At the Huawei All Conference Conference held yesterday, Huawei finally unveiled the mystery of its self-developing AI chip.
According to Xu Zhunjun, President of Huawei, Huawei, the two chips launched by Huawei, respectively, 910 and Lime 310, respectively, Huawei's two new products created by Da Vinci architecture based on its self-developed. Among them, it is the AI chip that is the largest density of the current single chip calculation. The product is built with a 7nm process, and the maximum power consumption is 350W. Other parameters are also optimistic: 256 TeraFlops can be done in half-precision (FP16), and do 512 teraops under integer accuracy (int8), but also 512 teraops, additional The chip also supports the full HD video decoder (H.264 / 265) of 128 channels.
Huawei Tong Teng 910 Introduction
Xu Zhunjun said that Huawei has a strong leading advantage in comparison with British Weida and Google's chip. The chip will arrive in Q2 in 2019, which will give Huawei to Huawei's strong support, break through the current market being monopolized by TPU and Ying Weida.
Huawei Tong Teng 910 Introduction
In addition, Huawei has also released a slime 310. According to Xu Zhijun's statement, Huawei's extremely efficient calculation of low-power AI SOC is a product launched for edge AI. As a chip using the Da Vinci architecture, Huawei 310 is manufactured by 12nm FFC process. In half-precision (fp16), 8 teraflops can be done, and can do it in integers (INT8). 16 TERAOPS, can also support 16-channel full HD video decoder - H.264 / 265, and its maximum power consumption is only 8W, this chip has been able to provide customers with all-round support.
Huawei Tong Teng 310 Introduction
Huawei said that they are based on unified, extensible architecture of the AI IP and chip to increase five series of NANO, TINY, MINI, LITE and MAX, which can provide optimal TOPS / W support across the scene.
Xu Zhijun emphasized to the reporter when accepting an interview, Huawei's liter chip will not sell alone, but sell the AI acceleration card, acceleration module, server, and all-in-one. Huawei's full stack AI strategy has also been completed after the emergence of it.
Huawei Ai Solution
In the future, the AI opportunity, Huawei will focus on investment basic research, build full stacking programs, investment and open ecological and talent training, solution enhancement and internal efficiency improve these five aspects. Specifically,
In calculating visual, natural language processing, decision reasoning, etc., building data efficient (less data requirements), energy consumption (lower power and energy consumption), security credible, automatic autonomous machine learning basic capabilities;
To create a full-time scene, independent, and collaborative, integrated, full stack solutions, provide sufficient, economical resources, easy to use, high efficiency, and full-processed AI platforms;
Global, continued to cooperate with academia, industry and industry partners;
Introduce AI thinking and technology into existing products and services, achieving greater value, stronger competitiveness;
Apply AI to optimize internal management, to the massive operation scenario, greatly enhance internal operational efficiency and quality;
The launch of Huawei's new products has aroused extensive discussions in the industry. Inadvertently, the author also saw the related product exposure of Huawei ARM server chip from the insidicist.
Huawei 7 nanometer ARM server chip exposure
Recently, Huawei officially disclosed its new generation of ARM server chip Hi 1620.
According to informed people, I told the semiconductor industry to observe reporters, Huawei this ARM server chip is based on ARM V8 architecture, using the current state-of-the-art 7nm process. It is understood that Huawei provides a version of 32, 48 and 64 cores on this chip, supporting the main frequency of 2.6 / 3.0GHz, which can support PCIe 4.0 & CCIX.
Huawei said that this is the first 7-nanometer ARM server chip that supports PCIe 4.0. From Huawei's PPT we can see that the CPU and Intel Skylake 8180 of the HI 1620 are quite, but the power consumption is 20% lower than the latter.
The details of Huawei Hi 1620
As an extensive enterprise, Huawei's ARM server chip has many generations.
As can be seen from Wikichip, in 2015, Huawei launched its first generation ARM server chip HI 1610, which uses ARM Cortex-A57 design 16-core chip frequency up to 2.1GHz.
In 2016, China's 12th Five-Year Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition, Huawei exhibited its first ARM platform server "Taishan", equipped with independent research and development of ARM architecture 64-bit processor "Hi1612", using Tajimadi 16NM process to create , Compatible with the ARMV8-A instruction set. Huawei said that in addition to the storage unit, the processor has a complete independent intellectual property, which can be applied to large data analysis, a total of cloud, information search, and other fields, and has been tried in Alibaba.
