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This so-called Huawei ban has been rendered useless. Paper tiger ban.:lol:

good news for trump
 
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Both the Summit and Sierra supercomputers use Nvidia Tesla V100 accelerator chips. Huawei now has a better chip.

Ascend 910 was announced in Oct 2018. The 'ban' did not delay the release of this chip one bit.
@Bussard Ramjet

You bragging mouth claim US ban will affect China semiconductor chips. Now what happen? Care to explain? Like last time how you brag China is same as India not importing Iranian oil and China scare of US. Then what happen? You still act like a coward and haven't answer that previous inquiry.
 
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Both the Summit and Sierra supercomputers use Nvidia Tesla V100 accelerator chips. Huawei now has a better chip.

Ascend 910 was announced in Oct 2018. The 'ban' did not delay the release of this chip one bit.

Huawei should have its chip development department branch off as a separate and independent company so it can supply other domestic smartphone makers.
 
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Huawei should have its chip development department branch off as a separate and independent company so it can supply other domestic smartphone makers.

Last time Huawei tried that with Iran, Meng Wanzhou got arrested LOL
 
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Huawei should have its chip development department branch off as a separate and independent company so it can supply other domestic smartphone makers.
you seems don't understand the situation.
HUAWEI is banned because of independent technology, especially the chip and 5G.

ZTE use a lot of US chip, so it ok.

once ZTE, xiaomi, oppo, vivo use HUAWEI chip, they will be independent on us chip, can't be tolerated by US. All of those will face same pressure from US just like HUAWEI.

only HUAWEI has enough potential to challenge US semiconductor and ICT in general hegemony. Xiaomi, vivo oppo lack that kind of capability and resource.

HUAWEI has own database - Oracle Microsoft
own operating system - Microsoft Google Apple
own chip - Qualcomm intel
own 5G - Nokia Ericsson
own high end smart phone - Apple Samsung
own cloud for corporate - Amazon Microsoft

HUAWEI is challenging the whole US, south Korea and Europe ICT industry.

you have misunderstood the situation.
 
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you seems don't understand the situation.
HUAWEI is banned because of independent technology, especially the chip and 5G.

ZTE use a lot of US chip, so it ok.

once ZTE, xiaomi, oppo, vivo use HUAWEI chip, they will be independent on us chip, can't be tolerated by US. All of those will face same pressure from US just like HUAWEI.

only HUAWEI has enough potential to challenge US semiconductor and ICT in general hegemony. Xiaomi, vivo oppo lack that kind of capability and resource.

HUAWEI has own database - Oracle Microsoft
own operating system - Microsoft Google Apple
own chip - Qualcomm intel
own 5G - Nokia Ericsson
own high end smart phone - Apple Samsung
own cloud for corporate - Amazon Microsoft

HUAWEI is challenging the whole US, south Korea and Europe ICT industry.

you have misunderstood the situation.

No, I haven't misunderstood the situation. What I was saying is that if Huawei only developed chips for itself, it's impact on China's chip industry would be limited versus if Hisilicon branched off and became an independent provider of chip technology for other domestic companies as well, then it would be more of a true competitor to Qualcomm or Intel.
 
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No, I haven't misunderstood the situation. What I was saying is that if Huawei only developed chips for itself, it's impact on China's chip industry would be limited versus if Hisilicon branched off and became an independent provider of chip technology for other domestic companies as well, then it would be more of a true competitor to Qualcomm or Intel.
Its matter of time huawei will allow it chips set to be used by others.
 
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Huawei, oppo, ZTE are also competitors,
Example
Freescale was spin off from Motorola so Freescale can sell chips to Motorola s competitors like Nokia.
NXP was spin off from Philips for the same reason.
Visteon was spin off Ford.so it can sell car modules to Ford competitors like Toyota or Honda.
Delphi was spin off GM for the same reason.

I work for such a company.
 
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No, I haven't misunderstood the situation. What I was saying is that if Huawei only developed chips for itself, it's impact on China's chip industry would be limited versus if Hisilicon branched off and became an independent provider of chip technology for other domestic companies as well, then it would be more of a true competitor to Qualcomm or Intel.
Not the right time. You would do it only when you can deal with US pressure easily. If China did that, the US China deficit will enlarge even more.

