According to Chinese news media, anonymous expert unveiled that China is now fully capable of design and manufacture reliable military chips.
In 2018, CETC 38 released “Soul Core 2A” chip, which can complete 100 billion floating-point operations in one second, and its single-core performance exceeds the performance of similar chips on the international market by 4 times. This most powerful signal processing chip has made China’s radar electronics reach international advanced level.
As the first fourth-generation stealth fighter developed by China, J-20 stealth fighter has advantages of various sensors including radar and EOTS are also a feature of the fourth-generation fighters that are different from the three-generation fighters. In the process of using sensors such as radar, it will react to some clutters and other clutter signals in nature. In order to detect the real target, there are only two methods, one is to work on the radar computer algorithm. Another way is to use a more advanced signal processing chip.
According to the expert, even advanced algorithms also need to have powerful supporting chips, and the release of “Soul Core 2” chip has undoubtedly laid a solid foundation for the performance of J-20.
It’s also revealed that after the so-called deep-improved SU-35S fighter jet was imported to China, Chinese Air Force found that daily performance of the radar boasted by Russians wasn’t good at all. In addition to the radar system, Russian signal processing chip is not powerful, which is also an important reason for the poor performance of the SU-35S fighter radar.
And before the birth of “Soul Core 2A” chip, “Soul Core 1” signal chip has already been applied to weapons and equipment such as the KJ-200 airborne warning aircrafts.
This equipment, which has 4-6 times better performance than foreign chips of the same kind, makes the detection performance of the KJ-200 AEW aircraft far better than E-2D early warning aircraft of the same level.
It’s reported that in addition to chips in China’s military field, civilian chips such as “Loongson” have made great progress in recent years, but they still have to face up to the gap and try to catch up.
