# CES2019 Huawei Introduces Kunpeng 920, Industry's Highest Performance ARM-Based CPU
Huawei has unveiled Kunpeng 920, the industry's highest performing ARM-based central processing unit (CPU) - which uses the RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture -. The new CPU is designed to drive the development of big data computing, distributed storage, and native ARM application scenarios. In this regard, Huawei will join with industry members to advance ARM architecture and foster an open, collaborative, and win-win ecosystem, taking computing performance to new scenarios.
During the presentation, William Xu, Director of Marketing Strategy and Member of the Board of Directors of Huawei, said: “Huawei is constantly innovating in the computing field to create value for customers. We believe that with the advent of the intelligent society, the computing market will experience continuous growth in the future. Currently, the diversity of applications and data is driving heterogeneity. Huawei has partnered with Intel to achieve great achievements, and together we have contributed to the development of the ICT industry. In this way, we will continue our long-term strategic partnerships and continue to innovate together.”
“At the same time, the ARM industry is seeing a new development opportunity. Huawei’s newly launched Kunpeng 920 and TaiShan servers are mainly 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, expand the computing space, and embrace a diversified computing era,” continued William Xu.
Kunpeng 920, the Industry's Highest Performance ARM-Based CPU
Kunpeng 920, the new CPU announced by Huawei, integrates the cutting-edge 7nm process and has been designed by the company taking the ARMv8 architecture as its starting point. It significantly improves the performance of the processors by optimizing the jump prediction algorithms, increasing the number of OP units, and improving the architecture of the memory subsystem. At a typical frequency, the Kunpeng 920 CPU scores higher than 930 in the SPECint Benchmarks test, a rate 25% higher than other ARM server chips. At the same time, the energy efficiency is 30% better than that offered by the industry. Plus, it provides much higher performance for data centers while reducing power consumption.
The Kunpeng 920 has 64 cores clocked at 2.6 GHz. This chipset integrates 4-channel DDR8 and the memory bandwidth exceeds established offerings by 46%. System integration is also significantly increased through the two RoCE 100G ports. Kunpeng 920 supports PCIe 4.0 and CCIX interfaces, and provides a total bandwidth of 640 Gbps. In addition, the speed of a single slot is twice the prevailing offering, improving the performance of storage and various accelerators.
Huawei TaiShan, the best performing ARM-based server in the industry
Huawei has also unveiled its Kunpeng 920-powered TaiShan series servers, which include three models: one with a focus on storage, one on high-density, and the third on balancing both requirements. TaiShan servers are designed for big data, distributed storage, and native ARM application scenarios. In this sense, the ARM architecture is the most suitable for these scenarios with advantages in many cores and performance per watt.
In doing so, TaiShan will enable high-performance, low-power computing platforms for enterprises. For example, in big data scenarios, TaiShan servers are optimized for high concurrency and multi-core resource scheduling to deliver a 20% increase in performance. Based on TaiShan servers, Huawei Cloud also provides elastic cloud services, bare metal services, and cloud telephony services.
Building an open and collaborative ARM ecosystem based on shared success
Huawei continuously promotes the cooperation of the industry in terms of hardware, basic software and applications. In this regard, the company has been working with organizations such as Green Computing Consortium (GCC), Linaro, and Open Edge and HPC Initiative (OEHI) to create an open collaboration ecosystem, together with partners such as Hortonworks, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SUSE, Ubuntu and China Standard Software, among others.
In the hardware area, Huawei is a core member of Linaro. In terms of core software, the company is a Platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation and a founding member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Regarding applications, Huawei is linked to the GCC, which recently published the Green Computing Consortium Server Technical Standards Report to build a green open source community. Furthermore, Huawei is also a member of the OEHI.
Huawei believes that the development of an intelligent and connected society is already underway, a process that is gradually gaining speed. The development and convergence of ARM-based applications is accelerating, along with cloud device collaboration. Additionally, 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 multi-core high-performance computing. In this context, ARM systems have unique advantages in performance and power consumption.
In view of industry trends and application requirements, a new era of diversified computing is unfolding. Different types of data and scenarios are driving the optimization of the computing architecture and, therefore, the combination of multiple computing architectures is necessary.
“With the Kirin 980, Huawei has taken smartphones to a new level of intelligence. With products and services built on the Ascend 310, such as Huawei Cloud, Huawei is enabling inclusive AI for industries,” said William Xu. “With the Kunpeng 920, we are entering an era of diversified computing represented by multi-cores. Huawei has invested in innovation to achieve continuous breakthroughs, and we will continue to work with our customers and partners to build a fully connected and intelligent world.”
