With chipsets that are the fastest in the world, the emerging Cy5 promises a boom in phones and cars

The American startup Cy5 has unveiled a new chip design that will lead to a boom in mobile phones and cars.

American startup SiFive has unveiled a new chip design that will spark a boom in mobile phones, cars and other digital devices, if the company's plans actually materialize.

The company says that the new chip, which it called "B650", increases data processing speed by 50% compared to the "B550" (B550) chip that was introduced last June.

The company, based in San Mateo, California, hopes the new designs will help strike a balance between speed, battery life and overall cost thanks to a fresh start in chip engineering.

It is noteworthy that these chips are found in electronic devices such as smart phones, computers, video game players, cars, especially control panels, aircraft, information and telephone networks, and others.

“New designs help strike a balance between speed, battery life and overall cost thanks to a fresh start in chip engineering.”

The c net dot com website, which specializes in technology topics, noted that the new design comes from an initiative called RISC-V, which is supported by researchers at universities and many technology companies.

He added that despite the widespread support for RISC-V technology, it is still difficult to adopt it on a large scale in the electronics industry, which prefers the most widespread technological formats, which explains the inability of chip classes such as MIBS and "Alpha", "Itanium" and "BARISC" to compete in the computer industry. On the other hand, the category of chipsets "X86" produced by "Intel" (Intel), "AMD and ARM" - produced by "Qualcomm", "Samsung" and "Apple" dominate. ) - on the market.

“The B650 processor is expected to be the fastest licensed RISC-V processor on the market, bringing RISC-V to the market,” the startup said in a press release, which Al Jazeera received a copy of. and new applications, and will for the first time establish major partners in the first quarter of 2022.

However, if Cy5's longer-term plans succeed, mobile phones and digital devices using the company's chips could appear on a large scale in the coming years.

"By 2023, you could see the first mobile phone to use chips from the RISC-V family," Patrick Little, CEO of Cy5, said in a statement.

Many industrial sectors - including smartphones and electronic games - have been facing difficulties for several months in supplying semiconductors. The shortage of electronic chips prompted most of the world's car manufacturers to reduce their production.

It is noteworthy that US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said recently, during the discussion of President Joe Biden's plan to modernize infrastructure in the Senate, that the United States is facing a national security crisis due to the lack of semiconductor production. The official urged Congress to invest heavily to dramatically increase US production of semiconductors.

As needs surged, major manufacturers doubled down on announcing investments to boost their production capabilities. In this context, Intel plans to invest $20 billion, while TCMC will invest $100 billion.

In order to ensure its technological supremacy in the face of China and the United States in this market estimated at 440 billion euros, the European Union also aims to produce 20% of the world's semiconductors by 2030, equal to twice its current share of production.

America and the European Union also agreed to support this sector in particular during meetings in the American states aimed at strengthening trade relations that were damaged during the administration of former President Donald Trump, and cooperation in the technology sector.

The two parties said they agreed to make joint efforts to "rebalance global supply chains in the field of semiconductors with a view to enhancing security of supply" and to activate local chip production capabilities.