A real Chinese mobile processor? Purple light exhibition sharp, AI performance beat snapdragon 855!

Column:Industry news Time:2019-08-02
For a long time, the domestic chip has been the image of the disease, not only performance is poor, most of the technology also can not keep up with the international mainstream, so most of the domestic enterprises have to rely on imports.

For a long time, the domestic chip has been the image of the disease, not only performance is poor, most of the technology also can not keep up with the international mainstream, so most of the domestic enterprises have to rely on imports.

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In fact, in China, domestic chips have long been a big investment, huawei's hsi semiconductor is a familiar one. As early as 1991, huawei established the predecessor of hsi semiconductor, huawei integrated circuit design center, and then formally established hsi semiconductor co., ltd. in 2004. As everyone knows, hsi finally released the mobile phone processor chip K3V2 in February 2012 with years of research and development experience.

K3V2 processor is a precursor to kirin 900 series, in May 2014, huawei haisi introduced a quad-core kirin 910 t, and in the next few years in the 970 and 960, kirin kirin mobile processors can represent China kirin 980 at present, AI is the killer kirin processor performance, although in such aspects as the GPU cannot and qualcomm Xiao dragon series, but the AI operation is unsurpassable.

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Huawei haisi fire kirin processor, now huawei/glory has completely get rid of the dependence on qualcomm, as early as a few years ago all need to rely on imported qualcomm Xiao dragon processor, kirin processor has now become the android camp in the second place, according to huawei's annual report shows that in 2018 for smartphones accumulated more than two of shipment, also represent the sea, kirin chip occupies a significant market share.

Although it is a great breakthrough for China, does it mean that hsi kirin processor is completely domestic? In fact, people who know it will define it as part of domestic, because the whole manufacturer idea of kirin chip is that ARM provides the core of the public version, huawei redesigns the architecture, as well as communication baseband and TSMC production. However, we should not be surprised, because qualcomm's chips, samsung Orion and apple A series are all based on ARM cores. Later, they were independently developed. I believe huawei will develop its own core one day.

So in China, are there any real domestic mobile processors? It certainly wasn't there before, but now it has a chance. Has revealed a great god Slashleaks exposes a technical data, according to domestic enterprises purple light show sharp designed a UD710 processor, and defeated in AI floating point run points Xiao dragon 855, run list ranked the third in mobile processors AI, of course, from mediatek Helio P90, kirin 980 etc and some distance, don't know if mass production has some improvement.

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Although UD710 has not been released, we can see that unigroup is determined to attack the high-end mobile processor market. After all, huawei's haishi kirin processor is only for internal use and not open to other friends, so it is very important for domestic chip companies to develop an independent mobile processor. From a technology perspective, the UD710 is expected to have independent NPU units built in for AI load computing, which is roughly the same as huawei kirin and mediatech.

But it is impossible to judge purple light show sharp UD710 is the core of independent research and development design, because the present stage of huawei is using the ARM and core, the design can be seen in the core part of the difficulty is great, if violet light show sharp since the grind out the core framework, believe that the development of Chinese chip can play a very important role, it is possible that break the European and American enterprises restricted to start! So, I'm really looking forward to this moment.

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