Chapter 389: RISC-V Architecture! Pointing at the CPU!

When the special plane carrying the North American negotiators landed at Pudong Airport, they were immediately received in a grand and friendly manner, and the delegates stayed in the most luxurious five-star hotel in Shanghai, accompanied by Hong Tao and Yu Chengdong, and began to spend their days drinking and drinking.

On the first day, foreigners felt that the Chinese people were too enthusiastic, and the food was interesting and delicious.

The next day, foreigners said that the liquor was too spicy and had more stamina than expected, so Hong Tao proposed to drink some light rice wine today.

On the third day, foreigners said that rice wine tasted very smooth, better than liquor, but after drinking too much, they were almost dying, and their heads were confused.

Hong Tao blamed himself for the poor hospitality, and decided to let the hotel stew the decanting soup, and changed the drink to a lighter beer, Wusu brand beer...

"Yesterday we ate the Shanghai Dubang cuisine, the sauce is a bit heavy, so in the evening I invite everyone to eat Huaiyang cuisine, which is known for its delicate and delicate cuisine, the tofu is cut like hair, and the Huaiyang cuisine chef has all learned kung fu to ensure enjoyment!" On the fifth day, Yu Chengdong excitedly introduced to them.

The word Kung Fu immediately aroused the strong interest of foreigners, and Yu Chengdong took the opportunity to say that in order to eat authentic Kung Fu Huaiyang cuisine, he needed to go to Yangzhou in person.

After walking around Suzhou for two days and finally arriving in Yangzhou, Yu Chengdong said that since they have all arrived here, everyone should simply go to Nanjing to have a look, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and you will regret it if you don't go...

How many people who can play high-tech and are in such a high position are fools?

It didn't take them a few days to find out that the Huaxia people didn't seem to be planning to negotiate right away, but were stalling for time.

Seeing that it is the Spring Festival, as long as the negotiation plan is delayed until the Spring Festival period and the whole country is closed, the extension can be continued.

An atmosphere of unease spread rapidly, and past history has long proved that Luo Jia is by no means a good person, but a typical profiteer, the treacherous and ruthless kind, he deliberately delays time, obviously preparing an ulterior plan.

As a result, the West immediately took action, using various relationships and forces to inquire why Xingchen Technology deliberately delayed negotiations?

Soon, they found the cause.

RISC-V!

This is a monogram that all Chinese technology companies should remember, because it is the key to breaking the hegemony of chips in the face of a total blockade by the West.

Led by the University of California, Berkeley, RISC-V is an open-source processor instruction set based on which users can develop their own processors for free.

The main pioneer of RISC-V is the Turing Award-winning David Brown. Patterson, Mr. David's status is extremely high, he belongs to the great master in the field of computer architecture, sweeping the world, and starting a sect.

Not long ago, Mr. David opened a RISC-V laboratory in Huaxia, located at Tsinghua Berkeley College in Shenzhen, referred to as RIOS, to prepare for the implementation of open source processor instruction sets in Huaxia.

As the investigation unfolded, Luo Jia's Plan B was finally exposed to the Western vision, and they were shocked by Luo Jia's ambitions, and at the same time, they were also glad that they discovered Luo Jia's true purpose as soon as possible.

In the field of semiconductors, there are countless products, the most high-end of which is undoubtedly the general-purpose processor, which is referred to as the CPU chip.

RISC-V is an open source technology that is the foundation for making CPUs!

The reason why Xingchen Technology has been delaying is because they are in close contact with RISC-V while talking with the semiconductor alliance.

After mastering the lithography machine and wafer, Xingchen Technology started the plan to make CPUs!

This news came out of nowhere, and everyone in the semiconductor alliance was scorched, and their scalps tingled for a while.

The famous Lord of the Rings is engraved with a Modo script that has been passed down in Middle-earth, the Lord of the Rings belongs to the Supreme, the Supreme guides the demons, the Lord of the Rings summons the rings, the rings are one, and darkness descends.

The status of the CPU is comparable to that of the Lord of the Rings, and if anyone can make this thing, they can directly stage a big drama about the return of the king in the semiconductor field.

Neon people, French, Koreans, British, Canadians, and even Papua New Guineans, any nation on the planet, any country, but any individual, there is no one who does not want to make a CPU.

Of course, the Chinese people are no exception, to put it mildly, scientists dream of it, and they are almost crazy!

However, if you think about it, in the real world, the Huaxia semiconductor industry started late, and it was still born at the wrong time, encountering the absurd era when compradors were in power.

In reality, Academician Ni Guangnan, who is bent on independent research and development, has been squeezed out everywhere, preaching the conscience of the American imperialists that it is better to buy than to buy, but he is in power.

It's easy to get on a thief ship, but it's hard to get off a thief ship.

Academician Ni Guangnan once said bitterly, do you really think Microsoft is a great good person? Of course, they know who is using piracy, and with their technical strength, it is not too easy to ban piracy, but people just don't block it, and let piracy run rampant in the Huaxia region.

It is precisely because of the free Windows that the domestic operating system is held down, and it can't be developed, and now you know that Microsoft is powerful, right? The free one is the most expensive, and before we know it, our life has been handed over to the West!

