Wuhan's chip industry has reported good news again, and domestic GPU chips have been mass-produced and listed
Recently, there has been exciting news from Wuhan's chip industry again! Wuhan Lingjiu Microelectronics Co., Ltd. announced that its self-developed second-generation graphics processor GPU chip GP201 has been successfully mass-produced and marketed. With a core frequency of up to 1200MHz, a maximum memory capacity of 32GB, and a single-precision floating-point computing power of 1.2Tflops, this chip can fully meet the needs of commercial computers and high-reliability electronic devices.
Wuhan Innosilicon's "Fenghua No. 2" GPU chip was also launched in August last year, which can be called the leader of domestic GPU chips. It not only has powerful rendering capabilities and high-definition three-screen display functions, but also has multiple capabilities such as AI computing and 4K video decoding, leading similar products in terms of energy efficiency, rendering, memory bandwidth, and AI computing.
The advent of these domestic GPU chips will undoubtedly inject new impetus into the construction of the mainland's computing base. For a long time, GPU chips have been monopolized by foreign giants, and we have to rely on imports. Now with independent and controllable domestic GPUs, we can truly achieve "core" sovereignty and independence, and clear the obstacles for the development of domestic software and hardware ecosystems.
Domestic GPU chips have broken through many technical barriers, and their performance has gradually improved
The development of domestic GPU chips has not been smooth sailing. For a long time, the mainland has been monopolized by foreign giants in this field, and the core technology is controlled by others. However, in recent years, with the strong support of national policies, our chip companies have made breakthroughs in independent innovation through unremitting efforts.
Initially, there was a significant gap between the performance of domestic GPU chips and similar foreign products. They are mainly used in some low-end fields, such as ordinary commercial computers and industrial control equipment. Our researchers did not stop there, they persevered in tackling key problems and researched, and gradually possessed independent intellectual property rights.
For example, the GP201 chip launched by Wuhan Lingjiu Microelectronics has achieved breakthroughs in a number of core technologies, such as multi-core unified rendering engine design, high-speed on-chip interconnection bus design, etc. Its core frequency is as high as 1200MHz, and the single-precision floating-point computing power reaches 1.2Tflops, which is comparable to the current mainstream low-end GPU products.
Jingjiawei, another leading domestic enterprise, has launched the "Jinghong" series of high-performance intelligent computing products for AI training, inference and scientific computing. This product not only supports a variety of precision operations, but also adopts a new multi-card interconnection technology, which can realize the expansion of computing power and greatly shorten the user adaptation verification cycle.
In addition to the improvement of performance, domestic GPU chips have also made great progress in ecological adaptation. In the past, they were often only compatible with a handful of domestic CPUs and operating systems. But now, Lingjiuwei's GP201 can support mainstream domestic CPUs such as Loongson, Feiteng, and Shenwei, as well as mainstream operating systems such as Kirin and UOS, which greatly broadens the application scenarios.
After years of research, China's GPU chip technology has moved from "usable" to "easy-to-use". They have been significantly improved in terms of performance, power consumption, ecological adaptation, etc., and have gradually narrowed the gap with foreign products.
Domestic GPU chips are catching up, giving wings to the construction of domestic computing power
After years of hard work, China's GPU chip technology has made great progress and is accelerating to catch up with foreign counterparts. This not only won us the right to independent and controllable "core", but also gave wings to the construction of domestic computing power.
At present, the performance of domestic GPU chips can meet the needs of large application scenarios. Taking Jingjiawei's JM9 series as an example, its single-precision floating-point operation capability has reached 14.8TeraFLOPS, which is comparable to NVIDIA's flagship products. Moreover, they have also made breakthroughs in power consumption control and ecological adaptation.
More domestic GPU chips have begun to be applied in some key areas. For example, in terms of artificial intelligence training and reasoning, many domestic companies are using domestic GPUs for large model training to get rid of their dependence on imported chips. In the fields of intelligent driving and intelligent manufacturing, domestic GPUs have gradually begun to replace imported products.
With the strong support of national policies and the investment of enterprises, the performance of domestic GPU chips will become stronger and stronger, and the ecology will be increasingly perfect. At that time, we will be able to truly realize the independence and controllability of chips and contribute to the high-quality development of domestic computing power construction.
We are not trying to confront foreign chip companies, but to achieve autonomy and controllability in specific fields. The use of domestic chips in some safety-sensitive fields will undoubtedly be more reliable; In the civilian field, as long as the cost performance is appropriate, domestic chips are also worth choosing.