It is reported that the operating system Deepin and Jianshi Technology jointly developed the laptop , which adopts the RISC-V architecture that is currently enthusiastically supported by Chinese chips. This is the world's first RISC-V architecture PC, which means that Chinese chips promote the RISC-V architecture. After gaining an advantage in the Internet of Things chip market, it entered the PC market where American chip companies Intel and AMD had an advantage.
RISC-V architecture has now received strong support from Chinese chips. According to published information, 12 of the 19 senior members of RISC-V are from China. Chinese chips can be said to be the absolute support for RISC-V.
The development of the RISC-V architecture has been tepid in the past 10 years since its birth. In 2018, China established the RISC-V Industry Alliance. However, at that time, Chinese chips had not yet fully invested in it. Most chip companies were developing chips based on the ARM architecture. In 2019, ARM and Huawei cooperation encountered obstacles, and Chinese chips suddenly realized that ARM's so-called open cooperation also had restrictions. Since then, RISC-V has received strong support from Chinese chips.
Among Chinese chip companies, Ali Pingtouge should be the first company to strongly support the RISC-V architecture. It was the first to develop the Xuantie series of RISC-V architecture chips. It is reported that Xuantie chips have shipped billions in the past few years. chips, mainly used in the IoT chip market, because the cost of RISC-V architecture chips is lower, and Chinese IoT chips attach great importance to cost, so the RISC-V architecture with lower licensing fees is very popular in the IoT chip market. The
RISC-V architecture has proven its low-cost advantage in practical applications. It can be produced with mature processes but achieves higher performance. It emphasizes openness and has almost no licensing fees. Because it is a brand-new chip architecture, European and American companies have not yet obtained advantageous patents. , which is conducive to the chip companies born in China in recent years to develop RISC-V architecture chips and master more patents.
At present, ARM mainly occupies the mobile chip market. The X86 architecture owned by Intel and AMD occupies the server and PC processor markets, forming a two-power structure. However, after ARM has gained a monopoly advantage in the mobile chip market, it is actively entering the server chip market and PC. processor market.
The ARM architecture M-series processor developed by Apple in the United States has performance comparable to Intel processors, and also has power consumption advantages, allowing the development of thinner and lighter laptops with longer battery life. Therefore, the MacBook equipped with M-series processors It has continued to grow since its launch. In the first quarter of this year, Mac shipments increased by 18%, ranking first among the top five PC brands.
Chinese chip companies Huawei and Alibaba have developed ARM-based server chips. Huawei has applied ARM-based server chips to its own Taishan servers, gaining considerable market share from China Mobile and China Telecom server tenders. , successfully promoted the ARM architecture to open up in the server chip market.
However, with the cooperation between ARM and Chinese chips, there was a rift. Chinese chips strongly supported the RISC-V architecture. After promoting the RISC-V architecture to occupy the Internet of Things chip market, they began to promote the RISC-V architecture to enter the PC processor market. RISC-V The architecture will become a competitor to both ARM and Intel.
Nowadays, China plans to purchase 50 million domestically produced PCs. RISC-V architecture chips may gain some market share among them and officially enter the PC market. Since Chinese chips have more patents on the RISC-V architecture, Chinese chips are expected to Promote the RISC-V architecture to form a tripartite confrontation with ARM and X86, breaking the situation where US chips dominate the mobile chip and PC chip markets.
China's chip development has been rapid in recent years. Thousands of chip companies have emerged, breaking the monopoly advantage of American chips in many chip industries. The self-sufficiency rate of domestic chips is also rising. Recently, American chips have begun to lament the sale of chips. If we don’t go out, we have to massively cut prices and sell them. Looking back at two years ago, American chips treated Chinese manufacturing arrogantly, but now we have to expect Chinese companies to buy chips. It can be said that the situation has reversed. American chips should regret shooting themselves in the foot, right?
