Core Insights - The Chinese team behind the open-source operating system "Asterinas" won the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SOSP conference, marking a significant achievement in the history of Chinese contributions to the field [1][3] - The award-winning paper focuses on memory management, a critical challenge in operating systems, and proposes a novel architecture called "CortenMM" that significantly improves performance and security [4][5] - The "Frame-kernel" architecture introduced by Asterinas aims to reconcile the long-standing trade-off between performance and security in operating systems [6][8] Technical Innovations - CortenMM eliminates redundant software layers, resulting in performance improvements of up to 26 times compared to Linux in real-world applications [5] - The "Frame-kernel" architecture divides the operating system into a privileged "OS framework" and unprivileged "OS services," leveraging Rust for enhanced memory safety [8][10] - This architecture reduces the amount of critical code, enhancing overall system security, with only about 30% of the code being critical compared to traditional operating systems [8][10] Market Position and Future Goals - Asterinas aims to position itself as a superior alternative to Linux, with a fully open-source approach and a vision to create a better operating system for both domestic and international markets [10][11] - The team has set a roadmap with two main phases: the first phase focuses on cloud deployment by 2027, targeting a "million-core" computing capacity, while the second phase aims to expand to edge devices by 2030, covering "million devices" [12][13] - The project benefits from collaboration with academic institutions and support from Ant Group, fostering a unique "industry-academia-research" model [11][13]