Many people may know Godson, Shen Wei, soar, Hass, Spreadtrum, but said Katherine look at the core to a loss a message - Katherine core undertake a national nuclear high base on the 1st projects, project a subsidy of up to 5.6 billion yuan, and the project continues to apply, the total has more than 7 billion yuan.
You know, in China to undertake nuclear high base, the 1st Special obtain such high subsidies, and it seems the future also 2, 3 .. item. Basically, the next five years, Katherine core earn even a penny, but also worry about the eating and drinking.
This public relations capacity really Guards! Trillion core in the end what is the background? Let's take a trillion since the end of the core.
1 trillion before the core
Shanghai trillion Core Integrated Circuits Limited was established in April 2013, the Shanghai SASAC Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd., Taiwan's VIA Technologies, its two major shareholders Wherein the Shanghai Alliance Investment Co., Ltd. invested 200 million US dollars, accounting for 80% of shares, VIA Technologies invested $ 49.75 million, accounting for 20%.
Katherine core existing employees more than 1,000 people, is headquartered in Shanghai Zhangjiang, in Beijing, Wuhan, Taiwan, the United States have established branches.
Currently there are four trillion core business:
First x86 chip R & D;
Second, the public version of ARM-based SOC design development;
Third, the GPU design and development;
Fourth, the development of chipsets.
2, Katherine core x86 authoritative source
Katherine core technology from Taiwan VIA.
Most x86 chip design IC design companies and users may only heard Intel AMD, in fact, when there are many strong in designs x86 chips, such as Cyrix company had made such epoch of Geode.
Since the late 1990s, Taiwan has received a US VIA Cyrix and other companies, and then get some x86 patents, began to design their own tour x86 chip design.
VIA's processor through four stages of development:
1, Joshua is basically entertain, similar to practice your hand products.
2, Samuel, Ezra does not succeed, more than a year out of.
3, the difference between Nehemiah and Esther Esther is only used when the relatively advanced 90nm process technology, has been used in the no-name netbooks.
4, the last of Isaiah though was Samsung, Lenovo, HP and other manufacturers to use, but the weak performance, defeat in competition with Intel, AMD's.
VIA really been brilliant is its chipset, once occupied a large market share, but in the Intel patent stick dead.
After losing in the competitive market, can be used for R & D of new products, see my wife elbow, VIA's x86 chips has basically stalled, VIA official line is N years is not updated.
3, Taiwan and mainland China joint venture to VIA Why?
Taiwanese companies have been on the technology transfer to the mainland secrecy, always only transferred sweatshops like Foxconn. Something unusual out there must be a demon! That uncharacteristically why the Taiwan enterprises, high-tech industries in a joint initiative with the mainland it?
VIA to the mainland joint venture, is not serving the country or come when Lei Feng, but have their own calculations. In recent years, Chinese government very hard to upgrade, continue to impact the high-end manufacturing, the government in this regard is also smashed a lot of money, such as' Nuclear high base "project.
In the Chinese government to promote an industry alliances and technology system prototype composed by the China Enterprise has been initially established, once the system is completed, companies outside the mainland's huge market share in mainland China will be gradually eroded.
Therefore, VIA inevitable choice shares of domestic companies, will own from outside mainland enterprises into state-owned holding enterprises, to participate in 'nuclear high base' projects, thereby affecting China and establishing an independent technical system, influence the direction of technical route.
Specifically, x86 VIA processor development has stalled for years, although VIA bought Cyrix Corporation, but had a lot of brain drain, as early as 2000, when, Cyrix headquarters of more than 50 people have nine core developers resign.
Shortage coupled with technological brain drain leading to the front-end design level CPU VIA serious backward, domestic Godson, soar, Shen Wei on these domestic CPU performance has gone beyond VIA Nano lot from the best R & D funding.
