As the largest chip company in China, Hisilicon provides many chips for other products. For example, Hisilicon provides TV chips for Sharp and camera chips for Hikvision. Even in the past, most smart cameras and TV boxes were Huawei HiSilicon chips.
Huawei and Baidu also have deep cooperation. Baidu uses Huawei's AI chip as its propeller and artificial intelligence platform. Baidu also has several artificial intelligence products, and also chooses Huawei's chips.
Even the products of Xiaomi Eco-chain use Huawei chips. For example, the 70-mile driving recorder on the Xiaomi ecological chain is equipped with HiSilicon dual-core chips, and some products on the Xiaomi ecological chain also use HiSilicon chips.
As for what we said, Huawei does not share chips with other products, mainly in the field of smart phones. The core SoC in the field of smart phones is Huawei's core competitiveness, and it is very normal for other companies not to use chips. For example, it is absolutely impossible for Apple to sell its chips to other companies.
Another worry is that if other smartphone companies use Huawei's chips, Huawei feels a bit like referees and athletes, so other smartphone companies generally don't use competitors' chips. In the past, Meizu's experience with Samsung's chip card neck is still vivid, which is a lesson from the past.
I believe Huawei keeps a low profile because its focus on future technologies is not on the chip. 5G and 6G are the future development of Huawei. No matter from the perspective of the country or Huawei itself, Hess will remain silent without the so-called sanctions of the US government. Perhaps it is Mr. Ren Zheng Fei's foresight that has always left room for enterprises in western countries, which led to the emergence of 5G and Huawei today. Because Mr. Ren foresaw the technical blockade that might come at any time long ago, thousands of scientists in Hayes and more than 1000 billion investment in technology research and development also proved that Mr. Ren's sense of crisis was very accurate.
From Huawei's earliest intellectual property and patent disputes with Cisco to Intel's acquisition, Alstom was suppressed by the US government. Huawei should have expected today. It should be said that it is precisely because Mr. Ren Zheng Fei accurately predicted Huawei today that Huawei can keep a low profile for decades, knowing that its technology can connect products, and will continue to buy parts from American and European manufacturers. I believe this has won Huawei at least five to eight years. Imagine that the United States began to sanction China five years ago. Who can fight back from high-tech enterprises including Huawei?
The U.S. sanctions against Huawei prove a truth: scientists have national boundaries, and technology also has national boundaries. At the critical moment, technology must be in your own hands. Especially for a big country with a population of1400 million, once technology is monopolized by western countries, the consequences will be unimaginable.
So everyone in China should thank Huawei and Made in China in 2025. Only by building a country through science, technology and industry can a country achieve real prosperity and realize the dream of great national rejuvenation.
Please don't touch Huawei with malicious rhythm.
You know, Huawei's Hisilicon chips have been sold to the outside world in addition to the SOC of mobile phones, and Huawei is not unwilling to share its own chips.
Many people think that Huawei Hisilicon only designs mobile phone chips. Actually, you are wrong. Huawei Hisilicon is currently a leading chip design enterprise in Chinese mainland and a world-class chip design enterprise.
The product line covers mobile phone chips, security systems, TV set-top boxes, Netcom communications, AI computing, car trip recorders, webcams, servers and other fields, and Huawei Hisilicon chips have a large market share in these fields.
At present, Huawei Hisilicon's chip series are:
Except for the Kirin chip, of course. Other chip consumers may not know.
Of course, Huawei's mobile phone Kirin chip has not yet been sold to the public. I think there are two important reasons why Huawei Hisilicon's Kirin chip is not sold externally:
At present, the competition in the mobile phone industry is fierce. As the core of Huawei's mobile phone, Kirin chip improves the competitiveness of Huawei's mobile phone. Moreover, at present, all mobile phone manufacturers have their own independent chips. For example, Apple has its own A-series chips, and Samsung also has its own mobile phone chips. It was also revealed that OPPO also began to develop its own chips.
Self-developed chips are very important for mobile phone manufacturers, which not only improves the competitiveness of products, but also avoids being suppressed by other companies.
At present, Qualcomm Snapdragon chip is still the first choice for domestic mobile phone manufacturers. Mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi will not give up Qualcomm easily. Also, because of the existence of Kirin chip, the mobile phone industry will develop faster, because it competes with Qualcomm chip in technology.
Avoid the situation that Redmi sells 799 with Kirin 990 and Meizu sells 999. The brand awareness and premium ability established by oneself cannot be destroyed by friends.
Processor is the "core competitiveness" of Huawei's mobile phone business. It is precisely because of its own processor that Huawei's mobile phone has become the current Huawei. Without its own processor, Huawei's mobile phones are still bundled in the business hall.
