Chinese semiconductor thread II

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According to this poster (pretty good track record), harmony pc project has been going for a while and they will be hiring for GPU software. So, do expect standalone GPU this year imo

Expect a whole line of new chips and system products for PC
 

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I think a standalone GPU might be a bit too soon. But an integrated GPU like apples m-series socs yeah I could expect them to release that this year.
Mostly because Huawei can only get a first impression once especially if you are going to compete with AMD and Nvidia.

Im more wondering what sort of direction will huawei take with HMOS, will huawei take the apple route and make HMOS exclusive for huawei hardware or will they take the Microsoft route where one can buy HMOS activation key and install it onyour own modern hardware like windows.

I expect OpenHarmony to more function like the Linux desktop distro wasteland.
 

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i don't know for sure they will have standalone GPU, but whatever they design need to handle the rendering requirement of PC, so it would need to be more powerful than what's up K9000S
 

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i don't know for sure they will have standalone GPU, but whatever they design need to handle the rendering requirement of PC, so it would need to be more powerful than what's up K9000S

How about Huawei buying Biren, since Biren needs new investments?
 

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i don't know for sure they will have standalone GPU, but whatever they design need to handle the rendering requirement of PC, so it would need to be more powerful than what's up K9000S
In a PC HiSilicon can just take the 5G modem and AI blocks out from the SoC and use the area for more CPU or GPU cores.
Basically the upper half of the chip and the DSP block in the bottom aren't necessary.

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In a PC HiSilicon can just take the 5G modem and AI blocks out from the SoC and use the area for more CPU or GPU cores.
Basically the upper half of the chip and the DSP block in the bottom aren't necessary.

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I think PC Kirin chip will be larger than 110mm^2. You can have 100mm^2 chiplets and then stack them together.

Instead of having 1 large Taishan core + 3 medium Taishan core & 4 A510, you'd probably have 4 large Taishan core and 4 medium Taishan cores.
 

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An agricultural chemical company wants to expand their business entering the semiconductor chemical industry with a partnership with a packaging-FPD equipment maker.​

Bioa Chemical plans to purchase semiconductor equipment for no more than 140 million yuan​


BioPro Chemicals (603360) announced that the company and Suzhou Xinhuilian Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Xinhuilian") planned to sign a "Strategic Cooperation Agreement". The two parties plan to carry out in-depth semiconductor equipment business. cooperate. According to disclosures, Bioa Chemical intends to entrust Xinhuilian to purchase semiconductor equipment with its own funds. The total contract price shall not exceed 140 million yuan. Xinhuilian will be responsible for its remanufacturing, upgrading, technical services and external sales.

According to the data, Bioro Chemical is mainly engaged in the research and development, production and sales of isothiazolinone industrial fungicides. The company is currently planning to develop new businesses and plans to deploy in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry. In recent years, domestic semiconductor equipment has broken its monopoly in mature processes and is expected to enter the commercialization and expansion stage under the resonance of stock replacement and incremental expansion. In order to meet strong downstream demand, chip manufacturers continue to expand production capacity, and the rise of domestic wafer fabs has led to an increase in domestic demand for semiconductor equipment. In this context, Bioro Chemical regards the semiconductor equipment industry as a new direction for strategic development.

Founded in 2019, Xinhuilian is a high-tech enterprise focusing on semiconductor equipment manufacturing, technical services and product sales. It is understood that Xinhuilian adopts forward R&D technology with high technical difficulty in the development and iteration of semiconductor equipment, and has achieved phased results. Its equipment products include the world's leading glue developing machine, high-end electroplating equipment, innovative Automation equipment and high-precision wafer bonding equipment, etc.

According to the "Strategic Cooperation Agreement" between the two parties, Biao Chemical and Xinhuilian will cooperate to carry out technological innovation and R&D iterations of advanced semiconductor equipment including but not limited to: the world's leading glue coating and development equipment, advanced high-end wet plating equipment, innovative and independent Research and development of semiconductor automation equipment, high-tech wafer bonding equipment, cutting-edge wet cleaning equipment, etc. In the future, as Bioa Chemicals gradually and deeply transforms into the semiconductor industry, if there is any business collaboration or development assistance with Xinhuilian, both parties will jointly promote industrial cooperation, further achieve industrial synergy, and work together to make the semiconductor industry bigger and bigger. powerful.

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The first zero-knowledge proof SOC chip was successfully released in one taping​

Recently, the world's first zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) was developed by Shenzhen Accseal Information Technology Co., Ltd. ) SOC chip (Accseal LEO chip) was successfully taped out once and has completely independent intellectual property rights, breaking the situation of no ZKP accelerator chip in the industry, improving ZKP’s computing efficiency and greatly reducing costs, paving the way for the widespread application of ZKP and the development of the digital economy Development provides underlying computing power support.

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Accseal LEO chip is based on 12nm advanced process, can perform complex multi-scalar multiplication (MSM) and number theory transformation (NTT) operations, supports programmable design, and can support accelerated operations of post-quantum cryptography, multi-party secure computing and federated learning. Chip performance It is more than a thousand times faster than traditional CPUs and the cost can be reduced by ten times. Engineering sample testing has been completed and mass production will be launched in the first quarter of 2024.

Academician Yao Qizhi, dean of the Institute of Cross-Information at Tsinghua University and the only Chinese winner of the Turing Award, congratulated the world's first Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) SOC chip for its successful first tape-out. The launch of ZKP acceleration chips provides strong computing power support for the data element market. Government departments or industry alliances can jointly use zero-knowledge proof technology to achieve the coexistence of supervision and privacy, verify the compliance, fairness and other principles of the use of data elements, and ensure Data Privacy and Corporate Confidentiality.

Gao Mingyu, co-founder of Zhixinhuaxi and assistant professor of the Institute of Cross -Information at Tsinghua University, said that the project originated from a scientific research project led by Academician Yao Qizhi and brought together the talents and efforts of many elite students in mathematics and computer science such as Yao Class of Tsinghua University. Today, The successful incubation of Zhixin Huaxi and the completion of the ZKP acceleration chip is a successful case of Tsinghua University's integration of industry, academia and research. At the same time, he will continue to lead the Zhixin Huaxi team to delve into the field of privacy computing, overcome technical difficulties, and provide technical support for the development of the digital economy.

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