Technological Supremacy Chapter 389: RISC-V architecture! The sword points to the CPU!
When the special plane carrying North American negotiators landed at Pudong Airport, they received a grand and friendly reception immediately. The representatives stayed in the most luxurious five-star hotel in Shanghai, accompanied by Hong Tao and Yu Chengdong, and began their daily routine. A life of debauchery.
On the first day, the foreigners felt that the Chinese people were too enthusiastic, and the food was interesting and delicious.
On the second day, foreigners said that baijiu was too spicy and had more stamina than expected, so Hong Tao proposed to drink some light rice wine today.
On the third day, the foreigners all said that the rice wine tasted very smooth and tasted better than white wine, but after drinking too much, they were almost dead, and their heads were in a daze.
Hong Tao blamed himself for the poor hospitality, so he decided to make the hotel stew hangover soup, and replace the drinks with lighter beer, Wusu brand beer...
"Yesterday we ate local dishes in Shanghai, and the sauce was a bit heavy, so tonight I invite everyone to eat Huaiyang cuisine, which is famous for its exquisiteness and delicateness. The tofu is cut like hair, and the chefs of Huaiyang cuisine all learn from it Work hard and enjoy it!" When the time came to the fifth day, Yu Chengdong excitedly introduced it to them.
The word Kung Fu immediately aroused the strong interest of foreigners. Yu Chengdong took the opportunity to say that in order to eat authentic Kung Fu Huaiyang cuisine, he needs to go to Yangzhou in person. Anyway, it is better to go to Suzhou before going to Yangzhou garden.
After two days of shopping in Suzhou and finally arriving in Yangzhou, Yu Chengdong said, since we are all here, everyone should go to Nanjing to have a look, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, you will regret it if you don’t go...
How many people who can play high technology and occupy such a high position are fools?
After a few days, they discovered that the Huaxia people didn't seem to intend to negotiate immediately, but were delaying the time.
Seeing that it is the Spring Festival, as long as the negotiation plan is postponed until the Spring Festival, when the whole country is on holiday, it can continue to be postponed.
An atmosphere of uneasiness spread rapidly. Past history has long proved that Luo Jia is by no means a kind person, but a typical profiteer, the kind who is treacherous and ruthless. An ulterior plan.
Therefore, the West immediately took action, mobilizing various relationships and forces to find out why Xingchen Technology deliberately delayed the negotiation?
Soon, they found out why.
RISC-V!
This is a combination of letters that all Chinese technology companies should remember, because it is the key to breaking the hegemony of chips under the situation of complete Western blockade.
RISC-V is led by the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open source processor instruction set. Based on this instruction set, users can develop their own processors for free.
The main creator of RISC-V is David Patterson, who once won the Turing Award. Mr. David has a very high status in the world. He belongs to the great master in the field of computer architecture. .
Not long ago, Mr. David opened a RISC-V laboratory in China. The address is located in Shenzhen Tsinghua Berkeley College, referred to as, preparing to let the open source processor instruction set land in China.
As the investigation unfolded, Luo Jia's Plan B was finally exposed to the western perspective. They were shocked by Luo Jia's ambition, and at the same time, they were grateful for the early discovery of Luo Jia's true purpose.
In the field of semiconductors, there are countless kinds of products, the most high-end of which is undoubtedly the general-purpose processor, that is, the chip called CPU for short.
This open source technology of RISC-V is the basis for making CPUs!
The reason why Star Technology has been delaying is because they are in close contact with RISC-V while talking with the Semiconductor Alliance.
After mastering the lithography machine and wafer, Star Technology started the plan to make CPU!
This news came out of nowhere, and everyone in the Semiconductor Alliance was shocked inside and out, and their scalps were numb.
The famous Lord of the Rings ring is engraved with a Mordo text that has been passed down in Middle-Earth. The Lord of the Rings belongs to the Supreme, and the Supreme guides all the demons. .
The status of the CPU is comparable to that of the Lord of the Rings. If anyone can build this thing, he can directly stage a big show of the return of the king in the semiconductor field.
Neon people, French, Koreans, British, Canadians, even Papua New Guineans, any nation on earth, any country, but any individual, there is no one who does not want to make a CPU.
Of course, Chinese people are no exception. To put it bluntly, scientists dream about it, and they almost want to go crazy!
But thinking about it, in the real world, China's semiconductor industry started late, and it was born at an untimely time, when it encountered the absurd era when compradors were in power.
In reality, Academician Ni Guangnan, who wanted to do independent research and development, was crowded out everywhere, preaching the conscience of the US emperor who said that making is worse than buying, but instead holds power. How can scientific and technological workers not be disappointed in such a world.
It is easy to get on a thief ship, but difficult to get off a thief ship.
Academician Ni Guangnan once said heartbrokenly, do you really think Microsoft is a good person? Of course they know who is using pirated versions. With their technical strength, it is not easy to block pirated versions.
It is precisely because of the free Windows that the domestic operating system has been firmly held back, and it cannot be developed. Now you know that Microsoft is powerful, right? The free ones are the most expensive. Before we know it, our fate has been handed over to the West!
