Someone broke the news that the cost of a single piece of Huawei's flagship chip Kirin 9100 was less than 2,000 yuan! As soon as this news came out, it immediately sparked heated discussions on major social platforms.
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For this news, many people in the industry shouted cruelly: "It's impossible to dream!" Huawei's chip process design and manufacturing level has long been a world leader. How can a flagship chip with billions of transistors be only 2,000 yuan per product? It's a fantasy!
So, what is the true cost of Huawei's top chips? Today, let's find out.
According to an insider close to Huawei's chip team, the initial cost assessment of Huawei's top chip Kirin 9000 series is already around 3,000 yuan. Due to the advanced process technology at this stage, coupled with the blessing of a large number of innovative patented technologies, this price is definitely not an appropriate underestimate.
Moreover, with the further expansion of production capacity and the improvement of production line efficiency, the average cost of the Kirin 9000 series will decrease, but it will also remain at a high level of 2,500 yuan. It can be seen how expensive a Kirin 9000 with an integrated 10.8 billion transistors is.
As for the next generation of Kirin flagship chips to be released next, such as the rumored Kirin 9100 or Kirin 10000 in the market, its initial cost is estimated to be higher than 2,000 yuan, hovering around 2,500 yuan. The reason is that Huawei has carried out large-scale process upgrades and innovation investment in this new generation.
We must know that a chip needs to consume a lot of manpower, material and financial resources from scratch, from design to mass production and put on the market. Huawei invests more than $20 billion in R&D every year. Just an advanced chip manufacturing plant costs hundreds of billions of yuan.
Therefore, the cost of chips is not an isolated number, it requires common governance and integrated innovation of all links, and the cost will naturally rise. However, having said that, it is not difficult to find that with the gradual emergence of the scale effect of Huawei's chip production line, the cost per unit of chip will continue to decline in the future.
Industry analysts expect that the unit cost of Huawei's chips will continue to be optimized in the future, and it is expected to further flatten the gap with international giants such as Apple and Samsung. Of course, this requires Huawei to continue to make steady progress in terms of process and manufacturing scale, and make breakthroughs in key areas.
Netizens said that they still need to give Huawei a little time!
Overall, the cost of a single chip is not everything. More importantly, through continuous innovation and the superposition of scale effect, we will continue to create cost-effective and high-quality products for consumers. Only in this way can Huawei chips be invincible in the future market competition.
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