Chapter 68 A76
The reconciliation with Guozi also made Rouyu Company famous in the industry!
After all, fruit companies have always been a giant in the technology industry.
Being able to benefit from the fruit is really valuable.
Of course, Rouyu Company is also constantly conducting R&D and innovation internally, and is working hard to bring technology to the highest level, leaving other manufacturers behind.
At the end of October, new news came from arm, the most influential company in the semiconductor industry.
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 needed as the core architecture.
Nowadays, the core architecture used by most mobile phone processor chips on CPU and GPU basically comes from ARM.
Even the core architecture designed by ARM can affect the development of the entire mobile phone industry.
"ARM has developed the latest a76 and g76 architectures. I heard that HiSilicon Kirin has recently sent people to arm for discussions, trying to use the new architectures on the next generation of processor chips as soon as possible!"
ARM's launch of a new core architecture also made Liu Wei, who was in charge of Yuzhen Company, very concerned.
After all, the iteration of the core architecture generally brings about performance improvements and the upgrading of mobile phone processor chips.
Although Yuzhen Company was established less than half a year ago, the company internally hopes to engage 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 on the a76 and g76 architectures developed by the latest arm.
It's just that the current ARM company is only developing the architecture. If you really want to apply these architectures to products, you have to wait until at least the middle of next year.
However, ARM has a very close cooperative relationship with mainstream chip design manufacturers such as HiSilicon, HiSilicon, and Lianhua Technology, and these manufacturers can obtain the right to use the public version of the architecture in advance.
According to historical development, the two brand-new architectures a76 and g76 were truly launched to the public at the end of May 2018.
The performance improvement brought by the powerful core of a76 is unparalleled.
Cores such as a73 and a75 are nothing compared to a76. This is also the most mature generation architecture among the arm public version architecture.
The first processor chip to adopt this architecture is the famous Ice Kirin, Kirin 980 processor chip.
The Kirin 980 processor chip is the most improved processor chip among the Kirin processor chips. Compared with the previous generation Kirin 970 processor chip, it is simply a qualitative improvement.
Not only the performance is excellent, but it is also remarkable in the industry in terms of power consumption control.
Even this Kirin 980 chip has completely shaken the Fire Dragon 835 in the entire mobile phone market.
The architecture of the a76 generation can be said to be ridiculously powerful. The subsequent generations of Kirin 985 and Kirin 990 chips all use the core architecture of the a76.
These processor chips have reached very good heights in terms of reputation and performance.
It can even be said that it has improved Kirin’s position in the entire chip market.
The later a77 and a88 cores were further modified and upgraded based on the a76 core.
In addition to the successful core architecture of the a76 as the basis, the performance of the modified versions of the a77 and a78 is also exceptionally good.
A77 has Kirin 9000 series, Fire Dragon 865 series and other chips that directly become gods.
A78 has Dimensity 8000 series chips and will still be the leader in 2022.
Since the a76, the a77 and a78 have also brought new hope to chip design manufacturers, which has led to great improvements and upgrades in the processor chips of Android manufacturers.
It is a pity that the overall iterative core of the a78, the a710, has not been upgraded in terms of overall performance compared to the a78. On the contrary, it has been greatly improved in terms of power consumption.
Arm announced the core architecture of the x series in 2020. Although there has been a huge improvement in qualitative parameters, there has been a very big improvement in power consumption.
This also makes the processor chip using a new architecture, although it has been greatly improved in terms of ultimate performance, the user experience in daily use and ordinary light to moderate use is not as good as the core architecture chip of the a76 series.
So much so that the Kirin 990 equipped with a76!
A77's Fire Dragon 865 and 870, Kirin 9000!
Dimensity 8000 and 8100 of a78.
It is still very powerful in 2022, and even the user experience is not inferior to the architecture, which is two or three generations ahead 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 two new core architectures, a76 and g76.
Designing a processor chip itself is very difficult, and using these two core architectures also requires a lot of money.
Although the core architecture is the public version, the public version is not free.
If you want to adopt ARM's architecture, you must pay for the corresponding architecture authorization before you can use ARM's architecture.
Moreover, most systems of mobile phones now adapt to the instruction sets of the arm architecture, which means that using 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 Company, it is quite difficult to design a new architecture and adapt it to the corresponding system.
Instead of doing this, it is better to purchase arm's architecture license to facilitate the design of mobile phone processor chips.
However, it is also difficult for Yuzhen Company to contact ARM to obtain the corresponding architecture authorization.
Yuzhen Company has to pay to obtain the patent, but the other party may not agree to sell the patent to itself.
"Contact Juchang, we can get in touch with Arm through Juchang's relationship!"
Liu Wei's intention to find Zhou Zhen was simple.
I hope to use my boss’s connections to contact ARM to obtain the corresponding core authorization.
At the same time, we also hope to obtain the patent authorization of the corresponding baseband communication technology from Juchang.
Zhou Zhen did not refuse this.
After all, as a businessman, face is a dispensable thing.
The future development potential of Yuzhen Company is very huge. Sooner or later, it will make processor chips.
Rather than waiting and procrastinating, try it sooner rather than later.
Today, making mobile phone chips cannot be accomplished overnight. It takes generations of hard work and experience to make a good chip.
Of course, the time it takes to develop a chip from research and design to corresponding production is also very long, and a lot of money needs to be invested.
This is also a huge pressure for Zhou Zhen.
After receiving the call from Zhou Zhen in Juchang, Yu Dazui also showed a look of missing out.
Contact ARM to obtain authorization 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 ten years ago.
The processor chips produced in the first few years were extremely embarrassing.
The performance and power consumption are both poor, and even Juchi dare not put this chip in its own products.
After so many years of product experience accumulation, coupled with almost billions of investments every year.
Only then has the current HiSilicon Kirin processor chip gained a certain degree of recognition in the entire market, and has gradually begun to compete with Gaotong.
Behind Zhou Zhen is a semiconductor chip design company. Yu Dazui knew about this when he saw the charging IC chip.
But he didn't expect that the other party would take such a big step this time.
Before laying a solid foundation in the industry, we began to prepare to enter the mobile phone processor chip design industry.
Chapter completed!