剛成立兩年的半導(dǎo)體設(shè)計(jì)公司——深圳中微電科技有限公司，在香港上市控股公司的支持下，推出了自己的多核處理器架構(gòu)，準(zhǔn)備開(kāi)發(fā)Android移動(dòng)計(jì)算市場(chǎng)。 和諧統(tǒng)調(diào)，ARM中的APU 該公司宣稱(chēng)，其和諧統(tǒng)調(diào)處理器(Harmony Unified Processor)架構(gòu)是業(yè)內(nèi)首創(chuàng)，把兩種不同類(lèi)型的處理器，中央處理器(CPU)和圖像處理器(GPU)，統(tǒng)一在一個(gè)核芯內(nèi)。同時(shí)結(jié)合了多線程虛擬管線。 深圳中微電科技有限公司是最近更名的中國(guó)微電子科技集團(tuán)有限公司的子公司。該公司已收到首批具備和諧統(tǒng)調(diào)處理器技術(shù)的65納米硅片，來(lái)自其代工供應(yīng)商。該公司計(jì)劃2012年推出樣品并開(kāi)始批量生產(chǎn)。 英特爾等公司的ARM和x86已得到廣泛支持，任何推出與其競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的新穎指令集架構(gòu)的舉動(dòng)都可能引來(lái)眾人懷疑的目光。商業(yè)方面的阻力可能和技術(shù)方面一樣大。但是，中微電科技有限公司聲稱(chēng)，從一張白紙開(kāi)始并專(zhuān)注于移動(dòng)設(shè)備的需求，與原有架構(gòu)相比，其架構(gòu)更具成本效益及低功耗優(yōu)勢(shì)。該公司還表示，隨著Android的出現(xiàn)，新架構(gòu)進(jìn)入市場(chǎng)的障礙比以前更低。 強(qiáng)大的R&D陣容 該公司的高管表示，其可能至少具有成功的機(jī)會(huì)。首席技術(shù)官Simon Moy具有20年的從業(yè)經(jīng)驗(yàn)，曾在英偉達(dá)擔(dān)任過(guò)多年的首席工程師，參與了幾代GPU的頂點(diǎn)著色器和流處理器的硬件設(shè)計(jì)。在加入英偉達(dá)以前，Moy曾就職于Silicon Graphics、IBM和LSI Logic。 首席科學(xué)家Fred Chow在編譯器方面具有30年的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，一直在MIPS擔(dān)任首席工程師、在Silicon Graphics擔(dān)任首席科學(xué)家并在PathScale Inc.擔(dān)任編譯器工程總監(jiān)。 中國(guó)微電子首席技術(shù)官Simon Moy在聲明中表示：“本集團(tuán)較其它中國(guó)科技公司具明顯優(yōu)勢(shì)之處，就是由零開(kāi)始建立自身的知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)。這樣使我們可以在多方面進(jìn)行創(chuàng)新，并把握最新半導(dǎo)體發(fā)展趨勢(shì)，令系統(tǒng)級(jí)芯片(SoC)生產(chǎn)成本遠(yuǎn)低于其它芯片制造商。我們?yōu)槟軌蚪⑵疬@樣一隊(duì)由一班來(lái)自硅谷的專(zhuān)才和中國(guó)頂尖工程師組成的世界一流技術(shù)研發(fā)團(tuán)隊(duì)伍而驕傲。我們深信，中國(guó)微電子這項(xiàng)革命性的高科技產(chǎn)品會(huì)深受市場(chǎng)歡迎，并為股東創(chuàng)造更大價(jià)值?！? 本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 參考英文原文：China startup rolls 'unified' Android processor,by Peter Clarke

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{pagination} China startup rolls 'unified' Android processor Peter Clarke ICube Corp., a two-year old fabless startup out of Shenzhen, China, backed by a publicly listed holding company in Hong Kong, is going after the Android mobile computing market using its own architecture of multicore processor. The company claims its Harmony Unified Processor architecture is the first ever developed to handle both logic and graphics processing in a single core and in each of multiple processing pipelines. ICube Corp., now a subsidiary of the recently renamed ICube Technology Holdings Ltd., has received 65-nm silicon of the first instantiation of Harmony, the dual-core IC1, back from its foundry supplier. The company is aiming at a 2012 roll out of samples and volume production. Any attempt to introduce a novel instruction set architecture to compete against the broadly-supported ARM, x86 from Intel and others, is likely to be treated with skepticism by many. Objections are likely to be on commercial as much as on technical grounds. However, ICube claims that starting with a blank sheet of paper and specifically targeting the needs of mobile devices, has given it power-efficiency and cost-efficiency advantages over the established architectures. It also claims that with the advent of Android the barriers to entry for a new architecture are much lower than they once were. The executive credentials of the company suggest that it could at least have a chance of success. Chief technology officer Simon Moy has 20 years' experience having spent several years as a principal engineer with Nvidia Corp. where he worked on the hardware design of the vertex shaders and stream processors in several generations of GPUs. Prior to that Moy worked at Silicon Graphics, IBM and LSI Logic. Chief scientist Fred Chow's expertise is on the compiler side where he has 30 years experience, having worked as principal engineer at MIPS, chief scientist at Silicon Graphics and director of compiler engineering at PathScale Inc. "Developing our own intellectual property from the ground up has been a key differentiation of ICube from other technology companies in China," said Moy, in a statement. "This provides us with much greater areas for innovation, enables us to leverage the latest semiconductor trends and lowers the cost of our system-on-a-chip products relative to other chipmakers. We are also proud to have attracted and built a world-class development team composed of by Silicon Valley veterans and top engineering talents in China. We are confident that our revolutionary high technology product will be well received by the market and create value to our shareholders."