(1GHz clock speed test, compilation environment unknown)
Faced with countries with the world's most complete industrial chain, has the largest team of engineers and industrial workers, and the largest market in Europe and America technology blockade is ineffective. Rehabilitation since the founding of China's history more fully explained, the Western blockade What, after 8 to 10 years, China on its own can put issues are resolved.
VIA also know that technology blockade against China is ineffective. Front-end design of the current level of the continent has gone beyond VIA CPU a large portion, Godson once binary translation technology is mature, or Microsoft is perfectly compatible with ARM, soar (ARM) can run Windows, VIA just want to sell their bodies were then nobody wanted.
Therefore, under the present situation VIA x86 processors dead than alive, instead of continuing ice noble, not as early as possible a better price.
On one hand, the Celtics find joint ventures, it has been abandoned for many years to x86 chip design company transfusion, like Russia, India looking for joint research and development T50, BrahMos and other advanced weapons.
On the other hand, it can also open the mainland market, access to the mainland government's preferential policies, and even affect the technical development of the mainland routes and Technology System.
4, Mega-core x86 chip performance
I believe this problem is our greatest concern. From the early C3, C7 and now the Nano, Mega core performance are very limited. Currently, only a desktop trillion core x86 chip 'ZX-A' is a VIA Nano vest.
VIA according to the official website of the White Paper as follows:
The test only explanation is the peak, in fact, is likely to run sub-Turbo 1.4GHz after results.
From the test results, Nano performance parameters is indeed very ugly, do not say, and Intel, AMD do comparison, even compared to the gap and Godson GS464E also great - also using the GCC compiler, integer performance is about the same frequency Godson GS464E of 74.3%, 43.1% of the floating-point performance only Godson GS464E.
Terawins anyhow there Power8 do tell your technology start trillion core x86 chips is indeed too low.
Look forward to assist countries in the nuclear high base on the 1st special funds, the new micro-architecture core Katherine can have relatively large increase.
5, Katherine core GPU
In fact, high-performance GPU technical threshold is high, there are a lot of various patents and underlying technical obstacles. Currently only do the high-performance NVIDIA GPU, ATI, standard plus Imagination can relax a little and Intel, although the latter two than Some former two water.
If you avoid the above four companies, and other graphics programs, then rendering quality will drop a notch.
Mobile GPU threshold is relatively low because of the current mobile gaming 3d rendering is not complicated, under If you join AF, AA and high-resolution textures circumstances, GPU, and some vendors Nvidia GPU can immediately pulled away.
To do high-performance GPU, technology accumulation is very important, even now the latest GPU, a lot of the underlying technology is still a historical accumulation up. Even Intel has done so in 90 years on the graphics chip manufacturers in GPU technology, after also shares Imagination, GPU Intel's own performance was relatively large increase.
Katherine core GPU technology from VIA acquired from the United States S3 Graphics. S3 Fremont headquarters set up in the United States, and have set up a branch, currently employs more than 500 people in Shanghai, Taiwan, Shenzhen, is a veteran GPU design firms.
Although technically S3 Graphics has been Nvidia and ATI opened a big cut, but the purchase of S3 Graphics existing technology as a foundation, make Katherine core in a relatively high starting point start, and take a lot less detours.
Katherine core Elite 1000 is used in set-top boxes, display performance information on the official website about 12-15 Mali400 @ 600Mhz, it can simultaneously support dual codec 1080P @ 60fps.
September 22, Shanghai trillion core, Shanghai and Hubei Radio and Television Union Tong jointly signed a strategic cooperation agreement, 'Katherine core + United Tong' TVOS total solutions project will be landing in Hubei loading Elite1000 radio and television set-top box has become the Queen STB TVOS , I believe that radio and television 'Foul' marketing ability, the set-top box can be in the national limelight naturally.
Katherine core newest Elite 2000, according to the official website trillion core data show that the GPU and NVIDIA's GPU as X1 has 256 ALU, 300Mhz when Manhattan is 22.5, while consuming only 700mW.
