At the end of 1980s and the beginning of 1990s, the industrial chain of the semiconductor industry just had a division of labor. Semiconductor foundries such as TSMC and UMC have risen quietly, and some fabless companies in Silicon Valley have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. The so-called fabless companies design their own chips, but the production process is outsourced to TSMC and other foundries. ARM ranks first in the world. Chip-free production mode was initiated 12 years ago, that is, the company neither produces nor designs chips, but designs efficient IP cores and authorizes them to semiconductor companies. Semiconductor companies add their own designs and introduce chip products on the basis of ARM technology, and finally OEM customers use these chips to build system products based on ARM technology. This method is a bit like Qualcomm in communication industry and RAMBUS in semiconductor industry. They stand in the upstream of the semiconductor industry chain. /kloc-ARM founded 0/2 years ago may face great risks, because no one knows whether this road will work, but now it turns out that ARM has taken a road that no one has taken, but it is correct. As an additional product, he also let domestic professionals know about British electronics companies from this window, and the success of ARM promoted the development of chipless in Britain.
Because ARM's products are IPCore, and there is no physical hardware or software entity, it can only be registered as a "consulting" company in China, although consulting is only a small part of its business. ARM's core business is selling chip core technology ip. At present, there are 103 giant IT companies adopting ARM technology in the world, and 19 of the 20 largest semiconductor manufacturers are users of ARM, including Texas Instruments, stmicroelectronics, Philips and Intel. Among the top 20 giants, the only one who didn't buy ARM authorization is Intel's old rival AMD, because Intel's portable processor uses StrongARM, and AMD bought Alchemy to compete with it and adopted MIPS architecture.
Microprocessor kernel is the most important part of ARM technology. At present, there are ARM7, ARM9, ARM9E-S, StrongARM, ARM 10 series facing the market. The income of ARM patented technology mainly comes from two aspects. One is the patent licensing fee, which is a one-time fee paid to ARM by customers if they adopt ARM patents. The other part is to collect the patent fees of customers' products according to a certain proportion, that is, every time customers sell a chip, they will charge the same proportion. These two incomes account for 70% of the company's total income. At present, ZTE, SMIC and Shanghai Hua Hong have purchased ARM kernel licenses in China to produce their own chips. Other business focuses of ARM in China are supporting fables and developing university plans. In addition, ARM also authorized the authorized dealers of Hui Ke Impact and Beijing Xuan Ji to develop tools, which increased their sales by more than three digits in 2002 (100%).
Generally speaking, ARM's partners are divided into three types:
1.EDA partner plans to combine the expertise of ARM online system design, reusable IP generation and IP model with the expertise of leading EDA tool manufacturers in developing SoC products.
2. The * * * sharing plan of ARM technology is the result of the expansion and standardization of the cooperation relationship between ARM and external design service companies. At present, there are more than 2,900 engineers.
3. The manufacturer plans to let the original equipment manufacturers in emerging markets share the ARM processor technology for designing and manufacturing advanced SoC solutions.
Several books on ARM technology have been published by Beihang Press and Snake published by Tsinghua, and more and higher quality books will be published one after another. At the same time, ARM China also plans to authorize its partners to hold training courses on ARM technology and provide training for its teachers. On the other hand, it will also carry out university cooperation plans with domestic universities, increase the promotion and popularization of ARM technology, and help electronic engineers in China to quickly connect with international standards and master the latest electronic design technology.
In a word, ARM is a world-famous British 32-bit embedded RISC chip core design company and a trademark of ARM. Its product ARM embedded kernel has been adopted by major chip manufacturers around the world, and the development technology based on ARM has swept the global embedded market and become one of the mainstream technologies of embedded systems. As a leader in the embedded industry, Xuan Ji Company is determined to innovate, devote itself to the development, application and promotion of ARM technology, once again walk in the forefront of its peers, take the lead in setting up an ARM R&D center, and start the development and application training of embedded systems based on ARM nationwide. In February 2006, 1, 1, Xuan Ji officially became the only designated training center (ATC) authorized by ARM in China and its series of products agents.
The 32-bit CPU core developed by ARM can be authorized by global manufacturers to produce ARM chips. Moreover, the price is unexpectedly cheap. For example, 45 10 for network applications only needs 45 yuan RMB, so that low-end products can use 8-bit single-chip computers such as 805 1, and high-end products use ARM as a very wise choice. Now many people begin to learn ARM. At first, they bought the ARM experimental board and JTAG emulator.