The United States thinks that it can control the development of global chip technology by controlling chip design tools, etc. However, Chinese chips always develop new technologies by surprise. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has released good news a few days ago, providing a new route for the design of domestic chips, which will bypass the control of the United States. chip technology.
1. The Chinese Academy of Sciences suddenly released a new technology
In order to prevent China from developing advanced chip technology, the United States uses the EDA tools it controls as a weapon to restrict American EDA companies from providing Chinese chip companies with EDA tools below 14 nanometers, so as to prevent China from developing advanced chip technology. However, its plan is now official. Frustrated.
According to media reports, the Chinese Academy of Sciences uses AI technology to develop chip design technology, and develops the world's first chip completely designed by AI artificial intelligence without human intervention. This will bypass the EDA tools controlled by the United States, and will no longer be affected by the chip design. US restrictions.
In order to ensure the autonomy of the chip, the chip adopts the RISC-V architecture and is produced with a purely domestic 65nm process, and its performance is comparable to Intel's 486. Although the performance is far behind the current one, it is better than this chip from the chip architecture , Chip design and chip manufacturing have achieved national production.
It is understood that the chip designed with AI artificial intelligence released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences can greatly increase the speed of chip design. The chip design time is only one thousandth of the development time of existing EDA tools. This will provide many possibilities for the design of domestic chips. The Chinese Academy of Sciences will artificially The introduction of intelligence into chip design can be said to have opened up a precedent for chip technology research and development. This set of technology is expected to be applied to 14nm, 7nm, and 5nm chips in the future, completely abandoning the EDA tools in the United States.
2. The introduction of artificial intelligence into the chip industry has become a trend
The introduction of artificial intelligence technology into the chip industry has actually become popular in the industry. TSMC was the first to introduce AI technology into the chip industry. TSMC cooperated with NVIDIA. NVIDIA developed artificial intelligence technology cuLitho for TSMC, which can greatly improve the efficiency of chip lithography. , At the same time, the error of lithography is greatly reduced, which also saves a lot of power for TSMC and reduces costs.
The introduction of artificial intelligence assistance in the chip industry is because today's chips are extremely complex, and it is becoming more and more difficult to manually design or manufacture chips. After all, a chip is often tens of billions of transistors, and the introduction of artificial intelligence can process the internals of the chip faster. At the same time, problems can be found through computer simulation, instead of only waiting to find out problems after tape-out as before, which will not only waste time, but also cause huge costs.
Now the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced artificial intelligence technology in the chip design process, and TSMC has introduced artificial intelligence in the chip manufacturing process. In this way, a closed loop of artificial intelligence processing chips has been formed in the entire chain of chip design and production, speeding up the mass production process of chips. For chips The industry is undoubtedly a huge positive.
3. The terrible thing is yet to come
With the introduction of artificial intelligence technology in China's chip industry, various chip companies around the world are now aware of the great benefits of artificial intelligence. Even the American chip company AMD also said that it has introduced artificial intelligence technology in chip design, testing, verification and other chip links, which is worthwhile. Note that AMD's chips are also handed over to TSMC for production, and American chips have also begun to use artificial intelligence technology, which will eventually lead to the U.S. monopoly of EDA tools becoming waste paper.
The industry knows that technology is developing all the time, and the same is true for the chip industry. Originally, the United States controlled the EDA tool link, allowing American EDA companies to obtain huge profits. However, the reckless behavior of the United States has caused the global chip industry to worry about being controlled by the United States. link, and China's success in breaking the U.S. monopoly on EDA tools has undoubtedly accelerated the decline of U.S. EDA tools.
In the past few years, the practice of the United States has had a huge impact on the chip industry. In addition to EDA tools, Chinese chips have also broken the situation dominated by the United States in terms of chip architecture. Standing firm, ARM, which monopolized the mobile chip market before, was deeply influenced by the United States, and X86, which monopolized the PC processor and server chip market, was controlled by Intel in the United States. It can be said that the United States’ approach is gradually weakening its influence on the chip industry. , resulting in the consequences of lifting a rock and shooting yourself in the foot.