First of all, we must understand these concepts:
(1) Huawei HiSilicon: the abbreviation of the company, the abbreviation of HiSilicon Semiconductor Co., Ltd. HiSilicon Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was established in October 2004, formerly the Huawei Integrated Circuit Design Center founded in 1991.
HiSilicon is headquartered in Shenzhen and has design branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Silicon Valley in the United States and Sweden. HiSilicon's products cover chips and solutions in wireless networks, fixed networks, digital media and other fields, and have been successfully used in more than 100 countries and regions around the world; in the field of digital media, it has launched network monitoring chips and solutions, video phone chips and solutions, DVB chips and solutions and IPTV chips and solutions.
(2) Kirin: It is a chip series.
Currently, HiSilicon has five major series of chips, namely the Kirin series for smart devices; the Kunpeng series for data centers; and the scene AI chipset Ascend (for artificial intelligence). Shengteng) series SoC; used for connection chips (base station chip Tiangang, terminal chip Balong); other special chips (video surveillance, set-top box chips, Internet of Things, etc. chips).
To put it simply, Huawei's chips have different series according to different uses. The one used for mobile phones is called Kirin, the one used for data centers is called Kunpeng, and the one used for artificial intelligence scenarios is called Shengteng. etc.
(3) Hongmeng: In the introduction of Hongmeng system, Huawei defines it as a "microkernel-based full-scenario distributed OS". Simply put, it simplifies the kernel of the system and runs it More modular.
Huawei’s Hongmeng operating system adopts a microkernel distributed architecture, focusing on the IoT device side, and will be used in low-latency scenarios such as autonomous driving, smart homes, and telemedicine. The release of Hongmeng system aims to promote the construction of the Internet of Everything ecosystem and realize a full-scenario smart ecology.
In other words, Hongmeng is an operating system and belongs to software; Kirin and others belong to chips and are hardware.