In the past two years, chips have become the main topic of people's talk after tea, and the chips here are mainly domestic chips. Because of the impact of the global environment, many technology manufacturers in the mainland are facing the problem of chips, and even the central media are calling for domestic chips to pay attention to domestic chips, and domestic technology manufacturers have also invested in the road of self-developed chips.
Chip problem
In fact, for the mainland, the biggest problem facing chips is in production, not in design and development. Taking Huawei mobile phones as an example, Huawei is one of the few technology manufacturers in the mainland, and it is also one of the earliest companies that can independently develop chips, and its HiSilicon Kirin chips, with excellent quality, and balanced power consumption and heat, have also made Huawei's mobile phone sales and reputation at home and abroad skyrocket. Among them, the Kirin 9000 chip is cross-era, completing the feat of 5nm and integrated 5G network high-performance chips for the first time.
Therefore, for the mainland, the design and development of chips has never been a problem. The United States, seeing the speed of China's technological development and the position that Huawei is shaking up U.S. companies, began to sanction Huawei by any means, and amended the "Chip Act" to make TSMC unable to OEM huawei's Kirin chips. This is also what we have seen at present that Huawei cannot carry the Kirin chip and cannot use 5G chips when mobile phone shipments and new mobile phones are released.
Central media appealed
Although Huawei has the greatest impact in the chip field, as other domestic technology manufacturers, it must be prepared for danger in times of peace. Just recently, CCTV has also called on companies to reduce "Apple dependence" through news, which is, in layman's terms, to accelerate the development of self-research projects.
But in fact, many technology companies in the mainland have begun to accelerate the development of self-developed chips. Among them, the surging series of chips that also belong to Xiaomi is the most eye-catching, and Lei Jun, the CEO of Xiaomi, announced at the press conference that he would invest 100 billion yuan in research and development funds in five years, which also brought a sensation to the market.
In fact, as early as 2017, Xiaomi has successfully developed the surging S1 chip, which is made of 28-nanometer process, which is a real SOC chip, which is mainly responsible for various algorithms in mobile phones. At that time, this chip also played a certain sensational effect.
However, the production difficulty of SOC chips is very high, and it is still unrealistic if we want to complete the independent development and production of high-performance SOC chips in a short period of time. So Xiaomi took a different path, starting from the most basic chip, so we saw the surging C1 chip launched by Xiaomi later, which is mainly responsible for image processing in Xiaomi devices and is used to improve the imaging capabilities of Xiaomi devices.
The surging P1 chip is responsible for improving the charging rate and safety stability in Xiaomi devices. This year, Xiaomi used the P1 chip and G1 chip in the 12S Ultra, which can manage and monitor the battery, and will also be used in the future to serve the battery of new energy vehicles. In addition, a large area of leaf vein cold pump heat dissipation technology has also been added to the Xiaomi 12S Ultra, which makes the heat dissipation of the mobile phone more rapid and the charging safer.
summary
At present, the development of domestic chips in the mainland has been steadily improving, and SMIC has now solved the problem of mass production of SOC chips. For Xiaomi, the 100 billion yuan spent by Lei is still very worthwhile, solving the chip problem that Xiaomi may face in the future, but other manufacturers are also doing very well. If you want to feel the strength of Xiaomi's self-developed chip, you can choose the newly released Xiaomi 12S Ultra. Various technology manufacturers have accelerated the pace of chip self-research and achieved good results!