I accidentally saw a message, which really made me a little enthusiastic, Huawei is going to start developing its own instruction set, and even the name has been chosen and has been registered as a trademark, he is Lingxi Instruction Set (linxiisa). Over the years, Huawei's innovation in the field of domestic science and technology has brought too many surprises to the Chinese people, first the launch of the self-developed Hongmeng system, then the return of the Kirin chip, and then the satellite communication function, it can be said that any thing can be included in the history of science and technology, and this time, if the self-developed instruction set is successfully developed, then Huawei is completely from hardware to software all its own final say.
Maybe many friends don't know much about this instruction set, the so-called instruction set here is a way of communication between the CPU and the software, for the hardware itself, he can only recognize binary, and needs to have a corresponding instruction set to interact, so to be precise, the instruction set is composed of a lot of binary data. At present, almost all mobile phones and tablets use ARM's instruction set architecture, including Apple, Huawei, Qualcomm, we can also think that at this stage in the instruction set, it can be said that ARM is the dominant one, and anyone needs to design according to his architecture, but here comes the problem, if one day ARM does not authorize mobile phone manufacturers, then you can't do this self-developed chip. Therefore, many people think that the lithography machine is the key to the neck, but you don't know that the instruction set is also a part of the neck that cannot be ignored.
Let's put it another way, the current mobile phone instruction set architecture is ARM to formulate, almost all phablets, are designed according to his architecture, even Qualcomm, Apple has to look at his face, in order to consolidate its position, ARM will also update the instruction set architecture, every time you update you need to get his authorization to use, now ARM instruction set has been upgraded to the latest V9 version, and ARM will be upgraded to V10 in the later stage v11 or even later, if you want to use a higher version, you have to get an arm license, if you don't have a license, then in the end there are only two options, either you can only use the old version that lacks new features, or you can get the new version of the license in a low voice.
At present, Huawei has purchased a lifetime license for the V8 architecture, and Qualcomm is used for the V9 architecture, but some new features are missing. For now, there is not much difference between Huawei's V8 architecture and the latest V9 architecture, but if ARM launches a higher version in the later stage, if Huawei still uses the V8 architecture, it will not be able to keep up with the rhythm. If ARM can give Huawei a license for the new version in the future, what if ARM doesn't give the license?From Huawei's experience over the years, we can completely improve the road to the future, and we can't be led by others, so self-developed instruction sets are what Huawei must do.
Huawei's latest version of the Kirin 9000s large core architecture is Huawei's self-developed, and the hardware is no longer limited by others, and the system is a self-developed Hongmeng system, so the current Huawei has the final say in both the hardware layer and the software layer. In other words, as long as Huawei solves the instruction set problem, then it will really be "core and spiritual", and Huawei will not be restricted by anyone in the future, and we will have the final say on our own things, who said that the rules can only be set by one person?Once this Lingxi instruction set is successfully developed, then the days of arm's dominance will come to an end, in other words, the future instruction set architecture is not just arm, he also has Huawei's Lingxi instruction set, maybe Huawei can come to a reverse authorization to other friends, at that time Huawei is not Apple, Qualcomm these can be compared, for Huawei's self-developed Lingxi instruction set, I don't know what friends think?