ARM monopolizes the world. If the ARM architecture is out of stock, can Huawei still make high-performance chips?

In recent days, Huawei's story has been constantly screened. A technology company that can make an old American so scared and even respond by means of supply interruption really proves Huawei's strength from the side. Today, there's another big shot of a heavyweight role? British chip design company ARM.

Obviously, ARM's shot at this time is obviously aimed at Huawei Hisilicon? Spare tire? It was planned. Then, the soldiers will block the water and come to the soil. Today, we will talk about the action of ARM.

What is the strength of the arm?

ARM is an IP design company under Softbank, including instruction set architecture, microprocessor, graphics core and interconnection architecture. At present, more than 95% of smartphones and tablets in the world adopt ARM architecture.

As an IP supplier of processors, ARM doesn't sell its own processors like Intel and AMD, nor does it hand over the designed products to chip manufacturers like NVIDIA. Instead, other companies are authorized by selling the core of intellectual property rights, and different fees are charged according to the advanced degree and integration degree of the core.

ARM technology has the characteristics of high performance, low cost and low energy consumption. ARM architecture has always occupied a dominant position in smart phones, tablet computers, multimedia, digital processors and other fields, including Huawei mobile phones.

According to the data previously published by ARM, the market share of ARM mobile phone processors is over 90% in 20 17 years, and the SOC designed by China is 95% based on ARM technology. Including Samsung Exynos processor, Qualcomm's Opteron processor or Apple's) A 1 1+0 chip, Huawei's Kirin chip and its Hisilicon chip are all made by the basic technology of ARM.

Arm? Break the confession? Impact on Huawei

At present, most domestic chip companies are authorized by ARM, including Huawei Hisilicon and Ziguang Zhanrui. For Huawei, which is caught between Scylla and Charybdis, once the arm is broken, the impact is not small. Where is the impact? There are three main points.

First, in terms of mobile phones and smart terminal chips. Huawei's mobile phone chips are all based on ARM architecture. The Kirin 980 chip released last year also uses ARM's CPU and GPU. If ARM no longer authorizes Huawei, the most direct impact on Huawei Hisilicon may be the inability to provide new models of chips in the future. It will even affect the release of new models of Huawei mobile phone products in the future.