In 2017, Huawei launched Hi 1616, this 32-core chip with Cortex-A72 design can be 3GHz, and then this year Hi 1620. It can be seen that although Huawei does not propagate its ARM server chip, it also maintains an update frequency annually in the past few years.
Huawei ARM server chip series
Considering the influence of Huawei itself in mobile phones, clouds, and storage, this ARM server product has arrived, and for Huawei itself, it is a further improvement of its own industrial chain. Can provide customization, all-round controlled one-stop service.
To enlarge the entire China Integrated Circuit industry, Huawei's series of product lines may kill a new road in the server chip market held by Intel. But there is no doubt that this will face the challenges from multiple competitors at home and abroad.
Dark stream surging ARM server chip market
In recent years, with the increasing market share of the Intel server chip, the rise of domestic autonomous controllable demand, Marvell acquires Cavium, Hua Co-Tong's establishment, Qualcomm's fade, ARM server chip market has been dark. Although some people start with exit, but in the promotion of ARM, there are new players enter this market, and Huawei is a representative. As mentioned above, from Huawei's business, the ARM server chip business is an industrial chain link to them.
In addition to Huawei, the domestic flying, Hua Coong, the United States's Ampere is also an important role in the ARM server market.
First look at the feet.
In the morning, the Chief Scientist of Tianjin Feiteng Information Technology Co., Ltd. mentioned when an interview with the semiconductor industry observation and other media, Feitun launched Feiteng FT2000 + processor in 2017. This chip that uses 16NM crafts has 64 kernels. Frequency can do 1.8-2.3GHz, with the measured performance of standard SPEC tests and Intel 2013 to strong processor performance, Feitua has also completed server storage, database, and intermediate fittings.
In Sinqiang's view, Feidian has a big gap in performance and Intel's products, and even their products or single design, can not meet large-scale design needs. But Fengthen will extend its two or even eight roads to match the processor needs of high-end servers.
Before Guhong, General Manager of Feiteng, said that although the CPU of Fengthen is based on ARM technology architecture, the code part, including the CPU computing module, has completed the company for many years independent research and development. This makes the Feiten to have a higher autonomy in the autonomy of this series of products.
Come to China, this is a company that is established by the Guizhou government and Qualcomm, focusing on the ARM server chip.
According to Phoenix Technology In May this year, the first server chip of Huaqixong independently developed - "Hua Yixian No. 1" has been successfully triaded at the end of 2017, and will be listed in the second half of this year. And the second generation of products they develop, "Huaqi No. 3" is currently developed.
According to reports, only half of the bank cards are large, integrated with approximately 1 billion transistors and more than 2,800 pins, and the chip process is 10 nm. By the built-in autonomous security module greatly enhances the chip safety factor, it is a highlight of "Huaying No. 1", which can be applied to high-performance computers to play the function of huge data quickly and timely.
As for Ampere, it is created by the Intel Pre-executive Renee James. In the interview launched by Ms. James before the semiconductor industry observed, most of the core team of Ampere came from Intel and AMD, and most people of the company had a lot of experience in the hardware and software field of the server. The understanding of chips and software is quite in-depth, which makes them become emerging power in the field of ARM server.
In September this year, Ampere launched a processor that is built by the company's first generation 64-bit ARMV8-A architecture, 16NM process, this 32-core ARMV8-A processor in Turbo mode Frequency is up to 3.3 GHz. The processor has gained the choice of Lenovo and several other original design manufacturers (ODM).
Ampere also announced a multi-generation product roadmap, including 7nm products of the next generation. This product will provide a single jacket and multi-socket options, which are listed in 2019, which will be used in future large-scale cloud computing and edge calculations.
As mentioned above, Huawei's leading advantage in ARM server chips leads ahead of global competitors.
Summarize
Although Huawei's ARM server chip has so far, we can see that Intel spends a few decades to build a server ecology that cannot be shaken. However, Huawei relies on the chip design experience that has accumulated for many years, and walks in a field. Plus Huawei itself in AI chip, ISP chip, mobile SOC and other various chips, terminals and applications, Huawei's future will play an important role in the ARM server market.
As for the future, I will see how ARM combines major chip suppliers, and software vendors have worked together in this area. Read the full article, original title: More than Ai, Huawei exposure The world's first 7-nanometer ARM server chip
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