Those who benefit from China domestic market and supply chain would more likely support US-China trade. If China cut Qualcomm order and use Huawei, you think Qualcomm will support US-China trade?

It's because of the capability which China can cut Qualcomm order force Qualcomm stand on China's side, not the reality which cut Qualcomm already.

Have you heard of 资本家无祖国?
 
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GigaDevice Intros General-Purpose RISC-V MCUs | EE Times
By Staff, EE Times China, 08.26.19

GigaDevice has launched what it claims is the world’s first general-purpose microcontroller (MCU) based on RISC-V, a device aimed at the Internet of things (IoT) market.

GigaDevice, based in Beijing, and one of China’s larger manufacturers of nonvolatile memory (NVM), a few years ago began producing drop-in replacements for Arm-based GD32 MCUs originally designed by ST Microelectronics. GigaDevice similarly claims “complete compatibility” between its new GD32V RISC-V microcontrollers and the classic GD32 series of MCUs based on Arm.

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兆易创新全球首发RISC-V通用MCU,对中国意味着什么 (this is the original story from EE Times China)​

GigaDevice executives stressed that the company remains a strategic partner with Arm. Adding the RISC-V line is all about providing options.

Chinese electronics companies sharpened their collective focus on open-source RISC-V months ago, when President Donald Trump started placing export controls on western technology, including Arm intellectual property (IP). RISC-V is an open source technology, however, and not subject to similar restrictions; it represents a readily accessible alternative for Chinese manufacturers to control their own technological destiny.

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GigaDevice hosted a roundtable discussion on RISC-V technology. Participants included (l. to r.) Xiongfei Guo, RISC-V foundation, Co-chair of Asia-Pacific Task Group; Professor Huazhong Yang, Electronic Engineering Department of Tsinghua University; Xiaoqing He, vice president of the China Software Industry Association (CSIA); Guangyi Jin, marketing director of Gigadevice MCU BU; Zhengbo He, CEO of Nuclei System Technology; Xuming Liu, director of Huawei LiteOS ecosystem.

Other examples of Chinese manufacturers using RISC-V include Huami Technology's AI chip Huangshan No.1, C-Sky Microsystems's RISC-V third-generation instruction system architecture processor CK902, and the RiVAI AI chip Pygmy. There are others.

RISC-V gives users extraordinary latitude. Ni Guangnan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, speaking at GigaDevice’s launch event said, "RISC-V is based on the standard loose BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) license. Users are free to use the design CPU, or develop and add their own. They can extend the instruction set and choose whether to publish it publicly, sell it commercially, or replace it with other license agreements, or use it completely closed-source."

RISC-V offers flexibility, but then there is the inevitable question about the lack of a supporting ecosystem. RISC-V’s ecosystem is rather limited, especially compared to those enjoyed by MCUs based on the widely-available Arm and X86 architectures. Wouldn’t that hamper the further growth of RISC-V development?

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GigaDevice introduces its RISC-V microcontroller.
The company claims it is the first general-purpose RISC-V MCU.


China believes the lack of a RISC-V ecosystem is less of an issue when addressing the Internet of things – essentially an emerging set of new embedded markets. The IoT market is still developing, fragmented, and has diverse customer needs. No company is entrenched anywhere, so ecosystem support is less of an issue. When it comes to IoT applications, RISC-V is at much less of a disadvantage versus Intel and Arm than it would be in other, more mature markets, such as mobile, desktops, and servers.

He Xiaoqing, vice chairman of the Embedded Software Association in China, said at the event: “The hardest thing to do in the ecology is the mobile market, followed by desktops and servers. The IoT ecosystem is much easier.”

Hu Zhenbo, CEO of Xinlai Technology, agreed. "The software ecosystem of servers and desktops is insurmountable, but in the embedded field, the software ecosystem is not as terrible as people think," he said.

GigaDevice MCU specs
The first line of GigaDevice MCUs will bear the designation GD32VF103. The line is aimed at “mainstream development requirements.” At the introduction, the company listed 14 configurations of the 103. Each is built on the Bumblebee 108MHz core designed in cooperation with Nuclei System Technology.

The main differences in the 14 models are different amounts of flash memory capacity, and four different package options. These products have all been mass-produced and marketed, according to the company.