This is especially true in the semiconductor field. If you want to build a CPU, you must first master the instruction set and architecture. Whether it is Intel's Core and Xeon, or AMD's Ryzen, the source of it is the X86 architecture.
Huawei's Kirin and Apple's A series, as well as the mobile phone SOCs manufactured by Samsung and MediaTek, all originate from the IP of ARM.
There are also domestic CPUs. For example, the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is made up of the Shenwei 26010 processor, developed by the Jiangnan Computer Research Institute, and its performance is not bad.
But it is a pity that Shenwei is a special-purpose product and valuable, but it cannot be used to break the monopoly of the West.
In addition, my country also has Zhaoxin Group.
Back then, after the bankruptcy of the world's third largest general-purpose CPU manufacturer, VIA Group in Wanwan Province, many new companies were spawned from the giant's corpse, the two most famous of which were HTC and Zhaoxin.
Technology laymen may never think that the HTC Group, which is extremely lonely today, used to be the mobile phone department of VIA, a super technology company that can even manufacture CPUs.
In its heyday, VIA was one of the most powerful semiconductor companies in the world, beating a long list of famous Japanese and Korean companies, and it can be called the light of the Chinese.
However, history will eventually make the most just verdict.
After all, Wanwan is just a province in China. The short-sighted leaders and petty people have played a good hand of cards to pieces.
In the final analysis, Foxconn, Uni-President and other Wanwan companies are just leeches lying on the mainland to **** blood.
All in all, after the collapse of the VIA Group, the mobile phone department became today's HTC. In just a few years, HTC was beaten by the Big Four, Samsung, Apple, and even her grandma couldn't recognize it. The super high-tech enterprise created by Wanwan has finally become an eighteenth-rate small broken factory in the technology industry in the hands of Wanwan people. Regarding this, we can only say that they deserve it.
In order to survive, VIA cross-licensed X86 to Huaxia Zhaoxin, which became my country's plan A reserved in the field of general-purpose CPU.
The Huaxia nation has been tossing for thousands of years, and the one who was once weak is still alive with its last breath, which shows that its desire to survive is still very strong.
Just as our country reserves three major armies in the field of memory chips, in the field of general-purpose CPUs, in addition to Zhaoxin Group, we also have a plan B, which is Haiguang Group.
On April 25, 2016, when the news was not reported on a large scale and was extremely low-key, Haiguang Group signed an agreement with AMD Group. Haiguang Group invested 290 million US dollars, plus dividends in the future, to buy AMD Group's ZEN1 architecture authorization and X86 instruction set authorization.
People who don't understand the semiconductor and technology industries may not understand the value of this agreement. This is the first time in China's history that it has obtained the world's leading general-purpose CPU architecture.
These technologies are digested and absorbed. If the CPU is built, it will directly have the computing power of the first or second generation Core. With the graphics card, it can even eat chicken smoothly. The technical content is too high, and it is less than 300 million US dollars. The price is simply the price of Chinese cabbage, which is almost the same as that picked for nothing.
Facts have proved that the same is Chinese, but there is a difference between Chinese and Chinese.
As the world's second largest CPU manufacturer, AMD's president, Ms. Su Zifeng, is a respectable Chinese. It is not necessarily necessary to write down Ms. Su's name.
There is also an interesting gossip, the world's most powerful graphics card manufacturer Nvidia Group, its founder Huang Renxun is Ms. Su Zifeng's cousin.
Of course, due to well-known reasons, this matter was not publicized with much fanfare. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the country did not know about Haiguang Group.
But the consequences of this incident are as follows.
First, Haiguang obtained the first generation of EPYC, the penultimate development version, which is a complete X86 high-performance server SOC with 128 PCI-E3.0 channels.
Second, the architecture itself is a combination of 4 pieces of ZENDIE, that is to say, if it is directly disassembled, it can also create a complete desktop-level X86 processor, which is my country's plan B under extreme conditions.
Thirdly ~IndoMTL.com~ It is possible that AMD is one of the few semiconductor companies in North America that is more friendly to China. It is rumored that if the trade war did not happen too fast, AMD would have put the ZEN architecture The second generation was also sold to Haiguang.
The trade war is only a surface that ordinary people can see, and under this surface, there has been an undercurrent for many years.
Although in history, there have been shameless counterfeiters and those who were eliminated with insufficient capabilities, but today, we still have two lines of defense in the CPU field. They are Zhaoxin and Haiguang. In this case, Zhaoxin and Haiguang can both be used. Although it is not easy to use, at least it cannot die.
The West once thought that not being able to die was the upper limit of China in the field of general-purpose CPUs, and that was the case at best.
Until today, when the terrible news came, the West suddenly discovered that Xingchen Technology is actually cooperating with RISC-V!
What is this concept?
Regardless of whether it is Intel or AMD, or the two major preparatory groups of Huaxia Zhaoxin and Haiguang, everyone's CPU technology is developed on the basis of the X86 architecture.
And the direction of Xingchen Technology is RISC-V!
They are going to start all over again and rebuild a whole set of CPU architecture and instruction set based on RISC-V technology!
Everyone is playing on the X86 architecture, but Xingchen Technology, they don't play!