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Xu Lai introduced that after the Sino-US trade friction, many domestic companies are seeking to replace domestic processor products, but there are not many domestic companies that can really make processors. Most of the team members of Xinlai Technology are senior processor R&D personnel from well-known companies. The professional processor R&D team is the confidence of Xinlai Technology to choose this track.

Secondly, the market potential of this track is huge: AIoT has a wealth of intelligent application scenarios, which has brought trillions of interconnected devices and created massive demand in the chip market. Almost every chip has a processor, so the processor has become ubiquitous. The need to support a variety of application scenarios requires the processor to have the ability to cut and expand. Take e-cigarettes as an example. For the small smoke in the e-cigarette, some simple processing is required. If it is a large smoke, including atomization and other algorithms will be more complicated, so cutting for unused scenarios can greatly increase flexibility and reduce costs.

Taking AI chips as an example, for some simple AI algorithms, different accelerators and computing power need to be integrated into the processor. If instruction set extensions are supported, richer computing power can be provided under the same programming model, bringing differentiation to the product while improving product development efficiency, thereby enhancing market competitiveness.

In the AIoT era, processors need to have the ability to be tailored or expanded, which is a requirement that traditional instruction set architectures cannot meet, so RISC-V came into being.

The RISC-V architecture design has four major characteristics: openness, advancement, modularity and scalability, to meet the needs of product differentiation and cost in the AIoT era, and embrace domain-specific architecture (DSA) design.

Xu Lai introduced that Xinlai Technology has been promoting the implementation of RISC-V in China with practical actions. Through the open source Hummingbird E203 ultra-low power processor core, the first and second RISC-V Chinese books were published, and the public account and persistent sharing were operated to let more local people understand and participate in the RISC-V ecosystem. The company's 200 series has completed mass production introduction for many customers, and will soon launch 300, 600 and 900 series embedded processor products with higher performance and support for security and reliability features.

Xu Lai said that in the past, the most difficult thing to promote in the processor sector was the ecosystem. Companies like ARM and Intel have been promoting the ecosystem for more than 30 years, and have established relevant organizations to invest a lot of money in open source to build the ecosystem. RISC-V is currently maintained by an international foundation, with more than 300 members, including foreign giants such as Qualcomm, NXP, Intel, and Google, as well as domestic companies such as Huawei, ZTE, and Alibaba. Xinlai Technology is currently a silver member of the RISC-V Foundation. Therefore, RISC-V has become an international standard for an instruction set for the first time, and the ecosystem is more like crowdfunding, so the overall ecosystem construction speed is very fast, and the cost per enterprise is lower.

This new ecosystem is a new opportunity for domestic MCU companies. In the past, international first-tier MCU companies have occupied the vast majority of the domestic market through long-term and continuous investment in the innovation ecosystem. RISC-V provides domestic MCU companies with the opportunity to reconstruct the ecosystem and innovate with the open and flexible advantages of RISC-V, which is an opportunity to enter the world's first-class market.

 
About Chipsea Technology

Founded in 2003, Xinhai Technology is a leading signal chain IC and solution provider in China. For 16 years, it has focused on high-precision ADC and SOC chips, high-performance MCUs, and one-stop solutions for the Internet of Things. It is a national high-tech enterprise and Guangdong Province Internet of Things Chip Development and Application Engineering Technology Research Center. The world's first Force Touch chip launched by the company has been successfully commercialized by mainstream mobile phone manufacturers. The first high-precision ADC, high-precision SOC chip, and the first USB PD3.0 MCU in China are all from Xinhai Technology. The company's products and solutions are applied in smart health, smart homes, smart phones, smart industries, etc.

About Jiejie Semiconductor
Jiejie Semiconductor was founded in 1995, listed on the Growth Enterprise Market in 2017, and was named one of the "Top Ten Power Device Companies" in 2019. As a leading IDM manufacturer (integrated component manufacturer, covering the entire chip industry chain, integrating chip design, manufacturing, packaging and testing) in the field of semiconductor power devices, the company has obtained a total of 53 authorized patents, including 15 invention patents, 37 utility model patents, and 1 appearance patent.

About Nucleo Technology
Nucleo Technology is a leading RISC-V processor core IP and solution company in China. It continues to focus on the research and development of RISC-V processor cores and empower the local RISC-V industry ecosystem. The embedded CPU core series products that Nucleo has launched have the characteristics of high performance, low power consumption and ease of use. They have advantages in performance, area, power consumption, maturity, price and development platform, and are at the forefront of China's RISC-V embedded processor research and development and industrialization. Nucleo Technology is currently a silver member of the RISC-V Foundation, a vice chairman unit of the China RISC-V Industry Alliance, and a member unit of the China Open Instruction Ecosystem (RISC-V) Alliance.

About Chip Superman
Chip Superman, invested by Plum Angel, PwC Capital, TusStar, and Dark Horse Fund, won the 2018 Global Electronic Components Distributor Outstanding Performance Award and the "2019 China Industrial Internet Innovation TOP 10" award. Its vision is to "sell chips for the rise of China's semiconductor industry."

Chip Superman has the top traffic and influence in the field of chip circulation, provides electronic supply chain solutions, guides downstream demand with application solutions to bring domestic chips into circulation, and actively leads Chinese chip companies to open up the international market through overseas exhibitions. So far, Chip Superman has reached strategic cooperation with ICC (Shanghai Integrated Circuit Technology and Industry Promotion Center), Jiejie Semiconductor, Nanjing Mileway Microelectronics, Nanochip Micro, Juxin Integration, Lingou Chuangxin, Meisi Advanced, Lingdong Microelectronics, Xinsheng Electronics, Langkuan Semiconductor, Jingfeng Mingyuan, Minghao Sensing and many other companies or organizations, and has accumulated rich industry resources.