The domestic chip company Saifang Technology released two RISC-V chip architectures, which further improved the performance to A76 core close to ARM, setting a new record for the performance of the RISC-V architecture, showing that domestic chips are based on the open RISC-V architecture. New developments have been made that will further erode ARM's market.
The goal of Saifang Technology is to apply its RISC-V architecture to high-end applications such as PCs, high-performance network communications, machine learning, and data centers. Fang Technology has developed a PC single-board computer, making full preparations for entering the PC market.
It is worth noting that the area of the RISC-V architecture chip developed by Saifang Technology is only half that of ARM, but the performance can reach the level of A76, which means that the chip still has a lot of space. Saifang Technology can stack more cores, To improve the performance of RISC-V chips, Apple has already adopted this method. By integrating two M1 processors, it has achieved double the performance, opening up the situation for purely domestic PCs.
Ali Pingtouge is another important chip company of domestic RISC-V chips. It has successfully promoted RISC-V to the Internet of Things chip market. In the past year, the number of RISC-V chips sold has reached 3 billion. The number of RISC-V chips reached 5 billion, which contributed a lot to the global shipment of RISC-V chips exceeding 10 billion.
After the great success in the Internet of Things chip market, Ali Pingtou is pushing RISC-V chips to enter the mobile phone chip market. It adapted the Android system with Xuantie 910 two years ago, and Google also responded by saying that Android is already compatible. RISC-V, thus forming a situation in which Ali Pingtouge and Saifang Technology go hand in hand, and at the same time promote the RISC-V architecture to enter the market of mobile chips, PCs, and server chips, and complete the ecological layout.
The RISC-V architecture was born in 2010, but there has been little progress in the first few years, until 2019 when ARM suspended the authorization to a Chinese technology company, which made Chinese chip companies see the risk of relying on ARM; developed a new ARM in ARM After the V9 architecture, ARM has gone a step further—so far, it has not authorized the V9 architecture to Chinese chip companies, which has prompted the Chinese chip industry to completely guide RISC-V.
The impetus for Chinese chips to increase efforts to develop the RISC-V architecture is also the consideration of China's efforts to strengthen information security. and independent research and development of the operating system.
The success of the RISC-V chip architecture has made the Chinese chip industry see the hope of abandoning ARM. Now these chip companies are actively promoting the development of the RISC-V architecture and striving to get rid of their dependence on ARM. This is undoubtedly a major blow to ARM. After all, the rise of smart phones in the past ten years is inseparable from the support of Chinese mobile phones. Chinese mobile phones once accounted for nearly 70% of the global smart phone market, which accelerated the popularity of smart phones. has laid the foundation for the monopoly of China's chip industry, and now the Chinese chip industry has turned to RISC-V, which has caused ARM to lose a big arm.
What surprised ARM in particular is that it actively supports the United States. However, the American chip industry is also turning to RISC-V. Chip companies such as sifive and Qualcomm in the United States have already invested in RISC-V. Intel and Apple have plans to develop RISC-V architecture. Because the cost of the RISC-V architecture is lower, it seems that the collapse of ARM is just around the corner.
ARM's monopoly position today was not achieved overnight. In the 1990s, there were streamlined instruction sets and MIPS, power architecture, etc. It was not until the rise of mobile phones after 2000 that ARM's monopoly position was gradually achieved. In servers, PC chips The market was once completely driven by Chinese chips to promote the development of ARM. However, ARM blatantly attacked Chinese chips and pushed Chinese chips to RISC-V, causing it to gradually fall into an embarrassing situation. Foreign media believe that this is entirely ARM's own fault.