Why are there so many domestic CPUs?We can t concentrate on one or two paragraphs

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-01-29

According to the data, at present, in the computer CPU market, Intel+AMD accounts for more than 90% of the market, and then Apple's M-series chips account for more than 5% of the market, leaving less than 3% of the share of domestic CPUs.

In this 3% of the market, there are actually many domestic CPU brands, the most well-known are the 6 majors, namely Loongson, Zhaoxin, Haiguang, Huawei Kunpeng, and Feiteng.

These 6 CPUs have 4 different architectures, namely x86, arm, mips, alpha, as well as Loongson's self-developed Loongarch and Shenwei's self-developed SW64.

In addition to these 6 major CPUs, there are also chips with RISC-V architecture, etc., which are also constantly working hard. It can be said that in this 3% market share, it has the largest variety of domestic CPUs.

So many people have questions, why can't domestic CPUs concentrate their efforts, and everyone only develops one, or two?Why are there so many at once?

In fact, from the perspective of the development of any chip, the chip industry is a winner-takes-all pattern, and it is obviously impossible to succeed in all kinds of so many kinds

At the beginning of this kind of early stage, the state concentrated its efforts on one or two types, and it was really possible if there were not too many of them.

However, in the early stage, China started late, and everyone was based on foreign architectures to study chips, and no one had a bottom in their hearts, so they cast a wide net, hoping that one or two successful routes would be made in so many routes.

So companies want to choose the most suitable path for their own strength, and at the same time avoid competition, so there are so many brands, so many routes, are trying to see if they can succeed.

Later, as the development got better and better, these brands had a certain foundation, and some even developed and expanded, became a certain climate, and made money.

In such a situation, it is impossible to intervene, saying which company is not allowed to do it, and must give up its own line and switch to the route of other enterprises, which is impossibleIf the company doesn't do it, it doesn't have the right to do it.

Therefore, for so many domestic CPUs, either they will defeat other manufacturers and succeed themselves, or they will be defeated by others, and it is impossible to give up halfway and switch to other camps.

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