What does it mean for Alibaba to officially release 9 10 chip based on RISC-V architecture?

This means that China has made a higher development in technology, China has also stepped up in science and technology, and China's status has been further improved.

On July 25th, at the opening ceremony of Shanghai Summit in Alibaba Cloud, China, Alibaba's semiconductor company "Pingtou Ge" officially released Tie Xuan 9 10 chip, and called Tie Xuan 9 10 the most powerful RISC-V processor in the industry at present.

Tie Xuan 9 10 is the IP core of CPU and the core driving force of the chip. The meaning of Tie Xuan coincides with its role in the chip industry.

In terms of performance, Tie Xuan 9 10 supports 16 cores, with a single-core performance of 7. 1 Coremark/MHz and a main frequency of 2.5GHz, which is more than 40% higher than the best RISC-V processor in the industry.

Alibaba Cloud said that the performance breakthrough of Tie Xuan 9 10 benefited from two technological innovations: the complex out-of-order execution architecture with three starts and eight executions, which is the first RISC-V processor in the industry to realize two memory accesses per cycle; More than 50 instructions are extended on the basis of RISC-V, which systematically enhances the computing, storage and multi-core capabilities of RISC-V.

It is reported that Tie Xuan 9 10 will greatly reduce the design and manufacturing costs of high-performance chips. In the future, it will be in the fields of 5G, artificial intelligence, network communication and autonomous driving. Using this processor, the chip performance can be more than doubled and the chip cost can be reduced by more than half.

Pingtou Ge also posted a hero post on the spot, invited enterprises with mass production capacity and university scientific research institutions to jointly build benchmarking projects, and announced the "Pratt & Whitney Chip" plan.

In the future, Pingtou Ge will fully open the Tie Xuan 9 10 IP core, and global developers can download the FPGA code of the processor for free, and quickly carry out chip prototype design and architecture innovation.

At the same time, Pingtou Ge also built a domain-specific SoC, providing software and hardware resources including CPU IP, SoC platform and algorithms, and providing different levels of chip services for enterprises and developers in different AIoT scenarios.

Qi Xiaoning, vice president of Alibaba Group, said: "The traditional universal chip model is increasingly difficult to adapt to the needs of fragmented AIoT scenarios. Open source and openness are the general trend. Pingtou Ge is committed to being a chip infrastructure provider in the AIoT era, making chips more inclusive. "

2065438+In April 2008, Alibaba Group announced that its Dharma Institute was developing a neural network chip "Ali-NPU".

In September of the same year, Alibaba established an independent chip company named "Brother Pingtou". It is integrated by Ali's internal chip business and Zhongtian Microsystems Co., Ltd. acquired from outside, and is wholly owned by Ali.

In fact, not only Ali, but also many other domestic technology companies are actively investing in the chip industry: Huawei has been developing chips for more than 20 years, and the performance of Kirin 980 launched exceeds that of Qualcomm Xiaolong 835; Hubei Xiaomi Changjiang Industrial Fund under Xiaomi has become the fourth largest shareholder of Xinyuan Microelectronics.