On July 25, Pingtou Ge, a subsidiary of Alibaba, released the first Xuantie 910 chip, which is also one of the most powerful RISC-V architecture chips in the industry. It can be used in 5G, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, autonomous driving and other fields in the future.

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Speaking of which, do you have many questions?

What is a RISC-V architecture chip?

What is the difference between Xuantie 910 and Huawei Kirin chip?

Can Xuantie 910 be used on mobile phones?

What is the RISC-V architecture?

How strong is it?

Speaking of RISC-V architecture, what is it?

You may not know much about it.

One sentence, "RISC-V architecture is the chip foundation for the Internet of Everything" can summarize the status of RISC-V processors.

The RISC-V processor was proposed in 1980 by Hennessy, the current chairman of Google, and David Patterson, a professor at UC Berkeley. It has now developed into the fifth generation.

Some time ago, Qualcomm led the investment in SiFive, a company based on the RISC-V architecture, and Intel and Samsung also invested in the company.

At present, well-known domestic and foreign companies have joined the RISC-V Foundation, such as Huawei, Alibaba, Google, Qualcomm, and Microsoft.

What is the relationship between Xuantie 910 and Huawei Kirin chip?

Xuantie 910 is not a real mobile integrated chip. What does this mean?

Xuantie 910 is a processor (IP core), which can be understood as the CPU in SOC.

Here we take Kirin 980 as an example to explain this problem.

Kirin 980 is a 7nm SOC integrated chip, which consists of Cortex-A76 CPU, dual-core NPU, Mali-G76 GPU, Cat.21 baseband chip, etc.

Then Xuantie 910 is equivalent to the Cortex-A76 CPU in Kirin 980.

According to the Core Mark running score data, it can be seen that the performance of Xuantie 910 is 40% higher than that of Sifive u74, the best publicly available RISC-V processor. The main frequency power consumption is only 0.2 watts. It is also the first RISC-V with a performance exceeding 7.0.

processor.

In horizontal comparison, Xuantie 910 is basically at the same level as Cortex-A72.

Therefore, Xuantie 910 and Kirin chips are not on the same level.

However, Pingtou Ge also said that in the future, he will provide a complete SOC solution, which is currently only positioned in the AloT field.

Whether it can be used on mobile phones in the future is still uncertain, but what is certain is that Xuantie currently has this capability.

It has to be said that since Huawei began to develop its own chips, Chinese companies will also invest more energy in this aspect. It can be said that this is a very good thing. After all, Chinese companies are becoming more and more powerful, so China

It is also getting stronger.

I believe that more outstanding companies will conduct research and development of their own chips in the future.