Huawei Kunpeng includes not only CPUs, but also AI chips, servers, operating systems, databases, cloud services, and storage.
Kunpeng chip family
The Kunpeng chip is permanently licensed based on the ARMV8 architecture. The Kenpeng processor is permanently licensed based on the ARMV8 architecture, and the processor core, microarchitecture, and chip are all independently developed and designed by Huawei.
Kunpeng CPU
In January 2019, Huawei released the Kunpeng 920 processor, the industry's highest-performance arm-based processor. In the SPEC test, the 48-core Kunpeng 920 is comparable to the Intel Xeon 8180, with 20% lower power consumption, while the 64-core performance is better than that of the Xeon 8180.
Xeon 8180 is a Xeon platinum series product launched by Intel in Q3 2017. In a rough comparison, the generation difference between Kunpeng 920 and overseas first-line manufacturers is about 3 years.
Ascend AI chips
The Ascend 310 and Ascend 910 AI chips kicked off Huawei's AI processor products. Based on the self-developed da Vinci framework, Huawei launched the Ascend 310 for edge computing and low-power scenarios, and the Ascend 910 for training and efficient computing. Specifically, based on the typical configuration, the Ascend 310 achieves 16 tops of performance under eight-bit integer precision (int8) and 8 TFLOPS at 16-bit floating-point number (FP16), while its power consumption is only 8W. The Ascend 910 achieves 512 tops at 8-bit integer precision (INT8) and 256 TFLOPS at 16-bit floating-point number (FP16), which is twice that of the NVIDIA V100 GPU.