Ali released the chip platform “Wujian 600”, RISC-V has entered a new era of 2GHz high-performance applications

On August 24th, at the 2022 RISC-V China Summit, Ali Pingtou released the first high-performance RISC-V chip platform “Wujian 600” and the SoC prototype “Trailer 1520”, which was compatible with the Dragon Lizard Linux operating system for the first time and successfully Run LibreOffice to refresh a series of global RISC-V records. Based on the Wujian 600 software and hardware full-stack platform, developers and manufacturers can quickly develop RISC-V chips, driving a new era of 2GHz high-performance RISC-V edge and cloud applications.

The RISC-V architecture is simple, flexible, and open, and has become one of the mainstream architectures in the industry. Although the development potential of RISC-V is huge, the related software and hardware technology and ecology are not fully mature. The application is mainly concentrated in the low-end IoT field, and the commercial breakthrough of high-performance chips has not yet been achieved.

“In order to incubate more high-performance RISC-V chips faster and better, meet the needs of more different industries, and enrich the upper-layer applications of RISC-V, Brother Pingtou launched Wujian in an innovative way of ‘platform + SoC prototype’ 600, and promote the development of RISC-V hardware and software.” said Meng Jianyi, chairman of the 2022 RISC-V China Summit and vice president of Pingtouge Semiconductor.

(Photo: Meng Jianyi, Vice President of Pingtouge Semiconductor, released the high-performance RISC-V Wujian 600 chip platform online)

Wujian 600 platform is the world’s highest RISC-V performance mass-produced SoC chip design platform: it supports 4-core high-performance RISC-V processors with a maximum frequency of up to 2.5GHz, realizing a comprehensive CPU+XPU heterogeneous architecture. Optimization; supports 64-bit LPDDR4X, with a maximum throughput rate of 4266MT; integrates 4TOPs of Int8 AI computing power; the whole process meets GP TEE international security standards. The Wujian 600 platform is expected to help chip companies significantly reduce chip development costs and risks, and greatly shorten the R&D cycle.

(Illustration: High-performance RISC-V SoC prototype based on Wujian 600 platform design: Drifting Shadow 1520)

Based on the Wujian 600 platform, Brother Pingtou “proofed” the Shadow 1520, and its performance is sufficient to cover various scenarios such as edge computing, artificial intelligence, image recognition, and multimedia. At present, Yingying has been applied in Ali, and in the future, it can also be provided to developers who have not yet received customized chips. The system and software will be developed on Yingying in advance to further shorten the time for mass production of products.

On the Wujian 600 platform, Brother Pingtou, the Longli community and the PLCT laboratory of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences carried out joint optimization of the full stack of software and hardware, and completed the adaptation of more than 3,000 basic packages of RISC-V and Longli operating system, and For the first time, large desktop-level software such as FireFox browser and LibreOffice, as well as applications based on NodeJS and JAVA such as Hexo and Open Rocket, were run on the Shadow 1520, which greatly expanded the imagination of RISC-V.

(Illustration: The Wujian 600 platform has been adapted to the Dragon Lizard OS, and runs LibreOffice Writer/Impress/Calc and other desktop-level software for the first time)

“The Wujian 600 platform supports Linux and Android, which further enriches and strengthens the RISC-V software ecosystem, and also confirms the great potential of the RISC-V community technology integration and vigorous development.” Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International Foundation, commented. .

At present, in the RISC-V International Foundation, Mr. Pingtou has participated in the standard formulation of 29 technical directions, and has led 10 technical groups. He is recognized as the Chinese institution with the largest investment.