Rewrite the Technological Landscape

On October 15th, Dafeng Group held a press conference on the Hongmeng architecture, and the keynote speaker was Meng Qian.

Now almost the whole world knows one thing, the product that can let Meng Qian give a speech must be very unusual.

"On the way here, I checked the latest market report, and the sales volume of Hongmeng 3 has exceeded 60 million units." Meng Qian's simple opening aroused applause from the audience.

In fact, when Meng Qian was developing the press conference, Nokia launched a mobile phone that was once popular in the past, that is, the Nokia 5230, but it is not clear whether it will continue to be popular in this life.

"Regarding the success of Hongmeng 3, I saw a lot of analysis on the Internet, and many people asked me some questions. In fact, everyone knows very well that the success of Hongmeng 3 is the result of a combination of various reasons. To choose the most important thing, I personally still prefer the M3 processor, because the AI ​​chip effectively increases the software upper limit.

If it were not for the M3 processor, our system performance would not be fully released, and our AI applications would not be effectively activated. At the moment when software is booming, the development speed of hardware has obviously slowed down for several generations, so at this time, the development of hardware Revolution is particularly important.

This is the content of our press conference today, what the Hongmeng architecture can bring to this era. "

Meng Qian pressed the remote control pen, and a line of words appeared on the big screen: Yunzhilian + Hongmeng Architecture.

"2009 is obviously a year of vigorous development of Cloud Zhilian, a large number of development directions and applications have emerged, and in this process, the demand for Cloud Zhilian chips has also entered a period of explosion.

In the field of cloud-connected chips, high-performance computing, security, customization, and cost issues have become the four major requirements. "

Meng Qian said that the feature comparison of X86, power, ARM and Hongmeng architecture appeared on the big screen, and the familiar friends and business links.

"In the entire processor field, whether it is the powerful X86 and power, or ARM, which is known as the opponent of Hongmeng, it has experienced decades of development. During this development process, if the documents of these architectures are printed out and put together Can fill a small room.

Some people have always said that this is the backwardness of the Hongmeng architecture, but many things need to be looked at in depth. Although these architectures are rich in experience, in the past few decades, the development of modern processor architecture technology has undergone tremendous changes. However, As a commercial architecture, in order to ensure the backward compatibility of the architecture, a large number of outdated definitions are retained. These rich experiences may have become a heavy burden now.

As a so-called inexperienced Hongmeng architecture, it has a latecomer advantage in this issue. We have designed the architecture based on a more mature computer architecture from the beginning, without having to carry a heavy burden, and have improved the hardware and compiler. ease of realization.

In order to prevent the future Hongmeng architecture from becoming redundant, the Hongmeng architecture has adopted a modular architecture from the very beginning. This kind of modularization is not available in X86, power, and ARM. Take our "rival" ARM as an example. , ARM has developed three architecture series for application operating system, real-time system and embedded system, but they are not compatible with each other.

The modularization of the Hongmeng architecture can flexibly choose different module combinations to meet different application scenarios. For example, there is a big gap between the application in the embedded field and the application on the server, but we can meet the requirements by adjusting different modularization. specific application.

Scalability can be said to be the biggest feature of the Hongmeng architecture. Traditional instructions do not allow the expansion of the instruction set, but the Hongmeng architecture allows users to easily do some extensions they want. This is a high requirement for customization. It is a boon for the chip, which meets the new needs of cloud-connected chips that can quickly respond to fragmentation and become more and more application-centric.

In summary, the Hongmeng architecture has technical advantages such as simplification, low power consumption, modularization, and scalability. "

Speaking of this, the chip requirements of the cloud-connected era appeared on the screen again. It can effectively reduce costs, and customization and modularization match the high-performance computing requirements of the Cloud Zhilian chip, because to achieve high processing performance, on the one hand, customization is required, and on the other hand, the demand for heterogeneous systems is required.

The last thing I want to talk about is security. It can be said that the biggest challenge for the development of Yunzhilian is security. The large amount of user data must be protected by sufficient security measures, otherwise the technology of Yunzhilian is likely to become a disaster. technology.

Regarding the security of the architecture, in the early years, everyone used to use the hidden method, but the facts have proved that the real security is not closed, on the contrary, the real security is open.

As an open architecture, the Hongmeng architecture adheres to the security concept based on the isolation mechanism, but unlike other architectures, the Hongmeng architecture adopts a software-based and hardware-enhanced approach.

This makes the security development and optimization of the entire architecture easier. "

Meng Qian paused for a while and took a sip of water, "Having said so much, the next thing is the focus of today's press conference. In fact, in the past two years, more and more companies have chosen the Hongmeng architecture. You have seen our The mobile phone processor, saw our baseband chip, in fact, the application of Hongmeng architecture is far from this.

Here we simply make a list for you, Huawei K3 chip, Haier smart home appliance chip research and development, Geely's latest vehicle architecture research and development, all adopt our Hongmeng architecture.

There is also Yanjing Junzheng Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd., which began to develop embedded CPUs based on the Hongmeng architecture two years ago.

Shanghai Espressif Information Technology Co., Ltd., which was just established last year but is developing rapidly, is developing a low-power WiFi+Bluetooth dual-mode cloud-connected solution based on the Hongmeng architecture.

It can be seen that more than 100 companies are currently developing chips based on the Hongmeng architecture, and 80% of the chip development direction is in the field of cloud intelligence.

In the Open Source Alliance, we have seen more than 1,000 topics about the Hongmeng architecture in just one year, and open source supporters from all over the world have created more than 200 related discussion groups with thousands of people.

Seeing this trend, we are aware of the advantages and infinite possibilities of the Hongmeng architecture in the era of cloud and intelligence, so we decided to further promote the openness of the Hongmeng architecture and formally establish the Hongmeng architecture alliance, aiming to accelerate the development of the Hongmeng architecture in the era of cloud and intelligence. Applications.

For this purpose, we specially revised the "Hongmeng Architecture Manual" to facilitate everyone's familiarity with the Hongmeng architecture, and created a Hongmeng architecture development platform to provide development convenience for everyone.

From now on, Dafeng Group will provide the greatest service support for the development of Hongmeng architecture.

In addition, in order to better support the development of Yunzhilian, we sincerely hope that more companies can participate in the ecological establishment of Hongmeng architecture. We have sent invitation letters to companies such as Intel and Microsoft, and look forward to more opportunities for Hongmeng architecture and Yunzhilian. good future. "

It is also open, ecological, and cloud-connected. Although these concepts make users a little numb, compared to Intel's still staring at the Internet and compared to ARM's entry into the field of netbooks, Dafeng Group's Hongmeng architecture The press conference just makes people feel more futuristic.

Moreover, Intel and Microsoft were deliberately named, and many netizens ridiculed one after another. This is a mockery in the face of the Wintel Alliance.