Domestic chips counterattacked, triggering the reshaping of the global technology map
Have you ever wondered who designed and manufactured the "brain" chips of everyday electronic products such as mobile phones and computers? For a long time, the chip industry has been monopolized by foreign companies, but in recent years, China's independent and controllable chip industry has ushered in explosive growth.
Domestic chips such as Loongson and Kirin not only catch up with international giants in terms of performance, but what is more exciting is that they represent China's independent innovation capabilities in the field of key core technologies. This "counterattack" of domestic chips is triggering the reshaping of the global technology map.
Loongson is the representative work of China's independent instruction set architecture LoongArch, and the single-core performance of the latest 3A6000 series desktop CPUs has caught up with the Intel Core i3 level. Kirin is a mobile chip based on ARM architecture, and the latest 9000S has improved performance in CPU, GPU, AI, etc., which is expected to challenge the dominance of international giants such as Qualcomm and Apple.
The rise of these domestic chips is inseparable from the strong support of national policies. In recent years, the Chinese government has introduced a series of supportive policies to encourage independent innovation and increase capital investment, creating a good development environment for domestic chip companies.
There is still a long way to go for independent innovation of domestic chips
There is still a long way to go for domestic chips to truly achieve "independent and controllable" and challenge the hegemony of international giants. On the one hand, there is still a gap between them and international giants in terms of process and design capabilities; On the other hand, the rise of RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture, has also brought new challenges to domestic chips.
Take Loongson and Kirin as examples, although they have made breakthroughs in performance, compared with international giants such as Intel, AMD, and Apple, they are still one or two generations behind in chip manufacturing technology. The process technology directly determines the key indicators such as power consumption and heat generation of the chip, and the backward process will undoubtedly drag down the overall performance.
In addition, Loongson and Kirin also have room for improvement in chip design capabilities. An excellent chip not only requires powerful computing power, but also requires careful architecture design and system optimization, which is where the current shortcomings of domestic chips lie.
In addition to their own shortcomings, domestic chips are also facing challenges from the RISC-V camp. As an open source instruction set, RISC-V has attracted international giants including Google, Intel, and Qualcomm to join with its open and flexible advantages.
The growing RISC-V ecosystem means that chip design will be more open and diverse in the future. For Loongson's autonomous instruction set, how to maintain its advantage in this new situation will be a huge challenge.
In the face of many difficulties, domestic chip companies are not discouraged. On the contrary, they are increasing their R&D investment, actively bringing in talent, and trying to narrow the gap with international giants. The state has also given strong support in terms of policies and funds, pointing out the direction for the independent innovation of domestic chips.
The independent innovation of domestic chips is of great significance, and the future can be expected
Can domestic chips finally challenge the hegemony of international giants? What is the result of this "China Chip" counterattack? It is too early to make a conclusion, but it is undeniable that the rise of domestic chips is of great significance to the improvement of China's independent innovation ability in science and technology.
Semiconductor chips are known as the "food of modern industry" and are the cornerstone of supporting the development of the information society. If a country lacks the ability to innovate independently in the fundamental field of chips, it will be very vulnerable to others. The development of an independent and controllable chip industry is the only way for China to become a scientific and technological power.
The rise of domestic chips such as Loongson and Kirin is a solid step forward for China on this road. Their emergence not only marks a breakthrough in key links such as chip design and manufacturing, but more importantly, establishes the self-confidence of Chinese in independent innovation.
At this stage, there is still a big gap between domestic chips and international giants, but as long as we insist on independent innovation and perseverance, we will be able to catch up one day. Just like China's aerospace industry in the past, after several generations of unremitting efforts, it has now become a space power.
With the support of national policies and the continuous improvement of the industrial ecology, domestic chips will surely achieve breakthroughs in more fields and contribute to China's scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance. That domestic chip may be just around the corner to challenge the hegemony of international giants.
Let's wait and see the final result of this "China Chip" counterattack. I believe that as long as we adhere to independent innovation, Chinese will definitely be able to grasp the autonomy in the fundamental field of chips and inject more impetus into the construction of a scientific and technological power!