Kirin chips are back, Huawei has once again developed its own core technology, and foreign media have insight into the expansion of the situation
The United States included Huawei"Blacklist"The purpose is to curb the rapid development of Huawei and even China's technology industry, but now Huawei has not only realized the localization of Kirin chips, but also carried out independent research and development in the next core technology field.
After the release of the Huawei Mate60Pro series, after a reverse analysis of the Kirin 9000S chip behind the Chinese logo by TechInsights, a foreign professional disassembly agency, it was basically determined that this chip came from a mainland factory. The implication is that Huawei has gotten rid of the shackles of American chips, and the Kirin chip has officially returned, not only supporting 5G network signals, but also using the Kirin 9000S chip with a new architecture, and the performance after unlocking has also reached the first echelon of the industry. The outside world agrees that the chip war between China and the United States is 1Phase 0 basically ended in the defeat of the United States and has come to an end.
But Huawei hasn't stopped moving forward. Some time ago, there was a**successive**, another core technology of Huawei opened self-inspection, which is the CMOS image sensor, also known as the soul of mobile phone photography.
In the field of CMOS image sensors, Japan's Sony Corporation has a strong competitiveness, occupying 50% of the global CMOS market, and Huawei is also an important customer of Sony, but due to US sanctions, Sony has suspended the supply to Huawei, which has caused a huge impact on both sides, because both sides have tasted"Sweetness"！
As one of Sony's major customers, Huawei can bring billions of dollars in revenue to Sony every year, and if it stops supplying Huawei's **CMOS, Sony will lose billions of dollars in revenue every year. And based on Sony's high-speed CMOS sensor, Huawei has experienced what is"Extreme photography"！
Before the ban, HuaweiP30、P40ProSeries usedIMX608Sensor,It is Sony's high-speed CMOS sensor,Huawei with IMX608,Plus Kirin chipISP image processing ability,Directly bringed1920Frames of ultra-slow-motion shooting ability,When shooting high-speed moving objects,Each one can be taken separately into a high-definition wallpaper,Really throw out the real power of high-speed CMOS。 The true power of high-speed CMOS.
However, due to the ban and other factors, Sony has suspended to Huawei, Apple, Samsung** high-speed CMOS sensor, has been Sony seized the latest opportunity, the debut of the high-speed CMOS although it has excellent photo capabilities in the friends, but long-term ** recording is prone to heating problems, so many home users such as photography, videography and Weibo experts will Apple's iPhone as the preferred model.
Huawei has solved the problem of imaging software, brought the XMAGE imaging system, and the hardware has also become the last piece of the puzzle for Huawei's mobile phones.
Many people may worry that Huawei may develop CMOS, who will produce it?Different from mobile phone SoC, the current mobile phone processor is 5nm, 4nm or even 3nm, when the chip enters the 3nm commercial stage, more advanced technology can indeed bring stronger competitiveness, but CMOS is different, Sony provides high-spec CMOS for Apple, the process is also TSMC's 22nm process, which is also the top process in the industry, which is undoubtedly a send-off for manufacturers who have the ability to produce 14nm or even TSMC's 7nm process.
In fact, in terms of CMOS image sensor, without the support of Sony, Huawei has other options, just like last year1month, the national brand Haowei launched a 2um pixel CMOS sensor ovb0b, supporting 16384 12288 pixel resolution of 200 million pixels, 0.61 m of the world's smallest pixel size, as well as 1 128"Large background, 16-in-1 output of 12.5 million pixels, equivalent to 244 m, which is a good competitor, so why does Huawei insist on its own research and development?
Small companies are looking for a way to survive, not to talk about development, and the reason why Huawei is like this is that I think it is thinking about how to defeat its competitors and completely get rid of the fate of being dragged down by cutting-edge technology.
In this regard, many foreign media have said: Things have gone too far!The lithography machine can not be consigned normally, Chinese companies have achieved independent control in high-end memory chips and SOC mobile phones, and several cameras and sensor industries dominated by the West are also about to be shaken.
Now the West's technological war has entered 20 stage, I believe that the next science and technology war will become the main battlefield of Chinese enterprises!