered to be a key factor restricting the development of large models. In the future, the demand for computing power for large models and multimodal models will increase exponentially, which poses a higher challenge to chips. Fortunately, a number of companies focusing on AI chip innovation have emerged in China, and they are expected to make breakthroughs in the field of computing chips.
Emerging fields such as cloud computing and big data also put forward higher requirements for chip computing power. Domestic chip companies such as Cambrian and Horizon have developed server chips with excellent performance, and are expected to further expand their applications in these fields in the future.
Although China's chip industry is still facing many challenges, as long as it adheres to independent innovation and increases investment, it will be able to achieve breakthroughs in more fields in the future and contribute to China's scientific and technological development. It is believed that after unremitting efforts, China's chip industry will eventually rise and shine on the world stage.