If the data is no water, then Elite ALU efficiency 2000 watt performance, chip area and performance to NVIDIA maxwell comparable, and even a slight win. (Unbelievable!)
According to third-party software to run sub-release show: Katherine core about the latest release of Elite 2000 and Mali 760MP8 performance considerably, moving end GPU performance is basically in the mainstream level.
Katherine core GPU is the only two companies to do, another Changsha King Ka microelectronics. Currently, King Ka microelectronics and National Defense has deep roots, how to look like a military product GPU.
6, Katherine core research team
With respect to the keen interest in the domestic high-quality assets to the foreign acquisitions, calling them 'investment,' 'with international standards' to highlight the achievements of a great power of officials themselves, the United States acquired the national science and technology company has a very rigorous review process, the acquisition of US technology companies can be described as difficult - Huawei has on several occasions tried to buy American companies, even commercially each case have been negotiated, still Jifeidanda under US government intervention.
Even if the United States agreed national technology company to be acquired, but also there are many restrictions, such as banning layoffs, management restrictions airborne, shall not leave after the company was acquired by the United States, technology transfer, etc. prohibit restrictive clauses are commonplace.
VIA's acquisition is no exception, when the acquisition is also fitted with the proviso numerous. It is because of this, for a long period of time, VIA's CPU design department basically in the United States, most of them are designer foreigners. VIA only did the acquisition, integration, and there is no truly independent innovation after foreign technical mastery.
After the core was established in megabytes, beginning in the mainland campus group of students recruited army, so far, more than 200 people were recruited, although these mainland to recruit students for at least 5 - 8 years later to be able to play the leading role, but this is technology beginning localization talent.
7, on the core of self-controlled trillion
Autonomy, can independently develop, choose the right to development, Katherine core attached to the Wintel system, use the Intel x86 instruction set, ran Microsoft Windows, can only follow Wintel's baton away, obviously do not have independent property.
Controlled, safe and controlled prerequisite to design their own micro-structure.
Currently the desktop chip ZX-A trillion is only listed core VIA Nano vest, is VIA acquired IC design companies in the United States around 2009 design.
The latest product is the official website ZX-C, both the White Paper can not find, can not find the paper, micro-structure is unknown, except ZX-C and ZX-A according to the official website of the information in that core trillion dual-core quad-core variant, the upgrade process from 40nm to 28nm.
During the development of the ZX-C, just from the mainland batch of students recruited army clearly can not be the main force of development, therefore, ZX-C is likely the same foreign design team, and in terms of security control to make a question mark.
Although the design of the aforementioned CPU IC design companies in the United States is Taiwan's VIA acquired, but US intelligence agencies to go to the US companies American design plus CPU inside the back door, it was a little difficult at all.
8, Katherine core core is not Chinese?
In the introduction of technology, often there is such a process:
First OEM, after imitation, and then modify the original design, and finally, after the introduction of the technical mastery of innovation.
Realistically speaking, Katherine core is still in the OEM stage - Katherine core is still in the process of gradually accept the transfer of VIA x86 processor technology and related human resources, the mega own core technical personnel are also in the process of gradually develop the .
Katherine core established two years, in CPU design, ZX-C is not a relevant public information, ZX-A vest is a VIA Nano, is entirely American company American design CPU.
Because VIA and mainland China joint venture trillion core, and then the ZX-A stamped self-controlled domestic nameplates and labels are very debatable.
At the moment, Katherine core mainland money, American design, Taiwan OEM (SMIC grasp 28nm HKMG, chip yield under secure circumstances, may be transferred to mainland production), the mainland OEM a chip.
VIA x86 processors only when the technology and related human resources are all transferred to the mainland, and its own culture technical team can work independently after Katherine core can finish OEM, reproduce, modify, the whole process of innovation, with their design technology with independent intellectual property rights of the microstructure and CPU. In this case, the core can be regarded as the core of China trillion in the true sense.
9, Katherine core strengths
Katherine core biggest advantage is deep background, plus Taiwan, VIA influential and politically united front needs to make the core of public relations capacity megabytes very Guards.
