It means that China’s technology has developed at a higher level, China’s technology has also reached a higher level, and China’s status has been further improved.
On July 25, at the opening ceremony of China's Alibaba Cloud Shanghai Summit, Alibaba's semiconductor company "Pingtou Ge" officially released the Xuantie 910 chip, saying that Xuantie 910 is currently the most powerful chip in the industry. A RISC-V processor.
Xuantie 910 is the IP core of the CPU and the key core driving force of the chip. The meaning of Xuantie is exactly consistent with its role in the chip industry.
In terms of performance, Xuantie 910 supports 16 cores, with a single-core performance of 7.1 Coremark/MHz and a main frequency of 2.5GHz, which is more than 40% higher than the current best RISC-V processor in the industry.
Alibaba Cloud stated that the performance breakthrough of Xuantie 910 is due to two major technological innovations: it adopts a complex out-of-order execution architecture with 3 launches and 8 executions, and is the first in the industry to achieve 2 memory accesses per cycle. RISC-V processor; based on RISC-V, more than 50 instructions have been expanded, and RISC-V's computing, storage and multi-core capabilities have been systematically enhanced.
It is reported that Xuantie 910 will greatly reduce the design and manufacturing costs of high-performance end-of-line chips. In the future, in the fields of 5G, artificial intelligence, network communications, autonomous driving, etc., the use of this processor can improve chip performance More than doubled, while chip costs were reduced by more than half.
Pingtou Ge also posted a hero post on the spot, inviting companies with mass production capabilities and university scientific research institutions to jointly build benchmark projects, and announced the "Inclusive Chip" plan.
In the future, Pingtou Ge will fully open the Xuantie 910 IP Core. Developers around the world can download the FPGA code of the processor for free and quickly carry out chip prototype design and architectural innovation.
At the same time, Pingtou Ge has also created a domain-specific optimized chip platform (Domain specific SoC), providing software and hardware resources including CPU IP, SoC platform and algorithms, and providing enterprises and enterprises with different AIoT scenarios. Developers provide different levels of chip services.
Qi Xiaoning, Vice President of Alibaba Group, said: "The traditional general-purpose chip model is increasingly difficult to adapt to the needs of fragmented AIoT scenarios. Open source and openness are the general trend. Pingtou Ge is committed to building chip infrastructure in the AIoT era. Provider, making chips more inclusive."
In April 2018, Alibaba Group announced that its subsidiary DAMO Academy was developing a neural network chip "Ali-NPU".
In September of the same year, Alibaba established an independent chip company. The company was named "Pingtou Ge" and was formed by integrating Alibaba's internal chip business and the externally acquired Zhongtian Microsystems Co., Ltd. Alibaba's entire capital holding.
In fact, not only Alibaba, but also many other technology companies in China are also actively investing in the chip industry: Huawei has been developing chips for more than two decades, and the performance of its Kirin 980 exceeds that of Qualcomm Snapdragon 835; Xiaomi's Hubei Xiaomi Yangtze River Industry Fund has become the fourth largest shareholder of VeriSilicon Microelectronics.