Chapter 389 RISC-V Architecture! The sword points to the CPU!
When the special plane carrying North American negotiators landed at Pudong Airport, it was immediately received with a grand and friendly reception. The representatives stayed in the most luxurious five-star hotel in Shanghai, accompanied by Hong Tao and Yu Chengdong, and began their daily life of devotion and devotion.
On the first day, foreigners thought that the Chinese were so enthusiastic that the food was interesting and delicious.
The next day, foreigners said that the liquor was too spicy and had a greater momentum than expected, so Hong Tao suggested drinking some light rice wine today.
On the third day, foreigners said that rice wine was very easy to drink and was better than white wine, but after drinking too much, he was so confused that he was confused.
Hong Tao blamed himself for the poor hospitality and decided to let the hotel stew sober soup and replace the wine with lighter beer, Wusu brand beer...
"Yesterday we ate the Shanghai-Du Ben Bang dish, and the sauce was a bit heavy, so in the evening I invited everyone to eat Huaiyang cuisine, which is famous for its exquisiteness and delicateness. The tofu is cut like hair. The chefs of Huaiyang cuisine have all learned kung fu, so they are satisfied!" On the fifth day, Yu Chengdong introduced them excitedly.
The word Kung Fu immediately aroused strong interest from foreigners. Yu Chengdong took the opportunity to say that in order to eat authentic Kung Fu Huaiyang cuisine, he needed to go to Yangzhou in person. Anyway, it was better to go and see Suzhou gardens before going to Yangzhou.
After visiting Suzhou for two days and finally arrived in Yangzhou, Yu Chengdong said again that since they have all arrived here, everyone should just go to Nanjing to take a look. The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties will regret not going to...
How many people who can play high-tech and have such a high position are fools?
In a few days, they discovered that the Chinese did not seem to be planning to negotiate immediately, but were delaying time.
It seems that the Spring Festival is coming. As long as the negotiation plan is delayed until the Spring Festival period and the national holiday is on, the extension can be continued.
An uneasy atmosphere spreads rapidly. Past history has long proved that Luo Jia is definitely not a kind person, but a typical profiteer, a traitor and cruel person. He deliberately delayed time, obviously preparing an ulterior motive.
So the West immediately took action, mobilizing various relationships and forces to inquire about why Xingchen Technology deliberately delayed negotiations?
Soon, they found the reason.
risc-v!
This is a letter combination that all Chinese technology operators should remember because it is the key to breaking chip hegemony under the circumstances of a complete Western lockdown.
Risc-v is led by the University of California, Berkeley and is an open source processor instruction set. Based on this instruction set, users can develop their own processors for free.
The main pioneer of risc-v is David Patterson, who once won the Turing Award. Mr. David has a very high status in the world and is a master of computer architecture. He swept the world and established a sect.
Not long ago, Mr. David opened a risc-v laboratory in China, located at Berkeley College, Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, referred to as rios, and was preparing to implement the open source processor instruction set in China.
As the investigation unfolded, Luo Jia's plan B was finally exposed to the Western vision. They were shocked by Luo Jia's ambitions, and at the same time, they were also grateful that they discovered Luo Jia's true purpose as soon as possible.
In the field of semiconductors, there are countless products, the most high-end one is undoubtedly the general-purpose processor, which is the chip called CPU.
Risc-v is the basis for building CPUs!
The reason why Star Technology has been delaying is that they are talking to the semiconductor alliance and are also in close contact with Risc-V.
After mastering the lithography machine and wafers, Xingchen Technology started its plan to build CPUs!
This news came out of nowhere, making everyone in the semiconductor alliance so hard that the inside and outside burned, and their scalp became numb.
The famous Lord of the Rings in the Lord of the Rings is engraved with a passage of Modo words circulating on the Middle Earth. The Lord of the Rings belong to the Supreme, and the Supreme guides all demons. The Rings summon all the rings, and the rings return to one, and darkness comes.
The status of the cpu thing is comparable to that of the Lord of the Rings. If anyone can create this thing, he can directly stage a drama of returning the king of the semiconductor field.
Neon people, French, Koreans, British, Canadians, and even Papua New Guineas, any nation, any country, and any individual on the earth, no one does not want to create CPUs.
Of course, Chinese people are no exception. To put it bluntly, scientists dream about it and are simply crazy!
However, no matter how much I think about it, in the real world, the Chinese semiconductor industry started late and was still born at the wrong time, and encountered the ridiculous era of compradors being the leader.
In reality, Academician Ni Guangnan, who is determined to develop independently, is excluded everywhere, and promotes the conscience of the American imperialist who is worse than to buy, but is in power. In such a world, how can scientific and technological workers not feel disappointed?
It is easy to get on a pirate ship, but it is difficult to get off a pirate ship.
Academician Ni Guangnan once said with a heartache, "Do you really think Microsoft is a charitable person?" Of course they know who is using pirated versions. With their technical strength, it is not too easy to block pirated versions, but they just don't ban them and allow pirated versions in the Huaxia region to be rampant."