GigaDevice believes it has built "The bridge with RISC-V" – a path for companies who have been designing with Arm-based MCUs to quickly make the switch to its RISC-V based replacements. The "complete compatibility" between the two product families should ensure the reusability of the code, the company said, "making cross-core MCU selection and design" very convenient. "This is our very leading, unprecedented innovation," according to GigaDevice.

According to data released by GigaDevice, the GD32VF103 series MCU has a performance of 153 DMIPS at the highest frequency and a score of 360 points in the CoreMark benchmark test, which the company claimed was 15% faster than the GD32 Arm-based core, while also consuming half the power.

Features and performance parameters of the 103 include:

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The GD32V (source: EE Times China)


  • 16K-128K Flash memory
  • 8K-32K SRAM buffer
  • two multi-channel DMA controllers
  • two 12-bit high-speed ADC with 2.6M SPS sampling rate, 16 reusable channels, supporting over-sampled filtering and configurable resolution
  • two 12-bit DACs
  • numerous peripheral connectivity options, as USB OTG & CAN 2.0B
  • gFlash on-chip encrypted storage technology with unique ID per chip
GigaDevice believes its expertise in memory technology is a key differentiator. GigaDevice EVP and general manager of the MCU business Deng Yu gave an example: "TI acquired Luminary from Arm, but TI's acquisition is not successful. Luminary does not have the Flash gene, so some products will have problems with the program. But we have experience in Flash. We can ensure that such problems will not occur."

Development platform is ready
GigaDevice gave assurances that product development with the GD32VF103 is quite fast. Director of maketing Jin Guangyi said “users can implement RISC-V with the development tools at hand."

Those tools include a basic IDE (integrated development environment), debugging tools, embedded operating system, and cloud solutions. Of course, there are also development boards, including full-featured evaluation board, entry level guidance for specific scenarios such as learning boards, motor control development boards, touch screen development boards, and RC motor driver boards.

"We are cooperating with a number of vendors, including vendors that make software, middleware, integrated development environments, debug download tools, and terminal solutions." Jin said, "It’s not enough to rely solely on our chip side. It also needs upstream and downstream. In addition, we provide an open platform, and we have more third-party partners. We are ready to develop a full ecosystem.

“We are also the first. You can use the RISC-V universal MCU to solve any problem from scratch," Jin added.
 
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JULY 1, 2019 / 6:50 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Amid U.S. tech squeeze, China's Tsinghua Unigroup forms new DRAM chip unit - Reuters

Josh Horwitz

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese state-backed semiconductor conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup said it has formed a new business unit for producing DRAM, a type of memory chip dominated by companies in South Korea and the United States.

The move, announced in a one-sentence statement on Sunday, comes as Beijing tries to boost the country’s chip industry, and specifically its DRAM sector, amid an ongoing spat over trade and technology with Washington that has underscored China’s reliance on key imported components.

DRAM, or dynamic random access memory, has proven especially difficult for Chinese companies to produce at scale. U.S.-based Micron Technology Inc and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc together account for over 95% of global DRAM market share.

It is not clear how the new unit will affect operations at the conglomerate’s Unigroup Guoxin Microelectronics Co Ltd unit, which had already set out to make DRAM. Unigroup Guoxin said in its 2018 annual report it has yet to mass produce LPDDR4 DRAM, the industry standard in most mobile phones.

Tsinghua Unigroup did not answer emailed queries about the new business unit.

Another Chinese DRAM aspirant, Fujian Jinhua, had yet to reach mass production for its chips when the U.S. government in October placed it on an entity list that effectively barred American companies from supplying it with goods and services.

Ken Kuo, vice president of research at TrendForce in Taipei, said in a note that the establishment of the new chip unit is likely to stem in part from the Fujian Jinhua blacklisting.

“Especially after the trade clash between the U.S. and China, how to make products that are compatible and competitive internationally remains a critical issue for China,” he wrote.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Fujian Jinhua last year with stealing trade secrets from Micron. Fujian Jinhua denied the charges. The ban, nevertheless, has forestalled the company’s production plans.

In 2017, Tsinghua Unigroup announced plans for a $30 billion plant in Nanjing to make NAND and DRAM chips. The facility remains under construction.

