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Homegrown Chinese CPUs are catching up to AMD and Intel — Loongson 3B6600 and 3B7000 allegedly match Intel 10th Gen CPU performance (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

wasnt the cpu they made just an intel with their company sticker on it? or did they actually managed to copy the machines required for building them

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They would have used tmsc, China hasn’t caught up to that yet.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does TSMC and Taiwan in general do much business at all with Mainland China? I would think, especially given recent geopolitical events and the significantly more concerning saber rattling by the PRC would preclude Taiwan giving the mainland anything really meaningful in terms of tech. AFAIK these new chips are coming out of SMIC, not TSMC, and considering it’s the PRC, it’s very possible that significant portions of the architecture were just reverse engineered.

[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

China does purchase TSMC stuff

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

What I’m saying is that TSMC may outright halt sales to mainland China if the PRC gets much more bellicose in its threats to “reunify” with Taiwan.

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It has its own instruction set architecture called LoongArch which in turn is based on MIPS, there is no relation to Intel's x86

Edit: apparently the differences compared to MIPS are minor

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I wonder how much proprietary technology was stolen by spies or paid assets.