Huawei announced what it calls the industry's highest-performance Advanced RISC Machine (ARM)-based CPU. Called Kunpeng 920, the new CPU is designed to boost the development of computing in big data, distributed storage and ARM-native application scenarios. Huawei also released its TaiShan series servers powered by Kunpeng 920.
Kunpeng 920 is described as the industry's highest-performance ARM-based server CPU. Using the 7nm process, the CPU was independently designed by Huawei based on ARMv8 architecture licence. It significantly improves processor performance by optimising branch prediction algorithms, increasing the number of OP units, and improving the memory subsystem architecture. At typical frequency, the Kunpeng 920 CPU scores over 930 in the SPECint Benchmarks test, which is 25 percent higher than the industry benchmark. At the same time, power efficiency is 30 percent better than that offered by industry counterparts. Kunpeng 920 provides much higher computing performance for data centres while slashing power consumption. Kunpeng 920 integrates 64 cores at a frequency of 2.6 GHz.
Huawei created three types of TaiShan servers powered by Kunpeng 920: one with a focus on storage, another on high density, and a third focused on balancing both requirements. The TaiShan servers are built for big data, distributed storage, and ARM-native application scenarios. The ARM architecture is best suited for these scenarios with advantages in many-core and performance per watt.
TaiShan will enable computing platforms with high performance and low power consumption for enterprises. Based on the TaiShan servers, Huawei Cloud also provides elastic cloud services, bare metal services, and cloud phone services.
