Huawei is also a Gold member of the RISC-V Foundation:<p><a href="https://riscv.org/membership/1745/huawei/" rel="nofollow">https://riscv.org/membership/1745/huawei/</a><p>As another potential threat to ARM, here is an ARM licensee that designs their own chips and is interested in RISC-V. It's not a problem today, but if interest in the ISA continues to grow it should be relatively easy for them to switch.
Huawei is in the game, for sure. Also, comments that dismiss Chinese achievements appear uninformed of the level of effort at technology supremacy under way in China.<p>BUT there are a few "buts:"<p>As the article says "the new CPU is designed to boost the development of computing in big data, distributed storage, and ARM-native application scenarios."<p>This isn't anything like an Apple A12, which has world-beating compute power per watt.<p>The Huawei chip should be compared to Intel server CPUs and ARM and other chips with other ISAs designed to use in data centers.<p>This is an important step technologically for Huawei, which will probably use enough of these chips to learn for a next generation. This is probably not a chip that will disrupt anyone else's chip business.
From the only number I see, the specint score, it is 40% faster than Qualcomm Centriq socket vs socket, and even 6% core vs core. Which is a really great if true. Wonder what the power draw on that thing though.
How are Huawei, Apple and Samsung beating Qualcomm so easily?<p>Did Qualcomm just beat Intel in the mobile market and then just become complacent with patents?
Huawei also has their own Cloud solution in China, even though it is not anywhere near as big a Tencent and Alibaba's cloud. So I guess they could use those as testbed. Along with 5G Infrastructure, directly competing against Intel. And this is only the first Gen, I am sure they have more to come.<p>Intel should never have wasted billions into McAfee. May be its next acquisition target would be Nokia or Ericsson, both at around ~30B, likely need 40B.<p>Competition is good.
The announcement is available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNY4J3yCzgI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNY4J3yCzgI</a>
> Based on the TaiShan servers, Huawei Butt also provides elastic butt services<p>Looking at huaweicloud.com, the "elastic cloud" servers seem to be all Intel :(
Hmm, I feel like I've read this before. Oh right, the HiSilicon K3V2, which at the time was touted as the fastest ARM CPU for mobile devices. Except in real usage it was downclocked ~40% (including the memory) to keep temperatures low (still overheated) and the GPU performance was underwhelming. Really nice chip for tinkering with, no limits on any clocks or voltages, you could do anything you wanted with it.