First I've heard of these so I looked into it
It's basically a continuation of VIA's x86 tech (they sold the cyrix processors for a while if anyone remembers them). I assumed it was just copyright theft, but these are legitimately licensed x86 chips.
Apparently the current generation of these is like the Ryzen 3000 series, but I can't find any actual benchmarks, so I'll take that with a bit of salt. I doubt they will have the same power efficiency as the OP ones since the clock is apparently at 3.7GHz.
This is much cooler than I initially realised though. A viable 3rd player can keep competitor prices down so we would all benefit even if most of us aren't buying these chips
Gamers Nexus tried one a while back. It wasn't great but it ran.
The cyrix line of cpu was always far behind intel and amd. They ran super hot too. One time we wanted to see how much we could overclock one and it burned itself through the motherboard!
the current generation of these is like the Ryzen 3000 series
They are not like Ryzens, they are actual Ryzens made in collaboration with AMD. They have a few differences but its pretty much the same chip, same performance. I think they are still making these chips.
IIRC they still update their old VIA-based chips in parallel for embedded applications or something. Don't quote me on this one, it has been a while.
I think I had a Cyrix 233 at one point in the 90s. Can't believe we've got calculators that are faster than that now!
This post just gave me the most cursed idea ever.
Am x86 processor competitor but instead of implementing every single opcode it just has the common ones, and any unknown opcode it asks ChatGPT to write an equivalent C language implementation, JIT-compiles it and executes it.
Congratulations, you just reinvented basically the same thing (minus the "AI" buzzword) that Transmeta was doing a quarter-century ago.
I didn't say it was original.
We are totally screwed because now they're going to put these in cheap laptops and peddle them to the elderly and the non-technically inclined who don't know any better. Then, us tech people have to deal with "why is my Windows 11 pentium 3 pc so goddamned slow"
Don't buy a $200 laptop off temu and you should be good.
It's progress. Competition is always good.
That checks out
I have this wyse Cx0... runs kolibriOS now
It runs some via chip from the early 2000s despite being from 2011
I think this is similar or maybe a lil faster
Given how fast China can progress when they put their minds to it, this is worrying.
Well, when youâve spent the past 20 years stealing intellectual property and conducting industrial espionage is it really that hard to get to this point?
Actually they were just exchanging their cheap labour and garbage disposal for the West's collective greed. So its only fair they return in kind.
Given how fast China can progress when they put
theirour minds to it, this is worrying.I dunno, stealing intellectual property from companies strikes me as a victimless crime.
But more than that, it's the only way for poor countries to work their way out of poverty. We hold the profitable ends of the value chain, developing countries are left holding the unprofitable middle, and we won't provide any of the know-how needed to work the more profitable parts.
Either we willingly include technology transfer as part of globalisation, or we whine about 'IP theft'. Because we can't expect poor countries to willingly stay poor to benefit us.
They donât have the EUV machines needed to make the most modern chips. Only DUV so far.
Huawei recently released a phone with an SoC using that tech. So they have it in some capacity.
