Nowadays, the development of the domestic chip industry has entered a deep water period, the task of "starting from scratch" has been successfully completed, and it is entering the advanced development of "from weak to strong". Taking Loongson, Kunpeng, Haiguang and other top six domestic CPUs as examples, all have successfully achieved breakthroughs to varying degrees on the basis of imported technology, and are rushing to the next goal on their respective tracks.
Among them, Loongson has developed the LoongArch instruction set, which has a high degree of autonomy and is called "the light of domestic products". Although the road to self-research is quite tortuous, and the grievance dispute with MIPS is still pending due to the appeal of Lianxin again, but the achievements achieved are absolutely unprecedented. The Loongson 3C5000 series with 12nm process technology has native 16 cores. After two cores are packaged together to form 32 cores, its performance has been greatly improved. At the same time, Godson is actively building an ecology, and the adaptation software and scenarios continue to increase steadily.
When it comes to chips, one cannot fail to mention Kunpeng. When the Kunpeng 920 was released four years ago, it aroused the amazement of the industry. The advanced product design, excellent performance, and Huawei's strong ecological mobilization capabilities have successfully attracted the active attention of customers, partners, and even peers. Relying on Huawei's technical capabilities and ecological depth, product performance and market performance that should have been rapidly improved, but due to limited production capacity and the impact of the suspension of the ARM v9 authorization, stepped on the brakes. However, Kunpeng is still actively seeking ways to solve the problem without stopping.
Looking at Haiguang again, it obtained the permanent authorization of the x86 instruction set and the ZEN1 microarchitecture from AMD. Based on a high-tech starting point, it devoted itself to research and development, and completed technology digestion and absorption and then innovation. At present, Haiguang has independently developed three generations of products and realized commercial applications. The performance of Haiguang No. 3 7300 series processors is already the same generation as AMD EPYC Zen3. In addition, according to Haiguang's first annual report after its listing, it will achieve an operating income of 5.125 billion yuan in 2022, an increase of 121.83% over the same period of the previous year. Haiguang CPU has been widely used in telecommunications, finance, Internet, education, transportation, industrial design, graphics and image processing and other industries. It is not difficult to find that based on product iteration and market expansion, a virtuous cycle system for Haiguang's commercialization has been established.
It is expected that domestic CPU manufacturers represented by Loongson, Kunpeng, Haiguang, etc. will persist in innovation, continue to iterate, narrow the international gap, and finally take the lead in the world.