Under a push known as “Made in China 2025”, Beijing has targeted high-tech sectors, including semiconductors, for support in a bid to be more self-reliant, an initiative it has backed off from publicly after provoking the ire of the United States, which complains about Chinese industrial subsidies.

According to the China Semiconductor Industry Association, China imported approximately $260 billion worth of semiconductors in 2017, exceeding the value of crude oil imports. Locally-made chips met less than 20% of domestic demand the same year.

Beijing’s efforts to narrow the technology gap are widely expected to intensify as U.S.-China relations sour.

A component sales ban that the U.S. Commerce Department imposed on Shenzhen-based phonemaker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd[HWT.UL] in May threatened to derail the company’s future, as it remains highly dependent on U.S.-made hardware and software.

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump suggested the ban would be eased when he said U.S. companies could continue to sell to Huawei, as long as the transactions pose no “great, national emergency problem”.

Reporting by Josh Horwitz; Editing by Tony Munroe and Muralikumar Anantharaman
Tsinghua Unigroup to Build DRAM Memory Chip Plant in Chongqing
TANG SHIHUA
DATE : AUG 28 2019/SOURCE : YICAI

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Tsinghua Unigroup to Build DRAM Memory Chip Plant in Chongqing

(Yicai Global) Aug. 28 -- China's leading microchip maker Tsinghua Unigroup will invest in and build a factory producing 12-inch dynamic random-access memory chips in China's southwestern mega-city of Chongqing.

The project set to break ground by year's end will go into production in 2021.

Chongqing and Unigroup have signed the project contract, the city's Liangjiang New Area, which will be the home to the microprocessor enclave, announced on its official website yesterday, but without going into key details as to production scale or investment amounts.

Memory devices are the soft spot in China's microprocessor sector, according to a report by Beijing-based CCID Consulting, and the mainland imported USD312 billion in microprocessors last year, an amount that far exceeded petroleum imports to make them China's single biggest import products, and memory chips made up 39 percent at USD124 billion, per the report.

Beijing-based Unigroup, formerly under the city's prestigious Tsinghua University but controlled by the city of Shenzhen as of last year, will form a microchip fund and a project company which will be the investment vehicle for all of the firm's existing and future memory chip production plants.

Unigroup, which is the world's third-largest chip maker, will also site its DRAM business group headquarters in Chongqing, per the agreement, set up a DRAM technology research and development headquarters there, and invest in and build a local Unigroup Technology Park to attract downstream companies in the sector.
 
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UNISOC Releases Tiger T710, A High-Performance AI-enabled Edge Computing Platform

UNISOC
2019-08-28 16:54

BEIJING, Aug. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- As a leading global supplier of mobile communications chipsets and IoT chipsets, UNISOC today announced the launch of its new AI-enabled edge computing platform, Tiger T710. Designed for a comprehensive range of AI applications in industrial, commerce, medical care, home, and education, the platform is set to accelerate the transition from traditional industrial society to smart society.

Representing a new generation of UNISOC AI solutions, Tiger T710 is based on octa-core architecture that consists of four 2.0GHz ARM Cortex-A75 and four 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A55 cores. Using next-generation chip architectures, the UNISOC Tiger T710 boasts high-performance computing, high energy efficiency and reduced development time.

UNISOC Tiger T710 is the first chipset platform that adopts the innovative heterogeneous dual-core architecture NPU, allowing it to cope with increasingly complex application scenarios and meet greater demand for computing power. According to the latest AI Benchmark chip testing list released by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the UNISOC Tiger T710 tops the leaderboard with an outstanding score of 28,097.

In addition to the powerful architecture and computing power, Tiger T710 shines in energy efficiency more than or equal to 2.5TOPS/W, which is 30% higher than the industry average. The powerful Tiger T710 supports multiple AI framework formats, including TensorFlow, TensorFlow Lite, Caffe, and multiple AI data formats, including quantization (INT4, INT8, INT16) and floating point (FP16). Compatible with Android NNAPI, Tiger T710 comes with UNICOS's proprietary SDK for more efficient development and deployment of third-party AI applications.

The UNISOC Tiger T710 is expected to be available globally starting in 2020.



https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apa...-enabled-edge-computing-platform-255852.shtml
 
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