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Huawei is in the game, for sure. Also, comments that dismiss Chinese achievements appear uninformed of the level of effort at technology supremacy under way in
by Zigurd 8y ago
Huawei is in the game, for sure. Also, comments that dismiss Chinese achievements appear uninformed of the level of effort at technology supremacy under way in China.
BUT there are a few "buts:"
As the article says "the new CPU is designed to boost the development of computing in big data, distributed storage, and ARM-native application scenarios."
This isn't anything like an Apple A12, which has world-beating compute power per watt.
The Huawei chip should be compared to Intel server CPUs and ARM and other chips with other ISAs designed to use in data centers.
This is an important step technologically for Huawei, which will probably use enough of these chips to learn for a next generation. This is probably not a chip that will disrupt anyone else's chip business.
- zoom6628 8y agoOne of the best comments on this. Its natural for Huawei to do this to make them, and China market in general, less dependent on foreign chips. Its also natural considering the areas in which Huawei does business - they effectively are a end-to-end supplier of telco platforms from server, beacons, mobiles. I think is very good for the world to have additional heavyweight competitors in the CPU space - especially given that its ARM based so no reasons(other than political) that other brands would not want to consider as a supplier.