has begun to change. This time it is related to the chip architecture. Intel is early layout, Apple , Google has now kept up. What exactly happened?
rejects high licensing fees, and manufacturers start to act
Since the US began to modify chip rules, "autonomousness" has been mentioned more and more. However, for enterprises, "independent" is actually not in line with the interests of short-term development most of the time. Especially many American companies.
Although enterprises do not have to be independent, they will definitely want to get rid of the high authorization fees. This is the only way for enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency and achieve more benefits.
Why should Apple get rid of its dependence on Samsung and develop A series of chips? Why have you fought with , Qualcomm, for many years to reduce the authorization fee? Huawei Why did Huawei create HiSilicon , self-developed Kirin and Kunpeng series chips? If I don’t believe it if I don’t like the huge benefits brought by the attention to it, I don’t believe it.
However, no matter how these manufacturers make a fuss on chips, they cannot bypass Intel and ARM. These two giants have joined forces to basically monopolize more than 90% of the chip architecture market.
Huawei's self-developed chip Kirin 9000 used before, using the arm architecture. At that time, ARM's annual revenue was about US$2 billion, and Huawei alone contributed about 1/5 of it, which shows how expensive the licensing fee is. Even if Huawei is now cut off supply and Mate 50 uses Snapdragon chips, there must be part of the arm architecture authorization in the cost of purchasing Qualcomm chips.
Apple uses A series chips, which are also based on the arm architecture instruction set. Although self-developed chips do save Apple a lot of money, purchasing ARM licenses is a penny.
So, manufacturers have been struggling with Intel, ARM for a long time! In fact, manufacturers have not thought of getting rid of Intel and ARM's "cutting the leeks", but these two business structures have been for a long time and have built a huge moat with patents, which has left manufacturers with almost nowhere to start.
However, the situation has quietly begun to slowly change.
Apple, Google has kept up, Chinese academicians bet on
Recently, Apple was revealed to be abandoning ARM and turning to RISC-V camp. It replaced the ARM part with RISC-V in its own embedded chip core instruction set. On the other hand, Google also uses SiFive's architecture design for TPU. Let me give you some popular science on SiFive, an emerging chip design company based on the RISC-V architecture, and has become a strong competitor in the overseas RISC-V camp.
Apple and Google's actions are not that big, but they represent a sign: the RISC-V architecture is being accepted by top global manufacturers, and is trying to use this architecture to get rid of the embarrassing situation of being "cut off" and create more profits.
At this point, I have to say that the Chinese academicians have bet right. Ni Guangnan Academician Ni Guangnan has always been paying attention to domestic independent core technologies. Regarding the field of chip architecture, he said at a very early stage that RISC-V is an important opportunity for China Chip to achieve autonomy and take the initiative. For this reason, Academician Ni Guangnan has been focusing on this field and is working hard to promote the accelerated implementation of RISC-V in China.
Now, with the efforts of Ni Guangnan and a number of domestic companies, my country's RISC-V architecture ecosystem has begun to rise. Alibaba released the world's first RISC-V high-performance chip platform - Wujian 600. Chinese Academy of Sciences has also promoted the RISC-V processor core "Xiangshan" to the "Kunming Lake" generation through self-development. In the
RISC-V International Foundation, my country occupies 12 of 19 senior members, and has formed a three-legged stalemate with the United States and Europe, which means that my country has not lost the initiative in the new RISC-V architecture.
With the entry of top companies like Intel and Apple, the RISC-V competition will only become more and more intense. In this regard, we must establish our own ecological system and form internal self-sufficiency, which requires domestic manufacturers to put aside their prejudices and work together. Otherwise, one day ARM and X86 are cut off, and manufacturers will regret it.
