Technology and ecology "resonate at the same frequency", Arm Technology and Cixin Technology work together to promote the development of the Arm CPU industry

Recently, ARM Technology (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "ARM Technology") and C-Core Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "C-Core Technology") announced to deepen cooperation. The two parties will combine their respective advantages and resources, relying on ARM Technology's high-performance Arm IP and self-developed IP products, and C-Core Technology's innovative capabilities in CPU cores, SoCs, full-stack software development and system design, to jointly promote the product development and ecological construction of Arm CPU and accelerate the innovative development of the domestic Arm CPU industry.

Arm CPU is advancing rapidly, and both parties work together to create energy-efficient computing solutions

Two years ago, when the new MacBook equipped with Apple's self-developed M1 chip was launched, it received rave reviews for its longer standby time, higher performance, and better energy efficiency than the original product. Since then, Arm CPU has begun to conquer the PC market and continue to open up new fields and new boundaries, including tablets, XR and other fields. According to comprehensive data from IDC and Counterpoint Global, the annual output of PCs equipped with Arm CPU will reach 43 million units in 2025 and will occupy a leading position in the market in 2028; tablet computers will maintain global shipments of about 150 million units in the next five years; XR devices will reach 105 million units in 2025.

As a star company in the domestic CPU field, Cixin Technology has profound technical accumulation in the fields of CPU research and development, SoC, full-stack software development and system design, and has attracted the unanimous optimism and multiple rounds of investment from many leading VC institutions including Lenovo Capital. It is precisely because of the insight that the Arm architecture is showing a strong growth trend in the CPU market that Cixin Technology will enter the market from the end-side Arm architecture intelligent computing solutions, including Window/Linux/Android devices. Its first SoC chip under development is mainly aimed at smart terminals such as PCs, while covering application scenarios such as VR/AR and edge servers, providing customers in multiple fields with more efficient computing power options. In addition, the SoC chip integrates computing units such as CPU, NPU, DSP, GPU, etc. for different application scenarios to meet diversified computing power requirements.

In the view of ChipCore, the Arm architecture is a basic computing architecture with the potential to unify the underlying computing power. On the one hand, for cutting-edge applications such as autonomous driving and the metaverse, the Arm architecture has advantages in energy efficiency and ecology; on the other hand, as computing application scenarios become increasingly complex, heterogeneous computing will become the development direction to meet diversified computing needs.

Based on the principle of "global ecology and local innovation", ARM has created a self-developed IP product matrix including "Zhouyi" NPU, "Xingchen" CPU, "Shanhai" SPU and "Linglong" ISP&VPU , which together with Arm IP form an integrated, high-quality heterogeneous computing platform, which can provide diversified solutions that meet the needs of actual scenarios. In addition, other cooperation between the two parties based on ARM's self-developed IP products is also gradually being carried out, including the creation of security subsystems for the PC market, etc., to provide customers with more reliable general computing power options and accelerate the commercialization of innovative products. 

Carry out multi-dimensional ecological cooperation to promote the construction of Arm CPU ecosystem

While vigorously promoting the iteration and upgrade of Arm CPU technology, both parties will also actively expand the technology ecosystem, jointly promote the development and innovation of the science and technology industry, promote the development of software and hardware, solutions, tool chains, industry standards and community alliances in various fields, jointly build the upstream and downstream ecology of the industry, and deepen the value of cooperation. Both parties will promote ecological cooperation in the fields of Arm PC from multiple dimensions, such as: 

• Jointly accelerate the development of Windows on Arm (WoA) ecosystem. Currently, the two parties have started close cooperation in the Linaro WoA working group to jointly promote the development of WoA ecosystem at home and abroad. In addition, the joint development of Arm Total Compute solutions for WoA will be gradually carried out in the future, including DirectX support based on Arm Mali™ GPU;

• Strengthen cooperation in the field of domestic Linux operating systems, jointly optimize the Linux PC user experience based on Arm Total Compute solutions, and desktop OpenGL acceleration support based on Arm Mali GPUs;

• Based on Arm SystemReady, promote the standardization of Arm PC boot architecture and SystemReady certification of Cixin Technology's high-efficiency computing platform, enable multiple operating systems to be used out of the box, and help system manufacturers accelerate productization.

Looking forward to the magnificent era of intelligent computing, CPU, as the computing power foundation of the technology industry, its technological improvement and ecological improvement will be the key factors for the development of the entire industry. Arm Technology and Cixin Technology will give full play to their respective advantages, "resonate at the same frequency" in technology and ecology, provide a computing power foundation for the technology industry, and jointly embrace the opportunities of the intelligent computing industry.