Huawei ren zhengfei, the value of the business department haisi slip more and more, in the mobile phone chips kirin series after taking off, the server domain to show muscle - 16 nuclear ARM server chips come out...

A few days ago, in an exhibition on "twelfth five-year" science and technology innovation, huawei unveiled its first ARM platform server "Taishan" (Taishan), equipped with independent research and development ARM architecture "Hi1612" 64 - bit processor, 16 nm TSMC process, with up to 16 core, compatible ARMv8 - A instruction set.

China is determined to get rid of the dependence on the X86 architecture server, to ensure the safety of domestic information. Prism door and Intel is forbidden in the United States to sell China high-performance server chips, the influence of China in recent years have been trying to develop its own server chip business, but because Intel monopoly X86 architecture, MIPS ecological maturity, power architecture for the enterprise, IBM has China's server chips most likely development should be the ARM architecture.

Qualcomm server chip market, it is to see the Chinese server chip adopts the architecture of the ARM architecture is the most likely, so choose cooperation with China in guizhou province to build server chip companies, hoping to get China's support to promote its ARM architecture server chip business success.

Huawei said, in addition to the storage unit, the processor has a complete independent intellectual property rights, can be applied to large data analysis, there were clouds, information search, and other fields, and has set up a alibaba in the trial. Due to a server market more than 90% market share of Intel chip prices lead to improve server server providers and users, there is huge demand for server chips of amazon, baidu's intention to use the ARM chip, in order to reduce costs. In addition, the ARM architecture always is famous for its low power consumption, rising energy costs in today, these enterprises with large data centers by the will of the ARM chip is stronger.

In November last year at the time of release kirin 950, huawei has been asked to no independent development architecture processor, huawei means will develop independent architecture, but independent architecture for mobile phone chips will be used for the server, this is huawei officially revealed will develop server chips.

This is because, in the server market, operation requirements is very complex, as well as the stability, reliability, efficiency and long-term supply of components of continuous requirement is very high, the market instead of the process doesn't matter, so huawei just developed independent architecture of server chips, can better meet market and customer needs. And in the field of consumer, huawei haisi will continue to insist to use the male version of the architecture, because of its flexible enough, and shorter development process, is a good way to control the time to market.

Huawei haisi at present is the most powerful chip developers Chinese technology, it has used the ARM of the highest performance A72 core developed kirin 950 mobile phone chips, is also the first domestic enterprises to adopt the core to develop high performance chip. Kirin 950 on performance and qualcomm, samsung chip companies at a level of these leading. Two other strong domestic enterprises spreadtrum chip and al core has not yet officially launched 64 mobile processors.

There is another factor that can help to promote their ARM architecture server chips, huawei huawei is one of the big four server providers in China at present, domestic server companies such as huawei, lenovo, wave of Chinese server market share has exceeded 65%.

Huawei formally enter the server market is not long, even can be clear to one day in May, 2013. It was at that time, huawei, held a press conference in Beijing, appeared for the first time the entire server product family, also sounded the horn to enter the market. But little known is that as early as in 2002, huawei has been server products research and development and layout. So, to now huawei servers have had 14 years of history.

14 years ago, huawei has also focused on to provide overall solution to operators, namely to provide other computing including network platform, storage and other equipment. And at that time, just the purchasing server (small) amount of more than 1 billion yuan each year. "Why can't we make your own server? At the suggestion of some employees, huawei start planning their production to replace expensive minicomputer server. In 2002, huawei T8000 server implements to ATCA architecture for minicomputer alternative platform.

From Gartner statistics show that by the end of the fourth quarter of 2015, huawei server has 10 consecutive quarters of ranks fourth global shipments. In addition, x86 eight-way server 2015 global growth first, modular server 2015 global shipments shipments of growth for the first 3, 2015 global x86 server.