CHAPTER XXVIII. A76

The reconciliation with the fruit also made the company famous in the industry!

After all, the company has always been a giant in the technology industry.

It is really precious to be able to reap the benefits from the fruit.

Of course, the company is also constantly carrying out R&D and innovation, and is working hard to pull the technology to the highest point, leaving other manufacturers behind.

At the end of October, ARM, the most influential company in the semiconductor industry, came with new news.

ARM has an irreplaceable position in the semiconductor industry.

When designing a chip, in addition to the circuit diagram of the chip design, the corresponding core instruction set is also required as the core architecture.

Nowadays, the core architecture used by most mobile phone processor chips on the CPU and GPU is basically from ARM.

Even the core architecture designed by ARM can influence the development of the entire mobile phone industry.

"ARM has developed the latest A76 and G76 architectures, and I heard that HiSilicon Kirin has recently sent people to ARM to negotiate, trying to use the new architecture on the next generation of processor chips as soon as possible!"

ARM's launch of a new core architecture also made Liu Wei, who is in charge of Yuzhen, very concerned.

After all, the iteration of the core architecture generally brings about the improvement of performance and the upgrading of mobile phone processor chips.

Although Yuzhen Company was established less than half a year ago, the company hopes to be engaged in the field of mobile phone processor chip design.

Designed a Yuzhen company's own processor chip.

Liu Wei's sharp eyes directly locked the architecture to the two architectures of A76 and G76 developed by the latest ARM.

It's just that the current ARM company is only developing the architecture, and if you really want to apply these architectures to the product, you need to wait at least until the middle of next year.

However, ARM has a very close cooperative relationship with mainstream chip design manufacturers such as Paste Tong, HiSilicon, and Lianhuake, and these manufacturers can get the right to use the public version of the architecture in advance.

Historically, the A76 and G76 were truly open to the public at the end of May '18.

The performance boost brought by the powerful core of the A76 is unmatched.

Cores like the A73 and A75 are nothing in front of the A76, and this is also the most mature generation of ARM public architecture.

The first processor chip to adopt this architecture is the well-known Ice Kirin, Kirin 980 processor chip.

The Kirin 980 processor chip is the most improved processor chip among the Kirin processor chips, and it is simply a qualitative improvement compared to the previous generation of Kirin 970 processor chips.

Not only is the performance very good, but also the power consumption control is also a commendable existence in the industry.

Even this Kirin 980 chip has completely shaken the fire dragon 835 in the entire mobile phone market.

The A76 generation architecture can be said to be ridiculously strong, and the Kirin 985 and Kirin 990 generations of chips behind them all use the core architecture of A76.

And these processor chips have reached a very good height in terms of reputation and performance.

It can even be said that it has raised Kirin's position in the entire chip market.

The later A77 and A88 cores are also based on the A76 core, and further magic changes and upgrades are carried out.

In addition to the successful core architecture of the A76 as the foundation, the performance of the A77 and A78 as the magic version is also extremely good.

A77 has Kirin 9000 series, Fire Dragon 865 series and other chips directly sealed gods.

A78 has Dimensity 8000 series chips, and it is still proud in 2022.

Since A76, A77 and A78 have also brought new hope to chip design manufacturers, which has made the processor chips on the Android manufacturer's side have been greatly improved and upgraded.

It's a pity that the overall iteration core of A78A710 has no upgrade compared to A78 in terms of overall performance, but has a very big improvement in power consumption.

ARM announced the core architecture of the X series in 2020, although it has been said that there has been a huge improvement in qualitative parameters, but there are very large three vehicles in terms of power consumption.

This also makes the processor chip with a new architecture, although it has been greatly improved in terms of extreme performance, but the use experience is not as good as the core architecture chip of the A76 series in daily use and ordinary light and moderate use.

So much so that the Kirin 990 equipped with A76!

A77 Fire Dragon 865 and 870, Kirin 9000!

Dimensity 8000 and 8100 on the A78.

In 2022, it is still very strong, and even the use experience is not weaker than the architecture of two or three generations of flagship processor chips.

Even the Fire Dragon 7Gen1 equipped with the A710 core architecture is basically on par with the Fire Dragon 855 and Kirin 990 equipped with the A76 architecture in terms of performance.

In order to be able to design a new processor chip, Yuzhen Company has set its sights on the two new core architectures of A76 and G76.

Designing a processor chip is inherently challenging, and it takes a lot of money to use both core architectures.

While the core architecture is public, it's not free.

If you want to use ARM's architecture, you must pay for the corresponding architecture license to be able to use ARM's architecture.

Moreover, most of the systems of mobile phones are now compatible with the instruction set of the ARM architecture, which means that the use of the ARM architecture can save a lot of design costs.

After all, if you want to redesign a new core, it will take a lot of effort to adapt the corresponding system.

At the current level of Yuzhen, it is still difficult to design a new architecture and adapt to the corresponding system.

Rather than this, it is better to purchase ARM's architecture license, so as to facilitate the design of mobile phone processor chips at that time.

It's just that it is also difficult for Yuzhen to contact ARM to get the corresponding architecture authorization.

Yuzhen wants to pay for the patent, and the other party may not agree to sell the patent to itself.

"In terms of contacting the chrysanthemum factory, we can catch ARM through the relationship of the chrysanthemum factory!"

Liu Wei's intention to find Zhou Zhen was simple.

I hope to contact ARM with the help of my boss's connections, so as to obtain the corresponding core authorization.

At the same time, it is also hoped to obtain the patent authorization of the corresponding baseband communication technology of the chrysanthemum factory.

Zhou Zhen did not refuse this.

After all, as a businessman, the face is dispensable.

The future development potential of Yuzhen is very huge, and sooner or later it will make processor chips.

Rather than wait for procrastination, it's better to try it sooner rather than later.

Today, it is impossible to make mobile phone chips overnight, and it takes generations of hard work and lessons to make a good chip.

Of course, the time required for the research and development of a chip to the design and then to the corresponding production is also very long, and a lot of money is invested.

This is also a huge pressure for Zhou Zhen.

Juchang, Yu Dazui also showed a look of miss after receiving Zhou Zhen's call.

Contact ARM to obtain a license for the A76 core architecture.

Although Yu Dazui is not responsible for HiSilicon Semiconductor, he also has a very deep understanding of the development of HiSilicon Semiconductor.

HiSilicon has been making mobile phone processor chips since 10 years ago.

The processor chips produced in the first few years were extremely embarrassing.

Performance and power consumption are not good, and even the chrysanthemum factory does not dare to put this chip on its own products.

After so many years of product experience accumulation, coupled with an annual investment of nearly billions.

It is only then that the current HiSilicon Kirin processor chips have a certain degree of recognition in the entire market, and they have begun to gradually be able to play back and forth with the paste.

Zhou Zhen has a semiconductor chip design company behind him, and Yu Dazui knew about this when he saw the charging IC chip.

But he didn't expect the other party to take such a big step this time.

Before laying a good foundation in the industry, he began to prepare to enter the mobile phone processor chip design industry.

Yu Dazui even felt that the other party's stride was too big this time, and it was easy to pull X.