Component trading network reported on April 26th that since ZTE violated the U.S. government’s export ban and the settlement agreement reached last year, it will implement a 7-year export ban on the company. The ZTE event made us fully realize that there is no technology. To be subject to human 'core' pain.
Ma Yun's acquisition of Zenith Micro in the end have what ability?
China's core is hard to play a big role Ma Yun wants to provoke China's backbone
In the face of China's lack of 'core', Ma Yun resolutely acquired Zhongtian Micro, hoping to promote the research, development, and application of self-developed indigenous chips through Ali's powerful technology platform and ecosystem integration capabilities, and provoke the heavy responsibility of the Chinese core.
Ma Yun also said that R & D chip is not for competition, but in order to make the chip more inclusive. He also pointed out that China, Japan and other countries need to develop their own semiconductor technology to get rid of the United States control of the global chip market.
What is Zhongtian Micro doing?
Zhongtianwei was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Hangzhou. The first two characters of 'China Core, Skyward' are the origin of Zhongtian's name. It is also the mission and goal of Zhongtian Microsystem.
Zhongtianwei is the only large-scale production-oriented self-embedded CPU IP Core company in mainland China. It focuses on 32-bit embedded CPU IP R&D and large-scale application, and is oriented towards multimedia, security, home, transportation, smart city and other IoT fields. Accumulative global shipments of more than 700 million chips.
IP Core is called 'Intellectual Property Core'. It refers to the logic module provided by a certain party. The reusable module of the chip design. The embedded CPU IP Core is the 'brain' of the system chip. From this, it can be seen that Zhongtianwei The core position in the chip field is the key to revitalizing the Chinese core.
Although Zhongtianwei is still unable to compare with the international chip giants (Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Nvidia, Samsung, etc.) in the chip design industry, the only place in China's transit system is to completely adopt the autonomous instruction architecture, compared to other domestic chips. This is a huge advantage.
In today's society, information security is the absolute security of a country, and data security can be guaranteed with a completely independent technological structure. At the same time, Zhongtianwei is the only company in China that has commercial production of CPUs, and independently develops chips in China. There are no more companies, but only one family can do mass production.
In the era of the rise of AI today, Zhongtian Micro’s R&D on AI chips can be said to be at the forefront of our country. According to relevant sources, Zhongtianwei can also be said to be able to walk in the world’s research on the NPU neuronal system. The forefront of the company's current research focus is on 5G and AI technology. For technology companies, this is a major opportunity. Once a breakthrough is achieved in one area, it may overturn other areas in a short period of time. The giant industry, just like Apple had killed Nokia, Android has done the same with Windows!
China 'Core' Status
In recent years, China's chip self-sufficiency rate has been continuously improved. However, in many areas, domestic chips still have a large gap. The data shows that in 2016, China’s chip imports amounted to US$230 billion, and the cost was almost the second highest crude oil import amount. double.
The issue of 'Lack of Core and Less Soul' is once again severely placed in front of people. The core technology is subject to human beings is our biggest hidden danger'. The core technology is the country's most important tool, independent innovation, is the best way to get rid of being subject to control.
In order to get out of the world, China's core, independent research and development is the last word. For the development of China's semiconductor industry, as long as we get rid of foreign import dependence, strengthen independent research and development, in order to have a long-term foothold in the market economy.
Ma Yunlian’s hands have nothing to do
Last year, Ma Yun established the Aly Dharma Hospital. The original intention of this institution was to explore technology and the unknown future. It can be said that a great deal of attention was drawn to technology enthusiasts at the time. Boomerang is developing a neural network chip - Ali. -NPU, The chip is an AI chip, which will focus on imagery video analysis, machine learning and other AI reasoning calculations. Ali revealed that the chip's computing power will be 40 times that of similar products. But later explained by Ari Dharma PR. The similar products here refer to the CPU or GPU, not the NPU.
The acquisition of Zhongtian Micro is to serve the chip development and commercial volume production of Ariadomo. In today's society, information security is the absolute safety of a country. Data security can only be guaranteed if the technical architecture is completely autonomous. At the same time, Zhongtianwei is the only company in China that has commercial production of CPUs. There are no fewer companies that independently research and develop chips in China, but they can only do mass production.
From investing to announcing independent research and development of chips to a wholly-owned acquisition of chip companies, it can be seen that Alibaba has made a decisive step in this matter of chips, and it has started to move. Now that ZTE has been sanctioned, the rise of domestic chips once again detonated. The public opinion is very urgent. It seems that Alibaba has announced that the chip movement is a hot spot. In fact, it is doing the right thing at the right time.
Prior to this, Alibaba invested in a large number of chip companies. Ma Yun was called by the media to buy more than half of the chip industry. For example, Ali invested in the Cambrian, Barefoot Networks, Shen Jian, Kneron, ASR, Zhongtian. Micro and a number of other chip companies, including the Cambrian for the Huawei Unicorn 970 processor provides the NPU.
The first published research fields of 'Dharma House' include quantum computing, machine learning, basic algorithms, network security, visual computing, natural language processing, next-generation human-computer interaction, chip technology, sensor technology, embedded systems, etc. Machine intelligence, intelligent networking, financial technology and other industrial fields.
Alibaba's acquisition will give Zhongtianwei the help of resources and funds. It will be unprecedented. Zhongtianwei said that in the future, it will provide most chips for Alibaba's smart city and the Internet of Things industry. In the future, Ali's Chinese "core" can save China and gain world reputation.