Whether it is the Chinese government to pull funding for the project, or a request for the continent to other vendors do megabytes core support, and asked the Government to expensive purchase price of high-quality secondary products, which in terms of megabytes cores are so easy.
Secondly, the national efforts to support large.
VIA is the biggest problem after the failure of market competition, a serious shortage of R & D funding, and the mainland in the joint venture by China mainland government blood transfusion, or the possibility of reviving present, efforts to support the country and the only core compared trillion Only Spreadtrum up.
Thirdly, Katherine core is the only one able to sell commodity x86 chip design IC design companies.
(At least in 2018, there will be no patent disputes, PKUnity x86 obtain authorization when there are some restrictions). Katherine core is fully compatible with Windows, this is for the market in terms of operating system and software ecosystem wiped away the obstacles.
Finally, you can get full support business outside the mainland.
After the agreement between Intel and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in April 2018 ago, VIA and Intel will be able to use each other's patents. Therefore, Katherine core can fully learn drawing Intel's chip design technology and design, Godson did not like feeling the stones. Compared to the Godson, Katherine core in the way you can catch a lot of success.
VIA has its own R & D capacity USB chip, sound card, network card, and other peripheral chips, Katherine core can receive technical support peripheral chips by VIA.
In addition, according to Katherine core PPT is released, ZX-E to 16nm process technology. As we all know, Intel has 14nm and 22nm are two processes, some Samsung 14nm and 20nm process, GlobalFoundries 14nm process technology acquired from Samsung related technologies, SMIC also strive to overcome the 14nm process in 2018. So far, the development and preparation has only TSMC 16nm process.
Obviously, a few years after the listing ZX-E would probably TSMC foundry, which makes process technology trillion core is better than the same period of Godson, soar, Shen Wei and other domestic chip.
10 Summary
Katherine core project, is the 1980s the market for technology to reproduce essence, is Taiwan's electronics industry as a whole strongly support the weak Chinese IC industry background, in the domestic elite and VIA utmost to promote Taiwan, mainland China and Taiwan's interests and China compromise product after exchange - Continental can be obtained commercial design and production of authorized x86 chips and GPU technologies, VIA Taiwan mainland can get funding support, preferential policies and markets.
Katherine core priority is to develop their own technical personnel and complete acceptance of technology transferred from VIA soon as possible.
For the next five years, the technology transfer to the country to achieve localization technology, develop their own technical personnel from OEM finish, imitation, to modify the original design, and then the whole process of innovation.
In Katherine core is still in OEM state, such branded goods if the main government procurement and security market that is to take the national information security as a trifling matter, although some people really are trying to do.
In terms of the case has received government funding and policy vigorously support, Siu core should be the right path to the flame on the market, not to mention also, unlike Katherine core Godson, Shen Wei ecological problems exist software that can perfectly run Windows.
If it can snatch away the market from Intel and the hands of AMD, that the market for technology is a success.
If the government's huge financial support, still rely on government procurement to live, then the market for technology is clearly a failure, but also on the Godson, Shen Wei, Jing Jia microelectronics go independent development path of CPU and GPU impact.
Most trillion worth of core learning successful example is the introduction of the MiG-21 that year, only half in drawings (drawings but also the Westerner tampered with) and several aircraft prototype case, Chinese aviation people to self-sacrifice, noble spirit of self-sacrifice, independence, hard work, step by step, understand the technology, complete 'the introduction of technology, reverse engineering, mastery, innovation' is the whole process, so that the development of improved models of the MiG-21 Mikoyan Design Bureau did not even know.
(MiG-21 magic change)
After Katherine core in the end is to be like when the introduction of the MiG-21, as can its digestion and absorption of imported technology, innovation? Or like cars, large aircraft industry, as in the market for technology in the sink? Let us wait and see.
National investment trillion core is so great! Trillion expected core can live up to expectations.
