In recent years, Qualcomm’s investment in China has continued to increase, and it has also launched a number of cooperations with China, and its technological opening has also been increasing.
In January 2016, Qualcomm and the People's Government of Guizhou Province formed a joint venture named "Guizhou Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd." (HXT), which designed and developed server-specific chips for the Chinese market. The two parties held 45% and 55% share respectively. An important step for Qualcomm's 'technology exchange for the market'.
Six months later, Huaxintong announced that it has obtained ARM ARMv8-A 64-bit processor architecture license.
On May 25, the two parties held a joint press conference to announce the latest progress of the Huaxintong project.
Qualcomm president (secondary) Christiano Amon announced on the scene. The first server chip 'Huaxin 1' independently developed by Huaxin Tong has been trial-production successful at the end of 2017 and will be put into commercial use in the second half of this year.
Huaxin 1 is manufactured using the latest 10nm process technology. It integrates about 1 billion transistors, more than 2,800 pins, and has an area equivalent to half a bank card. It has a built-in security module and can be used in high-performance computing systems to handle huge amounts of data.
On May 26-29, the 2018 China International Big Data Industry Expo will be held in Guizhou. At that time, Qualcomm will display the Huaxin 1 server chip and related applications.
Simultaneously, The second generation of products is also under development, named 'Huaxin 3'.
Guizhou Province is the first province in China to establish big data to develop industrial clusters. It has become a data center cluster with more than 2.5 million servers and has gathered companies including China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile.
PS: Qualcomm’s own server chip business has basically given up...
