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fudan university new 16-core cpu with message passing and shared-memory inter-core

27 February 2012, 10:06

Intel releases the instruction extension for transactional memory and gives numerous speeches at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). AMD equips the Piledriver with inductors and China delivers another new processor.

While Intel and AMD explained some of the circuitry tricks of future processors, Oracle used the event to release more details about its already-launched SPARC T4 processor. The T4 comes with fewer but much more powerful cores than its T3 predecessor. It would be nice to have some benchmark results from SPECrate2006 to be able to directly compare the new 8-core chip with its 16-core predecessor, but apparently Oracle isn't willing to release them.

There were new processors to be admired, too, with a Chinese University yet again managing the feat of pulling a new one out of the hat. Last autumn, the Jiangnan Computing Research Lab delivered the ShenWei 1600 with 16 cores, which allowed an accordingly equipped computer to score 14th place in the Top500 supercomputer list. Now, the Fudan University from Shanghai has presented another interesting 16-core chip, which comes without caches and works with message passing as a cluster as well as with shared memory. The 16 SIMD RISC cores – supposedly MIPS32 compatible – are grouped in two clusters of 8 cores around a shared-memory node. The two clusters on a chip communicate with each other through three links. The processor, manufactured by TSMC in the 65nm process, manages a 3780 point FFT with 7MSamples/s. Clocked at 750MHz and with a voltage of 1.2 volts, it's supposed to have an operational power consumption of only 34mW/core. And so the Chinese have a head start here. It is just as well that at least ARM comes from Europe...

*ttp://www.h-online.com/newsticker/news/item/Processor-Whispers-About-elisions-and-epentheses-1442947.html
 
F***!!!!!!!! :hitwall: :hitwall: :hitwall: My gf and I were in Barcelona yesterday and the whole weekend and didn’t know Huawei’s launch , else I would have had tried to get in there – we spent almost a full day in that area of the town! :hitwall:

I heart the late news from a waitress (from Zhejiang Qiantian county) of a Chinese restaurant in town when we dined there. She taught me that she would ditch her Samsang for Ascend D and most Chinese she spoke to would also like to buy this one from Huawei just to support the national industry. She said that Barcelona area would easily see >10,000 Ascend D sold to the Chinese there alone with a flip of finger.

It’s good that Huawei launched it in Barcelona, cuz it gives the local Chinese community an extra thing to be proud of: …it’s sort of feeling as sad as ironic when I noticed at least 3 poor local Chinese women selling 2 Euro worth sun-glasses and some plastic toys, etc. cheap crap at the Barcelona beach back and forth for the full afternoon, yet they, and we, didn’t realise that Huawei meanwhile was launching the most advanced smartphone of the world at the Olympic hotel resort no more than 300 yards away…
 
TI has a large presence in China..
and has been marketing its OMAP line there for some time.
Wonder if this is the result of that partnership.
 
Cool! It makes the iphone obsolete!:victory:
The iPhone has been obsolete for well over a year but the hordes of Apple worshippers are just fine with this as long as they are trendy and chic. That's the essence of good marketing. China's companies and especially it's government relations department should consider hiring some Apple PR marketing personnel. LOL
 
fudan university new 16-core cpu with message passing and shared-memory inter-core

Now, the Fudan University from Shanghai has presented another interesting 16-core chip, which comes without caches and works with message passing as a cluster as well as with shared memory. The 16 SIMD RISC cores – supposedly MIPS32 compatible – are grouped in two clusters of 8 cores around a shared-memory node. The two clusters on a chip communicate with each other through three links. The processor, manufactured by TSMC in the 65nm process, manages a 3780 point FFT with 7MSamples/s. Clocked at 750MHz and with a voltage of 1.2 volts, it's supposed to have an operational power consumption of only 34mW/core.
Interesting, it looks like they are using a larger register file and have plans for parallel computing in mind. I speculate they will eventually introduce message routers per cluster if they ever decide to use these in future mainframe/supercomputer implementations.

The more interesting thing is that TSMC fabbed this part and the recently announced Huawei K3V2 chip. These were on a 65nm and 40nm process respectively. Given the fallout concerning discussions of TSMC fabbing the Godson 3C at 28nm, there must have been some sort of change in the political atmosphere in the last few years because this apparently is no longer an issue. Too bad STM (probable foundry for Godson 3C) is now a partner because the expected popularity of the Godson 3C would have served as a great example of cross-straight cooperation.
 
Huawei lets loose its technological ambition

Huawei may call it a “stand” but the hangar that looms over part of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona leaves little doubt about the scale of the Chinese telecoms group’s ambitions.

Entry is not easy. A stern reminder of no photography is a final warning that here lies Huawei’s latest technologies and services that it doesn’t want its competitors to see, a far cry from just a few years ago when it was seen as the imitator desperate to copy the more established European and US groups such as Motorola and Ericsson.

Inside, rooms covering two floors teem with potential customers looking at the latest products that Huawei says will make networks more powerful, cheaper, easier to manage and more energy efficient.

