HiSilicon
Huawei's chip design arm: Kirin SoCs and Ascend AI accelerators.
- Headquarters
- Shenzhen
- Founded
- 2004
- Market position
- major
- Value-chain segment
- Mobile SoC, GPU & AI Accelerators
- Key products
- Kirin SoCs, Ascend AI chips
About HiSilicon
HiSilicon is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province and wholly owned by Huawei. HiSilicon purchases licenses for CPU designs from ARM Holdings, including the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, ARM Cortex-M3, ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore, ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore, ARM Cortex-A53, ARM Cortex-A57 and also for their Mali graphics cores. HiSilicon has also purchased licenses from Vivante Corporation for their GC4000 graphics core.