It is precisely because of the free windows that the domestic operating system is pressed down and cannot develop any of them. Now do you know that Microsoft is powerful? Free is the most expensive. Before we know it, our life gate has been handed over to the West!
This is especially true in the semiconductor field. If you want to create a CPU, you must first master the instruction set and architecture. Whether it is Intel's Core and Xeon, or Amd's Ryzen, you can use the x86 architecture to investigate its source.
Huawei's Kirin and Apple's A-series, as well as the mobile phone soc made by Samsung and MediaTek, are all from the IP of Arm.
There are also domestic CPUs, such as the supercomputer composed of Shenwei Taihu Light, which is the Shenwei 26010 processor developed by Jiangnan Computer Research Institute, and its performance is also pretty good.
But unfortunately, Shenwei is a specialized product in the field, which is valuable, but cannot be used to break the Western monopoly.
In addition, my country also has Zhaoxin Group.
Back then, after the world's third largest general CPU manufacturer, VIA Group, went bankrupt, many new companies were spawned on the bodies of giants, the two most famous ones were HTC and Zhaoxin.
Technology laymen may never think that the HTC group that is extremely lonely today was a super technology company that even CPU could build, VIA's mobile phone department.
At its peak, VIA was one of the world's most awesome semiconductor companies. It beat a long list of famous Japanese and Korean companies and was simply the glory of Chinese people.
However, history will eventually make the most fair ruling.
Wanwan is just a province of China after all, the short-sighted leaders and the petty people have played a lot of good cards.
Foxconn, a Wanwan company like Unification, is just a leech lying on the mainland to suck blood. Once it loses its identity and recognition, what else can Wanwan have left besides TSMC?
In short, after VIA Group fell, the mobile phone department became today's HTC. In a few years, HTC was beaten by the giants, Samsung and Apple so that even her grandmother could not recognize her. The super technology company that could even build even CPU finally became a small factory in the hands of Wanwan people. In this regard, they can only say that they deserve it.
In order to survive, VIA cross-authorized x86 to Huaxia Zhaoxin, becoming a plan for my country to reserve in the general CPU field.
The Chinese nation has been struggling for thousands of years, but was so weak that it was only the last breath that it did not die, which shows that it still has a strong desire to survive.
Just as my country has reserved three major armies in the field of memory chips, in addition to Zhaoxin Group, we also have a plan B in the general CPU field, that is, Haiguang Group.
On April 25, 2016, in the absence of large-scale news reports and extremely low-key, Haiguang Group signed an agreement with Amd Group. Haiguang Group invested 2900 million US dollars, plus future dividends, and bought the Amd Group Zen1 architecture authorization and x86 instruction set authorization.
Those who do not understand the semiconductor and technology industries may not be clear about the value of this agreement. This is the first time in China's history that it has obtained a global leading CPU architecture.
If these technologies digest and absorb and build CPU, they will directly lead to the computing power of the first or second-generation Core. With graphics cards, they can even eat chicken smoothly. The technical content is too high, and the price is less than 300 million US dollars, which is simply a bargain price, which is similar to the one you can pick up for free.
It turns out that they are both Chinese, but there is a difference between Chinese and Chinese.
As the world's second largest CPU manufacturer, Ms. Su Zifeng, its president, is a respected Chinese. This transaction that obviously cheapened China was achieved through Ms. Su's efforts. Perhaps in the future, it may not necessarily be necessary to remember Ms. Su's name.
There is also an interesting gossip. Nvidia Group, the world's most awesome graphics card manufacturer, has its founder Huang Renxun, who is Ms. Su Zifeng's cousin.
Of course, for well-known reasons, this matter was not promoted with great fanfare, and 99% of the people in China did not know about Haiguang Group.
But the result of this incident is as follows.
First, Haiguang got the first generation of Epyc and the second to last development version. It is a complete x86 high-performance server soc with 128 pci-e 3.0 channels.
Second, this architecture itself belongs to 4 pieces of zen die, which means that if it is disassembled directly, it can also create a complete desktop-level x86 processor, which is my country's B-plan under extreme conditions.
Third, it is possible that amd is one of the few semiconductor companies in North America that treats China more friendly. Rumors have been made that if the trade war had not happened too quickly, amd would have sold the second generation of Zen architecture to Haiguang.
The trade war is just a manifestation that ordinary people can see, and under this manifestation, it has been undercurrents for many years.
Although there have been shameless counterfeiters and eliminated people with insufficient abilities in history, today, we still have two lines of defense in the CPU field. They are Zhaoxin and Haiguang. Once the worst case occurs, Zhaoxin and Haiguang can be used. Although it is not easy to use, at least it will not die.
The West once thought that if you can't die, it was the upper limit of China in the general CPU field, and at most it would be like this.
Until today, terrifying news came, and the West suddenly discovered that Star Technology was actually cooperating with Risc-v!
What is this concept?
Whether it is Intel, Amd, or the two major preparatory groups, Huaxia Zhaoxin and Haiguang, all of their CPU technologies are developed based on the x86 architecture.
However, the direction of Xingchen Technology is risc-v!
They want to start a new business and recreate a complete set of CPU architecture and instruction set based on risc-v technology!
Chapter completed!