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| Source: Huawei. The Kunpeng 920 is the highest-performance ARM-based CPU. |
Huawei has announced the industry's highest-performance ARM*-based CPU. Kunpeng 920 is designed to boost the development of computing in big data, distributed storage, and native ARM application scenarios. Huawei will also partner industry players to advance the ARM industry and foster an open, collaborative, and win-win ecosystem.
"Huawei has continuously innovated in the computing domain in order to create customer value. We believe that, with the advent of the intelligent society, the computing market will see continuous growth in the future. Currently, the diversity of applications and data is driving heterogeneous computing requirements.
"Huawei has long partnered with Intel to make great achievements. Together we have contributed to the development of the ICT industry. Huawei and Intel will continue our long-term strategic partnerships and continue to innovate together," said William Xu, Director of the Board and Chief Strategy Marketing Officer of Huawei.
"At the same time, the ARM industry is seeing a new development opportunity. The Kunpeng 920 CPU and TaiShan servers newly released by Huawei are primarily used in big data, distributed storage, and ARM-native applications. We will work with global partners in the spirit of openness, collaboration, and shared success to drive the development of the ARM ecosystem and expand the computing space, and embrace a diversified computing era."
Kunpeng 920 provides higher computing performance for data centres while slashing power consumption. Built with the 7nm process, the Kunpeng 920 CPU was independently designed by Huawei based on a ARMv8 architecture licence. It significantly improves processor performance by optimising branch prediction algorithms, increasing the number of operation (OP) units, and improving the memory subsystem architecture.
At typical frequencies, the SPECint score for the Kunpeng 920 CPU is over 930, which is 25% higher than the industry benchmark. At the same time, power efficiency is 30% better than that offered by industry counterparts.
Kunpeng 920 integrates 64 cores at 2.6 GHz. This chipset integrates eight-channel DDR4, and memory bandwidth exceeds incumbent offerings by 46%. System integration is also increased significantly through the two 100G RoCE* ports. Kunpeng 920 supports PCIe Gen4 and CCIX interfaces, and provides 640 Gbps of total bandwidth. In addition, the single-slot speed is twice that of the incumbent offering, effectively improving the performance of storage and various accelerators.
Huawei also released its TaiShan series servers, which are powered by the Kunpeng 920. TaiShan will enable computing platforms with high performance and low power consumption for enterprises and are ideal for big data, distributed storage, and native ARM application scenarios.
There are three models: one with a focus on storage, another on high density, and a third focused on balancing both requirements. In big data scenarios, the TaiShan servers are tuned for optimal many-core high concurrency and resource scheduling to deliver a 20% computing performance boost.
Based on the TaiShan servers, Huawei Cloud delivers elastic cloud services, bare metal services, and cloud phone services.
Building an open and collaborative ARM ecosystem founded on shared success
Huawei has been working with industry organisations such as Green Computing Consortium (GCC), Linaro, and the Open Edge and HPC Initiative (OEHI) to build an open, collaborative industry ecosystem, alongside partners such as Hortonworks, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP, SUSE, Ubuntu, and China Standard Software. In fact, Huawei is a core member of Linaro, a platinum member of OpenStack and a founder member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
The company said the development and convergence of ARM-based applications on smart terminals are accelerating, along with cloud-device collaboration. In addition, new applications in cloud computing are driving data diversity. For example, big data applications, distributed storage, and some edge computing scenarios have specific energy efficiency requirements for many-core high-performance computing. ARM systems have advantages in performance and power consumption for such scenarios, Huawei said, making the use of multiple computing architectures for optimal performance a must.
"With Kirin 980, Huawei has taken smartphones to a new level of intelligence. With products and services (e.g., Huawei Cloud) designed based on Ascend 310, Huawei enables inclusive artificial intelligence (AI) for industries," Xu noted. Introduced in 2018, the Ascend 310 is an AI system-on-chip (SoC) solution for edge computing scenarios. It is the first member of a new Ascend series of AI chips that are meant as a core component of Huawei’s AI stack.
"Today, with Kunpeng 920, we are entering an era of diversified computing embodied by multiple cores and heterogeneity. Huawei has invested patiently and intensively in computing innovation to continuously make breakthroughs. We will work with our customers and partners to build a fully connected, intelligent world," Xu added.
*ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machine. RoCE stands for RDMA over Converged Ethernet.
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