Speaking of Huawei's HiSilicon, I believe everyone should have some understanding, many of the chips used in Huawei products are from hiSilicon's research and development design, such as the Kirin chip, Baron chip that we are most familiar with, as well as Kunpeng, Honghu, Ascend, Lingxiao and so on.
In fact, for a long time, HiSilicon has been an obscure department of Huawei, and the outside world knows very little about HiSilicon, because the chips designed by HiSilicon are used for Huawei's own products and are not sold to the outside world, but later Huawei established Shanghai HiSilicon, and the chips designed by Huawei began to supply to the outside world.
But we know that due to the US ban, chip foundries are currently using some American technology to a greater or lesser extent, so they can't OEM for Huawei, but Ren Zhengfei once clearly emphasized that Huawei will not only never give up HiSilicon, but also fully support HiSilicon.
It is not easy to do this, because HiSilicon has more than 10,000 R & D personnel, the average annual salary reaches 600,000, so the annual salary at the beginning of almost 10 billion, if you calculate other costs of research and development, it is conceivable that Huawei will continue to raise HiSilicon, paying a huge cost.
However, HiSilicon did not disappoint us, according to the information on Huawei's official website, using the Ascend AI basic software and hardware platform, it won the world's first place in the global continuous protein structure prediction competition CAMEO.
Two years ago, the scientific journal selected ten major scientific breakthroughs, of which protein structure prediction is one of them.
Not only that, this time Huawei's breakthrough in protein structure prediction using ascending chips has also filled the gap in our achievements in the field of domestic artificial intelligence basic software and hardware protein structure prediction.
As we mentioned above, ascend chip is developed and designed by HiSilicon, with its self-developed Da Vinci architecture, which supports all-scenario artificial intelligence computing.
I have to say that this time HiSilicon has made a contribution, which makes the world see Huawei's strength in chip design again, and also lets us see that Ren Zhengfei did not lie, and Huawei has been fully supporting the development of HiSilicon.
However, at this moment, we are more concerned about the Kirin chip for smart phones, and the latest version of the kirin chip is the Kirin 9000 series, which uses a 5-nanometer process.
However, Huawei has made it clear that it will not abandon the smartphone business, and huawei has also announced that it has permanently obtained the ARM V8 architecture.
Arm V8 architecture is the previously used smartphone chip architecture for many years, after Huawei announced that it will permanently obtain the V8 architecture, the industry said that Huawei will independently develop new architectures in the future.
Now look, Huawei does have the strength in this regard, because we have mentioned above, Huawei's Ascend chip, is Huawei's independent research and development of the Da Vinci architecture, Huawei is not without other suppliers to provide architecture use, but Huawei said to do the best, the supplier's products can not meet Huawei's needs.
Therefore, it can be expected that there will be new models of Kirin chips, Kirin 9000 will not be the last self-developed chip of Huawei smartphones, and the new chips are expected to use the new architecture developed by HiSilicon on the basis of the V8 architecture.
Because ARM has begun to use the V9 architecture, Huawei is bound to upgrade the V8 architecture, so this makes us have more expectations.
Therefore, it can be seen that the future smartphone chip market will no longer be just an arm architecture, but also a Huawei self-developed architecture, so what will be the name of Huawei's self-developed architecture? Everyone is welcome to give your favorite answer in the comments section.