Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology of China has licensed ARM's v8-A architecture to accelerate advanced server chipset technologies in China's server market, according to ARM. The multi-year license will enable China-based companies to deliver ARM-based server technologies in their home market, enabling large scale deployment of the most efficient server solutions available.
Huaxintong 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 center cluster of more than 2.5 million servers for companies including China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicorn.
"China is facing a mountain of data flowing through its data centers and finding solutions that are cost effective and efficient is a key priority," said Pete Hutton, executive VP and president of products groups, ARM. "Huaxintong 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 sees the opportunity to deliver hardware designs and solutions that are better optimized for emerging server applications than legacy server platforms," said Ouyang Wu, chairman of Huaxintong. "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."
"The new ARM architecture is ideal for internet services and big data processing in the data center. With the chips featuring the ARMv8-A architecture, Huaxintong will play an important role in the Chinese chip market," added Huaxintong CEO Kai Wang.
Article translated by Jessie Shen
