At present, in the field of global smartphone operating systems, in addition to Huawei's self-developed HarmonyOS system, Google's Android system and Apple's IOS system have the largest number of users and the highest market share. However, there is actually a fundamental difference between the two systems, of which the IOS system is closed-source, and the Android system is open source.
In other words, Android is actually free to use by mobile phone manufacturers around the world, and Huawei's smartphones sold in overseas markets are actually using Android, such as the Pura 70 that was recently launched in Malaysia. However, although Google has been under the banner of open source, it is controlling Android through the ecological environment, and recently announced an important decision on the open source architecture RISC-V architecture, and even foreign media said: It is really unreliable, Huawei has been prepared.
With the feature of open source, the Android series has won nearly 70% of the market share of the global operating system market, but in fact, although Google has open-sourced the Android system, it has not listed its own GMS service as an open-source project. GMS service is very important in the international smartphone market, and it can even be said to be one of the core ecological cores of the Android system.
For example, in recent years, many chip design manufacturers have begun to accelerate the research and development of RISC-V open source architecture, including Huawei, Alibaba and other Chinese companies, as well as Intel, Qualcomm and other American companies, have begun to "add" the development of RISC-V architecture.
In 2023, Google said that the Android system will support the RISC-V architecture, which is actually a very good decision for the development of the RISC-V architecture. After all, although chips are widely used today, the main shipments are still in the two fields of mobile phone SOC chips and computer processor chips.
Android system is the mainstream system in the field of smart phones, if the Android system does not support the chip developed by RISC-V architecture, then it will inevitably have a lot of impact on the development of RISC-V architecture.
The United States has always wanted to restrict the development of Chinese companies in the RISC-V architecture, but the RISC-V architecture is an open source architecture and the United States cannot interfere. However, what people did not expect was that on April 25, the U.S. Department of Commerce said that it would review the risks posed by China's use of RISC-V architecture chip technology.
Later, on April 30, Google said that it would remove support for the RISC-V architecture on the Android kernel, which is actually cooperating with the United States against Chinese companies. This incident actually proves how important it is to master a domestically developed operating system, but fortunately, Huawei's HarmonyOS system has begun to accelerate its development, which also means that the development of RISC-V architecture in the domestic market will not be affected too much.
What's more, for Google, not supporting the RISC-V architecture is not a solution. Nowadays, many American chip companies have also begun to accelerate the development of RISC-V architecture, when the Android system was able to quickly become a world-renowned mobile phone operating system with the feature of open source, and today's RISC-V can also win more market share with the feature of open source.
Judging from the current situation, the development of RISC-V architecture has become a trend, and it is unlikely that the United States will use the Android system to influence the development of Chinese enterprises in terms of architecture, not to mention that Huawei has long been prepared.
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