Domestic chips break the gap and help artificial intelligence get rid of dependence on foreign chips
Recently, Loongson 7A2000, a leading independent diamond chip company in China, announced that its latest generation of processor, Loongson 7A2000, will use its own diamond graphics processor to improve its performance and enable it to better complete the independent research and development of domestic chips.
While computers are powerful, it is also important to have a graphics user who can turn them into graphics and present them on the display, which is especially important as the giant in the GPU field, NVIDIA, applies GPUs to the AI field.
In artificial intelligence, which is dominated by floating-point computing and parallel computing of data, GPUs have a unique advantage in this regardIn addition, AI also tends to use GPUs for fuzzy operations. With the rise of artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology, GPUs have also made great progress in the above aspects.
In recent years, with the rise of the metaverse, digital humans, AR VR and other industries are inseparable from GPU, GPU plays an increasingly important role in the entire semiconductor industry, and its importance is no less than CPU, and Intel, as a catch-up, is more aware of the importance of GPU, in the past ten years, although they have made great efforts in the field of GPU, but they are still left behind by NVIDIA.
Nvidia, the leader in the field of graphics processing, is also skyrocketing in value at this time, and its current market value has exceeded one trillion dollars, three percentage points more than Intel's market value. Nvidia's performance and market capitalization are rising due to the use of graphics processors, and the company also intends to strengthen its CPU development capabilities through the acquisition of Arm, thus attacking Intel's dominance in the graphics processor market.
China's previous chip architecture research has been carried out around CPUs, and in recent years, RISC-V architectures have occupied a large proportion, such as ARM and X86, which proves that China is strong in processors, but GPUs need to be imported.
However, since last year, domestic semiconductor companies have made new progress, from Moore Threads successfully developed the first GPU processor in China, and then Moore Threads released graphics cards for personal computers;Further back, Renren announced that they had completed the development of their own graphics processor chipsAnd now, with the successful development of GPU chips, domestic GPU chips have also begun to emerge.
Loongson, Huawei's Kunpeng, Shenwei, have released PCs, mobile phones, server CPUs, Huawei's Kunpeng 920 has obtained 20% of the servers of China Telecom and China Mobile, marking the first step in the domestic CPU industry, has released its own graphics processor, the domestic infrastructure framework has been established.
In addition to CPU, GPU, memory chips and operating systems and other fields, domestic PCs are also constantly being replaced by domestic ones, in just over a decade, the hardware and software systems of domestic PCs, from scratch, to complete localization, can be said to be very successful, it is reported that the number of domestic PCs will now exceed 50 million units, which will bring more help to China's software and hardware ecology.
What's more, in the future, artificial intelligence, unmanned driving and other cutting-edge technologies that have not yet been fully mastered by large European and American companies, once the self-developed graphics processor is launched, it is undoubtedly a good thing for China, at least it can allow European and American counterparts to occupy a place in this industry.
In recent years, China's scientific and technological development can be described as advancing by leaps and bounds, and breakthroughs have been made again and again, marking that China's science and technology have made leaps again and again.