ARM v8 finally appeared, mass production of 64-bit chips in 2014 - Electronic Engineering World

2022-07-22 22:36:14 By : Ms. Ann Yang

"I have two good news to report to you today. One is that ARM's partners in China have shipped more than 1.5 billion tablets in total, truly achieving the goal of "one chip per hand". The second is that we expect domestic tablets this year. Computer processors will account for one-third of the world's total." Wu Xiongang, President of ARM China, said at the ARM Beijing product launch a few days ago.This time ARM held a new product launch conference in three places around the world, of course, not to report the previous achievements, but to officially announce the first 64-bit processor product based on ARM v8.ARM Chief Commercial Officer Mike Inglis made a special trip to China to give a product presentation, "Today is the first time in ARM's history that it has held a simultaneous launch conference in three places around the world. Release two processors."Mike Inglis, Chief Commercial Officer, ARMMike said that the new ARM Cortex-A50 series processors will launch two products, including Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57, corresponding to products codenamed Apollo and Atlas.Among them, A53 is the product with the highest power consumption efficiency ratio in ARM's history, and its performance is comparable to that of Cortex A9. However, it supports 32 and future 20-nanometer processes and will only have 1/4 of the area of ​​the current mainstream CPU.The A57 is the highest performance product, and Mike pointed out that the A53 and A57 support large and small core technologies similar to the A15 and A7.ARM's partners are also actively developing products to work with ARM's 64-bit processors, and a few days ago, Red Hat announced support for 64-bit ARM processors.At the same time, ARMv8 includes two instruction sets, AARCH32 and AARCH64, and its 32-bit can be compatible with the existing ARMv7.Yao Gang, Director of Huawei's HiSilicon Turing Processor Business Department, traced the cooperation between HiSilicon and ARM: "In 2004, there were many CPU cores to choose from, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc., but HiSilicon did not enter the market at that time. In the field of mobile terminals, why do we still choose to cooperate with ARM? There are two reasons for this." Yao Gang explained, "On the one hand, our business model is similar to ARM's. In addition, the power consumption of ARM products is very low, which is a very suitable product for mobile terminals and network processing, which is consistent with the green energy saving advocated by HiSilicon That's why, in 2008, HiSilicon became the first in the industry to use the eight-core ARM Cortex-A9 to design network processors, and now it is synchronizing with the world to design the latest ARM processors.