China's Huawei launches server chipset as it drains new growth channels by Reuters
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a signboard by Huawei at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Asia 2018 in Shanghai By Sijia Jiang
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] launched a new chip set for use on Monday in servers, at a time when China is pushing to improve its chip promotion ability and to reduce its strong import dependence, especially from the United States.
Huawei, which receives the bulk of the revenue from selling telecommunications equipment and smartphones, is seeking growth paths in cloud computing and enterprise services that its equipment business is undergoing on-the-spot surveillance of the Chinese government's influence over the company. Huawei has repeatedly refused such an influence.
Chinese companies are also seeking to minimize the impact of a trade dispute that has seen China and the United States drop rates on each other's technology imports.
For Huawei, the launch of chipset ̵[ads1]1; called Kunpeng 920 and the design of the subsidiary HiSilicon – increases its credentials as a semiconductor designer.
The Shenzhen-based company already makes the Kirin range of smart phone players in its high-end phones, and the Ascend series of chipsets for artificial intelligence computing launched in October.
It said that the last 7 nanometer, 64-core central processing unit (CPU) would provide much higher computing performance for data centers and slash power consumption. It is based on the architecture of British chip design firm ARM – owned by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp (T 🙂 – which attempts to challenge the dominance of the server maker's US CPU Intel Corp (O :).
Huawei aims to "drive the development of the ARM ecosystem," said Chief Marketing Officer William Xu. He said the chip has "unique benefits in performance and power consumption".
Xu also said Huawei will continue its "long-term strategic partnership" with Intel.
Huawei also launched its TaiShan series servers powered by the new chipset, built for large data, distributed storage and ARM native applications.
The company founded the chip designer HiSilicon in 2004 to reduce its dependence on imports.
In modem chips, Huawei internally sources 54 percent of those in their own devices, with 22 percent coming from Qualcomm Inc (O 🙂 and the rest from elsewhere, showing evidence presented by an antitrust attempt for Qualcomm.
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