[News] Chinese Company Begins Making x86 Processors Based on AMD "Zen" Architecture

https://www.techpowerup.com/245846/c...n-architecture

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Chinese chipmaker Hygon began mass-producing its first x86 processors codenamed "Dhyana" based on AMD's "Zen" micro-architecture. The processor is the fruition of a deal AMD entered with a Chinese state-owned company back in mid-2016. As part of this deal, a company called Haiguang Microelectronics Company (HMC), in which AMD has a 51 percent stake, would license the "Zen" architecture to another company called Hygon (Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit Design Co.), in which AMD owns a 30 percent stake. Hygon would then design "Dhyana," and a third entity (likely TSMC or some other Chinese foundry), would contract-manufacture the chip.

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I hope AMD didin't really want to hang on to the zen IP anyways, since it's definitely going to be stolen.

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Originally Posted by iddqd

I hope AMD didin't really want to hang on to the zen IP anyways, since it's definitely going to be stolen.

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The IP was already going to be stolen to sell to the chinese when obama/trump decided that no one can sell parts to them, at least this way they make some money on it.

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Originally Posted by zanzabar

The IP was already going to be stolen to sell to the chinese when obama/trump decided that no one can sell parts to them, at least this way they make some money on it.

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Lolwut. That has nothing at all to do with tech discussion.

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