Set micro-network news (text / Xiaobei) Recently, the Shanghai Economic Information Commission issued the "Shanghai Economic Informationization Commission on the development of the second batch of Shanghai software and integrated circuit industry development funds in 2018 (integrated circuit and electronic information manufacturing Field) Notice of project declaration work (hereinafter referred to as: project notification notice), one of which is to support the company engaged in RISC-V related design and development. Shanghai became the first domestic RISC-V The government supports the city of the object.
Contents related to RISC-V project declaration: The processor chip direction based on RISC-V instruction set architecture supports RISC-V instruction set architecture, R&D and industrialization of 32-bit and above processor chips, and the kernel needs to have independent intellectual property rights. Direction 1: For the Internet of Things and industrial control applications, with excellent performance, power consumption, area and other indicators, priority to support projects with clear user cooperation agreements. The cumulative sales revenue during the project execution period is not less than 20 million yuan.
Direction 2: For intelligent terminal applications, the main frequency is no less than 1GHz, the performance is not less than 1.5 DMIPS/MHz, support double-precision floating-point operation, support mainstream operating system, multi-core technology and cache consistency. Cumulative sales during project execution The income is not less than 10 million yuan.
This shows that Shanghai encourages the development and industrialization of RISC-V based processors.
Supporting RISC-V from the national policy level, China is not the first. In 2017, the Indian government indicated that it will vigorously fund RISC-V-based processor projects, making RISC-V a factual national instruction set in India.
Why does Shanghai become the first city in China to introduce RISC-V support policy? On the one hand, the Shanghai government recognizes the advanced, open and progressive ecology of RISC-V; on the other hand, Shanghai is the first time RISC-V is in China. The debut city is the first stop for RISC-V to open the Chinese market. It has advantages over other cities in terms of RISC-V technology and ecology.
The RISC-V Foundation held the 6th RISC-V Symposium in May 2017 with NVIDIA in Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. More than 200 Chinese and foreign representatives from academia and industry attended the conference. This is the first outside North America. Regional RISC-V seminar. In June of this year, RISC-V Day was also held in Shanghai. It can be seen that 'Shanghai' is an important point for RISC-V to expand the global market.
Since the beginning of this year, RISC-V has carried out many actions to open up the Chinese market, such as introducing SiFive and Jingxin Technology into the Chinese market, and settled in Shanghai to enhance RISC-V visibility and create a perfect ecological environment.
Jingxin has said that SiFive and Jingxin will work together, and Shanghai will serve as a starting point for RISC-V to lead the innovation trend. Thanks to RISC-V open and scalable architecture, it is suitable for emerging hotspots such as AI, IoT, ADAS. RISC The -V instruction set architecture is expected to become the star of tomorrow's domestic chip design.
In the past two years, RISC-V has received extensive attention and attention from academia and industry. The industry recognition of RISC-V architecture has rapidly increased. The RISC-V Foundation has absorbed Google, Qualcomm, Apple and Tesla. More than 100 corporate members including mainstream companies. Western Digital, AMD, Micron, Google, Samsung and other foreign technology giants are using RISC-V to do some chip projects; Huawei, ZTE and other domestic large enterprises, as well as some small and medium-sized enterprises and The Maker Group has also joined the RISC-V Foundation. However, for the RISC-V just getting started, the ecology is still the biggest shortcoming.
Today, Arm has realized the threat from RISC-V. Earlier this month, Arm opened a website that criticized the RISC-V architecture, riscv-basics.com, which was screamed by many vendors and the free software community. ', then the site went offline. In the short term, RISC-V is difficult to shake the market dominated by Arm and other markets monopolized by Arm. The industry agrees that in some emerging edge areas, RISC-V and Arm are at the same starting line, both will Forming positive competition, RISC-V has advantages in terms of cost, etc. Arm has advantages in ecology and so on.
It is reported that RISC-V has formed a certain climate in China. The domestic business community has actually begun to actively participate in the RISC-V open source community. A group of enthusiasts are actively participating in the construction of the RISC-V community. The existing research institutions are based on RISC-V. Conducting cutting-edge research (for example, some aerospace institutes have already started pre-research projects based on RISC-V processors).