Chips determine a country's level of strength. The launch of Loongson 3A6000 marks a new height in the degree of self-control and product performance of my country's independently developed CPUs, with performance reaching the level of international mainstream products.
Everyone is familiar with chips, such as Apple's "A-series" chips, Qualcomm's "Snapdragon", Huawei's "HiSilicon Kirin", MediaTek's "Dimensity" and "Loongson", the "Shenwei" independently developed by the National High Performance Integrated Circuit Shanghai Design Center, and the "Phytium" high-performance CPU developed by the School of Computer Science of the National University of Defense Technology.
The Phytium D2000 chip is a high-performance general-purpose processor that integrates eight next-generation high-performance processor cores, FTC663. These cores employ an out-of-order four-issue superscalar pipeline design, support the 64-bit ARMV8 instruction set, and are compatible with both ARM64 and ARM32 execution modes. The chip supports single-precision and double-precision floating-point instructions, and also features ASIMD processing instructions, providing powerful computing capabilities for complex application scenarios.
A self-developed and controllable chip with computing power is crucial for the industry and even the country.
In terms of industry trends, industrial automation technology is widely used across various sectors. Industrial control computers (ICCs), as one of the core devices for realizing industrial automation, possess chips with instruction sets and architectures independently designed in China. They play a crucial role in improving production efficiency, reducing energy consumption, and ensuring product quality, and there is a significant demand for ICCs across all industries.
With the continuous development of science and technology, China's industrial control computer market will continue to maintain rapid growth, providing strong support for the modernization and intelligent development of various industries.
According to data from the "Global and Chinese Industrial PC Market Status and Future Development Trends 2023-2029" report, the shipment volume in 2019 was 7.4 billion units. Of this, PLCs and DCS accounted for approximately 12% of the market share, while other industrial PC equipment accounted for 2.028 billion units. Therefore, the total shipment volume of industrial PCs in 2019 was 9.428 billion units, representing 6.2% of the total market. In 2022, the domestic industrial control industry market size reached 207.8 billion yuan, meaning the domestic industrial PC market size was approximately 13 billion yuan.
Imagine if such a large market didn't have domestically developed chips; a significant portion of the market economy would be dominated by foreign chips, and subsequent control would fall into the hands of foreign manufacturers. This control over power and resources would be highly detrimental to China. Therefore, a domestically developed and controllable chip with computing power is crucial for the industry and even the nation.
It is understood that domestically produced industrial control computers have significantly improved in terms of product quality, performance, and reliability, and the significant gap with imported brands has been largely eliminated. Domestic manufacturers offer faster response times, more timely and comprehensive technical support, and can quickly provide on-site service.
Domestic industrial control computers have made great progress in independent research and development, product quality and performance, and after-sales support. The most important issue is the chip problem of domestic industrial control computers. Domestic chips will have strong market competitiveness in the future and can provide a strong internal driving force for the automated manufacturing market.