Having its own processor, although the performance of 950 and before is really poor, it is this poor processor that has made Huawei's dream of entering the high end. According to the general environment, nearly 1 100 million people in China are in high-income and sensitive positions and jobs, and they need a mobile phone with independent property rights to show to others. There are too many people in China who worry about Taiwan Province Province and the United States all day. They need mobile phones with absolutely safe information.
Huawei Hisilicon has two kinds of chips, one of which has been sold to the outside world, such as security chips and video decoding chips. Huawei's security chips monopolize 60% of the global market share; One is chips that are not sold to the outside world for the time being, such as Kirin series chips for Huawei mobile phones.
How good is Hess? Generally speaking, Hisilicon's chips have five series, namely: Kirin series for mobile terminals; Kunpeng series for data center servers; Rising series of AI chips for artificial intelligence scenes; Chips used for connection, such as base station chip plough and baseband chip Ba Long series; Other special chips, such as security, set-top boxes, and Internet of Things chips.
After being listed on the entity control list by the United States last year, Huawei HiSilicon's "Spare Tire Plan" was exposed, and the outside world clearly understood how huge HiSilicon's chip research and development plan was, involving almost all chip types that can be used in the communication industry. For example, mobile phone power management chips, RF front-end chips and other chips that have been imported from abroad will gradually be replaced by domestic chips.
Why doesn't Huawei sell various types of chips to the outside world? Established Hayes integrated circuit design center, formerly Huawei, to reduce dependence on American chips through self-developed chips; Judging from Huawei's organizational structure, Hisilicon does not belong to any BG or BU for profit. Based on the above two aspects of information, Hisilicon is only a strategic support department of Huawei, and profit is not its main purpose.
Although Hisilicon has many types of chips, only a few of them are sold to the outside world, which is caused by the following reasons:
The point of view under the chat: "Huawei doesn't want to share its chips with other manufacturers" is itself a layman or has limited understanding of Huawei.
Huawei itself is not a major chip research and development company, so it does not consider making a profit by selling chips.
Huawei is a manufacturer of communication equipment and applies for a large number of patents every year. Huawei wants to make chips, because not making chips means paying a large amount of patent fees to chip manufacturers (such as Qualcomm) every year. It is reported that up to now, more than 90% mobile phone manufacturers in China use Qualcomm chips, and more than 230 mobile phones need to pay a certain patent fee to Qualcomm. Moreover, it will be subject to people. Now ZTE's experience, Huawei has long predicted. The main reason for Huawei to design HiSilicon Kirin is that it is self-sufficient and not controlled by others.
Productivity problem
Hisilicon Kirin is manufactured by TSMC, the world's largest chip foundry. The products of Samsung, Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Broadcom and NVIDIA are all manufactured by TSMC with limited production capacity. Even Huawei can only be self-sufficient, let alone sold to other manufacturers.
If Huawei sells its own Kirin chip, other domestic mobile phone manufacturers may not be willing to buy it, because Huawei's Kirin chip serves Huawei's ecology and is completely different from the general service of Qualcomm chips, so Huawei dares to sell it, and others may not dare to buy it.
For the new chip, every mobile phone manufacturer should re-invest manpower and material resources to optimize the adaptation. Of course, it is best to use your own brand of processor, so you are more familiar with calibration.
If domestic mobile phones want to grow, they must develop independently and master patents!
Lao Yang, come and talk,
Why should Huawei share its hard-made Kirin chip with other manufacturers? Isn't this a bonus for competitors?
Similarly, why does Apple share A-series chips with other mobile phone manufacturers? I'm afraid he won't even share them.
Judging from the current examples of Apple and Huawei, one of their main businesses is mobile phone terminal products, rather than chips made separately. Huawei here mainly refers to Kirin chip, not Hisilicon chip.
If the mobile phone is the main business, then making chips is the enhancement of the mobile phone business, which is the chip that came before the mobile phone. On the contrary, it should be like Qualcomm. Qualcomm's special chip gave up the terminal business. This choice is an important reason why it can become a mobile phone chip giant. Because everyone can trust, Huawei makes mobile phones and chips again and again, which may not be used by other brands. After all, it is a competitor. In case of supply interruption or something, the products will be greatly affected. Talking about the chip card neck all day, players in the mobile phone market know it very well.
Kirin chip, other mobile phone manufacturers are useless in the end. Facts show that Huawei didn't want to share it in the end. Although it is necessary to pay for sharing, it can increase income. I think Huawei and other mobile phone manufacturers all know why!
