Chinese core AMD foreign official "outfit".

The evening of October 24th, AMD and Chinese Ministry of science and technology signed a memorandum of understanding of technology licensing microprocessor design. According to the memorandum of cooperation signed by the two parties, AMD will transfer to the technology transfer organization, the research and development center of Peking University, which is designated by the Ministry of science and technology, as the core technology of X86 microprocessor with low power consumption.

AMD chairman of the board, President and CEO Heckert Ruiz said that this is a great benefit to China's computer industry and related industries in China, AMD will benefit from.

But there are also comments that the introduction of X86 technology, such as the ark of the core chip may China its own intellectual property rights impact. Wang Wurong, chief marketing officer of AMD Greater China, said in an interview, X86 technology and Godson is two yards, Godson belongs to the MIPS architecture, the two do not conflict.

The overall benefits of China's semiconductor industry, but this is only a platform to open up the future development of China's core, but also rely on their own." Xu Xiaotian, Secretary General of China Semiconductor Association, such as the "computer world" interview.

Chinese core "New problems crop up unexpectedly"

China is the only country for AMD to transfer X86 technology. AMD transfer of X86 technology to China aroused the attention of Chinese science and technology. Ma Songde, Vice Minister of science and technology, attended the signing ceremony. But the Internet has commented that the introduction of X86 technology to China Chinese original own intellectual property such as chip core impact. Some analysts believe that this may affect China's chip design industry, the country's investment in domestic chips will be decentralized. In recent years, the domestic CPU Chinese smoke a lot, such as the "Star" series, "the ark" series, "loongson-1", "Chinese core", "power of one". The development of "Chinese core" is always the focus of people's attention.

Wang Wurong denied in an interview that the impact of the said. She believes that X86 technology and Godson technology belong to two different systems, X86 technology is the mainstream platform for consumer electronics. AMD transfer of X86 technology to China is equivalent to allowing Chinese researchers to open the door to X86 technology. The purpose of AMD is to improve the ability and level of X86 technology research, and finally achieve the goal of win-win. AMD aspects of the view that, because the original patent issues related to X86 technology, China has not started to develop X86 processor, the transfer of technology to solve the problem of X86 patents. And the introduction of AMD X86 technology, does not mean to give up the original Chinese core research.

The AMD X86 technology transferee -- Peking University microprocessor research and development center, is also an important force in the development of the cause of the Chinese microprocessor, with completely independent intellectual property rights "PKUnity system chip CPU - 863". Microprocessor research and development center of Peking University director Cheng Xu said that the current "PKUnity" series chip already has more than 10 thousand users. Cheng Xu said, the microprocessor research and development center of Peking University will give up the development and promotion of PKUnity "series chip," PKUnity "series chip will run in parallel with X86 technology. "PKUnity" series chip support Linux operating system, Windows operating system support X86 technology. X86 technology enriches the research scope of Microprocessor Research and development center of Peking University.

According to Lu Yizhi, said in an interview with the media, AMD transfer of X86 technology in two steps. The first is cooperation with R & D institutions, the second is commercial cooperation. Cooperation with R & D institutions AMD chose the Peking University microprocessor research and development center, Lu Yizhi believes that through this can have a large number of students and engineers in this way to master knowledge, improve capacity. As for business cooperation, Guo Kezun, President of Greater China AMD will be the recent cooperation with the Ministry of information industry to explore business opportunities, so far this work has not been carried out. Now has not found a good business to talk about the transfer of things. When a reporter asked not to choose Lenovo as a partner, Lu Yizhi said, has not yet made a decision."

Wang Wurong admitted that the direction of the transfer of X86 technology and the ultimate goal of China's industrialization, there must be products out. But at present, the details of the industrialization has not. The future is established by the Peking University microprocessor research and Development Center for the industrialization of the company, or to find a partner in the commercialization of the company's work, it is too early to talk about. In the future, AMD will train Chinese researchers and the Chinese government will invest in it. As for the future of China's X86 technology products will compete with the formation of AMD, Wang Wurong certainly replied. But a number of competition will make the market cake bigger, AMD will benefit from."

The US government, which has always been strict in controlling the output of technology, has approved the transfer of technology. Lu Yizhi said, X86 technology is based on the United States export control law can be transferred to China's highest level of technology core technology. X86 technology is the most critical instruction set architecture (ISA), 64 bit and 32 bit X86 technology, at this point is interlinked. Lu Yizhi said, if the United States in the future export control has been loose, 64 technology may also be transferred to china."

The AMD is well intentioned

Over the same period, all members of the board of directors attended the opening ceremony of the new site of Greater China, the global board of directors held in Beijing for the first time in AMD. Meanwhile, AMD also signed an agreement with the Ministry of education, the Ministry of education donated RMB 6 million yuan in cash, to promote educational information in poor areas of central and Western China