Android supports domestic RISC-V chips, and the prospect of surpassing ARM is promising.
As we all know, there are currently two most famous integrated circuit architectures in the world, namely the x86 architecture for PCs and the ARM architecture for mobile devices. These two integrated circuit architectures occupy 90% of the market share in their respective areas of expertise, and there is no rival.
This is certainly not a good thing for Chinese chipmakers, X86 is Intel in the United States, and Arm is in the United Kingdom, but they also listen to the United States.
So, China has been trying to get an unrestricted chip architecture to replace Arm and X86.
Loongarch was developed by Loongson, and SW64 was developed by Shenwei, but neither of these two architectures is as good as the most popular RISC-V architecture in recent years, after all, Loongson and Shenwei are promoted by their own strength.
RISC-V architecture is favored and supported by many chip companies around the world, such as Qualcomm, Huawei, ZTE, Alibaba, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qualcomm, Intel, Google and other leading companies.
You don't have to think about it, so many ** businessmen work together to promote, of course, it is much stronger than the strength of Loongson and Shenwei.
No, in just a few years, the RISC-V chip has gone through the road of x86 and ARM for decades, and the low power consumption and high performance cover all kinds of chips.
And Google also officially said that Android will fully support RISC-V chips, and supporting RISC-V chips and supporting ARM chips is the same, because both are simple instruction sets.
And Alibaba's RISC-V chip has long supported Linux and Android.
Some time ago, the domestic chip manufacturer Saifang Technology also launched a new RISC-VCPU core, SiFive's performance is 5% lower than A78, but the core area is only half of the latter.
This seems to be an IP core, which is outrageous, because the cost is much lower than that of ARM, but the energy efficiency advantage is excellent, and it beats ARM chips.
As a result, scholar Ni Guangnan publicly stated again some time ago:"The open-source RISC-V has become the most popular chip architecture in the Chinese industry"。
Obviously, the current development trend of domestic RISC-V chips has been unstoppable, and it may be a little underheated now, but in a few years, it is estimated that it will be able to compete with ARM.
Both in terms of performance and ecology, it has the potential to replace ARM, so we don't have to look at ARM anymore, because RISC-V is open source and free.
ARM has begun to show a red card to Chinese chip manufacturers, well-known national chip manufacturers have failed to obtain the latest architecture, IP core authorization, maybe it is really time to give up ARM, as Duan Yongping said, correct mistakes, no matter how much the cost is minimal.