In the face of the blockade from the United States, Huawei also chose a positive response, indicating that they have a plan B, have spare chips, and continue to serve customers in an environment of extreme survival!At the beginning, Huawei`s desperation to throw into Haisi was not a fever. Looking at it now, this approach is very far-sighted. In the light of the recent situation, I believe everyone agrees? What does it mean to belong to your own chip? Lower R&D and manufacturing costs, more optimistic bargaining power, and more reliable supply guarantees. Each one has made countless mobile phone manufacturers envy and hate. Huawei started its ASIC design center in 1991 and established HiSilicon in 2004 until it became a representative of China's independent chip design. So what chips does Huawei make?
From a broad perspective, Huawei has designed five types of chips:
1, SoC chip
2, AI chip
3, server chip
4, 5G communication chip
Other dedicated chips.
1.SoC chip (Kirin series): The mobile phone SoC chip has always been the main research of Huawei. The Kirin 980 processor launched on August 31, 2018 and the Kirin 985 chip is expected to be launched in the second half of this year. Huawei's mobile phone chip has reached the world-class level. Level.
2.AI chip (Shengteng series): On October 10, 2018, at the HC conference of Huawei, two AI chips, the Shengteng 910 and the Shengteng 310, were released, using 7nm process technology and 12nm process technology respectively. The Shengteng series AI chip adopts Huawei's groundbreaking unified and scalable architecture, namely [Da Vinci Architecture", which realizes full coverage from the ultimate low power consumption to the ultimate high power computing scene.
3. Server chip (): Huawei optimized and designed the technology provided by its partner ARM. On January 7, 2019, it released the Kunpeng 920 and the Taishan server and Huawei cloud service based on the Kunpeng 920.
4. 5G communication chip (Barong, Tianzhu series): Huawei's 5G chips are mainly divided into terminal chips (Baron series) and base station chips (Tianlu series). The Baron series is a baseband chip for mobile terminals, and has been a dedicated chip for Huawei mobile phones. On January 24, 2019, Huawei introduced the industry's first 5G base station core chip (Scorpio chip) and 5G multimode terminal chip (Barong 5000).
5.Other dedicated chips: (router chip, NB-IoT chip, IPC video codec and image signal processing chip, etc.): The Lingxiao series is mainly used for home access products; the Lierda NB-IoT module is The world's leading narrowband IoT wireless communication module; IPCSoC chip covers the core technology of video surveillance - ISP technology and video codec technology.
1.1 Kirin chip: the world's leading domestic mobile phone SoC chip
At present, the leading manufacturers of mobile phone chips on the market are Apple, Huawei, Qualcomm and Samsung. Apple A series: Apple's A12 processor is the world's first 7-nanometer chip, performance is the first, but because Apple does not have independent baseband technology, GPS / WIFI chips need to be outsourced, so A series chips never contain The baseband part does not need to assume the function of GPS/WIFI;
Huawei Kirin series: Huawei's Kirin 980, using the most advanced eight-core design, the highest frequency up to 2.8GHz. It is expected that Kirin 990 will also inherit the 5G baseband to achieve true 5G full Netcom;
Qualcomm Xiaolong Series: released the Snapdragon 855 processor, which uses the new Kryo 485 architecture, 7 nanometer process technology, graphics rendering increased by 20%, CPU performance increased by 45%, the highest frequency is 2.84GHz, is also very powerful;
Samsung Exynos series: Exynos 9810 processor is Samsung's independent research and development of M3 architecture, with four 2.9GHz M3 big core and four 1.9GHz A55 small core, 10 nanometer production process.
1.2 Newcomers to break the monopoly of the server field
In addition to the 920 processor, Huawei also launched three TaiShan series servers, using the 920, including TaiShan 22080, Taishan 5280/5290, and TaiShan X6000, respectively for the balanced server, storage server and high-density server market.
1.3 Shengteng Chip: Full Stack Full Scene AI Solution
In 2018, Huawei released two cloud data center AI chips: the single chip to calculate the highest density of the rising 910 and the extremely efficient low-power AI SoC rising 310.
The Ascension 910 belongs to the Ascend Max series and is used in data center servers. Its performance exceeds that of NVIDIA's strongest chip AI V100. It is the world's largest single-chip computing density AI chip. Based on the Shengteng 910 Huawei will also launch a large-scale distributed training system to upgrade the Cluster, linking 1024 rising 910 chips to form an AI computing group, providing ultra-high-level AI computing power, computing power up to 256P, enabling AI training speed Achieve new levels. The Shengteng series AI chip adopts Huawei's groundbreaking unified and scalable architecture, namely [Da Vinci Architecture", which realizes the full coverage from the ultimate low power consumption to the ultimate high power computing scene. No other architecture can do it.
1.4 5G chip: base station and terminal all-round layout
5G refers to the fifth-generation mobile communication technology, which is an extension after 4G. Its peak theoretical transmission speed can reach several tens of Gb per second, which is hundreds of times faster than 4G network transmission. At the same time, 5G also has milliseconds. The transmission delay and the connection capacity of hundreds of billions are the communication foundation for opening the Internet of Everything and deep interaction between human and machine. Huawei released the first 5G terminal product based on the Baron 5000 chip: 5G CPE Pro. This is the fastest 5G CPE in the world and supports Wi-Fi6 technology. The main application scenario is smart home. 5G CPE Pro can support 4G and 5G dual mode. It can download 1GB HD video in 3 seconds under 5G network. Even 8K video can be used to open the second time. It sets a new network speed standard for small CPE.