To describe the company as just a telecoms equipment maker underplays a business that offers to build an entire ecosystem around an operator, ranging from broadcast masts and data centres to managed services and software, as well as handsets using its own chip set pitched against the highest-specification Android phones made by the likes of Samsung.

Huawei’s bunker shows off antennas that follow a phone user for maximum efficiency, instant video facilities for schooling and healthcare, traffic and surveillance systems with facial recognition, data centre designs and services, and miniature small-cell blocks capable of next-generation networks – as well as its latest handsets and tablets.

Both Huawei and ZTE, its Chinese rival, have stepped up their game producing smartphones and Android-based PC tablets that match or in some respects surpass the offerings on display from other manufactures, analysts said. Huawei’s Ascend 48 HD smartphone, launched here, is one of the first handsets to feature the latest version of the Android operating system and used a powerful quad core microprocessor – developed in-house.

Huawei introduced two handsets while ZTE launched eight, notes Dimitris Mavrakis of Informa Telecoms & Media. “The Chinese vendors . . . are clearly looking at the device business to grow top-line revenues and the increasingly competitive infrastructure market,” he said.

Huawei wants people, not just those businesses that buy equipment, to know its brand. It has appointed BBH, the ad agency, to develop its identity among consumers. This is a first for a company that has long been perceived outside China to be secretive, something that has contributed to problems in trying to increase its business in the US.

It is no wonder, as one industry analyst says, that rival groups in Europe are terrified of the competition coming from China. One senior executive says the quality of Huawei’s products has improved markedly in the past few years and it can no longer be written off as a cheap copycat.

This has meant pricing pressure and falling margins for companies such as Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, and also a forced change in strategy on less easily replicated managed services and next generation mobile broadband equipment.

Huawei’s presence is nearly matched by ZTE, whose name is beaming on to the palace at the top of the Barcelona conference venue in the evenings, and pressed on to every delegate’s entry passes, in its own global push.

ZTE has become the fourth-largest handset maker in the world by sales volumes on the back of its cheap but capable phones that are often used for unbranded sales, and the company is as much focused on its equipment business.

Wei Zaisheng, chief financial officer of ZTE, says the company plans to facilitate access to funding for regional partners, such as additional equity from potential investors and debt from banks to help them expand, though ZTE will not take equity stakes. He declined to identify the sources of funds to which ZTE has access, adding that process was at an early stage.

“The new strategy we have is to tailor make a technology solution with a financial package to help [operators] rapidly grow market share in a sustainable way,” says Mr Wei. “It doesn’t matter if the money comes from Europe, America or China.

“We hope to position ourselves to lead the development of good potential players. When we grow up with strategic partners then we can position ourselves with a bigger market share.”

Huawei and ZTE have yet to report 2011 figures but Mr Wei said ZTE had grown at twice the speed of the industry last year. He pointed to analyst estimates of a 33.4 per cent increase in revenue in the first three quarters, although declined to give revenue numbers that were still being audited.

Competition from ZTE and Huawei is only set to intensify. Huawei allocates almost half of its 140,000 staff to research and development. This is key in a sector where revenues are under pressure from a decline in traditional businesses such as voice calls, and new technologies are needed to keep up with the demand for data from mobile customers.

That many of those will be using either ZTE or Huawei handsets is just another piece of the pie for the Chinese groups.

Huawei lets loose its technological ambition - FT.com
 
Huawei’s quad-core processor blasts to top spot in benchmarks
16 March 2012 by Cory Gunther

Huawei recently announced their brand new Ascend D Quad XL with their own in-house custom built quad-core processor. No Qualcomm or NVIDIA Tegra 3 is present in this device. They’ve been touting it as the “worlds fastest” and some recently leaked benchmarks might be showing just that. Check out these impressive results below from Nenamark and a few other tests where the new Huawei quad-core tops the charts.

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We had a chance to get a quick hands-on with the new Huawei phone during Mobile World Congress and it sure seemed fast running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but we weren’t able to do much testing like we have here. These benchmark tests show it competing against some of the best and fastest silicon around like the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core, and Samsung’s 1.4 GHz dual-core, and it beats them all according to these tests.

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Above is a Nenamark result, a test we are more familiar with in the world of Android and here it has a decently large lead over the competition. Beating out the Tegra 3, and even Qualcomm’s new and still unreleased S4 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. Qualcomm has been saying it will perform better than quad-core chips and is more advanced with two Cortex-A15′s, but the Huawei here holds its own quite well.

We still haven’t seen what Samsung’s newest quad-core will be able to achieve, or their upgraded dual-core either, but I have a feeling it will be impressive. Apple’s new A5X in the new iPad is supposed to be equally impressive and 4x as powerful as the Tegra 3 in gaming, but that hasn’t been proven yet. It looks like things are really starting to heat up in the SoC game with Qualcomm, NVIDIA, TI, Samsung Exynos, and now this Huawei processor. I can’t wait to see more and look forward to seeing these upcoming phones from Huawei as they start to finally make a push for the high end market.

*ttp://androidcommunity.com/huaweis-quad-core-processor-blasts-to-top-spot-in-benchmarks-20120316/
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