Recently, a senior executive of Huawei's French branch revealed that Huawei's first overseas factory will be officially completed in France, and it is planned to start production in 2025. The plant aims to produce 1 billion units per year and will supply the entire European market. This is one of Huawei's positive measures to seek breakthroughs in the international market.
In order to respond to the demand of the international market and reduce its dependence on foreign chips**, Huawei plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan to build a factory in France as early as 2020. However, Huawei has long faced repression from the United States. Under pressure from the United States, France had to suspend the construction of this plant. It was only recently that the program made new progress.
The plant will be used to produce 4G and 5G chipsets and motherboards, as well as complete components for Huawei's communications equipment**. The completion of overseas factories will enable Huawei to make breakthroughs in 4G and 5G chipsets and improve the competitiveness of its products.
Huawei has recently registered two trademarks: "Lingxi Instruction Set" and "Linxisa". This shows that Huawei began to prepare in the field of instruction sets as early as April 2019 and October 2022. An instruction set can be understood as a command on the operation and processing functions of a chip. It is the basis of chip research and development, and it is very important.
At present, the chip development of companies including Apple, Qualcomm and Huawei is based on the ARM instruction set. Although Huawei has obtained a permanent license for the ARMV8 architecture, the latest ARM instruction set has been upgraded to the V9 version. At present, Arm has not licensed the V9 version to Huawei, which means that if Huawei is still developing based on the V8 version, the chip performance will lag behind that of competitors based on the V9 version.
Huawei's move to register the "Lingxi Instruction Set" trademark shows that Huawei is strengthening the layout of its independent research and development instruction set. Once Arm cuts off Huawei, the Lingxi instruction set will become a replacement for Huawei, just like the HarmonyOS system. On the basis of the HarmonyOS system ecology, the Lingxi instruction set is expected to be widely used.
Huawei recently launched the Mate60Pro mobile phone equipped with the Kirin 9000S chip, which shows Huawei's breakthrough in the chip industry chain. Although Huawei did not disclose details about the chip, outside analysis revealed some details. According to the dismantling and analysis of foreign institutions, the Kirin 9000S chip uses Huawei's self-developed technology, and may use a process from 7nm to 14nm.
The launch of Huawei's Kirin 9000S chip marks an important step forward in Huawei's chip autonomy. This achievement further proves Huawei's R&D strength and gives global institutions more confidence in the future of Huawei's chips.
In the face of US suppression, Huawei is actively seeking breakthroughs to accelerate the development of chip independence. First of all, Huawei's overseas factories in France will provide a large number of chipsets for the European market, reduce dependence on foreign ** chains, and improve the competitiveness of products. Secondly, Huawei's registered "Lingxi Instruction Set" shows that it has a layout in terms of instruction set autonomy, which is expected to reduce the dependence on ARM authorization and improve the performance of chips. Finally, the release of the Kirin 9000S chip shows Huawei's achievements in chip independent research and development, marking the improvement of Huawei's chip industry chain.
From a personal point of view, Huawei's chip autonomy has a very broad prospect. With the growing recognition and demand for Huawei's products in the international market, Huawei will have more opportunities to achieve breakthroughs in the field of chips. At the same time, Huawei's continuous investment and efforts in independent R&D have also provided a solid foundation for chip independence. It is believed that with the passage of time, Huawei will make more achievements in the field of chips and become one of the leading companies in the world.