Wind River IIoT is now unbundled from INTC and free to work with AMD (and its licensees) and Huawei and China's Godson and others in the x86 biz which is still a lot of banking and industry - just not telecommunication.
And it implies that the JVs with Huawei, ZTE as well as the older ERIC JV are all coming to an end with the Trump Administration trade and security declarations.
And it implies that industry choices over OS has gone away from INTC- who already has a market dominance in one sector and thus is not gaining in another sector - IIoT and Telecom.
These are interesting times as network operators and industry customers choose winners in the IoT Race To SCALE
Notice this next quote and read between the lines:
bizjournals.com
Intel to sell Wind River unit to private equity firm Apr 3, 2018... "This move is designed to sharpen our focus on growth opportunities that align to Intel’s data-centric strategy,” Tom Lantzsch, Intel's Internet of Things Group senior vice president, said in Tuesday's press release. Aside from the Internet of Things products, Wind River has quietly played a major role in Intel's autonomous vehicle systems that includes models like the 2018 Audi A8. It has also been involved in Intel's operating system VcWorks and its Helix device cloud, according to Znet.com. Intel acquired Wind River in 2009 as part of its early efforts to diversify its business, which at that time meant adapting to embedded devices and the Internet of Things. It was the company's biggest deal of the decade at the time... Wind River President Jim Douglas will lead the independent company following the deal, Tuesday's release stated. Douglas said TPG will be able to provide Wind River with more financial resources than Intel did...
lightreading.com
Altiostar, Amdocs & Wind River Collaborate on End-to-End vRAN Solution: New Services, New Customers, New Revenue 4/4/2018 (video)
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digitimes.com
Alibaba forays into CPU sector via investment in C-Sky Microsystems DIGITIMES 6 November 2017 As part of its efforts to enhance its presence in the CPU sector, China tech giant Alibaba Group has invested in Hangzhou-based C-Sky Microsystems, an IC design house dedicated to 32-bit high performance low-power embedded CPUs and chip architecture licensing, according to industry sources. At the 2017 Hangzhou Computing Conference held in mid-October, the Alibaba Cloud and C-Sky jointly announced a strategic cooperation in developing IoT (Internet of Things) software and hardware infrastructures, and the former also unveiled its new-generation IoT operating system, dubbed as AliOS Things, which can be widely applied to smart cities, smart household electrical appliances, smart living, and more. Under the cooperation, C-Sky will move to develop IoT chips to support massive applications in terminal devices through Alibaba Cloud Link Market, and will optimize AliOS Things to better drive IoT chips. C-Sky CEO Qi Xiaoning said that his company will focus on such three core technologies as security, access and smartization needed to build IoT industry ecosystems. He also highlighted three major cloud chips to support AliOS software architectures, namely computer visual chips, MCU platform chips, and the world's first AliOS-based NB (narrow band)-IoT network security chips developed in cooperation with Shenzhen-based Sanechips Technology.
As China's first CPU maker with direct investment from Alibaba, C-Sky boasts production process ranging from 0.13mm to 28nm for its embedded CPUs, and has shipped over 600 million SoCs to more than 70 clients since its inception in 2001. The firm's CPUs can be applied to IoT smart hardware, digital video and audio systems, information security, communication networks, industrial control and automotive electronics, among others. C-SKY has also maintained cooperation with quite a few China mainstream wafer foundry houses such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), Hua Hong Semiconductor and Huali Microelectronics, in developing low-power process for IoT chips to deepen its development of embedded CPU IPs
eetimes.com
AMD Licenses X86 to China JV Deal may provide Zen technology for $293M Rick Merritt 4/21/2016 04:15 PM EDT SAN JOSE, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices will license technology to make x86 server SoCs to a China partner. A China investment firm will pay AMD $293 million for technology and design services that will enable a joint venture to build next-generation server SoCs for the China market... AMD’s China partner is Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co., Ltd. (THATIC), one of many financial holding companies with ties to China’s Academy of Sciences (CAS)... THATIC also has ties to Dawning Information Industry Co., Ltd. which has made world-class supercomputers based on x86 processors... An AMD spokesman said the joint venture’s products “are expected to complement AMD’s x86 server offerings.” AMD will also receive royalty payments from the JV’s future product sales... said Brookwood. More importantly, “now there will be indigenous China-based x86 server designs,” he said.
extremetech.com
AMD appoints former Broadcom, Intel engineer to head CPU development By Joel Hruska on March 28, 2016 AMD has appointed a new corporate VP, Nazar Zaidi, to head future development of CPUs, SoCs, and systems engineering. While Zaidi isn’t being billed as a direct replacement for Jim Keller, AMD’s former CPU architect, his position seems to blend both engineering and long-term product focus and development. Keller left the company last summer after completing the Zen design; the CPU design team has been headed by Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mark Papermaster during the interim period. Nazar Zaidi was formerly a VP of engineering at Broadcom and worked on that company’s custom ARMv8 processor, dubbed Project Vulcan. That project appears to have quietly come to an end after Broadcom was acquired by Avago a year ago — at the very least, there’s been no significant news for nearly a year...
