Qualcomm and NXP and other major chip manufacturers promote RISC-V automotive chips

【Lansheng Technology Information】On the 6th of this month, in the CPU field, the two architectures of x86 and Arm occupy the high-performance and low-power consumption market, but RISC-V, with its open and free advantages, continues to erode the Arm market. Qualcomm is now cooperating with A number of companies have cooperated to jointly promote RISC-V architecture automotive chips, further hollowing out Arm.

Qualcomm announced that it will form a chip company with NXP, Bosch, Infineon and Nordic to specialize in the research of RISC-V architecture. The goal is to promote the realization of RISC-V on a global scale by supporting next-generation hardware.

The RISC-V architecture is also a new market that Qualcomm has focused on in recent years. Choosing the open source RISC-V instead of the Arm architecture that these companies are more familiar with and better at is obviously giving up Arm.

This is not surprising. The relationship between Qualcomm and Arm has changed in recent years. In the past two years, the two parties have litigated each other over licensing and other issues. Arm’s tightening of IP licensing has also made chip companies feel uneasy, and they have begun to develop their own architecture or turn to RISC. -V architecture.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile phone chips have used Arm's Cortex-X/A series CPU cores for several generations, but they previously spent $1.4 billion to acquire Nuvia, and it is expected that next year's Snapdragon 8G4 will switch to self-developed chips. CPU cores.

Qualcomm's self-developed CPU architecture will not only be used in mobile phones and tablets, but also in PC notebooks and other products. The development direction is similar to that of Apple's A/M series processors.

Although the self-developed architecture is still based on the Arm system, Qualcomm is determined to get rid of the shackles of Arm. When the RISC-V architecture ecology matures, a complete shift is expected.

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