Along with the development of the large data, cloud computing service, data center becomes one of the most growth of the market, China is expected to become the world's data centres with server chip, the second largest market, is also the fastest growing market.

On January 17, qualcomm and guizhou government reached a strategic cooperation, joint venture for the China data center server chip market in guizhou, China core semiconductor technology co., LTD. On the basis of China core flux, with partners to open China market data center server, become one of the important strategy of qualcomm. Qualcomm China chairman Mr. Meng has held a press conference, this paper introduces the preparation progress of tong hua core: at present, the qualcomm has to deliver the first batch of technology, China core in the ARM core access server chip as the core of China is expected in the second half of 2017.

Server chips in the second half of next year

In January, qualcomm and related department to 1.85 billion yuan ($280 million) in guizhou guizhou China joint venture core semiconductor technology co., LTD. By way of joint venture further into the local industry, speed up the development of new business, including server chips, will become the future qualcomm development important strategy in the Chinese market. The firm's China core preparation progress have been under the spotlight.

For this, Mr. Meng is introduced: "over the past few months time, rapid progress was made in the joint venture company, including construction management team and technical team, technical development, etc. In terms of technical team, at the end of may to China core through the company already has more than 40 engineers. Our goal is to the end of the year of 300 ~ 400 r&d personnel. In the meantime, qualcomm has delivered the first batch of technology, soon will be provided to the joint venture company the second batch of technology. Technology after completion of delivery, the technical personnel of the joint venture company will be able to develop suitable server chip application market demand in China. Our goal is in the second half of 2017 will be products to the market."

The root According to the forecast of qualcomm, the 2020 data center server chip market will reach $15 billion, including the Chinese market is worth $6 billion, for the global data center server chips, the second largest market, is also the fastest growing part of this field. Visible, in China's development and deployment, it is very important for qualcomm. Qualcomm in China, therefore, the core of the construction, also spent a lot of resources and energy.

Via "China core position in the Chinese market data center server chip design, development and sales. In a joint venture with other semiconductor company take pure technical contribution more different, qualcomm the already produced technology, and put in the money. Can say qualcomm data center server chip market attaches great importance to China, also very bullish on." Mr. Meng said.

Besides, in the "2016 China's big data industry summit and the development of Chinese e-commerce innovation summit", qualcomm also was registered in your new city qualcomm (China) holding co., LTD. "It is very meaningful for qualcomm and guizhou province. For example, in the case of qualcomm, qualcomm (China) holding company: we hope to make an investment vehicle in China, qualcomm all investment in China will be completed by the carrier." Mr. Meng said.

Data center user demand is changing

Although China data center server chip market development space is very big, but after all, more than 90% of the current global server chip market is dominated by Intel, the ARM architecture share less than 1%. What makes qualcomm leverages the new market?

For this, Mr. Meng said: "the data center industry is undergoing huge changes. The current server chips dominated by X86 architecture, based on ARM architecture of products is still in its early stage. But we believe that this situation will change. Cloud computing market share more and more high, data center user demand for server chip is changed, such as lower power consumption and cost. The industry change is an opportunity for a new power cut. Since 2012, in fact, for the server products ARM architecture, processing ability have been enhanced. With the development of such, ARM product consumption in data centers will continue to increase. There may be people will ask, now a lot of companies do ARM server, qualcomm compared with what's different? Qualcomm has been is a global leader in the field of smartphone SoC, thanks to qualcomm can well balance on intelligent terminal power consumption, and price calculation can force. Qualcomm also has the ability to apply this kind of experience to server domain. So from the aspects of technology, qualcomm have confidence to enter the server industry."

Qualcomm in 2015 released A ARMv8 - A 64 - bit architecture based server chips, and server development platform (SDP). Data show that the chip is 24 nuclear SoC, and is completely designed by qualcomm autonomous core architecture, not ARM male version of the case. In addition, it also integrates the function of all standard server level, including PCI - E, storage, etc. In terms of system and software, server development platform support Linux kernel version 4.2 + and KVM virtualization, it DevStack for it cloud business process, the standard Linux distribution running customer virtual machine and the Apache server and WordPress.

"In the United States, we have to provide the products to several mainstream cloud service Internet company for testing. The following will be according to the requirements of the use of user experience and constantly improve. We will do the same pattern in China, for Chinese Internet companies, cloud service providers, to develop and test, perfect products and solutions." Mr. Meng said.

5 g ultra broadband application development is the key

5 g technology is another focus of attention in the industry, 5 g terminal chip development progress of qualcomm also concern. To this, Mr. Meng also introduced qualcomm development plan in 5 g.

"High sense in the field of wireless, including OFDM technology, has many years experience. We have the ability to do the prototype build and test the end-to-end system, make it can be tested the next generation communication system, relative to other companies, for the early implementation capability. In addition, we and mobile operators in different countries and areas of the world has more than a decade of cooperation in the field of mobile Internet, including the network construction and terminal cooperation. Through the accumulation and the development of the past have, qualcomm can quickly enter the 5 g development. At home, we are the first to participate in China mobile 5 g joint innovation center of one of the enterprise." Mr. Meng said.

Meng park did not explicitly qualcomm 5 g chip launch time is given. "As for the product launch, simply tell the meaning of time is not very big. On the one hand, the country is not strictly speaking 5 g commercial must, in 2020, the industry, of course Currently in 2020 5 g commercial efforts, also has a lot of people say that will achieve much earlier. In the past these experience, technical transformation in each generation, qualcomm has never faced, at least we'll have been tight with standards and industry process. In the development of next 5 g, we would like to see is, whether it's ultra mobile broadband Internet experience, the reliability of the data transmission capacity, low ShiYanGao some critical applications such as automatic driving, or massive terminal connected to the Internet, 5 g can connection as a unified framework, through cities, intelligent household and wisdom to realize it. This is the direction we are now trying."