Arm and Huawei stop cooperation and lose 20% revenue! The means of blocking Huawei are becoming more and more shameless. According to the latest news, just yesterday, arm announced that due to some irresistible factors, it would stop the cooperation with Huawei, which once again caused a sensation in the whole Internet technology circle. Many people say that this time, the United States is really starting to fight Huawei with the strength of the whole country. It's going to take this to a level it's never been before.
You may not be very familiar with arm, a leading semiconductor IP provider in the world. More than 95% of smart phones and tablet computers in the world adopt arm architecture. According to the data, the annual global shipment volume based on ARM Technology in 2014 was 12 billion, and there are 60 billion chips based on ARM technology since its birth. The technology has the characteristics of high performance, low cost and low energy consumption. It plays a leading role in the fields of intelligent machine, tablet computer, embedded control, multimedia digital processor, etc.
At present, Huawei's chips are basically based on ARM architecture, such as Kirin series, Balong system baseband chip, and arm server chip Kunpeng series. Once we can't use arm architecture, there will be great obstacles to Huawei's chip development.
However, just before, some people in the industry said that in fact, the suspension of cooperation between arm and Huawei has little impact on Huawei, because Huawei has already obtained the lifelong right to use armv8. If arm upgrades the architecture version, such as armv9 version, Huawei will not be able to obtain this part of the authorization, and it will fall behind the chips of Qualcomm and apple adopting V9 version. However, it is still early for arm to release the next generation architecture, and Huawei also declared that it is fully confident that it will continue to use the architecture of this generation of arm.
Therefore, the termination of the cooperation will not have much impact on Huawei in the short term. However, arm has lost such a big customer as Huawei, and arm has basically lost 20% of its revenue. After all, Huawei has become the second largest smart phone manufacturer in the world.
However, just now, arm China responded by saying: arm China attaches great importance to Hisilicon, our long-term partner, and we are actively communicating with each other to seek appropriate solutions in line with the current laws and regulations. So now just under pressure, everything is just an unknown.
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