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No, I see this comment as very relevant. If you think about what happened recently, and Huawei's position as the beacon of China's hihg-tech industry; the fact
by justicezyx 8y ago
No, I see this comment as very relevant.
If you think about what happened recently, and Huawei's position as the beacon of China's hihg-tech industry; the fact that they are in Arm and Risc-V suggests the scope of their investment. That is important to indicate the direction they want to go.
If you also correlate that with their investment in K8s, you'll see a clear picture how a complete strategy is being laid out. And Huawei understands Open Source is going to be the future for catching up.
Now piecing everything together:
- If done right, an investment in Arm for short-/middle-term, and long term bet on Risc-V + cluster manager like K8s, will provide a meaningful long-term alternative for cluster computing.
- Then again, Huawei has similar investment in the edge computing space for various kind of low-power phone chips.
- dmix 8y agoSo basically their investment in ARM has cross-over advantage to RISC-V (and likewise?)?
- justicezyx 8y agoWhat do you mean by crossover?
- ahartmetz 8y agoPresumably that CPU design expertise is transferable between architectures, especially if they are similar.
- justicezyx 8y agoI only know very little on the surface of chip design in general. My impression is yes, expertise are transferrable. Although the key here is cultivating market and hone the operational prowse, those also require time to do.