eweek.com
Ex-Broadcom, Intel Official to Head Up AMD's CPU Efforts By Jeffrey Burt | Posted 2016-03-28 Advanced Micro Devices has a new executive with stints at Intel and Broadcom running its CPU and system-on-a-chip development... has hired Nazar Zaidi as corporate vice president of AMD's Cores, Server SoC (systems-on-a-chip) and Systems IP Engineering (CSSE) group, which is part of the larger Technology and Engineering business unit. He will report to Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and CTO. Zaidi's hiring comes six months after Jim Keller, who oversaw the development of the much-anticipated "Zen" CPU architecture, left AMD after his second stint with the company. Zaidi now will help oversee the continued development of Zen and the company's ARM-based server SoCs, as well as systems IP and compilers... Zaidi brings with him 26 years of experience in the chip industry. Most recently, he spent more than three years as vice president of engineering at Broadcom, heading up the chip maker's development efforts around its 64-bit ARM-based SoC for servers. Zaidi came to Broadcom in February 2012 after the company bought NetLogic Microsystems for $3.7 billion. At the time, he was NetLogic's vice president of engineering for its communications processors... Zaidi started his career as principal engineer at Intel, where he helped with the early development of the company's high-end Itanium server processors and also worked on the Pentium architecture.
pcworld.com
China's secretive mega chip powers the world's fastest computer China sends a warning to Intel: We can develop blazing fast chips, too IDG News Service Jun 20, 2016 9:13 AM... The Sunway TaihuLight at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China, was ranked as the world's fastest supercomputer on a Top500 list published on Monday. It runs on a homegrown ShenWei processor...
The home-grown Chinese chip also gives the country some weight and bargaining power against top chip makers Intel, IBM, and Qualcomm, who are trying to push their own chips to server makers in China...
The Sunway TaihuLight has the ShenWei SW26010 processor, a monster 260-core chip. Each chip delivers a performance of 3 teraflops, which Top500 rated as being on par with Intel's latest Xeon Phi chip code-named Knights Landing. That chip is rated as one of the company's fastest. The Chinese supercomputer has a staggering 10,649,600 cores over 40,960 nodes. It was developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology... There's still is some mystery to China's latest homegrown chip. It is a 64-bit RISC processor, which Top500 speculates is based on the DEC Alpha architecture. The supercomputer has 1.3 petabytes of the older DDR3 memory, and uses 15.3 megawatts of power, making it more power-efficient than the number two supercomputer Tianhe-2, which uses 17.8 megawatts. It also has a homegrown interconnect, though its based on PCI-Express 3.0 China over years has developed a chip called Godson, which has been used in PCs, though progress has seemingly stalled.
livemint.com
wap.business-standard.com
New Chinese system named world's top supercomputer Press Trust of India | Beijing Jun 20, 2016 05:32 PM IST A new Chinese computer system that can make 93 quadrillions calculations a second has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The computer called Sunway TaihuLight developed by the National Research Centre of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology is built entirely using processors designed and made in China. The supercomputer installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in China displaced Tianhe-2, an Intel-based Chinese supercomputer that has claimed the top 1 spot on the past six TOP500 lists... (more)
GOOGLE Translation c114.net
Godson, president of Branch Weiwu: Government should block a block foreign chip (2015/10/27 13:45)
Godson Branch, Shanghai high-performance IC Design Center, National Defense is one of the few routes to independent IC design units, Godson, Shen Wei, soar and more people are carrying hope. Godson and Kirin operating system since the beginning of the birth living in the cusp of public opinion, praise and belittle heard; Shen Wei soar and military project is to give them covered with a layer of mystery...
Observer Network: Can specifically talk about in those areas established industrial base it?
Weiwu: There are many, such as high performance computing, the Beidou satellite navigation , weapons and equipment, industrial control and so many aspects of using Godson...
Weiwu: Godson go independent route, it must be hands-on, to establish a sufficient and Wintel systems and AA system to compete with the independent system - own instruction set extensions, design their own micro-structure, and communities to develop their own compiler version of the operating system, to build their own industries Union and software ecosystem ...... anything ...... do not own workload is very large, technology threshold is relatively high, but also caused Godson products and existing software ecosystem are not compatible, the market operations difficult...
Weiwu: For example, Haier last year bought 100 million units for the set-top box , Hisense also purchased hundreds of thousands of sets; this year, Haier has purchased 3,000,000 units. Godson STB may put in your home, but you do not know. Because in addition to the computer, mobile phone chips, other areas of the chip, it usually will not pay attention...
Currently, Godson has not set foot in Consumer Electronics market strength, so Godson took priority to meet national security needs, to meet the general needs of the consumer after the sub-step strategy:...
Weiwu: CPU core micro architecture, for example: Intel's SandyBridge, IvyBridge, Haswell; ARM's Cortex A9, A15, A17, A53, A57;
Godson GS232, GS264, GS464, GS464E;
Only self-designed micro-structure, is to master the core technology, in order to ensure a safe and controlled chip...
And in ten years of development, the Godson MIPS instruction set for a considerable expansion, and gradually developed its own instruction set loongISA. loongISA total of 1907 instruction set of instructions, from MIPS has 527, the rest are Godson own extensions. Godson MIPS instruction in innovation system has far exceeded the MIPS companies have been buying a perpetual license Mips instruction is mainly to reduce the market during the trouble. For example, Transmeta has been the company's good market prospects, but Intel sued it, hit a two-year lawsuit. Although the final Intel lost, but no one would dare during two years Transmeta business, Transmeta lawsuit was brought down...
Observer network: 3A3000 When will mass production?
Weiwu: 3A3000 is streaming the film, the first half of 2016 samples. The specific amount of production time that is not to say.
GOOGLE Translation c114.net
China-made CPU was disgusted: Lenovo refused to use Godson (2015/9/11 13:52) As the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Ministry officials Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center (CSIP) in the past few years, Sun Jia-Xing, high pines and other times to Lenovo Group visit, they very much hope that Lenovo support Godson. Lenovo and Godson are derived from Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology, according to a lot of people think, Lenovo as the world's largest computer company, is the most reasonable to use Godson, if the Godson, Godson can occupy at least half of the domestic PC market. But so far, Lenovo's PC did not use any one Godson... |
