According to recent media reports, the domestic operating system Tongxin UOS has established a joint laboratory with the American chip company Intel to jointly promote the software and hardware ecology of communication UOS and Intel processors. This represents a major breakthrough in the domestic operating system and is compatible with the most popular The X86 processor will help the domestic operating system to enter the overseas market.
The development of domestic operating systems has attracted the attention of the industry because operating systems are related to information security. Therefore, domestic operating systems have gradually received more support in recent years. Today, domestic operating systems include Tongxin UOS, ZTE New Fulcrum, Kirin, and Hongmeng. It can be adapted to many products such as PCs, smart phones, and wearable devices.
In order to support products in many industries more widely, domestic operating systems are also actively adapting to many current chip architectures, including ARM, RISC-V, etc. However, for PCs, the X86 architecture is the mainstream after all, and PCs in the Chinese market are still X86-based processors are the main processors. Obviously, the support of Intel with the X86 architecture can be better optimized for the X86 architecture.
At the same time, the PCs used by domestic consumers are all X86 architecture. Adapting to X86 architecture processors can reduce the cost for consumers to switch to domestic operating systems, and will help more ordinary consumers accept domestic operating systems. With the support of most consumers, the domestic operating system can move from the government and enterprise market to a broader personal market.
Another thing is that Intel has dominated the PC market for more than 20 years after all, and there are hundreds of thousands of applications based on the X86 architecture. The ecology is the main obstacle of the operating system. Cooperation with Intel can make the domestic operating system compatible with the existing X86 architecture. The many applications developed have accelerated the enrichment of the ecology of domestic operating systems, which will also help more users accept domestic operating systems.
As for Intel, it has its own considerations. Intel has been able to monopolize the PC market for more than 20 years, and it is inseparable from the Wintel alliance. The cooperation model in the early years was that Microsoft launched Windows to continuously upgrade and occupy more PC hardware resources, while Intel continued to improve the performance of the CPU. The cooperation between the two has prompted consumers to continuously upgrade their PCs, and Microsoft and Intel have gained huge profits from this.
However, in recent years, as the ARM architecture has gradually opened up in the PC market, especially the performance of the ARM architecture processor introduced by Apple has been comparable to Intel's X86 processor, breaking the performance shackles of ARM and boosting the morale of the ARM camp. Accelerating to seize the PC market, and Microsoft has gradually abandoned the wintel alliance. Microsoft has cooperated with the ARM camp to develop a Windows system that adapts to the ARM architecture.
Faced with Microsoft's abandonment of the wintel alliance, Intel naturally needs to find another way out, but Intel has failed to hit the mobile processor market many times before, which makes Intel restless. At this time, China, the world's largest market, began to vigorously promote domestically produced chips. For the development of the operating system, Intel certainly does not want to abandon this market. Embracing the Chinese operating system will help Intel continue to share the cake from the Chinese market.
This also reflects the interest considerations of American chip companies, that is, as long as they can increase their income, they do not exclude any market, and the Chinese market is just a big open market. Only considering information security issues, China is pushing its own Operating system, Intel's active embrace of this market will help it keep its own cake.
It can be expected that with the support of Intel, the promotion of domestic operating systems will enter the fast lane, and replacing Windows in the PC market will soon become a reality. In fact, domestic operating systems have already replaced overseas operating systems in the server market. The share of the server market is gradually being compressed, and it is the general trend to abandon Windows in the PC market.