As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. Only by successfully achieving a huge breakthrough from to 1 can we lay a foundation for future evolution and development, especially for the domestic semiconductor chip industry with the highest technical blockade and difficulty, it is even more difficult to achieve this step.
On March 3th, Moore Thread officially released the unified system architecture of MUSA and the first generation of all-around GPU chip "Suti", and based on this architecture and chip, created the MTT S6 graphics card for desktop PC and workstation, and the MTT S2 graphics card for data center, which is the first domestic full-featured GPU chip product in the true sense, and achieved the first ice-breaking in the domestic graphics card field.
Moore MTT S6 adopts 12nm process, including 2,48 MUSA cores, built-in modern graphics rendering engine, intelligent multimedia engine, AI computing acceleration engine, and scientific computing and physical simulation engine, with a single-precision computing power of 6TFlops and 8GB LPDDR4X memory.
this graphics card supports the common image API interfaces such as DirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGES, and meets the image performance requirements of mainstream games, native Andriod, 3D rendering and other applications. It has three DP1.4 interfaces, supports video codecs such as H.264, H.265(HEVC) and AV1, and can output 4K and 8K images, so it can play 《
The founder used to be the general manager of NVIDIA in China, and just left his post for 18 months.
Why did Moore Thread "suddenly emerge" and realize the release of the first domestic full-featured GPU? This is obviously closely related to the founder team of the company. It is understood that Moore Thread Company was founded in Beijing in October 22, with Zhang Jianzhong at the helm. He previously served as global vice president of NVIDIA and general manager of China, and founded Moore Thread the next month after leaving his job, and released the first domestic full-featured GPU 18 months later.
NVIDIA is not only the inventor of GPU graphics processor in the world, but also the leader of artificial intelligence computing in the world. No matter in various industries or in the eyes of ordinary consumers, it must be very familiar with their graphic card products. Therefore, it is no wonder that the Zhang Jianzhong team, who has worked on GPU R&D and design, can produce substantive products in such a short time.
graphic IP originated from the authorization of PowerVR, which used to be the IP in Apple's A-series chip industry. It is generally called IP core, which refers to the mature design of circuit modules with independent functions in chips. It can be applied to multiple chip design projects including this circuit module, thus reducing the workload of independent design, shortening the chip design cycle and improving the success rate of chip design. To put it simply, in the modern industrial chip design system, a complex chip is composed of a chip designer's own design circuit and a number of outsourced IP designs.
It is understood that Moore's all-around GPU chip "Suti" uses the graphic IP from British Imagination Company, that is, the PowerVR rendering method. However, in 217, the company was wholly acquired by China Investment Company for 55 million pounds.
PowerVR graphics chip was once adopted by Intel, and later it became the "royal" GPU architecture design of Apple's A-series processors. After several years of authorized cooperation, Apple kicked off IMG and successfully developed its own GPU. Today, A-series chips have the top performance and power consumption performance on the mobile side.
Therefore, this is one of the reasons behind Moore's "Suti" being able to quickly design and reach the mainstream compatible performance level on the market. Of course, Moore thread is only responsible for the design and development of GPU, and the specific product production has to be handed over to the chip foundry to solve, just like Huawei HiSilicon.
The development level of domestic semiconductor chip industry lags far behind the world. In recent years, with the external blockade and the intensification of the storm of digital revolution, China is making great efforts to catch up in this field, and it is hoped that more companies similar to Moore Thread will appear to achieve breakthroughs and innovations in the chip industry.