Huawei is willing to share some other chips, especially the HarmonyOS system. According to reports, Huawei sells other chips, and there are few chips for non-mobile phones. It has really been bought and used by other manufacturers. In fact, it has become a business, but it is definitely not within the scope of "spare tire". Its strategic position is different from Kirin chip, so it is not surprising to share it! However, the willingness to share the HarmonyOS system is actually for other mobile phone manufacturers to use it for free. In the R&D stage, they said it was open source, and after it was open source, they publicly said they would support it as long as it was used. Moreover, before making this statement, they knew that Xiaomi was unwilling to use it, at least when the HarmonyOS system was not "independent". Isn't that strange? HarmonyOS system and Kirin chip have the same core and differentiated competitive advantages, but one of them didn't share it for free in the end, and the other was willing to share it for free before it was officially launched.
Huawei has reason to share Kirin chips. It can even desire! Huawei must know that it is a competitor of other mobile phone manufacturers and it is powerful. Once strong to "one super". Even the "top three" such as OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi are not rivals of the same order of magnitude. What if Kirin chips, including high-end chips, are shared with friends? What can other mobile phone manufacturers do? Their own strength will not become stronger, but their position in the high, medium and low-end mobile phone market will definitely be higher, because other mobile phone manufacturers are taking public actions to admit defeat, or at least they think their technology is far behind their competitors. The key point is that they really look stupid enough to let their lifeblood be in Huawei's hands, and they don't seek self-reliance at all, so they will be considered much weaker than Huawei by consumers at home and abroad, and even their own stock users will be lost. So how can we compete with Huawei?
The problem is that Huawei is unwilling to share Kirin chips with other mobile phone manufacturers. What is the reason? I think Huawei must know that even if it is willing to share, other mobile phone manufacturers are unwilling to use it, and most or even the vast majority are unwilling to use it. The "top three" will almost certainly not, because what is certain is that they, like Huawei, all know what they can do and what they will do with Huawei. What's more, Huawei also knows that Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip is not bad. After use, OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi have become the "top three" of domestic mobile phone manufacturers. Haven't they used it themselves? They borrowed a lot of effort earlier, and later won a lot of time for research and development and use, as well as making Kirin chips bigger and better. What's more, we know that the reason why the "top three" are not better than Huawei is that they are weak on high-end machines, but they are not bad without Kirin. It seems that they are all products developed and designed by others. The main difference is that there are no chips developed by themselves. Among them, Xiaomi is a "prophet". He was the first to develop and design, and finally became one of the "top three". As for Xiaomi's executive Pan Jiutang, he has repeatedly said on behalf of Xiaomi and all other mobile phone manufacturers that as long as Huawei separates Kirin, it will support/use it. Huawei knows that this is just an excuse for Xiaomi, and deliberately tells itself that it knows that it will never agree. Pan Jiutang or Xiaomi cannot represent all other mobile phone manufacturers. Of course, it is also certain that other mobile phone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, must know that they will be "treated fairly" by Huawei, and they are actually worried about it. Naturally, Huawei must first meet its own needs for Kirin chips, including the first launch; We also know that after using Kirin chip, we have the differentiation advantage of 1 in the competition with Apple and Samsung, and it is collectivized and large-scale. Everyone has used the power of Huawei, won the glory of Huawei, and at least won the wide support of domestic mobile phone users; What is important is that so far, in the domestic high-end mobile phone market, it is very likely that Apple will not be defeated together.
How to understand that Huawei shared the HarmonyOS system? This is another question, and I will say a few words here. Huawei may be willing to share products, but it is definitely willing to enjoy exclusive power, or it is not unwilling to share products, but it is definitely unwilling to give up power. Besides, whether developing Kirin chip or HarmonyOS system, Huawei originally did it for itself. Wang of Huawei said that the current system is used to stop bullets for the company, so even if you don't want to share it with others, it's nothing strange. Sharing should only be appreciated. In addition, Huawei is psychologically prepared that HarmonyOS system will not be used by many other mobile phone manufacturers. Didn't the king of Huawei say that he would support it as long as he used it? You are really good!
Huawei has never been willing to share its own chips, and your problem has its own problems.
First of all, we need to know about chip companies with world-leading technology.
At present, chip manufacturers all over the world, whether Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, MediaTek or Huawei Hisilicon, are more or less authorized by ARM. ARM does not sell products but makes profits through technology authorization.
If the CPU in the chip is compared to a house, ARM is the design institute of the house structure diagram; Qualcomm, Huawei Hisilicon, Samsung and Apple can be regarded as developers of houses; TSMC is the construction team. Large factories like Huawei and Qualcomm only need to get the authorization of instructions and architecture in ARM, and then their own technicians can improve them according to their own needs.
