Chinese companies try to water China's core again

Zhangjingko "China core" has always been a heavy topic in China.　　There is a fake "Han-core", after the Chinese Academy of Sciences to support the difficult forward "godson", and now there is a new enterprise to explore the perspective of "China core" road. What kind of "China core" September 13, Beijing New Shore Line Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "new Shore Line") launched this is called "the world's first arm CORTEX-A9 technology 40 NM dual-core 2.0G computer system Chip", the new shore line will be named Nusmart 2816. The name of the complex chip behind the two important points, one is based on arm of the "China Core", and the second is for Intel stationed in the computer market.　　Communication based on ARM "China core" is not no, but the computer market "China core" is indeed the first. For the new bank chip based on ARM chip can be called "China Core", Beijing New bank line company Chip Research and development director, Guangdong new Shore Line computer System Chip Co., Ltd. General manager Zhouwen smiled: "This chip is our team spelled out." "Spell out" meaning has two layers, a layer is the new Shore line team hard research and development four years before the launch of products.　　Another layer of meaning is that the chip integrates arm's CPU, display chip, South Bridge and a variety of chip technology.　　The technology and market strategy are similar to MediaTek, the "father of the cottage" chip maker, and MediaTek, which has a combination of low-cost mobile phone integration solutions, allows many handset makers to make mobile phones at low prices. Zhouwen also said that the word "China core" should be carefully mentioned, after all, the absolute independence of property rights is difficult to achieve.　　By combining with foreign advanced technology, we can gradually realize "independent, controllable, compatible and international". Can the combination of arm and new shoreline really kill into the computer chip market? The new shore line is not a nobody.　　The new Shore Line company has previously operated the mobile phone television standard technology TMMB, but because SARFT supports the development of another mobile television standard technology CMMB, so although the new shore line has not abandoned TMMB in China, but has had to move overseas, will be more energy to Southeast Asia and Africa market.　　Four years ago, the new shore Line began working with arm to develop chips for computer technology. What kind of functionality does this chip actually achieve?　　Zhouwen introduced that the chip for the first time in a single chip to achieve a dual-CPU core, multi-GPU core architecture, and at the same time integrated 1080P high-definition decoding, DDR2/3 memory controller, USB 2.0 and other computer system functions, while the overall power consumption remains below 2 watts, only the traditional computer one-fifth.　　ARM's abacus, with the integration of new shore line technology, into the Intel monopoly of the computer chip market, but also the world's largest mobile phone chip intellectual property provider arm Company against Intel's counterattack. Intel has started to promote its communications-enabled chips, and is gradually expanding into the mobile phone chip sector. As opposed to Intel's expansion, ARM also wantsBack into the computer market, but suffer from a lot of third-party computer hardware and software companies from the strong Microsoft Intel Alliance (Wintel), mostly in the wait-and-see attitude, so arm has been unable to find more vendors to support arm chip in the computer sector expansion plan.　　Coincidentally, does not belong to the computer domain ecological chain but also has a certain technology new shore line just can and arm mutual borrow force. How hard can China's chip technology compete with powerful Intel?　　Jiang, director of China's Semiconductor industry association, also admits that China's semiconductor technology has been subject to overseas development. In fact, the "Han-core" that preceded the purchase of other vendors ' chips and then polished them up was a lack of core technology in China.　　Later, the emergence of "godson", it has excited people for a while, but its performance only wants to be in "Pentium four", and Intel's chip technology gap at least two generations, in the production of specific computer products and how to obtain more hardware and software manufacturers to support, are facing greater challenges.　　More problems lie in the issues of industrialization and capital. Chengdu, an associate Professor Appl told reporters: "So now the production of ' Chinese core ' in addition to their own performance to pass, may need more third-party hardware and software manufacturers support." "Zhouwen's explanation for this is:" TSMC to help us in the production of OEM test, small batch production rate has reached 93%. And because our chip is based on ARM technology, all support arm software will support our chip. At the same time we do not agree that partners are brand manufacturers or shanzhai manufacturers, there are more than 30 manufacturers are interested in our chips, it is expected that in December four or five companies will launch including standby 20-hour laptop, one machine and other desktop products appear. "China core" also lacks funds. Wei Shaojun, a professor at Tsinghua University and the national 863 Plan for VLSI Strategic Research, said in a speech this September that if we were to design 16 of nanotechnology chips, we would need 150 million to 200 million dollars in investment, "so the design of high-end chips must be supported by the government." "The huge sums needed by the chip companies will still haunt the new shoreline, and the main source of revenue for the new shoreline is still unclear," said Zhou Jie, managing director of the new shore line. "In 2009, the company had a private financing that could support the company's continued development."　　But no more details were disclosed. More coincidentally, the new shore line will have the opportunity to receive financial and policy support from Guangdong province.　　The "cage" plan being implemented by the Guangdong provincial government and the target of the new shore line (Guangdong proposed to introduce high-end industries, replace the existing low-end manufacturing, also known as the "Cage" program), but also to the new shore line can rely on Guangdong province's policy and financial support for the next step of computer chip research and development. However, according to an industry personage told the first financial daily, relative to the development of the more mature U.S. semiconductor industry, China'sThe semiconductor industry, like the emerging semiconductor industry in the world, has a long way to go, such as whether the market can accept and support a new chip, whether Third-party applications and hardware can support it, and the maturity of production technologies. Chou's approach is step-by-step. Zhou Knot told reporters: "With the help of TSMC's production technology and arm's technical framework, we can enter the high-end chip industry." After all, Chinese enterprises have to enter the chip market before they have the opportunity to learn progress, if not even the ability to enter, it is impossible to talk about. ”