What kind of existence is Huawei Hisilicon in China chip industry?

The first reason why you can't buy it is that about 80%-90% of the chips sold by Hisilicon are not for sale.

The part sold outside is nothing more than chips in three or four fields, security cameras, set-top boxes, televisions and electricity meters. Moreover, they are all sold in the 2B market, and the 2C market has never been the main sales target of embedded chips.

Hisilicon in TV and set-top box industry is now playing the role of AMlogic and Mstars challenger, and now it is close to one-third of the global level. The unit price of this kind of chips is not high, and the gross profit is low, but the shipment volume is in the order of nine digits.

Security cameras are an area that Hayes has been cultivating for many years. Hayes is a latecomer in this field, and its main competitors are Anba, TI and marvell. Thanks to the strength of domestic security equipment vendors (Dahua, Haikang, ...), Hayes' domestic market share is about 70% to 80%, and its global market share is over half.

I don't know about the instrument chip. Don't say that.

All the above areas have annual public data.

Let me point out one thing. These are highly integrated chips.

The second reason is that you are not a semiconductor practitioner. The websites you listed are all for SCM enthusiasts and students to buy modules such as resistor, capacitor, power supply, memory, flash, I/O, etc. Even the websites selling development boards are not, let alone highly integrated chips. In other words, the website you listed should be regarded as a component purchasing network, which generally does not involve highly integrated and integrated chips in the above fields. If you don't believe me, you can try to search your website and see if you can buy tegra.

Actually, where can I buy chips? In view of the fact that 99.99% of individual developers and students can't have the ability to manually make a motherboard corresponding to a set-top box chip of about $2, all they can sell is a development board that integrates the chip and the motherboard. Individual developers who prefer embedded applications tend to use development boards with high community activity, such as raspberry pie or Arduino. ARM believers play mbed, and players who pursue original linux generally spend money on the 96 boards ordered by linaro. The way for real hardcore players to show Muslims is to write drivers and adaptations for RISC-V.

In fact, there is basically no 2C field in the highly integrated chip industry, and the main sales target is 2B. The chip consumption of individual developers can't be compared with that of equipment manufacturers. When each chip is applied to different devices, it basically needs to be tested and customized, including the whole process tracking of AE and f AE. Technical support is an endless hell. No chip manufacturer is willing to spend time and manpower to deal with the problems encountered by individual developers when plugging in bread board. Some of the components actually used on a large scale in industry should be ahead of your list, and some may take about * * * generations than your list, but the same thing is that most of the procurement costs are between 10%-20% of the websites you list.

In fact, Huawei also has chips. HiKey 960 and HiKey 970 can be searched on the above-mentioned ecological chain store 96 board of linaro, and the corresponding chips can be guessed by their own names. Poplar is actually the vest of Hess TV chip. These development boards all contain corresponding SDK packages, but the support for developers is very limited. (on Taobao)

Hess's release of these development boards is mainly based on its cooperation with linaro and its contribution to the Linux community. As a matter of fact, most of the veneer on the 96 board, the manufacturer hopes you don't buy it and don't ask questions.