Huawei Kunpeng processor commercialized, Arm servers have added weight
Kunpeng 920 is Huawei Hass 1620
Kunpeng for 920
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Huawei Hass 162064core
Wuhan Huawei Hass 1620 PC is not another cpu
Shenzhen Huawei desktop PC CPU board is Kunpeng 920 but the CPU is not 1620 nor Wuhan Huawei Hass CPU instead of XXXX
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Recently, a long period of silence Arm server market came a message: Zhejiang Business Hall Reception system migration to Taishan based Huawei Kunpeng processor (TaiShan) server. This is the world's first processor based Kunpeng commercial operators IT applications.
Zhejiang Mobile will be available in Taiwan's largest IT products and the successful integration of Huawei TaiShan server, including DCOS (data center operating system), docker, MSP (micro-service platform) and other components in Taiwan provided by large IT hardware decoupling, fast cluster switching, automatic fault isolation characteristics, the operating system of the operating room environment to switch seamlessly Huawei TaiShan server, and the system is stable.
It is learned that the business hall reception system is one of the core business operators receiving system, carrying mobile phones, broadband and other core business processing systems for performance, stability, have higher requirements. Here Roc processor commercialized, which is described in terms of the force considered, performance, stability and the like has reached a level of maturity.
In January this year, Huawei announced a server chip based on ARMv8 architecture Kun Peng 920 (Kunpeng 920), and three Taishan Arm server.
Roc 64 cores 920, clocked at 2.6GHz, DDR4, 8 channels, and a pair of ports 100G RoCE, ARMv8 instruction set is based on the development of high-performance server processor, TSMC 7nm process technology, known as the most powerful server chip Arm , 25% higher than the industry standard performance. It is reported that most of the 920 Kunpeng improved performance from the branch prediction algorithm optimization, increased OP operation and improved memory subsystem architecture.
When it was Huawei Board of Directors, president of Strategic Marketing Mr Xu said, Kunpeng 920 is designed for large data processing and distributed storage applications and design.
According to Mr Xu introduced in the SPECint benchmark, Kunpeng 920 score over 930 points, nearly 25% higher than the industry benchmark, while reducing power consumption by 30%.
Based on Kunpeng 920, Huawei introduced three ThaiShan series servers, including TaiShan 22080, Thaishan 5280/5290, ThaiShan X6000, respectively, for the balanced servers, storage servers and high-density server market, mainly used in large data, distributed storage, Arm native scene applications.
At present, Huawei self-developed chips has covered mobile terminal, AI Artificial Intelligence, server three major areas, from mobile phone to PC terminal server has strategic propulsion, mobile phone chip Kirin 980 Huawei has become the banner, and processing based Kunpeng the server is also started business, and so the development of server-based architecture Arm a major step forward.
Hard ahead
In the past year, about the rise and fall Arm server chips has been a hot topic in the industry, and Huawei Hass has also been tightly bound in this topic among.
This is so because in the last year, the industry has been in hot Hass Hi16xx server chip, which is based on Arm architecture, Hi16xx Hass internal codename, and its final version Hi1620, it is the company officially released the Kunpeng 920. In fact, Huawei had done before server chips based on Arm architecture, but then the product is not mature enough, not large-scale promotion.
With respect to the mobile phone SoC, the server chip to do the difficulty and the threshold is much higher, and it is made of non-x86 architecture chips, in today's server market, x86-based processor market share of over 90%, in order to such solid wins among ecological food, easier said than done. And a number of domestic and foreign Arm system vendors are trying to change that so many server application providers feel helpless situation, because they rarely bargaining power in the x86 line there.
Huawei Arm server chip research and development has also accumulated many years, is naturally difficult to avoid detours, some of the initial launch of the chip is clearly not satisfactory, such as products based on 32-core Cortex-A57 architecture.
After market research and years of accumulated experience, Huawei has finally officially launched earlier this year Kunpeng 920.
920 before and after the introduction of Kunpeng, Huawei has been doing Arm servers ecological construction work, because in the face of strong x86 Department of Ecology, in order to get customer orders, definitely not rely on one or two processor chips and two three server products can be and industry organizations and platforms and building penetration, related hardware and software collaboration, etc., are very important, but also the most difficult to do. But Arm-based server vendors have can rely on, that is the market demand, the need to break the monopoly.
Arm server chip camp
Currently, Arm camp relatively weak server chips, including foreign manufacturers of Ampere ,, Marvell / Cavium (by the end of 2017, Marvell acquired Cavium, this focus on vendor network communications multi-core processors, as well as representatives Arm server chip manufacturers) , the APM, Fujitsu, Amazon and the like. While China had the "troika" engaged Arm server chip research and development, namely, Huawei Hass, and soar through the core of China, but as the core of China through the disintegration of the former period of time, only Hass and can soar the high hopes.
Soar aspects of its products on behalf of FT-1500A and FT2000.
FT2000 code-named "Mars" (Mars), performance is more powerful, more mature, it can be said to represent the highest level of the Arm chip server. Specifically, using FT2000 28nm process, frequency 2GHz, power consumption of 100W. Chip area of more than 600 mm2, integrated FTC661 CPU core 64, a total of 48 million transistors.
According to the test, the chip FT2000 measured results with respect to performance simulator somewhat lower, at 2GHz frequency using GCC4.8 compiler, and SPEC2000 SPEC2006 test. Where the full-chip SPEC CPU2006 test score of 570 fixed-point, floating point 482, single-threaded test score of 12.4 fixed-point, floating point 11.3, although the single-thread performance and Intel still has not a small gap, but it is multi-threaded performance words, enough with chip rival Intel Xeon E5-2695v3.
FT-1500A is a predecessor, FT2000, FT-1500A based FTC600 ARMv8 instruction set processor core, using 28nm process technology, support DDR3-1600 memory, PCIe 3.0, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and the like.
It is reported that, FT-1500A SPARC architecture became transformed by the early Arm 64 bit roadmap with which Fujitsu is very similar. But this shift soar There is another factor, that is, to avoid being Intel Xeon processors "strangle hold." However, the case of large-scale commercial FT-1500A is more mysterious, there is no very clear information was available.
Interestingly, as an "old" product, FT-1500A in the recent 2019 National Natural Science Award, State Technological Invention Award and the National Science and Technology Progress Award initial evaluation by the project ,, won the first prize.
Whether Huawei, or soar, in order to develop server chips Arm, expand the scale of business as soon as possible is a priority, meanwhile, had to keep up ecological construction, Arm from the last two years of development and changes in the server chip camp of view, the next two to three years time is very precious, do a good job, there will be positive variables, grasping bad, adverse factors likely to increase.
Looking to the future
With big data, cloud computing era, the server market will usher in the explosive growth. In the moment of the data center, Intel processors accounted for more than 90% market share, which makes Internet companies and data center operators lack bargaining power in the face of Intel.
Therefore, the search for alternative solutions to achieve multi-vendor is a priority. Such as Google, Baidu, Alibaba and other Internet giants are very interested in Arm servers.
Since the market is large enough, and some of the more popular Internet giant Arm customized version of the server, which makes Arm camp to get some markets.
In China, although Huawei, etc. Arm soar server chip makers can not completely replace the Intel CPU on the market, but Intel originally belonged to capture part of the market is still worth the wait.
This time, server-based TaiShan Huawei Kunpeng commercial processor in Zhejiang Business Hall reception system is a good opportunity to start and for the development of our server Arm into a wave of effectives.