This is especially true in the field of semiconductors, if you want to create a CPU, you must first master the instruction set and architecture, whether it is Intel's Core and Xeon, or AMD's Ryzen, trace its source, and use the X86 architecture.

And Huawei's Kirin and Apple's A series, as well as the mobile phone SOC manufactured by Samsung and MediaTek, are all ARM IP.

There are also domestic CPUs, such as the supercomputer composed of Shenwei Taihu Light, which is the Shenwei 26010 processor, developed by Jiangnan Computer Research Institute, and the performance is not bad.

But it's a pity that Shenwei is a special-purpose product and has value, but it can't be used to break the monopoly of the West.

In addition, there is also Zhaoxin Group in China.

Back then, after the bankruptcy of the world's third largest general-purpose CPU manufacturer, the VIA Group in Wanwan Province, many new companies were born on the corpse of the giant, the two most famous of which were HTC and Zhaoxin.

A tech layman may never have thought that today's extremely lonely HTC Group used to be a super technology company that could even build CPUs, VIA's mobile phone division.

In its heyday, VIA was one of the world's most powerful semiconductor companies, beating a long list of famous Japanese and Korean companies, which can be called the light of the Chinese.

However, history will eventually make the fairest judgment.

After all, it is just a province in China, and the leaders of the rat-eyed and the people of the small family are playing a good hand of cards to the brim.

Foxconn, unification and other crooked enterprises, in the final analysis, are just leeches lying on the mainland to suck blood, once they lose their identity and identity, what else can be left in the bend except TSMC.

All in all, after the fall of the VIA Group, the mobile phone department became today's HTC, and within a few years, HTC was beaten by the Big Four and Samsung, Apple, even her grandmother couldn't recognize it, and the super technology companies that could even build CPUs were finally in the hands of the bent people, and they became the eighteenth-rate small broken factories in the technology industry, for which they can only say that they deserve it.

In order to survive, VIA cross-licensed the X86 to Huaxia Zhaoxin, which became China's plan A in the field of general-purpose CPUs.

The Chinese nation has been tossed for thousands of years, and the once weak only left the last breath and did not die, which shows that its desire to survive is still very strong.

Just as China has reserved three major group armies in the field of memory chips, in the field of general-purpose CPUs, in addition to Zhaoxin Group, we also have Plan B, that is, Haiguang Group.

On April 25, 2016, in the absence of large-scale news reports and unusually low-key circumstances, Haiguang Group signed an agreement with AMD Group, under which Haiguang Group invested 290 million US dollars, plus future dividends, to buy AMD Group's ZEN1 architecture license and X86 instruction set license.

People who don't know about the semiconductor and technology industries may not know the value of this agreement, which is the first time in the history of China that it has obtained the world's leading level of general-purpose CPU architecture.

These technologies are digested and absorbed, and if the CPU is created, it is directly the computing power of the first or second generation core, with the graphics card, and even the ability to eat chicken smoothly, its technical content is too high, and the price of less than 300 million US dollars is simply the price of cabbage, which is about the same as picking it up for nothing.

It turns out that they are also Chinese, but there is not the same between Chinese and Chinese.

AMD, as the world's second largest CPU manufacturer, its president, Ms. Su Lifeng, is a Chinese American worthy of respect, this obviously cheaper Huaxia deal, is reached with Ms. Su's efforts, maybe in the future, Ms. Su's name will not necessarily be recorded in history.

There is also an interesting gossip about the world's most powerful graphics card manufacturer, Nvidia Group, whose founder Jensen Huang is the cousin of Ms. Lisa Su.

Of course, due to well-known reasons, this matter has not been publicized in a big way, and 99% of the people in China do not know about Haiguang Group.

But the results of this incident are as follows.

First, Haiguang got the first generation of EPYC, the penultimate development version, which is a complete X86 high-performance server SOC with 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes.

Second, this architecture itself belongs to the 4 ZEN DIE stitching, that is to say, if it is directly disassembled, it can also create a complete desktop-level X86 processor, which is China's plan B under extreme conditions.

Third, it is possible that AMD is one of the few semiconductor companies in North America that treats China more friendly, and it is rumored that if the trade war did not happen too quickly, AMD would have sold the second generation of the ZEN architecture to Haiguang.

The trade war is only a façade that ordinary people can see, and underneath this façade has been undercurrent for many years.

Although in history, there have been shameless counterfeiters, eliminated people with insufficient ability, but to this day, we still have two lines of defense in the CPU field, they are Zhaoxin and Haiguang, once the worst happens, Zhaoxin and Haiguang can be used, although it is not easy to use, but at least it can't die.

The West once felt that not being able to die was the ceiling of Huaxia in the field of general-purpose CPUs, and that was it at most.

Until now, the terrifying news came, and the West suddenly discovered that Xingchen Technology was actually cooperating with RISC-V!

What is this concept?

Whether it is Intel, AMD, or the two preparatory groups of Huaxia Zhaoxin and Haiguang, everyone's CPU technology is developed on the basis of the X86 architecture.

The direction of Xingchen Technology is RISC-V!

They want to start from scratch and rebuild a complete set of CPU architecture and instruction sets based on RISC-V technology!

Everyone plays in the case of X86 architecture, but Xingchen Technology, they don't play!