For example, Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor based on native CPU and Cortex-A77 architecture and MediaTek Tianji1000;
In the domestic mobile phone industry, Qualcomm Snapdragon series is widely used. For example, Xiaomi uses Snapdragon 865; There are MediaTek-based secrets, such as OPPO.
Secondly, the importance of GPU is second only to CPU.
Unlike the CPU unit in the chip, which is mainly ARM, the rivers and lakes of GPU are not unified. Qualcomm Snapdragon's own Adreno brand GPU (domestic mobile phones, such as Xiaomi, generally use Qualcomm); Huawei and Samsung prefer the Mali brand launched by ARM (which is also the mainstream GPU currently used in the smart TV industry) and the PowerVR of Imagination, which are in the pattern of "three countries competing for hegemony". For example, Mali-8 10 currently used in smart TV models is the technology of ARM.
2. What is the status of Huawei Hisilicon chip in China?
As the standard-bearer in the field of chips in China, Huawei is undoubtedly the leading chip enterprise in China. Its product line is not limited to the field of mobile phones, such as TV set-top boxes, fixed telephones, 5G network communication, AI artificial intelligence, cloud computing, terminal equipment of the Internet of Everything, driving recorders and other fields, which involve almost every aspect of our lives.
At present, the series of Huawei Hisilicon chips are:
Kirin mobile phone 5G chip; Artificial intelligence chip (Shengteng series); Server chip (Kunpeng series); Communication chip (Ba Long, plough series).
Perhaps the Kirin chip used in mobile phones is the one we have the most contact with, but we may not know much about other aspects. Of course, Huawei has not publicly announced that it can sell Kirin chips for three main reasons:
1, the production capacity of Huawei Kirin chip is insufficient, and the production link needs to rely on TSMC for processing.
As a global mobile phone shipment, Huawei itself can fully digest the production capacity of Kirin chips. At present, the manufacturing process of high-end chips in the world is 5nm technology, and the production of chips is a very complicated link, especially in today's highly global division of labor and cooperation. Among them, mask aligner, an important high-end equipment, is currently in the hands of Ames. If Huawei wants to use high-end 5nm chips, it must rely on TSMC for processing, because TSMC has a 5nm mask aligner. Speaking of which, many people may have questions. Can't it be imported? Unfortunately, due to the technical blockade, the Netherlands does not export at present, which means that China can't buy it at present.
2. Qualcomm Snapdragon is still the first choice of many domestic mobile phone manufacturers.
As a traditional high-end chip manufacturer, Qualcomm Snapdragon chip has won the favor of most mobile phone manufacturers in the market for its high performance and stability, such as domestic Xiaomi, OPPO and other enterprises, and even Huawei adopted Snapdragon chip in the early stage.
3. As the core competitiveness of Huawei, Kirin Chip cannot be easily abandoned by Huawei.
In today's cruel competition of mobile phones, I believe that any mobile phone manufacturer will not give up its core competitiveness easily, just as Apple will not sell its own Apple chips easily, so will Samsung. The reason is the same.
To sum up, I believe everyone has a clearer judgment on whether Huawei's chips are willing to share.
We look forward to the rise of China's chip manufacturing industry. Come on, Huawei! Come on, China!
1, Huawei won't sell it, and it can't be sold! Chip is the core competitiveness, which can be seen from Apple's A series. In order to ensure competitiveness, Huawei will not sell it, and it is impossible to sell it, because many technologies of Kirin chip overlap with those of Snapdragon chip, and the two parties are actually a mutually authorized cooperation. If you sell chips, not only Qualcomm, but also other chip manufacturers will suppress Huawei, which is very unfavorable to Huawei.
2, friends will not use (especially Xiaomi)! As a competitor, Huawei is naturally unwilling to share its technology with its competitors. Even if it is willing to share, friends may not have it, because at the same price, friends have better cost-effective choices. Take Kirin 980 as an example. Kirin 980 is compared with Snapdragon 845. Although Kirin 980 is better than Snapdragon 845, it is much worse than Snapdragon 855, while Snapdragon 855 and Kirin 980 are about the same price.
3. Huawei's development strategy! Ren's vision has always been far-sighted, and his sense of hardship is also quite severe. HiSilicon Kirin chip is not only compatible with Android system, but also with Huawei's self-developed system (such as HarmonyOS system). This aspect involves Huawei's development strategy, but Huawei has been "forbearing" because the system ecology is still immature and the chip is only used for its own mobile phones.
With the development of society, there will be more and more cooperation between companies, more and more intersections, and more and more detailed division of labor. In the field of chips, Huawei will not sell or sell.