Since we were young, we were told that "three cobblers were better than Zhuge Liang ", but our cultural essence is often learned by some foreigners. Especially in the field of science and technology, in order to quickly cultivate the ecology and avoid detours, many companies have begun to seek technological breakthroughs in the form of "alliance". For example, the "NEXT G" alliance, the four-party alliance formed by the United States and many companies, and the 3D Fabric alliance formed by TSMC, etc., are important means to solve the problem.
However, the premise of alliance is that one party must have a voice in power or technology, otherwise it is likely that " unified push alliance " formed by Huami OV and others. Everyone wants to win benefits for themselves, and in the end they even shut down the official website!
Chinese Academy of Sciences , Ali , Tencent officially took action
So this time, the Chinese Academy of Sciences took the lead in conjunction with Alibaba, Tencent and other Chinese companies, and another big thing is going to do! According to reports, the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited top domestic companies Alibaba and Tencent to help design the semiconductor chip to create new chip intellectual property. The semiconductor research institution uses the open source architecture RISC-V.
As we all know, chips are roughly divided into three links from design to manufacturing: design, production, and packaging testing. We have high attainments in packaging testing, but we are a little unfamiliar in the first two links.
chip design link. Although Huawei has strong chip design capabilities, Huawei is not "a building that rises from a height of 100 feet high", but is based on the chip architecture designed by others for in-depth processing, similar to decorating it yourself when you get a rough house. In terms of chip architecture, the UK's ARM almost monopolizes the entire mobile chip architecture market, and the Intel X86 monopolizes the entire PC and server chip architecture market, and the two build a solid technical barrier.
, for example, ARM, which has free payments for small enterprises, tailored IP services for large enterprises, and humanized business models such as payment during use of wafer fabs, has been recognized by major chip manufacturers, and ultimately made ARM the best choice for major IC companies. In addition, ARM does not require chip drilling and manufacturing, and the cost is very low, so ARM has lived a very comfortable life in recent years.
However, this model has congenital defects and is easy to encounter troublemakers. On the one hand, one's own monopoly advantage will become the "tool" of others; on the other hand, low costs can easily attract competitors. Now ARM is all occupied.
In order to curb Huawei's semiconductor business, the United States has put pressure on its ally, the United Kingdom, and ARM terminated its cooperation with Huawei, with the latest instruction set authorization. In this case, Ni Guangnan Academician called on domestic technology companies to accelerate their layout in the RISC-V field. The reason why
focuses on RISC-V chips is not only because the instruction set is open source, and you can use and modify it at will without worrying about being bored; but also the architecture flexibility is very high, from a studio of 5 people to a R&D team of tens of thousands of people. Chips based on RISC-V architecture can meet the extremely serious demand for IoT devices from smartphones, PCs, IoT devices to supercomputers. This is an ideal alternative to breaking the technical barriers of ARM and X86.
The significance of the joint efforts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Alibaba and Tencent?
In the RISC-V field, in fact, Alibaba flat-touge has brought the Xuan Iron series, Yitian series chips based on the RISC-V architecture, and the swordless 600 chip platform. It has made considerable achievements in the RISC-V field. Why does the Chinese Academy of Sciences have to unite Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Tencent this time?
The editor believes that the greatest significance of this move is the assembly call for all-round cooperation between industry, academia and research. In recent years, Chinese companies have implemented many boredom technologies on the road of self-developed chips, but many people are worried about a realistic question: Will domestic chip companies work behind closed doors and get out of international market demand? For example, the chips made cannot be commercially available, cannot be compatible with Adobe's family buckets, cannot be compatible with the latest audio and video encoding, etc., because such cases are vivid in my mind.
Therefore, the significance of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in conjunction with Tencent, Alibaba and other Chinese companies is that every step of my country's research and development of RISC-V chips must be in line with the market, and moving from the laboratory to the market will be smoother. We will lay a solid foundation for the future prosperity of domestic RISC-V industry and ecological!
Regarding the domestic chip industry trends, foreign media have been hesitant and pay close attention to the status. The Chinese Academy of Sciences and giants such as Tencent and Alibaba have also made some foreign media say: It’s the United States’ turn to feel uncomfortable! As the world leader in semiconductor revenue, the United States has relied on X86 and ARM architecture chips in the past few decades. Now the alliance between Chinese companies is exactly what Ni Guangnan said, "The chip market in the future will be divided into three parts from RISC-V, ARM, and x86!" And 5G is the era of the Internet of Things, and the base of RISC-V chips will surely occupy a leading advantage.
