MIPS is a yesterday tech.
x86 is getting killed
ARM is the future (in the West)
RISC-V is what China will use
Chinese semiconductor industry
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x86 is getting killed
ARM is the future (in the West)
RISC-V is what China will use
Intel and amd cpus are still dominating over ARM cpu.
Is Huawei cpu based on RISC-V?
As far as i am aware Huawei cpu are based on ARM, I think in China Alibaba's T-Head with their Xuantie 910 is the most advance Risc-V design right now. In the US you have SiFive as the main Risc-V design house. Maybe we will hear something soon, i do know that allwinner has designed a raspberry-pi like board based on Risc-V.
The day that China stop importing chips is the day that China stop being the world top manufacturer. China should continue to sell according to consumers demand. Nothing wrong with increasing chips import every year if markets demand them. Hope China don't let ego, politics or arrogance screwed up their businesses acumen. They already have an impressive record. Don't be so judgemental on them.
A fully indigenous 14nm Production line may be 1-2 years away.
China has already sucessfully developed a fully indigenous 28nm Production line.
Companies like Naura, North CETC etc are already working on 14nm Equipment.
There is also the option of acquiring second hand 14nm Equipment and recently SMIC has been doing this.
SMIC is already building a De-Americanised 14nm Production Line as US approvals for new equipment purchases have not come through.
Chinese Govt finally realising the importance of the Semiconductor Industry to China's National Security and Prosperity.
China now funding R&D on 4 types of EUV Light Sources but this all takes time.
Govt now spending big on EUVL Development.
SMEE 28nm DUVL will go into small scale production in 2nd half of the Year.
Mass Production in 2022.
Interesting article, thanks. Note that it's dated April 11, 2019, over two years ago.
Empyrean is already ten years old? That is better than I expected.
Xia Yanqiu is from HiSilicon (Huawei). Of course he would prefer to continue using US tools, which his people know. However, he said that two years ago. What does he think of the recent sanctions, which might include the use of EDA tools from American vendors? Actually, I'm not sure if those tools are included in the sanctions. But even if they aren't, China should prepare for the possibility that US EDA tools will be banned. Americans are playing very dirty.
Switching to Chinese EDA tools will cost some training time, but as the people being trained are engineers, the learning shouldn't take long.
That was said two years ago.
This was not a quote. The (presumably American) author is saying this. I doubt that he is right that 10 or 20 more years are required to make a Chinese EDA tool. ***
This is precisely what worried me upthread, that Chinese companies might starve local suppliers, preferring to give their money to American companies instead. However, that was two years ago.
Note that AMEC was already selling stuff to SMIC two years ago. *** Why I doubt that 10 or 20 more years will be needed for China to develop EDA tools. For one thing, as noted earlier, Empyrean is already 10 years old. For another, an EDA tool doesn't have to do everything in order to be very useful; if it only does the most important jobs, that will be good enough, for now.
What worries me is the Americans could ban China from using RISC-V anyway -- and find a way to enforce that ban.
I agree. This is why the new architecture from Loongson could be important. Especially to China's military; the US will definitely use any excuse against the PLA.
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Well EDA development is cooperative venture The problem with Chinese FAB is they prefer to use Cadence, synopsys, etc. Without cooperation of Chinese FAB , it will be hard struggle . EDA is probably the easiest to achieve self sufficiency but it will be long march. After all Emphyrean has been around for 10 years and they haven't been able to dislodge the like of Cadence etc.
The guy is not saying China 60 years behind but he said China behind because the west has earlier start.
I hope that the mind set will Change and should be obvious now that they cannot stuck their head in the sand and trusting foreign supply chain.
Though the article is 2 years old it still the same problem bedevil China. The elite just have slave mentality. I have Japanese friend long time ago He is great grandson of Admiral Togo. He told me his brother in law work for Nissan and the first thing when the west come up with new car model. He would bought it and dismantle it see what is inside and try to replicate or even improve on it ! And if any one read the story of Toyoda should know it star as textile machinery manufacture and when car first come to Japan. They not only want to import but build it themselves!. Now that is spirit of independence
The guy is not saying China 60 years behind but he said China behind because the west has earlier start.
I hope that the mind set will Change and should be obvious now that they cannot stuck their head in the sand and trusting foreign supply chain.
Though the article is 2 years old it still the same problem bedevil China. The elite just have slave mentality. I have Japanese friend long time ago He is great grandson of Admiral Togo. He told me his brother in law work for Nissan and the first thing when the west come up with new car model. He would bought it and dismantle it see what is inside and try to replicate or even improve on it ! And if any one read the story of Toyoda should know it star as textile machinery manufacture and when car first come to Japan. They not only want to import but build it themselves!. Now that is spirit of independence
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