Huaxintong Semiconductor licenses ARMv8-A architecture

Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology is a joint venture between China’s Guizhou province and a subsidiary of Qualcomm. The venture is registered in Guizhou province, the first region to build an industrial cluster for big data development in China. The area is already home to a data centre cluster of more than 2.5m servers for companies including China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom.

Pete Hutton, Executive Vice President and President of Products Groups, ARM, commented: “China is facing a mountain of data flowing through its data centres and finding solutions that are cost effective and efficient is a key priority. Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology is creating a blueprint for new server systems and engaging with them is opening up exciting new opportunities for ARM-based servers. This is a chance to reinvent the economics and performance of hyperscale data centers and enables China to architect its own server chips based on ARM technologies for its domestic market and for the rest of the world.”

“Huaxintong Semiconductor sees the opportunity to deliver hardware designs and solutions that are better optimized for emerging server applications than legacy server platforms. Licensing the ARMv8-A architecture allows us to develop server chips that are more focused on addressing the needs of the Chinese market and cloud computing servers providing internet infrastructure,” added Ouyang Wu, Chairman, Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology.

Trusting in its in-depth insight and its unique understanding of the domestic server chip industry, Huaxintong Semiconductor has business opportunities in the big data and cloud computing industries and fully utilises the geographic advantages of Guiyang as a ‘data centre in China.’ Full of confidence in its potential, Huaxintong Semiconductor will accelerate building the server ecosystem to promote the core competitiveness of China’s cloud computing and data centre industries.